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Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (مهدی حمیدی شیرازی) was an Iranian poet, critic, and University of Tehran professor known for defending classical Persian verse against Nima Yooshij's modernist poetry.
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan, British-American political journalist and interviewer, host of Al Jazeera's UpFront and Head to Head and MSNBC's The Mehdi Hasan Show; author of Win Every Argument; founder of Zeteo.
Mehdi Hassan
Mehdi Hassan (مہدی حسن, 1927–2012), Pakistani ghazal singer titled Shahenshah-e-Ghazal by Ayub Khan in 1966; born in Luna, Rajasthan, trained by Azeem Khan, famous for "Gulon mein rang bhare" and honored with Hilal-e-Imtiaz.
Mehdi Hatamian
Mehdi Hatamian is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for integrated circuits for video and communications.
Mehdi Karroubi (مهدی کروبی)
Mehdi Karroubi (مهدی کروبی), born 1937, Iranian Shia cleric, two-term Majlis speaker, 2005 and 2009 presidential candidate, National Trust Party founder, Green Movement co-leader under house arrest 2011–2025.
Mehdi Moussaïd
Mehdi Moussaïd is a French cognitive scientist who studies crowd movement, social contagion, and collective intelligence, known for a model explaining how dense crowds develop stop-and-go waves and turbulence.
Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou, French actor born 1971 in Bayonne, brother of director Safy Nebbou; DFFB-trained, known for Munich, Body of Lies, English Vinglish, and as Adam Karadec in TF1's HPI.
Mehdi Saeed Hazari
Mehdi Saeed Hazari is an American research physiologist at the U.S. EPA who studies how inhaled pollutants like particulate matter trigger heart arrhythmia, winning a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Mehdi Taremi (مهدی طارمی)
Mehdi Taremi (مهدی طارمی), born 1992 in Bushehr, is an Iranian centre forward and Iran captain with 58 goals in 107 caps; starred for Persepolis and Porto (91 goals), then Inter Milan and Olympiacos, and played the 2018, 2022, and 2026 World Cups.
Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir
Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir (Mehdiqulu xan Cavanşir) was the last khan of the Karabakh Khanate, ruling 1806 to 1822, when he fled to Iran and the khanate became a Russian province.
Mehdy Metella
Mehdy Metella (born 1992 in Cayenne, French Guiana) is a retired French sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer who won silver in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Mehedinţi
Mehedinți (Județul Mehedinți), a Romanian county in South-West Oltenia on the Danube border with Serbia and Bulgaria; capital Drobeta-Turnu Severin; 4,933 km²; 226,429 residents in 2026, rank 39 of 42.
Mehen
Mehen, the ancient Egyptian "coiled one" serpent board game, played from Naqada II through the Old Kingdom on spiral snake boards with lion pieces and marbles; its rules are unknown.
Mehen Linea
Mehen Linea is a 1,500 km linea on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved in 2003, centered at 56.00°N, 236.70°W, named after a Neolithic stone row in Brittany, France.
Meher Baba (مهر بابا)
Meher Baba (مهر بابا), also known as Avatar Meher Baba, was an Indian spiritual master who observed complete silence from 1925 until his death in 1969.
Meher Kapı
Meher Kapı (Meher Kapısı) is an Urartian rock inscription near Van, Turkey, listing 79 gods, carved for King Išpuini and Minua in the 9th century BCE.
Mehgan James
Mehgan James, also known as The Texas Temptation, is an American reality TV personality and actress born 1990 in Houston, known for Bad Girls Club Season 9, Basketball Wives LA and Orlando, and The Hollywood Groupchat podcast.
Mehma Prakash
Mehma Prakash (ਮਹਿਮਾ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼), also spelled Mahima Prakash, is an 18th-century Punjabi verse hagiographic chronicle of the ten Sikh Gurus by Sarup Das Bhalla, completed in 1776.
Mehmed Bey of Aydin
Mehmed Bey of Aydin, also known as Aydinoghlu Mehmed Bey, was the founder and first bey of the Aydinid emirate in western Anatolia, ruling from 1308 until his death in 1334.
Mehmed Esad Efendi
Mehmed Esad Efendi (Ebûishakzâde Mehmed Es'ad Efendi) was an Ottoman scholar who served as Shaykh al-Islam, the empire's chief mufti, from 1748 to 1749 under Sultan Mahmud I.
Mehmed Esad Yesari
Mehmed Esad Yesari (Yesârî Mehmed Esad Efendi), who died in 1798, was an Ottoman calligrapher who gave the ta'lik script its Ottoman-Turkish identity and founded the Turkish ta'lik school.
Mehmed I
Mehmed I (Çelebi Mehmed, d. 1421), Ottoman sultan 1413–1421, fourth son of Bayezid I, who ended the Ottoman Interregnum by defeating his brothers, crushed the Bedreddin revolt of 1416, and restored the reunified state for Murad II.
Mehmed II (محمد الثانى)
Mehmed II (محمد الثانى), the Ottoman sultan called Fatih the Conqueror (1432-1481), captured Constantinople in 1453 after a 54-day siege and built the centralized Ottoman state through kanunname law codes, cadastral surveys, and a hierarchical bureaucracy.
Mehmed III
Mehmed III (III. Mehmed, 1566–1603), thirteenth Ottoman sultan (1595–1603), son of Murad III and Safiye Sultan; executed nineteen brothers at accession, led the 1596 Eger campaign and won Mezőkeresztes, and was the last sanjak-trained sultan.
Mehmed IV
Mehmed IV, Avcı (the Hunter), Ottoman sultan 1648–1687, born 1642, son of İbrahim and Turhan Sultan; reigned from Edirne under Köprülü viziers, reached western territorial peak at Kamaniçe 1672, lost Hungary after Vienna 1683, deposed 1687.
Mehmed Kâmil Efendi
Mehmed Kâmil Efendi, born in Istanbul in 1728, was an Ottoman ilmiye scholar who served as şeyhülislâm from February 1788 until his dismissal in August 1789.
Mehmed Nûri Efendi
Mehmed Nûri Efendi (1859–1927) was an Ottoman religious scholar who served as the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, holding the office from September 1920 until it disappeared with the empire in November 1922.
Mehmed Rauf
Mehmed Rauf (1875–1931) was an Ottoman and Turkish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist of the Servet-i Fünûn movement, best known for Eylül (1901), regarded as the first psychological novel in Turkish literature.
Mehmed Refik Efendi
Mehmed Refik Efendi was a Bosnian-born Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislâm, the empire's chief mufti, from 1866 until his dismissal in 1868 under Sultan Abdülaziz.
Mehmed Rushdi Pasha
Mehmed Rushdi Pasha (محمد رشدی پاشا) was an Ottoman statesman who served five times as grand vizier, helped depose Sultan Abdulaziz in 1876, and died in 1882.