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Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Wilkes (1913–2010) was a British computer scientist who led the building of EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer, at Cambridge in 1949, and invented microprogramming.
Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), New Zealand-born British biophysicist at King's College London; shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Crick and Watson for X-ray diffraction studies revealing DNA's double-helix structure.
Maurice Wood
Maurice Wood (1922–2016) was a British-born physician and primary care researcher who founded NAPCRG and co-authored the 1976 Virginia Study at the Medical College of Virginia.
Maurice Yonge
Maurice Yonge, full name Charles Maurice Yonge, was an English marine zoologist (1899–1986) who led the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–29 and established bivalve functional morphology as a research field.
Maurice-Marie Janot
Maurice-Marie Janot (1903–1978) was a French pharmacist and chemist who held Paris's chair of galenic pharmacy from 1941 to 1974 and co-founded the Institut de chimie des substances naturelles.
Maurice, Prince of Orange
Maurice, Prince of Orange (Maurits van Nassau, 1567–1625), Dutch stadtholder of five provinces and captain-general who reformed the States Army with countermarch drill and mathematics-based siegecraft, won the 1590s reconquest, opposed the 1609 Twelve Years' Truce, and broke with Oldenbarnevelt, executed 1619.
Mauricie
Mauricie (region 04), Quebec administrative region on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence, created 1997 from Mauricie–Bois-Francs; 289,722 inhabitants (2025), main city Trois-Rivières; economy of forestry, manufacturing, and services.
Mauricio Futran
Mauricio Futran is a chemical engineer who led pharmaceutical process development at Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Mauricio Gómez Amín
Mauricio Gómez Amín is a Colombian lawyer and politician from Barranquilla, a former senator and representative for Atlántico named Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism in 2026.
Mauricio Hernández Ávila
Mauricio Hernández Ávila is a Mexican physician and epidemiologist who twice directed the National Institute of Public Health and led research on tobacco, lead exposure, and HPV vaccination.
Mauricio Isla
Mauricio Isla (Mauricio Aníbal Isla Isla, "El Huaso"), Chilean right back born 1988 in Buin; 144 caps, Copa América winner 2015 and 2016, Juventus and Flamengo titles; retired 7 September 2026 at 38.
Mauricio Kuri González
Mauricio Kuri González, born in 1969 in Orizaba, Veracruz, is a Mexican PAN politician who has served as Governor of Querétaro since 2021 and previously led Corregidora.
Mauricio L. Barreto
Mauricio L. Barreto is a Brazilian physician and epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia, known for work on the social determinants of infectious disease.
Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri, Argentine engineer, businessman, and politician, president of Boca Juniors 1995-2007, Buenos Aires mayor 2007-2015, and President of Argentina 2015-2019 as PRO-Cambiemos leader; defeated in 2019, later PRO president and 2023 Milei backer.
Maurício Matos Peixoto
Maurício Matos Peixoto (1921–2019) was a Brazilian mathematician known for Peixoto's Theorem, which showed structurally stable flows are generic on surfaces, and for co-founding IMPA.
Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann (born 1977), Mexican-American actor and producer, star of Telemundo's El Señor de los Cielos and El Chema and of Mexican box-office hits A la Mala, Hazlo Como Hombre, and Ya Veremos.
Mauricio Pellegrino
Mauricio Pellegrino (Mauricio Andrés Pellegrino Luna, born 1971, Córdoba) is an Argentine football manager and former central defender; Vélez and Valencia title winner, ex Southampton coach, now Lanús head coach and 2025 Sudamericana winner.
Mauricio Pochettino
Mauricio Pochettino, born 1972 in Murphy, Argentina, is a football manager and former defender; coached Espanyol, Southampton, Tottenham (2019 Champions League final), PSG, Chelsea, and since September 2024 the USMNT, extended through 2030.
Mauricio Rosencof
Mauricio Rosencof (born 1933) is a Uruguayan playwright and writer who was a founding leader of the Tupamaros and a political hostage from 1973 to 1985.
Maurício Rua
Maurício "Shogun" Rua (born 1981, Curitiba) is a Brazilian retired light heavyweight MMA fighter, 2005 PRIDE grand prix winner, former UFC champion, 2024 UFC Hall of Famer, now boxing Glover Teixeira.
Maurício Ruffy
Maurício Ruffy (Maurício de Lima Santos), Brazilian UFC lightweight born 1996, Fighting Nerds striker, 14-3 with 13 KOs; known for the King Green wheel-kick KO and 2026 Chandler win.
Mauricio Terrones
Mauricio Terrones is a Mexican physicist at Penn State known for research on carbon nanotubes and 2D materials, and head of its physics department since 2023.
Mauricio Umansky
Mauricio Umansky is a luxury real estate broker and television personality who founded The Agency in 2011, a global brokerage with over 165 offices in 15 countries.
Maurilio de Zolt
Maurilio de Zolt (De Zolt Lisabetta), called Grillo, Italian cross-country skier born 1950 in San Pietro di Cadore; 1994 Lillehammer relay gold, 50 km silvers 1988 and 1992, 1987 world 50 km champion.
Maurille J. Fournier
Maurille J. Fournier is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for defining the two major families of small nucleolar RNAs.
Mauritania (organization)
Mauritania (organization) refers to the Mauritanian National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSM), Mauritania's National Olympic Committee in Nouakchott, recognized by the IOC in 1980, led by President Abderrahmane Ethmane, distinct from the country itself and from the Mauritius Olympic Committee.
Mauritania (موريتانيا)
Mauritania (موريتانيا), the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a desert West African state, independent since 1960, capital Nouakchott, economy based on iron ore, gold, gas, and fisheries, and the last country to abolish slavery, in 1981.
Mauritania in the Western Sahara War
Mauritania in the Western Sahara War describes its role as a junior belligerent that took the southern part of Western Sahara under the 1975 Madrid Accords and withdrew in 1979.
Mauritania Railway
The Mauritania Railway is a 704 km heavy-haul railway carrying iron ore from the mines at Zouérate to the Atlantic port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania's only railway.
Mauritania–Senegal border conflict
The Mauritania–Senegal border conflict was an interstate crisis of 1989 to 1991 in which a dispute over grazing rights escalated into communal violence and mutual mass expulsions.