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Maara (மாறா)

Maara (மாறா) is a 2021 Tamil romantic adventure drama, the official remake of the 2015 Malayalam film Charlie, directed by Dhilip Kumar, starring Madhavan and Shraddha Srinath, released on Amazon Prime Video on 8 January 2021.

Maaran (2022 film)

Maaran (மாறன்) is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by Karthick Naren, Dhanush's 43rd film, co-starring Malavika Mohanan. It premiered directly on Disney+ Hotstar on 11 March 2022, distinct from the 2002 Tamil film and the 2026 Gujarati film of the same name.

Maaran (મારણ) (2026 film)

Maaran (મારણ) is a 2026 Gujarati thriller-drama directed by Abhishek Jain, starring Deeksha Joshi, Yash Soni, and Shruhad Goswami, about trafficking and patriarchy; distinct from the 2022 Tamil film Maaran, it won Best Gujarati Film at the 72nd National Film Awards.

Maarconi Mathaai

Maarconi Mathaai (മാർക്കോണി മത്തായി), aka Marconi Mathai, is a 2019 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Sanil Kalathil, starring Jayaram, Vijay Sethupathi (Malayalam debut), and Athmeeya Rajan, released 12 July 2019.

Maareesan (மாறீசன்)

Maareesan (மாறீசன்; Tamil மாரீசன்), 2025 Tamil comedy thriller by Sudheesh Sankar starring Fahadh Faasil and Vadivelu; a thief joins an elderly man on a road trip to rob him. Released 25 July 2025; on Netflix from 22 August 2025.

Maargan

Maargan (மார்கன்), earlier Kanana Maargan, is a 2025 Tamil crime thriller directed by Leo John Paul, starring Vijay Antony as ADGP Dhruv investigating a killer whose victims' bodies turn black; released 27 June 2025, streamed on Prime Video from 25 July 2025.

Maari (film)

Maari (மாரி), 2015 Tamil gangster comedy directed by Balaji Mohan, starring Dhanush as a pigeon-racing Chennai don with Kajal Aggarwal and Vijay Yesudas; Anirudh music, released 17 July 2015, followed by Maari 2.

Maari 2 (மாரி 2)

Maari 2 (மாரி 2) is a 2018 Tamil action comedy, sequel to Maari (2015), directed by Balaji Mohan, starring Dhanush, Sai Pallavi, and Tovino Thomas, with Yuvan Shankar Raja's music and the Rowdy Baby chartbuster.

Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamesi

The Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamesi (معارف عومومی نظامنامەسی) was the Ottoman Empire's general education law of 1869, a 198-article regulation making primary education compulsory regardless of sex, religion, and sect.

Maarigallu

Maarigallu (ಮಾರಿಗಲ್ಲು) is a 2025 Kannada suspense thriller web series on ZEE5, directed by Devraj Poojary for PRK Productions, about a 1990s Sirsi village treasure hunt for Kadamba-dynasty riches guarded by the deity Maari.

Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp

Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp is a Dutch cardiovascular researcher, professor emeritus at Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for work on inactive renin, essential hypertension, and the DRASTIC trial.

Maarten Alblas

Maarten Alblas (born 1992) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper in 2017, an Amsterdam audit automation company that became a $1 billion unicorn in 2024.

Maarten B. J. Roeffaers

Maarten B. J. Roeffaers is a Belgian chemist and full professor at KU Leuven known for optical microscopy methods that visualize working catalysts at the single-molecule level.

Maarten Boers

Maarten Boers is a Dutch rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, full professor at Amsterdam UMC and a rheumatologist at Reade, known for the 1997 COBRA trial and co-founding OMERACT.

Maarten J. Chrispeels

Maarten J. Chrispeels is a plant biologist who spent his career at UC San Diego, where his laboratory discovered aquaporins, the water channel proteins of plants.

Maarten Koornneef

Maarten Koornneef is a Dutch plant geneticist who helped establish Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for genetics, working at Wageningen University and the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.

Maarten L. Simoons

Maarten L. Simoons is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, who led trials comparing thrombolysis with primary angioplasty in acute coronary syndromes.

Maarten Naesens

Maarten Naesens is a Belgian nephrologist and transplantation researcher who is Clinical Director of Nephrology at University Hospitals Leuven and a professor at KU Leuven, working on kidney transplant rejection.

Maarten Schmidt

Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer at Caltech who in 1963 identified the redshift of 3C 273, showing that quasars are distant, extraordinarily luminous objects.

Maarten Stekelenburg

Maarten Stekelenburg is a Dutch former goalkeeper, born in Haarlem in 1982, who spent most of his career at Ajax and played all 7 matches of the Netherlands' run to the 2010 World Cup final.

Maarten van Lohuizen

Maarten van Lohuizen (M. van Lohuizen) is a Dutch molecular biologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute known for provirus-tagging screens and for establishing Bmi1 as an oncogene regulating stem cell self-renewal.

Maartje Goderie

Maartje Goderie (born 1984, 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch field hockey midfielder who won Olympic gold with the Netherlands in 2008 and 2012, scored in the Beijing final, and retired from Oranje in 2012.

Maartje Paumen

Maartje Paumen, Dutch field hockey defender and drag-flick penalty corner specialist, captain of the Netherlands; 235 caps, 195 goals, all-time Oranje top scorer; Olympic gold 2008 and 2012, silver 2016; FIH Player of the Year 2011 and 2012.

Maasai Mara

Maasai Mara National Reserve (MMNR), Kenya, established 1948, managed by Narok County; northern stage of the Great Wildebeest Migration in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, with community conservancies, visitor pressure, and habitat degradation challenges.

Maasai people

Maasai: semi-nomadic Nilotic pastoralists (Maa language) of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, about 160,000 km2 of rangeland; known for cattle-centered culture and conflicts over conservation, parks, and tourism land loss.

Maasai Steppe

The Maasai Steppe is a ~22,000 km² semi-arid savanna in northern Tanzania around Tarangire National Park and the Simanjiro plains, where Maasai pastoralists, livestock, and declining large-mammal wildlife share village lands and protected areas.

Maasina Rule

Maasina Rule, also written Maasina Ruru and anglicized as Marching Rule, was a peaceful indigenous movement for Malaitan self-government in the Solomon Islands from 1944.

Maassilo

Maassilo is a former grain silo on the Maashaven in Rotterdam, Netherlands, now a raw industrial event venue for techno, hardcore, and gabber raves, part of the Now&Wow complex.

Maastricht

Maastricht, capital of Dutch Limburg on the Meuse, also called Mosa Trajectum; Roman bridge town, namesake of the Maastricht Treaty (1992) and the Maastrichtian age; 126,026 residents in 2026.

Maastricht Aachen Airport

Maastricht Aachen Airport, also known as Maastricht Airport or Aachen Airport, is a regional airport near Beek in the Dutch province of Limburg, serving the cities of Maastricht and Aachen.