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Murtaza Bhutto (مرتضیٰ بھٹو)
Mir Murtaza Bhutto (مرتضیٰ بھٹو), 1954-1996, Pakistani politician, eldest son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of Al-Zulfikar and PPP-Shaheed Bhutto, Sindh Assembly member killed by Karachi police in 1996.
Murton, County Durham
Murton is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, between Seaham and Hetton-le-Hole, transformed by Murton Colliery, sunk from 1838 and closed in 1991.
Murty P. Bhavaraju
Murty P. Bhavaraju is an Indian-American electric power reliability engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering for probabilistic reliability evaluation tools for large power systems.
Murty V. V. S. Yalla
Murty V. V. S. Yalla is an electrical engineer who designs digital protection devices for power grids and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Murud-Janjira
Murud-Janjira, also known as Janjira Fort, is an island sea fort off Murud in Maharashtra, India, built and held by the Siddis and never captured by force.
Murugappa Group
The Murugappa Group is a South India-based family conglomerate founded in 1900 in Burma, spanning agriculture, engineering, and financial services through nine listed companies including Coromandel International.
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan, born 1953, is a Sri Lankan-born hydrologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for founding Predictions in Ungauged Basins and co-framing socio-hydrology.
Muruj al-Dhahab
Muruj al-Dhahab (مروج الذهب), "The Meadows of Gold and the Mines of Gems," is a world history and geographical encyclopedia by al-Masudi, finished in 947 and covering history from creation to his own time.
Murujuga Cultural Landscape
Murujuga Cultural Landscape, also called the Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula rock art, is a 2025 UNESCO World Heritage site in Western Australia with one to two million petroglyphs spanning 50,000 years of Ngarda-Ngarli occupation.
Murum Dam
The Murum Dam is a 944 MW hydroelectric dam on the Murum River in Belaga District, Sarawak, Malaysia, operating commercially since 2014 as the state's second largest hydroelectric plant.
Murumba Pitch
Murumba Pitch is a South African amapiano duo of Emmanuel Mathye and Innocent "Maeywon" Mangolo, formed in Limpopo in 2012 and known for "Wena Dali" and "Hamba Juba".
Murus
Murus: Latin word for a city or enclosure wall (versus paries, maceria); also a Roman road station near Bondo-Promontogno, Graubünden, in the Itinerarium Antonini; root of murus gallicus and murus dacicus.
Murus Gallicus
Murus Gallicus, also known as the Gallic Wall game, is Phil Leduc's 2009 two-player abstract strategy game on an 8x7 board: towers of two stones distribute or sacrifice to win by breakthrough or stalemate.
Murus Terreus Carinarum
The Murus Terreus Carinarum, often shortened to Murus Terreus, was an obscure earthen fortification of ancient Rome near the Carinae on the Oppian Hill, known from one passage of Varro.
Murwāra
Murwara (Hindi: मुड़वारा, also Mudwara), officially Murwara (Katni), is a municipal corporation city on the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, and headquarters of Katni district. Population 221,883 (2011); major railway junction with India's largest yard and diesel loco shed.
Murwillumbah
Murwillumbah is a Northern Rivers town on the Tweed River, NSW, about 30 km from the Queensland border; Tweed Shire's administrative and commercial centre, population 9,812 (2021), hit by the record 2022 flood.
Muryeong of Baekje
Muryeong of Baekje, personal name Sama (462 to 523), was the 25th king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 501 to 523.
Murzilka
Murzilka (Мурзилка) is a Russian monthly literary magazine published since 16 May 1924. It is the world's longest-running children's magazine, named after a forest man.
Murzuq Desert
Murzuq Desert (Idhan Murzuq, Sahra Marzuq), a roughly 61,000 km² Saharan sand sea in southwestern Libya near the Algerian and Niger borders, flanking the Mesak Settafet plateau, over the oil-bearing Murzuq Basin, with the town of Murzuq at its eastern edge.
Mus a 5
Mus a 5 is the β-1,3-glucanase allergen of banana (Musa acuminata), about 33 kDa, IgE-reactive in 74% of banana-sensitized patients and a component-resolved diagnostic marker distinct from Mus a 1–4 and 6.
Mus Roman Quarry
Mus Roman Quarry: ancient sandstone quarry south-west of Nîmes, France, in province Narbonensis, listed in Ben Russell's Gazetteer of Stone Quarries in the Roman World; stone used locally in the Roman Imperial period.
Muş, Turkey
Muş (Muş ili, Kurdish Mûş) is a province in Eastern Anatolia, Türkiye, capital Muş city. 389,127 people (2025), rank 50 of 81; home of the 1071 Manzikert battlefield and the large Muş plain.
Mus'ab ibn Abd Allah al-Asadi
Mus'ab ibn Abd Allah al-Asadi (مصعب بن عبد الله الأسدي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and genealogist of Quraysh, born in Medina in 773 and resident in Baghdad.
Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr
Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr (مصعب بن الزبير) was a Qurashi Arab governor who ruled Iraq for his brother, the anti-caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, defeating al-Mukhtar at Kufa in 687.
Mus'ab ibn Umayr
Mus'ab ibn Umayr (مصعب بن عمير) was a Companion of Muhammad sent as his envoy to Medina in 621, killed carrying the banner at Uhud in 625.
Musa
Musa is a genus of treelike herbaceous plants in the banana family, native to tropical Asia and the western Pacific, that includes the wild ancestors of cultivated bananas.
Musa (무사) (2001 film)
Musa (무사, Musa the Warrior) is a 2001 South Korean historical action epic directed by Kim Sung-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Joo Jin-mo, Ahn Sung-ki, and Zhang Ziyi, about Goryeo envoys stranded in 1375 China; then the most expensive Korean film and a box-office failure.
Musa acuminata
Musa acuminata, the wild banana of tropical and subtropical Asia, is the A-genome ancestor of nearly all cultivated bananas except Fe'i types; its 523 Mb genome was sequenced in 2012, and domestication began about 7,000 years ago in Southeast Asia.
Musa al-Gharbi
Musa al-Gharbi, American sociologist and Guardian columnist at Stony Brook University, author of We Have Never Been Woke (2024) on symbolic capitalists, the Great Awokenings, and elite status competition.
Musa al-Kazim
Musa al-Kazim (موسى الكاظم), also known as Musa ibn Ja'far, was the seventh imam of the Twelver Shi'a, leading for 35 years until his death in prison in Baghdad in 799.