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Murovani Kurylivtsi Raion
Murovani Kurylivtsi Raion (Мурованокуриловецький район), a 1923-created district in western Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Murovani Kurylivtsi; 886.47 km², 32,768 residents in 2001, abolished in 2020 and merged into Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion.
Murphy
Murphy is a 1938 novel by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, his first published novel, about a work-shy Dubliner in London seeking a private mental retreat.
Murphy bed
A Murphy bed, also called a wall bed or fold-down bed, is a bed that folds vertically into a wall or cabinet, patented by William Lawrence Murphy in 1912.
Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown, CBS sitcom (1988–1998, 247 episodes) created by Diane English, starring Candice Bergen as recovering-alcoholic news anchor of fictional FYI; famous for the 1992 Dan Quayle single-motherhood controversy, 18 Emmys, and a 1991 Peabody.
Murphy High School (Mobile, Alabama)
Murphy High School, opened in 1926 as Mobile High School, is a public high school in Mobile, Alabama, named for county superintendent Samuel S. Murphy.
Murphy Jensen
Murphy Jensen, American former ATP doubles player; with brother Luke won the 1993 French Open men's doubles title (4 career titles). Later WEconnect Health co-founder, cardiac arrest survivor, and mental health advocate.
Murphy Lee
Murphy Lee (Torhi Harper, born 1978 or 1979) is an American rapper from St. Louis, youngest member of the St. Lunatics; his 2003 album Murphy's Law and the Grammy-winning "Shake Ya Tailfeather" with Nelly and P. Diddy mark his peak.
Murphy Oil
Murphy Oil Corporation is an American independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas, with operations in the US, Canada, and offshore.
Murphy Reid
Murphy Reid (born 2006) is an AFL footballer for Fremantle, drafted at pick 17 in 2024 from Sandringham Dragons; 2025 Telstra AFL Rising Star winner, record score-assist pace, contracted to 2032.
Murphy's law
Murphy's law, the adage that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, is attributed to engineer Edward A. Murphy and 1949 rocket-sled tests at Edwards AFB, though older antecedents and a disputed origin complicate the story.
Murphy's Law (musician)
Murphy's Law is a house and tech-house DJ and production duo of brothers Sonny and Finn Murphy from Leicester, England, active since 2019, whose Aguilera remix hit number 1 on Beatport.
Murphy's sign
Murphy's sign, also called the sonographic Murphy sign, is inspiratory arrest on right upper quadrant palpation indicating acute cholecystitis; described by J. B. Murphy in 1903, specificity 79–96%, sensitivity about 65%.
Murphy's War
Murphy's War, also listed as Murphy's War (1971), is a Peter Yates war drama adapted from Max Catto's novel, starring Peter O'Toole as a merchant seaman seeking revenge on a German U-boat off Venezuela; produced by Michael Deeley with Sian Phillips and Philippe Noiret.
Murrah buffalo
Murrah buffalo: Indian river buffalo dairy breed from Haryana, name meaning 'curled'; jet-black with spiral horns, 6.9-8.3% milk fat, India's main improver breed exported widely.
Murrah High School
Murrah High School is a public high school in Jackson, Mississippi, operated by Jackson Public Schools, known for its APAC program and research partnership with the University Medical Center.
Murray (lake)
Lake Murray is the name of several lakes, chiefly the largest lake in Papua New Guinea and a large hydroelectric reservoir on the Saluda River in South Carolina.
Murray (мурреи, rivers_lake_centerlines:54)
The River Murray (Murrundi) is Australia's longest river at 2,508 km, running from the Great Dividing Range to the Southern Ocean at Goolwa; central to the Murray–Darling Basin, Ngarrindjeri culture, irrigation, and salinity management.
Murray A. Mittleman
Murray A. Mittleman is a physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-developer of the case-crossover study design.
Murray B. Gardner
Murray B. Gardner is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for research on cancer-causing retroviruses of wild mice and cats and on the retroviruses that cause AIDS.
Murray B. Sachs
Murray B. Sachs (1940–2018) was an American auditory physiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who showed how the auditory nerve encodes speech and led its biomedical engineering department from 1991 to 2007.
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein is an American psychiatrist and researcher at the University of California San Diego known for research on anxiety disorders, PTSD, and psychiatric genetics.
Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball (1939–2017), New Zealand cartoonist, creator of Footrot Flats, Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero, Bruce the Barbarian, and All the King's Comrades; his 1986 film was New Zealand's first animated feature.
Murray Barr
Murray Barr, also known as Murray Llewellyn Barr, was a Canadian physician and geneticist who co-discovered the Barr body, the inactivated X chromosome in female cells.
Murray Bartlett
Murray Bartlett, Australian actor from Sydney and NIDA graduate (1991), won a 2022 Emmy as Armond in The White Lotus; also known for Looking, Welcome to Chippendales, and The Last of Us.
Murray Bernthal
Murray Bernthal (1911–2010), Syracuse impresario, violinist, and Syracuse University music professor for 45 years; co-founded the Famous Artists Series in 1946 and presented touring Broadway shows, orchestras, and stars like Van Cliburn in Syracuse; grandfather of Jon Bernthal and Adam Schlesinger.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American social theorist, founder of social ecology, which roots ecological crisis in social hierarchy, and of libertarian municipalism; his Communalism influenced Öcalan's democratic confederalism and Rojava.
Murray Cook
Murray Cook, also Murray James Cook, is the Australian guitarist and original Red Wiggle, a founding member of The Wiggles (1991–2012), later of The Soul Movers and Murray & The Movers; distinct from other musicians named Cook.
Murray Dowey
Murray Albert Dowey (1926-2021), Canadian ice hockey goaltender with the RCAF Flyers; won 1948 St. Moritz Olympic gold with 5 shutouts and a record 0.62 goals-against average.
Murray Energy
Murray Energy, founded by Robert E. Murray in Ohio in 1988, grew into the largest privately held coal company in the United States before filing for bankruptcy in 2019.
Murray Esler
Murray D. Esler is an Australian cardiovascular neuroscientist and Senior Director of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, known for developing norepinephrine spillover methodology.