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Marta Madrenas i Mir
Marta Madrenas i Mir is a Spanish politician of the party Junts, mayor of Girona from 2016 to 2023 and a deputy in the Congress of Deputies since 2023.
Marta Milans
Marta Milans, Spanish-American actress born 1982 in Madrid, plays Rosa Vasquez in the Shazam! films, Kika Calafat in Netflix's White Lines, and Caroline in Peacock's M.I.A. (2026).
Marta Morey
Marta Morey is a neurobiologist and professor at the Universitat de Barcelona known for work on synaptic wiring specificity in the Drosophila visual system, including a 2008 Nature study.
Marta Nawrocka
Marta Nawrocka (née Smoleń, born 1986) is Poland's First Lady, wife of President Karol Nawrocki since 6 August 2025; former customs and revenue officer, founder of the Blisko Ludzkich Spraw foundation.
Marta Suárez
Marta Suárez (Marta Suárez Rodríguez, b. May 7, 2002, Oviedo) is a Spanish 6-3 forward, Segle XXI product, Tennessee/Cal/TCU player, 2026 WNBA draft 16th pick (Seattle, traded to Golden State), Phoenix Mercury rookie, now Valencia Basket.
Marta Volonteri
Marta Volonteri, born 1974, is an Italian astrophysicist, Directrice de recherche at CNRS and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris since 2012, who studies massive black hole formation and evolution.
Martaban jars
Martaban jars are large stoneware storage jars named after the port of Martaban (modern Mottama) in Lower Myanmar, used to ship water, oil, wine, and spices from the 13th century onward.
Martand Singh of Rewa
Martand Singh (मार्तंड सिंह) was the last Maharaja of Rewa, a princely state in central India, reigning from 1946 until its integration into the Indian Union in 1948.
Martand Sun Temple
The Martand Sun Temple is the ruin of an 8th-century Hindu temple dedicated to the solar deity Surya, built by King Lalitaditya Muktapida on a plateau in Kashmir's Anantnag district.
Martanum
Martanum, anciently written Maltanum in the Antonine Itinerary, was an Etruscan and Roman coastal settlement and road station at the mouth of the Marta river in the territory of Tarquinii, Lazio, Italy, one of the Etruscan sea ports trading with Greeks, with partially submerged masonry remains.
Martavis Bryant
Martavis Bryant (White Tiger), born 1991, is a former NFL wide receiver from Clemson drafted 118th overall by Pittsburgh in 2014; 145 catches, 2,183 yards, 17 TDs, career shortened by substance-abuse suspensions.
Marte Olsbu Røiseland
Marte Olsbu Røiseland (born 1990, Arendal) is a retired Norwegian biathlete; seven Olympic medals, 17 World Championship medals, first to win all seven medals at the 2020 Worlds, overall World Cup champion 2021–22.
Marte Vallis
Marte Vallis, Spanish for Mars, is a young (<500 million years) martian outflow channel about 1,185 km long in Elysium Planitia, fed by Athabasca Valles and IAU-approved in 1994.
Marteilia
Marteilia, a genus of Cercozoan (Paramyxida) protist parasites of bivalve molluscs with cell-inside-cell development; includes M. refringens, cause of marteiliosis in flat oysters, and M. sydneyi, cause of QX disease.
Marteiliosis
Marteiliosis, or Aber disease, is a WOAH-listed bivalve disease caused by the protozoan parasite Marteilia refringens, first described in 1968 in Brittany. It kills 50 to 90 percent of infected oysters; M. pararefringens is now a separate species.
Martell (cognac)
Martell is a French cognac house founded in 1715 in Cognac by Jean Martell, the oldest of the great cognac houses and now owned by Pernod Ricard.
Martello tower
A Martello tower is a small circular coastal artillery fort that Britain built along England's south and east coasts between 1805 and 1812 against Napoleonic invasion.
Martellus Bennett
Martellus Bennett, tight end from Texas A&M drafted 61st overall in 2008 by Dallas; played Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Patriots, Packers; 433 catches, 4,573 yards, 30 TDs; Super Bowl LI champion; retired 2018 for The Imagination Agency.
Marten
A marten is a slender, forest-dwelling carnivorous mammal of the genus Martes in the weasel family, with seven species including the sable, all prized by the fur trade.
Marten de Roon
Marten de Roon (born 1991, Zwijndrecht) is a Dutch defensive midfielder, ex-Atalanta captain and record appearance holder, 2024 Europa League winner, 44 Netherlands caps, now at AS Roma.
Marten Eikelboom
Marten Eikelboom, born 1973 in Zwolle, Dutch field hockey forward; Olympic gold Sydney 2000 and silver Athens 2004 with the Netherlands; later KNHB board member for men's top hockey.
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer (born 1958) is a Dutch theoretical biologist and distinguished professor at Wageningen University, known for work on tipping points and early-warning signals in ecosystems, climate, and societies.
Marten von Barnekow
Marten von Barnekow (1900-1967), German cavalry officer and show jumper; won team jumping gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics on Nordland, twice won the German Spring Derby, and later was an SS Sturmbannführer at the Munich SS Riding School.
Mårten Wikström
Mårten Wikström (1945–2024) was a Finnish biochemist and bioenergetics researcher at the University of Helsinki, best known for showing in 1977 that cytochrome c oxidase pumps protons.
Martens Clause
The Martens Clause is a provision of international humanitarian law, first appearing in the preamble of the 1899 Hague Convention and proposed by Russian delegate Fyodor Martens.
Martensite
Martensite is a metastable phase formed by a diffusionless, shear-like transformation, most familiarly as the hard body-centered tetragonal phase produced when steel is quenched from austenite.
Martensitic transformation
A martensitic transformation is a diffusionless, shear-driven solid-state phase change named for the German microscopist Adolf Martens, central to steel hardening and shape memory alloys.
Marteria
Marteria is the stage name of German rapper Marten Laciny, born 1982 in Rostock, known for the 2010 hit album Zum Glück in die Zukunft.
Martes foina
Martes foina, the beech marten or stone marten, a medium-sized Eurasian mustelid with a white throat bib, urban-adapted, IUCN Least Concern, known for chewing car cables.
Marth (Martian crater)
Marth is an IAU-approved 98.40 km impact crater on Mars, centered at 12.85°N, 356.50°E near the equator, cataloged as Feature ID 3725 in the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.