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Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano (矢野 昌裕) is a Japanese rice geneticist who mapped the rice genome, cloned flowering-time and seed-shattering genes, and won the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science in 2013.
Masahisa Fukase
Masahisa Fukase (深瀬昌久, 1934–2012) was a Japanese photographer known for intensely personal work on his wife, family, and cats, and for Ravens, a celebrated photobook of crows photographed in Hokkaido.
Masahito Ochiai
Masahito Ochiai (落合 正仁), born 1948, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor emeritus of Tokushima University, known for hypervalent organoiodine chemistry and the 2011 metal-free amination of alkanes.
Masahito Ueda
Masahito Ueda (上田 正仁) is a Japanese theoretical physicist at the University of Tokyo known for work on ultracold atomic gases, quantum information, and non-Hermitian topology.
Masahito, Prince Hitachi
Masahito, Prince Hitachi (常陸宮), born 28 November 1935, second son of Emperor Showa, cancer researcher at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and third in line to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne.
Masai Russell
Masai Russell, American 100m hurdler born 2000, Olympic champion Paris 2024 (12.33), world record holder 12.09 (Zurich 2026), NCAA record holder, unbeaten 2026 with Budapest Ultimate title.
Masai Ujiri
Masai Ujiri, Nigerian-Canadian NBA executive; Toronto Raptors president 2013-2025, built the 2019 NBA champion Raptors, founded Giants of Africa, fired June 2025, now Dallas Mavericks president and alternate governor.
Masaji Kiyokawa
Masaji Kiyokawa (清川正二, 1913–1999), Japanese backstroke swimmer; 1932 Olympic 100 m backstroke gold in 1:08.6 leading Japan's first Olympic medal sweep, 1936 bronze; later first Asian IOC vice-president and Kanematsu president.
Masakatsu Funaki (船木誠勝)
Masakatsu Funaki (船木誠勝), real name Masaharu Funaki, born 1969 in Hirosaki, Aomori, is a Japanese pro wrestler and MMA pioneer who co-founded Pancrase in 1993 and twice held the open-weight King of Pancrase title.
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki (柴崎正勝) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist known for bifunctional asymmetric catalysis with heterobimetallic BINOL complexes, used in industrial routes to drugs including Tamiflu and sitagliptin.
Masakazu Aono
Masakazu Aono (青野 正和) is a Japanese nanoscale scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science, known for the atomic switch, a nanoscale device controlled by single metal atoms, and for nanoarchitectonics.
Masakazu Idemitsu
Masakazu Idemitsu (出光正和) is a Japanese businessman, grandson of Idemitsu Kosan founder Sazo Idemitsu, who has served as a director of the oil refiner since 2019 and leads family shareholder Nissho Kosan.
Masakazu Konishi
Masakazu Konishi (小西正一), known in the United States as Mark Konishi, was a Japanese-born American neuroethologist at Caltech who studied how barn owls localize sound.
Masaki Azuma
Masaki Azuma (東 正樹) is a Japanese solid state chemist, a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo known for high-pressure synthesis of functional transition-metal oxides.
Masaki Kashiwara
Masaki Kashiwara (柏原正樹), born 1947, is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University known for D-modules and crystal bases of quantum groups, and winner of the 2025 Abel Prize.
Masaki Kobayashi (小林正樹)
Masaki Kobayashi (小林正樹, 1916–1996), Japanese film director of The Human Condition, Harakiri, Kwaidan, and Tokyo Trial; Shochiku-trained under Kinoshita Keisuke, Cannes Jury Special Prize winner, antiwar perfectionist.
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori (森 正樹) is a Japanese digestive surgeon and physician-scientist, chairman professor of gastroenterological surgery at Osaka University from 2008, known for gastrointestinal cancer research.
Masaki Ogushi
Masaki Ogushi is a Japanese politician serving as Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Health, Labour and Welfare and representing Hyogo 6th District.
Masaki Sakai
Masaki Sakai (堺正章; Sakai Masaaki) is a Japanese singer, actor, and television host born in 1946 in Tokyo, lead vocalist of the 1960s band The Spiders.
Masaki Sano
Masaki Sano (佐野 雅己) is a Japanese physicist known for experiments in nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, and active matter, including topological defects in cell cultures.
Masaki Tanabe
Masaki Tanabe (田邊真希), Japanese women's ice hockey forward born 2005, Vortex Sapporo club; won gold with Japan in girls' ice hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics.
Masako Chiba
Masako Chiba (千葉真子), born 1976 in Uji, Kyoto, Japanese long-distance runner; World Championships bronze in the 10,000m (1997) and marathon (2003), fifth at Atlanta 1996, marathon best 2:21:45.
Masako Kondo
Masako Kondo (近藤雅子), born 1941 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japanese volleyball player; won gold with Nichibo Kaizuka's Japan team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and two 1962 Jakarta Asian Games golds. Not the snowboarder Kokone Kondo.
Masako Nozawa (野沢雅子)
Masako Nozawa (野沢雅子), born 25 October 1936 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actress famed for Son Goku in Dragon Ball, Kitaro, and Tetsuro; Aoni Production founding member and 2025 Person of Cultural Merit.
Masal
A masal is the Turkish fairy tale, an oral prose folk narrative of extraordinary events involving fairies, jinns, and giants, framed by stereotyped opening and closing formulas.
Masala (మసాలా) (2013 film)
Masala (మసాలా, Mixture of Spices) is a 2013 Telugu comedy directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar, a remake of Bol Bachchan, starring Venkatesh and Ram Pothineni, released 14 November 2013.
Masala chai (मसाला चाय)
Masala chai (मसाला चाय), Indian spiced milk tea, also called chai; boiled black tea with milk, sugar and variable spices. A 20th-century Indian adaptation of a British colonial plantation commodity, now a national symbol.
Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar
Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar (مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار) is a 14th-century Arabic encyclopedia by the Mamluk chancery official al-Umari, a firsthand source on his era.
Masalit genocide
The Masalit genocide refers to mass atrocities against the Masalit people of El Geneina, West Darfur, by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias during Sudan's 2023 civil war.
Masalit people
Masalit (Massalit), a non-Arab Muslim farming people of West Darfur, Sudan, and eastern Chad, former rulers of the Dar Masalit sultanate; speakers of a Maban Nilo-Saharan language, targeted in the 2023 El Geneina ethnic cleansing.