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Ma Shao
Ma Shao (马绍) was a Yuan dynasty civil official who served Kublai Khan as Minister of Justice and Minister of War, known for opposing the chancellor Sangge.
Ma Shen
Ma Shen (马伸) was a Song dynasty official from Dongping who opposed the puppet regime of Zhang Bangchang and died in 1129 after impeaching two chief councillors.
Ma Shiying
Ma Shiying (马士英) was a late Ming official from Guiyang who enthroned the Hongguang Emperor and dominated the Southern Ming court as Grand Secretary and Minister of War.
Ma Shouzhen
Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604), also known as Ma Xianglan, was a Chinese courtesan, painter, poet, and playwright of the Ming dynasty, famous for her orchid and bamboo paintings.
Ma Shuo
Ma Shuo (马说, "Discourse on Horses") is a short classical Chinese essay by the Tang dynasty writer Han Yu, arguing that talent exists only when someone able to recognize it does.
Ma Sicong
Ma Sicong (马思聪) was a Ming dynasty official from Putian, Fujian, who served as a district magistrate and Nanjing revenue secretary until his death in 1519.
Ma Su
Ma Su, courtesy name Youchang, was a Shu Han general and Governor of Yuegui whom Zhuge Liang favored; he lost the Battle of Jieting and was executed.
Ma Văn Kháng
Ma Văn Kháng, born Đinh Trọng Đoàn in 1936, is a Vietnamese writer whose twelve novels center on the northwestern mountain frontier, winning the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2012.
Má vlast
Má vlast (My Fatherland/My Country) is a cycle of six symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana (JB 1:112), composed 1872–1879 while deaf, depicting Czech legend, the Vltava and Hussite history; premiered complete in Prague in 1882 and a Czech national monument.
Ma Wu
Ma Wu (马武), courtesy name Zizhang, was an Eastern Han general from Nanyang who became one of Emperor Guangwu's founding generals, dying in AD 61.
Ma Xie
Ma Xie (马希萼) was a prince of the Chu state of the Five Dynasties period, a son of Ma Yin, who rebelled against his brother and captured Changsha.
Ma Xintong
Ma Xintong (马昕彤, born 1994) is a Chinese retail entrepreneur from Lanzhou, Gansu, and founder of Zhekouniu (折扣牛), a hard-discount supermarket chain in Zhengzhou with over 600 stores by 2026.
Ma Xinyi
Ma Xinyi (马新贻) was a Qing dynasty official from Shandong who rose fighting the Taiping and Nian rebels to become governor-general of Liangjiang, assassinated at Nanjing in 1870.
Ma Xiuhui
Ma Xiuhui (马秀慧) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded Opple Lighting with her husband Wang Yaohai in 1996 and has led its sales and management since, taking the lighting company public in 2016.
Ma Yanhong
Ma Yanhong (马燕红), Chinese artistic gymnast, first Chinese world champion in gymnastics (1979 uneven bars, Fort Worth) and first Chinese female Olympic gymnastics champion (1984 uneven bars, tied with McNamara); her namesake dismount was the first skill named for a Chinese gymnast.
Ma Yili (马伊琍)
Ma Yili (马伊琍), Chinese actress born 1976 in Shanghai, Shanghai Theatre Academy graduate; known for Struggle, The First Half of My Life (2018 Magnolia Best Actress), Blossoms Shanghai, and To the Wonder.
Ma Yin
Ma Yin (马殷) was a late Tang military governor who made himself master of Hunan and founded the Ten Kingdoms state of Chu, ruling until his death in 930.
Ma Yin's Conquest of Hunan
Ma Yin's Conquest of Hunan (马殷定湖南) was the 894 campaign in which warlord Ma Yin and Liu Jianfeng took Tanzhou, after which Ma Yin ruled Hunan for three decades.
Ma Yinchu
Ma Yinchu (马寅初) was a Chinese economist, educator, and demographer who served as president of Peking University and wrote the New Population Theory in 1957, advocating population control.
Ma Ying-jeou (马英九)
Ma Ying-jeou (马英九) is a Kuomintang politician who was president of Taiwan 2008-2016, pursued cross-strait rapprochement on the 1992 Consensus, met Xi Jinping in Singapore in 2015 and Beijing in 2024, and left office with approval ratings near 9-10%.
Ma Yu
Ma Yu (马钰), also called Danyangzi, was a Quanzhen Daoist, one of the Northern Seven Perfected disciples of Wang Chongyang and founder of the Yuxian school.
Ma Yuan
Ma Yuan (马援) was a general of the Eastern Han dynasty who served Emperor Guangwu, crushing the Qiang and the Trưng sisters' rebellion in Jiaozhi.
Ma Yuan (painter)
Ma Yuan (馬遠) was a Chinese landscape painter who served the Southern Song court from about 1190 to 1224, nicknamed "One-corner Ma" for his corner-weighted compositions.
Ma Yuan's pacification of the Trưng Sisters' rebellion
Ma Yuan's pacification of the Trưng Sisters' rebellion (馬援平二徵之亂) was the Eastern Han campaign in which general Ma Yuan crushed the Trưng sisters' revolt in Giao Chỉ.
Ma Yuan's southern campaigns
Ma Yuan's southern campaigns (马援南征) were the Han general Ma Yuan's expeditions in the 40s CE, crushing the Trung sisters' rebellion in Jiaozhi and later the Wuling tribes.
Ma Zhiyu
Ma Zhiyu (马志宇) is a Chinese quantitative investor and chief investment officer of Lingjun Investment, a quant hedge fund he co-founded in 2014 after working at WorldQuant.
Ma Zhiyuan
Ma Zhiyuan (馬致遠, c. 1250–1324), courtesy name Dongli, was a Yuan-dynasty playwright and sanqu poet from Dadu, present-day Beijing, one of the Four Great Yuan Composers.
Ma Zhou
Ma Zhou (马周), courtesy name Binwang, was a Tang dynasty official who rose from a poor orphan to Secretariat Director under Emperor Taizong through memorials that shaped Zhenguan policy.
Ma Zun
Ma Zun (马遵), courtesy name Zhongtu, was a Song dynasty official and censor from Raozhou who impeached the chancellor Liang Shi, was praised by Fan Zhongyan, and died in 1057 at 47.
MA-104
MA-104 (MA104) is an African green monkey fetal kidney epithelial cell line, originally mislabeled rhesus, that is highly susceptible to simian rotavirus SA11 and serves as the standard substrate for rotavirus isolation, assay, and vaccine research.