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Masamas
Masamas: rural Gallo-Roman sanctuary with twin temples at Saint-Léomer, Vienne, France, over a Gallic sanctuary of the 1st century BC; discovered by abbé Reix around 1945, identified by Eygun in 1964, unusual for lacking an attached settlement.
Masameer
Masameer (مسامير, "nails") is a Saudi adult animated satire created by Faisal Alamer, Abdulaziz Almuzaini, and Malik Nejer. It began on YouTube in 2011, became the 2020 film Masameer: The Movie and the Netflix series Masameer County (2021–2023), plus Masameer Junior (2025).
Masami Horikoshi
Masami Horikoshi (堀越 正美) is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo who studies transcription initiation and chromatin, known for cloning yeast TFIID at Rockefeller University.
Masami Muramatsu
Masami Muramatsu (村松 正實) is a Japanese molecular biologist and physician known for work on gene expression in cancer and steroid hormone receptors, holding professorships at the University of Tokyo and Saitama Medical University.
Masami Nagasawa (長澤まさみ)
Masami Nagasawa (長澤まさみ), born 1987 in Shizuoka, is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. Toho Cinderella winner at 12, Japan Academy Best Actress for Mother, Blue Ribbon winner, married director Fukunaga Takeshi in 2026.
Masami Nakagawa
Masami Nakagawa was a Japanese theoretical particle physicist of the Sakata school at Nagoya University, co-author of the 1962 MNS paper that proposed neutrino flavor mixing and oscillation.
Masami Tanaka
Masami Tanaka (田中雅美, born 1979) is a Japanese breaststroke swimmer who competed at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics, won 4x100 medley relay bronze at Sydney 2000, and set short-course world records in the 200 m breaststroke and medley relay in 1999; later a TV sports commentator.
Masamitsu Futai
Masamitsu Futai (二井 將光) is a Japanese biochemist known for research on F-ATPase and V-ATPase, including the 1999 direct observation of ATP synthase c-ring rotation.
Masamitsu Ichiguchi
Masamitsu Ichiguchi (市口政光, born 1940, Osaka) is a Japanese Greco-Roman wrestler, 1962 world champion, and gold medalist in men's bantamweight (≤57 kg) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics after placing seventh in 1960.
Masamune (正宗)
Masamune (正宗), Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, late Kamakura-period swordsmith of Sagami Province, disciple of Shintōgo Kunimitsu who completed the Sōshū tradition; famed for nie-rich notare hamon, rare signed works, and the National Treasure Kanze Masamune.
Masamune Hakuchō
Masamune Hakuchō (正宗白鳥, 1879–1962), born Masamune Tadao, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and literary critic, a leading figure of the naturalist school known for Doko e.
Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗)
Masamune Shirow (士郎 正宗) is a Japanese manga artist born in 1961 in Kobe, best known as the creator of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell.
Masamune-kun's Revenge (政宗くんのリベンジ)
Masamune-kun's Revenge is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by Hazuki Takeoka and Tiv, serialized from 2012 to 2018 and adapted into anime in 2017 and 2023.
Masan
Masan (마산, 馬山), former South Korean port city in South Gyeongsang; opened 1899, rice-export port under Japanese rule, Korea's first Free Export Zone 1970, merged into Changwon 2010.
Masan Group
Masan Group is a Vietnamese consumer goods and retail conglomerate, founded in 1996 and listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange under the ticker MSN.
Masand system
The Masand system (ਮਸੰਦ) was a Sikh institution in which appointed deputies called masands collected offerings from congregations and preached the faith, abolished in 1699.
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano (狩野 方伸) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits in the cerebellum adjust through activity, work honored with the 2023 Japan Academy Prize.
Masanobu Shinozuka
Masanobu Shinozuka (1930–2018) was a Japanese-born American civil engineer who pioneered stochastic mechanics, structural reliability, and Monte Carlo simulation in earthquake engineering, teaching at Columbia, Princeton, USC, and UC Irvine.
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信)
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信, born 1901), Imperial Japanese Army staff officer behind the Malaya–Singapore campaign, linked to the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan; escaped prosecution, became a Diet member, and vanished in Laos in 1961.
Masanobu Uchiyama
Masanobu Uchiyama (内山 真伸) is a Japanese chemist, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2010, known for hetero-bimetallic "ate" complex chemistry and deprotonative metalation.
Masanori Hamada
Masanori Hamada is a Japanese civil engineer and professor emeritus at Waseda University, known for research on soil liquefaction and lifeline earthquake engineering, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Masanori Hatakeyama
Masanori Hatakeyama (畠山 昌則, born 1956) is a Japanese molecular oncologist known for establishing the Helicobacter pylori CagA protein as the first bacterium-derived oncoprotein in gastric cancer.
Masanori Yusa
Masanori Yusa (遊佐正憲), Japanese freestyle sprint swimmer, 1915 to 1975; won Olympic 4 x 200 m relay gold in 1932 and 1936 with world records each time, plus 1936 silver in the 100 m freestyle.
Masanosuke Ono (小野将之佑)
Masanosuke Ono (小野正之助), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 2004 in Shimane, 2024 senior and U20 world champion at 61 kg who beat Zavur Uguev and Vito Arujau, and a Penn State wrestler from 2025.
Masao Asai
Masao Asai (浅井将雄), born in 1966, is a Japanese financier who co-founded Capula Investment Management in London in 2005, growing it to about $35 billion in assets.
Masao Itō
Masao Itō (伊藤正男, 1928–2018) was a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo and RIKEN who worked out how the cerebellum learns, discovering Purkinje cell inhibition and cerebellar long-term depression.
Masao Omata
Masao Omata (小俣 政男) is a Japanese hepatologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who showed interferon can cure acute hepatitis C and led Asia-Pacific liver cancer guidelines.
Masao Takemoto
Masao Takemoto (竹本正男, 1919–2007), Japanese artistic gymnast, three-time Olympian 1952–1960; seven Olympic medals including 1960 team gold, world floor champion 1954 and 1958, later national coach and 1997 Hall of Fame inductee.
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, born 1957) is a Japanese photographer from Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, who trained as a painter and is known for small, hand-toned gelatin silver prints often compared to haiku.
Masaoka Shiki
Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規) was a Japanese haiku and tanka poet and literary critic of the Meiji period who led the reform of both forms through his realism concept of shasei.