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Matiene
Matiene, also known as Matiane or Matieni, is a land and people of northwestern Iran known from Herodotus, probably in the Lake Urmia basin near Mannaea.
Matières Fécales
Matières Fécales (Fecal Matter) is a Paris-based avant-garde fashion house founded by Canadian duo Hannah Rose Dalton and Steven Raj Bhaskaran, who met at LaSalle College Montreal in 2014, rose via Depop and skin shoes, joined the Dover Street Market Paris incubator in 2024, and debuted at Paris Fashion Week in March 2025.
Matigari
Matigari, full Gĩkũyũ title Matigari ma Njirũũngi, is a 1986 novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o about a freedom fighter who returns after independence to search for truth and justice.
Matija Čop
Matija Čop (1797–1835) was a Slovene philologist, literary historian, and librarian in Ljubljana, best known as the friend and mentor of the poet France Prešeren.
Matija Nastasić
Matija Nastasić is a Serbian professional footballer, born in 1993 in Valjevo, a left-footed center-back who played for Manchester City and spent six and a half seasons at Schalke 04, earning 34 caps for Serbia.
Matija Sarkic
Matija Sarkic (Matija Šarkić, 1997-2024), Montenegrin goalkeeper born in Grimsby; Anderlecht academy, Aston Villa, Wolves, Millwall; nine Montenegro caps; died 15 June 2024 in Budva aged 26; Millwall retired shirt 20.
Matija Snuderl
Matija Snuderl is a neuropathologist and molecular pathologist who is Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of Molecular Pathology at NYU Langone Health.
Matikanefukukitaru (マチカネフクキタル)
Matikanefukukitaru (マチカネフクキタル), Japanese Thoroughbred colt foaled 22 May 1994 by Crystal Glitters; won the 1997 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger) G1 plus two G2 races, 6 wins from 22 starts, later a stallion.
Matikanetannhauser (マチカネタンホイザ)
Matikanetannhauser (マチカネタンホイザ), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse foaled 1989 by Northern Taste; won 8 of 32 starts including the 1993 Meguro Kinen and 1995 Takamatsunomiya Hai, earned about 517.5 million yen, later a stallion.
Matilda (1996 film)
Matilda (1996) is Danny DeVito's fantasy comedy adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel, starring Mara Wilson as a telekinetic genius child, with DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris; TriStar/Jersey Films, PG, $33.1M US gross.
Matilda (novel)
Matilda (1988), Roald Dahl's children's novel illustrated by Quentin Blake, tells of a genius girl with telekinetic powers who defeats headmistress Miss Trunchbull; adapted into the 1996 DeVito film and the RSC musical.
Matilda Cuomo
Matilda Raffa Cuomo (born 1931), First Lady of New York 1983-1995, founded the New York State Mentoring Program in 1984, the nation's first statewide school-based one-to-one mentoring program, later Mentoring USA.
Matilda De Angelis
Matilda De Angelis, born 1995 in Bologna, is an Italian actress and singer, formerly of Rumba de Bodas. Known for Italian Race, The Undoing, Rose Island (David di Donatello 2021), Lidia Poët, Citadel: Diana, and Fuori (second David, 2026).
Matilda effect
The Matilda effect is the systematic under-recognition of women in science, named by historian Margaret Rossiter in 1993 for suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, as a counterpart to the Matthew effect.
Matilda Firth
Matilda Firth (born 2014, Leeds) is a British child actress known as Ginger in Wolf Man (2025), Grace in Hullraisers, and roles in Time, Coma, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Subservience, and Tinsel Town.
Matilda Freeman
Matilda Freeman (born 2004) is an English actress from Cheshire, known as Summer Spellman in Coronation Street, Lilly Wells in Passenger, and Maria in Netflix's How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.
Matilda II
The Matilda II, officially the Infantry Tank Mark II, was a heavily armored British infantry tank of World War II, nicknamed the Queen of the Desert.
Matilda of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders (c. 1030-1083), daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, first Anglo-Norman queen of England; ruled Normandy in 1066, richest female landowner per Domesday Book, mother of nine children.
Matilda of Ringelheim
Matilda of Ringelheim (Mathilde von Ringelheim, c. 890s–968), queen of Henry the Fowler, mother of Otto I, founder of Quedlinburg and Nordhausen, dowager whose dower and 941 reconciliation with her sons shaped Ottonian politics; saint, feast 14 March.
Matilda of Scotland
Matilda of Scotland (Edith, 1080–1118), queen of Henry I of England from 1100, daughter of Malcolm III and St Margaret; her 1100 Westminster marriage united Norman and Saxon royal lines, and she bore the empress Matilda and William the Aetheling.
Matilda of Tuscany
Matilda of Tuscany (Matilde di Canossa, la Gran Contessa, c. 1046–1115), final head of the House of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany and Vice-Queen of Italy; papal ally in the Investiture Controversy, mediator of the 1077 Walk to Canossa and military opponent of Henry IV.
Matilda Scholz
Matilda Scholz (born 2005) is an AFLW ruck for Port Adelaide, signed underage in 2023. Back-to-back Best & Fairest winner (2024, 2025), 2024 Rising Star, 2025 All-Australian, contracted until 2030.
Matilda the Musical
Matilda the Musical (Roald Dahl's Matilda): RSC stage musical with book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, directed by Matthew Warchus; premiered Stratford 2010, seven Oliviers, four Tonys, 100 cities worldwide.
Matilda the Musical (film)
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical is a 2022 film directed by Matthew Warchus, adapting the RSC stage musical with music by Tim Minchin, starring Alisha Weir and Emma Thompson, released theatrically in the UK and on Netflix.
Matilda White Riley
Matilda White Riley (1911–2004) was an American sociologist and gerontologist who developed the aging-and-life-course perspective and led behavioral research at the National Institute on Aging.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the genius child protagonist of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, illustrated by Quentin Blake; self-taught reader, telekinetic in adaptations, adopted by Miss Honey, and star of the 1996 film, the RSC musical, and the 2022 Netflix film.
Matilda Ziegler
Matilda Ziegler (born 1964) is a British actress known as Donna Ludlow in EastEnders, Irma Gobb in Mr. Bean, and Pearl Pratt in Lark Rise to Candleford; also stage work and teaching.
Matilda-John, Lauren Gas Field
The Matilda-John, Lauren Gas Field is an operating coal seam gas complex in Queensland's Surat Basin, operated by QGC and feeding the Queensland Curtis LNG plant near Gladstone.
Matilde Díaz
Matilde Díaz (1924–2002) was a Colombian singer who became the leading female voice of the country's tropical music as vocalist of Lucho Bermúdez's Orquesta del Caribe.
Matilde Serao
Matilde Serao (1856–1927) was an Italian journalist and novelist, one of the first women journalists of post-Unification Italy, who co-founded Il Mattino and wrote over forty books about Naples.