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Mandurah

Mandurah (Mandjoogoordap, 'meeting place of the heart') is a coastal city in Western Australia's Peel region, 74 km south of Perth, founded by Thomas Peel in 1830, population 107,641 (2021), centred on the Peel-Harvey Estuary.

Manduria

Manduria (Manduris, Μανδύριον) was a Messapian city 35 km southeast of Taranto in Apulia, Italy, known for its triple megalithic walls (5th–3rd c. BC), the death of Spartan king Archidamus III in 338 BC, its 1,200-tomb necropolis, and the Fonte Pliniano spring.

Mandy (2018 film)

Mandy (2018) is a Panos Cosmatos revenge horror film starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, and Linus Roache, released by RLJE Films on September 14, 2018; 121 minutes, set in 1983, Metascore 83.

Mandy Gonzalez

Mandy Gonzalez, born 1978, American Broadway actor and singer; originated Nina in In the Heights, played Elphaba in Wicked, Angelica in Hamilton, Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd; Obie and Drama Desk winner, Fearless album and book series author.

Mandy Gull-Masty

Mandy Gull-Masty is a Canadian politician and member of the Cree Nation of Waswanipi who has served as Minister of Indigenous Services since 2025, the first Indigenous person in the role.

Mandy Haase

Mandy Haase, born 1982 in Leipzig, is a German field hockey defender who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004 and earned 207 caps for Germany.

Mandy Harvey

Mandy Harvey (Amanda Harvey, born 1988) is a deaf American jazz singer-songwriter who lost her hearing at 18-19 from a connective tissue disorder, earned Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer on AGT 2017 with "Try," finished fourth, and records albums and speaks on accessibility.

Mandy Islacker

Mandy Islacker (born 1988, Essen) is a German retired striker, 2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist with Germany, 2015 UWCL final match-winner for 1. FFC Frankfurt, and twice Frauen-Bundesliga top scorer (2015/16, 2016/17).

Mandy Karnauskas

Mandy Karnauskas is an American fisheries oceanographer and Ecosystem Science Lead at NOAA's Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami, who received a 2014 Presidential Early Career Award.

Mandy Lee (singer)

Mandy Lee (Amanda Lee Duffy), Queens-born American singer, lead vocalist and songwriter of indie-pop band MisterWives (Our Own House, Superbloom, Nosebleeds), now releasing solo electropop as Cherry Bomb, debut album The Pursuit of Pleasure due November 2026.

Mandy Moore

Mandy Moore (Amanda Leigh Moore) is an American singer and actress whose 1999 platinum debut So Real and single "Candy" led to films, the voice of Rapunzel in Tangled, and the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Rebecca Pearson on This Is Us.

Mandy Moore (choreographer)

Mandy Moore, full name Samantha Jo Moore, is an American choreographer known for So You Think You Can Dance, La La Land, and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin (born 1952, Chicago) is an American actor and singer: Tony winner as Che in Evita, Seurat in Sunday in the Park with George, Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, Emmy winner for Chicago Hope, and Saul Berenson on Homeland.

Mandy Rice-Davies

Mandy Rice-Davies (Marilyn Rice-Davies, 1944–2014), Welsh showgirl of the 1963 Profumo affair, famous for the retort "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" at Stephen Ward's trial, later nightclub owner in Israel and novelist.

Mandy Rose

Mandy Rose (Amanda Saccomano) is an American wrestler and fitness model, WWE 2015-2022, Tough Enough runner-up, Toxic Attraction leader, 413-day NXT Women's Champion, released December 2022 over FanTime content.

Mandy Smith

Mandy Smith, born Amanda Louise Smith in 1970, English former pop singer and model, PWL/Stock Aitken Waterman protégée 1987-1989, singles "I Just Can't Wait" and "Boys And Girls"; distinct from a Dutch singer of the same name.

Mandy Takhar

Mandy Takhar (Mandeep Kaur Takhar), British Punjabi actress born 1987 in Wolverhampton; Punjabi cinema lead known for Ekam – Son of Soil, Mirza, Sardaar Ji, and Rabb Da Radio, which won her a Filmfare Punjabi Critics' Award for Best Actress.

Mandy Tam (谭旻萱) (actress)

Mandy Tam (譚旻萱, born 2000, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong actress, model, and singer under Cool Style Media & Management; known from Edan Lui's 2021 'E先生連環不幸事件' MV, the girl group Me&, and the films Love at First Lie (2024) and Night King (2026).

Mandya (ಮಂಡ್ಯ)

Mandya (ಮಂಡ್ಯ), Karnataka's "sugar bowl" district on the Bangalore–Mysore corridor: 7 taluks, 4,98,244 ha, 19.25 lakh people, Cauvery irrigation via Krishnarajasagar and the Visvesvaraya Canal, and Karnataka's oldest sugar factory (1933).

Mane (Egyptian envoy)

Mane was an Egyptian envoy in the mid-14th century BC, named in the Amarna letters of Tushratta of Mitanni as one of the few who knew the kings' correspondence.

Manē no Tora (マネーの虎)

Manē no Tora (マネーの虎, The Tigers of Money) was a Japanese reality series where entrepreneurs invested their own money in pitches, inspiring Dragons' Den and Shark Tank.

Mane Six

Mane Six, or Mane 6, is the fandom nickname for the six lead characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, a pun on "Main Six", later adopted by Hasbro in official marketing and reused for Generation 5.

Mané-Vechen, Plouhinec

Mané-Véchen (Plouhinec, Morbihan) is a Gallo-Roman maritime villa of the late 2nd century AD on the ria d'Étel, with U-shaped plan, rich painted and stucco decor, coin hoards, fire around 282, reoccupied to about 320, classified Monument historique in 2010.

Maneaba

A maneaba, literally a meeting house, is the traditional communal meeting house of Kiribati, where elders called the unimwane deliberate on village affairs, justice, and ceremony.

Maneaba ni Maungatabu

The Maneaba ni Maungatabu, or House of Assembly, is the unicameral national legislature of Kiribati, established at independence from the United Kingdom on 12 July 1979.

Manéah

Manéah (also Maneah, Manéa) is a town and sub-prefecture in Coyah Prefecture, Kindia Region, western Guinea, about 36 km from Conakry; population about 194,000 (gazetteer) to 460,000 (grid estimate), tropical climate, GMT+0.

Maneater (Hall & Oates song)

"Maneater" is a 1982 Hall & Oates song from H2O (RCA), written by Hall, Oates, and Sara Allen; four weeks at US No. 1 from 18 December 1982, UK No. 6, the duo's biggest hit.

Maneater (video game)

Maneater (ShaRkPG) is Tripwire Interactive's 2020 open-world action RPG where the player is a bull shark, growing from pup to megashark; sold over 14 million copies; sequel Maneater 2 due 2027.

Maneb

Maneb (manganese ethylenebis(dithiocarbamate), C4H6MnN2S4) is a broad-spectrum EBDC contact fungicide for fruits and vegetables; multi-site action, no resistance, thyroid and dopaminergic neurotoxicity via ETU and manganese, EU approval withdrawn.

Maned wolf

Maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus, lobo-guará, aguará guazú): largest South American canid, sole species of Chrysocyon, neither wolf nor fox; long-legged omnivore of the cerrado, Near Threatened, seed disperser, about 17,000 remain.