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Mitsuo Tsukahara
Mitsuo Tsukahara (塚原光男), Japanese artistic gymnast born 1947 in Tokyo; five Olympic golds across 1968-1976, namesake of the Tsukahara vault and moon salto, later coach and father of Olympian Naoya Tsukahara.
Mitsuru Adachi (あだち 充)
Mitsuru Adachi (あだち 充), born 1951, is a Japanese manga artist known for baseball series like Touch, H2, and MIX, with more than 200 million copies sold in Japan.
Mitsuru Akashi
Mitsuru Akashi (明石 満) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Kagoshima and Osaka University known for layer-by-layer capsules, nanoparticles for drug delivery, and a 2004 Nature paper on template polymerization.
Mitsuru Hashida
Mitsuru Hashida (橋田 充) is a Japanese pharmaceutics scientist at Kyoto University known for drug delivery systems research, honored with the 2017 Hoest Madsen Medal and a 2025 Order of the Sacred Treasure.
Mitsuru Sato
Mitsuru Sato (佐藤満), born 1961 in Hachirogata, Akita, is a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won Olympic gold in the 52 kg flyweight class at Seoul 1988 and placed sixth at Barcelona 1992.
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満)
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満, 1887–1945), Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, commanded the 120,000-strong 32nd Army in the defense of Okinawa (April–June 1945) behind the Shuri Line and committed hara-kiri with chief of staff Isamu Cho on Hill 89 on 22 June 1945.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, born 1967) is a Japanese novelist known for fiction about family life and for a modern translation of The Tale of Genji.
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田光世)
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田光世), Conde Koma, 1878-1941, Japanese Kodokan judoka who fought worldwide, settled in Belem, Brazil in 1915, and is traditionally credited with teaching Carlos Gracie, a disputed link.
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney (born 1947, Detroit) is an American businessman and retired politician: founder of Bain Capital, rescuer of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, Massachusetts governor 2003–2007, 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and U.S. senator from Utah 2019–2025.
Mitt Romney dog incident
The Mitt Romney dog incident, also called the Seamus story, describes the 1983 trip in which Romney drove 12 hours from Boston to Ontario with his Irish setter in a roof-mounted carrier, reported by the Boston Globe in 2007 and revived through the 2012 campaign and 2024 comparisons with Kristi Noem.
Mittā Therī
Mittā Therī, with Mettā as a manuscript variant, is an arahant nun of the early Buddhist order, a Sākyan of Kapilavatthu who went forth with Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī.
Mittag-Leffler function
The Mittag-Leffler function is an entire function defined by a power series with gamma-function coefficients, introduced by Gösta Mittag-Leffler in 1903 and reducing to the exponential at α = 1.
Mittal Steel Company
Mittal Steel Company was a Rotterdam-headquartered steel producer created in 2004 by Lakshmi Mittal, which became the world's largest steelmaker before merging into ArcelorMittal in 2007.
Mittelland Canal
The Mittelland Canal, also called the Midland Canal, is Germany's longest artificial inland waterway, a 321 km east-west shipping route opened in 1938 linking the Rhine and Elbe.
Mittelplate/Dieksand Oil and Gas Field
Mittelplate/Dieksand is Germany's largest oil field, in the Wadden Sea tidal flats off Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, produced since 1987 from an artificial offshore island and onshore extended-reach wells, and slated to end production by 2041.
Mittelrheinliga
The Mittelrheinliga is the highest men's football league of the Fußball-Verband Mittelrhein, the Middle Rhine regional association, at the fifth tier of German football with 16 clubs.
Mittelschmerz
Mittelschmerz, or ovulation pain, is benign one-sided lower abdominal pain occurring midcycle with ovulation; German for middle pain. Affects roughly 20 to over 40 percent of women, lasts minutes to two days, treated with OTC analgesics or hormonal contraception.
Mitternachtsparty
Mitternachtsparty (Midnight Party, also Hugo das Schlossgespenst) is Wolfgang Kramer's 1989 Ravensburger children's board game for 2-8 players: guests flee the ghost Hugo around a castle gallery, hiding in rooms to avoid fright points.
Mitumba Mountains
Mitumba Mountains (Monts Mitumba, 米通巴山脉): mountain chain in eastern DR Congo along the western Albertine Rift and Lake Tanganyika; highest peak Mount Kahuzi, 3,308 m; includes Kahuzi-Biega National Park and the Itombwe Plateau.
Mitumomab
Mitumomab (BEC2) is a murine anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody cancer vaccine mimicking GD3 ganglioside, developed by ImClone Systems, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Merck KGaA for small cell lung cancer and melanoma; its Phase III SCLC trial failed and development was discontinued.
Mitutoyo
Mitutoyo (株式会社ミツトヨ, Mitutoyo Corporation) is a Japanese manufacturer of precision measuring instruments, founded by Yehan Numata in Tokyo in 1934 to make the world's most accurate micrometer.
Mity
Mity is a 2021 two-player abstract territory game of pure placement by Michael Amundsen, played on a hexhex5 board with a proximity blocking rule, a stalemate loss condition, and the pie rule; Ludii ID DLP.Games.1359.
Mityai
Mityai (Митяй), a Kolomna priest, was confessor to Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow and his candidate for Metropolitan of all Rus, dying at sea in 1379.
Mitzi Epstein
Mitzi Epstein is an American Democratic politician in the Arizona Senate from District 12, after six years in the Arizona House from 2017 to 2022.
Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor (Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber, 1931–2024), American actress, singer, and dancer; star of South Pacific (1958), There's No Business Like Show Business, and Les Girls; later a Las Vegas headliner and Emmy-nominated TV variety special star.
Mitzi I. Kuroda
Mitzi I. Kuroda, born 1958, is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for discovering the MSL dosage compensation complex and roX noncoding RNAs.
Mitzi Kapture
Mitzi Kapture (Mitzi Gaynor Donahue, born 1962) is an American actress and director known for Sgt. Rita Lee Lance on Silk Stalkings (1991–1995), Alex Ryker on Baywatch, and Anita Hodges on The Young and the Restless.
Mitzi L. Duxbury
Mitzi L. Duxbury was an American nurse educator who built the University of Minnesota's nursing doctoral program and served as the fifth dean of the UIC College of Nursing.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue (née Henderson, born 1941), American author, rice farmer, and anti-human-trafficking advocate; founder of Win This Fight, past president of American Agri-Women, Scripps Howard environmental columnist, and Ukraine war correspondent honored with Ukraine's Order of Princess Olga.
Mitzi Shore
Mitzi Shore (1930-2018), American comedy club owner who co-founded and ran The Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip from 1972, created the Door Guy and Paid Regular system, and weathered the 1979 comedians' strike.