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Magda Konarska
Magda Konarska (Maria Magdalena Konarska) is a Polish RNA biochemist known for her work on pre-mRNA splicing; since 2021 she has been professor and deputy director at IMol, Warsaw.
Magda Linette
Magda Linette, Polish tennis player born 1992 in Poznan; career-high No. 19 (2023), three WTA singles titles, 2023 Australian Open semifinalist, 2020 WTA Shot of the Year winner.
Magda Lupescu
Magda Lupescu (born Elena Lupescu, c. 1895-1899, died 1977), mistress and third wife of King Carol II of Romania, a Jewish-born figure of disputed birth date whose influence in 1930s Romanian politics and 1947 Brazil marriage made her a scandal and historiographical subject.
Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (Szabó Magda, 1917–2007) was a Hungarian novelist, poet, and dramatist, one of the most widely translated Hungarian authors, known above all for her 1987 novel The Door.
Magda Szubanski
Magda Szubanski, also Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO, is an Australian comedy actor born 1961 in Liverpool, known for Fast Forward, Sharon Strzelecki in Kath & Kim, and Esme Hoggett in Babe, author of the memoir Reckoning and an LGBT rights advocate.
Magdala
Magdala (Migdal, Taricheae) was a first-century Jewish fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, hometown of Mary Magdalene, with an excavated synagogue, the carved Magdala Stone, harbor, and ritual baths.
Magdalana Mariam
Magdalana Mariam (മഗ്ദലനമറിയം) is a Malayalam khandakavyam, a short narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon written in 1921, retelling Mary Magdalene's path from sin to repentance and credited with pioneering Christian symbolism in Malayalam poetry.
Magdalen Berns
Magdalen Berns (1983–2019), British YouTuber, lesbian radical feminist, and co-founder of For Women Scotland; known for gender-critical vlogs and the phrase "there's no such thing as a lesbian with a penis".
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford: constituent college of the University of Oxford founded in 1458 by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester. Known for its 144-foot Great Tower, deer park, choir, Demyships, and the 1687-88 expulsion of Fellows by James II.
Magdalen Islands
The Magdalen Islands (Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Menagoesenog) are a 190 km² sandbar-linked Quebec archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 105 km from Prince Edward Island, with about 12,800 inhabitants, Acadian roots, a CTMA ferry lifeline to Souris, and endemic wildlife.
Magdalena - Sinu
Magdalena - Sinu, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 302, Colombia; combines the Magdalena, Cauca, and Sinu drainages flowing to the Caribbean Sea; ~233 fish species, 68% endemic, threatened by dams and deforestation.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Magdalena Abakanowicz (Marta Abakanowicz, 1930–2017), Polish sculptor and fiber artist, creator of the Abakans and headless figurative series such as Backs and The Crowd, and of Agora in Chicago's Grant Park.
Magdalena Andersson
Magdalena Andersson (born 1967, Uppsala) is Sweden's first female prime minister (2021–2022), Social Democratic Party leader since November 2021, and finance minister 2014–2021; her government applied for NATO membership in 2022.
Magdalena Contreras
La Magdalena Contreras, an alcaldia (borough) of southwest Mexico City; population 247,622 (2020 census), area 63.75 km2; home of the Magdalena River, the city's only largely open living river and main surface water source.
Magdalena Fularczyk Kozłowska
Magdalena Fularczyk-Kozłowska, Polish rower (born 1986, Wąbrzeźno), Olympic champion women's double sculls Rio 2016 with Natalia Madaj and bronze medalist London 2012 with Julia Michalska; Bydgostia Bydgoszcz club.
Magdalena Górka
Magdalena Górka, Polish cinematographer (born 1977, Pruszków), ASC and PSC member, Łódź Film School graduate. Known for Jack Strong (Camerimage Golden Frog nomination), Netflix's Into the Night, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Echo, and The Brink of War.
Magdalena Götz
Magdalena Götz is a neuroscientist, director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Helmholtz Munich since 2004, known for discovering radial glia as neural stem cells and pioneering glial reprogramming into neurons.
Magdalena Gwizdoń
Magdalena Gwizdoń, Polish biathlete born 1979 in Cieszyn, four-time Olympian (2006–2018) and first Polish woman to win a World Cup race (Östersund 2006, Sochi 2013 sprints); retired 2022, now a professional soldier.
Magdalena Luggin
Magdalena Luggin (born 2005, Vienna) is an Austrian ice hockey goaltender at Mercyhurst University (NCAA) and Austria's national team; Youth Olympic 3-on-3 gold medalist Lausanne 2020, sister of goalie Selma Luggin; not the rower Magdalena Lobnig.
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (born 1969) is a Swiss business executive who has led the chemicals group EMS since 2004 and sits in the Swiss National Council for the SVP.
Magdalena Matschina
Magdalena Matschina (born 2005, Bad Aibling) is a German luger in women's doubles. With Dajana Eitberger she won 2026 Olympic silver in doubles and team relay gold, after 2025 Worlds bronze and mixed silver.
Magdalena Neuner
Magdalena Neuner (Lena, later Magdalena Holzer), German biathlete born 1987: two 2010 Olympic golds, 12 World Championship golds, 34 World Cup wins, three overall titles; retired at 25 in 2012.
Magdalena River
The Magdalena River (Río Magdalena), Colombia's principal river, runs about 1,540 km from the Páramo de las Papas to the Caribbean; its basin holds 80% of the population and it was the country's historic steamboat artery.
Magdalena Rusu
Magdalena Rusu, born Maria Magdalena Rusu in 1999, is a Romanian rower who won gold in the women's eight at the 2024 Paris Olympics and holds four world titles.
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka is a Polish politician of the Polish People's Party who serves as Secretary of State in the Ministry of National Defence and Government Plenipotentiary for Strengthening State Resilience.
Magdalena Solís
Magdalena Solís was a Mexican woman who, in 1963, served as High Priestess of a cult at Yerbabuena, Tamaulipas, presented as the reincarnation of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue.
Magdalena Titirici
Magdalena Titirici, full name Maria-Magdalena Titirici, is a Romanian-born materials chemist who holds the Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London since 2019.
Magdalena Zernicka‐Goetz
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is a Polish-British developmental biologist, Bren Professor at Caltech since 2019, known for showing early embryo cells differ and building embryo models from stem cells.
Magdalene (album)
Magdalene (stylized MAGDALENE) is FKA twigs' second studio album, released 8 November 2019 on Young Turks; nine tracks, sole guest Future, produced by twigs with Nicolas Jaar and others, Time's 2019 album of the year.
Magdalene Odundo
Magdalene Anyango Namakhiva Odundo (born 1950, Nairobi) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist known for hand-built, burnished, unglazed vessels whose forms evoke the human body; she was made a Dame in 2020.