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Murray F. Brennan
Murray F. Brennan is a New Zealand-born surgical oncologist who chaired surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1985 to 2006 and built a database of over 9,000 sarcoma patients.
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for classifying subatomic particles, coined the word "quark", and co-founded the Santa Fe Institute.
Murray Gershenzon
Murray Gershenzon, known as M. Gershenzon, was a Bell Telephone Laboratories researcher at Murray Hill, New Jersey, who led its 1960s work on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs.
Murray Gerstenhaber
Murray Gerstenhaber (died 2024) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who founded algebraic deformation theory, discovered the Gerstenhaber algebra, and won the 2021 Steele Prize.
Murray Gleeson
Murray Gleeson (Anthony Murray Gleeson, born 1938) is an Australian jurist, 11th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1998-2008 and earlier Chief Justice of NSW 1988-98, known for concise judgments, the black-letter Gleeson Court, and his Al-Kateb dissent.
Murray Halberg
Murray Halberg (1933–2022), New Zealand distance runner, won 5000m gold at Rome 1960, Commonwealth three-mile titles 1958 and 1962, first NZ sub-4-minute miler, founded the Halberg Foundation.
Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton (1923–1986), American character actor from Washington, North Carolina; Tony-nominated for Absence of a Cello, played Mr. Robinson in The Graduate and Mayor Larry Vaughn in Jaws and Jaws 2; died of lung cancer.
Murray Head
Murray Head, born Murray Seafield Saint-George Head in 1946 in London, is a British singer and actor best known for the songs One Night in Bangkok and Superstar.
Murray Hill (performer)
Murray Hill is the stage name of an American comedian and drag king who plays Fred Rococo on HBO's Somebody Somewhere and hosts Drag Me to Dinner.
Murray Korc
Murray Korc is an American endocrinologist and pancreatic cancer researcher known for defining the role of growth factors and their receptors, especially EGFR, in pancreatic cancer.
Murray L Whitelaw
Murray L Whitelaw is an Australian professor of biochemistry at the University of Adelaide, best known for 2002 papers identifying the hypoxic switch that regulates hypoxia-inducible factor.
Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster, born William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was a prolific American science fiction writer who produced nearly 1,800 stories and patented a projection process used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Murray P. Deutscher
Murray P. Deutscher is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Miami whose laboratory identified several bacterial ribonucleases, including RNase T, D, and PH.
Murray Perahia
Murray Perahia (born 1947, New York) is an American classical pianist and conductor, 1972 Leeds Competition winner, Principal Guest Conductor of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and two-time Grammy winner known for Mozart, Bach, and Chopin recordings.
Murray Rabinowitz
Murray Rabinowitz (1927–1983) was an American physician-biochemist at the University of Chicago known for work on mitochondrial molecular biology and cardiac hypertrophy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
Murray Ridge
Murray Ridge is a chain of bathymetric highs in the northern Arabian Sea forming part of the India–Arabia plate boundary with Dalrymple Trough; it is underlain by continental crust. Distinct from a British Columbia ultramafite ridge and a Sinemurian formation in the Northwest Territories.
Murray River
Murray River (River Murray), main river of the Murray–Darling system, Australia's longest river system. Known for low, variable flows, heavy salinity managed since 1988, and the Murray Mouth salt export.
Murray River Coal Mine
The Murray River Coal Mine is a proposed underground metallurgical coal mine near Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia, developed by HD Mining, approved in 2015 and 2017.
Murray Rose
Murray Rose (1939–2012) was an Australian freestyle swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a fourth at Rome in 1960.
Murray Rosenblatt
Murray Rosenblatt (1926–2019) was an American statistician, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, known for introducing the strong mixing condition in time series analysis and kernel density estimation.
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, historian, and political theorist of the Austrian School who founded anarcho-capitalism and wrote Man, Economy, and State (1962).
Murray Sanders
Murray Sanders was an American bacteriologist and Army colonel who investigated Japan's Unit 731 biological warfare program in 1945 and helped win amnesty for its scientists.
Murray Shire
Murray Shire (NSW), also Murray Shire Council, was a Riverina local government area bounded by the Murray River, established 1906, seat at Moama and Mathoura, abolished 12 May 2016 when merged with Wakool Shire into Murray River Council; distinct from the Shire of Murray, Western Australia.
Murray State Racers men's basketball
Murray State Racers men's basketball, NCAA Division I program in Murray, Kentucky; founding OVC member (1948), now in the Missouri Valley; 1495-839 all-time, 18 NCAA appearances, Ja Morant's school.
Murray State University
Murray State University is a public university in Murray, Kentucky, founded in 1922 as Murray State Normal School, renamed Teacher's College (1930), College (1948), then University (1966); about 9,932 students, eight residential colleges, Racers athletics.
Murray Stewart
Murray John Stewart is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for working out the structural basis of nucleocytoplasmic transport between cytoplasm and nucleus.
Murray Taulagi
Murray Taulagi, born 1999 in Auckland, is a Samoan-descent winger who played 84 NRL games for the North Queensland Cowboys, won the 2021 World Cup with Australia, switched to Samoa in 2023, and joined Top 14 club Vannes in 2026.
Murray Valley encephalitis
Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), also called Australian X disease historically, is a rare mosquito-borne flavivirus infection of the brain endemic to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, with no vaccine and supportive treatment only.
Murray W. Rosenthal
Murray Wilford Rosenthal was an American chemical engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who directed the Molten Salt Reactor program and served as deputy director.
Murray Walker
Murray Walker, full name Graeme Murray Walker (1923–2021), was a British motorsport commentator who was the voice of Formula 1 on British television from 1978 to 2001.