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Makhadzi
Makhadzi, born Ndivhudzannyi Ralivhona in 1996, is a South African singer from Limpopo who sings in Tshivenda, blending amapiano and house rhythms with traditional Venda music, and won a BET Award.
Makhaira (μάχαιρα)
The makhaira (μάχαιρα), also called the kopis, is an ancient Greek single-edged curved blade used as a sword and knife, recommended by Xenophon for cavalry.
Makhambet Otemisuly
Makhambet Otemisuly (1803 or 1804 – 1846) was a Kazakh poet, composer, and warrior who helped lead the 1836–1838 uprising against Khan Zhangir and the Russian Empire.
Makhanda
Makhanda (uMakhanda), also called Makana or Nxele, was a Xhosa war doctor and prophet who led the 1819 assault on Grahamstown and drowned escaping Robben Island in 1820.
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Makhanlal Chaturvedi (माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी; 1889–1968), who wrote as Ek Bharatiya Atma, was an Indian Hindi poet and journalist jailed 12 times for nationalist writing, winner of the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi in 1955.
Makharbek Khadartsev
Makharbek Khadartsev (Махарбек Хадарцев), Russian freestyle wrestler, two-time Olympic champion (1988, 1992) and five-time world champion at light-heavyweight 90 kg; later Russian State Duma member.
Makhaya Ntini
Makhaya Ntini (Mdingi Express), born 1977, first Black African Test cricketer for South Africa; 390 Test wickets in 101 Tests at 28.82, 266 ODI wickets, 10/220 at Lord's 2003, 13/132 record match figures.
Makhdoom Mohiuddin
Makhdoom Mohiuddin (مخدوم محی الدین) was an Urdu poet and Communist Party leader of Hyderabad, India, known for leading armed bands during the Telangana peasant armed struggle.
Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi
Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (1692–1761) was a Hanafi jurist and prolific scholar of Thatta, Sindh, who wrote about 160 or more works in Arabic, Persian, and Sindhi.
Makhdoom Nuh
Makhdoom Nuh (مخدوم نوح), a Sufi saint of Hala in Sindh, was a leading Suhrawardi figure and one of the earliest named classical Sindhi poets.
Makhdum-i Jahanian Jahangasht
Makhdum-i Jahanian Jahangasht (مخدوم جہانیاں), born Sayyid Jalal al-Din Bukhari, was a fourteenth-century Suhrawardi Sufi saint of Uch who served the Tughluq sultans as Shaykh al-Islam.
Makhlad ibn Ja'far al-Baqirhi
Makhlad ibn Ja'far al-Baqirhi (مخلد بن جعفر الباقرحي) was a long-lived tenth-century hadith transmitter of Baghdad who in old age claimed works he had not heard and was disgraced.
Makhnovshchina
Makhnovshchina (Махновщина), the Makhno movement, was an anarchist peasant uprising in southeastern Ukraine, 1918–1921, led by Nestor Makhno's Revolutionary Insurgent Army, defined by elected commanders, tachanka tactics, and defeat by the Bolsheviks.
Makhnovshchyna
Makhnovshchyna (Махновщина), also called the Makhno movement or Free Territories, was an anarchist peasant movement in southern Ukraine, 1918 to 1921, led by Nestor Makhno. Its Black Army fought Germans, Whites, and Bolsheviks.
Makhsud I. Saidaminov
Makhsud I. Saidaminov is a materials scientist and Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria, known for fast growth of perovskite single crystals and more stable perovskite solar cells.
Makhul al-Shami
Makhul al-Shami (مكحول الشامي) was a jurist and hadith scholar of Damascus under the Umayyad caliphate, regarded as the leading jurist of Syria; he died around 730.
Makhzan
Makhzan (مخزن, "storehouse") was a scholarly Urdu literary journal published from Lahore, British India, founded in April 1901 by Sir Sheikh Abdul Qadir and closely tied to Iqbal's emergence.
Makhzan al-Asrar
Makhzan al-Asrar (مخزن الاسرار, "Treasury of Secrets") is a didactic and mystical Persian masnavi by Nizami Ganjavi, written around 1176 and the first poem of his Khamsa.
Makhzen
The Makhzen (المخزن) is Morocco's traditional administrative and fiscal-military system, concentrating all authority in the sultan; it was institutionalized by the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur after 1578 and persisted into the modern state.
Maki (singer)
Maki, born Ralph William Datoon, is a Filipino pop and R&B singer-songwriter signed to Tarsier Records since 2021, whose 2024 single "Dilaw" became the first No. 1 on the Billboard Philippines Hot 100.
Maki ibn Abd al-Salam al-Rumayli
Maki ibn Abd al-Salam al-Rumayli, Abu al-Qasim (1040–1099), was a Sunni hadith scholar and Shafi'i mufti of Jerusalem, killed by stoning when the Franks captured the city in 1099.
Maki Itoh (伊藤麻希)
Maki Itoh (伊藤麻希, Itō Maki), born 1995, is a Japanese pro wrestler and former LinQ idol, the "Fired Idol" and "Cutest in the World"; longtime TJPW wrestler, International Princess Champion, AEW and Stardom competitor, free agent since August 2025.
Maki Kawai
Maki Kawai is a Japanese surface chemist known for single-molecule studies with the scanning tunneling microscope and president of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences since 2022.
Maki Ohguro
Maki Ohguro (大黒摩季) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter who debuted in 1992 on Being Inc., selling millions with singles like 'ら・ら・ら' and writing anime themes for Slam Dunk and Detective Conan.
Maki Tabata
Maki Tabata (田畑真紀), born 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, is a Japanese long-track speed skater who competed at five Winter Olympics (1994-2014), won team pursuit silver at Vancouver 2010, and later won Asian track cycling gold.
Maki Tsukada
Maki Tsukada (塚田真希), Japanese judoka born 1982 in Ibaraki; 2004 Olympic +78 kg gold, 2008 silver, 2007 open-weight world champion, and first female Japan women's national judo head coach (2025).
Maki Yasuomi
Maki Yasuomi (真木和泉), also read Maki Izumi, was a Japanese Shinto priest and Kurume samurai who led the sonnō jōi loyalist movement and died in 1864.
Maki-e
Maki-e (蒔絵) is a Japanese lacquer technique in which gold or silver powder is sprinkled onto wet lacquer to fix a design, developed from the Nara period.
Makiivska Miskrada
Makiivska Miskrada (Макіївська міськрада), the Makiivka City Council, governs Makiivka and subordinate settlements in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine; 426 km², about 432,830 residents in 2001, under Donetsk People's Republic control since 2014.
Makima (マキマ)
Makima (マキマ) is the Control Devil and Denji's manipulative superior in Chainsaw Man, a Tokyo Public Safety Special Division 4 devil hunter under the Chief Cabinet Secretary, voiced by Tomori Kusunoki.