All articles starting with M

Mai Zetterling

Mai Zetterling (1925–1994), Swedish actress, screenwriter, and director; star of Hets (1944) and Frieda (1947), directed Loving Couples, Night Games, and The Girls, feminist cinema landmarks.

Mai-Britt Zocca is a Danish biochemist and biotechnology executive who founded IO Biotech, a Copenhagen developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, and served as its president and CEO from 2015 until 2026.

Mai-chan's Daily Life (まいちゃんの日常)

Mai-chan's Daily Life (まいちゃんの日常, Mai-chan no Nichijō) is a 2004 single-volume ero-guro adult manga by Uziga Waita, published by Sanwa Publishing; an immortal maid premise, Ohta ebook 2013, 2014 live-action film.

MAI-Code-1-Flash

MAI-Code-1-Flash is a small coding model developed in-house by Microsoft AI and released in June 2026, Microsoft's first in-house coding model for GitHub Copilot, built to reduce Microsoft's dependence on OpenAI.

Mai-Ndombe (landform)

Lake Mai-Ndombe (Lac Mai-Ndombe), 'black water' in Kikongo, is Africa's largest humic black-water lake (~2,250 km2, ~4 m deep) in the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe wetland complex, Cuvette Centrale, DR Congo, draining via the Fimi River and emitting CO2, CH4, and N2O including millennial-aged peat carbon.

Maia

Maia (Mais) was the Roman fort at Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria, at the western end of Hadrian's Wall; second largest Wall fort, about 3 ha, with a vicus, later a medieval tower house.

Maia (nurse of Tutankhamun)

Maia was the royal wet nurse of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, known chiefly from her rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, rediscovered in 1996 and opened to the public in 2015.

Maia (Roman goddess)

Maia, Roman goddess of growth and increase honored with a pregnant-sow sacrifice on 1 May, distinct from the Greek Pleiad Maia (Μαῖα), mother of Hermes; the two were conflated through Mercury-Hermes syncretism, and the month May's name remained disputed in antiquity.

Maia (star)

Maia (20 Tauri) is the fourth-brightest star of the Pleiades in Taurus, a chemically peculiar blue-white B-type giant of magnitude 3.87 that rotates far more slowly than its bright neighbors.

Maia arson crimew

Maia arson crimew, formerly known as Tillie Kottmann, is a Swiss hacktivist known for exposing poorly secured systems, most prominently the 2021 Verkada camera breach.

Maia Campbell

Maia Campbell (Maia Chinassa Campbell), American actress born 1976 in Takoma Park, Maryland; played Tiffany Warren on In the House (1995–1999) and Nicole on South Central; daughter of author Bebe Moore Campbell; later publicized bipolar disorder and recovery.

Maia Kealoha

Maia Kealoha (born 2016) is a Hawaiian child actress from the Big Island who debuted as Lilo Pelekai in Disney's 2025 live-action Lilo & Stitch, chosen from over 800 audition tapes at age 6; the film grossed over $1 billion.

Maia Mitchell

Maia Mitchell (born 1993, Lismore, NSW) is an Australian actress known as Callie Adams Foster in The Fosters and Good Trouble, McKenzie in Teen Beach Movie, and Lady Belle Fox in The Artful Dodger.

Maia Morgenstern

Maia Morgenstern (Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern), Romanian Jewish stage and film actress born 1962 in Bucharest; National Theatre Bucharest member and interim director of the State Jewish Theatre; won the 1993 European Film Award for The Oak and played Mary in The Passion of the Christ (2004).

Maia Reficco

Maia Reficco Viqueira, also known as Maia Reficco, born 2000 in Boston, is an Argentine-American actress and singer: Kally Ponce in Kally's Mashup, Noa Olivar in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Eurydice in Broadway's Hadestown, and lead of the 2026 Prime Video film The Last Sunrise.

Maia Sandu

Maia Sandu, Moldovan president since December 2020 and re-elected in 2024, founder of the pro-European PAS party, former World Bank economist, education minister, and 2019 prime minister leading Moldova's EU accession bid.

Maia Shibutani

Maia Shibutani (Maia Harumi Shibutani, born 1994), American ice dancer skating with brother Alex Shibutani; two-time 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, two-time U.S. champion, and 2025-26 comeback competitor.

Maia Weintraub

Maia Mei Weintraub, American right-handed foil fencer born 2002 in Philadelphia, Princeton athlete; 2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist in women's team foil, NCAA and Ivy League foil champion.

Maia, Portugal

Maia is a municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area, northern Portugal, hosting Porto Airport 6 km from the city center. Known for its medieval Terra da Maia heritage, 1519 foral, industrial growth, and 2026 Happy City Index national first place.

Maialen Chourraut

Maialen Chourraut Yurramendi, Spanish canoe slalom K1 paddler born 1983 in Lasarte-Oria. Olympic bronze 2012, gold 2016 (Spain's first slalom title), silver 2020; still racing at 43.

Maianga

Maianga, a municipality of Luanda Province, Angola, created 1 January 2025 from the former urban district; Kimbundu name mazanga meaning ponds; area 26.4 km2, administrator Pedro Orlando Afonso Paca.

Maiara e Maraisa

Maiara e Maraisa, also written Maiara & Maraisa, are a Brazilian sertanejo duo of twin sisters from Mato Grosso, leading feminejo acts known for "Medo Bobo" and "Coração Infectado".

Maiara Walsh

Maiara Walsh (born 1988, Seattle) is a Brazilian-American actress and filmmaker known for Cory in the House, Desperate Housewives, Switched at Birth, Reis, and directing the thriller Bight.

Maiboza

Maiboza is a minor settlement of ancient Lydia in western Anatolia, near Gölmarmara in Manisa province, known only from Roman Imperial inscriptions naming the Maibozanoi, with its exact site unfixed.

Maica Garcia

Maica Garcia (Maria del Carmen Garcia Godoy), born 1990 in Sabadell, is a Spanish water polo center forward who won Olympic gold with Spain at Paris 2024 after two Olympic silvers.

Maicel Malone

Maicel Malone (Maicel Donee Malone-Trapp, Malone-Wallace), born 1969 in Indianapolis, is an American 400 m sprinter who won 4x400 m relay gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 1993 World Championships, and was a three-time US 400 m champion.

Maicol & Manuel

Maicol & Manuel, also written Maicol y Manuel, are a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo from Carolina, Puerto Rico, formed by Miguel Muñoz and Manuel Pérez.

Maid

Maid: female domestic worker performing household labor such as cleaning, cooking, and care in private homes; also called domestic worker. 75.6 million domestic workers worldwide, 81% informal; ILO Convention 189 (2011) set the first global standards.

Maid (book)

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive is Stephanie Land's 2019 Hachette memoir of single-mother poverty and housecleaning in Washington state, a New York Times bestseller adapted into Netflix's 2021 series Maid.