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Makki ibn 'Abdan
Makki ibn 'Abdan (مكي بن عبدان), Abu Hatim al-Tamimi al-Naysaburi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Nishapur who died in 936–937, ranked trustworthy by critics and a student of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj.
Makki ibn Ibrahim
Makki ibn Ibrahim (مكي بن إبراهيم) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Balkh in Khurasan, titled musnid of Khurasan, who died in 214 or 215 AH and was a direct teacher of al-Bukhari.
Makkuni Jayaram
Makkuni Jayaram is an Indian-born molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for work on site-specific DNA recombination and the yeast 2 micron plasmid.
Mako (actor)
Mako (Makoto Iwamatsu, 岩松 信, 1933-2006), Japanese-born American actor, Oscar-nominated for The Sand Pebbles, Tony-nominated for Pacific Overtures, co-founder of East West Players, voice of Aku and Uncle Iroh.
Mako (group)
Mako is an American electronic music act formed in Los Angeles in 2011 by Alex Seaver and Logan Light, now Seaver's solo project on Ultra Records.
Mako (missile)
Mako is a hypersonic air-to-surface missile developed by Lockheed Martin, unveiled in 2024, designed to fly at Mach 5 and fit inside F-22 and F-35C weapons bays.
MAKO (NiziU member)
MAKO (マコ; born Yamaguchi Mako, 2001, Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer and dancer, leader and main dancer of the girl group NiziU, formed in 2020.
Mako (The Legend of Korra)
Mako is a firebender in The Legend of Korra, older brother of Bolin, Fire Ferrets captain, police detective, and Prince Wu's bodyguard, voiced by David Faustino and named after Mako Iwamatsu.
Mako Komuro (小室 眞子)
Mako Komuro (小室 眞子), formerly Princess Mako of Akishino, is the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino who left Japan's imperial family upon marrying commoner Kei Komuro in October 2021, declining her ¥150 million departure payment and moving to New York.
Mako Nishimura
Mako Nishimura is a Japanese former yakuza, probably the only woman ever to be a full-fledged member of the syndicates, who performed the sakazuki and yubitsume rituals.
Mako Vunipola
Mako Vunipola, New Zealand-born English loosehead prop (born 1991), 79 England caps, three Lions tours 2013/2017/2021, five Premiership titles and three European trophies with Saracens before Vannes.
Mako: Island of Secrets
Mako: Island of Secrets, internationally Mako Mermaids: An H2O Adventure, is an Australian children's fantasy series, a spin-off sequel to H2O: Just Add Water created by Jonathan M. Shiff, running 68 episodes, 2013-2016, about mermaids guarding Mako Island from a boy turned merman.
Makoko
Makoko, also the name of the Tio (Teke or Anziku) Kingdom, is the title of its supreme ruler, based at Mbé and known to Europeans from the 15th century.
Makoko Treaty
The Makoko Treaty (Traité Makoko) was an 1880 agreement between Pierre de Brazza, for France, and Makoko, king of the Bateke, starting French colonization in Central Africa.
Makonde sculpture
Makonde sculpture is the woodcarving tradition of the Makonde people of northern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania, spanning ritual mapiko masks and modern blackwood shetani and ujamaa styles.
Makonnen Endelkachew
Makonnen Endelkachew (መኮንን እንዳልካቸው) was an Ethiopian aristocrat, civil servant, and writer who served as the first prime minister of Ethiopia under Emperor Haile Selassie, from 1942 to 1957.
Makonnen Habte-Wold
Makonnen Habte-Wold was an Ethiopian government minister who held the agriculture, finance, commerce, and interior portfolios under Haile Selassie, dying in the abortive 1960 coup.
Makonnen Wolde Mikael
Makonnen Wolde Mikael, also known as Ras Mäkonnen, was an Ethiopian prince and governor of Harar from 1887 who commanded forces at the 1896 Battle of Adwa.
Makori East Oil and Gas Field
Makori East is a gas and condensate field in the Tal Block of the Kohat Plateau, Karak District, Pakistan, discovered in May 2011 and producing since June 2012.
Makoshika State Park
Makoshika State Park (Lakota maco sica, "bad land") is Montana's largest state park, 11,538 acres of Hell Creek Formation badlands near Glendive with Triceratops, T. rex, and rare Thescelosaurus fossils, a K-T boundary exposure, Buzzard Day, and over 100,000 annual visitors.
Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita (藤田 誠), born 1957, is a Japanese coordination chemist at the University of Tokyo known for self-assembled molecular cages and the crystalline sponge method for X-ray analysis.
Makoto Fukui
Makoto Fukui (福井誠, 1940–1992), Japanese freestyle swimmer; Olympic silver (Rome 1960) and bronze (Tokyo 1964) in the 4x200 m freestyle relay; set three world records in that relay; 1958 Asian Games double gold medalist.
Makoto Furukawa (古川 慎)
Makoto Furukawa (古川 慎), born 1989, is a Japanese voice actor and singer from Kumamoto, at Toy's Factory and Lantis, known for Saitama (One-Punch Man), Miyuki Shirogane (Kaguya-sama), Benimaru, and Shaddiq Zenelli, and for his 2018 solo music debut with 'miserable masquerade' and the 14th Seiyu Awards Best Supporting Actor prize.
Makoto Hasebe (長谷部 誠)
Makoto Hasebe (長谷部 誠), born 1984, Japanese midfielder-defender; 384 Bundesliga games (record Asian appearance holder), Wolfsburg 2009 champion, Eintracht Frankfurt 2014-2024, DFB-Pokal and Europa League winner, 114 Japan caps, retired 2024.
Makoto Ito
Makoto Ito (伊藤 麻琴), born 2004, Japanese women's ice hockey forward for Toyota Cygnus; Youth Olympic gold 2020, 2025 Harbin Asian Games gold, 9th at Milano Cortina 2026. Distinct from the swimmer, boxer, and MMA fighter of the same name.
Makoto Kikuchi
Makoto Kikuchi (菊池誠), 1925 to 2012, was a Japanese semiconductor physicist who developed point-contact transistors at Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory and led Sony's silicon CCD development.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese particle theorist, born in Nagoya in 1944, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting a third family of quarks.
Makoto Komiyama
Makoto Komiyama, born 1947 in Utsunomiya, Japan, is a Japanese chemist known for ARCUT, a chemistry-based system that cuts human genomic DNA at one chosen site.
Makoto Kumada
Makoto Kumada (熊田 誠, 1920–2007) was a Japanese organometallic chemist at Kyoto University, known as the father of polysilane chemistry and for the 1972 Kumada coupling.
Makoto M. Taketo
Makoto M. Taketo, also known as Makoto Mark Taketo (武藤 誠), is a Japanese cancer geneticist who created the ApcΔ716 mouse model and showed COX-2 inhibition suppresses intestinal polyps.