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Maa-Ema Corona
Maa-Ema Corona is a 300-km-wide corona, a ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 40.80°N, 102.50°E in the Shimti Tessera quadrangle; IAU-named in 1994 for an Estonian harvest goddess.
Maa-Palaeokastro
Maa-Palaeokastro, also known as Palaiokastro, meaning 'the old fortress', is a fortified Late Bronze Age settlement on a peninsula near Pafos, Cyprus, founded and abandoned during the crisis years around 1200 BC.
Maacah (queen mother of Judah)
Maacah, also spelled Maakah, was a wife of King Rehoboam of Judah, mother of Abijam, and queen mother in the early tenth century BC until Asa deposed her.
Maachis
Maachis (माचिस, "Matches") is Gulzar's 1996 Hindi political thriller on Punjab's Sikh insurgency, starring Tabu, Chandrachur Singh, and Om Puri, with debut composer Vishal Bhardwaj; it won National and Filmfare awards and earned about ₹6.19 crore.
Maadhavi Latha
Maadhavi Latha (మాధవీ లత) is an Indian actress and Telangana BJP politician, debut lead of Nachavule (2008), 2024 BJP Hyderabad Lok Sabha candidate who lost to Asaduddin Owaisi, and 2026 Telangana state shooting championship gold medalist.
Maadi (المعادي)
Maadi (المعادي) is an upscale garden suburb on Cairo's east bank, founded in 1904-1905 by the Egyptian Delta Land & Investment Company around the Cairo-Helwan railway, nationalised in 1962, and known for villas, international schools, Metro Line 1, and unusually high green space per resident.
Maaike de Waard
Maaike de Waard, born 1996 in Vlaardingen, Netherlands, is a Dutch backstroke and butterfly swimmer who won Youth Olympic gold in 2014 and holds short-course relay world records.
Maaike Head
Maaike Head (born 1983, Amsterdam) is a Dutch rower and physician; with Ilse Paulis she won Olympic gold in the lightweight women's double sculls at Rio 2016 after finishing eighth at London 2012.
Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz (born 1978, Southend, England) is a British former Hizb ut-Tahrir leader, Amnesty-adopted prisoner of conscience in Egypt (2002-2006), and co-founder of the Quilliam counter-extremism think tank, later a Liberal Democrat candidate and author of Radical and Islam and the Future of Tolerance.
Maajja
Maajja is an independent music company founded with composer A. R. Rahman in January 2021 to promote South Asian independent artists, based in Toronto and Chennai.
Maalaala Mo Kaya
Maalaala Mo Kaya (MMK, "Would You Remember") is ABS-CBN's Philippine drama anthology of real-life viewer stories, premiering May 15, 1991, hosted by Charo Santos-Concio, Asia's longest-running drama anthology, winner of the 2018 Asian Academy Creative Award for Best Single Drama/Telemovie, revived in 2025.
Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam
Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam (மாலை நேரத்து மயக்கம்), also spelled Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam, is a 2016 Tamil romantic drama directed by Gitanjali Selvaraghavan, written by K. Selvaraghavan, starring Balakrishna Kola and Wamiqa Gabbi, released 1 January 2016. Distinct from Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam and Mayakkam Enna.
Maalavika Sundar
Maalavika Sundar is a Chennai-born Carnatic-trained playback singer known as "Dang Dang Maalavika" after her 2014 debut in Manam Kothi Paravai, a Super Singer and Indian Idol finalist, and the 2026 viral Vaazha 2 singer.
Maalik (मालिक) (2025 film)
Maalik (मालिक) is a 2025 Hindi gangster action thriller directed by Pulkit, starring Rajkummar Rao as Deepak, a farmer's son who becomes Allahabad's feared gangster Maalik; released 11 July 2025, later on Prime Video.
Maalika
Maalika (Sanskrit: मालिका, mālikā), meaning garland, names a family of Sanskrit verse collections, from hymns to question-and-answer tracts, strung together like flowers on a thread.
Maalox
Maalox, an antacid brand of aluminum hydroxide plus magnesium hydroxide, often with simethicone (Maalox Plus), for heartburn, dyspepsia, and gas; fast-acting MgOH2 balanced against constipating AlOH3, with kidney failure contraindications and 2-hour drug separation.
Maaman
Maaman (மாமன்) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language family drama film directed by Prasanth Pandiyaraj, starring Soori as an uncle whose bond with his nephew strains his marriage.
Maamannan (மாமன்னன்)
Maamannan (மாமன்னன்) is a 2023 Tamil political drama by Mari Selvaraj, produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin's Red Giant Movies, starring Vadivelu, Fahadh Faasil, Keerthy Suresh, and Udhayanidhi Stalin; released 29 June 2023, on Netflix 27 July 2023, with A.R. Rahman's music and a Filmfare supporting-actor win for Faasil.
Maame E. Frimpong
Maame E. Frimpong, born 1976, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Maamla Legal Hai (मामला लीगल है)
Maamla Legal Hai (मामला लीगल है) is a Hindi Netflix courtroom comedy set in the fictional Patparganj District Court, Delhi; created by Sameer Saxena, starring Ravi Kishan, with seasons in 2024 and 2026 based on real cases.
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi (مأمون الشناوي) was an Egyptian poet and lyricist who wrote hundreds of songs for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, and other leading Arab singers.
Maan Karate (மான் கராத்தே)
Maan Karate (மான் கராத்தே) is a 2014 Tamil comedy-drama directed by debutant Thirukumaran, starring Sivakarthikeyan and Hansika Motwani, with story by A.R. Murugadoss and music by Anirudh Ravichander; IT friends use a future newspaper to back jobless Peter to win a Rs 2 crore boxing prize.
Maanaadu (மானாடு)
Maanaadu (மாநாடு, "conference"), also released in dubbed versions as The Loop, is a 2021 Tamil time-loop political action thriller directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Silambarasan TR, S. J. Suryah, and Kalyani Priyadarshan, released 25 November 2021 and a box-office blockbuster.
Maanagaram (மாநகரம்)
Maanagaram (மாநகரம், Metropolis) is a 2017 Tamil hyperlink action thriller set in Chennai, the directorial debut of Lokesh Kanagaraj, starring Sundeep Kishan, Sri, and Regina Cassandra, released 10 March 2017.
Maandy
Maandy (Amanda Mitchelle Wambui) is a Kenyan rapper, singer, and songwriter from Nairobi known as Manzi wa Nairobi, active since 2016 with albums Kabaya, Frisky, and Flavour.
Maanikya (ಮಾಣಿಕ್ಯ)
Maanikya (ಮಾಣಿಕ್ಯ) is a 2014 Kannada action drama directed by and starring Kiccha Sudeep, the official remake of the Telugu hit Mirchi, released 1 May 2014 with an Rs 18 crore budget and Rs 14 crore opening weekend.
Maanshan Iron and Steel
Maanshan Iron and Steel, known as Masteel or Magang, is a Chinese steel company in Maanshan, Anhui, producing special steel, railway wheels and axles, and plates.
Maanshan nuclear power plant
Maanshan nuclear power plant (核三厂) is a two-unit nuclear power station in Pingtung County, Taiwan, whose reactors, the last operating in Taiwan, shut down in July 2024 and May 2025.
Maanu
Maanu is the stage name of Rehman Afshar, a Lahore-based Pakistani singer, rapper, and producer known for the 2024 Coke Studio hit 'Jhol' with Annural Khalid.
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-rimmed volcanic crater formed by explosive interaction of rising magma with groundwater, cutting below the pre-eruption surface and underlain by a funnel-shaped diatreme, with the type locality in Germany's Vulkaneifel.