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Misha Malyshev
Misha Malyshev, also known as Mikhail Malyshev, is a Russian emigre quantitative trader who founded Teza Technologies in Chicago after leading Citadel's high-frequency trading business.
Misha Mansoor
Misha Mansoor (born 1984), also known as Bulb, is an American guitarist and producer, founder of progressive metal band Periphery and a pioneer of djent; also known for Animals as Leaders production, Jackson Juggernaut signature guitars, and Horizon Devices Precision Drive.
Misha Tsodyks
Misha Tsodyks is a theoretical neuroscientist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and the Institute for Advanced Study, known for his 1996 Nature paper on synaptic plasticity.
Misha Yu. Ivanov
Misha Yu. Ivanov, also known as Misha Ivanov, is a Russian-born theoretical physicist born in 1964 who studies electron motion on attosecond timescales driven by intense lasers.
Mishael Morgan
Mishael Morgan is a Trinidadian-Canadian actress known for Hilary Curtis and Amanda Sinclair on The Young and the Restless, and first Black woman to win the Daytime Emmy for Lead Actress.
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح)
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح), born 1940, is the Emir of Kuwait since 16 December 2023, succeeding half-brother Nawaf; a former security chief and National Guard deputy chief who suspended Kuwait's parliament and constitution in May 2024.
Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain (born 1973) is a British broadcast journalist, BBC Today presenter 2013–2024, now Bloomberg Weekend Edition Editor-at-Large and host of The Mishal Husain Show; author of Broken Threads.
Mishar Tatars (мишәр)
Mishar Tatars (мишәр) are a Volga-Ural Tatar subethnos speaking Tatar's western dialect, concentrated historically around Nizhny Novgorod and Meshchera, with debated origins traced to Burtas, Khazars, Kipchaks, or Mozhars and a Baltic diaspora.
Mishari bin Saud
Mishari bin Saud (مشاري بن سعود) was a prince of the House of Saud who briefly restored Saudi rule in Diriyah in 1820, then died in an Ottoman prison.
Misharu (crater on Ganymede)
Misharu, an 88 km impact crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede at -4.31°, 335.89°, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Assyro-Babylonian god of law; namesake of the Jg-10 quadrangle.
Mishima incident
The Mishima incident (三島事件), 25 November 1970: writer Yukio Mishima and four Tatenokai militia members took an SDF commandant hostage at Camp Ichigaya, Tokyo, demanded a coup to restore imperial rule, and Mishima committed seppuku.
Mishima Skywalk
Mishima Skywalk (三島スカイウォーク), officially Hakone Seiroku Mishima Suspension Bridge, is a 400 m pedestrian suspension bridge in Mishima, Shizuoka, opened 2015, viewing Mt. Fuji and Suruga Bay; Japan's longest until 2025.
Mishima Yukio Prize
The Mishima Yukio Prize (三島由紀夫賞), often shortened to Mishima-shō, is a Japanese literary prize created in 1988 to honor writer Mishima Yukio, awarded annually to a new writer.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is Paul Schrader's 1985 biographical film on Yukio Mishima, interweaving his final day, black-and-white flashbacks, and three novel dramatizations; unreleased in Japan until 2025.
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Mishka Rushdie Momen (born 1992, London) is a British classical pianist, niece of Salman Rushdie, known for Reformation (Hyperion, 2024) of Tudor keyboard music, Hall of Mirrors (2026), and the 2021 Times Breakthrough Award.
Mishkat al-Masabih (مشكاة المصابيح)
Mishkat al-Masabih (مشكاة المصابيح) is a 14th-century Sunni hadith collection by al-Khatib al-Tabrizi, who expanded al-Baghawi's Masabih al-Sunnah to about 6,000 hadith with source attributions.
Mishkinskoye Oil Field
Mishkinskoye Oil Field (Мишкинское месторождение) is one of the largest oil fields in Udmurtia, Russia, discovered in 1966 and operated by Udmurtneft under Rosneft and Sinopec, with more than 42 million tonnes produced by 2023.
Mishna Wolff
Mishna Wolff, American humorist, memoirist, and screenwriter; author of I'm Down (2009) about her Seattle childhood; wrote her debut film Werewolves Within (2021) via Ubisoft's Women's Fellowship.
Mishnah (משנה)
The Mishnah (משנה), also called Mishna or Mishnayot, is the collection of rabbinic oral traditions redacted around 200 CE and attributed to Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi; it is the foundation of both Talmuds.
Mishnaic Hebrew (עברית משנאית)
Mishnaic Hebrew (עברית משנאית), also called Rabbinic Hebrew or leshon ḥazal, is the Hebrew of the Tannaim and Amoraim, the language of the Mishnah, spoken in Palestine until about 200 CE and distinct from Biblical Hebrew in grammar and vocabulary.
Mishneh Torah (משנה תורה)
Mishneh Torah (משנה תורה), also Sefer Yad ha-Chazakah, is Maimonides' 14-book code of all Jewish law, written in Egypt 1170–1180, notable for omitting sources, sparking controversy, and remaining a foundational halakhic authority.
Misia Butler
Misia Butler is a London-born British trans actor known for Caeneus in Netflix's KAOS (2024), plus Kiss Me First, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and 2026 stage and film roles.
MiSide
MiSide (米塔) is a 2024 first-person psychological horror game by two-person studio AIHASTO, published by IndieArk and Shochiku, in which the player is trapped inside a dating sim by Mita; Metascore 83, ~97% of 142k Steam reviews positive.
Misidentification delusion
A misidentification delusion is a fixed, false belief about the identity of people, places, or objects, typically that familiar people have been replaced by identical-looking impostors.
Misinformation
Misinformation: false or inaccurate information shared regardless of intent, distinct from deliberately deceptive disinformation. Covers its definitions, history, how people judge false news, fact-checking limits, interventions like prebunking and accuracy prompts, and LLM susceptibility to cognitive bias.
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: false claims around Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including weather-modification conspiracies, FEMA diversion rumors, and political amplification, debunked by NOAA, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org.
Misinformation about violence by transgender people
Misinformation about violence by transgender people: false claims of rising transgender mass shooters, contradicted by Gun Violence Archive data (five such shootings since 2013) and NCVS victimization data showing transgender people are over four times more likely to be victims.
Misinformation during the 2026 Iran war
Misinformation during the 2026 Iran war: false claims, recycled footage, and AI-generated imagery that spread after the 28 February 2026 US-Israeli strikes on Iran, tracked by NewsGuard (165 false claims) and Teyit, with state-linked pro-Iran campaigns and the liar's dividend eroding trust in authentic evidence.
Misiones Province
Misiones Province, Argentina's northeastern province with capital Posadas, bordered almost entirely by the Iguazú, Paraná, and Uruguay rivers with Brazil and Paraguay; 29,801 km², 1,278,873 people (2022), provincialized in 1953, home to Iguazú Falls and yerba mate production.
Misirlou (Μισιρλού)
Misirlou (Μισιρλού), 'Egyptian girl' from Turkish Mısırlı, is an Eastern Mediterranean rebetiko song first recorded by Tetos Demetriades in 1927, made famous by Dick Dale's 1962 surf version and Pulp Fiction.