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Marzpanate of Armenia

The Marzpanate of Armenia (Armenian: Marzpetutʿiwn) was the period from 428 to the mid-7th century when the Sasanian portion of Armenia was governed by marzpan viceroys representing the Persian king.

Marzyana Corona

Marzyana Corona is a 550-km-wide corona on Venus at 53°S, 67.5°E, in quadrangle V-57, named in 1997 for a West Slavic grain and fertility goddess.

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Marzyeh Ghassemi is a computer scientist and MIT associate professor who works on machine learning for health, known for findings that clinical AI models encode demographics.

Mas Dieu

Mas Dieu is a hamlet and former mine in Laval-Pradel, Gard, Occitanie, France: an ancient lead mine (Barrington Atlas 17 C5) with a 213 m shaft sunk in 1903 and zinc-pyrite workings (Mine de la Calamine) abandoned in 1933.

Mas Oyama

Mas Oyama, born Choi Yeong-eui and known in Japan as Masutatsu Oyama, was a Korean-born Japanese karate master who founded Kyokushin, a full-contact karate style.

Mas Subramanian

Mas Subramanian (Munirpallam Appadorai Subramanian) is an Indian solid-state chemist who accidentally discovered YInMn blue in 2009, the first new inorganic blue pigment in more than two centuries.

MAS-36 rifle

The MAS-36 (MAS Modèle 1936) is a French military bolt-action rifle adopted in 1936, chambered in the 7.5×54mm cartridge and built by MAS at Saint-Étienne.

MAS-49 rifle

The MAS-49 rifle is a French semi-automatic rifle chambered for the 7.5×54mm French cartridge, adopted in 1949 and refined in 1956 into the MAS 49/56, the standard French infantry rifle until the FAMAS.

Mas'ud al-Isbahani

Mas'ud al-Isbahani (الجمال مسعود الأصبهاني), called al-Jammal, was a hadith transmitter of Isfahan who lived from 506 to 595 AH and was known as "musnad Isbahan", the hadith master of Isfahan.

Mas'ud I

Mas'ud I (مسعود بن محمد) was the Seljuk sultan of al-'Iraqayn, the western Seljuk lands centered on Iraq, a weak ruler whose authority rested on his powerful amirs.

Mas'ud I of Ghazna

Mas'ud I of Ghazna (مسعود) was a Ghaznavid sultan, son and successor of Mahmud, who reigned from 1030 to 1041 and lost Khurasan to the Seljuks at Dandanqan.

Mas'ud I of Ghazni

Mas'ud I of Ghazni (مسعود غزنوی) was sultan of the Ghaznavid empire from 1030 until 1041, when defeat by the Saljuqs at Dandanaqan in 1040 cost Khorasan and led to his deposition and death.

Mas'ud ibn Nasir al-Sijzi

Mas'ud ibn Nasir al-Sijzi (مسعود بن ناصر السجزي) was a Sunni hadith scholar and prolific traveler from Sijistan, remembered as an imam who died in Nishapur in 477 AH.

Mas'ud Sa'd Salman

Mas'ud Sa'd Salman (مسعود سعد سلمان) was a Persian poet of the Ghaznavid court at Lahore, best known for prison poems written during about eighteen years of confinement.

Más+

Más+ (Más+ by Messi) is Lionel Messi's hydration drink brand, launched June 4, 2024 with Mark Anthony Group; four flavors, 1g sugar per bottle, Inter Miami and MLS NEXT partner, sued by Prime Hydration in 2025.

Masa

Masa: dough from nixtamalized maize (lime-cooked corn), basis of tortillas, tamales, pupusas, arepas. Also masa harina, dehydrated masa flour (Maseca, Minsa). Alkaline cooking frees niacin and raises calcium 10–20x.

MASA (album)

MASA (Make America Slime Again) is the eighth studio album by YoungBoy Never Broke Again, released July 25, 2025 on Never Broke Again/Motown; 30 tracks, debuted No. 6 on the Billboard 200, his 16th top-10 album, first release after his 2025 presidential pardon.

Masa Rodríguez

Masa Rodríguez (María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Suárez), Spanish field hockey player born 1957 in Gijón; won 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold with Spain, played 16 years for Atlético de Madrid, 182 international caps, later Madrid federation president.

Masa-atsu Yamada

Masa-atsu Yamada is a Japanese cell biologist who led the Tokyo group that isolated the temperature-sensitive ts85 mouse cell line in 1980, cited in the 2004 Nobel Prize background.

Masaaki Endoh

Masaaki Endoh (遠藤正明, born 1967) is a Japanese anison singer and founding member of JAM Project, known for the 1997 GaoGaiGar theme and Ultraman Z's theme.

Masaaki Kaneko

Masaaki Kaneko (金子正明), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 1940 in Tochigi; 1968 Olympic featherweight (63 kg) gold medalist, 1966 and 1967 world champion, 1966 Asian Games champion, retired unbeaten internationally, UWW Hall of Fame 2007.

Masaaki Komatsu

Masaaki Komatsu (小松 雅明) is a Japanese cell biologist and professor at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, known for establishing p62 as a selective autophagy cargo receptor.

Masaaki Mizunaka (水中雅章)

Masaaki Mizunaka (水中雅章) is a Japanese voice actor from Yamaguchi Prefecture affiliated with Pro-Baobab, known for his deep voice as Diablo, Keisuke Baji, and Ka Koshun.

Masaaki Tanaka

Masaaki Tanaka (田中 雅明) is a Japanese physicist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2008, known for room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors and spin–orbit torque switching.

Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅政明)

Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅政明), born 1965 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese animation director of Mind Game, Night Is Short Walk On Girl, Lu Over the Wall, Devilman Crybaby, and Inu-Oh, co-founder of Science SARU, known for flat, expressive, non-photorealistic animation.

Masaan

Masaan (मसान), also released as Fly Away Solo, is a 2015 Hindi independent drama directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, set in Varanasi, starring Richa Chadha and Vicky Kaushal, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015.

Masaba

Masaba, also rendered Ma'asaba, was a nineteenth-century Fulani ruler of the Nupe who reigned twice as Emir of Nupe, ruling at Bida until his death in 1873.

Masaba Gupta (मसाबा गुप्ता)

Masaba Gupta (मसाबा गुप्ता), born 1989, is an Indian fashion designer, entrepreneur, and actor, daughter of Neena Gupta and Viv Richards. She founded House of Masaba in 2009, launched LoveChild in 2022, and stars in Netflix's Masaba Masaba.

Masaba Masaba

Masaba Masaba (मसाबा मसाबा) is a Netflix Hindi comedy-drama series in which designer Masaba Gupta and her mother Neena Gupta play fictionalized versions of themselves; two seasons, 2020 and 2022, directed by Sonam Nair.

Masabumi Hosono (細谷 正文)

Masabumi Hosono (細野 正文, 1870–1939) was a Japanese Railway Board civil servant, the only Japanese passenger on the Titanic. A second-class survivor, probably of Lifeboat 10, he wrote a detailed account on Titanic stationery, now at the Yokohama Port Museum; the legend of universal Japanese condemnation of him is largely later exaggeration.