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Marian University (Indiana)
Marian University (Indiana) is a private Catholic Franciscan university in Indianapolis, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg; chartered as Marian College in 1937, renamed Marian University in 2009, and home to Indiana's only osteopathic medical school.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American civil rights lawyer and children's rights activist, first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and founder and 45-year president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Marian-Cătălin Predoiu
Marian-Cătălin Predoiu is a Romanian lawyer and politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Internal Affairs, and interim Minister of Justice in the Bolojan Government.
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, known to the United States as Operation Forager, was a Pacific War offensive in which American forces captured Saipan, Guam, and Tinian from Japan in 1944.
Mariana Avitia
Mariana Avitia is a Mexican recurve archer from Monterrey who won the individual bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, achieving a world ranking of 5 and competing in 2008.
Mariana Aydar
Mariana Aydar is a Brazilian singer, born in São Paulo in 1980, who blends forró pé-de-serra with MPB; since 2000 she has released seven albums and won two Latin Grammys.
Mariana Bracetti
Mariana Bracetti (1825–1903) was a Puerto Rican seamstress and revolutionary who helped plan the 1868 Grito de Lares insurrection, tradition crediting her with sewing the Lares flag.
Mariana dam disaster
The Mariana dam disaster (Fundão dam collapse, 5 November 2015) killed 19, buried Bento Rodrigues, and sent about 32 million cubic meters of tailings down the Doce River; operated by Samarco (Vale/BHP), it led to a R$170 billion settlement and a 2025 UK liability ruling against BHP.
Mariana Dias
Mariana Ramos Dias is a Brazilian technology executive who co-founded the AI recruitment platform Gupy in São Paulo in 2015 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Mariana Donangelo
Mariana Donangelo is a venture capital investor and Partner at Kaszek, Latin America's largest early-stage fund, known for early investments in QuintoAndar, Wellhub, and Nuvemshop.
Mariana Enríquez
Mariana Enríquez, born in Buenos Aires in 1973, is an Argentine journalist and short-story writer whose gothic horror confronts the terror of the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship.
Mariana Grajales
Mariana Grajales (1815–1893) was a Cuban nurse and patriot who lost her husband and nine children to the independence wars and died in exile in Jamaica.
Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands are a western Pacific island arc split between US territory Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, formed by Pacific Plate subduction along the Mariana Trench, settled by the Chamorro, and colonized by Spain, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
Mariana Islands - Guam
Guam (Guåhan), largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands, a U.S. unincorporated territory in the western Pacific: tropical marine climate, limestone aquifer water supply, Spanish then American colonial history, tourism and military economy.
Mariana J. Kaplan
Mariana J. Kaplan is a physician-scientist and rheumatologist who leads the Systemic Autoimmunity Branch at NIH, known for showing how neutrophil extracellular traps drive lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Mariana Klaveno
Mariana Klaveno (born 1979, Endicott, Washington) is an American actress known as Lorena Krasiki on HBO's True Blood, with series-regular roles in Devious Maids, Stalker, and Superman & Lois.
Mariana lithium project
The Mariana lithium project is a brine lithium mine and lithium chloride plant in Salta Province, Argentina, wholly owned by Ganfeng Lithium and inaugurated in 2025.
Mariana of Austria
Mariana of Austria (Mariana de Austria, 1634–1696), Habsburg queen consort of Philip IV of Spain and regent for Carlos II from 1665 to 1675, later exiled to Toledo and reinstated in 1679.
Mariana Pajon
Mariana Pajón (Mariana Pajón Londoño), Colombian BMX racer born 1991 in Medellín, nicknamed Queen of BMX; two-time Olympic champion (London 2012, Rio 2016), Tokyo 2020 silver, 18-time world champion, only Colombian with two Olympic golds.
Mariana Sandoval
Mariana Sandoval is an American Democratic politician representing District 23 in the Arizona House of Representatives, elected in November 2022 after serving on the Agua Fria school board.
Mariana Stars
Mariana Stars (Felipe Rey Sulbaran Mendez) is a Venezuelan drag queen from Mérida, based in Spain, known for Drag Race España season 4 (fifth place, 2024) and Drag Race México: Latina Royale (2026), plus acting roles in Mariliendre and Superstar.
Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth, in the western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines near Guam, whose deepest point, Challenger Deep, reaches about 10,935 meters.
Mariana Treviño
Mariana Treviño, born 1977 in Monterrey, is a Mexican actress known as Isabel Iglesias in Club de Cuervos, Lupita in Mentiras, Marisol in A Man Called Otto, and Elena in Apple TV+'s Stick.
Mariana van Zeller
Mariana van Zeller (born 1976, Cascais, Portugal) is a Portuguese-American investigative journalist, Peabody and Emmy winner, host of National Geographic's Trafficked and the Super Scam Me romance-scam documentary.
Mariana Vasconcelos
Mariana Vasconcelos is a Brazilian entrepreneur and chief executive of Agrosmart, a digital agriculture company she co-founded in 2014 that monitors water use, carbon emissions, and crop disease.
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University who studies reproduction in Drosophila fruit flies; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Marianas Trench (band)
Marianas Trench, Vancouver pop-rock band formed in 2001, led by Josh Ramsay; known for platinum concept albums Masterpiece Theatre, Ever After, and 2024's Haven; Juno Group of the Year 2013.
Mariane Pearl
Mariane Pearl (born 1967) is a French-American journalist and writer, widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, author of A Mighty Heart, co-founder of The Meteor, and CHIME FOR CHANGE managing editor.
Marianella Casasola
Marianella Casasola is a developmental psychologist at Cornell University whose research shows that spatial words children hear change what they can perceive, earning a 2004 Presidential Early Career Award.
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha is a Brazilian microbiologist at Embrapa who pioneered biological nitrogen fixation for tropical soybeans, adopted on over 40 million hectares, winning the 2025 World Food Prize.