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Maneesh Sharma (मनीष शर्मा)
Maneesh Sharma (मनीष शर्मा), Hindi film director-producer at Yash Raj Films; debut Band Baaja Baaraat (2010), directed Fan (2016) and Tiger 3 (2023), produced National Award winner Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
Maneet Chauhan
Maneet Chauhan, Indian American chef and restaurateur in Nashville, judge on Chopped since 2010 and two-time Tournament of Champions winner; founder of Morph Hospitality Group and author of Chaat.
Māneh va Samalqān
Māneh va Samalqān (مانه و سملقان), also Maneh and Samalqan, a county in North Khorasan, Iran, seat Ashkhaneh; rich archaeological region with Tappe Rivi Achaemenid city, Espakhu Sasanian fire temple, and Qaleh Khan prehistoric site.
Maneka Gandhi
Maneka Gandhi (मेनका गांधी), born 1956, is an Indian BJP politician, widow of Sanjay Gandhi, eight-term Lok Sabha MP (Pilibhit, Aonla, Sultanpur), former Union minister, and founder of People for Animals; she lost Sultanpur in 2024.
Maneki Kecak
Maneki Kecak (まねきケチャ) is a Japanese idol group produced by the Japan Twin-Tails Association, revealed in Tokyo in 2015 and known for its members' fully live vocals.
Maneki-neko (招き猫)
Maneki-neko (招き猫), also called lucky cat or zhaocai mao, is a Japanese Edo-period figurine of a seated cat with one raised paw; right paw beckons money, left paw customers, with color meanings and Gotokuji temple legends.
Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller is a Spanish researcher in cancer epigenetics, born in 1968, whose 2000 study showed MGMT methylation predicts how glioma patients respond to chemotherapy.
Manel Kape
Manel Kape, "Starboy", Angolan-born Portuguese UFC flyweight ranked #2, 23-7 record, former RIZIN bantamweight champion (won 2019 vs Kai Asakura), signed to UFC in 2020, known for one-punch knockout power.
Manes of Lydia
Manes, a legendary king of Lydia, is documented by Herodotus as the father of Atys. He is believed to be at the head of the Atyad line.
Manesh R. Patel
Manesh R. Patel is an American interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist who serves as Chief of Cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine and led the ROCKET AF and EUCLID trials.
Måneskin
Måneskin, Italian glam-pop-rock band from Rome (Damiano David, Victoria De Angelis, Thomas Raggi, Ethan Torchio), won Sanremo and Eurovision 2021 with Zitti e buoni; albums Il ballo della vita, Teatro d'ira vol. I, Rush!; hiatus since 2024.
Manetho
Manetho (Manethon of Sebennytos) was an Egyptian priest who wrote the Aegyptiaca, a Greek history of Egypt, under Ptolemy II in the early 3rd century BC.
Maneuver warfare
Maneuver warfare, also called manoeuvrist doctrine, is a military philosophy aiming to defeat enemies by systemic disruption and dislocation rather than attrition, associated with William Lind, Boyd's OODA loop, Auftragstaktik, and U.S. Marine Corps doctrine.
Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System
The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a Boeing 737 MAX flight control law, activated at high angle of attack, whose erroneous activation caused two 2018 and 2019 crashes.
Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya
Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya (MM Somaya), born 1959 in Kodagu, Karnataka, is an Indian former field hockey right half, 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist, and captain of India at the 1988 Seoul Olympics; Bharat Petroleum Executive Director and Arjuna Award recipient.
MANF
MANF (mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor, formerly ARMET) is a 20 kDa secreted ER stress-response protein on chromosome 3p21.2, family member with CDNF, protective for dopaminergic neurons, beta cells, heart, and liver; no receptor identified.
Manfidokimab
Manfidokimab (AK120) is Akeso's anti-IL-4Rα monoclonal antibody for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis; its Phase III met endpoints in August 2025 and its NMPA NDA was accepted in February 2026.
Manfred Brauneck
Manfred Brauneck (born 1934) is a German theatrologist and literary scholar, emeritus professor of the University of Hamburg, known for standard works on European theater history and the 2010 Balzan Prize.
Manfred Eigen
Manfred Eigen was a German biophysical chemist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for measuring extremely fast chemical reactions, and founded the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Manfred Frasch
Manfred Frasch, born 1954, is a German developmental biologist who led developmental biology research at Erlangen-Nürnberg until 2020, studying muscle development in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Manfred Germar
Manfred Germar (Manni), born 10 March 1935 in Cologne, West German sprinter; 1956 Olympic 4x100 m relay bronze, triple European champion, 200 m world record 20.6 in 1958, German Sports Hall of Fame 2006.
Manfred Hausmann
Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986) was a German lyric poet and writer in Bremen, known for the novels Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken and Abel mit der Mundharmonika.
Manfred Klein
Manfred Klein (born 1947, Berlin), German rowing coxswain, nicknamed Willi; Olympic gold in the men's eight at Seoul 1988, bronze at Barcelona 1992, three world titles 1989-91, and German flagbearer in 1992.
Manfred Kluth
Manfred Kluth (2 July 1936 – 22 July 2010) was a West German rower of Neußer RV, 1959 national champion and European silver medallist, who rowed the coxless four at the 1960 Rome Olympics and later became a lawyer.
Manfred Kokot
Manfred Kokot (born 1948, Templin) is an East German sprinter, first GDR sprinter to run 10.0 for 100 m (1971), Olympic 4x100 m relay silver medallist at Montreal 1976, and former 50 m indoor world record holder (5.61 s).
Manfred Kopf
Manfred Kopf, also printed as Manfred Köpf, is a Swiss immunologist and Professor Emeritus at ETH Zurich who trained with Georges Köhler and defined cytokine functions through knockout mice.
Manfred Kurzer
Manfred Kurzer (born 1970, West-Berlin), German running-target sport shooter; 2004 Athens Olympic gold with world-record 590 qualifying and 682.4 total; world champion 1990, 1994, and 2002 (team).
Manfred Kyber
Manfred Kyber (1880–1933) was a Baltic German writer from Riga, remembered for his animal stories and fairy-tale plays; his collection Unter Tieren (1912) sold over 200,000 copies.
Manfred L. Karnovsky
Manfred L. Karnovsky (1918–1999) was a South African-born American biochemist at Harvard Medical School whose work on white blood cell metabolism identified the enzyme defect behind chronic granulomatous disease.
Manfred M. Kappes
Manfred M. Kappes (born 1957 in Bonn) is a German physical chemist and KIT professor known for determining gold cluster ion structures and separating metallic from semiconducting carbon nanotubes.