All articles starting with M

Miklós Esterházy

Miklós Esterházy (Esterházy Miklós, 1582–1645) was a Hungarian magnate who served as Palatine of Hungary from 1625 until his death, laying the foundation of the Esterházy family's wealth.

Miklós Fehér (Fehér Miklós), Hungarian striker born 1979 in Tatabánya; played for Győri ETO, Porto, Braga, and Benfica, 25 caps and 7 goals for Hungary; died of cardiac arrest on the pitch at Vitória Guimarães on 25 January 2004, aged 24; Benfica retired his number 29.

Miklós Horthy

Miklós Horthy (1868–1957), Austro-Hungarian admiral, was Regent of Hungary 1920–1944, led an authoritarian regime, allied with Nazi Germany, halted 1944 deportations, then was removed by Hitler in October 1944.

Sep 21, 2026

Miklós Kertész

Miklós Kertész (Miklos Kertesz) is a computational chemist and professor at Georgetown University known for carbon materials research and the 1999 carbon nanotube actuators paper.

Oct 10, 2026

Miklós Laczkovich

Miklós Laczkovich (born 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician at Eötvös Loránd University and University College London, best known for his 1990 solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem, open since 1925.

Miklós Lukáts

Miklós Lukáts (Lukáts Miklós), Hungarian Lutheran pastor, architect-engineer, and KDNP politician; church-affairs state secretary in the Antall government, founding president of KDNP's Protestant Workshop, ordained 2001; 1946–2022.

Miklós Martin

Miklós Martin (Martin Miklós, Nick Martin), Hungarian water polo center forward, 1952 Helsinki Olympic and 1954 Torino European champion; 1956 non-starter who defected to the US and became a romance languages professor.

Miklos Nemeth (olympedia 71247)

Miklós Németh, born 1946 in Budapest, is a Hungarian javelin thrower who won the 1976 Olympic title with a first-throw world record of 94.58 m.

Miklós Pálffy

Miklós Pálffy (1552–1600) was a Hungarian nobleman and general in Habsburg service, remembered as the "hero of Győr" for recapturing the fortress from the Ottomans in 1598.

Miklos Pancsics

Miklós Páncsics (1944–2007), Hungarian defender and Nikola Pančić, Ferencváros and Budapest Honvéd centre-back; 37 caps, Olympic gold 1968 and silver 1972, three league titles, later MLSZ secretary-general.

Miklós Radnóti

Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet, one of the most translated of his century, murdered on a death march in 1944; his last poems were found in a notebook on his exhumed body.

Miklos Sarkany

Miklós Sárkány (Sárkány Miklós), Hungarian water polo defender (1908–1998), won Olympic gold at Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936, three European titles, then coached Hungary and West Germany.

Miklos Szabo

Miklós Szabó (Báró), Hungarian middle-distance runner (1908–2000), 1934 European 800 m champion, 2,000 m world record 5:20.4; also other Hungarian athletes and an archaeologist of the same name.

Miklos Szilvasy

Miklos Szilvasy (Szilvásy Miklós, 1925-1969), Hungarian Greco-Roman welterweight wrestler; Olympic silver 1948 and gold 1952, beating Gösta Andersson for Hungary's 50th Olympic gold; also 1953 world silver, policeman and coach.

Sep 24, 2026

Miklós Zrínyi

Miklós Zrínyi (Zrínyi Miklós) was a Hungarian and Croatian magnate, poet, and general in Habsburg service, ban of Croatia from 1647 to 1664 and the first Hungarian general of the imperial standing army.

Miko (巫女)

Miko (巫女), or shrine maidens, are women serving at Shinto shrines in Japan; historically they received oracles through spirit possession, and today they assist priests.

Miko Hughes

Miko Hughes (born 1986, Apple Valley, California) is an American actor, not the filmmaker John Hughes or the singer MIKO. Gage in Pet Sematary, Aaron Bailey on Full House, autistic Simon in Mercury Rising; began acting at 22 months.

Mikolai Stroinski

Mikolai Stroinski (Mikołaj Stroiński) is a Polish composer born in Nairobi, based in Los Angeles, co-composer of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and composer of Ethan Carter, Age of Empires 4, and Diablo Immortal.

Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł the Orphan

Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł the Orphan (1549–1616) was a statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania who served as Vilnius Voivode and sponsored the first map of Lithuania drawn in Lithuania.

Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Black

Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Black (1515–1565), a Lithuanian magnate and adviser to King Sigismund II Augustus, served as Grand Chancellor and Voivode of Vilnius and led the Reformation.

Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Red

Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Red (Mikalojus Radvila Rudasis, 1512–1584) was a Grand Hetman, Vilnius Voivode, and Chancellor of Lithuania who refused to sign the Union of Lublin.

Mikołaj Rej

Mikołaj Rej, also spelled Rey, was a Polish Renaissance writer, poet, and Calvinist activist who wrote exclusively in Polish and is traditionally called the father of Polish literature.

Mikołaj Traba

Mikołaj Traba (c. 1358 – 1422) was a Polish churchman who served as deputy chancellor to King Władysław II Jagiełło and fought at Grunwald in 1410.

Mikoláš Aleš

Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913) was a leading Czech painter, illustrator, and decorator who drew on Czech and Slavic history and folk life, winning the 1879 National Theatre competition.

Mikoshi (神輿)

Mikoshi (神輿) are portable Shinto shrines, palanquins shaped like shrine buildings that carry a kami's spirit through its parish during festivals, first recorded in 749.

Mikoyan

Mikoyan, the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau known by its MiG prefix, is the Soviet and Russian fighter design bureau founded in 1939, maker of the MiG-15 and MiG-21.

Mikoyan LMFS

The Mikoyan LMFS was a Russian stealthy light multirole fighter project by Mikoyan, intended to complement the Su-57, and canceled in July 2021 in favor of the Su-75.

Mikoyan MiG-27

The Mikoyan MiG-27, NATO name Flogger-D, is a Soviet swing-wing fighter-bomber derived from the MiG-23 for low-altitude ground attack, certified in 1975 and flown by India as the Bahadur.

Mikoyan MiG-29 (МиГ-29)

The Mikoyan MiG-29 (МиГ-29), NATO name Fulcrum, is a Soviet twin-engine air-superiority fighter developed by Mikoyan, in production from 1982 and still flown by several countries.