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Menachem Begin (מנחם בגין)
Menachem Begin (מנחם בגין), 1913–1992, Irgun commander 1943–1948, Herut founder, sixth Israeli prime minister 1977–1983; signed the 1979 Egypt peace treaty, ordered the 1981 Osirak raid, led the 1982 Lebanon War, resigned in 1983.
Menachem Elimelech
Menachem Elimelech is an environmental engineer known for pioneering membrane technologies for seawater desalination and wastewater reuse; he was Yale's first engineering Sterling Professor before joining Rice University in 2025.
Menachem Mendel Hager (Tzemach Tzadik)
Menachem Mendel Hager, known in Hasidic tradition as the Tzemach Tzadik, founded the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty in Bukovina in 1854 and led it until his death in 1884.
Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov (Ahavat Shalom)
Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov (ca. 1768–1825) was a Hasidic rebbe in Kosov, author of Ahavat Shalom, from whom the Kosov and Vizhnitz dynasties both descend.
Menachem Mendel Hager, Bnei Brak
Menachem Mendel Hager (Hebrew: מנחם מנדל האגער; born 1957) is a Hasidic rebbe in Bnei Brak, Israel, who has led one of the two Vizhnitz courts there since 2012.
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek)
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), known as the Tzemach Tzedek, was the third Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, grandson of the movement's founder, who led Chabad from 1827 to 1866.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Rebbe, was the seventh and final leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement from 1950 to 1994, receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in 1994.
Menactra
Menactra (MenACWY-D, MCV4-D) is Sanofi Pasteur's quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y, W-135; first US conjugate license, January 2005, ages 9 months to 55 years.
Menadione
Menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, vitamin K3) is a synthetic provitamin of vitamin K that the body converts to menaquinone; it is used mainly in animal feed and is toxic to humans.
MenAfriVac
MenAfriVac is an affordable meningococcal group A conjugate vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India, introduced in 2010 and given to more than 350 million people across Africa's meningitis belt.
Ménage à trois
Ménage à trois (French, "household of three"): a domestic arrangement in which three people, usually a couple plus a lover, share a household and a romantic or sexual relationship; used in English since 1853, distinct from a one-time threesome.
Menagerie
Menagerie: a collection of wild animals kept for exhibition, from royal collections at Versailles (1663) and the Tower of London to the Paris Ménagerie (1794) and travelling shows, the forerunner of the modern zoo.
Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes
Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes: Paris zoo founded 16 May 1794 by the National Convention, second oldest zoo after Schönbrunn (1752), run by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle with about 500 animals of 122 species on 5 hectares.
Menahem (king of Israel)
Menahem, also known as Menahem ben Gadi, was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in the mid-8th century BC who seized the throne by assassinating his predecessor Shallum.
Menahem Max Schiffer
Menahem Max Schiffer (1911–1997) was a German-born American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford from 1952 to 1977, known for the variational method in univalent function theory called the Schiffer variation.
Menahem Pressler
Menahem Pressler (1923–2023), born Max Jacob Pressler in Magdeburg, was a German-Israeli-American pianist, founding and sole pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio (1955–2008) and a 67-year Indiana University piano professor.
Menai Bay Conservation Area
Menai Bay Conservation Area is a 470 km² marine protected area off southwest Unguja, Zanzibar, established in 1997 and the island's largest, home to endangered humpback dolphins.
Menai Suspension Bridge
The Menai Suspension Bridge (Pont Grog y Borth) is an iron suspension bridge over the Menai Strait in north Wales, designed by Thomas Telford and opened in 1826.
Menaion
The Menaion (Greek: Μηναίον, from mēn, "month") is the set of twelve liturgical books of the Byzantine rite containing offices for the feasts fixed to calendar dates.
Menaka (actress)
Menaka (Menaka Suresh, born 1963, Nagercoil; birth name Padmavathi Iyengar) is an Indian actress and producer, a leading 1980s Malayalam heroine with over 100 films, famed for her Shankar pairings; wife of producer G. Suresh Kumar, mother of Keerthy Suresh, and co-producer at Revathy Kalamandhir. Distinct from the 1918-2004 actress Menaka Devi.
Menaka (मेनका)
Menaka (मेनका), a celebrated apsara of Indra's court in Hindu mythology, mother of Shakuntala; sent by Indra to break sage Vishvamitra's penance, she appears in the Mahabharata Adi Parva, Valmiki Ramayana, and Kalidasa's play, and in Kavita Kane's 2016 novel Menaka's Choice.
Menaka Guruswamy
Menaka Guruswamy is an Indian politician and Senior Advocate who became India's first openly queer Member of Parliament in 2026, representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha for the Trinamool Congress.
Menakıbname
Menakıbname, or menâkıbnâme, is a genre of works recounting the lives and miracles of Sufi saints and sheikhs, flourishing in Turkish literature from the 11th century onward.
Menander (Μένανδρος)
Menander (Μένανδρος), 342–291 BC, Athenian New Comedy playwright; wrote 108 plays, only Dyskolos survives complete; model for Plautus and Terence and for later European comedy.
Menander of Ephesus
Menander of Ephesus (Greek: Menandros) was a Greek historian who wrote an account of the Tyrian kings from Tyre's own records; his work survives only in Josephus's quotations.
Menander's conquests in India
Menander's conquests in India (मिनांडर के विजय अभियान) were the mid-second-century BC campaigns of the Indo-Greek king Menander I, extending Greek rule from the Punjab toward Pataliputra.
Menander's invasion of the Shunga kingdom
Menander's invasion of the Shunga kingdom (मिनंडर का आक्रमण) was an Indo-Greek advance deep into the Ganges valley in the second century BC, against king Pushyamitra Shunga.
Menarche
Menarche, the first menstrual period, typically at ages 10–16 (mean ~12.4 y), 2–3 years after thelarche; driven by GnRH pulse reactivation; declining secular trend, contested plateau since 2000.
Menardo R. Jimenez
Menardo R. Jimenez, born 1932 in Manila, is a Filipino broadcast executive who served as president and CEO of GMA Network from the 1970s until 2000.
Menards
Menards, originally Menard Cashway Lumber, is an American family-owned home improvement retail chain founded by John Menard Jr. in 1958 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.