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Mertseger Mons
Mertseger Mons: former IAU name (adopted 1997) for a 450-km volcanic feature on Venus at 38.1°S, 270.3°E, named for the Egyptian snake goddess of the Theban necropolis; the name was dropped in December 2025 when topography showed no mons there.
Meru
Meru (Mount Meru), active stratovolcano in northern Tanzania's East African Rift near Arusha; 4,550-4,566 m, second highest in Tanzania; last erupted 1910 from Ash Cone; breached caldera and Momella debris avalanche about 7,800 years ago.
Meru (film)
Meru is a 2015 American documentary directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, following Conrad Anker, Chin, and Renan Ozturk climbing Mount Meru's Shark's Fin.
Meru (nomarch of the Cynopolite nome)
Meru, also called Bebi, was governor of the Hare nome, the 15th nome of Upper Egypt, early in the Sixth Dynasty under the kings Teti and Pepy I.
Meru (overseer of sealers)
Meru was an ancient Egyptian official, overseer of sealers under King Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from graffiti, a stela, and tomb TT 240.
Meru Networks
Meru Networks was an American enterprise Wi-Fi company based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2002 and known for its Virtual Cell single-channel WLAN architecture; Fortinet acquired it in 2015.
Meru Peak
Meru Peak is a three-summit massif above the Gangotri Glacier in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India (Meru South 6,660 m, Central 6,310 m, North ~6,450 m), famed for the Shark's Fin big wall first climbed by Anker, Chin, and Ozturk in 2011.
Meru, Arusha, Tanzania
Meru District Council (Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Meru), Arusha Region, Tanzania: district on Mount Meru's slopes, created 2006 from Arumeru split; 331,603 people (2022 census), 1,268.2 km2, capital Usa River area.
Meru, Kenya
Meru is one of Kenya's 47 counties, lying on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and spanning the equator, with Meru Town as its largest town and administrative seat.
Merus Capital
Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008 by Salman Ullah, Sean Dempsey, and Peter Hsing, formerly of Google and Microsoft.
Merus N.V.
Merus N.V. was a Utrecht, Netherlands-based clinical-stage immuno-oncology company founded in 2003 that developed bispecific antibody therapeutics, including BIZENGRI, and was acquired by Genmab for about $8.0 billion in 2025.
Merutunga
Merutunga (मेरुतुंग) was a fourteenth-century Jain monk and Sanskrit writer in Gujarat, disciple of Chandraprabhasuri, known for the Prabandhachintamani, the most useful prabandha collection for Gujarat's history.
Merv (film)
Merv is a 2025 Prime Video romantic comedy directed by Jessica Swale, starring Zooey Deschanel and Charlie Cox as exes whose shared dog Gus becomes depressed over their breakup; filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, rated PG, 105 minutes.
Merv (مرو)
State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”, Turkmenistan: archaeological park protecting the Silk Road oasis city of Merv, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1999, spanning 4,000 years with walled cities Erk Kala, Gyaur Kala, and Sultan Kala.
Merv Griffin
Merv Griffin (Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr., 1925–2007) was an American talk show host and media mogul who created the game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
Merv Hughes
Merv Hughes (Mervyn Gregory Hughes), Australian fast bowler of the 1980s-90s; 53 Tests, 212 wickets at 28.38; famous 1988 WACA 8/87 with a two-innings hat-trick; 1993 Ashes 31 wickets; Hall of Fame 2021.
Merv Wood
Mervyn Thomas "Merv" Wood (1917-2006), Australian rower and NSW police commissioner; Olympic single sculls gold 1948, silver 1952, bronze 1956; only athlete to carry Australia's flag at two Olympic opening ceremonies.
Merve Emre
Merve Emre (born 1985, Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish American literary critic and Shapiro-Silverberg Professor at Wesleyan University, author of The Personality Brokers and Paraliterary, New Yorker contributing writer, and host of The Critic and Her Publics podcast.
Mervin E. Muller
Mervin E. Muller was a computer scientist who co-created the Box–Muller transform with George E. P. Box in 1958 and later spent fifteen years at the World Bank.
Mervin Joe Kelly
Mervin Joe Kelly (1894–1971) was an American industrial physicist whose Bell Labs career ran from 1918 to 1959, ending as president and chairman of the board.
Mervyn Johns
Mervyn Johns (David Mervyn Johns) was a Welsh character actor who starred in Dead of Night and played Bob Cratchit opposite Alastair Sim in the 1951 A Christmas Carol.
Mervyn Singer
Mervyn Singer is a British intensive care physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for the Sepsis-3 definitions and for inventing the esophageal Doppler monitor.
Mervyn Susser
Mervyn Susser (1921–2014) was a South African-born epidemiologist at Columbia University known for linking disease to social conditions and for Dutch Hunger Winter famine studies.
Mervyn's
Mervyn's (Mervyns) was a California midrange department store chain founded by Mervin G. Morris in 1949, owned by Dayton Hudson/Target 1978-2004, then Cerberus, Sun Capital and Lubert-Adler; it filed bankruptcy in July 2008, liquidated all stores by January 2009, and the name was relaunched as an online-only store.
Merwyn Fernandis
Merwyn Fernandis (born 1959, Mumbai), Indian field hockey inside-forward, triple Olympian and 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medallist; Asian Games silver 1978 and 1982; Arjuna Award 1992; later Indian Airlines coach and cabin crew training principal.
Merxia family
Merxia family: middle main-belt S-type asteroid family named for (808) Merxia, about 1,200 members, split into two lobes by the 3J:-1S:-1A resonance, age roughly 238 Myr (Carboniferous).
Mery (High Priest of Amun)
Mery was an Egyptian official who served as High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II, in the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom.
Mery (High Priest of Osiris)
Mery was High Priest of Osiris at Abydos in Dynasty 19 under Ramesses II, and his son Wenennefer succeeded him in the same hereditary office.
Meryal Waterpark
Meryal Waterpark, Qatar's largest waterpark on Qetaifan Island North, Lusail; 53 slides, 69 attractions; home of the 85 m Rig 1938 tower with Guinness records for tallest water slide (76.309 m) and most slides from one tower (12).
Meryam Sugulle
Meryam Sugulle is a Norwegian physician-scientist, Professor II in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Oslo and a consultant obstetrician at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål.