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Maiherpri
Maiherpri, also written Maiherperi, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian official, probably of Nubian descent, buried in tomb KV36 in the Valley of the Kings, found intact in 1899.
Maiia
Maiia, real name Alla Vagner, is a Russian psy-chill DJ and producer from Moscow, active since the mid-2000s, founder of Mystic Sound Records, with 11 full-length albums.
Maija Isola
Maija Isola (1927–2001) was a Finnish textile designer and painter, the first designer for Marimekko, where she created over 500 patterns including the 1964 Unikko print.
Maijid Moujaled
Maijid Moujaled is a Ghanaian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Chipper Cash, a San Francisco-based cross-border payments company, in 2018 with Ham Serunjogi, and serves as its President.
Maijing (Pulse Classic)
The Maijing (脉经), or Pulse Classic, is a third-century Chinese treatise on pulse diagnosis by the imperial physician Wang Shuhe, the earliest surviving work on pulse theory.
Maijishan Grottoes
The Maijishan Grottoes (麦积山石窟) are 194 rock-cut Buddhist caves on a hill near Tianshui, Gansu, begun around 400 CE, known as the Oriental Sculpture Museum for their clay statues.
Maik Bullmann
Maik Bullmann, German Greco-Roman wrestler born 1967 in Frankfurt (Oder); Olympic light-heavyweight gold 1992 and bronze 1996; world champion 1989-1991; first unified Germany world champion; later national Greco-Roman head coach.
Maik Landsmann
Maik Landsmann (born 1967, Erfurt) is a German former road cyclist; East Germany's 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 100 km team time trial, 1989 world champion and 1990 world silver medalist in the same event.
Maik Taylor
Maik Taylor, born 1971 in Hildesheim, Germany, is a former goalkeeper who won 88 Northern Ireland caps (1999-2011) via a defunct eligibility rule, starred for Fulham and Birmingham City, and later coached NI and Birmingham goalkeepers.
Maika Harper
Maika Harper is a Canadian mixed Inuk actor, model, and author from Iqaluit, Nunavut, based in Toronto. Known for Anna in Mohawk Girls and Neevee in North of North, plus children's books The Walrus and the Caribou and The First Peoples.
Maika Monroe
Maika Monroe (born 1993, Santa Barbara) is an American actress and former world No. 32 kiteboarder, known as a scream queen for It Follows, The Guest, Watcher, and Longlegs, with They Follow and Victorian Psycho upcoming.
Maike Nollen
Maike Nollen, born 1977 in East Berlin, is a German sprint canoer who won K4 500 m gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics with Fischer, Wagner, and Leonhardt, plus world and European medals for KC Charlottenburg.
Maike Sander
Maike Sander is a German-born physician-scientist who has led the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin since 2022 and researches pancreatic beta cell development and diabetes.
Maikel P. Peppelenbosch
Maikel P. Peppelenbosch (born 1967) is a Dutch cell biologist and physician-scientist, professor of Experimental Gastroenterology and head of laboratory at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam since 2009.
Maiken Caspersen Falla
Maiken Caspersen Falla, born 1990, Norwegian cross-country sprint skier; 2014 Olympic sprint champion, 2018 silver and bronze, ten World Championship medals with five gold, 22 World Cup sprint wins, retired April 2022.
Maiken H. Mikkelsen
Maiken H. Mikkelsen, also known as Maiken Mikkelsen, is a physicist who leads nanophotonics research at Duke University, known for plasmonic nanoantennas and ultrafast single-photon sources.
Maiken Nedergaard
Maiken Nedergaard is a neuroscientist known for discovering the glymphatic system, the brain network that clears metabolic waste during sleep, and for her research on astrocytes.
Maiko
Maiko are apprentice geiko, trainee female entertainers of Kyoto's five hanamachi (the Gokagai) who perform dance and banquet arts before the erikae transition to geiko, wearing susohiki kimono, darari obi, and okobo sandals.
Maiko Marine Promenade
舞子海上プロムナード (Maiko Marine Promenade): paid circular walkway inside the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge girder, Kobe, Hyogo; 47 m above sea, 317 m long, glass floor sections, observation lounge and cafe.
Maikro Romero
Maikro Romero (Maikro Eusebio Romero Esquirol, born 1972), Cuban amateur boxer: Olympic flyweight gold at Atlanta 1996, light-flyweight bronze at Sydney 2000; later national-team coach in Saudi Arabia and China.
Mail: physical correspondence and parcels moved by organized postal systems. Covers postal history, USPS scale (108.7 billion pieces FY2025), universal service obligations, and the digital-era decline in letters versus parcel growth.
Mail and wire fraud
Mail and wire fraud are parallel U.S. federal crimes (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343) punishing schemes to defraud executed through the mails or interstate wires, including honest-services fraud limited by Skilling to bribery and kickbacks.
Mail carrier
A mail carrier, also known as a letter carrier, is a postal employee who delivers and collects mail along an established route to homes and businesses.
Mail merge
Mail merge is a document-production technique combining a template document containing placeholders with a data source like a spreadsheet, producing personalized letters, labels, envelopes, or bulk email.
Mail Transfer Protocol
Mail Transfer Protocol (MTP) is an application-layer protocol for transferring email between hosts, specified in RFC 780 by Suzanne Sluizer and Jonathan Postel in May 1981.
Mail-order bride
Mail-order bride: outdated term for international matchmaking and correspondence courtship, from 19th-century American personal ads and picture brides to today's IMBRA-regulated dating platforms.
Mail.com
Mail.com is an American email service, founded in 1995 and owned since 2009 by Germany's United Internet, best known for its choice of more than 100 email domains.
Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi (Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi, died 2008), Finnish-American actress known as Vampira, television's first horror host on KABC-TV 1954-1955; appeared in Plan 9 From Outer Space and lost the 1989 Elvira lawsuit.
Maila Talvio
Maila Talvio, born Maria Winter and married name Mikkola, was a Finnish novelist and translator whose Helsinki historical trilogy Itämeren tytär (1929–1936) developed the Finnish historical novel.
Mailchimp
Mailchimp, also known as Intuit Mailchimp, is an all-in-one email and marketing platform founded in Atlanta in 2001 and acquired by Intuit in 2021 for approximately $12 billion.