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Ma Baker
Ma Baker is a 1977 disco single by Boney M., produced and co-written by Frank Farian with Fred Jay and George Reyam. Based on outlaw Ma Barker and the Tunisian folk song Sidi Mansour, it hit No. 1 in West Germany and No. 2 in the UK.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker (Arizona Donnie Clark Barker, Kate Barker, 1873–1935), American matriarch tied to the Barker-Karpis gang of bank robbers and kidnappers, killed by FBI agents at Lake Weir, Florida, January 16, 1935; later reassessed as unlikely gang mastermind.
Ma Bufang
Ma Bufang (马步芳) was a Chinese Muslim warlord of the Hui ethnicity who ruled Qinghai province as its chairman from 1938 and died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 1975.
Ma Chao
Ma Chao (马超), courtesy name Mengqi, was a general of the late Han dynasty who fought Cao Cao for the northwest before ending his career under Liu Bei in Shu Han.
Ma Chih-Yuan (Mercurian crater)
Ma Chih-Yuan is a large, ancient, eroded peak-ring impact crater on Mercury in the Discovery quadrangle at 60.01°S, 78.01°W, about 179–197 km across, named in 1976 for the 13th-century Chinese dramatist Ma Zhiyuan.
Ma clan of Fufeng
The Ma clan of Fufeng (马氏) was a Chinese clan settled at Maoling during the Eastern Han, best known as the family of general Ma Yuan and Empress Ma.
Ma Corona
Ma Corona, a 420-km-diameter corona (volcano-tectonic structure) on Venus at 22.5°S, 57°E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Asia Minor fertility goddess; type example of a topographic-margin asymmetric corona.
Ma Dai
Ma Dai (马岱) was a general of the Chinese state of Shu Han in the 3rd century, the younger cousin of Ma Chao, known for executing the general Wei Yan in 234.
Ma Dezhao
Ma Dezhao (马德昭) was a Qing dynasty military officer, born in 1790 in Langzhong, Sichuan, who rose to provincial commander-in-chief defending Shaanxi against the Muslim and Taiping rebellions.
Ma Dong-seok (마동석)
Ma Dong-seok (마동석), born Lee Dong-seok in 1971 and known as Don Lee, is a South Korean and American actor famous for Train to Busan and the Roundup films.
Ma Duanlin
Ma Duanlin (马端临, 1254–1323) was a Chinese historian of the Yuan dynasty, best known for compiling the Wenxian tongkao, a 348-juan survey of governmental institutions.
Ma Hualong
Ma Hualong (马化龙) was a Hui Muslim Sufi leader of the Jahriyya order in Ningxia who led an anti-Qing uprising and was executed in 1871.
Ma Huan
Ma Huan (馬歡, 1380–1460) was a Chinese Muslim interpreter of Arabic and Persian who served on three of Zheng He's expeditions and wrote the Yingya Shenglan, their most detailed eyewitness account.
Ma Huateng (马化腾)
Ma Huateng (马化腾), known internationally as Pony Ma, is the Chinese co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Tencent, the Shenzhen internet company behind QQ and WeChat, founded in 1998.
Ma Li
Ma Li (马理, 1474–1555), courtesy name Boxun, was a Ming dynasty scholar-official from Sanyuan, Shaanxi, known for classical learning and repeated remonstrances that brought him flogging and imprisonment.
Ma Liang
Ma Liang (马亮, 959–1031), courtesy name Shuming, was a Song dynasty official from Hefei who served under emperors Taizong, Zhenzong, and Renzong, ending as Minister of Works.
Ma Liang (Shu Han official)
Ma Liang (马良), courtesy name Jichang, was an official and diplomat of Liu Bei, founder of Shu Han, nicknamed "white brows" and killed in 222 after the defeat at Yiling.
Ma Lin
Ma Lin (马林), a Ming dynasty regional commander, led a column at the 1619 battle of Sarhu and died when Kaiyuan fell to the Later Jin.
Ma Long (马龙)
Ma Long (马龙), Chinese table tennis player born 1988 in Anshan, nicknamed The Dragon; six Olympic golds, three straight world singles titles 2015-2019, four World Cups, and the only male double career Grand Slam.
Ma meilleure ennemie
Ma meilleure ennemie: French-language 2024 duet by Stromae and Pomme for the Arcane season 2 soundtrack (episode 7, Jinx and Ekko dance scene); record 5.9 million Spotify streams in 24 hours, diamond in France, Coldplay extended version April 2025.
Ma Mère
Ma mère (2004), Christophe Honoré's second feature, adapts Georges Bataille's unfinished posthumous novel; Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star as a mother and son in the Canary Islands.
Ma Ning
Ma Ning (马宁) was a Qing dynasty military commander who rose from subordinate officer to provincial commander fighting rebels in Shaanxi and Gansu, dying in 1680.
Ma On Shan
Ma On Shan (馬鞍山) is a Hong Kong new town area in Sha Tin District, approved in 1979 as an extension of Sha Tin New Town on Tolo Harbour, with about 814 ha, Tuen Ma Line stations, and Ma On Shan Country Park.
Ma On Shan Country Park
Ma On Shan Country Park: 2,880-hectare Hong Kong country park designated 1979 in the Eastern New Territories, named after the 702 m Ma On Shan peak, with MacLehose and Wilson Trail sections and a former iron mine.
Ma Prem Hasya
Ma Prem Hasya, born Françoise Wizenberg and known as Françoise Ruddy, was a Holocaust survivor and former Hollywood figure who became Osho's personal secretary in 1985.
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett), billed as the "Mother of the Blues," was one of the earliest American professional blues singers, recording for Paramount Records from 1923 to 1928.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is August Wilson's 1982/1984 drama set in a 1927 Chicago recording studio, the only American Century Cycle play not set in Pittsburgh, first staged at Yale Rep and on Broadway in 1984.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (film)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 Netflix drama directed by George C. Wolfe, adapted by Ruben Santiago-Hudson from August Wilson's 1982 play, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in his final role, set in 1927 Chicago.
Ma Rong (Eastern Han Confucian scholar)
Ma Rong (马融), courtesy name Jizhang, was an Eastern Han Confucian scholar and official who collated the imperial archives and taught Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi.
Ma Rong (Qing Hui rebel officer)
Ma Rong (马荣) was a Qing-dynasty Hui rebel officer in Yunnan who seized Kunming in 1863 and brought about the killing of Governor-General Pan Duo.