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Mariinsky Theatre (Мариинский театр)
Mariinsky Theatre (Мариинский театр), formerly the Kirov Theatre, is St. Petersburg's federal state opera and ballet company, founded in 1783, with the historic 1860 Cavos theatre, the Concert Hall, and Mariinsky II (2013, 1,830 seats).
Marija D. Ilic
Marija D. Ilic is a power-systems engineer at MIT known for hierarchical control of electric grids and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Marija Drndic
Marija Drndić is an American-based experimental condensed matter physicist and nanoscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for developing TEBAL lithography and graphene nanopores that detect single DNA molecules.
Marija Šerifović
Marija Šerifović (Марија Шерифовић) is a Serbian singer, born in 1984 in Kragujevac, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki with "Molitva", Serbia's first win as an independent state.
Marija Vuckovic
Marija Vučković, born 1974 in Mostar, is a Croatian HDZ politician serving as Minister of Environmental Protection and Green Transition, after previously serving as Minister of Agriculture.
Marijke Groenewoud
Marijke Groenewoud (born 1999, Hallum, Netherlands), Dutch speed skater for Team Albert Heijn Zaanlander; 2026 Olympic mass start champion with three Olympic medals and three world mass start titles (2021, 2023, 2025).
Marijke Moser
Marijke Moser (Van de Graaf), Dutch-born Swiss distance runner (1946-2026), 1972 Olympic 1500 m runner, first Swiss woman under 3 hours in the marathon, and the 1973 Murtenlauf entrant who ran as "Markus Aebischer".
Marijn Veen
Marijn Veen (Marijn Anne Elise Veen), Dutch field hockey forward born 1996 in Utrecht, plays for AH&BC Amsterdam; won gold at Paris 2024 Olympics, silver at 2014 Youth Olympics, captained Netherlands at 2026 World Cup.
Marijuana (word)
Marijuana: English name for a Cannabis sativa intoxicant, from Mexican Spanish marihuana/mariguana of uncertain origin, first English attested 1874 (Bancroft); María Juana is a folk etymology, Nahuatl mallihuan rejected.
Marika Domińczyk
Marika Domińczyk, Polish-born American actress born 1980 in Kielce, known as Dr. Eliza Minnick on Grey's Anatomy season 13, wife of actor Scott Foley, sister of Dagmara Domińczyk.
Marika Ninou
Marika Ninou (Μαρίκα Νίνου), born Evangelia Atamian, was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer in Athens from 1948 to 1957, the leading interpreter of Vassilis Tsitsanis's songs.
Marika's Love Meter Malfunction
Marika's Love Meter Malfunction (Marika-chan no Koukando wa Bukkowareteiru, 茉莉花ちゃんの好感度はぶっ壊れている) is Komugi Rin's full-color romance-comedy manga from 2024 and its 2026 studio LEO short anime, in which a broken love meter hides a crushing crush.
Marikana massacre
The Marikana massacre was the killing of 34 striking mineworkers by South African police at the Lonmin platinum mine on 16 August 2012, during a wage strike.
Marikay Abuzuaiter
Marikay Abuzuaiter is an American politician serving as Mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina. She was elected to the city council in 2011 and later served as Mayor Pro Tempore.
Marikh Vallis
Marikh Vallis is a valley network system in the southwest Sinus Sabaeus highlands of Mars, named (IAU, 2007) from the Malaysian word for Mars, centered near 19.16°S, 4.32°E, and studied for Noachian water activity.
Marikina
Marikina: highly urbanized city in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines, the Shoe Capital since 1887 shoemaking; 16 barangays, two districts, cityhood 1996, flood-prone Marikina River valley.
Mariko Aoki phenomenon
Mariko Aoki phenomenon (青木まりこ現象), also written 青木真理子現象, is the Japanese-named urge to defecate felt in bookstores, originating from a 1985 Hon no Zasshi reader letter; cause still unexplained.
Mariko Okamoto
Mariko Okamoto (岡本真理子, later Nakano Mariko), born 1951 in Osaka, Japanese volleyball player; silver at Munich 1972, gold and team captain at Montreal 1976, plus 1974 World Championship and Asian Games titles.
Mariko Yashida
Mariko Yashida (マリコ・ヤシダ) is a Marvel Comics character, daughter of Lord Shingen of Clan Yashida and Wolverine's love interest, debuting in X-Men #118 (1978) and later revived as the Scarlet Samurai.
Mariko Yoshida
Mariko Yoshida (吉田真理子), born 1954 in Saitama, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist in women's volleyball at Montreal 1976 and 1978 World Championship silver medalist; distinct from the joshi professional wrestler of the same name.
Marileidy Paulino
Marileidy Paulino, Dominican 400m sprinter born 1996 in Nizao; Olympic champion Paris 2024 (48.17 OR), world champion 2022 and 2023, PB 47.98, unbeaten 2026 season.
Marília
Marília, São Paulo, Brazil; mariliense; municipality founded 4 April 1929, food-industry capital with about 240,000 people, GDP per capita R$52,635, IDHM 0.798, regional capital C in IBGE's REGIC hierarchy.
Marília de Dirceu
Marília de Dirceu is a collection of lyric poems by the Luso-Brazilian poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, first published in Lisbon in 1792 and written in the pastoral style of Arcadian poetry.
Marília Mendonça
Marília Mendonça (1995–2021) was a Brazilian sertanejo singer and songwriter from Goiás known as the Rainha da Sofrência, who broke through with "Infiel" in 2016 and died in a plane crash.
Marillion
Marillion: British progressive rock band formed 1979 in Aylesbury as Silmarillion. Fish-era UK No. 1 Misplaced Childhood (1985) with Kayleigh; Steve Hogarth frontman since 1989; crowdfunding pioneers with Anoraknophobia (2001).
Marillion discography
Marillion discography: catalogue of the Aylesbury neo-prog band (formed 1979), 20 studio albums across the Fish era (1983–1987) and Steve Hogarth era (1989–2022), 15 million sales, UK number one Misplaced Childhood, and fan-funded Intact/Racket releases.
Marillyn Hewson
Marillyn Hewson, born in 1953, is an American business executive who rose from entry-level engineer to become Lockheed Martin's first female CEO, leading it from 2013 to 2020.
Marilu Henner
Marilu Henner (Mary Lucy Denise Henner, born 1952, Chicago) is an American actress known as Elaine Nardo on Taxi and Ava Evans Newton on Evening Shade, a five-time Golden Globe nominee, Broadway veteran, author, and documented case of highly superior autobiographical memory.
Marily Oppezzo
Marily Oppezzo is an American learning and behavioral scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, best known for a 2014 study with Daniel Schwartz showing walking boosts creative thinking.
Marilyn (singer)
Marilyn is the stage name of Peter Robinson (born 1962, Kingston, Jamaica), a British New Romantic pop singer. His 1983 single Calling Your Name hit UK No. 4; his only album was Despite Straight Lines (1985). A Boy George friend, he disappeared for 20 years into heroin addiction before a 2016 comeback with Love or Money.