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Montel McKenzie

Montel McKenzie (Montel Brian McKenzie), English defender born 1997 in London; ex-West Ham and Arsenal youth, US college soccer, Isthmian Premier title with Folkestone Invicta 2025/26, now AFC Whyteleafe.

Montel Vontavious Porter

Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP), born Alvin Antonio Burke Jr. (Hassan Hamin Assad), is an American wrestler and manager: two-time WWE United States Champion, inaugural IWGP Intercontinental Champion, and leader of The Hurt Business and The Hurt Syndicate in AEW.

Montel Williams

Montel Williams (born 1956, Baltimore) is an American TV host, actor, and retired Navy lieutenant commander who hosted The Montel Williams Show (1991–2008), won a 1996 Daytime Emmy, and founded an MS foundation after his 1999 diagnosis.

Monteleone chariot

The Monteleone chariot is an elaborately bronze-sheathed Etruscan parade chariot from the sixth century B.C., found at Monteleone di Spoleto in 1902 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Montell Douglas

Montell Douglas (born 1986, Lewisham) is a British dual Olympian: 100m sprinter and British record holder (11.05) at Beijing 2008, then brakewoman for Mica McNeill, finishing 17th in two-woman bobsleigh at Beijing 2022, the first British woman at both Summer and Winter Games.

Montell Fish

Montell Fish is the stage name of Montell Frazier (born 1997), a Pittsburgh singer-songwriter and producer blending lo-fi R&B, soft pop, and Christian themes. Known for JAMIE (2022), CHARLOTTE (2024), and the dj gummy bear alias.

Montell Jordan

Montell Jordan (Montell Du'Sean Barnett, born 1968), American R&B singer-songwriter; 1995 hit "This Is How We Do It" topped the Hot 100 seven weeks; later left Def Jam for ministry and Christian music at Victory World Church.

Montelukast

Montelukast (Singulair) is an oral leukotriene receptor antagonist for asthma, allergic rhinitis, and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, first FDA-approved in 1998 and given a 2020 Boxed Warning for neuropsychiatric events.

Montenegrin Federalist Party

The Montenegrin Federalist Party (Crnogorska federalistička stranka), officially the Montenegrin Party, was active in Montenegro from 1922 and led by Sekula Drljević, campaigning for autonomy within Yugoslavia.

Montenegrin language

Montenegrin (crnogorski jezik) is the official language of Montenegro since 2007, one of four BCMS Štokavian standards, codified by the 2009 orthography with two extra letters, Ś and Ź, and distinct naming politics.

Montenegrins

Montenegrins (Crnogorci), South Slavic ethnic group and titular nation of Montenegro; 41.12% of the 2023 census population. Identity contested with Serbs; language and religion shared, distinctiveness rests on history, geography, tribal society.

Montenegro (organization)

Montenegrin Olympic Committee (Crnogorski olimpijski komitet, COK), Montenegro's national Olympic committee and umbrella sports federation body, formed after 2006 independence, IOC-recognized July 7, 2007 as the 204th member; first Olympic flag at Beijing 2008.

Montenegro (Црна Гора)

Montenegro (Црна Гора) is a small upper-middle-income Western Balkan country of about 623,000 people, independent from Serbia since a 2006 referendum, a NATO member since 2017, and the leading EU accession candidate targeting 2028 membership with a tourism-heavy euroized economy.

Montenegro national football team

Montenegro men's national football team (Crna Gora), FSCG-governed since 2006 independence; debut 2-1 win over Hungary 2007; never reached a major tournament; home Stadion Pod Goricom; Jovetić 37 goals.

Monteplase

Monteplase (Cleactor, E6010) is a recombinant mutant tissue-type plasminogen activator thrombolytic with a Cys84Ser mutation, approved in Japan in 2005 for acute pulmonary embolism and myocardial infarction, distinct from alteplase and tenecteplase.

Montepulciano

Montepulciano is a Tuscan hill town in the Province of Siena, on the ridge between Val d'Orcia and Valdichiana, known for Piazza Grande, Michelozzo's Palazzo Comunale, San Biagio, and Vino Nobile DOCG wine.

Montepulciano (grape)

Montepulciano is a central Italian red wine grape, main variety of Abruzzo's Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC and Marche's Rosso Conero; unrelated to Sangiovese despite the shared name with Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Montepulciano d'Abruzzo is an Abruzzo DOC red wine, recognized 1968, made from at least 85% Montepulciano grapes, distinct from Tuscany's Sangiovese-based Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.

Montérégie

Montérégie, Quebec administrative region 16 south of Montreal, second most populous with 1,522,372 people (2025), 8,825 km², major agricultural area contributing 32% of Quebec farm income, bordering Ontario, Vermont, and New York.

Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a bay on central California's Pacific coast, protected as the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (designated 1992). Monterey Submarine Canyon, upwelling, and hundreds of shipwrecks distinguish it.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monterey Bay Aquarium, a nonprofit aquarium on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, opened October 20, 1984 with a $55 million Packard gift; known for its living kelp forest, Seafood Watch program, and sea otter recovery work.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California, founded by David Packard in 1987 to advance marine science and technology.

Monterey County, California

Monterey County, California: original 1850 county on the central coast, seat Salinas. 439,035 residents (2020), 62.9% Hispanic, $11.7 billion agriculture, major defense and tourism economy.

Monterey Formation

The Monterey Formation is a Miocene marine sedimentary rock unit in California, built from diatom remains, that generated much of the oil in the state's coastal basins.

Monterey Jack

Monterey Jack, also called Jack cheese or California Jack, is a mild semi-soft washed-curd American cheese from Monterey County, California, legally defined at 44 percent maximum moisture and 50 percent milkfat in solids, commercialized by David Jacks and aged 3 to 6 weeks.

Monterey Jazz Festival

Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), annual jazz festival founded 1958 by Jimmy Lyons and Ralph Gleason at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, California; longest continuously-running jazz festival in the world, nonprofit, with education programs and the Jimmy Lyons Stage.

Monterey Park, California

Monterey Park, California: San Gabriel Valley city eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the 'first suburban Chinatown' and first majority-Asian U.S. city (1990). 57,457 residents (2025), 64.8% Asian; transformed by Chinese immigration since the 1970s.

Monterey Pop

Monterey Pop (1968) is D. A. Pennebaker's concert documentary of the June 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, featuring Hendrix, Joplin, Otis Redding, the Who, and Ravi Shankar; the founding rockumentary, later in the National Film Registry.

Monterey, California

Monterey, California: coastal city founded by Spain in 1770 by Portola and Serra; capital of California under Spanish and Mexican rule; site of the 1827 Old Custom House, Sloat's 1846 flag raising, Cannery Row, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Monterfil II at Corseul

Monterfil II, at Corseul (Côtes-d'Armor), France: an excavated commercial and artisanal quarter of Gallo-Roman Fanum Martis, capital of the Coriosolites, dug 1986-1997 by Hervé Kerébel, occupied 15/10 BC to 4th century AD.