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Malilla

Malilla (Malillas, Spanish Manilla) is a Mexican four-player partnership point-trick card game from the Manille family, played with 40 cards, the Seven as highest card, 70 points per deal, first to 35 wins.

Malin (natural gas hub)

Malin is a natural gas trading hub at Malin, Oregon, on the California-Oregon border, where the GTN pipeline and other systems interconnect to deliver gas into California.

Malin Akerman

Malin Akerman (Malin Maria Åkerman), Swedish-born actress raised in Toronto, known for The Heartbreak Kid, Watchmen's Silk Spectre II, Trophy Wife, Billions, Eurovision 2024 co-host, and Netflix's The Hunting Wives.

Malin Baryard Johnsson

Malin Baryard Johnsson (Malin Birgitta Baryard-Johnsson), born 1975 in Söderköping, is a Swedish show jumper in six Olympics, winner of Tokyo 2020 team gold on Indiana and Athens 2004 team silver, plus 2022 World Championship team gold.

Malin Craig

Malin Craig (1875-1945) was a U.S. Army general, Chief of Staff 1935-1939 between MacArthur and Marshall; West Point 1898, cavalry officer, WWI I Corps chief of staff, modernized the Army and chose Marshall as successor.

Malin Falkenmark

Malin Falkenmark (1925–2023) was a Swedish hydrologist who devised the Falkenmark indicator, one of the most used water scarcity indices, and introduced the green water and blue water distinction.

Malin Kundang

Malin Kundang is a folktale from West Sumatra, Indonesia, about a wealthy merchant who denies his aged mother and is turned to stone with his ship.

Malin Pinsky

Malin L. Pinsky is a biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who studies how ocean life shifts and adapts to climate change, informing fisheries management and conservation.

Malin Svahnstrom

Malin Svahnström (Svahnstrom), Swedish swimmer born 1980 in Upplands Väsby; Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay bronze at Sydney 2000, short-course 4x200 freestyle world record 7:51.70, and 12-time UCLA All-American.

Malina

Malina is a 1971 novel by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, her prose debut and only completed novel, published by Suhrkamp as the opening volume of her planned Todesarten cycle.

Malinalco

Malinalco: Mexica archaeological site in the State of Mexico on the Cerro de los Ídolos, home of the Cuauhcalli, a temple carved from the mountain rock; conquered under Axayácatl, 138 ha at its peak.

Malinche

La Malinche (Matlalcueye) is a 4,461 m dormant stratovolcano northeast of Puebla, Mexico, in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; last confirmed eruption 1170 BCE, Holocene ash about 3,100 years ago, potentially active with over 2 million people nearby.

Malinda Williams

Malinda Williams (Malinda C. Williams), American actress born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, known for Tracy "Bird" Van Adams on Showtime's Soul Food (2000-2004) and films like The Wood; birth date disputed (1975 vs 1970).

Malindi embassy to China

The Malindi embassy to China sent envoys and giraffes as tribute from the Swahili city of Malindi, in present-day Kenya, to the Ming court between 1414 and 1417.

Malindi-Watamu Arabuko Sokoke Biosphere Reserve

Malindi-Watamu Arabuko Sokoke Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in coastal Kenya designated 1979, spanning 487,278 ha of marine and terrestrial habitats including the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, East Africa's largest remaining coastal forest.

Malingao

Malingao is a rural barangay in Kadayangan, BARMM, on Mindanao. It was formerly under Midsayap, Cotabato, and was transferred to the BARMM Special Geographic Area in 2019.

Malingee (crater on Umbriel)

Malingee is a 164 km diameter impact crater on Umbriel, the dark inner moon of Uranus, centered at 22.9° S, 13.9° E. Named in 1988 after an Aboriginal night-traveling spirit, it is Umbriel's second-largest named crater after Wokolo.

Malingering

Malingering is the intentional feigning or gross exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms for external incentives such as money, avoiding work, or evading prosecution; distinguished from factitious disorder by motive, detected via validity tests.

Malini Sharma

Malini Sharma (born 1965) is an Indian former actress and model who played the evil spirit Malini in Vikram Bhatt's 2002 horror hit Raaz. She also appeared in C.A.T.S and 1990s music videos, married actor Priyanshu Chatterjee (2001-2004), and now runs a farmstay called The Slow Local in Maharashtra's Sahyadri Hills. Distinct from actress Mrinalini Sharma of Apaharan.

Malintang

Malintang (Sorikmalintang), volcano 261121, is a 1,988 m andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano in West Sumatra, Indonesia, source of the ~1.53 ka Lubuk King Tephra, the youngest known VEI 5 eruption in Sumatra.

Maliq Brown

Maliq Brown (Maliq Xavier Brown), American NBA forward for the San Antonio Spurs, drafted 44th overall in 2026 after Syracuse and Duke; 2025-26 ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year.

Malique Lewis

Malique Lewis (born 2004) is a Trinidad and Tobago forward, 6'8", drafted 60th overall by Washington in the 2026 NBA Draft and traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, after Fuenlabrada, the Mexico City Capitanes, and South East Melbourne Phoenix.

Malir District

Malir District (ضلع ملیر) is the largest and most rural district of Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan; population 2,403,959 (2023 census), area 2,487 km², created 1996, abolished 2001, reinstated 2011.

Maliseet oral literature

Maliseet oral literature is the body of stories, songs, and teachings passed down orally by the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people of New Brunswick and Maine, featuring the culture hero Kluskap.

Malisheva

KF Malisheva is a professional football club from Malisheva, Kosovo, founded in 2016. Promoted to the top-flight Superliga in 2021, it debuted in UEFA Conference League qualifiers in 2026.

MaliVai Washington

MaliVai Washington, American tennis player (ATP 1989-1999), career-high No. 11, four ATP titles, 1996 Wimbledon finalist losing to Krajicek; founded MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation in Jacksonville, Florida.

Malivur Fairy-Tale Country

Казачная краіна Малівур, better known as Сказочная страна Маливур, is a fairy-tale theme park in Dobrenevo, Lahoysk District, Belarus, near Minsk, with dobrovity houses and the fire-breathing dragon Sky.

Maliwawa Figures

Maliwawa Figures are a style of Aboriginal rock painting in northwest Arnhem Land, Australia, likely 6,000 to 9,400 years old and first described in 2020.

Maliyadeva

Maliyadeva is an arahant, a fully liberated monk, of the Sri Lankan Pali commentarial tradition, remembered for preaching the Chachakka Sutta, at whose sermons sixty monks attained arahantship.

Malkajgiri

Malkajgiri (మల్కాజ్‌గిరి), a dense Hyderabad suburb in Medchal-Malkajgiri district, Telangana; mandal, revenue division and Lok Sabha seat; MMTS junction; own municipal corporation since 2026; known for flooding and mid-range property prices.