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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, also known as Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, was a Danish shipowner who led the A.P. Moller–Maersk shipping group for 38 years, building it into the world's largest shipowner.

Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping is an independent, not-for-profit research center in Copenhagen, established in 2020 to speed shipping's transition to net-zero emissions.

Maes

Maes is the stage name of Walid Georgey, born in 1995, a French rapper of Moroccan origin from Sevran whose 2020 album Les Derniers Salopards reached number one in France.

Maes Knoll Camp (United Kingdom)

Maes Knoll Camp is a scheduled Iron Age univallate hillfort at Dundry, south of Bristol, Somerset, with the Tump bank and its western terminus of West Wansdyke.

Maesa

Maesa, a genus of roughly 180–200 Old World tropical trees, shrubs, and scramblers in Primulaceae, sister to all other genera; identified by semi-inferior ovaries, paired bracteoles, and black glandular lines.

Maesbury Castle

Maesbury Castle: small multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the southern Mendip Hills, Somerset, near Shepton Mallet; two ramparts enclosing 2.8 ha, scheduled monument 1015494; distinct from Maesbury, Shropshire.

Maeshowe

Maeshowe (Maes Howe) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave in Stenness, Orkney, c. 3000–2800 BCE, aligned on midwinter sunset and bearing the world's largest known grouping of 12th-century Norse runic graffiti.

Maeslantkering

The Maeslantkering, or Maeslant barrier, is an automated storm surge barrier near Hoek van Holland, Netherlands, completed in 1997 as part of the Delta Works.

Maestro

Maestro names three unrelated games: Rudi Hoffmann's 1989 Hans im Glück tile-laying game, Double Jack's 2024 Meta Quest orchestra-conducting VR rhythm game (Meta Horizon Game of the Year 2024), and Board&Dice's 2026 Da Vinci vs Michelangelo area majority board game.

Maestro (2021 film)

Maestro (Telugu: మాస్ట్రో) is a 2021 Telugu crime thriller directed by Merlapaka Gandhi, the official remake of Andhadhun, starring Nithiin, Tamannaah Bhatia, and Nabha Natesh; it premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 17 September 2021.

Maestro (2023 film)

Maestro (2023) is Bradley Cooper's biographical drama about conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and his marriage to Felicia Montealegre, starring Cooper and Carey Mulligan, produced with Spielberg and Scorsese, premiered at Venice, released by Netflix, and nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Maestro (2024 video game)

Maestro is a 2024 virtual reality rhythm game by French studio Double Jack, released on Meta Quest and Steam, named Meta's Game of the Year 2024.

Maestro (character)

Maestro (Marvel Comics) is an alternate-future Hulk on Earth-9200, created by Peter David and George Pérez in The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect #1 (December 1992); the intelligent tyrant rules Dystopia, and David later wrote his origin trilogy Maestro (2020), War and Pax, and World War M.

Maestro (debit card)

Maestro, also known as the EC card, is Mastercard's PIN-based online debit card brand, launched in 1991 and phased out in Europe from 2023 in favor of Debit Mastercard.

Maestro cafe

Maestro cafe: name shared by unrelated venues, including MAESTRO CAFE in Preveza, Greece (4.8/5, 122 reviews), Maestro Cafe Montreal (French, St-Viateur O), and a closed Baghdad coffee shop; also an Italian cream liqueur brand.

Maestro Fresh Wes

Maestro Fresh Wes (Wesley Williams, born 1968, Scarborough, Ontario) is the Godfather of Canadian Hip-Hop; his 1989 album Symphony in Effect was the first Canadian rap album certified platinum, and "Let Your Backbone Slide" made him the first Canadian rapper with a Billboard Top 40 hit.

Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone

The Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone is a 1962 Gibson fuzz pedal, the first commercially available fuzz unit, made famous by Keith Richards' riff on the Rolling Stones' 1965 hit "Satisfaction".

Maeva Surf

Maeva Surf: the Maeva Surf Club, a surf school and competition club founded 20 April 1976 in Mimizan, France, labeled École Française de Surf; also an indoor FlowRider facility in Laval, Québec, opened 2010.

Maevarano Formation

Maevarano Formation: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 72.1-66 Ma) fossil-rich rock unit in Madagascar's Mahajanga Basin, near Berivotra; source of Majungasaurus, Rapetosaurus, Rahonavis, Beelzebufo; distinct from the Maevarano Suite granites.

Maeve

Maeve, Anglicized form of the Irish name Méabh (Old Irish Medb), a girl's name meaning "intoxicating" or "she who intoxicates"; also the legendary warrior queen of Connacht of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, now a fast-rising baby name in the US, Ireland, and Britain.

Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy, an Irish novelist, wrote popular fiction about Irish life and women's lives. She published 16 novels between 1982 and 2010 and sold over 40 million copies.

Maeve Courtier-Lilley

Maeve Courtier-Lilley is a Welsh actress born in 2001 in Aberystwyth, known for Luna in The Outpost, Audrey in Gran Turismo, Winter Bain in The Red King, and Dee Dee in Netflix's Run Away (2026).

Maeve Dermody

Maeve Dermody (born 1985, Sydney) is an Australian actress, daughter of filmmaker Susan Murphy Dermody, known for Black Water, Beautiful Kate, Pawno, Vera Claythorne in the BBC's And Then There Were None, SS-GB, Carnival Row, and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Maeve Kennedy McKean

Maeve Kennedy McKean (1979-2020), also Maeve McKean, was a public health and human rights lawyer, Georgetown Global Health Initiative executive director, RFK granddaughter, who died with son Gideon in a 2020 Chesapeake Bay canoe accident.

Maeve Press

Maeve Press, American actor, comedian, and writer from New York; played Genevieve on Everything's Gonna Be Okay, starred in the 2025 HOLES pilot, and performs her solo show Failure Confetti, based on her childhood special education reports, at Edinburgh and Dublin fringe festivals.

Maextro (尊界)

Maextro (尊界, Zunjie) is an ultra-luxury automotive brand formed by Huawei and the JAC Group, whose first model, the S800 sedan launched in May 2025, became China's best-selling luxury sedan above 700,000 yuan.

Maextro S800 (尊界S800)

The Maextro S800 (尊界S800) is an ultra-luxury full-size electric and extended-range sedan built by JAC with Huawei's technology, the first MAEXTRO brand model, launched in 2025.

Maextro V800

The Maextro V800 is an ultra-premium seven-seat MPV from Maextro, a Huawei and JAC brand, launched in China in August 2026 as a range-extended hybrid.

Mafadi

Mafadi (also Ntheledi) is a 3,446 m peak on the Drakensberg escarpment border and the highest point in South Africa, lower than Lesotho's Thabana Ntlenyana; its name was borrowed from a Lesotho peak in 1971.

Mafdet Tessera

Mafdet Tessera is a 370-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 9.20°N, 38.50°E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Egyptian goddess of judicial authority and executions.