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Melike Lakadamyali
Melike Lakadamyali is a biophysicist and microscopist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine who develops super-resolution microscopy to study chromatin and organelle transport.
Melikgazi
Melikgazi (Melikgazi ilçesi), central district of Kayseri, Turkey, created 1988 by Law 3508; population 593,262 (2025), largest of 16 districts; includes Mount Erciyes and Kayseri Organized Industrial Zone.
Melilla
Melilla, Spanish autonomous city on the north Moroccan coast, taken by Castile in 1497, autonomous since the 1995 statute, population about 87,000, EU's only African land border, disputed by Morocco.
Melilotus
Melilotus (sweet-clover, melilot) is a Fabaceae genus of fragrant annual and biennial herbs, 23 accepted species native from temperate Eurasia to South Africa, used as forage and cover crops, source of the anticoagulant dicoumarol, and invasive in North American grasslands.
Melilotus albus
Melilotus albus (white sweet-clover, Bokhara-clover), Fabaceae biennial legume native from Europe to China and N. Africa; grown for forage, honey, and green manure; coumarin-bearing, salt- and drought-relevant, invasive in North America.
Melilotus officinalis
Melilotus officinalis, yellow sweetclover or ribbed melilot, a Eurasian biennial Fabaceae legume introduced as forage, nitrogen-fixing and invasive in North America; moldy hay yields toxic dicoumarol.
Melimoyu
Melimoyu: ice-capped Chilean stratovolcano (2,400 m, 44.08°S 72.88°W) in the southern Andean Southern Volcanic Zone near Puyuhuapi, with an 8-km buried caldera, no historic eruptions, two VEI 5 Holocene eruptions, and 2010 seismic unrest.
Melina Kanakaredes
Melina Kanakaredes (Μελίνα Κανακαρίδη), American actress born 1967 in Akron, Ohio; starred as Dr. Sydney Hansen on Providence and Detective Stella Bonasera on CSI: NY, with Broadway, film, and Greek-heritage advocacy work.
Melina Matsoukas
Melina Matsoukas is an American director and executive producer who has directed for Beyoncé and Rihanna. She made her feature film debut with Queen & Slim in 2019.
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri (Μελίνα Μερκούρη), 1920-1994, Greek actress and politician, star of Never on Sunday (Cannes Best Actress 1960), PASOK MP for Piraeus, and Greece's Minister of Culture 1981-89 and 1993-94; led the campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles and created the European Capital of Culture initiative.
Melina Perez
Melina Perez (Melina Nava Perez, born 1979, Los Angeles) is an American professional wrestler, three-time WWE Women's Champion and two-time Divas Champion, former MNM manager, later NWA and independent competitor.
Melinda A. Lee
Melinda A. Lee, MD, was an American physician-researcher in public health and end-of-life care who worked at Oregon Health Sciences University and the Portland Veterans Affairs medical center.
Melinda Clarke
Melinda Patrice Clarke (Mindy Clarke), American actress born 1969 in Dana Point, California; known for Julie Cooper on The O.C., Lady Heather on CSI, Amanda on Nikita, and the Welcome to the OC, Bitches! podcast.
Melinda Dillon
Melinda Dillon (1939–2023), American character actress and two-time Oscar nominee, best known as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Mother Parker in A Christmas Story; also originated Honey on Broadway.
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates, also known as Melinda Gates, is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive who co-led the Gates Foundation from 2000 to 2024 and now runs Pivotal Ventures.
Melinda Harmon
Melinda Harmon, born 1946 in Port Arthur, Texas, is a senior US district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Melinda Hildebrand
Melinda "Mindy" Hildebrand, Houston businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of Hilcorp founder Jeffery Hildebrand; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica since January 8, 2026, confirmed October 7, 2025.
Melinda Kane
Melinda Kane is an American Democratic politician and Gold Star mother who joined the New Jersey General Assembly's 6th district in January 2025 after serving as a Camden County commissioner.
Melinda Kinnaman
Melinda Kinnaman (Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman, born 1971) is a Swedish actress, breakthrough as Saga in My Life as a Dog (1985), Inger Johanne Vik in Modus (2015-2017), Dramaten and circus work, half-sister of Joel Kinnaman.
Melinda Ledbetter
Melinda Kae Ledbetter Wilson (1946–2024), American talent manager and second wife of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson; met him selling him a Cadillac in 1986, became his manager in 1999, helped end his dependence on Eugene Landy, encouraged completing Smile.
Melinda McGraw
Melinda McGraw (born 1963, Nicosia, Cyprus) is an American RADA-trained actress known for Bobbie Barrett on Mad Men, Barbara Gordon in The Dark Knight, and Melissa Scully on The X-Files.
Melinda Messenger
Melinda Messenger, born 1971 in Swindon, is an English former Page Three model turned TV presenter, known for The Sun's 'Girl of the Thrillennium' era and Channel 5's Cowboy Builders, now a psychotherapist.
Meline Nocandy
Méline Nocandy, French handball centre back born 1998 in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe; clubs Metz, Paris 92, Brest; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 and silver Paris 2024; world champion 2023 with France.
Melinis
Melinis P.Beauv. (Natal grass genus, molasses grass, Melinis repens) is a genus of about 20-23 African and Arabian grasses in Poaceae, subtribe Melinidinae, published 1812; several species are forage or ornamental grasses and invasive weeds.
Melinis minutiflora
Melinis minutiflora (molasses grass, capim-gordura), an African perennial fodder grass of Poaceae, invasive in the Brazilian Cerrado and Hawaii; sticky, molasses-scented leaves, flammable biomass, suppresses tree regeneration, controlled by integrated fire-herbicide-manual management.
Melinoë (Hades)
Melinoë (Μηλινοη) is the protagonist of Supergiant Games' Hades II, a witch and Underworld princess, sister of Zagreus, trained by Hecate to defeat Chronos; based on an obscure Orphic goddess of Hymn 71.
Melinoë (Μελινόη)
Melinoë (Μηλινοη/Μειλινοη), Greek underworld goddess of ghosts and propitiations, known from Orphic Hymn 71; daughter of Persephone by Zeus disguised as Hades, possibly an epithet of Hekate, and the protagonist of Supergiant's Hades II.
Meliodas (メリオダス) (character)
Meliodas (メリオダス) is the protagonist of Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins: the Dragon Sin of Wrath, captain of the Sins, Boar Hat tavern owner, Full Counter user, voiced by Yuki Kaji.
Melioidosis
Melioidosis (Whitmore's disease), infection by Burkholderia pseudomallei from soil and water, first described in Rangoon 1911; endemic in Southeast Asia and northern Australia, with about 165,000 cases and 89,000 deaths yearly.
Meliora (album)
Meliora is the third studio album by Swedish band Ghost, released August 21, 2015 on Loma Vista. Produced by Klas Åhlund, themed on the absence of God, it reached number one in Sweden and won a Grammy for Cirice.