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Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey (Merlene Joyce Ottey) is a Jamaican-born sprinter, born 1960, who won nine Olympic and fourteen World Championship medals and competed for Slovenia from 2002.
Merlí (TV series)
Merlí is a Catalan-language TV3 drama (2015–2018) created by Héctor Lozano, starring Francesc Orella as philosophy teacher Merlí Bergeron at Barcelona's Institut Àngel Guimerà; 40 episodes across three seasons, each named after a philosopher, with the Movistar+ spin-off Merlí: Sapere Aude.
Merlin
Merlin (Welsh Myrddin, Latin Merlinus) is the prophet and enchanter of Arthurian legend, created by Geoffrey of Monmouth c. 1136 from Welsh prophetic tradition, recast as Christian prophet by Robert de Boron, and fixed as Arthur's mentor by Malory's 1485 Le Morte d'Arthur.
Merlin (2008 TV series)
Merlin (The Adventures of Merlin) is a BBC One fantasy drama, 2008-2012, five series and 65 episodes by Shine TV, starring Colin Morgan as a young warlock hiding his magic while serving Prince Arthur in Camelot.
Merlin (bird)
Merlin (Falco columbarius), also called pigeon hawk, a small fierce Northern Hemisphere falcon hunting songbirds and shorebirds at high speed; nests in reused crow or hawk nests, recovered from 1960s DDT declines, now breeds in cities.
Merlin (miniseries)
Merlin (1998) is a two-part NBC fantasy miniseries directed by Steve Barron, starring Sam Neill as Merlin against Miranda Richardson's Queen Mab, with a $30 million budget, 15 Emmy nominations, and 4 wins.
Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments is a private operator of theme parks and attractions, running 135 sites in 22 countries including LEGOLAND, Madame Tussauds, SEA LIFE, and Alton Towers, taken private in 2019.
Merlin Holland
Merlin Holland (Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland, b. 1945, London), Oscar Wilde's only grandson, biographer and editor, estate administrator, author of The Wilde Album and After Oscar, and adapter of the 1895 trial transcript.
Merlin K. DuVal
Merlin K. DuVal, known as Monte DuVal, was an American surgeon who founded the University of Arizona College of Medicine and served as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health from 1971 to 1973.
Merlin Olsen
Merlin Olsen (1940-2010), Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams (1962-76), 14 Pro Bowls, anchor of the Fearsome Foursome; later actor on Little House on the Prairie and NBC broadcaster.
Merlin Polzin
Merlin Polzin (born 1990, Hamburg) is a German football coach and head coach of Hamburger SV since November 2024; former assistant there from 2020, he led HSV to Bundesliga promotion in 2024/25 and a 13th-place finish in 2025/26.
Merlin Santana
Merlin Santana (1976-2002) was an American actor of Dominican descent, known as Romeo Santana on The Steve Harvey Show and Stanley on The Cosby Show; shot dead in Los Angeles at 26.
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake, British biologist and author of Entangled Life (2020), studies underground fungal networks; Cambridge Ph.D. in tropical ecology, SPUN Chief Impact Officer, 2025 Climate Breakthrough Award winner.
Merlin Ventures
Merlin Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Merlin Group, an Israeli-American technology distributor for the U.S. government market, investing in Israeli cybersecurity startups since 2021.
Merlion
Merlion: lion-headed, fish-bodied mythical creature designed in 1964 by Alec Fraser-Brunner as the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board logo; symbol of Temasek and Singapura; 8.6 m, 70-tonne statue unveiled 1972, moved to Merlion Park 2002.
Merlo
Merlo is a partido in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded as San Antonio del Camino by Francisco de Merlo in the 1750s, independent from Morón in 1864, with 582,486 residents (2022 census).
Merlo, Buenos Aires
Merlo, Buenos Aires: head city of the Partido de Merlo in western Greater Buenos Aires, founded 1755 as Villa San Antonio del Camino by Francisco de Merlo; 580,806 partido inhabitants (2022 census).
Merlock Montes
Merlock Montes is a mountain range on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, about 200 km across, approved by the IAU in 2011 and named for a Middle-earth mountain.
Merlot
Merlot, black Vitis vinifera wine grape from southwest France; Cabernet Franc × Magdeleine Noire des Charentes; majority grape of Bordeaux (60% of appellation area), early ripening, base of Pomerol's Pétrus.
Merluccius australis
Merluccius australis, southern hake (also Gadus australis, M. polylepis), a benthopelagic gadiform hake circumglobal in the southern hemisphere with New Zealand and Patagonian populations, fished commercially in Chile and New Zealand.
Merluccius bilinearis
Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake or whiting, a northwest Atlantic demersal gadiform hake from Newfoundland to South Carolina; two U.S. stocks, both not overfished, 2024 landings 11.7 million pounds.
Merluccius capensis
Merluccius capensis, the shallow-water Cape hake, is a merluccid hake from Angola to KwaZulu-Natal, living at 100–450 m. With M. paradoxus it supports major Namibian and South African trawl fisheries, historically assessed as one combined stock.
Merluccius hubbsi
Merluccius hubbsi, Argentine hake (merluza argentina), a Merlucciidae gadiform of the SW Atlantic from 22°S to 55°S; Argentina's main fishery, with northern and Patagonian stocks and a San Matías Gulf population.
Merluccius merluccius
Merluccius merluccius, the European hake (merlu européen, merluza europea), is a demersal gadoid fish from Norway to the Gulf of Guinea and the Mediterranean, fished mainly by trawl and gillnet, with EU catches of 76,000 t in 2023.
Merluccius productus
Merluccius productus, the Pacific hake or Pacific whiting (North Pacific hake), is a gadiform hake of the family Merlucciidae off the western North American coast; its trans-boundary coastal stock is the Pacific Coast's most abundant commercial fish stock, jointly assessed by the US and Canada.
Merlyn (DC Comics)
Merlyn (Malcolm Merlyn, the Dark Archer) is a DC Comics supervillain and master archer, created by Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams, and Dick Dillin, debuting in Justice League of America #94 (1971) as Green Arrow's archery rival and a League of Assassins assassin.
Merlyn Wood
Merlyn Wood is a Ghanaian-born rapper and singer, raised in Texas, known for his high-energy delivery as a main vocalist and rapper in the hip-hop boy band Brockhampton.
Mermaid
Mermaid: a legendary half-woman, half-fish sea creature of world folklore, from the Babylonian Oannes and the medieval fusion with the bird-bodied siren to Andersen's 1837 tale, Disney adaptations, global water spirits like Mami Wata and the ningyo, and the scientific finding that no aquatic humanoids exist.
Mermaid (2025 film)
Mermaid (魚人劫) is Tyler Cornack's 2025 American horror-comedy feature, starring Johnny Pemberton as a Percocet-addicted Florida man who shelters a wounded mermaid named Destiny; it premiered at SXSW March 8, 2025, and was released by Utopia in limited US theaters April 8, 2026, distinct from Fia Perera's 2026 drama of the same name.
Mermaid (software)
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagramming tool, created by Knut Sveidqvist and first released in 2014, that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions into SVG diagrams in the browser.