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Manon Jeannotte
Manon Jeannotte, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec since January 25, 2024; former Chief of the Micmac Nation of Gespeg and HEC Montréal First Nations executive education director; first First Nations person in the role.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut (Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut) is a 1731 French novel by the abbé Prévost, inserted in his Mémoires d'un homme de qualité, revised definitively in 1753 and adapted by Massenet and Puccini.
Manon Rhéaume
Manon Rhéaume (born 1972, Lac-Beauport, Québec), Canadian goaltender; first and only woman to play in an NHL game, Tampa Bay Lightning preseason, 23 September 1992; 1992 and 1994 world champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist.
Manon van Rooijen
Manon van Rooijen (born 1982, Leerdam) is a Dutch freestyle swimmer who won silver in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at Sydney 2000 and gold at Beijing 2008, swimming the heats.
Manoochehr Sadri
Manoochehr Sadri (منوچهر صدری) is an Iranian technology executive who has led Cafe Bazaar, Iran's most popular Android app marketplace, as CEO since June 2025.
Manoos (माणूस)
Manoos (माणूस), also Aadmi or Life Is for Living, is V. Shantaram's 1939 Prabhat Film Company Marathi social drama about a police constable's love for a sex worker, starring Shahu Modak and Shanta Hublikar.
Manor house
A manor house, or havezate, is the dwelling of the lord of the manor, from which a medieval landholder administered his estate; some were fortified, and many survive in England.
Manor House Roman villa
Manor House Roman villa (Farningham Roman Villa II), a winged-corridor Roman villa in Farningham, Kent, excavated in 1948 by G. W. Meates; occupied from about AD 80 into the 4th century, with a separate bath house, now backfilled and invisible.
Manor Lords
Manor Lords is a medieval city-building and strategy game by Slavic Magic (Greg Styczeń), published by Hooded Horse, in Early Access since April 26, 2024. It sold one million copies in a day, features gridless burgage-plot building, production chains, and tactical battles.
Manor Racing
Manor Racing, the 2016 name of the former Virgin Racing and Marussia F1 entry, ran the Mercedes-powered MRT05 with Wehrlein, Haryanto, and Ocon, scored one point, finished 11th, and folded in January 2017.
Manor Solomon (מנור סולומון)
Manor Solomon (מנור סולומון), born 1999 in Kfar Saba, is an Israeli left winger at West Ham United; formerly Maccabi Petah Tikva, Shakhtar Donetsk, Fulham, Tottenham, Leeds, Villarreal, Fiorentina; three Ukrainian titles, 2024/25 Championship winner with Leeds.
Manorama (மனோரமா) (Tamil actress)
Manorama (மனோரமா), known as Aachi Manorama, was an Indian actress, comedian, and playback singer of Tamil cinema who appeared in over 1,000 films and held a Guinness World Record.
Manorama Six Feet Under
Manorama Six Feet Under is a 2007 Hindi neo-noir mystery thriller, Navdeep Singh's debut, starring Abhay Deol as a suspended engineer hired to spy on a minister; a Chinatown-modeled film that flopped commercially but became a favorite.
Manorathangal (മനോരഥങ്ങൾ)
Manorathangal (മനോരഥങ്ങൾ, Mindscapes) is a 2024 ZEE5 Malayalam anthology series of nine episodes adapting M.T. Vasudevan Nair short stories, directed by eight filmmakers including Priyadarshan, with Mohanlal, Mammootty, Fahadh Faasil, and presenter Kamal Haasan.
Manorhita (摩拏罗)
Manorhita (摩拏罗) is the figure counted as the 22nd Indian patriarch in the standard Chan lineage from Mahākāśyapa to Bodhidharma, treated by modern scholarship as legend.
Manorial estates (zhuangyuan)
Manorial estates (zhuangyuan, 庄园) were large landholdings in Tang China owned by the imperial house, nobles, officials, or temples, and rented to tenants, often for half the harvest.
Manorialism
Manorialism (seigneurialism, the manorial system): the medieval European rural economic system of lords and dependent peasants on manors, with demesne land, labor rents, and manor courts; distinct from feudalism; rose from late Roman and Carolingian roots, declined after the Black Death.
Manorina
Manorina (miners) is a genus of four Australian honeyeaters, Meliphagidae, established by Vieillot in 1818: Yellow-throated, Noisy, Bell, and Black-eared Miners; colonial, aggressive birds, with Bell Miners linked to eucalypt dieback.
Manos Mavrikakis
Manos Mavrikakis is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who designs catalysts from first-principles calculations, with awards including the 2019 Gabor A. Somorjai Award.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American horror film made on a bet by El Paso fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren, starring Tom Neyman as the Master; revived by MST3K and restored on Blu-ray in 2015.
Manosphere
The manosphere is a decentralized network of anti-feminist, male-supremacist online communities, including MRAs, Pick-Up Artists, The Red Pill, MGTOW, and incels; term coined 2009, roots in 1970s men's rights movement, increasingly linked to radicalization and mainstream influencers like Andrew Tate.
Manoto
Manoto, also known as Manoto TV (منوتو), is a London-based Persian-language satellite channel launched in 2010 by Kayvan and Marjan Abbasi, known for entertainment and talent shows reaching Iran and the diaspora.
Manouchehr Atashi
Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی, 1931–2005) was an Iranian poet, translator, and journalist who gave the landscape and people of southern Iran a voice in modern Persian poetry.
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (Central African Republic)
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park, a 17,400 km² UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic, inscribed 1988 and in Danger since 1997 after poaching and grazing collapsed its wildlife; WCS manages it since 2018.
Manowar
Manowar is an American heavy metal band from New York, formed in 1980 by Joey DeMaio and Ross the Boss, known for Battle Hymns, Kings of Metal, epic mythology themes, and the loudest-band Guinness record.
ManpowerGroup
ManpowerGroup is an American workforce-solutions company founded in Milwaukee in 1948 by Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld, providing recruitment, temporary staffing, and outsourcing services through about 2,100 offices in more than 70 countries.
Manpreet Singh (soldier)
Colonel Manpreet Singh (died 2023), Indian Army officer and third-generation soldier, commanded 19 Rashtriya Rifles in Anantnag, Kashmir; Sena Medal recipient who refused a peace posting, killed in the Kokernag terrorist encounter with Major Ashish Dhonchak and DSP Himayun Bhat. Not the Agniveer soldier Amritpal Singh nor politician Manpreet Badal.
Manpuku Holdings Co., Ltd.
Manpuku Holdings Co., Ltd. (まん福ホールディングス) is a Tokyo holding company founded in 2021 by Tomoharu Kato that buys and permanently holds restaurant and food businesses whose owners lack successors.
Manqabat
Manqabat (منقبت) is a genre of Urdu devotional poetry, ranked after hamd and naat, that praises the virtues of Hazrat Ali, the Ahl al-Bayt, or Sufi saints.
Manresa
Manresa, city and municipal capital of Bages in central Catalonia, Spain; first documented 889, medieval Sèquia canal, 19th-century textile industrial center, about 80,692 inhabitants (2025).