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Makoto Matsuoka
Makoto Matsuoka (松岡 信) is a Japanese plant scientist at Fukushima University who identified sd1, the semi-dwarf gene behind rice's Green Revolution, and the gibberellin receptor GID1.
Makoto Mayumi
Makoto Mayumi (真弓 忠) is a Japanese virologist and physician-scientist who worked on hepatitis B and C and co-discovered TT virus in 1997 from posttransfusion hepatitis.
Makoto Miyoshi
Makoto Miyoshi is a Japanese radio astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, first author of the 1995 Nature paper that weighed the black hole in galaxy NGC 4258.
Makoto Murakami
Makoto Murakami (村上 誠) is a Japanese pharmacologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for his work on the secreted phospholipase A2 enzyme family.
Makoto Nagao
Makoto Nagao (長尾 真) was a Japanese computer scientist who pioneered example-based machine translation at Kyoto University and served as its 23rd president and National Diet Library director.
Makoto Nakanishi
Makoto Nakanishi (中西 真), born 1960, is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo known for research on eliminating senescent cells to extend healthy lifespan.
Makoto Niijima
Makoto Niijima (新島真), code name Queen, is the Shujin Academy student council president in Persona 5; sister of Sae Niijima, she joins the Phantom Thieves after the Kaneshiro incident with the motorcycle Persona Johanna, uses Nuclear skills, and is voiced by Rina Satoh and Cherami Leigh.
Makoto Shinkai (新海 誠)
Makoto Shinkai (新海誠, born 1973, Nagano) is a Japanese animation director who debuted solo with Voices of a Distant Star (2002) and became Japan's top-grossing anime auteur with Your Name. (2016), Weathering with You, and Suzume.
Makoto Shinkai's Disaster Trilogy
Makoto Shinkai's Disaster Trilogy: Your Name (2016), Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022). Three loosely linked anime films on disasters, referencing the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, resilience, gender, and sekai-kei subversion.
Makoto Takimoto
Makoto Takimoto (瀧本誠), Japanese judoka born 1974 in Iwai, Ibaraki; won gold in men's half-middleweight (≤81 kg) judo at Sydney 2000, beating Jo In-Cheol by hantei, then fought in PRIDE mixed martial arts before retiring in 2009.
Makram Ebeid
Makram Ebeid (مكرم عبيد), born William Makram Ebeid, was an Egyptian politician, a leading Wafd Party figure and repeatedly minister of finance in the Kingdom of Egypt.
Makram ibn Muhammad ibn Hamza
Makram ibn Muhammad ibn Hamza (مكرم بن محمد بن حمزة) was a Damascene Sunni hadith transmitter and merchant, known as Najm al-Din al-Qurashi, who lived from 1153 to 1237.
Makran (مکران)
Makran (مکران), also Mokrān, is the coastal region of Baluchistan split between Iran and Pakistan; ancient Maka and Gedrosia, crossed by Alexander in 325 BCE, and site of the Makran subduction zone and its large accretionary prism.
Makran Sulci
Makran Sulci, a sulcus on Saturn's moon Enceladus named for a region in Burton's 1900 Arabian Nights; mapped on Cassini atlas sheet Se-12, distinct from the four active tiger stripe sulci.
Makrana marble
Makrana marble is a white calcite marble quarried at Makrana in Rajasthan, India, the stone of the Taj Mahal and Asia's first Global Heritage Stone Resource in 2023.
Makrand Jadhav
Makrand Jadhav, also referred to as Makrand Jadhav-Patil, is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party who serves as Maharashtra's Minister for Relief and Rehabilitation and has been a four-time MLA from the Wai constituency.
Makri St. peristyle
The Makri St. peristyle is an excavated ancient stoa at Makri 8 in Athens, identified by John Travlos as the Palladion, a lawcourt for unintentional homicide.
Makro
Makro is a cash-and-carry wholesale brand founded in Amsterdam in 1968 by SHV with METRO, serving HoReCa and traders; now run regionally by Metro (Europe), Tesco's Booker (UK), Massmart/Walmart (South Africa), and CP Axtra (Thailand, Philippines).
Makruk (หมากรุก)
Makruk (หมากรุก), Thai chess: traditional 8x8 chess descended from Chaturanga, with silver-general khon, third-rank pawns promoting to the weak met, and endgame counting rules forcing mate within 8 to 64 moves.
Maks
Maks (Arabic مكوس) is the name for non-canonical market, gate, and customs taxes in Islamic states, which Muslim jurists classed as lacking any basis in sharia law.
Maks Percic
Maks Percic (Maks Perčič), Slovenian ice hockey defenseman born 2004 in Maribor; won 3-on-3 gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, played BCHL junior hockey, and committed to Michigan Tech.
MakSim (МакSим)
MakSim (МакSим), Marina Sergeevna Abrosimova, born 1983 in Kazan, Russian pop singer; debut album Трудный возраст sold 2 million+; hits «Знаешь ли ты», «Нежность»; 2021 COVID coma; touring since.
Maksim Bahdanovich
Maksim Bahdanovich (Belarusian: Максім Багдановіч, 1891–1917) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and critic, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose only lifetime collection, Vyanok, appeared in 1913.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Максим Чмерковський), Ukrainian-American ballroom dancer and choreographer from Odessa; DWTS pro from season 2, won season 18 with Meryl Davis; brother of Val, husband of Peta Murgatroyd.
Maksim Fadeev
Maksim Fadeev, also known as Maxim Fadeev (Максим Фадеев), is a Russian composer and music producer, born 1968 in Kurgan, best known for creating Linda, Gluk'oZa, and Serebro.
Maksim Haretski
Maksim Haretski (Belarusian: Максім Гарэцкі, 1893–1938) was a Belarusian writer, literary scholar, and lexicographer regarded as a founder of national Belarusian prose; he wrote Two Souls and the first history of Belarusian literature.
Maksim Khramtsov
Maksim Sergeyevich Khramtsov (Максим Сергеевич Храмцов), born 1998 in Nizhnevartovsk, is a Russian taekwondo competitor who won the men's 80 kg gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2017 World Championship.
Maksim Kovalevsky
Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (1851–1916) was a Russian jurist, ethnographer, sociologist, and liberal politician, regarded as the first professional sociologist of the Russian Empire and a deputy of the First State Duma.
Maksim Marinin
Maksim Marinin (Максим Викторович Маринин), born 1977 in Volgograd, Russian pair skater with Tatyana Totmyanina: 2006 Olympic pairs champion (204.48), two-time World champion 2004–2005, five-time European champion 2002–2006, fourth at Salt Lake City 2002.
Maksim Mikhaylov
Maksim Mikhaylov (Максим Михайлович Михайлов), born 1988, Russian opposite spiker; Olympic gold London 2012, silver Tokyo 2020, bronze Beijing 2008; Zenit Kazan club player.