All articles starting with M

Marleen Jochems

Marleen Jochems (born 2000, Etten-Leur) is a Dutch field hockey midfielder for SCHC and the Netherlands, an unlikely late developer who won Olympic gold at Paris 2024, the 2022 Junior World Cup, and 2025 European gold.

Marleen Temmerman

Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynecologist and women's health researcher, Professor Emerita at Ghent University, who led WHO reproductive health research from 2012 to 2015.

Marleen Veldhuis

Marleen Veldhuis (Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis, born 1979, Borne) is a retired Dutch sprint freestyle swimmer, Olympic 4x100 m relay champion at Beijing 2008, four-time Olympic medalist, and former 50 m freestyle and butterfly world record holder.

Marlen Mamataliev

Marlen Mamataliev (Марлен Маматалиев, born 1981) is a Kyrgyz politician, Speaker of the Jogorku Kenesh since February 12, 2026, former Yntymak faction leader and three-term deputy from 2018.

Marlena Evans

Marlena Evans is a fictional psychiatrist on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, played by Deidre Hall since June 1976; known for the Salem Strangler twin plot, devil possession, and the John Black supercouple.

Marlene Alraune

Marlene Alraune (Marlène Alraune), Marvel Comics supporting character and Moon Knight's principal love interest, created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin; daughter of archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune, mother of Diatrice, never powered, replaced onscreen by Layla El-Faouly.

Marlene Behrmann

Marlene Behrmann is a South African-born cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural bases of word, face, and object recognition, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Sep 20, 2026

Marlene Belfort

Marlene Belfort is a South African-born molecular geneticist who discovered introns in bacterial genes in 1984 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich, 1901–1992), German-American actress and singer; star of The Blue Angel and seven Sternberg films, 1939 US citizen, WWII USO entertainer, Medal of Freedom and Légion d'Honneur recipient, estate at Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin.

Marlène Jobert

Marlène Jobert, born 4 November 1940 in Algiers (some sources say 1943), French actress of Masculin-féminin, Le Passager de la pluie, and Les Mariés de l'an II; honorary César 2007; mother of Eva Green; later a children's author.

Marlene L. Durand

Marlene L. Durand is an American physician-scientist specializing in eye and ENT infections, a Harvard Medical School professor who directed the infectious disease service at Mass Eye and Ear.

Sep 20, 2026

Marlene Rabinovitch

Marlene Rabinovitch is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist, the Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford since 2002, known for pulmonary hypertension research.

Oct 22, 2026

Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk, born 1954, is a South African poet, novelist, and short-story writer in Afrikaans, best known for the award-winning novels Triomf (1994) and Agaat (2004).

Marlene Zuk

Marlene Zuk is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota known for the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis linking parasites to sexual selection.

Marlenis Costa

Marlenis Costa (Marlenis Costa Blanco), Cuban setter born 1973 in La Palma, Pinar del Río; three-time Olympic volleyball champion with Cuba (1992, 1996, 2000) and world champion 1994 and 1998.

Marley & Me

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is John Grogan's 2005 William Morrow memoir about his Labrador Marley; 8 million copies, 30-plus languages, 2008 Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston film.

Marley & Me (film)

Marley & Me (2008) is a David Frankel comedy-drama starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, adapted from John Grogan's 2005 memoir about a destructive Labrador; it opened Christmas Day 2008 and grossed about $250 million worldwide.

Marley Marl

Marley Marl (Marlon Williams), Queens-born DJ and producer, founder of the Juice Crew and Cold Chillin' architect; first to sample individual drum sounds from records, maker of In Control Vol. 1 (1988) and LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out.

Marley Shelton

Marley Shelton (born 1974, Los Angeles), also Marlee Shelton, American actress known for The Sandlot's Wendy, Pleasantville, Nixon, Dr. Dakota Block in Grindhouse, Judy Hicks in Scream 4 and Scream (2022), and Emma Dutton in 1923.

Marleyda Soto

Marleyda Soto Ríos (born 1977), Colombian actress and teacher from Vijes, Valle del Cauca, known for La tierra y la sombra, Los Silencios, Oscuro animal, and as adult Úrsula Iguarán in Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Marli Salmon

Marli Ellis Salmon (born 2009, London) is an English centre-back/right-back for Arsenal. Joined the academy at nine, debuted in the Champions League at 16 years 103 days vs Club Brugge, and signed professional terms on his 17th birthday in 2026.

Marlies Meisel

Marlies Meisel is an Austrian-trained cellular immunologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, known for showing that bacteria inside tumors can change how cancer immunotherapy works.

Marlies Oelsner Gohr

Marlies Oelsner Gohr (Marlies Göhr), born 1958 in Gera, East German sprinter; two Olympic 4x100m relay golds, 1980 100m silver, 1983 world 100m champion, first woman under 11 seconds.

Oct 20, 2026

Marlies Rostock

Marlies Rostock (born 1960, Klingenthal) is an East German former cross-country skier, SC Dynamo Klingenthal, Olympic gold medalist in the 4×5 km relay at Lake Placid 1980 and world relay silver medalist at Lahti 1978.

Marlies Wijsenbeek

Marlies Wijsenbeek (Marlies S. Wijsenbeek-Lourens) is a Dutch pulmonologist and professor of interstitial lung diseases at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the 2025 PREDMETH and FIBRONEER-IPF trials.

Sep 19, 2026

Marlik

Marlik, also Marlik Tepe, is an ancient cemetery mound in Gilan, Iran, excavated in 1961 and 1962, yielding 53 intact tombs and over 25,000 grave goods.

Oct 15, 2026

Marlim Oil and Gas Field

Marlim is a giant deepwater oil field in the Campos Basin, about 110 km off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1985 with peak production of 586,315 barrels per day in 2002.

Marlin

Marlin: large bill-nosed predatory fishes of the family Istiophoridae, including blue (Makaira nigricans), black (Istiompax indica), striped (Kajikia audax), and white marlin; prized game fish managed by ICCAT, IATTC, WCPFC, and IOTC.

Marlin Firearms

Marlin Firearms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by John Mahlon Marlin in 1870, best known for its lever-action rifles with solid-top receivers and side ejection.