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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar, born Marguerite de Crayencour, was a French novelist and essayist who wrote Mémoires d'Hadrien and in 1980 became the first woman elected to the Académie française.
Margulis (Martian crater)
Margulis, a 180-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 23.16°S, 8.49°E, named for evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis and adopted by the IAU on April 21, 2021.
Margunn Haugenes
Margunn Haugenes (née Humlestøl), born 1970 in Florø, is a Norwegian former midfielder who won 2000 Olympic gold with Norway, earned 79 caps and 13 goals, played for Asker, Bjørnar, and Fulham, and later coached Medkila.
Margus Tsahkna
Margus Tsahkna, born 1977 in Tartu, is an Estonian politician of the Eesti 200 party who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2023, after serving as Minister of Defense from 2016 to 2017.
Marhaenism
Marhaenism (Marhaenisme) is an Indonesian political ideology formulated by Sukarno, first used publicly in 1930, that casts Indonesia's poor small producers rather than an industrial proletariat as the agent of national emancipation.
Marhasi
Marhasi, also known as Marhashi or Parahshum, was an ancient polity of the Iranian highlands, attested in Mesopotamian texts from about 2300 to 1750 BCE.
Mari Corona
Mari Corona is a 200-km-diameter corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 54°N, 151°E, IAU-approved in 1994 and named for a Cretan goddess of plenty.
Mari Djata II
Mari Djata II, also written Mari Jata II, was mansa of the Mali Empire from about 1360 to 1374, remembered as a tyrant who began its decline.
Mari Eder
Mari Eder (née Laukkanen, born 1987, Eno, Finland), Finnish biathlete and cross-country skier; four Olympics 2010-2022, 2016 mixed relay world champion, 2017 Hochfilzen 15 km fourth, retired 2023.
Mari El
Mari El (Марий Эл) is a republic of Russia on the middle Volga River, with its capital at Yoshkar-Ola and the Mari people as its namesake.
Mari Emmanuel
Mar Mari Emmanuel is an Iraqi-born Assyrian bishop who leads Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney, and was stabbed during a livestreamed service in 2024.
Mari Eponym Chronicle
The Mari Eponym Chronicle, an Old Babylonian copy found in the palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari, names each year's Assyrian eponym and records the year's main political event.
Mari Fukada
Mari Fukada (深田 茉莉), born 2007 in Miyoshi, Aichi, is a Japanese slopestyle and big air snowboarder who won Olympic slopestyle gold at Milan-Cortina 2026 with 87.83 points, took 2025 world big air bronze, and won her 2022 Copper Mountain World Cup debut at age 15.
Mari Gas Field
Mari Gas Field is a natural gas field at Daharki in Ghotki District, Sindh, Pakistan, discovered in 1957 by Esso Eastern and producing continuously since 1967.
Mari Gilbert
Mari Gilbert (1964–2016), American victims' advocate from Ellenville, New York, whose search for missing daughter Shannan exposed the Gilgo Beach serial killings; killed by her daughter Sarra in 2016; portrayed by Amy Ryan in Netflix's Lost Girls.
Mari Kraimberi
Mari Kraimberi, also transliterated Mari Kraimbrery (Мари Краймбери), is the stage name of Marina Zhadan, a Ukrainian-born Russian pop and R&B singer, songwriter, and producer who broke through in 2017.
Mari Lou Balmer-Millar
Mari Lou Balmer-Millar is an American materials scientist and Caterpillar executive who led diesel emissions technology and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Mari Lwyd
Mari Lwyd (Y Fari Lwyd), a Welsh midwinter wassailing custom: a decorated horse's skull on a pole carried door to door in South Wales, with a pwnco verse battle for entry; first recorded 1800, revived since the 1960s.
Mari Mino-Kenudson
Mari Mino-Kenudson is a pulmonary and molecular pathologist who directs pulmonary pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard, known for validating ALK and ROS1 biomarker testing in lung cancer.
Mari people
The Mari (formerly Cheremis) are a Finno-Ugric people of the Middle Volga, Russia, centered in Mari El; two written languages (Hill, Meadow), traditional grove religion, population falling from 547,605 (2010) to 423,803 (2021).
Mari Petroleum Co Ltd
Mari Petroleum Company Limited, renamed Mari Energies Limited in January 2025, is a Pakistani oil and gas company that operates the Mari gas field in Ghotki District, Sindh.
Mari Rantanen
Mari Rantanen, born in 1976, is a Finnish politician of The Finns Party who has served as Minister of the Interior since 2023 and in Parliament since 2019.
Mari royal palace
The Mari royal palace, or Palace of Zimri-Lim, is a large Old Babylonian royal palace at Mari in Syria, destroyed by Hammurabi around 1760 BCE.
Mari Takahashi
Mari Takahashi (高橋 茉莉子), also AtomicMari, born 1984, is a Japanese-American YouTuber, actor, and former ballerina who co-founded Smosh Games, hosted Smosh Pit Weekly and Maricraft, competed on Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X, and co-owns Spacestation Gaming.
Mari Yamamoto
Mari Yamamoto (山本真理, born 1986, Tokyo) is a Japanese actress and journalist, known for Pachinko, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Kate, and Rental Family; distinct from the 1998-born actress 山本真莉.
Mari-Leena Talvitie
Mari-Leena Talvitie (born 1980) is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician who has served as Minister of Science and Culture since 2025 and as an MP from Oulu since 2015.
Mari, Syria
Mari (Tell Hariri) was a major ancient city on the Syrian Euphrates, founded around 2900 BCE and destroyed by Babylon around 1761 BCE; its excavated royal palace yielded about 20,000 cuneiform tablets of kings Yasmah-Addu and Zimri-Lim.
Maria (Blondie song)
"Maria" is a 1999 song by American rock band Blondie, written by keyboardist Jimmy Destri for the album No Exit, which debuted at number one in the UK.
Maria (given name)
Maria (Мария, Марія) is a female given name, the Latin form of Greek Μαρία from Hebrew Miriam, the usual continental form beside English Mary; among the most widespread women's names, eighth in Norway 2022 and the most common Swedish women's name.
Maria A. Kahn
Maria Araujo Kahn, born 1964 in Benguela, Angola, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2023.