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Martina Miceli
Martina Miceli (born 1973, Roma) is an Italian water polo player and coach; Olympic gold 2004 with Italy, two world titles, and coach of Ekipe Orizzonte Catania's seven consecutive Italian titles.
Martina Moravcova
Martina Moravcova (Martina Moravcová, born 1976) is a Slovak swimmer, five-time Olympian and double Sydney 2000 silver medalist, with 67 championship medals, 105 World Cup wins, and 14 NCAA titles at SMU.
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (born 1956, Prague), Czech-American tennis legend; defected 1975; record 167 singles and 177 doubles titles, 18 singles majors, 9 Wimbledon, 332 weeks No. 1, 86-1 in 1983.
Martina Sablikova
Martina Sáblíková (Czech speed skater, born 1987) won 7 Olympic medals including 3 golds at 3000/5000 m, 16 World Single Distance titles, and holds the 3000 m world record; retired 2026.
Martina Šimkovičová
Martina Šimkovičová is a Slovak politician and Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic since 2023, nominated by the SNS, whose tenure has seen disputes with artists over cultural policy.
Martina Terre
Martina Terré (Martina Terre), born 2002 in Barcelona, Spanish water polo goalkeeper, Olympic gold medalist Paris 2024 with Spain, first-choice goalkeeper since 2022, sister of goalkeeper Mariona Terré, club CN Sant Andreu then Sabadell.
Martina Topley-Bird
Martina Topley-Bird (born 1975, London) is a British singer-songwriter, vocalist on Tricky's Maxinquaye (1995), and solo artist behind Quixotic, The Blue God, Some Place Simple, and Forever I Wait (2021).
Martina Trabucchi
Martina Trabucchi, Italian biathlete born 2002 in Aosta, SC Brusson/CS Esercito. 2020 Youth Olympic mixed relay gold; best World Cup results 11th mass start and 19th individual at Kontiolahti 2026; Italian Squadra A for 2026/27.
Martina U. Muckenthaler
Martina U. Muckenthaler is a German molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University since 2004, known for research on iron metabolism and iron overload diseases.
Martina Valcepina
Martina Valcepina (born 1992, Sondalo) is an Italian short track speed skater of Fiamme Gialle, sister of Arianna Valcepina, with three Olympic relay medals (Sochi 2014 bronze, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 silver) and four European titles.
Martina Walther
Martina Walther (born 1963, Zeulenroda) is a German former rower for East Germany; Olympic gold in the women's coxed fours at Seoul 1988 (6:56.00), plus three world silvers and one bronze.
Martina Zellner
Martina Zellner (Zellner-Seidl), German biathlete born 1974 in Traunstein, 1998 Nagano Olympic relay champion, 1999 world sprint and relay champion, later Eurosport and ARD commentator.
Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick (born Mary Beswick, 1941, Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born actress who played two Bond girls: Zora in From Russia with Love and Paula Caplan in Thunderball.
Martine F. Roussel
Martine F. Roussel is a French-born molecular oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for identifying the FMS oncogene as a growth-factor receptor and discovering D-type cyclins.
Martine Franck
Martine Franck (1938–2012) was a Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, a full member of Magnum Photos from 1983, and the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Martine Grael
Martine Grael (Martine Soffiatti Grael), Brazilian sailor born 1991 in Niterói, two-time 49erFX Olympic gold medalist (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020) with Kahena Kunze, and first female driver in SailGP, leading Mubadala Brazil before her 2026 departure.
Martine McCutcheon
Martine McCutcheon (born 1976) is an English actress and singer, full name Martine Kimberley Sherri Ponting. Known for Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders (1995–98), the 2002 Olivier Award for My Fair Lady, and Natalie in Love Actually (2003).
Martine Piccart
Martine Piccart is a Belgian medical oncologist, Scientific Director at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels, who led the HERA and MINDACT trials and co-founded the Breast International Group.
Martine Rothblatt
Martine Rothblatt (Martine Aliana Rothblatt, born 1954) is an American entrepreneur and lawyer who founded satellite radio company SiriusXM and United Therapeutics, a biotech company developing treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Martine St-Clair
Martine St-Clair, real name Martine Nault, is a Quebec pop singer born in 1962 whose career began in 1981 with hits like "Il y a de l'amour dans l'air".
Martinex
Martinex (Martinex T'Naga) is a Marvel Comics silicon-based crystalline superhero from Pluto, created by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan, debuting in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1969) as a founding member of the original 31st-century Guardians of the Galaxy; played by Michael Rosenbaum in MCU films Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.
Martinez Renewables
Martinez Renewables is a renewable fuels plant in Martinez, California, a 50/50 joint venture of Marathon Petroleum and Neste producing renewable diesel from vegetable oils, animal fats, and used cooking oils.
Martinez, California
Martinez, California: county seat of Contra Costa County, incorporated 1876, population about 37,000. Home of the John Muir National Historic Site, the 1849 Martinez Adobe, and major oil refineries.
Martingale (betting system)
Martingale betting system: double your stake after each even-money loss so one win recovers all losses plus one unit. Fails via exponential stakes, bankroll, and table limits; expected value stays at the house edge. Also called the doubling system; distinct from the probability-theory martingale.
Martingale (probability theory)
In probability theory, a martingale is a stochastic process, such as a gambler's fortune in a fair game, whose expected future value given all past observations equals its present value.
Martingale central limit theorem
The martingale central limit theorem (martingale CLT) states that normalized sums of martingale differences, dependent variables revealed sequentially, converge in distribution to a normal, or a mixture of normals.
Martingale difference sequence
A martingale difference sequence, or martingale difference series, is a sequence of integrable random variables whose conditional expectation given the entire past is zero, so each increment is unpredictable from past history.
Martinhoe
Martinhoe (The Beacon) is a Roman fortlet and coastal signal station on the north Devon cliffs, occupied c. AD 55-75, garrisoned by a century, replacing Old Burrow, scheduled as NHLE 1003882.
Martini (cocktail)
The Martini (Dry Martini) is a stirred cocktail of gin and dry vermouth, garnished with an olive or lemon twist; IBA spec 60 mL gin, 10 mL vermouth, evolved from the 1880s Martinez.
Martini (vermouth)
Martini (vermouth) is the Italian vermouth brand founded in Turin in 1863 as Martini, Sola e C.ia, renamed Martini & Rossi in 1879, maker of Rosso, Bianco, and Extra Dry, and owned by Bacardi since 1993.