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Mircea the Elder
Mircea the Elder (Mircea cel Bătrân) was Prince of Wallachia from 1386 to 1418, defeating Bayezid I's invasion on the Argeș River in 1395 and grandfather of Vlad the Impaler.
Mirchi (మిర్చి) (film)
Mirchi (మిర్చి), 2013 Telugu action drama, Koratala Siva's directorial debut starring Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, and Richa Gangopadhyay; UV Creations, Devi Sri Prasad music, Rs 80 crore worldwide, Nandi Award for Best Actor.
Mirchi Music Awards
The Mirchi Music Awards are annual awards presented by Radio Mirchi honoring artistic and technical excellence in Hindi film music, with jury and listener-voted categories.
Mirdasid dynasty
The Mirdasid dynasty (بنو مرداس) was an Arab dynasty of the Kilab tribe that ruled Aleppo in northern Syria between 1024 and 1080, founded by Salih ibn Mirdas.
Mireia Belmonte
Mireia Belmonte García, born 1990 in Badalona, is a Spanish swimmer who won 200 m butterfly gold at Rio 2016 and set short-course world records.
Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc, stage name of Mireille Aigroz, was a French film actress who became one of the most popular stars of French comedy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mireille Enos
Mireille Enos (born 1975) is an American actress known for Sarah Linden in The Killing, twins in Big Love, Hanna, For All Mankind, and a 2005 Tony-nominated Broadway turn in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu is a French popular singer born in 1946 in Avignon, known as the "Demoiselle d'Avignon", who has sold about 130 million albums in 11 languages.
Mirela Balić
Mirela Balić (also Balić Stefanović) is a Spanish actress of Serbian-Croatian descent from Madrid, trained at RESAD and in cello and piano, known as Chloe in Netflix's Élite and for Zorras, Mala influencia, and El Talento.
Mirela Maniani Tzelili
Mirela Maniani Tzelili (Μιρέλα Μανιάνι-Τζελίλη), Greek javelin thrower born 1976 in Durrës, Albania; Olympic silver 2000 and bronze 2004, double world champion 1999 and 2003, European champion 2002.
Mirella (singer)
Mirella (Mirella Roininen, born 2005), Finnish pop singer from Vantaa, not the opera singer Mirella Freni. Broke through with the 2024 hit Timanttei, topped Finnish charts, released debut album Kunpa oisin kertonut, and won six Emma awards in 2025.
Mirella D'Angelo
Mirella D'Angelo, Italian film, television, and theater actress born in Rome in 1956, known for Tilde in Argento's Tenebrae (1982), Livia in Caligula, and Circe in Hercules (1983).
Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni (born Fregni, 1935–2020), Italian lyric soprano from Modena, lifelong partner of Pavarotti, famed Mimì in La bohème, Karajan collaborator, Met debut 1965, retired 2005.
Mirendil
Mirendil is a San Francisco frontier AI lab founded by former Google and Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta to build self-improving AI that automates AI research.
Mirepoix
Mirepoix: French aromatic base of diced onion, carrot, and celery (2:1:1 by weight), named for the duc de Mirepoix (1699-1757); foundation of stocks, sauces, and braises, usually strained out before serving.
Mireuk faith
Mireuk faith (미륵신앙) is the Korean Buddhist faith in Mireuk, the Korean form of Maitreya, the future Buddha, practiced from the Three Kingdoms period to the present.
Mireuksa
Mireuksa (미륵사) was a large Buddhist monastery at Iksan in southwestern Korea, founded during the 7th-century reign of Baekje King Mu and now preserved as a temple site.
Mirex
Mirex (CAS 2385-85-5), an organochlorine insecticide and fire retardant used 1959–1978 mainly against fire ants; canceled by EPA, listed as a Stockholm Convention POP, persistent and bioaccumulative, NTP carcinogen.
Mireya Luis
Mireya Luis (Alejandrina Mireya Luis Hernández), Cuban volleyball outside hitter born 1967 in Camagüey; captained Cuba to three straight Olympic golds (1992, 1996, 2000), two world titles, Hall of Fame 2004, now FIVB Executive Vice-President.
Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project
The Mirfa Independent Water and Power Project (Mirfa IWPP) is a gas-fired cogeneration and desalination plant on the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE, in commercial operation since 2017.
Mirgissa
Mirgissa (Egyptian Iken) was a fortified Egyptian town and trade checkpoint in Lower Nubia, northern Sudan, south of the Second Cataract of the Nile, founded in the early Middle Kingdom.
Mirgissa Execration Texts
The Mirgissa execration texts are Middle Kingdom Egyptian ritual inscriptions found at Mirgissa in Lower Nubia in 1962, naming foreign enemies to be ritually subdued.
Mirgorod
Mirgorod (Миргород) is an 1835 collection of four stories by Nikolai Gogol, published in Saint Petersburg and including Taras Bulba, Viy, and Old World Landowners.
Miri
Miri, coastal city in northern Sarawak, Malaysia, second largest in the state; site of Malaysia's first oil well (Miri No. 1, Canada Hill, 1910) and first refinery (1914); city status 20 May 2005; borders Brunei.
MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument)
MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) is the coldest of the four science instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope, observing mid-infrared wavelengths from 4.9 to 28.8 micrometers since 2021.
Miri Ratner
Miri Ratner is an Israeli engineer who co-founded the 4D imaging radar company Vayyar Imaging in 2011 and serves as its vice president of research and development.
Miriam
Miriam, also known as Miriam the Prophetess, is the sister of Moses and Aaron in the Hebrew Bible and the only woman the Torah calls a prophet.
Miriam A. Ferguson
Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson (1875–1961), first woman governor of Texas and second woman governor in US history, served two nonconsecutive terms (1925–1927, 1933–1935) as proxy for her impeached husband Jim Ferguson.
Miriam A. Hyman
Miriam A. Hyman, aka Robyn Hood, is an American actress and hip-hop artist, a Philadelphia native and Yale School of Drama MFA graduate known for Stacy Marks on Power Book IV: Force, Dre on The Chi, and classical stage roles.
Miriam Adelson (מרים אדלסון)
Miriam Adelson (מרים אדלסון), née Farbstein, is an Israeli-American physician and casino magnate who inherited control of Las Vegas Sands after her husband Sheldon died in 2021.