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Manual therapy
Manual therapy is a hands-on clinical treatment applying mechanical force to joints, muscles, or nerves through manipulation, mobilization, and stretching, delivered by physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths.
Manual thumb safety
A manual thumb safety is a manually operated firearm safety positioned for the trigger-hand thumb, blocking the trigger, sear, or hammer, as on the Colt M1911.
Manual transmission
A manual transmission, also called a stick shift, is a vehicle gearbox where the driver selects gears with a shifter and a foot-operated clutch, once the default but now rare in new cars.
Manuchar K ' Virk ' Velia
Manuchar K ' Virk ' Velia, recorded as Manuchar Kvirkvelia (მანუჩარ კვირკველია), Georgian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1978 in Ozurgeti; 2008 Beijing Olympic middleweight (74 kg) gold medalist, 2003 world champion, 2004 Athens disqualification.
Manucharitam
Manucharitam (Telugu: మనుచరిత్రము), also called Svarochisha Manu Sambhavamu, is a sixteenth-century Telugu court epic by Allasani Peddana, chief poet of Krishnadevaraya, and is regarded as the first prabandha in Telugu literature.
Manucharitram
Manucharitram (మనుచరిత్రము), formally Svarochisha Manusambhavamu, is a Telugu court poem by Allasani Peddana, written in the early 1500s at Krishnadevaraya's court and counted among the five great Telugu kavyas.
Manuchehri
Manuchehri (منوچهری) was the pen name of Abū'l-Najm Aḥmad of Dāmghān, an 11th-century Persian court poet famed for nature descriptions, wine poetry, and the musammaṭ form.
ManuCo
ManuCo GmbH, registered as Princeps UG until 2019, is a Berlin-based e-commerce company that operated consumer brands like Gourmesso and pursued a Thrasio-style buy-and-build strategy.
Manuel A. Friese
Manuel A. Friese is a German neurologist and physician-scientist who studies how inflammation kills neurons in multiple sclerosis, directing the INIMS institute in Hamburg and winning the 2025 Barancik Prize.
Manuel Acuña
Manuel Acuña (full name Manuel Acuña Narro, 1849–1873) was a Mexican Romantic poet and playwright whose "Nocturno a Rosario" became one of the most popular poems in the Spanish language.
Manuel Akanji
Manuel Obafemi Akanji, Swiss centre-back born 1995, played for Basel, Borussia Dortmund, and Manchester City (2023 Treble), joined Inter on loan in 2025, and has 71 Switzerland caps.
Manuel Alcarazo
Manuel Alcarazo (born 1978 in Alcalá de Guadaíra, Spain) is a Spanish chemist, professor of organic chemistry at Göttingen since 2015, known for cationic phosphine ligands and gold catalysis.
Manuel Almunia
Manuel Almunia (Manuel Almunia Rivero, born 1977, Pamplona) is a Spanish former goalkeeper, Arsenal's No 1 from 2008, 175 appearances, 2006 Champions League final substitute; retired 2014 on medical advice, now a UAE goalkeeping coach.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) was a Mexican photographer, regarded as a founder of modern photography and the leading Latin American photographer of the twentieth century.
Manuel Andrada
Manuel Andrada (Manuel Ángel Andrada Ballesteros, "El Paisano", 1890-1962), Argentine polo player: 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist, six-time Argentine Open winner with five teams, 9-goal handicap, 1931 US Open champion.
Manuel Ángel
Manuel Ángel (Manuel Ángel Morán Ibáñez), Spanish midfielder born 2004 in Albaida del Aljarafe; Sevilla and Real Madrid academy product, Castilla captain, Real Madrid first-team debutant 2026, Fulham player from September 2026.
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831–1861) was a Brazilian novelist whose Memórias de um sargento de milícias is considered the first urban novel in Brazilian literature.
Manuel Antonio National Park
Manuel Antonio National Park (Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio) is Costa Rica's most-visited protected area, in Quepos canton, Puntarenas: beaches, tropical forest, 352 bird and 109 mammal species, capped daily visitation, SINAC online tickets.
Manuel Arango Arias
Manuel Arango Arias (born 1936) is a Mexican retailer who co-founded Aurrerá with his brothers in 1958, the business that became Grupo Cifra and Walmart de México.
Manuel Arellano
Manuel Arellano, born 1957 in Elda, Spain, is a Spanish econometrician and Professor at CEMFI in Madrid, known for the Arellano–Bond GMM estimator for dynamic panel data.
Manuel Ares
Manuel Ares, Jr. is an American molecular biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for work on the spliceosome and ribosomal RNA processing.
Manuel Artime
Manuel Artime (Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa, 1932–1977), Cuban physician and anti-Castro revolutionary, civil leader of Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs, later headed the CIA-backed AMWORLD exile commando operation from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1963–1965.
Manuel Ascencio Padilla
Manuel Ascencio Padilla (1774–1816) was a criollo guerrilla commander who, with his wife Juana Azurduy, led the Republiqueta de La Laguna in Bolivia's independence wars.
Manuel Ávila Camacho
Manuel Ávila Camacho was a Mexican general who served as president of Mexico from 1940 to 1946, the last military president, leading Mexico into World War II on the Allied side.
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña (1880–1940), Spanish writer and statesman; Minister of War, Prime Minister 1931–33, and last President of the Second Spanish Republic 1936–39; architect of its reforms, resigned 1939, died in exile in Montauban.
Manuel B. Villar Jr.
Manuel B. Villar Jr. is a Filipino businessman and former politician who chairs Vista Land, a major homebuilder, and served as Senate President from 2006 to 2008.
Manuel B. Zamora Jr.
Manuel B. Zamora Jr. is a Filipino lawyer and mining executive who founded Nickel Asia Corporation, the Philippines' largest lateritic nickel ore producer, entering the business in 1969.
Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968) was a Brazilian poet, critic, and translator, a founding figure of Brazilian Modernism called its "Saint John the Baptist" by Mário de Andrade.
Manuel Barillas
Manuel Lisandro Barillas was a Guatemalan general who served as president of Guatemala from 1885 to 1892, taking power after Justo Rufino Barrios died in battle.
Manuel Beckman
Manuel Beckman, also known as Manoel Bequimão, was a Portuguese-born sugar planter in Maranhão who led the 1684 revolt in colonial Brazil and was hanged.