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Mavy Legaspi

Mavy Legaspi (Maverick Peter Villarroel Legaspi, born 2001, Los Angeles) is a Filipino actor and host, son of Zoren Legaspi and Carmina Villarroel, twin of Cassy; GMA/Sparkle talent known for I Left My Heart in Sorsogon, Luv Is, Stolen Bonds, and hosting PBB Celebrity Collab Edition.

Mawaan Rizwan

Mawaan Rizwan (born 1992, Lahore) is a British actor, writer, and comedian, creator and star of BBC Three's Juice, BAFTA TV Award winner 2024, brother of Nabhaan Rizwan, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

Mawan power station

Mawan power station (深圳能源妈湾电厂) is a coal- and gas-fired power station in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China, built between 1993 and 2003 and now being replaced with gas and ultra-supercritical coal units.

Mawangdui lacquered coffins

The Mawangdui lacquered coffins (马王堆漆棺) are nested painted burial coffins from three Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, excavated 1972 to 1974, most famously the four enclosing Lady Dai.

Mawangdui silk banner

The Mawangdui silk banner (T形帛画, T-shaped silk painting) is a painted silk funerary banner from the Western Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, discovered in 1972.

Mawangdui silk paintings

Mawangdui silk paintings (马王堆帛画) are Han dynasty paintings on silk excavated between 1972 and 1974 from tombs at Changsha, Hunan, China, including two T-shaped coffin banners.

Mawangdui Topographic Map

The Mawangdui Topographic Map (地形图) is an ink-on-silk map of southern Han Dynasty Changsha, drawn before 168 B.C. and excavated in 1973 from Tomb 3 at Mawangdui, Changsha.

Mawaqif

Mawaqif (مواقف, "Positions") was an Arabic literary and cultural journal founded in Beirut in 1968 by the Syrian poet Adonis and published until 1994, becoming a leading forum of the Arab New Left.

Mawar Eva de Jongh

Mawar Eva de Jongh is an Indonesian actress, born in the Netherlands in 2001, who won two Indonesian Movie Actors Awards for Miracle in Cell No. 7.

Mawdud

Mawdud (مودود بن التنتش) was a Turkic military commander who served the Seljuk sultan and ruled Mosul as atabeg from 1109 to 1113, leading campaigns against the Crusader states before being assassinated in Damascus in 1113.

Mawdud of Mosul

Mawdud of Mosul (مودود بن التونتكين), honorifically Sharaf al-Dawla, was a Turkic Seljuk atabeg of Mosul from 1108 to 1113 who led annual campaigns against the crusader states.

Mawgun

Mawgun (မော်ကွန်း) is a genre of Burmese poetry recording royal deeds and notable events in verse. Its first example, by Shin Thwe Nyo, dates from 1472.

MaWhoo

MaWhoo (Thandeka Nontobeko Ngema, born 1994, Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African amapiano vocalist-songwriter; Gold single "Kulula", 15-million-stream EP The Sound of Magic, 2025 Spotify EQUAL Africa Ambassador.

Mawi

Mawi (Asmawi bin Ani, born 1981 in Kulai, Johor) is a Malaysian singer who won Akademi Fantasia season 3 in 2005, triggering the nationwide Mawi World phenomenon.

Mawile

Mawile (クチート, Kucheat), #303, the Deceiver Pokémon, a Steel/Fairy species introduced in Generation III. Its Mega Evolution via Mawilite gains Huge Power, doubling Attack; Mawilite was banned from Smogon OU in 2014.

Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi

Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi, real name Abdullah Orakzai, was a Pakistani ex-Lashkar-e-Taiba commander who led Islamic State Khorasan Province from 2019 until his April 2020 arrest in Kandahar by Afghan intelligence; reportedly killed in January 2022.

Mawlay Abdallah

Mawlay Abdallah (المولى عبد الله) was a sultan of Morocco of the Alaouite dynasty, a son of Mawlay Ismail who held the throne intermittently between 1729 and 1757.

Mawlay Sulayman

Mawlay Sulayman (مولاي سليمان) was an Alaouite sultan of Morocco who reigned from 1792 to 1822, proclaimed in Fes after his brother Yazid's death and succeeded by his nephew Abd al-Rahman.

Mawlid (مولد)

Mawlid, also called Milad al-Nabi, is the annual Muslim commemoration of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, kept on 12 Rabi' al-Awwal and a holiday in most Muslim-majority countries.

Mawra Hocane

Mawra Hocane (ماورہ حسین), born Mawra Hussain, is a Pakistani actress known for Urdu dramas like Sabaat, Neem, and Jafaa, her 2016 Bollywood debut Sanam Teri Kasam, and her invented surname spelling.

Mawrth Vallis

Mawrth Vallis is a large ancient outflow channel on Mars in northwest Arabia Terra, exposing some of the planet's most extensive clay-mineral deposits and cutting some of its oldest terrain.

Mawryngkneng Solitaire Game

Mawryngkneng Solitaire Game: an unnamed traditional solitaire board game from Mawryngkneng, Meghalaya, India, documented by Charu Chandra Das Gupta in 1935; six pieces on a cross-lined board swap starting positions by steps and jumps.

Mawson Coast

Mawson Coast, part of Mac.Robertson Land in East Antarctica between 60°E and Murray Monolith (66°53'E), discovered on the 1929-30 BANZARE voyage and named for Sir Douglas Mawson; home to Mawson station since 1954.

Mawson Peninsula

Mawson Peninsula, George V Land, East Antarctica: a narrow peninsula over 57 km long rising to about 457 m, named after Sir Douglas Mawson, approved 1959; distinct from Mawson research station.

Mawsynram

Mawsynram is a village in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya in north-eastern India, known as the wettest place on Earth with an average annual rainfall of 11,872 mm.

Mawu Corona

Mawu Corona, a 295 km corona on Venus at 31.7N, 241.3E, named for a Fon goddess and IAU-approved in 1991; one of 740 cataloged plume-related volcano-tectonic features.

Mawwal

Mawwal (موال) is an improvised, non-metric solo vocal genre of Arab music, sung in colloquial Arabic, that traditionally opens a song and is especially prominent in Gulf ṣawt music.

Max (2015 film)

Max is a 2015 American family adventure film directed by Boaz Yakin, about a traumatized military dog in Texas whose bond with his handler's brother leads them to investigate the handler's death.

Max (2024 film)

Max (ಮ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್) is a 2024 Kannada action thriller, Vijay Karthikeyaa's directorial debut, starring Sudeep as Inspector Arjun Mahakshay; released 25 December 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from 15 February 2025.

Max (app)

Max is a Russian national messaging and digital services platform developed by VK, launched in March 2025 and mandatory for pre-installation on devices sold in Russia since September 2025.