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Mayumi Aoki
Mayumi Aoki (青木まゆみ), born 1953 in Yamaga, Kumamoto, is a Japanese swimmer who won the 1972 Munich Olympic 100 m butterfly gold in world record 1:03.34, held the record twice in 1972, and took 1973 world bronze.
Mayumi Ito
Mayumi Ito is a Japanese-born cell biologist and dermatology researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for showing new hair follicles can form in adult wounds.
Mayur Madhvani
Mayur Madhvani is a Ugandan industrialist and Joint Managing Director of the Madhvani Group, the family conglomerate centered on Kakira Sugar Works in Jinja, Uganda.
Mayura
Mayura (मयूर), also called Mayurabhatta, was a seventh-century Sanskrit poet attached to the court of Emperor Harsha of northern India, known for his hymn to the sun-god Surya, the Suryasataka.
Mayura Sandesham
Mayura Sandesham (മയൂരസന്ദേശം), also spelled Mayoorasandesham, is a Malayalam messenger poem by Kerala Varma, who sends a peacock from Haripad with his message of love and separation to his wife in Thiruvananthapuram.
Mayurasharma's campaign against the Pallavas
Mayurasharma's campaign against the Pallavas (ಮಯೂರಶರ್ಮನ ಪಲ್ಲವ ಆಕ್ರಮಣ) was the fourth-century armed rising by which the Brahmin scholar Mayurasharma overthrew Pallava control in northern Karnataka and founded the Kadamba kingdom, based at Banavasi, around 345 CE.
Mayuri (మయూరి)
Mayuri (మయూరి, Mayoori) is a 1984 Telugu biographical film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, produced by Ramoji Rao, starring dancer Sudha Chandran as herself after her 1981 accident and Jaipur-foot comeback.
Mayville Engineering Company
Mayville Engineering Company is an American contract manufacturer founded in 1945 in Mayville, Wisconsin, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker MEC.
Maywand District murders
Maywand District murders, also called the Kill Team killings: 2010 staged killings of at least three unarmed Afghan civilians by U.S. soldiers of the 5th Stryker Brigade at FOB Ramrod, Kandahar; Calvin Gibbs convicted on 15 counts and sentenced to life in prison.
Mayya Petrova
Mayya Petrova (Майя Андреевна Петрова, née Kaverina), born 1982 in Volgograd, Russian handball line player; Olympic gold 2016 with Russia, world champion 2009, long-serving Rostov-Don player.
Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil
Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil ("On the Banks of the Mayyazhi River") is a 1974 Malayalam novel by M. Mukundan about the freedom struggle of Mayyazhi (Mahe), a French-ruled enclave on the Kerala coast.
Maz Jobrani (مازیار جبرانی)
Maz Jobrani, also known as Maziyar Jobrani, is an Iranian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for his solo specials and challenging stereotypes about Middle Eastern culture.
Maz Kanata
Maz Kanata is a Star Wars sequel trilogy character: a thousand-year-old alien pirate and castle proprietor on Takodana, played by Lupita Nyong'o via performance capture, who gives Rey Luke's lightsaber and advises Leia's Resistance.
Maza-park
MazaPark (МазаПарк) is a Russian indoor amusement park chain founded in 2013 in St. Petersburg, with a Kazan location, known for its single-ticket unlimited-access model, bowling, karting, laser tag, and rollerdrome.
Mazabraud syndrome
Mazabraud syndrome, also called myxoma with fibrous dysplasia, is a rare GNAS-related disorder combining fibrous dysplasia of bone with intramuscular myxomas, usually polyostotic, adult-onset, prevalence under 1 in 1,000,000.
Mazaces
Mazaces, also written Mazakes, was the last Achaemenid satrap of Egypt under Darius III, defeating Amyntas's Greek troops before surrendering Egypt to Alexander in 332 BC.
Mazaeus
Mazaeus (مزایوس) was a Persian nobleman who served as satrap of Cilicia, then Syria and Mesopotamia, commanded the Persian right wing at Gaugamela in 331 BC, and surrendered Babylon to Alexander the Great.
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders is an Indian state-owned shipyard in Mumbai that builds warships and submarines for the Indian Navy, tracing its origins to a dry dock built in 1774.
Mazaka
Mazaka (మజాకా) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina, starring Sundeep Kishan, Ritu Varma, Rao Ramesh, and Anshu. Released 26 February 2025, it earned ₹11.66 crore worldwide and mixed reviews.
Mazaki Jinzaburo
Mazaki Jinzaburo (真崎甚三郎, 1876–1956) was a Japanese army general who co-led the Imperial Way faction and was tried and acquitted over the February 26 Incident of 1936.
Mazalim jurisdiction in al-Andalus
Mazalim jurisdiction in al-Andalus (مظالم) was the Islamic grievance jurisdiction adjudicating complaints of injustice, held by caliphs and delegates in scheduled sessions, letting subjects complain against unjust officials.
Mazamin
Mazamin (مضامین) is the Urdu term for essays or collected essays, essay writing being a foundational branch of Urdu literature; it also names essay collections like Mazamin-e-Aabid.
Mazandaran (district)
Mazandaran (استان مازندران), a province of northern Iran on the southern Caspian shore, capital Sari, 22 counties, about 3.4 million people; Iran's leading rice producer with ports at Amirabad, Nowshahr, and Fereydunkenar.
Māzandarān (region)
Māzandarān (Mazandaran, formerly Tabaristan) is a Caspian coastal region of northern Iran between the Alborz mountains and the sea, long ruled by local dynasties, home to the Mazandarani language, and economically prosperous.
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مازندران, MazUMS) is a public medical university in Sari, Iran, rooted in a 1975 midwifery school, with medical instruction from 1988, seven faculties, teaching hospitals including 328-bed Imam Khomeini Hospital, and an English-language MBBS begun in 2020.
Mazar-e-Quaid
Mazar-e-Quaid (Jinnah Mausoleum, National Mausoleum) is the Karachi tomb of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, designed by Yahya Merchant, built 1960-1970, inaugurated 15 January 1971, managed by QMMB on a 131.71-acre site.
Mazar-i-Sharif (مزار شریف)
Mazar-i-Sharif (مزار شریف), "the noble tomb," is the largest city of northern Afghanistan and capital of Balkh Province, built around the shrine of Caliph Ali, first revealed in 1135-36, rebuilt 1480-81, and now a major industrial and railway hub.
Mazarrón ships
The Mazarrón ships, also called Mazarrón I and II, are two Phoenician cargo vessels wrecked at Mazarrón, Murcia, Spain, in the late 7th century BC.
Mazatlán
Mazatlán, the "Perla del Pacífico," is a Pacific-coast city and municipality in southern Sinaloa, Mexico: a beach resort, cruise and commercial port, and seafood exporter with 501,441 residents (2020) and over 2.57 million tourists in early 2026.
Mazda (マツダ株式会社)
Mazda, also known as Mazda Motor Corporation and formerly Toyo Kogyo, is a Japanese automaker founded in Hiroshima in 1920, known for the rotary engine and its 1991 Le Mans win.