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Milton Obote
Apollo Milton Obote (1925–2005), Ugandan independence leader and UPC founder, twice president (1966–1971, 1980–1985), overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971 and again in 1985; his regimes saw the 1966 crisis and the Luwero Triangle atrocities.
Milton Packer
Milton Packer (M. Packer) is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for landmark heart failure trials and the neurohormonal hypothesis.
Milton Pikarsky
Milton Pikarsky (1924-1989) was an American civil engineer and transportation administrator who served as Chicago's commissioner of public works and later chaired the Chicago Transit Authority and the Regional Transportation Authority.
Milton Rubenfeld
Milton Rubenfeld, in Hebrew מילטון רובנפלד, was an American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force in World War II and became one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force.
Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton S. Eisenhower (1899–1985), youngest brother of President Dwight Eisenhower, was an educator and public official who led the War Relocation Authority and served as president of Kansas State, Penn State, and Johns Hopkins.
Milton S. Hershey
Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945), American confectioner and philanthropist, founded the Lancaster Caramel Company, Hershey Chocolate Company, and the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and endowed the Milton Hershey School with his entire fortune.
Milton S. Plesset
Milton S. Plesset (1908–1991) was an American applied physicist, professor at Caltech, whose name attaches to the Rayleigh–Plesset equation for cavitation bubble growth and collapse.
Milton W. Slein
Milton W. Slein was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who co-authored the 1947 discovery that insulin counteracts pituitary inhibition of the hexokinase reaction.
Milton William Cooper
Milton William Cooper, or Bill Cooper (1943-2001), American conspiracy theorist, radio host of The Hour of the Time, and author of the 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse, known for UFO and New World Order claims and death in an Arizona shootout.
Milton, Ontario
Milton, Ontario: town in Halton Region, Canada; founded 1821-22 by Jasper Martin, incorporated 1857; 2021 population 132,979, projected 400,400 by 2051; new Official Plan adopted 2026.
Miltonia spectabilis
Miltonia spectabilis Lindl. is an orchid species native to southeast Brazil, described by John Lindley in 1837. A pseudobulbous epiphyte with single flowers to 10 cm; its former variety moreliana is now the separate species Miltonia moreliana.
Miltos Tsiantis
Miltos Tsiantis is a plant developmental biologist studying leaf shape evolution, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne since 2013.
Milunka Savić
Milunka Savić (Милунка Савић) was a Serbian war heroine of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, described as the most decorated woman soldier of the Great War.
Milutin Milanković
Milutin Milanković (Милутин Миланковић, 1879 to 1958) was a Serbian mathematician and astronomer at the University of Belgrade known for his astronomical theory of climate change explaining ice ages.
Milva
Milva (Maria Ilva Biolcati) was an Italian singer and actress, born in Goro in 1939, who moved across canzone, chanson, tango, and Brechtian theater over a fifty-year career.
Milvago chimango
Milvago chimango, the chimango caracara, a 40 cm brown South American falconid from Paraguay and Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego; ground-foraging carrion feeder, Not Threatened, known for social learning and urban adaptability.
Milvexian
Milvexian (BMS-986177, JNJ-70033093) is an investigational oral, small-molecule, reversible direct factor XIa inhibitor from Bristol Myers Squibb and Janssen; it prevented VTE after knee arthroplasty in phase 2 but failed in the phase 3 LIBREXIA ACS trial.
Milvus
Milvus (Lacépède, 1799) is a genus of Accipitridae kites with three species: black kite Milvus migrans, red kite M. milvus, and yellow-billed kite M. aegyptius; widespread Old World scavenging raptors.
Milvus (vector database)
Milvus is an open-source, cloud-native vector database developed by Zilliz and hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation, built for fast similarity search over billions of embeddings of text, images, and audio.
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, incorporated 1846 from three settlements at the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic Rivers on Lake Michigan; 577,222 residents in 2020, council-mayor government, German-immigrant brewing and manufacturing heritage.
Milwaukee Admirals
Milwaukee Admirals, AHL ice hockey team in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, playing at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena; founded 1970, Nashville Predators affiliate since 1998, 2004 Calder Cup champions.
Milwaukee Braves
Milwaukee Braves, National League team 1953-1965 after moving from Boston; won the 1957 World Series with Aaron, Mathews, Spahn, Burdette; led NL attendance 1953-58; moved to Atlanta in 1966.
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers, MLB franchise in the NL Central; began as the Seattle Pilots (1969), moved to Milwaukee in 1970. AL pennant 1982, no World Series title; 2026 team went 103-59 and swept the Dodgers in the NLCS.
Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks, NBA team founded 1968 in Milwaukee; Eastern Conference Central Division; championships 1971 and 2021; home Fiserv Forum (2018); traded Giannis Antetokounmpo to Miami in 2026.
Milwaukee County Stadium
Milwaukee County Stadium (County Stadium) was a publicly financed Milwaukee ballpark, home of the Milwaukee Braves 1953-1965 and Brewers 1970-2000, and Packers football site 1953-1994; demolished February 2001 for Miller Park.
Milwaukee public museum herbarium
Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium (MIL), the plant, fungi, and lichen collection of the Milwaukee Public Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; about 200,000 specimens, over half from Wisconsin, begun with an 1883 donation of 5,190 specimens, with the Huron H. Smith ethnobotanical collection among its notable holdings.
Milwaukee Road
The Milwaukee Road was the common name of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a Class I railroad running from Chicago to Puget Sound from 1847 until 1985.
Milwaukee Road 261
Milwaukee Road 261 is an ALCO-built 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotive of 1944, retired in the mid-1950s, restored to operation in 1993, and running Upper Midwest excursions since.
Milwaukee Tool
Milwaukee Tool, formally the Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, is an American manufacturer of power tools founded in 1924, known for the Sawzall and its M12 and M18 cordless systems.
Mily Gerasimovich Dolobko
Mily Gerasimovich Dolobko (Милий Герасимович Долобко; 1884–1935) was a Slavic linguist and accentologist, professor of Slavic philology at Leningrad University and eponym of the Dolobko law.