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Mariah May
Mariah May is the ring name of Mariah May Mead, an English professional wrestler who held the AEW Women's World Championship and competes in WWE as Blake Monroe.
Mariah Riddlesprigger
Mariah Danae Riddlesprigger (born 1992, Fresno, California) is a former Rice University outside hitter, Philadelphia 76ers basketball operations intern, and wife of NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo, married in Greece in 2024 with four children.
Mariah the Scientist
Mariah the Scientist, real name Mariah Amani Buckles (born 1997), is an Atlanta R&B singer-songwriter whose albums Master, Ry Ry World, To Be Eaten Alive, and Hearts Sold Separately produced the hits Spread Thin and Burning Blue.
Marialba Paleochristian Basilica
Marialba Paleochristian Basilica (Basílica Paleocristiana de Marialba, Iglesia Martirial de Marialba de la Ribera), a 4th-7th century martyr church near León, Spain, excavated by Schlunk and Hauschild; not the Elbasan basilica.
Mariam Kvrivishvili
Mariam Kvrivishvili (Georgian: მარიამ ქვრივიშვილი) is a Georgian politician of the Georgian Dream party, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development since June 2025, after twice serving as deputy minister.
Mariam-uz-Zamani
Mariam-uz-Zamani (Mary of the Age), Rajput princess of Amber, wife of Akbar and mother of Jahangir; titled after Salim's birth, a 12,000-mansab queen mother, merchant of the pilgrim ship Rahimi, builder of the Lahore Begum Shahi Mosque.
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) was a Senegalese novelist and feminist activist whose epistolary novel So Long a Letter (1979) won the Noma Award, followed by Scarlet Song in 1981.
Mariama Jamanka
Mariama Jamanka (born 1990, West Berlin), German bobsleigh pilot; Olympic two-woman gold Pyeongchang 2018 with Lisa Buckwitz, silver Beijing 2022 with Alexandra Burghardt; world champion 2019, overall World Cup winner 2018/19; retired 2022, now ARD presenter.
Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, New Zealand MP for Te Tai Tokerau (elected 14 October 2023, Te Pāti Māori), defeated Kelvin Davis by 517 votes; expelled from Te Pāti Māori in November 2025, now an Independent leading the Te Tai Tokerau Party.
Mariamman
Mariamman, also known as Māri, is a Hindu goddess of rain, fertility, and disease, traditionally the goddess of smallpox, worshipped in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.
Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (1897–1993), American contralto born in Philadelphia; famed for the 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert after DAR's Constitution Hall ban and as the first African American singer at the Metropolitan Opera (1955).
Marian apparition
A Marian apparition, also called an apparition of the Virgin Mary, is a reported appearance of Mary that Catholic authorities investigate before approving devotion, as at Lourdes and Fátima.
Marian Betz
Marian Betz is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Marian Carlson
Marian Carlson is an American geneticist, Professor Emerita at Columbia University, known for discovering the SNF1/AMPK kinase pathway and the SWI-SNF chromatin-remodeling complex in yeast.
Marian Danysz
Marian Danysz (1909–1983) was a Polish physicist who, with Jerzy Pniewski, discovered the first hypernucleus in Warsaw in 1952, opening the field of hypernuclear physics.
Marian E. Gindy
Marian E. Gindy is a pharmaceutical scientist and chemical engineer who is Vice President of Small Molecule Science and Technology at Merck and a 2025 National Academy of Engineering member.
Marian Enache
Marian Florin Enache, Romanian rower (born 1995, Târgu Cărbunești), Olympic champion in men's double sculls with Andrei-Sebastian Cornea at Paris 2024, Romania's first men's sculling medal; also 2024 European champion.
Marián Gáborík
Marián Gáborík, Slovak ice hockey forward born 1982 in Trenčín; drafted third overall by Minnesota Wild in 2000, scored Wild's first goal, won 2014 Stanley Cup with Los Angeles, retired 2021 with 815 NHL points.
Marián Hossa
Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey right wing (born 1979, Stará Ľubovňa), 1997 first-round pick of Ottawa; 1,134 points in 1,309 NHL games, three Stanley Cups with Chicago, Hall of Fame 2020, jersey No. 81 retired by the Blackhawks.
Marian Ilitch
Marian Ilitch is an American businesswoman who co-founded Little Caesars Pizza with her husband Mike in 1959 and chairs Ilitch Holdings, owner of the Detroit Red Wings.
Marian Kasprzyk
Marian Kasprzyk (Marian Krzysztof Kasprzyk), Polish amateur boxer nicknamed 'Polski Papp'; Olympic welterweight gold at Tokyo 1964 despite a broken thumb, light-welterweight bronze at Rome 1960; never a Polish national champion; died 2 February 2026.
Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes, Irish novelist born 1963, author of Watermelon, Rachel's Holiday, Anybody Out There?, and Grown Ups; comic women's fiction on addiction, depression, and domestic violence; British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022.
Marian Langiewicz
Marian Langiewicz (1827–1887) was a Polish general who proclaimed himself dictator of the January Uprising of 1863, commanding about 3,000 insurgents before his arrest by Austrian authorities.
Marian Paluch
Marian Paluch is a Polish physicist and professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice who studies the molecular dynamics of glass-forming liquids and amorphous drugs by dielectric spectroscopy.
Marian Price
Marian Price (Marian McGlinchey), Belfast republican and 1973 Old Bailey bomber, hunger striker force-fed over 200 days in Brixton, freed 1980, licence revoked 2011, suspended sentence 2014.
Marian reforms
Marian reforms: military changes attributed to Gaius Marius (107–101 BC), chiefly enrolling landless capite censi, linked to army professionalization and client armies, though modern historians dispute their scope and even existence as a single reform.
Marian Rivera
Marian Rivera (Marian Gracia Rivera), Spanish-Filipino GMA "Primetime Queen" actress born 1984 in Madrid; star of Marimar, Dyesebel, Rewind (2023), and Cinemalaya and FAMAS Best Actress winner for Balota; married to Dingdong Dantes.
Marian Seldes
Marian Seldes (1928–2014), American Broadway actress; Tony winner for A Delicate Balance (1967); Guinness record 1,809 straight Deathtrap performances; Juilliard teacher.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was a Polish physicist who, independently of Albert Einstein, created the theory of Brownian motion and is regarded as a founder of stochastic physics.
Marian Spychalski
Marian Spychalski (1906–1980) was a Polish communist statesman who served as Minister of National Defence, Marshal of Poland, and Chairman of the Council of State.