All articles starting with M

Min Saw Mon

Min Saw Mon, also romanized Narameikhla, was the last king of Arakan's Launggyet dynasty and the founder of the Mrauk U dynasty, restored to his throne in 1430 with Bengal Sultanate help.

Sep 23, 2026

Min Sun

Min Sun (闵损), courtesy name Ziqian, was a disciple of Confucius from the state of Lu, ranked second in Virtue and Conduct, who refused office under the Ji Shi clan.

Min Thu Wun

Min Thu Wun (မင်းသုဝဏ်), born U Wun, was a Burmese poet and scholar who helped launch the Khit-San literary movement and pioneered Burmese children's poetry.

Min Woo Lee, Australian PGA Tour golfer from Perth, brother of Minjee Lee; 2016 U.S. Junior Amateur champion, three DP World Tour wins including the 2021 Scottish Open, 2024 and 2026 International Presidents Cup member, nicknamed The Chef.

Min Yeong-hwan

Min Yeong-hwan (민영환, 1861–1905) was a high official of the Korean Empire who killed himself in November 1905 in protest against the Eulsa Treaty, which stripped Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty.

Min Yu

Min Yu is a Chinese-born physician-scientist studying circulating tumor cells, whose blood-based liquid biopsy work guides treatment of metastatic cancer; she won a 2015 NIH New Innovator Award.

Sep 21, 2026

Min Zhuo

Min Zhuo is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and professor of physiology at the University of Toronto, known for research on the synaptic mechanisms of chronic pain, memory, and emotion.

Min-entropy

Min-entropy is an entropy measure defined as the negative base-2 logarithm of the largest probability in a distribution, used by NIST to validate random bit generators.

Min-Liang Tan

Min-Liang Tan (Tan Min-Liang), Singaporean co-founder and CEO of Razer since 2006, built the gaming hardware firm with Robert Krakoff, listed it in Hong Kong in 2017, and now leads its AI gaming push.

Min-max heap

A min-max heap is a complete binary tree, stored in an array, whose alternating min and max levels allow both smallest and largest elements to be accessed quickly.

Min-max theorem

The min-max theorem, usually called the Courant–Fischer theorem, is a linear algebra result stating that every eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix solves a min-max problem over subspaces using the Rayleigh quotient.

Min'yo Crusaders

Min'yo Crusaders (民謡クルセイダーズ) are a ten-piece Japanese big band formed in 2011 in Fussa, western Tokyo, reworking traditional min'yō folk songs with cumbia, salsa, and Afrobeat rhythms.

Mina (Italian singer)

Mina (Mina Anna Mazzini, born 1940, Busto Arsizio), 'La Tigre di Cremona', Italian pop singer and TV star; 150 million records, retired from public in 1978, still records from Lugano.

Mina (名井南) (Japanese singer)

Mina (名井南), full name Mina Sharon Myoi, born 1997 in San Antonio, is the Japanese main dancer and sub-vocalist of TWICE and a member of the sub-unit MISAMO, known for her ballet training and 2019 anxiety-related hiatus.

Mina al-Ahmadi

Mina al-Ahmadi (مصفاة ميناء الأحمدي) is Kuwait's oldest oil refinery and export terminal on the Gulf coast, operated by KNPC and refining 346,000 barrels per day.

Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG Terminal

Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG Terminal, also known as the Mina al-Ahmadi GasPort, was Kuwait's first LNG import terminal, a floating unit at Mina Al-Ahmadi that operated from 2009 until 2022.

Mina Anwar

Mina Anwar (Mina Mumtaz Anwar), British actress born 1969 in Church, Lancashire; known for PC Maggie Habib in The Thin Blue Line, Gita Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures, Trudy Rehman in House of Anubis, and her Lancashire-set Shirley Valentine.

Oct 10, 2026

Mina Bissell

Mina Bissell is an Iranian-born biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that a cell's microenvironment helps determine whether it becomes cancerous, proposing the dynamic reciprocity model.

Mina do Barroso

Mina do Barroso is a proposed open-pit lithium mine near Covas do Barroso in northern Portugal, developed by Savannah Resources and holding Europe's largest battery-grade spodumene lithium resource.

Mina Harker

Mina Harker (Wilhelmina Murray), Jonathan Harker's wife in Stoker's 1897 Dracula: shorthand-keeping compiler of the novel's documents, bitten three times by Dracula, and the only woman to survive drinking his blood.

Sep 20, 2026

Mina J. Bissell

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-born American cell and cancer biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that the extracellular matrix and microenvironment can restrain or reverse malignancy.

Mina Kimes

Mina Kimes is an American journalist and ESPN NFL analyst, senior writer, and podcast host of The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny; a former Fortune and Bloomberg investigative reporter, Yale graduate, and 2020 NFL Live analyst.

Mina Tindle

Mina Tindle, the stage name of Paris-born French singer-songwriter Pauline de Lassus, performs bilingual indie pop-folk and has released four albums, including Sister (2020) and Compass Rosa (2025).

Minack Theatre

The Minack Theatre is an open-air theater carved into the granite cliffs above Porthcurno Bay in Cornwall, England, built largely by Rowena Cade from 1931 and seating about 700.

Minae Mizumura

Minae Mizumura (水村美苗) is a Japanese novelist and essayist known for the prize-winning A True Novel and the 2008 essay The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English.

Minaean language

Minaean language, also called Minaic or Madhabaic, is one of the four Ancient South Arabian languages, the written language of the kingdom of Maʿīn in northwestern Yemen from the 8th century BC.

Minaean sarcophagus of Zaydil

The Minaean sarcophagus of Zayd'il is a wooden coffin from Egypt bearing the Minaic inscription M 338 of Zayd'il, a merchant who supplied myrrh to Egyptian temples.

Minaean trade colony at Dedan

A settled community of merchants from South Arabia's kingdom of Ma'in at the oasis of Dedan, in northwest Arabia, from roughly the 3rd to 1st century BCE.