All articles starting with M

Masaccio

Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai, 1401-1428), early-Renaissance Florentine painter; pioneer of linear perspective in painting (Holy Trinity) and of single-source light (Brancacci Chapel frescoes with Masolino). Died at about 27, probably of plague in Rome.

Masad J. Damha

Masad J. Damha is a Canadian nucleic acid chemist and Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University whose laboratory developed FANA, a DNA-mimicking antisense chemistry advanced toward COPD drug trials.

Masada (מצדה)

Masada (מצדה) is Herod the Great's desert palace-fortress above the Dead Sea, Israel's last stronghold in the 73/74 CE revolt against Rome, besieged by the Tenth Legion; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 whose Josephus-reported mass suicide remains archaeologically debated.

Masada myth

Masada myth: the modern Israeli heroic narrative that 960-967 Jewish rebels died by mass suicide at Masada in 73 CE, based solely on Josephus, promoted by Yigael Yadin's 1963-1965 excavations and critiqued by Nachman Ben-Yehuda.

Oct 21, 2026

Masae Kasai

Masae Kasai (河西昌枝), later Nakamura, Japanese volleyball captain born 1933, led the Oriental Witches to gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the first Olympic women's volleyball tournament; Hall of Fame 2008.

Oct 20, 2026

Masae Ueno

Masae Ueno (上野雅恵), born 1979 in Asahikawa, Japan, judoka who won Olympic gold in women's -70 kg at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, plus world titles in 2001 and 2003.

Masaesyli

The Masaesyli, also known as Masaesyles, were a Berber tribal kingdom of western Numidia in present-day Algeria, ruled by King Syphax and absorbed into Masinissa's unified Numidia after 203 BC.

Masafumi Akikawa

Masafumi Akikawa (秋川雅史) is a Japanese tenor singer, born in 1967 in Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, best known for the 2006 hit single "Sen no Kaze ni Natte".

Masafumi Kitakaze

Masafumi Kitakaze (北風政史) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist known for the J-WIND trials of cardioprotective drugs in acute myocardial infarction, reported in The Lancet in 2007.

Masaharta

Masaharta, also Masaherta or Masahirta, was High Priest of Amun at Thebes during Dynasty 21, eldest son of Pinedjem I, serving from about 1055 to 1046 BC.

Masaharu Fukuyama

Masaharu Fukuyama (福山雅治), born 1969, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and photographer from Nagasaki, the best-selling male solo artist in Oricon chart history.

Masaharu Homma (本間雅晴)

Masaharu Homma (本間雅晴), Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, commanded the 14th Army in the 1941–1942 conquest of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March; tried by US military commission in Manila, denied habeas by the Supreme Court, and executed by firing squad April 3, 1946.

Masaharu Morimoto (森本正治)

Masaharu Morimoto (森本正治), born 1955 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese chef and restaurateur, third Iron Chef Japanese and an original Iron Chef America star, known for Japanese-Western fusion, Morimoto Philadelphia (2001), Momosan, and a global restaurant group.

Sep 20, 2026

Masaharu Noda

Masaharu Noda (野田昌晴), born in 1953, is a Japanese neuroscientist who cloned the voltage-gated sodium channel gene and identified Nax as the brain's sodium-level sensor.

Oct 21, 2026

Masaharu Taguchi

Masaharu Taguchi (田口正治, 1916–1982), Japanese freestyle swimmer; fourth in the 1936 Olympic 100 m freestyle and gold medalist in the world-record 4x200 m relay at Berlin, later head coach at Tokyo 1964.

Oct 21, 2026

Masahiko Harada

Masahiko Harada (原田雅彦, born 1968), Japanese ski jumper nicknamed Happy; 1998 Nagano Olympic team gold and large hill bronze, 1994 team silver, World Champion 1993 and 1997. Distinct from boxer Fighting Harada and the baseball player of the same name.

Masahiko Kamata

Masahiko Kamata (鎌田正彦), born 1959 in Miyazaki, is a Japanese logistics entrepreneur who founded SBS Holdings in Tokyo in 1987 and built it into a group with 69 subsidiaries.

Masahiko Kimura (木村政彦)

Masahiko Kimura (木村政彦, 1917–1993), Japanese judoka from Kumamoto, All-Japan champion 1937–1939 and 13 years unbeaten; beat Hélio Gracie in 1951, giving his name to the Kimura lock; later pro wrestler with Rikidozan.

Masahiro Higashide

Masahiro Higashide (東出昌大), born 1988 in Saitama, is a Japanese actor and former Men's Non-no and Paris Collection model, Japan Academy Newcomer Award winner for Kirishima (2012), Gochisousan co-star, ex-husband of Anne Watanabe, and mountain-dwelling hunter and essayist.

Masahiro Irie

Masahiro Irie (入江正浩) is a Japanese photochemist and specially appointed professor at Rikkyo University, known for inventing diarylethenes in 1985, photochromic molecules whose states last over 1,000 years.

Masahiro Miura

Masahiro Miura (三浦雅博) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Osaka University known for palladium and copper catalysis that forms new bonds directly at aromatic C–H bonds.

Sep 20, 2026

Masahiro Murakami

Masahiro Murakami (村上正浩) is a Japanese organic chemist who held the Chair of Synthetic Chemistry at Kyoto University until retiring in 2022, known for catalytic carbon–carbon bond cleavage.

Masahiro Sakurai (桜井政博)

Masahiro Sakurai (桜井政博), Japanese game director and designer, creator of Kirby and director of Super Smash Bros.; founded Sora Ltd., ran the YouTube channel Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games (2022–2024), and directs Kirby Air Riders on Switch 2.

Masahiro Shirakawa

Masahiro Shirakawa (白川昌宏) is a Japanese structural biologist and Kyoto University professor, known since 2001 for NMR structures of methyl-CpG-binding domains bound to methylated DNA.

Masahiro Suemitsu (SPACECOOL株式会社)

Masahiro Suemitsu (末光真大) is a Japanese engineer-entrepreneur who co-founded SPACECOOL, a Tokyo climate-tech company spun out of Osaka Gas in 2021, joining as CTO and becoming CEO in 2024.

Masahiro Sugiura

Masahiro Sugiura (杉浦昌弘, born 1936) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Nagoya University who sequenced the tobacco chloroplast genome in 1986 and established chloroplast engineering.

Masahiro Tanaka (athlete)

Masahiro Tanaka (田中将大), born 1988, is a Japanese right-handed pitcher famous for his splitter. He went 24-0 with Rakuten in 2013, pitched seven seasons for the New York Yankees (78-46, 3.74 ERA), and returned to NPB with Rakuten and later the Yomiuri Giants.