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Mar R. Kahana, son of Ḥaninai Gaon

Mar R. Kahana, son of Ḥaninai Gaon, was a Gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita, entering office in 804 CE, but no works or rulings are recorded.

Mar R. Ḳimoi b. R. Aḥhai Gaon

Mar R. Ḳimoi b. R. Aḥhai Gaon was head (gaon) of the Academy of Pumbedita, one of the two great Babylonian Talmud academies, from 898 to 904, known from Sherira Gaon's letter.

Mar R. Mar b. Mar R. Huna

Mar R. Mar b. Mar R. Huna (רב מר בר רב הונא) was a Babylonian rabbi who headed the academy of Sura around 591 or 609 CE.

Mar R. Mari b. Mar R. Dimi

Mar R. Mari b. Mar R. Dimi (רב מרי בר רב דימי) was the second gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita, elected in 609.

Mar R. Mari ha-Kohen of Nehar Peḳod

Mar R. Mari ha-Kohen of Nehar Peḳod was a gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, entering office in 748 or 751.

Mar R. Naṭronai b. Mar Nehemiah (called Mar R. Yanḳa)

Mar R. Naṭronai b. Mar Nehemiah (נטרונאי בן נחמיה), called Mar R. Yanḳa, was Gaon of Pumbedita from 719 to 730 and a son-in-law of the exilarch Ḥasdai I.

Mar R. Nehilai of Naresh

Mar R. Nehilai of Naresh, also rendered Hilai ha-Levi of Naresh, headed the Sura academy in Babylonia from 697 to 715, known only from Sherira's chronicle.

Mar R. R. Malka

Mar R. R. Malka was a gaon, or head, of the Sura academy in Abbasid Babylonia, attested in the standard succession list as in office from 887 to 889.

Mar R. Rabbah

Mar R. Rabbah (מר רב רבה) was an early Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Pumbedita in Babylonia, known almost entirely from Sherira Gaon's Epistle.

Mar R. Rabya

Mar R. Rabya, also known as Rav Ravya bar Abaye, was an early-eighth-century head of the academy of Pumbedita in Babylonia, known only from succession lists.

Mar R. Samuel (descendant of Amemar)

Mar R. Samuel (descendant of Amemar) was a Gaon, or head, of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, entering office in 733, or 730 by another chronology.

Mar R. Sheshua (called also Mesharsheya b. Taḥlifa)

Mar R. Sheshua, also called Mesharsheya b. Taḥlifa, was an early gaon of the Academy of Sura, listed between Mar R. Huna and Mar R. Ḥanina of Nehar Pekod with no dates of office.

Mar R. Zadok b. Mar R. Ashi

Mar R. Zadok b. Mar R. Ashi, also known as Zadok Gaon or Isaac b. Ashi, headed the rabbinic academy of Sura in Abbasid Babylonia in the early ninth century.

Mar R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar Palṭoi Gaon (author of the first 'Aruk)

Mar R. Ẓemaḥ b. Mar Palṭoi Gaon was gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita in Abbasid Babylonia from 872 until his death in 890, credited with the first 'Aruk.

Mar Rabba b. R. Dodai (ancestor of Sherira Gaon)

Mar Rabba b. R. Dodai, also called Mar Rav Rava b. Rav Dodai, was Gaon of the Academy of Pumbedita from 773 and an ancestor of Sherira Gaon.

Mar Roxas

Mar Roxas (Manuel Araneta Roxas II), Filipino politician, Wharton-trained banker, former Capiz congressman, DTI/DOTC/DILG secretary, senator, 2010 VP loser to Binay, and 2016 Liberal Party presidential runner-up to Duterte.

Mar Thoma I

Mar Thoma I (മാർ തോമാ ഒന്നാൻ), born Parambil Thoma Kathanar, was the first indigenous metropolitan of the Malankara church, consecrated in 1653 after the Coonan Cross Oath.

Mar Thoma Syrian Church

The Mar Thoma Syrian Church is an Eastern Reformed church in Kerala, India, tracing its origin to St Thomas and formed in the 19th century.

Mar Ukba

Mar Ukba (מר עוקבא) was the exilarch, or head of the exile, of Babylonian Jewry at Baghdad in the early tenth century, banished after a revenue quarrel with Pumbedita.

Mar Ukban I (Nathan Ukban)

Mar Ukban I, also called Nathan Ukban, was, in the exilarchal chronologies, an exilarch of Babylonian Jewry dated to about 210–240 CE, between Huna I and Huna II.

Mar Ukban II (Nathan)

Mar Ukban II, also called Nathan or Nathan de-Ẓuẓita, was an exilarch, head of the Jewish community in Sasanian Babylonia, usually placed around 260–300 CE.

Mar Ukban III (Nathan di-Zutita)

Mar Ukban III, also called Nathan di-Zutita, was the exilarch, or head, of Babylonian Jewry from about 313 to 337 CE, succeeding his father Nehemiah.

Mar Vista, Los Angeles

Mar Vista is a residential Westside neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, within the Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey Community Plan area, east of Venice, north of Culver City, with low crime rates and active apartment development.

Mar Zutra I

Mar Zutra I (Mar Zuṭra) was a Babylonian Jewish exilarch, head of the community under Sasanian rule, a Talmudic sage called "the pious" and a student of R. Papa.

Mar Zutra II

Mar Zutra II was the exilarch, head of the Babylonian Jewish community, who led an armed revolt against King Kavad I and briefly ruled an independent Jewish state at Mahoza.

Mar-a-Lago

Mar-a-Lago is a 128-room mansion and private club in Palm Beach, Florida, built in the 1920s for Marjorie Merriweather Post and owned by Donald Trump since 1985.

Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina

Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina was the third king of Babylon's Dynasty of E, a line that held the city after the Kassite dynasty fell; he reigned from 942 BC to an unknown end.

Mar-biti-apla-uṣur

Mar-biti-apla-uṣur, also written Mar-biti-apla-usur, was a king of Babylon of Elamite origin, reigning around 984–79 BC as the only recorded king of the Elamite dynasty.

Mar-Issar

Mar-Issar, also written Mār-Ištar, was a Babylonian scholar and astrologer in the service of King Esarhaddon, based in Babylon and known from 24 letters reporting celestial omens.

Mara (demon)

Mara, also Māra, is the Buddhist demon who personifies death and desire; a deva of the highest heaven of the sensual realm, he tempted the Buddha before his awakening.