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Massif
Massif: a compact, structurally coherent block of mountain terrain, unlike a linear mountain range. French usage names nine massifs including the Massif Central, Alps, and Pyrenees; examples include Mont Blanc, Bauges, and Chablais.
Massif Central
Massif Central: large highland region of mountains, plateaus, and dormant volcanoes in central and southern France, about 85,000 km², highest point puy de Sancy 1,885 m, formed by Variscan and Alpine tectonics.
Massif des Bauges UNESCO Global Geopark
Massif des Bauges UNESCO Global Geopark, a French geopark in the northern Alps (European Geopark 2011, UNESCO 2015), with 200 km² of karst feeding Lake Bourget and Lake Annecy.
Massimiliano Allegri
Massimiliano Allegri (Max Allegri), Italian football manager born 1967 in Livorno; six Serie A titles with Milan and Juventus, two Champions League finals, Napoli coach since July 2026.
Massimiliano Di Ventra
Massimiliano Di Ventra is a theoretical physicist, professor at UC San Diego since 2004, known for MemComputing, the ionic Coulomb blockade, and DNA sequencing by tunneling.
Massimiliano Fedriga
Massimiliano Fedriga is an Italian politician of the Lega party who has served as President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia since 2018, after ten years in the Chamber of Deputies.
Massimiliano Ferretti
Massimiliano Ferretti (born 1966, Rome) is an Italian water polo centre forward, 1992 Barcelona Olympic champion who scored the equalizer in the longest Olympic final, with 1988 Games, Worlds, and European medals.
Massimiliano Marcellino
Massimiliano Marcellino is an Italian economist and Full Professor of Econometrics at Bocconi University since 2005, known for forecasting and nowcasting methods and advising the ECB, IMF, and World Bank.
Massimiliano Mazzone
Massimiliano Mazzone is an Italian tumor immunologist and full professor at KU Leuven who heads the Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Belgium.
Massimiliano Salini
Massimiliano Salini, born 1973, in Soresina, is an Italian Forza Italia politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2014, now Vice-Chair of the European People's Party group.
Massimo Bottura
Massimo Bottura (born 1962), Italian chef of Modena's three-Michelin-star Osteria Francescana, twice No.1 in the World's 50 Best, and founder with Lara Gilmore of Food for Soul, the anti-food-waste refettorio network.
Massimo Chiariello
Massimo Chiariello was an Italian cardiologist, professor and chief of cardiology at the University of Naples Federico II and past president of the Italian Society of Cardiology.
Massimo Colombo
Massimo Colombo, born 1946 in Vigevano, Italy, is an Italian hepatologist known for defining the link between hepatitis C and liver cancer and for a landmark 1991 cirrhosis study.
Massimo Cristofanilli
Massimo Cristofanilli is an Italian-born American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and liquid biopsy, known for his landmark 2004 New England Journal of Medicine study.
Massimo Dell'Utri
Massimo Dell'Utri is an Italian politician of Noi Moderati, the party's regional coordinator in Sicily, appointed Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in 2026.
Massimo Di Cataldo
Massimo Di Cataldo, born in Rome in 1968, is an Italian pop singer-songwriter who broke through at the Sanremo festival with the 1996 hit "Se adesso te ne vai".
Massimo Dutti
Massimo Dutti is a Spanish fashion brand founded in Barcelona in 1985 by Armando Lasauca and owned by Inditex since 1991. A premium Zara sibling selling menswear, womenswear, and accessories, it ran €2,019 million in FY2025 sales across 511 stores.
Massimo Filippi
Massimo Filippi is an Italian neurologist and Full Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for applying MRI to the study of multiple sclerosis.
Massimo Imazio
Massimo Imazio, born 1969 in Turin, is an Italian cardiologist whose randomized trials established colchicine as standard treatment for pericarditis; he is Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Udine.
Massimo Loda
Massimo Loda is an Italian-born American molecular pathologist who chairs pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 for showing prostate tumors depend on lipids.
Massimo Luongo
Massimo Luongo, Australian midfielder (born 1992, Sydney), MVP of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup won by Australia; played for Tottenham, QPR, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich, and Millwall.
Massimo Olivucci
Massimo Olivucci is an Italian computational photochemist, a professor at the University of Siena and Bowling Green State University, known for conical intersections and rhodopsin studies.
Massimo Pallottino
Massimo Pallottino (1909–1995) was an Italian archaeologist who founded modern Etruscology as a discipline, wrote the standard manual Etruscologia (1942), excavated the sanctuary of Pyrgi, and held the first Etruscology chair at Rome.
Massimo Pericolo
Massimo Pericolo is the stage name of Alessandro Vanetti, an Italian rapper born in 1992 in the province of Varese, Lombardy, who broke through with the 2019 album Scialla semper.
Massimo Pessina
Massimo Pessina, Italian goalkeeper born 2007 in Alzano Lombardo, plays for Bologna (number 25) in Serie A. Debut at 17 years 319 days vs Napoli; Coppa Italia 2024/25 and UEFA U17 Euro 2024 winner; contract to June 2029.
Massimo Pinzani
Massimo Pinzani is an Italian clinical hepatologist, Emeritus Professor at University College London and, from February 2024, Scientific Director of the transplant center UPMC ISMETT in Palermo.
Massimo Polidoro
Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist and science popularizer who co-founded the skeptical organization CICAP in 1989 and describes himself as James Randi's only apprentice.
Massimo Santoro
Massimo Santoro is an Italian cell and molecular biologist at the University of Padova who studies redox metabolism and angiogenesis, known for work on the enzyme UBIAD1.
Massimo Scanziani
Massimo Scanziani is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist, Professor of Physiology at UCSF and an HHMI Investigator since 2008, known for work on cortical inhibition and how the visual cortex computes motion direction.
Massimo Silvio Morbidelli
Massimo Silvio Morbidelli is an Italian chemical engineer, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for continuous biopharmaceutical processes.