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Mae Questel

Mae Questel (born Mae Kwestel, 1908–1998), American voice actress and character actress, voice of Betty Boop (1931–1939) and Olive Oyl in Popeye cartoons; later appeared in Funny Girl, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Christmas Vacation.

Mae Sa Elephant Camp

Mae Sa Elephant Camp (ปางช้างแม่สา) is an elephant camp and tourist attraction near Chiang Mai, Thailand, founded in 1976, which ended elephant riding and shows in 2020.

Mae West

Mae West (Mary Jane West, 1893–1980), American actress, playwright, and singer of vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood; jailed over her 1926 play Sex, starred in She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, and became the target whose films triggered strict Production Code enforcement in 1934.

Mae Whitman

Mae Whitman (Mae Margaret Whitman, born 1988) is an American actress and singer. Known for Ann Veal in Arrested Development, Amber Holt in Parenthood, Annie Marks in Good Girls, and voice roles as Katara, Tinker Bell, April O'Neil, and Amity Blight.

Mae Young

Mae Young (Johnnie Mae Young, 1923–2014), American professional wrestler from Sand Springs, Oklahoma; first NWA United States Women's Champion, trained Fabulous Moolah, wrestled in nine decades, 2008 WWE Hall of Famer.

Mae Young Classic

Mae Young Classic: WWE's 32-woman single-elimination women's wrestling tournament on WWE Network, held 2017 and 2018, named after Mae Young; winners Kairi Sane (2017) and Toni Storm (2018, final at WWE Evolution).

Mae Young Classic (2018)

Mae Young Classic 2018, WWE's second annual 32-woman single-elimination women's wrestling tournament on WWE Network; taped at Full Sail University, premiered Sept. 5, 2018, won by Toni Storm over Io Shirai at WWE Evolution.

Maebara Issei

Maebara Issei (前原一誠), born Sase Hachirō, was a Chōshū samurai who served as a Meiji councillor and vice-minister of military affairs, then led the 1876 Hagi Rebellion and was executed.

Maebaru-shi

Maebaru-shi (前原市) was a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, from 1992 to 2010, centered on the former Karatsu kaidō post town of Maebaru; it merged with Nijō and Shima towns on 1 January 2010 to form Itoshima City.

Maebashi

Maebashi (前橋市) is the prefectural capital of Gunma, Japan, on the Tone River below Mount Akagi. Incorporated 1892; core city 2009; population about 326,000; formerly called Mayabashi.

Maebashi Witches

Maebashi Witches (前橋ウィッチーズ) is a 2025 original Sunrise anime about five Gunma high school girls earning 30,000 magic points as wish-granting idol witch apprentices; 12 episodes, compilation film October 2026.

Maebul

Maebul (마애불) is a Korean term for a Buddhist image carved directly into a natural rock face or boulder; the best-known example is the Seosan Maae Samjonbul, celebrated as the "smile of Baekje."

Maeda Gen'i

Maeda Gen'i (前田玄以, 1539–1602) was a Japanese monk-turned-administrator who served the Oda and Toyotomi governments as Kyoto shoshidai, and ended his career as one of the Five Commissioners who governed the Toyotomi regime.

Maeda Toshiie

Maeda Toshiie (前田利家, 1538 or 1539 to 1599) was a Japanese daimyo who served Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, holding Noto, Kaga, and Etchū provinces.

Maeda Toshinaga

Maeda Toshinaga (前田利長, 1562–1614) was a Japanese daimyo and second lord of the Kaga Domain, the largest feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate, holding over 1.2 million koku.

Maeda Toshitsune

Maeda Toshitsune (前田利常, 1593 or 1594 – 1658) was the third lord of Kaga Domain, Japan's largest feudal domain, ruling from Kanazawa Castle from 1605 to 1639.

Maedi visna

Maedi visna (ovine progressive pneumonia), a persistent lentivirus infection of sheep caused by maedi-visna virus (MVV), a small ruminant lentivirus; Icelandic names for laboured breathing and wasting; no vaccine, no human susceptibility.

MAEK 3 power station

MAEK 3 power station, also known as TPP MAEK, is a gas-fired thermal power station in Aktau, Kazakhstan, with three units totaling about 625 MW.

Maekel Region

Maekel Region (ዞባ ማእከል, Central Region) is the smallest of Eritrea's six zobas, created 15 April 1996 from Hamasien province, capital Asmara, about 1,300 km², population 766,534, elevation about 2,343 m.

Maëlle

Maëlle, full name Maëlle Pistoia, is a French singer-songwriter born in 2001 in Tournus who won The Voice France in 2018 as its first female winner and has released three albums.

Maelle Ricker

Maëlle Ricker is a Canadian former snowboarder who won gold in women's snowboard cross at Vancouver 2010, the first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold on home soil.

Maelström (film)

Maelström (2000) is a Quebec French drama, Denis Villeneuve's second feature, narrated by a talking fish (Pierre Lebeau) about Bibiane Champagne (Marie-Josée Croze), who kills a fishmonger in a hit-and-run and falls in love with his son; it won 5 Genies and 9 Jutras.

Maen Castle

Maen Castle, also known as Mayon Castle, is an early Iron Age cliff castle on Mayon Cliff near Sennen in West Penwith, Cornwall, protected by a stone rampart and ditch.

Maenad

Maenads (μαινάδες), also called bacchants, were the female followers of Dionysus in Greek myth and religion, known for biennial winter mountain rites (oreibasia) with thyrsos, drums, and ecstatic dance, and for Euripides' Bacchae.

Maeng Sa-seong

Maeng Sa-seong (맹사성, 1360–1438) was a Korean civil official of the late Goryeo and early Joseon periods who rose to Left State Councillor under King Sejong.

Maeno Ryōtaku

Maeno Ryōtaku (前野良沢), 1723 to 1803, was a Japanese physician of the Nakatsu domain and a pioneer of Dutch studies who co-translated the Kaitai Shinsho.

Maerdang hydroelectric plant

Maerdang hydroelectric plant (玛尔挡水电站) is a 2.32-gigawatt hydroelectric station on the upper Yellow River in Qinghai, China, operated by CHN Energy and the highest-altitude station on the river.

Maersk

Maersk (A.P. Moller - Maersk) is a Danish container shipping and logistics company founded in 1904, controlled by the A.P. Moller Foundation and second only to MSC.

Maersk Alabama hijacking

The Maersk Alabama hijacking (April 8-12, 2009): Somali pirates boarded the U.S.-flagged container ship off Somalia, first U.S.-flag seizure since the 1820s; crew kept the ship, SEAL snipers rescued Captain Richard Phillips.

Maersk Line

Maersk Line, also known as Maersk Sealand or Mærsk Line, is the container shipping brand of Danish group A.P. Moller - Maersk, beginning liner service in 1928.