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Mimi Kennedy

Mimi Kennedy, born Mary Claire Kennedy (1948), American actress known as Abby on Dharma & Greg and Marjorie on Mom, also author of Taken to the Stage and election integrity activist.

Mimi Kirkland

Mimi Kirkland, born 2004 in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an American actress known as Lexie in Safe Haven (2013), Louise Mulligan in Murder in the First, Lily in Austin & Ally, and Rachel Ward in The Walking Dead.

Mimi Lana (ميمي لان)

Mimi Lana (ميمي لان), real name Mimi Rozaiana Zainal Abidin, is a Malaysian actress and model who rose through Dewi Remaja, starred in Pusaka, The Experts, First Wives and Polong, and married actor Syafiq Kyle in 2025.

Mimi Leder

Mimi Leder (Miriam Leder), American director of ER, Deep Impact, On the Basis of Sex, and Apple TV+'s The Morning Show; first woman in AFI's cinematography program, Emmy-winning TV director.

Mimi Mercedez

Mimi Mercedez, real name Milena Janković, is a Serbian rapper from Belgrade, born in 1992, among the few women in the Serbian rap scene since the mid-2010s.

Mimi Rogers

Mimi Rogers (Miriam Spickler, born 1956) is an American actress and poker player, star of The Rapture (1991), ex-wife of Tom Cruise, and Honey Chandler in Bosch and Bosch: Legacy.

Mimi Smith

Mimi Smith (Mary Elizabeth Smith, née Stanley, 1906–1991) was John Lennon's maternal aunt and guardian, who raised him at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool, from the mid-1940s; distinct from the artist Mimi Smith and Mimi Alford.

Mimi Stewart

Mimi Stewart (born 1947) is an American Democratic politician who represents District 17 in the New Mexico Senate and served as its President pro tempore in 2021.

Mimi Webb

Mimi Webb (Amelia Webb, born 2000) is a British pop singer-songwriter from Canterbury, an Epic Records TikTok breakout whose hits "Good Without" and "House on Fire" preceded debut album Amelia (2023) and Confessions (2025).

Mimi Xu

Mimi Xu (Mingge Xu), born 2007 in Swansea, is a Welsh tennis player, first Welsh woman in the Wimbledon singles main draw in 20 years (2025), career-high No.230, 2025 Wrexham W100 champion.

Mimic (film)

Mimic (1997) is Guillermo del Toro's English-language debut, a Dimension Films horror film starring Mira Sorvino, based on Donald A. Wollheim's 1942 short story about engineered Judas Breed insects that evolve to mimic humans; it grossed $25.5 million and spawned two direct-to-video sequels.

Mimic octopus

Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), Indo-West Pacific sand-dwelling octopus discovered in 1998 off Sulawesi and described in 2005; performs dynamic mimicry of venomous animals and flounder-like swimming, unlike any same-named species.

Mimic Technologies

Mimic Technologies was a Seattle medical simulation company founded by Jeff Berkley in 2001, known for the dV-Trainer simulator for the da Vinci Surgical System.

MimicGen

MimicGen is a system from NVIDIA Research, introduced at CoRL 2023, that synthesizes over 50,000 robot demonstrations from about 200 human demonstrations by adapting them in simulation.

Mimico

Mimico is a lakeside neighbourhood in Etobicoke, Toronto, formerly an independent town (records 1911–1966), bounded by Mimico Creek and the Gardiner, with Mimico Waterfront Park, Mimico GO Station, and the Mimico-by-the-Lake Secondary Plan.

Mimicry

Mimicry, also called Batesian, Müllerian, aggressive, or rewarding mimicry, is an evolved resemblance between a mimic and a model that deceives or informs a receiver, benefiting the mimic; defined by shared receivers, signal deceptiveness, and frequency-dependent selection.

Mimics (film)

Mimics (2026 horror-comedy, also listed as Mimics 2025) is Kristoffer Polaha's directorial debut, starring Polaha as impressionist Sam Reinhold, who pacts with the evil ventriloquist puppet Fergus; released February 13, 2026, filmed in Reno, Nevada.

Mimikyu (ミミッキュ)

Mimikyu (ミミッキュ, Mimikkyu) is a Ghost/Fairy Pokémon, #778, introduced in Generation VII, that disguises itself as Pikachu; its unique Disguise ability absorbs one damaging attack per battle.

Mimino (Мимино)

Mimino (Мимино, Georgian მიმინო, "falcon") is a 1977 Mosfilm comedy by Georgiy Daneliya starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan; 24.4 million viewers, Golden Prize at the 1977 Moscow film festival.

Mímir

Mímir (Mím), wise being of Norse mythology who keeps the wisdom well Mímisbrunnr under Yggdrasill, received Odin's eye as a pledge, was beheaded by the Vanir, and survived as Odin's speaking oracular head.

Mimis Plessas

Mimis Plessas (Μίμης Πλέσσας) was a Greek composer, pianist, and conductor, born in Athens in 1924, best known for the best-selling 1969 album O Dromos.

Mimitsuko appointment

The Mimitsuko appointment (耳梨命・阿閇臣の任) is an edict the Nihon Shoki places in Emperor Keitai's early-sixth-century reign, governing Yamato's interest in Imna (Mimana), which ended when Silla destroyed the Mimana official houses in 562.

Mimivirus

Mimivirus (Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus, species Mimivirus bradfordmassiliense) is a giant dsDNA virus of the Mimiviridae infecting Acanthamoeba, with a 700 nm particle, 1.2 Mb genome, and viral translation genes.

MIMO

MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a wireless communication technique in which both transmitter and receiver use multiple antennas, increasing throughput and reliability in Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G.

MIMO radar

MIMO radar is a class of radar that transmits multiple independent waveforms and processes the reflections at multiple receive antennas, improving detection and angular resolution.

MIMO-OFDM

MIMO-OFDM is a wireless transmission method combining multiple-input multiple-output antennas with OFDM to raise data rate and reliability; proposed by Raleigh and Cioffi in 1998, it underlies Wi-Fi, LTE, and Mobile WiMAX.

Mimolette

Mimolette (Boule de Lille, Vieux Hollande) is a French uncooked pressed cow's milk cheese from Flanders, created in the 17th century under Colbert as an Edam substitute, colored orange with annatto, and ripened with cheese mites for 3 to 24 months.

Mimomys

Mimomys was an extinct genus of arvicoline rodents across Eurasia and North America from about 5.3 Ma to the Middle Pleistocene, ancestral stock of voles.

Mimon

Mimon (golden bats) is a genus of Neotropical phyllostomid bats with two species, M. bennettii (Southern Golden Bat) and M. cozumelae, ranging from southeastern Mexico to southern Brazil; insect-gleaning, cave and hollow-log roosting, molecularly shown polyphyletic with Gardnerycteris split off.

Mimosa

Mimosa is a pantropical legume genus of over 400 prickly, touch-sensitive plants, type species Mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant whose leaflets fold within seconds via pulvinar turgor loss and action potentials.