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Millwright

A millwright is a craftsperson who installs, dismantles, repairs, and moves industrial machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites, usually after a 3- or 4-year apprenticeship.

Milly Alcock

Milly Alcock (born 2000, Sydney) is an Australian actress who played young Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon and stars as Kara Zor-El in DC's Supergirl (2026), after Upright, Sirens, and a West End Crucible.

Milly y Los Vecinos

Milly y Los Vecinos is a Dominican merengue orchestra formed in the mid-1970s by singer Milly Quezada and her brothers, known for Christmas hits like "Volvió Juanita".

Milnacipran

Milnacipran, sold as Savella in the United States and Toledomin in Japan, is an SNRI antidepressant and fibromyalgia treatment, first approved in Japan in 1999.

Milne (lunar crater)

Milne is a large impact crater on the far side of the Moon, about 260 km wide, named for British mathematician and astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne and approved in 1970.

Milne Bay

Milne Bay is a bay and province at the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, with about 160 islands, 210,000 people, PNG's largest coral reef area, Alotau as capital, and major diving and fisheries economies.

Milne Bay Province

Milne Bay Province is a Papua New Guinea province based at Alotau, covering 14,345 km² of land and over 600 islands, with 2024 census population 412,158, site of the 1942 Battle of Milne Bay.

Milne Land

Milne Land (Ilimananngip Nunaa) is the largest island in Scoresby Sound, East Greenland: uninhabited, 3,800 km², highest point 2,434 m, named for British general David Milne, with monazite, rutile, and zircon finds.

Milne Point Oil and Gas Field

Milne Point is an oil and gas field on the Alaska North Slope, about 30 miles northwest of Prudhoe Bay, discovered in 1969 and producing heavy crude.

Milnesium

Milnesium is a genus of large carnivorous eutardigrade water bears (Doyère, 1840; type species Milnesium tardigradum) in the order Apochela, family Milnesiidae, defined by double-clawed legs, Jurassic origin, and rapid growth from one to 52 species.

Milnesium alpigenum

Milnesium alpigenum (Ehrenberg, 1853) is a valid tardigrade species in Apochela, Milnesiidae, synonymised with M. tardigradum by Marcus in 1928 and restored by the 2019 integrative redescription, which also described its pseudocryptic sister species M. inceptum.

Milnesium lagniappe

Milnesium lagniappe is a tardigrade species described in 2013 by Meyer, Hinton, and Dupré from Lake Charles, Louisiana, with claw formula [2-3]-[3-2] and nine sculptured cuticle bands, native to the continental US.

Milnesium tardigradum

Milnesium tardigradum is a relatively large, omnivorous tardigrade, or water bear, described in 1840, that survives desiccation in a tun state and serves as a model for anhydrobiosis research.

MILNET

MILNET (Military Network) was the unclassified data communications network of the US Department of Defense, created in 1982 by partitioning ARPANET and forming the Defense Data Network core.

Milnor K-theory

Milnor K-theory is a graded ring K*M(F) attached to a field F, introduced by John Milnor in 1970, with its degree-two part recovering the classical group K2(F).

Milo

Milo is a domino game, an African and Indonesian scoring variation of four-player partnership dominoes with a 28-tile double six set; one point per domino, two points for a same-suit finish, game to five.

Milo (drink)

Milo is Nestlé's chocolate-malt powdered drink, invented in Australia in 1934 by chemist Thomas Mayne and launched at the Sydney Royal Easter Show; sold in over 40 countries, strongest in Malaysia and Singapore, home of the Milo Dinosaur.

Milo (film)

Milo (7h40 ce matin-là) is a 2026 French-Belgian drama by Nicole Garcia, starring Marion Cotillard as a paroled mother secretly approaching her son Milo (Théodore Pellerin); it premiered in competition at San Sebastián 2026 and opens in France in January 2027.

Milo (TV series)

Milo (TV series) covers two animated preschool shows of that name: the Fourth Wall/DeAPlaneta series about a 5-year-old cat exploring jobs with Lofty and Lark (Milkshake 2021, PBS Kids 2024, 170+ countries), and Gertie's earlier Italian series about a 6-year-old rabbit.

Milo Aukerman

Milo Aukerman, Descendents lead vocalist and plant molecular biologist, joined the band in 1980; his 1982 debut album Milo Goes to College marked his exit to biochemistry, and he left DuPont science work for the band full-time in 2016.

Milo C. Bell

Milo C. Bell (1905–1998) was an American fisheries and hydraulic engineer who designed the Hell's Gate fishways on the Fraser River and fish-passage facilities at Columbia River dams.

Milo Callaghan

Milo Callaghan (Milo Moses Callaghan) is a British actor, born 1997 in Birkenhead, England, and a Cambridge graduate. Known for Rudy Baylor in The Rainmaker, Orry Atreides in Dune: Prophecy, and Seb Burrows in Rivals.

Milo Đukanović

Milo Đukanović (Мило Ђукановић), Montenegrin leader, DPS chairman 1998–2023, prime minister and president almost continuously 1991–2023, led independence 2006 and NATO entry 2017, lost 2023 runoff to Jakov Milatović.

Milo E. Riverso

Milo E. Riverso is an American civil engineer and construction executive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, who led STV Group and the New York City School Construction Authority.

Milo Gibaldi

Milo Gibaldi was a pharmaceutical scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics who served as dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy for 17 years.

Milo Greene

Milo Greene is an American indie pop band from Los Angeles, formed around 2009 in Northern California, named after a fictional booking agent. Members share lead vocals; albums Milo Greene (2012), Control (2015), Adult Contemporary (2018).

Milo J

Milo J (Camilo Joaquín Villarruel, born 2006, Morón, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rapper-singer who rose from freestyle and trap via "Milagrosa" and BZRP Session 57 to folklore-infused art-pop on La Vida Era Más Corta.

Milo Machado-Graner

Milo Machado-Graner (born 2008, Paris) is a French actor with Portuguese family origins, known as Daniel in Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall (2023), with later roles in Filmlovers!, Goodbye Cruel World, and Viva Carmen.

Milo Manheim

Milo Manheim (born 2001) is an American actor, son of Camryn Manheim, known as Zed in Disney's Zombies films, Wally Clark in School Spirits, DWTS season 27 runner-up, and Flynn Rider in the live-action Tangled.

Milo Moiré

Milo Moiré (born 1983) is a Swiss performance artist of Spanish and Slovak descent based in Düsseldorf, known for nude public works PlopEgg #1 (Art Cologne 2014), The Script System, and Mirror Box (2016), for which she was arrested in London.