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Mazen AlDarrab

Mazen AlDarrab is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded Zid, the Riyadh-based e-commerce enablement platform, in 2017, led its commercial growth, and became its chief executive officer in July 2025.

Mazen Noureddin

Mazen Noureddin is a hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital since 2022 who founded Cedars-Sinai's Fatty Liver Program and led 2025 efruxifermin trials in MASH cirrhosis.

Mazepa

Mazepa is a five-act verse tragedy by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris in 1839 and first staged in Budapest in 1847.

Mazepa's defection

Mazepa's defection (Перехід Мазепи на бік шведів) was hetman Ivan Mazepa's 1708 decision to abandon Peter I of Russia and join Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.

Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 CBS TV movie, Tom Hanks's first lead role, adapted from Rona Jaffe's novel about a D&D-style game causing a psychotic break, born of the Egbert case and Satanic Panic.

Mazetul

Mazetul, also spelled Mezetulus, was a Numidian aristocrat who killed the heir Capussa and ruled the Massylii through the boy-king Lacumaces during the Second Punic War.

Mazey Day (Black Mirror)

Mazey Day is the fourth episode of Black Mirror season 6, written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Uta Briesewitz. Set circa 2006, it follows paparazzo Bo (Zazie Beetz) hunting starlet Mazey Day (Clara Rugaard), whose hit-and-run reveal turns the story into a werewolf horror.

Mazhaertai

Mazhaertai (马札儿台) was a Yuan dynasty statesman who served as Grand Preceptor and Right Chancellor of the Secretariat, brother of Bo Yan and father of the chancellor Tuo Tuo.

Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan (மழை பிடிக்காத மானிதன்)

Mazhai Pidikkatha Manithan (மழை பிடிக்காத மனிதன்), also called Toofan or Salim 2, is a 2024 Tamil action thriller by Vijay Milton starring Vijay Antony as agent Salim hiding in the Andaman Islands; released 2 August 2024, U/A, 2h 13m, poorly reviewed.

Mazhar Adli

Mazhar Adli is a molecular biologist and cancer epigeneticist who directs the Center for Genome Engineering at Northwestern University and is known for CRISPR-STOP, a gene-silencing method that disables genes without cutting DNA.

Mazhar Khan (actor, born 1955)

Mazhar Khan was an Indian actor, producer, and director in Hindi cinema, best remembered as Abdul in Shaan (1980) and as Roshanlal in the television serial Buniyaad (1987).

Mazhathorum Munpe

Mazhathorum Munpe (മഴ തോരും മുൻപേ), also Mazha Thorum Munpe, is a Malayalam Asianet soap opera premiering 7 July 2025, adapted by writer Joycee from his own 242-issue novel, starring Nikitha Rajesh as Aleena and Kishore Peethambaran as Balachandran.

Mazhavil Manorama

Mazhavil Manorama is a Malayalam-language general entertainment channel owned by the Malayala Manorama group through its MMTV division, launched on 31 October 2011 and known for the Indian Voice music franchise.

Mazher Mahmood

Mazher Mahmood, the "Fake Sheikh", is a British undercover tabloid journalist of the News of the World and Sunday Times whose sheikh disguises and stings produced claimed convictions, collapsed trials, and his own 2016 conviction for perverting the course of justice.

Mazi

Mazi (Greek plain, Oinoi village, Mazi Tower) is a valley in northwest Attica on the Eleusis-Thebes route, with a 4th-century BC 14 m guard tower, the Velatouri watchtower with an internal spring-fed cistern, and the fortified deme of Oinoe, surveyed 2014-2017 by the Mazi Archaeological Project.

Maziar Divangahi

Maziar Divangahi is a Canadian pulmonary immunologist and McGill University professor whose work on trained innate immunity identified hematopoietic stem cells as targets for vaccines against tuberculosis and influenza.

Maziar Mike Doustdar (مازیار دوستدار)

Maziar Mike Doustdar (مازیار دوستدار) is an Iranian-born Austrian business executive who became president and CEO of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk in August 2025.

Mazie Hirono

Mazie Hirono is an American politician serving as the junior US Senator from Hawaii since 2013, the first Asian-American woman, first Senator born in Japan, and first Buddhist in the Senate.

Mazières Gallo-Roman villa

Mazières Gallo-Roman villa (les Mazières, Gourdon-Murat, Corrèze): a 1st-3rd century AD rural estate on the Plateau de Millevaches with a 65 x 60 m villa, circular funerary monument, tile kiln, and 2.5-hectare pond.

Mazikeen

Mazikeen, also called Maze, is a DC Vertigo demon created by Neil Gaiman and Kelley Jones, debuting in The Sandman Vol. 2 #22 (1991). Daughter of Lilith, half-faced, Lucifer's consort and Lilim war leader, later Queen of Hell and TV character played by Lesley-Ann Brandt.

Mazindol

Mazindol (Sanorex, Mazanor) is a non-amphetamine tetracyclic anorectic developed by Sandoz, FDA-approved for obesity in 1973 and withdrawn from US/EU markets in 1999; still approved in Mexico, Argentina, and Japan, and repurposed for narcolepsy, ADHD, and idiopathic hypersomnia.

Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ)

Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ) is a 1972 super robot manga and anime by Go Nagai: 92 Toei TV episodes on Fuji TV (1972–1974), pilot Koji Kabuto, Dr. Hell, 30%+ ratings, 1974 Chogokin toy, 2018 film Infinity.

Mazinho

Mazinho (Iomar do Nascimento, born 1966, Santa Rita-PB), Brazilian midfielder, 1994 World Cup winner with Brazil after displacing Raí, Copa América 1989 champion, Vasco, Palmeiras, Valencia, Celta; father of Thiago and Rafinha Alcântara.

Mazisi Kunene

Mazisi Kunene (1930–2006) was a South African poet who wrote in Zulu, best known for the epic Emperor Shaka the Great and named South Africa's first poet laureate in 2005.

Mazmoon

Mazmoon (مضمون) is the Urdu term for the essay, a non-fiction prose genre equivalent to the English essay, begun in 1845 with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as its founder.

Mazong Mountain

Mazong Mountain (马鬃山, Horse Mane Mountain) is a 2,584 m peak and range in Subei County, Jiuquan, Gansu, in the Beishan highlands of the western Gobi on the China-Mongolia border, home to Mazongshan town, Gansu's only border port, opened 1992 and closed since 1993.

Mazor X

Mazor X is a robotic guidance system for spine surgery developed by Mazor Robotics of Caesarea, Israel, unveiled in 2016 and acquired with its maker by Medtronic in 2018.

Mazovia (computer)

Mazovia 1016 was a Polish personal computer, an IBM PC-compatible clone produced from 1986 by Mikrokomputery; only a few thousand units were sold before it lost to cheaper Western imports.

Mazowsze (folk group)

Mazowsze (Państwowy Zespół Ludowy Pieśni i Tańca „Mazowsze") is Poland's first state folk song and dance ensemble, founded 8 November 1948 by Tadeusz Sygietyński and Mira Zimińska-Sygietyńska, based at Karolin, Otrębusy, touring over fifty countries.

Mazrui dynasty of Mombasa

The Mazrui dynasty governed the East African coastal city of Mombasa, ruling independently from 1741 with Fort Jesus as its headquarters, until Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan of Zanzibar suppressed it in 1837.