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Mykola Kulish
Mykola Kulish (Микола Куліш) was a Ukrainian playwright, called the most famous of the twentieth century, who led VAPLITE, worked with Les Kurbas at Berezil, and was executed at Sandarmokh in 1937.
Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych (Микола Леонтович, 1877–1921) was a Ukrainian composer and choral conductor best known for "Shchedryk," the choral work that became "Carol of the Bells." He was shot by a Cheka agent in 1921.
Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Lysenko (Микола Лисенко) was a Ukrainian composer and ethnomusicologist who founded the modern Ukrainian national school of music, writing operas like Taras Bulba in Kyiv.
Mykola Mikhnovsky
Mykola Mikhnovsky (Микола Міхновський; 1873–1924) was a Ukrainian lawyer, publicist, and political activist, the ideologue of Ukrainian independence whose 1900 pamphlet Samostiina Ukraina demanded a united, independent Ukraine.
Mykola Milchev
Mykola Milchev (Микола Мільчев), Ukrainian skeet shooter born 1967 in Odesa; Olympic champion Sydney 2000 with a perfect 150/150; European silver 2026; senior coach of Ukraine's team.
Mykola Pylchykov
Mykola Pylchykov (Микола Пильчиков, 1857–1908) was a Ukrainian experimental physicist known for the improved Pulyui X-ray tube and an 1898 public demonstration of radio control.
Mykola Pymonenko
Mykola Pymonenko (Микола Пимоненко) was a Ukrainian realist painter of Ukrainian village and town life scenes; his painting Hopak won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon.
Mykola Rudenko
Mykola Rudenko (Микола Руденко) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, and dissident who founded the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, the first human rights body in Soviet Ukraine.
Mykola Skrypnyk
Mykola Skrypnyk (Микола Скрипник, 1872–1933) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Ukrainian statesman who led the education commissariat from 1927 to 1933, championed Ukrainization, and shot himself in Kharkiv after being accused of nationalist deviation.
Mykola Vinhranovsky
Mykola Vinhranovsky (Микола Вінграновський, 1936–2004) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and film director, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who won the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
Mykola Voronyi
Mykola Voronyi (Микола Вороний), also transliterated Mykola Vorony, was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and theater director who pioneered modernist Ukrainian poetry and was executed by Soviet authorities in 1938.
Mykola Zerov
Mykola Zerov (Микола Зеров, 1890–1937) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary scholar who led the Neoclassicists, a group of poets, and was executed during the Stalinist terror.
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv (Миколаїв), southern Ukrainian city at the Boh-Inhul confluence, capital of Mykolaiv oblast; founded 1789 as a shipyard, major shipbuilding and port center, held through the 2022 invasion and regained piped water in 2025.
Mykolaiv Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast (Миколаївська область) is a southern Ukrainian region of 24,598 km² on the Black Sea, capital Mykolaiv, 4 raions, population about 1.12 million, known for shipbuilding, blocked ports, and the 2022–2026 water pipeline restoration.
Mykolas Biržiška
Mykolas Biržiška (1882–1962) was a Lithuanian literary historian and statesman who signed the Act of Independence in 1918, and later served as professor and rector of Vytautas Magnus University and Vilnius University.
Mykonos (settlement)
Mykonos (Μύκονος), ancient settlement in the Cyclades, NE of Delos; a 6th-century BC dipolis with city-states at Chora and Palaikastro, occupied from the Neolithic Ftelia settlement (5000-4500 BC) through the Roman era.
Mykonos (Μύκονος)
Mykonos (Μύκονος), Cyclades island in the Aegean: 86 km², 10,962 residents (2021), Neolithic Ftelia and Mycenaean Angelika sites, desalination-dependent water supply, and over two million annual visitors driving overtourism measures.
Mykonos B.C.
Mykonos B.C. (Mykonos Betsson), blue-and-white basketball club of Mykonos founded 1981, basketball dept 1989; climbed from Cyclades leagues to the Greek Basket League in 2025; active, not dissolved.
Myktybek Orolbai (Мыктыбек Оролбай уулу)
Myktybek Orolbai (Мыктыбек Оролбай уулу), Kyrgyz UFC welterweight born 1998, record 16-3-1 with 7 KO and 6 submission wins; record 8.2 takedowns per 15 minutes; lost to Jeremiah Wells at UFC 330, 2026.
Myla Grace
Myla Grace (Shannon Mateer), Northern Irish wrestler from Belfast, debuted 2018; worked NXT UK 2021-22, Marigold 2024, TNA 2025-26; former OTT, Titanic, SMW, and WSW Women's Champion.
Mylan
Mylan, founded 1961 in West Virginia by Milan Puskar, was a major generic drugmaker known for the EpiPen price controversy, failed Perrigo bid, and 2015-2017 acquisitions; it merged with Pfizer's Upjohn to form Viatris in November 2020.
Mylanji (மைலாஞ்சி) (2026 film)
Mylanji (மைலாஞ்சி) is a 2026 Tamil romantic drama directed by Ajayan Bala, starring Sriram Karthick and Krisha Kurup, with music by Ilaiyaraaja and cinematography by Chezhiyan. Released 13 February 2026 with a U certificate; set in Ooty, a love triangle involving a photographer and an orphan facing a forced marriage.
Mylapore (மயிலாப்பூர்)
Mylapore (மயிலாப்பூர், Thirumayilai) is one of Chennai's oldest neighborhoods, a former port and temple town named after the peacock, centered on the Kapaleeshwarar Temple and tied to Thiruvalluvar, San Thome, and Tamil cultural life.
Mylapore Siva
Mylapore Siva (Sivakumar, மயிலாப்பூர் சிவக்குமார்) was an 'A Plus' category Chennai gangster from Mylapore, main accused in the 1997 Thottam Sekar murder, arrested 2019 and 2020, and murdered in Ashok Nagar in March 2021.
Mylasa
Mylasa, modern Milas in southwestern Anatolia, was the principal non-Greek city of Caria and its capital under the Hecatomnid rulers in the 4th century BC.
Mylavarapu Ramamoorty
Mylavarapu Ramamoorty is an Indian electrical engineer in power systems and power electronics, elected a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Myleene Klass
Myleene Klass, British broadcaster, classically trained pianist, and Hear'Say member from Popstars 2000; Classic FM presenter since 2006, I'm a Celebrity South Africa winner 2023, MBE 2025 for miscarriage awareness work.
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, stage name of Mylène Jeanne Gautier, is a Canadian-born French pop singer and songwriter active since the 1980s, best known for "Désenchantée" and her gothic aesthetic.
Mylène Jampanoï
Mylène Jampanoï (real name Lena Jam-Panoï), French actress born 1980 in Aix-en-Provence; known for Les Filles du botaniste, La Vallée des fleurs, Martyrs (2008), Gainsbourg, and Laurence Anyways.
Myles
Myles is a historical European tables game, a medieval dice-and-board race game related to Ludus Anglicorum, Jacquet, Nard, and backgammon, recorded in the Ludii game database and Kadon's medieval games catalog.