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Matthiola
Matthiola (stocks, gillyflower) is a genus of about 50-60 fragrant Brassicaceae herbs and subshrubs named for Pietro Andrea Matthioli; type species Matthiola incana, the common stock, native to southern Europe.
Matthiola incana
Matthiola incana, known as hoary stock or tenweeks stock, is a woody-based cabbage-family perennial from southern Europe, grown for centuries as a fragrant garden and cut flower.
Matthys P. Levy
Matthys P. Levy is a Swiss-born American structural engineer, founding principal of Weidlinger Associates, known for the Georgia Dome's tensegrity cable roof and the World Trade Center collapse investigation.
Matti Jarvinen
Matti Järvinen (Maailman-Matti), Finnish javelin thrower, 1909-1985; set 10 world records 1930-36, won 1932 Olympic gold with 72.71 m, and European titles 1934 and 1938.
Matti Lähde
Matti Ensio Lähde (Masa), 1911–1978, Finnish cross-country skier; won gold in the first Olympic 4 x 10 km relay at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936, plus Finnish titles in 1935, 1939, and 1945.
Matti Nykänen
Matti Nykänen (1963–2019), Finnish ski jumper from Jyväskylä, won a record four Olympic ski jumping golds, 46 World Cup wins, and four overall World Cup titles; later a pop singer with convictions, he died in 2019.
Matti Pitkanen
Matti Pitkänen (Matti Keijo Juhani Pitkänen, born 1948), Finnish cross-country skier nicknamed Hämeen hiljainen; Olympic relay gold 1976 Innsbruck, relay bronze 1980, 1978 world relay silver, fourth in all three individual races at Lahti 1978.
Matti Uusitupa
Matti Uusitupa is a Finnish physician and clinical nutrition researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Eastern Finland, best known for leading the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study.
Mattia Colnaghi
Mattia Colnaghi (born 2008, Monza) is an Italo-Argentine racing driver, Red Bull Junior Team member, and 2024 Spanish F4 and 2025 Eurocup-3 champion with MP Motorsport, racing in FIA Formula 3 in 2026.
Mattia De Sciglio
Mattia De Sciglio, born 1992 in Milan, Italian full-back for both flanks; AC Milan youth product, Juventus 2017–2025 with three Serie A titles, Lyon loan 2020–21, Italy 2013–2022, ACL rupture 2023.
Mattia Mosconi
Mattia Mosconi (born 2007, Sondalo) is an Italian striker and winger at Inter Milan. Inter academy player since age 8, Primavera champion, Serie A debut 9 May 2026 vs Lazio, Italy youth international up to U20.
Mattia Perin
Mattia Perin (born 1992) is an Italian goalkeeper from Latina, ex-Genoa and Juventus (71 apps, four trophies), 3 Italy caps, who joined Palermo in August 2026.
Mattias Jakobsson
Mattias Jakobsson is a Swedish population geneticist, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for the Human Past at Uppsala University, known for ancient-DNA studies of human demographic history.
Mattias Ohlin
Mattias Ohlin (Rolf Lennart Mattias Ohlin, born 1978, Trelleborg) is a Swedish swimmer, Olympian at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, and short-course 4x100 m freestyle relay world champion and record holder (3:09.57, 2000).
Mattias Ohlund
Mattias Ohlund is a Swedish former NHL defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks and Tampa Bay Lightning and won Olympic gold with Sweden in 2006.
Mattie Blaylock
Mattie Blaylock, also called Celie, was Wyatt Earp's common-law wife who accompanied him from Dodge City to Tombstone in 1879, struggled with laudanum addiction, was abandoned for Josephine Marcus, and died of an overdose in 1888.
Mattie Daughtry
Mattie Daughtry, born Matthea Elisabeth Larsen Daughtry, is a Democratic politician from Brunswick, Maine, who served four House terms before becoming President of the Maine Senate in 2024.
Mattie Hunter
Mattie Hunter is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois Senate District 3 since 2003 and serves as Assistant Majority Leader, focusing on health care.
Mattie Moss Clark
Mattie Moss Clark (1925-1994), also Mattie Juliet Moss, was a gospel choir director, composer, and COGIC International Music Department leader who pioneered three-part gospel harmony, led the Southwest Michigan State Choir, and mothered the Clark Sisters.
Mattie Parker
Mattie Parker is an American politician and the Republican mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, first elected in 2021 and reelected in 2023 with 70 percent of the vote.
Mattie Stepanek
Mattie J.T. Stepanek (1990-2004), American poet and MDA National Goodwill Ambassador, wrote seven New York Times bestselling Heartsongs poetry volumes while living with dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.
Mattock
A mattock, also called a grub axe, is a hand digging tool with a double iron head, used for grubbing out stumps and cutting roots.
Mattress
A mattress is a large padded support for sleeping, built on a core of springs, foam, latex, air, or water beneath comfort layers and a fabric cover.
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)
Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) is Emma Sulkowicz's 2014–15 endurance performance artwork, her Columbia University senior thesis, in which she carried a 50-pound dorm mattress on campus in protest of the university's handling of her sexual assault report; it inspired the Carry That Weight movement and is now in the Smithsonian collection.
Matty Alou
Matty Alou (Mateo Rojas Alou, 1938–2011), Dominican MLB outfielder 1960–74, middle of the Alou brothers; won the 1966 NL batting title at .342 with Pittsburgh and led the NL with 231 hits in 1969; career .307 hitter.
Matty Campbell
Matty Campbell, also known as Bionic, is an English bodybuilder born 1995 in Middlesbrough who stars on BBC's Gladiators; a 6 ft 6 in former footballer who turned to bodybuilding after a car crash.
Matty Cardarople
Matty Cardarople (Matthew Cardarople, born 1983, Exeter, New Hampshire) is an American character actor known for Keith in Stranger Things, the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Ansel in Reservation Dogs, and roles in Jurassic World and Dumb and Dumber To.
Matty Cash
Matty Cash (Matthew Cash, born 1997, Slough) is a Polish right-back for Aston Villa and Poland; ex-Nottingham Forest, £14m 2020 transfer, first Poland goal vs Netherlands.
Matty Healy
Matty Healy (Matthew Timothy Healy, born 1989, Hendon, London) is the English frontman, lyricist, and guitarist of The 1975; son of actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy, married to Gabbriette Bechtel, working on the album 'DOGS'.
Matty Island
Matty Island is an uninhabited island in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada, between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula, known for the phantom Franklin wreck tradition and Amundsen's 1903 grounding on its shoals.