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Miloslav Mecir

Miloslav Mečíř, Slovak tennis player (born 1964, Bojnice), competed for Czechoslovakia 1982–1990; won 1988 Seoul Olympic singles gold and doubles bronze, world No. 4, two Grand Slam finals.

Miloslava Hubnerova Rezkova

Miloslava Hübnerová-Rezková (Miloslava Rezková), Czechoslovak high jumper, born 1950 Prague, died 2014. Won 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold at 1.82 m aged 18 and the 1969 European title; personal best 1.87 m.

Miloslava Misakova

Miloslava Misáková (1922–2015), Czechoslovak artistic gymnast, won women's team gold at the 1948 London Olympics; her sister Eliška died of polio during the Games.

Miłosz Motyka

Miłosz Motyka (born 1992 in Myślenice) is a Polish politician of the Polish People's Party, appointed Minister of Energy in July 2025 after serving as an undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

Miłosz Piekutowski

Miłosz Piekutowski (born 2006, Wysokie Mazowieckie) is a Polish goalkeeper from Jagiellonia Białystok who played in the Ekstraklasa and on loan at Stal Stalowa Wola before joining RC Strasbourg in Ligue 1 in July 2026; not the volleyball player Miłosz Zniszczoł.

Milot Rashica

Milot Rashica, Kosovan winger and forward born 1996 in Vushtrri, played for Vitesse, Werder Bremen, Norwich City, Galatasaray (Süper Lig champion 2022/23), and Beşiktaş; 63 Kosovo caps, 12 goals.

Milovan Djilas

Milovan Djilas (Milovan Đilas, 1911–1995), Montenegrin Yugoslav communist leader, wartime partisan organizer, vice president and Federal Assembly president, who became Eastern Europe's most prominent dissident after The New Class (1957) and served nine years in prison.

Milperra massacre

Milperra massacre (Father's Day Massacre), 2 September 1984 gun battle between Bandidos and Comancheros bikie gangs at the Viking Tavern, Milperra, Sydney: seven dead including teenager Leanne Walters, 43 charged, NSW gun law changes.

Milpitas, California

Milpitas, California: a Santa Clara County city at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, incorporated 1954, known as the Crossroads of Silicon Valley, with about 80,000 residents and major tech employers.

Milrem THeMIS

The Milrem THeMIS (Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System) is a tracked unmanned ground vehicle built by Milrem Robotics of Tallinn, Estonia, first shown in 2015.

Milrem Type-X

The Milrem Type-X is an Estonian tracked robotic combat vehicle unveiled in 2020, the first produced in Europe, designed as an unmanned wingman for tanks.

Milrinone

Milrinone, formerly sold as Primacor, is a type III phosphodiesterase inhibitor given by intravenous infusion to treat severe heart failure and low cardiac output, including as a bridge to heart transplantation.

Milroy disease

Milroy disease (hereditary lymphedema type I, Nonne-Milroy lymphedema): autosomal dominant congenital lower-limb lymphedema, usually from FLT4/VEGFR3 mutations at 5q35.3, named after W. F. Milroy's 1892 family report.

MilSim

MilSim, short for military simulation, is a recreational style of play, most common in airsoft, where participants recreate military operations in long scenario events with command structures, objectives, and radio communications.

Milstar

Milstar (Military Strategic and Tactical Relay) is a United States military satellite communications system providing secure, jam-resistant communications, with five satellites launched between 1994 and 2003.

Milstein method

The Milstein method, also known as the Milstein scheme, is a numerical scheme for approximating solutions of stochastic differential equations, proposed by G. N. Milstein in 1974.

Milt

Milt is the sperm-containing seminal fluid of male fish, shed at spawning. Also called shirako in Japanese cuisine, it is used to fertilize farmed fish eggs, eaten as food, and processed into protamines for heparin overdose treatment.

Milt Campbell

Milt Campbell (Milton Gray Campbell, 1933-2012), American decathlete from Plainfield, NJ; 1952 Olympic decathlon silver, 1956 Melbourne gold with Olympic record 7,937 points, first African American Olympic decathlon champion, also NFL and CFL football player.

Miltefosine

Miltefosine, also known as hexadecylphosphocholine and sold as Impavido, is an oral antiprotozoal drug for leishmaniasis, first registered in India in 2002 and approved in the United States in 2014.

Miltenberg-Altstadt

Miltenberg-Altstadt (Kastell Miltenberg Altstadt) is a Roman cohort fort on the Main in Bavaria, held by cohors I Sequanorum et Rauracorum equitata from about 160 to 248/249 AD, later site of the medieval oppidum Walehusen and part of the UNESCO Limes.

Miltenberg-Ost

Miltenberg-Ost (Kastell Miltenberg Ost) is a 0.6 ha Roman numerus fort at Miltenberg-Bürgstadt, Bavaria, built around 160 AD for the Numerus exploratorum Seiopensium on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, distinct from the nearby Miltenberg-Altstadt cohort fort.

Miltenyi Biotec

Miltenyi Biotec is a privately held German biotechnology company in Bergisch Gladbach, founded by Stefan Miltenyi in 1989 and known for MACS magnetic cell separation and CliniMACS cell therapy manufacturing.

Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy

The Miltenyi CliniMACS Prodigy is a GMP-compliant, closed, automated cell manufacturing instrument made by Miltenyi Biotec of Germany and launched in 2013, used to produce cell and gene therapies such as CAR T cells.

Miltiadis Tentoglou

Miltiadis Tentoglou (Μιλτιάδης Τεντόγλου), Greek long jumper born 1998 in Thessaloniki; two-time Olympic champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), 2023 world champion, four-time European champion, Greek record holder at 8.66 m.

Milton Academy

Milton Academy is an independent K-12 college-preparatory school in Milton, Massachusetts, chartered in 1798, with boarding and day programs in grades 9-12, nine residential houses, 27 ISL varsity teams, and the motto "Dare to be True."

Milton Allen Northrup

Milton Allen Northrup, known as M. Allen Northrup, is an American bioengineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the diagnostics company Cepheid and first demonstrated PCR in a micromachined silicon chip.

Milton Alter

Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.

Milton Avery

Milton Avery (1885–1965) was an American painter of figural, genre, and landscape subjects in simplified forms and flat color, influencing Rothko and Color Field painters.

Milton Berle

Milton Berle (Mendel Berlinger, 1908–2002), American comedian nicknamed Mr. Television and Uncle Miltie, host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre from 1948 and first telethon host; child vaudeville and silent-film performer.

Milton Bradley Company

Milton Bradley Company, American game and toy maker founded 1860 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Milton Bradley; maker of The Game of Life, Battleship, Candy Land, Twister, Simon, Microvision, Vectrex; acquired by Hasbro 1984, brand retired 2009.