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Marissa Stapley

Marissa Stapley is a Canadian novelist and journalist, author of five novels including the bestselling Lucky (2021), a Reese's Book Club pick adapted for Apple TV.

Marissa Streit

Marissa Streit is an American media executive who has served as chief executive officer of PragerU since 2011, expanding the nonprofit's budget and launching its PragerU Kids education arm.

Marissa L. Weichman is an American experimental physical chemist and assistant professor of chemistry at Princeton University who uses light-based spectroscopy to observe reaction transition states and steer molecular processes.

Marissa Zwald

Marissa L. Zwald is an American epidemiologist at the CDC whose research tracks mental health, substance use, suicide, and firearm-injury trends using near-real-time emergency care data.

Marist Brothers

Marist Brothers (F.M.S., Fratres Maristae a Scholis), Catholic teaching institute founded by Saint Marcellin Champagnat at La Valla, France, on January 2, 1817 as the Little Brothers of Mary; about 2,500 Brothers educating around 654,000 young people in 79 countries.

Marist Liufau

Marist Liufau, Dallas Cowboys linebacker, Notre Dame product drafted 87th overall in 2024, cousin of Puka Nacua; moved from inside to outside linebacker in 2026, then fractured forearm in preseason.

Marist University

Marist University, formerly Marist College until January 29, 2025, is a private university in Poughkeepsie, New York, founded by the Marist Brothers in 1929, with branch campuses in Florence and Dublin, six schools, Division I athletics, and a long IBM joint-study partnership.

Marit Bjørgen

Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier (born 1980), most decorated Winter Olympian ever with 15 medals including 8 gold, plus 18 world titles and a record 114 World Cup wins; her gold record was passed by Klæbo in 2026.

Marit Bouwmeester

Marit Bouwmeester (born 1988, Wartena, Netherlands) is a Dutch ILCA 6/Laser Radial sailor, the most decorated female Olympic sailor with two golds (2016, 2024), silver (2012), and bronze (2020), plus four world titles.

Marit Malm Frafjord

Marit Malm Frafjord (born 1985, Tromsø) is a Norwegian former handball pivot, 223 caps and 424 goals, two Olympic golds (2008, 2012), World gold 2011, five European titles, captain at WCh 2011 and OG 2012, clubs Byåsen, Viborg, Larvik, CSM București, Team Esbjerg.

Marit Røsberg Jacobsen

Marit Røsberg Jacobsen (Røsberg-Torgersen), born 1994 in Narvik, Norwegian right wing for Team Esbjerg and Norway; Olympic gold 2024 and bronze 2020, world and European champion.

Marit van Eupen

Marit van Eupen (born 1969, Arnhem) is a Dutch lightweight rower who won LW2x gold at Beijing 2008 with Kirsten van der Kolk, the first Dutch women's rowing gold, plus 2004 bronze and three world titles in the lightweight single.

Marita Koch

Marita Koch, full name Marita Koch-Meier, is a German former sprinter who won Olympic 400 meters gold in 1980 and still holds the world record of 47.60 seconds.

Marita Sandig

Marita Sandig (Marita Gasch-Sandig), born 1958, East German rower with SC DHfK Leipzig; Olympic gold in the women's eights at Moscow 1980 and four World Championship golds, including the coxless pair with Silvia Fröhlich.

Marital coercion

Marital coercion: English common law doctrine presuming a wife committing an offence in her husband's presence acted under his coercion; abolished as presumption 1925, as defence 2014.

Marital debt

Marital debt covers debts spouses owe before or during marriage. Liability depends on common law versus community property regimes; divorce decrees divide debt internally but do not bind creditors, who can pursue either contracting spouse.

Marital rape

Marital rape: non-consensual sex by a spouse, long exempt from rape law under Hale's 1736 implied-consent doctrine. Abolished in the UK (R v R, 1991) and US (first conviction 1979), but retained in India's BNS 2023 and many other countries.

Marital separation

Marital separation, also called a trial separation, occurs when a married couple stops living together and keeps separate residences and finances; a legal separation is a court process, and the marriage continues.

Marital Status

Marital status is a demographic parameter classifying people as married, never married, divorced, widowed, or separated, used in censuses and surveys such as the US ACS and MeSH descriptor D017533, and studied as a health and mortality correlate.

Maritim

Maritim is a 1987 tactical regatta board game by Reinhold Wittig (Franckh-Kosmos) for 2-6 players, in which ships race around a buoy by landing where two lighthouse light beams intersect, using 9 action points per turn; revised as Auf Kurs in 1992.

Maritime

Maritime: Togo's southernmost administrative region, 6,100 km², capital Lomé, population 3,534,991 (2022); also the maritime economy sector built around the Port of Lomé, Africa's 4th container port.

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport, formed in 1998, that oversees maritime safety, ship certification, and HM Coastguard's 24-hour search and rescue.

Maritime boundary

Maritime boundary: the agreed or adjudicated line separating overlapping coastal-state jurisdiction over territorial seas, EEZs, and continental shelves, governed by UNCLOS Articles 74 and 83 and the three-stage equidistance methodology.

Maritime boundary treaties of the Persian Gulf

The maritime boundary treaties of the Persian Gulf are agreements that divide the continental shelf among eight states. Six treaties are in force, but several boundaries remain unnegotiated.

Maritime call sign

A maritime call sign is the unique 3 to 7 character radio identity assigned to a ship or coast station in the maritime mobile service, allocated by the ITU.

Maritime chokepoint

A maritime chokepoint is a narrow sea channel critical to international trade and energy security, such as Hormuz and Malacca, whose closure forces ships onto much longer, costlier detours.

Maritime cultural landscape

The maritime cultural landscape is an archaeological concept defined by Christer Westerdahl in 1992 that unites sea and land, covering wrecks, landing places, beacons, and place-names.

Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case

ICJ case (2004–2009) fixing the single Romania–Ukraine Black Sea continental shelf and EEZ boundary; Serpents' Island got only a 12-nm arc; established the three-stage delimitation method.

Maritime Electric

Maritime Electric is a regulated electric utility and the principal distributor of electricity in Prince Edward Island, serving about 91,000 customers as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortis Inc.