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Mathias Jørgensen
Mathias Jørgensen refers to two Danish footballers: defender Mathias 'Zanka' Jørgensen (born 1990, F.C. Copenhagen, 315 appearances, fastest Danish World Cup goal) and forward Mathias Jørgensen (born 2000, AaB, Blackburn Rovers).
Mathias Jucker
Mathias Jucker is a neuroscientist who studies brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, known for work showing that misfolded amyloid-β can seed its own aggregation like a prion.
Mathias Kläui
Mathias Kläui is a condensed-matter physicist who studies spintronics and magnetism in thin films, including domain walls and skyrmions, and has been a professor at Mainz since 2011.
Mathias Lerch
Mathias Lerch, born Matyáš Lerch, was a Czech mathematician known for the Lerch transcendent and Lerch zeta function, who won the Paris Academy of Sciences Grand Prize in 1900.
Mathias Lichterfeld
Mathias Lichterfeld is an infectious-disease physician and HIV researcher who is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and studies HIV reservoir cells, the main barrier to a cure.
Mathias Mnyampala
Mathias Mnyampala (1917–1969) was a Tanzanian poet, lawyer, and writer in Kiswahili who created the ngonjera poetic genre, founded the poets' association UKUTA, and published more than 25 books.
Mathias Pessiglione
Mathias Pessiglione, born in 1974, is a French cognitive neuroscientist and Inserm research director who co-leads the Motivation, Brain, and Behaviour team at the Paris Brain Institute, studying reward, motivation, and effort.
Mathias Pogba
Mathias Pogba, also known as Mathias Fassou Pogba, is a French-Guinean former footballer who played as a forward, won five caps for Guinea, and was convicted in 2024 of attempting to extort his brother Paul Pogba.
Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust, West German amateur pilot who flew a Cessna 172 from Helsinki into Soviet airspace and landed near Moscow's Red Square on 28 May 1987, triggering the dismissal of Soviet defense minister Sokolov and air defense chief Koldunov and serving 432 days in Soviet custody.
Mathias Uhlén
Mathias Uhlén, born 1954, is a Swedish scientist and professor at KTH Stockholm who directs the Human Protein Atlas and co-founded over 20 biotech companies.
Mathias Wilhelm
Mathias Wilhelm is a German bioinformatician and professor of Computational Mass Spectrometry at the Technical University of Munich, known as co-founder of the proteomics companies OmicScouts and MSAID.
Mathias Zdarsky
Mathias Zdarsky (Matyáš Žďárský, 1856–1940), Austrian ski pioneer of Lilienfeld: invented the steel-sole ski binding (patented 1896), wrote the first ski textbook, developed the first alpine turning technique, and staged the first gate slalom in 1905.
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (born 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French actor and director, César winner for Rois et reine and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bond villain in Quantum of Solace, and Cannes Best Director 2010 for Tournée.
Mathieu Bihet
Mathieu Bihet is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur who serves as federal Minister of Energy, making the return of nuclear power a central theme of his tenure.
Mathieu Bragard
Mathieu Bragard (Mathieu Nicolas Bragard, 1895–1952), Belgian football striker for RCS Verviétois; 7 caps and 5 goals for Belgium 1914–1921 and gold medalist in men's football at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Mathieu Debuchy
Mathieu Debuchy, born 1985 in Fretin, France, is a retired right-back. Lille academy product who won the 2011 Ligue 1-Coupe de France double, later Newcastle, Arsenal, Saint-Étienne; 27 France caps, Euro 2012 and 2014 World Cup.
Mathieu equation
The Mathieu equation is a second-order differential equation with a periodic cosine coefficient, introduced by Émile Léonard Mathieu in 1868 while studying the vibrations of an elliptical membrane.
Mathieu Flamini
Mathieu Flamini, born 1984 in Marseille, French midfielder for Marseille, Arsenal, AC Milan, Crystal Palace, and Getafe; 3 France caps; now CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a levulinic acid green-chemistry company.
Mathieu functions
Mathieu functions, also called elliptic cylinder functions, are the periodic solutions of Mathieu's equation, introduced in 1868 by Émile Mathieu to describe vibrations of an elliptical membrane.
Mathieu Giroux
Mathieu Giroux (born 1986), Canadian long track speed skater, Olympic gold medalist in the men's team pursuit at Vancouver 2010 with Morrison and Makowsky; former short track junior medalist, retired 2014.
Mathieu group
The Mathieu groups are five finite simple groups, M11 through M24, discovered by Émile Mathieu in 1861 and 1873 as the first sporadic simple groups.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor-director born 1967 in Paris, son of Peter Kassovitz; directed La Haine (1995 Cannes Best Director), Gothika, and Babylon A.D.; starred in Amélie and Munich.
Mathieu Kérékou
Mathieu Kérékou was a Beninese military officer who seized power in a 1972 coup, ruled Marxist-Leninist Benin until 1991, lost the country's first free election, and returned democratically from 1996 to 2006.
Mathieu Lefèvre
Mathieu Lefèvre, born in 1986 in Créteil, is a French politician serving as Minister delegate for Ecological Transition since 2025, appointed on October 12, 2025 in the government of Sébastien Lecornu II.
Mathieu Lemoine
Mathieu Lemoine (Mathieu Laurent Lemoine, born 1984, Mont-de-Marsan) is a French eventing rider; on Bart L he won team gold and placed 15th individually at Rio 2016, plus 2015 European team bronze.
Mathieu Lupien
Mathieu Lupien is a French-Canadian cancer researcher and Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre who studies how the epigenome controls gene activity in cancer.
Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu Orfila, full name Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger (1787–1853), was a Spanish-born, French-naturalized physician and chemist regarded as the father of modern toxicology.
Mathieu Patouillet
Mathieu Patouillet, born 2004 in Lyon, French goalkeeper; OL academy, Gambardella 2022 winner, two Sochaux loans, Al-Hilal 2025-26, now Stade Brestois 29 backup keeper.
Mathieu Turcotte
Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short track speed skater born 1977 in Sherbrooke, Quebec; three Olympic medals including 2002 5,000m relay gold and 2006 relay silver; later president of Apex Racing Skates.
Mathieu Valbuena
Mathieu Valbuena, born 1984 in Bruges, France, is a French attacking midfielder with 52 caps and 8 goals for France; Marseille star (Ligue 1 2010, three Coupes de la Ligue), later Lyon, Fenerbahce, Olympiacos, and since 2026 Santa Lucia in Malta.