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Miriam Belchior
Miriam Belchior is a Brazilian politician of the Workers' Party who has served as Minister of the Civilian House, the government's chief of staff office, since April 2026.
Miriam Blasco
Miriam Blasco (Míriam Blasco Soto), Spanish judoka born 1963 in Valladolid; won gold at Barcelona 1992, first Spanish woman Olympic champion, world champion 1991, senator 2000–2004.
Míriam Colón
Míriam Colón was a Puerto Rican actress and theater pioneer who founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in 1967. She was best known for her role as Mama Montana in Scarface.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
Miriam Defensor Santiago, born Miriam Palma Defensor (1945–2016), was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as a trial judge, cabinet secretary, and two-term senator.
Miriam Flynn
Miriam Flynn, American character and voice actress born in Cleveland, Ohio (sources differ on 1951 vs 1952), known as Cousin Catherine in the Vacation films, Maa in Babe, and Gandra Dee in DuckTales.
Miriam H. Meisler
Miriam H. Meisler is an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who identified the epilepsy genes SCN8A and SCN1A and received the American Epilepsy Society's 2020 Basic Science Research Award.
Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Hopkins (1902–1972), American actress born Ellen Miriam Hopkins in Savannah, Georgia; Paramount star of Trouble in Paradise and Becky Sharp, Oscar nominee, Bette Davis rival, Walk of Fame honoree.
Miriam J. Alter
Miriam J. Alter is an American epidemiologist who led the CDC's sentinel-county hepatitis surveillance, showed hepatitis C usually becomes chronic, and later worked at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Miriam Kastlunger
Miriam Kastlunger is a retired Austrian luger, born in Innsbruck in 1994, who won the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics girls' singles luge title on her home track.
Miriam Leone
Miriam Leone, born 1985 in Catania, is an Italian actress and Miss Italia 2008 winner known for the 1992 Tangentopoli trilogy, Non uccidere, Eva Kant in Diabolik, and Oriana Fallaci in Miss Fallaci.
Miriam M. Salpeter
Miriam M. Salpeter, also published as M. M. Salpeter, was an American neurobiologist at Cornell University who developed quantitative electron-microscope autoradiography to study the neuromuscular junction.
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba, born Zenzile Miriam Makeba and known as "Mama Africa", was a South African singer and activist who spent 30 years in exile after her passport was revoked in 1960.
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes (born 1941, Oxford) is a British-Australian character actress and voice artist; BAFTA winner for The Age of Innocence, Professor Sprout in Harry Potter, voice of Fly in Babe, memoirist.
Miriam Menkin
Miriam Menkin, born Miriam Friedman (1901–1992), was a Latvian-born American laboratory researcher who performed the first fertilization of a human egg outside the body in 1944.
Miriam Mérad
Miriam Merad is a Paris-born, Algeria-raised immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering that tissue-resident macrophages arise from embryonic precursors and self-renew locally.
Miriam Petche
Miriam Petche, British actress from Brighton; plays Sweetpea Golightly in HBO/BBC's Industry (seasons 3-4), Carrie Symonds in ITV's Believe Me, and stars in the 2026 Chichester stage premiere of Atonement.
Miriam Rivera
Miriam Rivera (1981-2019) was a Mexican transgender model, star of Sky One's 2004 dating show There's Something About Miriam, subject of contestant lawsuits, and died in Hermosillo in 2019.
Miriam Rothschild
Dame Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005), British naturalist and entomologist, world authority on fleas, butterflies, and pyrazines; discovered the rabbit flea's hormone-controlled breeding cycle and the flea jumping mechanism; Bletchley Park code breaker; FRS 1985.
Miriam S. Vitiello
Miriam Serena Vitiello is an Italian physicist who researches terahertz quantum cascade lasers, leading a group at the CNR Nanoscience Institute in Pisa since 2010.
Miriam Shor
Miriam Shor (born 1971) is an American actress and director, creator of Yitzhak in the original Off-Broadway Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Diana Trout on Younger, and an Emmy-nominated Helen in Apple TV+'s Pluribus.
Miriam Sylla
Miriam Sylla (Myriam Fatime Sylla, born 1995, Palermo) is an Italian volleyball outside hitter; Olympic gold Paris 2024, World gold 2025, three VNL titles, European gold 2021, clubs including Imoco Conegliano and Galatasaray.
Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose Muriel at Metropolitan (1975) was the first novel published by a Black woman in South Africa.
Miriam Welte
Miriam Welte (born 1986, Kaiserslautern) is a retired German track cyclist, Olympic team sprint champion London 2012 and Rio 2016 bronze medalist with Kristina Vogel, six-time world champion, later DOSB vice president.
Mirian III (მირიან III)
Mirian III (მირიან III), fourth-century king of Kartli/Iberia, first Christian Georgian king, converted by Saint Nino circa 326, founder of the Chosroid dynasty, debated Sasanian or native descent, buried at Mtskheta's Samtavro Church.
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze
Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (მირიან ცალქალამანიძე, 1927–2000), Georgian freestyle wrestler for the USSR; Olympic flyweight (52 kg) gold at Melbourne 1956, World silver 1957 and bronze 1954, two-time Soviet champion.
Mirikizumab
Mirikizumab (Omvoh, mirikizumab-mrkz), Eli Lilly's humanized IgG4 antibody against IL-23 p19, treats moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease; first approved in Japan in March 2023 and by the FDA in October 2023.
Mirim Airport
Mirim Airport, also designated Pyongyang East Airfield or K-24 Air Base, is a former military airfield in eastern Pyongyang, now used as a military parade training ground.
Mirin (味醂)
Mirin (味醂, hon mirin) is a Japanese sweet rice seasoning wine made from glutinous rice, rice koji, and shochu, matured 40–60 days to about 14% alcohol; distinct from salted or low-alcohol mirin-style seasonings.
Mirion Technologies
Mirion Technologies, Inc. is an American radiation detection and monitoring company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, serving nuclear, defense, medical, and research markets with about 2,800 employees.
Mirit Shem-Ur
Mirit Shem-Ur (מירית שם אור), Israeli lyricist and former theater journalist; ex-wife of composer Tzvika Pik; wrote "Mari Lo", "Hahashtakfut", "Elef Neshikot" for Gaon, "HaLev" for Buskila, and the 2005 Kochav Nolad audition song.