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Mehrangarh (मेहरानगढ़)
Mehrangarh Fort (मेहरानगढ़), the Jodhpur fort, is a hill fort in Rajasthan, India, founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha and one of the largest forts in the state.
Mehrdad Bahar
Mehrdad Bahar (مهرداد بهار) was an Iranian literary scholar and mythologist, son of the poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, known for Pajuheshi dar Asatir-e Iran and editions of Middle Persian texts.
Mehrdad Jazayeri
Mehrdad Jazayeri is a systems neuroscientist at MIT who studies how the brain keeps time and makes decisions; he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 2024.
Mehreen Pirzada
Mehreen Kaur Pirzada, Indian actress born 1995 in Bathinda, Punjab; works in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and Punjabi cinema. Debuted with Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha (2016); known for F2, Sultan of Delhi; married Arsh Aulakh in 2026.
Mehrgarh
Mehrgarh (مہرگڑھ) is a Neolithic-Chalcolithic tell site in the Kachi plain, Balochistan, Pakistan, excavated by the French mission under Jarrige; it holds South Asia's earliest farming evidence, now redated to about 5223-4914 BC.
Mehriban Aliyeva
Mehriban Aliyeva (Mehriban Əliyeva), born 1964 in Baku, Azerbaijani physician and politician, wife of President Ilham Aliyev, First Vice-President of Azerbaijan since February 2017 and president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
Mehta Group
The Mehta Group, also known as the Mehta Group of Companies, is a family-owned multinational conglomerate founded by Nanji Kalidas Mehta and anchored in Uganda.
Mehtab Kaur (ਮਹਿਤਾਬ ਕੌਰ)
Maharani Mehtab Kaur (ਮਹਿਤਾਬ ਕੌਰ), c. 1782–1813, first wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, daughter of Sada Kaur of the Kanhaiya misl; her marriage united the Sukerchakia and Kanhaiya misls, distinct from the later Rajmata Mehtab Kaur of Patiala.
Mehtab Sangma
Mehtab Chandee Agitok Sangma, an Indian politician and NPP MLA from Gambegre (ST), West Garo Hills, Meghalaya; wife of Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma; won the November 2024 bye-election by 4,594 votes; MBBS doctor.
Mehter
Mehter is the Ottoman military band tradition of the Janissary corps, known in the West as Janissary music, abolished in 1826 and revived in the 20th century.
Mehu (vizier)
Mehu was a chief justice and vizier of Egypt in the early 6th Dynasty, serving under Teti and probably Pepi I, known from his richly decorated mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Mehul Choksi (मेहुल चोकसी)
Mehul Choksi (मेहुल चोकसी), fugitive diamantaire and former Gitanjali Gems managing director, accused with nephew Nirav Modi in the $1.8 billion Punjab National Bank fraud; fled India in 2018, holds Antiguan citizenship, arrested in Antwerp in 2025.
Mehwish Hayat (مہوش حیات)
Mehwish Hayat (مہوش حیات), Pakistani film and TV actress, model, and singer; star of Punjab Nahi Jaungi and Load Wedding; Tamgha-i-Imtiaz 2019; Ms. Marvel actress.
Mehytenweskhet
Mehytenweskhet, also known as Mehet-en-usekhet, was a queen of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, wife of Pharaoh Psamtik I and mother of his successor Necho II and of Nitocris I, God's Wife of Amun.
Mei Hachimoku (八目迷)
Mei Hachimoku (八目迷), Japanese light novelist born 1994, debut The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (Gagaga Bunko, 2019), adapted into a 2022 CLAP anime film; works published by Shogakukan, Seven Seas, Yen Press.
Mei Hong
Mei Hong is an American biophysical chemist and MIT professor who uses solid-state NMR spectroscopy to study membrane proteins, including the influenza M2 proton channel and tau fibrils.
Mei Lanfang
Mei Lanfang (梅兰芳, 1894–1961) was a Peking opera performer who specialized in female roles, ranked among the Four Great Dan, toured the United States and Soviet Union, and refused to perform during the Japanese occupation.
Mei Lin Neo
Mei Lin Neo is a Singaporean marine ecologist and science communicator known for research on giant clams, based at Singapore's St John's Island National Marine Laboratory since 2006.
Mei Mei the Bunny
Mei Mei the Bunny, Laufey's 2026 picture-book debut (illustrated by Lauren O'Hara, Penguin Workshop), follows a violinist bunny overcoming stage fright and a wrong note at her first H'Opera House recital; an instant New York Times bestseller based on Laufey's plush mascot.
Mei Qing
Mei Qing (梅清, 1623 or 1624–1697) was a Chinese landscape painter and poet of the early Qing dynasty, celebrated as a leading master of the Huangshan School.
Mei Semones
Mei Semones (メイ・シモネス), born 2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a Brooklyn-based Japanese American guitarist and singer-songwriter blending jazz, bossa nova, and indie pop with bilingual English-Japanese lyrics; albums Animaru (2025, Bayonet) and Howl (2027, Verve/Interscope).
Mei Sheng
Mei Sheng (枚乘) was a Han-dynasty poet and prose writer from Huaiyin, best known for Seven Stimuli, the work that marks the Han fu taking shape.
MEI WEI DENTAL (美维口腔医疗集团) (美维口腔)
Mei Wei Dental (美维口腔医疗集团) is a Chinese dental clinic platform founded in Shanghai in 2016, which acquires and manages regional dental chains, reaching nearly 200 clinics by 2021.
Mei Wending
Mei Wending (梅文鼎) was a Chinese mathematician and astronomer of the early Qing dynasty who wrote more than eighty works and was honored by Emperor Kangxi in 1705.
Mei Yaochen
Mei Yaochen (梅尧臣), courtesy name Shengyu, was a Song dynasty poet and official from Xuancheng who lived from 1002 to 1060 and is remembered as a founder of Song poetry.
Mei Zengliang
Mei Zengliang (梅曾亮, 1786–1856), courtesy name Boyan, was a Chinese classical prose writer of the Tongcheng school and the leading proponent of ancient prose in Beijing during the Daoguang reign.
Mei Zhen
Mei Zhen is a Canadian neurobiologist at Sinai Health's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the University of Toronto, known for mapping the C. elegans brain across development.
Meiacarire/*Aquae Frigidae
Meiacarire, Latinized as Aquae Frigidae ("cold waters"), is an ancient road station in Mesopotamia, northwest of Singara and east of Nisibis, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana.
Meibography
Meibography is an infrared imaging technique that photographs the meibomian glands inside the everted eyelids to detect gland loss in meibomian gland dysfunction and dry eye.
Meiboia Tholus
Meiboia Tholus is an 85-km-wide tholus, a small domical volcanic hill, on Venus at 44.7S, 281.3E, named for the Greek bee goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.