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Marieke Stam
Marieke Stam, born 1964 in Alkmaar, Dutch speed skater; competed at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics (12th at 1,500 m) and set an unofficial 10,000 m world record of 17:20.0 in 1984; retired 1994.
Marieke van den Ham
Marieke van den Ham (born 1983, Wierden, Netherlands), Dutch water polo player, Polar Bears Ede; penalty specialist who won gold with the Netherlands at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, beating the USA 9-8 in the final.
Marieke van Doorn
Marieke Birgitta van Doorn (born 1960, Rotterdam) is a Dutch field hockey player, HGC Wassenaar, who won Olympic gold in 1984 and bronze in 1988, with 100 Netherlands caps, and later served as team doctor.
Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was the April-October 1980 exodus of about 125,000 Cubans from Mariel harbor to Florida after Castro opened the port, later famous as an economics natural experiment.
Mariel Gomerez
Mariel Gomerez, or Mariel Gomerez-Rodriguez, is a Dominican-American A&R executive and producer behind Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, RAYE's My 21st Century Blues, and Kehlani's CRASH, and founder of Bodega Records.
Mariel Hemingway
Mariel Hemingway, born 1961, American actress and author, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated for Manhattan (1979), starred in Personal Best, Star 80, and Civil Wars, and writes on mental health and wellness.
Mariel Molino
Mariel Molino (born 1992) is a Mexican American actress and producer known for Lala Dominguez on NCIS: Origins, Elena Santos in The Watchful Eye, and Carmen Sandoval in Promised Land, after a career built in Mexican telenovelas.
Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Zagunis, American sabre fencer born 1985 in Portland, Oregon; two-time Olympic champion in women's individual sabre (2004, 2008), two team bronzes, five-time Olympian, most decorated US fencer.
Mariella
Mariella Nowak, 1916 is an extinct genus of helically coiled turrilitid heteromorph ammonites (type species Turrilites bergeri) from the mid-Cretaceous Albian–Cenomanian, known from Europe, Texas, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa.
Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup (born 1962, Oslo) is a Norwegian-Irish broadcaster and journalist, host of BBC Radio 4's Open Book, Observer agony aunt, Times Radio presenter, and UK menopause campaigner who chairs Menopause Mandate and serves as the Government's Menopause Employment Ambassador.
Mariella Gruber Filbin
Mariella Gruber Filbin is an Austrian-trained pediatric neuro-oncologist and cancer researcher who studies and treats childhood brain tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital.
Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco (1979–2018), Brazilian politician, sociologist, feminist and human rights activist, PSOL city councillor of Rio de Janeiro elected in 2016 with 46,502 votes; assassinated 14 March 2018 with driver Anderson Gomes; masterminds convicted by the STF in 2026.
Marielle Goitschel
Marielle Goitschel, French alpine skier (born 1945, Sainte-Maxime), double Olympic champion in giant slalom 1964 and slalom 1968, sister and rival of Christine Goitschel, with 11 World Championship medals and three World Cup discipline titles.
Marielle Heller
Marielle Heller (born 1979) is an American director, writer, actor, and producer, also known as Mari. Director of The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and Nightbitch; played Alma Wheatley in The Queen's Gambit.
Marielle Thompson
Marielle Thompson (born 1992, North Vancouver, BC) is a Canadian ski cross racer, "Big Air Mar": Sochi 2014 Olympic gold, Beijing 2022 silver, four Crystal Globes (2012, 2014, 2017, 2024), 2019 world champion, 36 World Cup wins.
Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer (1901–1974) was a German writer and dramatist whose plays and prose about her Bavarian home city of Ingolstadt made her a leading Weimar-era author.
Marien Ngouabi
Marien Ngouabi (1938–1977) was a Congolese army officer and statesman who served as president of the People's Republic of the Congo from 1969 until his assassination in 1977.
Marienfels
Marienfels: village in Verbandsgemeinde Nastätten, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Germany, first recorded 915; site of two Roman wood-earth forts, a vicus, and the first proven temporary camp on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage property.
Marienplatz
Marienplatz is Munich's central square, formed at the city's founding around 1158 as its market square, formerly called Schrannenplatz and renamed in 1854 after the Mariensäule, flanked by the New Town Hall and Glockenspiel.
Marietta (band)
Marietta: Philadelphia emo revival band (2011-2015) by Evan Lescallette, Ethan Willard, Ben Johnson, Andrew Weigel; albums Summer Death (2013) and As It Were (2015); reunited 2025. Not the Georgia city or high school band.
Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau (1894–1970) was an Austrian nuclear physicist who developed the photographic nuclear emulsion method and, with Hertha Wambacher, discovered in 1937 the disintegration stars, the first evidence that cosmic rays break apart atomic nuclei.
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia: county seat of Cobb County, 15 miles northwest of Atlanta; chartered 1834, named for Thomas W. Cobb's wife, shaped by the Western & Atlantic Railroad, the 1864 Atlanta Campaign, and the Lockheed aircraft plant.
Marietta, Ohio
Marietta, Ohio: county seat of Washington County at the Ohio-Muskingum rivers confluence; founded April 7, 1788 by the Ohio Company as the first Northwest Territory settlement; distinct from Marietta, Georgia.
Mariette Hartley
Mariette Hartley (Mary Loretta Hartley, born June 21, 1940) is an American actress of film, TV, and stage, granddaughter of psychologist John B. Watson, known for Ride the High Country (1962), the Polaroid ads with James Garner, her 1979 Emmy for The Incredible Hulk, and co-founding the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Marifetname
Marifetname (Maʿrifetnâme, معرفت نامه) is an encyclopedic work in Ottoman Turkish by the Sufi scholar Erzurumlu İbrahim Hakkı, completed in 1757 and notable for its early treatment of post-Copernican astronomy.
Mariglia
Mariglia, a Sardinian four-player partnership trick-taking card game of the Manille group, also called Bridge Sardo; played with a 40-card Genoese deck, 7 as top card, 70 points per hand, popular around Sassari, Olbia, and Nuoro.
Marignac
Marignac is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region, lying in the Garonne valley about 30 km south of Saint-Gaudens.
Marigold
Marigold is a common name for several Asteraceae flowers: Calendula officinalis (pot marigold, W Mediterranean) and American Tagetes species (T. erecta African marigold, T. patula French marigold), grown ornamentally and for lutein carotenoids.
Marigold Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
Marigold Dream Star Grand Prix 2026 (DREAM✴︎STAR GP2026), third annual round-robin joshi tournament by Dream Star Fighting Marigold, August 28 to September 20, 2026, 24 wrestlers in four leagues, won by Victoria Yuzuki over Rea Seto.
Marigold extract
Marigold extract, EU pesticide active substance ID 821 from Tagetes/Calendula, not approved under Reg. 1107/2009; also a lutein-rich Tagetes erecta oleoresin used in food and pet food.