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Mariya Oktyabrskaya
Mariya Oktyabrskaya (Мария Октябрьская) was a Soviet tank driver in the Red Army who, after her husband was killed in 1941, bought a T-34 named Fighting Girlfriend and became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mariya Pinigina
Mariya Pinigina (Мария Джумабаевна Пинигина, née Kulchunova, born 1958), Soviet 400m sprinter; 1988 Olympic 4x400m relay gold in the still-standing 3:15.17 world record, and 1983 World Championships 400m bronze in 49.19.
Mariya Savinova
Mariya Savinova (Мария Сергеевна Савинова), Russian 800m runner born 1985 in Chelyabinsk; won London 2012 Olympic gold and 2011 world title, stripped of all 2010-2013 results in 2017 by CAS for doping.
Mariya Shubina
Mariya Shubina (Мария Тимофеевна Шубина, 1930–2025), Soviet sprint kayaker; 1960 Rome Olympic K-2 500 m gold with Antonina Seredina, four world and three European titles, later a Volgograd sports-medicine researcher.
Mariya Stepanova
Mariya Stepanova (Мария Александровна Степанова, born 1979) is a 2.03 m Russian basketball center who won two Olympic bronzes, three EuroBasket titles, and world silvers.
Mariya Takeuchi (竹内まりや)
Mariya Takeuchi (竹内まりや), born 1955 in Shimane, is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 1978; married to producer Tatsuro Yamashita, her 1984 song Plastic Love went viral in 2017 and sparked the global city pop revival.
Mariya Tolkachova
Mariya Tolkachova, born in 1997, is a Russian rhythmic gymnast who won women's group all-around gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics and five world all-around titles from 2015 to 2021.
Mariya Vergova Petkova
Mariya Vergova Petkova (Мария Димитрова Вергова-Петкова), Bulgarian discus thrower born 1950 in Plovdiv; two Olympic silvers (1976, 1980), 1983 world bronze, and a 71.80 m world record set in Sofia in 1980.
Mariyappan Thangavelu
Mariyappan Thangavelu (born 1995), Indian Paralympic high jumper from Salem, Tamil Nadu; Rio 2016 T42 gold (1.89 m, Asian record), Tokyo 2020 T63 silver, Paris 2024 T63 bronze; Padma Shri and Khel Ratna awardee.
Marizomib
Marizomib (salinosporamide A, NPI-0052), an irreversible pan-proteasome inhibitor from the marine bacterium Salinispora tropica that crosses the blood-brain barrier; its phase 3 MIRAGE glioblastoma trial (749 patients) showed no survival benefit.
Marı́a A. Blasco
María A. Blasco is a Spanish molecular biologist studying telomeres and telomerase in cancer and aging, who directed the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.
Marja Jäättelä
Marja Jäättelä, born in Finland in 1963, is a cancer biologist in Denmark known for work on lysosomal cell death, autophagy, and cancer metabolism, directing the CARD research center.
Marja Liisa Hamalainen Kirvesniemi
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen-Kirvesniemi (born 1955), Finnish cross-country skier; swept all three individual golds at Sarajevo 1984, first woman in six Winter Games, 7 Olympic and 8 World Championship medals.
Marja Tiirola
Marja Tiirola is a Finnish molecular biologist, professor of biology at the University of Jyväskylä, and founder of BiopSense, whose cartridge automates cell-free DNA extraction for liquid biopsy.
Marja Wokke
Marja Wokke (born 1957), Dutch marathon and half marathon runner; world best 1:13:59 half marathon (The Hague 1980), Dutch record 2:32:29 marathon (Eugene 1980), winner of the first Rotterdam Marathon and Amsterdam 1980 and 1981.
Marja-Liisa Vartio
Marja-Liisa Vartio, born Marja-Liisa Sairanen (1924–1966), was a Finnish poet and prose writer among the central modernists of 1950s Finnish literature, best known for her posthumous novel Hänen olivat linnut (1967).
Marja'
A marja' al-taqlid (مرجع التقليد), meaning source of emulation, is a leading religious authority in Twelver Shia Islam whose rulings on religious law followers may emulate; the institution took its modern form in the mid-nineteenth century.
Marjaavaan (मरजावां)
Marjaavaan (मरजावां) is a 2019 Hindi masala action-romance directed by Milap Zaveri, starring Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra, and Tara Sutaria; released 15 November 2019, it earned ₹42.92 crore and drew strongly negative reviews (8% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Marjan (musician)
Marjan, born Shahla Safi Zamir, was an Iranian pop singer and actress famous for the 1977 disco hit "Kavir-e Del" who died in exile in Los Angeles in 2020.
Marjan Oil and Gas Field
Marjan (مرجان) is an offshore oil and gas field in the Arabian Gulf off northeastern Saudi Arabia, discovered in 1967, producing since 1973, and operated by Saudi Aramco.
Marjan Vidmar
Marjan Vidmar, born 1960 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian biathlete who competed for Yugoslavia at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics, placing 54th in the 10 km sprint and 46th in the 20 km individual; brother of hockey Olympian Andrej Vidmar.
Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی)
Marjane Satrapi (مرجان ساتراپی), 1969–2026, Iranian-French graphic novelist and filmmaker; author of Persepolis (2000–03) and Woman, Life, Freedom; directed the Oscar-nominated animated Persepolis film.
Marjit Singh
Marjit Singh (ꯃꯔꯖꯤꯠ ꯁꯤꯡ) was king of Manipur from 1813 to 1819, installed as a vassal of Burma's Bodawpaya after expelling his brother, and deposed in 1819 by Maha Bandula.
Marjo Matikainen
Marjo Matikainen (Marjo Matikainen-Kallström), born 1965, Finnish cross-country skier; 1988 Calgary Olympic 5 km gold, three straight World Cup overall titles 1986–88, seven World Championship medals, later National Coalition Party MEP and Finnish MP.
Marjo S. van der Knaap
Marjo S. van der Knaap is a Dutch child neurologist known for diagnosing leukodystrophies, rare genetic white matter diseases, by MRI pattern and tracing them to genes.
Marjoe Gortner
Marjoe Gortner, born Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, was an American revival preacher who performed faith-healing revivals as a child evangelist, and later described his preaching as performance in the Oscar-winning 1972 documentary Marjoe.
Marjolein Bolhuis Eijsvogel
Marjolein Bolhuis-Eijsvogel (born 1961, Haarlem), Dutch field hockey forward; 123 caps, 56 goals; hat trick in the 1983 World Cup final; Olympic gold 1984, bronze 1988; later KNHB board member and Sportraad vice chair.
Marjolein Dijkstra
Marjolein Dijkstra is a Dutch computational physicist and Professor of Computational Condensed Matter at Utrecht University, a pioneer in active particles and winner of the 2025 Physica Prize.
Marjolet
Marjolet is a French six-card trick-and-draw game for two players, played in western France with a 32-card piquet pack and belonging to the marriage group alongside Bezique and Pinochle.
MarJon Beauchamp
MarJon Beauchamp (born 2000, Yakima, Washington) is an American basketball wing drafted 24th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2022, a 2024 NBA Cup winner, later with the Clippers, Knicks, 76ers, and Bayern Munich.