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MatX
MatX Inc. is an American fabless chip startup in Mountain View, founded in 2023 by former Google TPU engineers to build the MatX One LLM accelerator.
Mátyás Bél
Mátyás Bél (Bél Mátyás, also Matej Bel) was a Lutheran pastor and polymath in the Kingdom of Hungary, known for the Notitia Hungariae, a pioneering county-by-county description of the country.
Mátyás Rákosi
Mátyás Rákosi (born Rosenfeld, 1892–1971) was a founder of the Hungarian Communist Party and the Stalinist first secretary who ruled Hungary 1948–1956, removed July 1956, died in exile in Gorky.
Matz Sels
Matz Sels (born 1992, Lint, Belgium) is a Belgian goalkeeper at Nottingham Forest, formerly of Gent, Newcastle, Anderlecht, and Strasbourg; Belgian champion 2015, 2024-25 Premier League Golden Glove winner, 13 Belgium caps.
Matzah
Matzah (מצה, matzo) is unleavened bread of five grains eaten on Passover, baked within 18 minutes of mixing flour and water; shmura matzah is guarded from harvest, and machine matzah sparked an 1859 halachic controversy.
Matzah ball (קניידל)
Matzah ball (Yiddish kneidel, kneidlach) is an Ashkenazi Jewish soup dumpling of matzo meal, eggs, and schmaltz, served in chicken soup at Passover and year-round; first recipe printed London 1846, subject of the gebrokts custom debate and the floater-versus-sinker texture argument.
Mau Mau detention camps
The Mau Mau detention camps were British colonial camps in Kenya that held about 80,000 suspected Mau Mau supporters without trial during the 1952 to 1960 Emergency.
Mau Mau rebellion
Mau Mau rebellion, also called the Kenya Emergency or Kenya Land and Freedom Army uprising: Kikuyu-led guerrilla war against British colonial rule in Kenya, 1952-1960, marked by mass detention, executions, and leading to independence in 1963.
Mau movement
The Mau movement, whose slogan was Samoa mo Samoa ("Samoa for Samoans"), was a nonviolent campaign against New Zealand rule in Western Samoa from 1926 to 1936.
Mau movement in American Samoa
The Mau movement in American Samoa, remembered as the "Forgotten Mau," protested US Navy rule from 1920 into the mid-1930s, demanding US citizenship rather than independence.
Mau P
Mau P (Maurits Jan Westveen), Dutch house and techno DJ-producer from Amsterdam, formerly big room artist Maurice West. Breakout hit "Drugs From Amsterdam" (2022) reached 200 million streams; runs the Baddest Behaviour party brand and Pacha Ibiza residency.
Mau y Ricky
Mau y Ricky are Venezuelan-born brothers Mauricio and Ricardo Reglero Rodriguez, sons of singer Ricardo Montaner, forming a Latin pop and reggaeton duo based in Miami. Known for "Mi Mala" and songwriting hits "Vente Pa' Ca" and "Sin Pijama," they run their own label, Why Club Records.
Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中)
Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中) is a Taiwanese-born electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for commercializing the HBT.
Mau-Mau (card game)
Mau-Mau, German shedding card game of the Eights family (Crazy Eights, UNO relatives). 32-card skat deck, 2–6 players, 7 draws two, 8 skips, jack wishes a suit, "Mau" calls; first mentioned 1930s.
Mau, Uttar Pradesh
Mau (Maunath Bhanjan) is a district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, created 19 November 1988 from Azamgarh. Known for saree weaving, zari and kashidakari work, about 85,000 looms, and Nehru's 1957 "Manchester of India" description.
Mau5trap
Mau5trap (Mau5trap Recordings) is the independent electronic music label founded by deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) in 2007, first releasing Faxing Berlin; known for the We Are Friends compilations, artists Rezz, i_o, and Skrillex, and its 2025 sale to Create Music Group for over $55 million.
Mauá, São Paulo
Mauá, São Paulo: municipality in the ABC Paulista subregion of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, 418,261 residents (2022 census), emancipated 1955, home of the Capuava petrochemical pole and once Brazil's porcelain capital.
Maubeuge
Maubeuge, commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, on the Sambre near Belgium; founded around Saint Aldegonde's 7th-century monastery, Vauban-fortified, ceded to France 1678, rebuilt by André Lurçat after 1940 destruction.
Mauchamp
Mauchamp: Roman military site at Juvincourt-et-Damary, Aisne, France, proposed as Caesar's 57 BC Battle of the Aisne camp; also a medieval Gué de Mauchamp site, a Savoy castle, and Émile Mauchamp.
Maud Bregeon
Maud Bregeon is a French politician serving as Government Spokesperson and Minister Delegate charged with Energy, defending the 2027 budget of 54 billion euros in savings.
Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne MacBride (1866–1953; one source says 1865), Irish nationalist activist and suffragist, founder of Inghinidhe na hÉireann (1900) and L'Irlande libre; wife of John MacBride and subject of Yeats's love poetry.
Maud Lewis
Maud Lewis (Maud Kathleen Dowley, 1901 or 1903–1970) was a Canadian folk artist of Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, who sold brightly colored small paintings of rural life for $2–10 from her one-room painted house, now displayed at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria, 1869–1938), daughter of Edward VII, married Prince Carl of Denmark in 1896 and became Queen of Norway 1905–1938 as consort of Haakon VII, first queen of independent Norway since 1380.
Maud Rise
Maud Rise, a large volcanic undersea plateau in the eastern Weddell Sea near 66°S 3°E, marked by a Taylor cap circulation, a warm-water Halo, and recurring open-ocean polynyas in the 1970s and 2016–2017.
Maud Slye
Maud Slye was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago whose breeding program of roughly 140,000 mice helped establish heredity as central to cancer research.
Maud van der Meer
Maud van der Meer (born 1992) is a retired Dutch freestyle swimmer who won world and European relay titles and set short-course world records at the 2014 Doha championships.
Mauda power station
Mauda power station is a 2,320 MW coal-fired power station operated by NTPC Limited at Mouda in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, India, and is NTPC's biggest power station in the state.
Maude (TV series)
Maude (1972–1978) was a CBS sitcom created by Norman Lear, spun off from All in the Family, starring Bea Arthur as liberal Maude Findlay of Tuckahoe, New York; famous for the first TV abortion episode, 141 episodes, and one Emmy win.
Maude Apatow
Maude Apatow (born 1997), American actress and director, daughter of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann; plays Lexi Howard on Euphoria and directed Poetic License (2025).
Maude Charron
Maude Charron, born in 1993 in Rimouski, Quebec, is a Canadian weightlifter who won 64kg gold at Tokyo 2020, 59kg silver at Paris 2024, and two Commonwealth Games titles.