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Madeline Zima
Madeline Zima, also known as Madeline Rose Zima, is an American actress. She is best known for playing Grace Sheffield on The Nanny (1993–99) and Mia Lewis on Californication.
Madelinette
Madelinette is a two-player blockade board game with three pieces each on a seven-point board; no capture, win by immobilizing the opponent. Probably invented by Jeff and Jennie Loader (1993), though retailers claim older origins.
Madelung deformity
Madelung deformity, also called Madelung's deformity, is a congenital wrist deformity from premature arrest of the volar-ulnar distal radial physis, marked by the Vickers ligament and linked to SHOX deficiency and Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis.
Madelyn Cline
Madelyn Cline (born 1997) is an American actress from South Carolina known as Sarah Cameron in Netflix's Outer Banks and for Glass Onion, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Map That Leads to You.
Madelyn Deutch
Madelyn Deutch (born 1991, Los Angeles) is an American actress, screenwriter, and composer, daughter of Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch and older sister of Zoey Deutch; she wrote, starred in, and scored The Year of Spectacular Men (2017).
Madelyn Dunham
Madelyn Dunham, born Madelyn Lee Payne, was an American bank executive who became one of the first female vice presidents of the Bank of Hawaii.
Madelyne Pryor
Madelyne Pryor, also the Goblin Queen and Red Queen, is a Marvel Comics X-Men character, a clone of Jean Grey created by Mister Sinister. Introduced in Uncanny X-Men #168 (1983), she married Cyclops, bore Cable, and turned villain in Inferno.
Mademoiselle K
Mademoiselle K is a French rock group led since 2006 by singer, guitarist, and bassist Katerine Gierak, whose gold-certified debut album Ça me vexe (2006) brought a wide French audience.
Mademoiselle Pogany
Mademoiselle Pogany is a portrait sculpture series by Constantin Brancusi depicting the Hungarian painter Margit Pogány, begun in 1912 and reworked over roughly twenty years in three marbles and bronze casts.
Madeon
Madeon (Hugo Pierre Leclercq, born 1994, Nantes) is a French electronic producer whose 2011 Launchpad mashup "Pop Culture" went viral; albums Adventure (2015), Grammy-nominated Good Faith (2019), and Victory (2026), plus Shelter with Porter Robinson.
Madera County
Madera County, California: Central Valley county created in 1893 from Fresno County, county seat Madera, population about 168,000 (2025 estimate), agricultural economy of almonds, grapes, and pistachios, gateway to Yosemite, with critically overdrafted groundwater subbasins.
Maderas del Carmen Biosphere Reserve
Maderas del Carmen Biosphere Reserve (APFF Maderas del Carmen), a 208,381-hectare UNESCO MAB reserve in Coahuila, Mexico, decreed in 1994, designated by UNESCO in 2006, protecting Sierra del Carmen desert-mountain ecosystems and a binational Big Bend corridor.
MADF domain
MADF domain (myb/SANT-like domain in Adf-1), also called Adf-1 Myb-like domain, is an ~80-amino-acid DNA-binding domain discovered in Drosophila Adf-1, homologous to MYB/SANT, often paired with a BESS domain, and found mainly in arthropod transcription factors.
Madfabulous
Madfabulous is a 2026 British historical comedy-drama directed by Celyn Jones, written by Lisa Baker, starring Callum Scott Howells as Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, with Ruby Stokes and Rupert Everett; premiered at BFI Flare, released 5 June 2026.
Madgaon Express
Madgaon Express is a 2024 Hindi comedy, Kunal Kemmu's directorial debut for Excel Entertainment, starring Divyenndu, Pratik Gandhi, and Avinash Tiwary as friends whose Goa trip derails; it earned about ₹50 crore worldwide.
Madge Blake
Madge Elizabeth Blake (1899–1969), American character actress born in Kinsley, Kansas; played Aunt Harriet Cooper in 96 episodes of ABC's Batman, Margaret Mondello on Leave It to Beaver, and Flora MacMichael on The Real McCoys.
Madge Clifford
Madge Clifford, born Margaret Mary Clifford, was a Kerry member of Cumann na mBan who ran guns for the IRA during Ireland's War of Independence.
Madge Harvey
Madge Harvey (Madge Delilah Harvey, née Barron) is the chain-smoking, mobility-scooter-riding Scottish grandmother in ITV's sitcom Benidorm, played by Sheila Reid from 2007 to 2016, mother of Janice Garvey and wife of Mel Harvey.
Madge Macklin
Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893–1962) was an American-born physician and geneticist who helped establish medical genetics and led the American Society of Human Genetics in 1959.
Madge Sinclair
Madge Sinclair (Madge Dorita Walters, 1938–1995), Jamaican-born actress known as Belle in Roots, nurse Ernestine Shoop on Trapper John, M.D., Queen Aoleon in Coming to America, and the voice of Sarabi in The Lion King; won the 1991 Emmy for Gabriel's Fire.
Madge Syers
Madge Syers (Florence Madeleine Syers, née Cave, 1881-1917), British figure skater; first woman at the 1902 World Championships (silver behind Salchow), first ladies' world champion 1906-1907, and 1908 Olympic women's singles gold and pairs bronze medalist.
Madgwick filter
The Madgwick filter is an orientation estimation algorithm, proposed by Sebastian Madgwick at the University of Bristol in 2010, that fuses gyroscope and accelerometer data into a quaternion.
Madha
Madha (مدحاء) is an Omani wilayat of Musandam Governorate, an exclave fully surrounded by the UAE emirates of Sharjah, Fujairah and Ras al-Khaimah, containing the Sharjah counter-enclave of Nahwa; population 4,492 (2020).
Madha Gaja Raja
Madha Gaja Raja (மத கஜ ராஜா), aka MGR, is a 2025 Tamil action comedy directed by Sundar C, starring Vishal, Anjali, Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, and Santhanam. Completed in 2013, delayed 12 years by financial troubles, it released 12 January 2025 for Pongal and grossed about ₹62.50 crore worldwide.
Madhampatty Rangaraj
Madhampatty Rangaraj, also known as Rangaraj Thangavelu, is a caterer and actor. He grew his business to serve 600 weddings annually and debuted in Mehandi Circus in 2019.
Madhan Karky (மதன் கார்க்கி வைரமுத்து)
Madhan Karky (மதன் கார்க்கி வைரமுத்து), born 1980 in Chennai, is a Tamil film lyricist, dialogue writer, and computer scientist, son of Vairamuthu, creator of "lyric engineering", Kiliki, and KaReFo.
Madhar Badhurudeen
Madhar Badhurudeen (மாதார் பதூருதீன்), TVK politician and meat-shop trader, elected MLA for Madurai Central (AC 193) in the 2026 Tamil Nadu election, defeating DMK's Palanivel Thiaga Rajan by 19,128 votes with 63,414 votes.
Madharaasi (மதராசி)
Madharaasi (மதராசி), also spelled Madharasi, is a 2025 Tamil psychological action thriller by A.R. Murugadoss starring Sivakarthikeyan, Rukmini Vasanth, Vidyut Jammwal, and Biju Menon; released 5 September 2025, streaming on Prime Video, about an NIA officer and a delusional man fighting gun smugglers.
Madhav Gadgil
Madhav Gadgil (1942–2026) was an Indian ecologist who founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences at IISc Bangalore and chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, known as the Gadgil Commission.
Madhav Prasad Ghimire
Madhav Prasad Ghimire (माधव प्रसाद घिमिरे; 1919–2020) was a Nepali poet and playwright named National Poet, Rashtra Kavi, in 2003, best known for Gauri and Malati Mangale.