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Macintosh Plus

The Macintosh Plus, also known as Mac Plus, is an all-in-one personal computer released by Apple in January 1986, sold until 1990, making it the longest-produced Macintosh model.

Macitentan

Macitentan, sold as Opsumit, is an oral endothelin receptor antagonist developed by Actelion and approved in the United States in 2013 to reduce the risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension worsening.

Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve

Macizo del Cajas Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador, UNESCO MAB site designated 28 May 2013; first biosphere reserve in Ecuador's western Andes, spanning páramo to Gulf of Guayaquil mangroves across roughly 976,600 ha.

Mack 10

Mack 10 (Dedrick D'Mon Rolison, born 1971, Inglewood, California) is a West Coast gangsta rapper, Westside Connection member with Ice Cube and WC, and founder of Hoo-Bangin' Records; his 1995 debut went gold.

Mack and Mabel

Mack and Mabel: 1974 Jerry Herman–Michael Stewart Broadway musical about silent-film director Mack Sennett and star Mabel Normand; flopped after 66 performances, eight Tony nominations, cult score.

Mack Bernard

Mack Bernard is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving in the Florida Senate's 24th district, after serving in the Florida House from 2009 to 2012.

Mack Brown

Mack Brown, American college football head coach (Appalachian State, Tulane, North Carolina 1988-97 and 2019-24, Texas 1998-2013); won 2005 BCS national title at Texas, 288-155-1 career record, fired by UNC November 2024.

Mack David

Mack David (1912–1993) was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and songwriter, older brother of Hal David, known for Disney's Cinderella songs, "La Vie en Rose" English lyrics, TV themes, and eight Oscar nominations.

Mack Geiger

Mack Geiger is an Australian country singer-songwriter-guitarist from Mount Larcom, Queensland, in the neo-traditional honky tonk style. Breakout single "String By" (2025) led to RECORDS Nashville/Columbia, the debut EP "Walk a Straight Line" (2026), and a Grand Ole Opry debut.

Mack Hollins

Mack Hollins, born 1993 in Rockville, MD, is an NFL wide receiver for the New England Patriots; a 2017 Eagles fourth-round pick from North Carolina, a Super Bowl LII champion, deep-threat and special teams captain.

Mack Horton

Mack Horton, full name Mackenzie James Horton, is a retired Australian swimmer who won 400 meter freestyle gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics, took bronze at Tokyo 2020, and retired in 2024.

Mack Maine

Mack Maine (Jermaine Anthony Preyan, born 1982, New Orleans) is an American rapper and president of Young Money Entertainment, first signed to the label in 2007, known for the "Got Money" feature and label releases such as Billionaire Minds.

Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott, 1880–1960), Quebec-born Canadian-American producer and director, 'King of Comedy'; headed Keystone Film Company and Mack Sennett Comedies, created the Keystone Kops, launched Chaplin, and won a 1937 special Oscar.

Mack the Knife

Mack the Knife, originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer," is the 1928 Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht ballad from The Threepenny Opera about the London criminal Macheath, later a swing standard via Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin's nine-week 1959 number 1.

Mack Trucks

Mack Trucks is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, founded in 1900 by Jack and Gus Mack and owned by the Volvo Group since 2001.

Mackay

Mackay: Lake Mackay (Wilkinkarra), a large ephemeral salt lake on the Western Australia–Northern Territory border, Australia's fourth largest salt lake, named for explorer Donald Mackay, and site of a proposed potash project.

Mackay Lacus

Mackay Lacus, a 180-km hydrocarbon lake at 78.32°N, 97.53°W in Titan's north polar lake district; IAU-named 2007 after Lake Mackay, Australia; shows 4.92 μm evaporite absorption.

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay, Queensland: regional city on the Pioneer River, central Queensland coast, also called Australia's sugar capital. Founded 1862, named for John Mackay; tropical climate, major floods, sugar and coal-driven economy.

Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif in a hunt for a lost canyon of gold.

Mackensen-class battlecruiser

The Mackensen class was a class of four battlecruisers laid down in 1915 for the Imperial German Navy, armed with eight 35 cm guns; none was ever completed.

Mackenyu (前田 真剣佑)

Mackenyu (前田真剣佑, Arata Mackenyu, born Maeda Mackenyu, 1996, Los Angeles) is a Japanese-American actor, son of Sonny Chiba, known as Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's One Piece and Seiya in Knights of the Zodiac.

Mackenzie Basin

Mackenzie Basin (Te Manahuna), dry tussock intermontane basin of the South Island, New Zealand, upper Waitaki River. Named for sheep rustler James Mackenzie (1855); glacial lakes, 1950s–1980s hydro scheme, sheep stations, and contested irrigation-driven dairy intensification.

Mackenzie Bay

Mackenzie Bay, the Arctic bay off the Mackenzie River mouth in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Yukon/NWT), brackish, sediment-rich, a beluga management zone; also an Antarctic bay on the Amery Ice Shelf.

Mackenzie Bowell

Sir Mackenzie Bowell (1823–1917), fifth Prime Minister of Canada 1894–1896, second and last senator-PM; Belleville Intelligencer publisher, Orange grand master, customs minister; fell over the Manitoba Schools Question.

Mackenzie Carpenter

Mackenzie Carpenter (born 1999, Hull, Georgia) is an American country singer-songwriter signed to The Valory Music Co. in 2022; debut album Hey Country Queen (2025), co-writer of Megan Moroney's "I'm Not Pretty" and Lily Rose's "Villain." Not the Dance Moms singer Mackenzie Ziegler.

Mackenzie Crook

Mackenzie Crook (Paul Crook, born 1971) is an English actor, writer and director known for Gareth in The Office, Ragetti in Pirates of the Caribbean, and creating the BAFTA-winning Detectorists.

Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis, Canadian actress born 1987, in Vancouver; known as Cameron Howe in Halt and Catch Fire, the Emmy-winning Black Mirror episode San Junipero, Blade Runner 2049, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Station Eleven.

Mackenzie Dern

Mackenzie Dern (born 1993), daughter of BJJ legend Wellington "Megaton" Dias, is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion and ADCC gold medalist who became UFC women's strawweight champion at UFC 321 in 2025.

Mackenzie Foy

Mackenzie Foy (Mackenzie Christine Foy, born 2000) is an American actress from Los Angeles who played Renesmee in Twilight's Breaking Dawn, young Murph in Interstellar, Clara in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and Cindy Perron in The Conjuring: Last Rites.

Mackenzie King Island

Mackenzie King Island is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Canadian Arctic, mostly in the Northwest Territories. About 5,048 km², largest of the Prime Minister group, named for Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1950.