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List of terms used for Germans
Terms for Germans across languages: endonym Deutsch (from theodisk 'of the people'), exonyms from Germania, Alemanni, Saxons, and Slavic němъ 'mute' (Niemiec, Němec), English Dutch/Pennsylvania Dutch, and pejoratives Hun, Boche, Kraut, mof.
List of U.S. cities with large Black populations
Ranks U.S. cities by Black or African American population: New York City leads by count (1.78M, 2020 Census); Grambling, Louisiana leads by share (96.5%); Stonecrest, GA tops large cities; NYC metro has the largest Black population.
List of U.S. states by Amish population
Ranking of U.S. states by Amish population, also called Amish population by state. Pennsylvania (96,535), Ohio (87,760), and Indiana (68,025) lead the 2026 estimates; 33 states total 414,545 horse-and-buggy Amish.
Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai) are the Baltic ethnic group forming 84.6 percent of Lithuania's 2021 population; they speak Lithuanian, founded the last pagan European state, and were Christianized in 1387.
Livonians
Livonians (līvlizt, Latvian lībieši) are a Finnic people indigenous to Latvia, once inhabiting a third of the country, now about 200 people with roughly 40-50 critically endangered speakers of the Livonian language.
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creole people, also called Creoles of color and white Creoles, are the native people of colonial Louisiana of French, Spanish, African, and Native American descent, defined historically by Louisiana birth, Catholic faith, and French or Kouri-Vini language, not by race.
Luhya people
The Luhya (Luyia, Abaluhya) are Kenya's second-largest ethnic group, about 5.3 million Bantu-speaking people in western Kenya, comprising roughly 17-18 sub-groups such as the Bukusu and Maragoli, with no single Luhya language.
Luo people
The Luo are a Nilotic-speaking people of East Africa, over 3 million in western Kenya around Lake Victoria, speaking Dholuo, migrated from Sudan over 500 years, organized in clans, farming, herding, and fishing.
Lurs
Lurs (Lor) are an Iranian people of the southern Zagros, western Iran, speaking Northern and Southern Luri related to Persian, mostly Twelver Shi'ite, historically pastoral nomads, ~3.5-4 million, including Bakhtiaris (Lur-e Bozorg), Mamasani, and Kuhgiluya.
Lusitanians
The Lusitanians (Latin Lusitani) were an ancient Indo-European people of western Iberia between the Tagus and Douro rivers, speakers of the non-Celtic Lusitanian language, famed for Viriathus's resistance to Rome and for giving their name to the Roman province of Lusitania.
Maasai people
Maasai: semi-nomadic Nilotic pastoralists (Maa language) of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, about 160,000 km2 of rangeland; known for cattle-centered culture and conflicts over conservation, parks, and tourism land loss.
Macedonians (Македонци) (ethnic group)
Macedonians (Македонци, Makedonci) are the South Slavic majority ethnic group of North Macedonia, speaking Macedonian; 58.44% of residents declared as such in the 2021 census, with identity contested by Greece and Bulgaria.
Madison Grant
Madison Grant (1865–1937), American lawyer, conservationist, and eugenicist; co-founder of the Bronx Zoo and Boone and Crockett Club member; author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), which shaped the 1924 Immigration Act and influenced Nazi racial policy.
Madison Marilla
Madison Marilla is an American autism advocate, educator, and Love on the Spectrum U.S. Season 3 cast member, engaged to Tyler White, founder of Madizen jewelry, not an ethnic group; the name is a personal name misplaced in taxonomy.
Magars
Magars (मगर), Nepal's largest indigenous janajati (2,013,498 in the 2021 census), a Tibeto-Burman hill people of the Rapti-Gandaki hills with Barha Magarati, Kham, and Kaike subgroups, Bheja-Rodhi governance, and Gurkha military tradition.
Maghrebi Jews
Maghrebi Jews are the historic Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, about 500,000 strong before World War II, speaking Judeo-Arabic, Haketia, and Judeo-Berber, and now mostly living in Israel, France, and Canada.
Mahi people
The Mahi are an ethnic group of central Benin, formed by centuries of resistance to the kingdom of Dahomey and now about 17 percent of the population.
Makua people
Makua (Makhuwa, Macua, Emakhuwa): Bantu-speaking people of northern Mozambique with communities in Tanzania and Malawi; speakers of Emakhuwa (zone P.30), matrilineal descent, Mount Namuli origin tradition.
Malay race
Malay race (bangsa Melayu): a state population category in Malaysia and Singapore, one of the Malay-Chinese-Indian-Others groups inherited from British colonial censuses, legally and administratively tied to Bumiputera status and Malay identity.
Malays (أورڠ ملايو) (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu) are an Austronesian ethnic group of maritime Southeast Asia defined by Malay language, Islam, and adat custom; Malaysia's constitution fixes these criteria legally, and Malays form 58.4% of Malaysian citizens (2026) and 67.4% of Brunei's 2021 population.
Malaysians
Malaysians are the people of Malaysia, officially classified as Bumiputera (70.5% of citizens in 2025), Chinese (22.2%), Indian (6.5%), and Others, a plural society shaped by British colonial-era migration of Chinese and Indian laborers.
Maltese people
The Maltese people (Maltin) are the nation native to Malta, Gozo, and Comino, speaking Maltese, a Semitic Latin-script language. Genetically closest to Sicilians, with the largest diaspora in Australia (234,402 claiming Maltese ancestry, 2021).
Manchu people
The Manchu people, also known as the Manchus, are an East Asian ethnic group from northeast China who founded and ruled the Qing dynasty from 1644 to 1912.
Mandaeans
Mandaeans (Sabian-Mandaeans, Arabic Ṣubba) are a Gnostic ethno-religious minority of Iraq and Iran, about 60,000 worldwide, speaking Mandaic Aramaic, practicing river baptism, venerating John the Baptist, and centered on the Ginza Rabba scripture.
Mandinka people
The Mandinka, also called the Malinke, are a West African people of the Mande group living mainly in the Gambia, Senegal, Mali, and Guinea, and descended from the Mali Empire.
Manx people
Manx people are the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a Crown dependency in the Irish Sea; "Manx" also names their Goidelic Gaelic language. Of Scandio-Celtic origin, they lost their last native speaker in 1974, and about 2,200 revived-language speakers remain.
Maranao people
The Maranao (Meranao) are the largest Islamic ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines, living around Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao; known for the torogan royal house, okir carving, malong weaving, and kolintang gong music.
Marathi people
Marathi people (मराठी लोक) are Marathi-language speakers of Maharashtra, India; 83 million speakers (2011), homeland state formed 1960, Maratha Empire under Shivaji from 1674, Marathi made a Classical Language in 2024.
Mari people
The Mari (formerly Cheremis) are a Finno-Ugric people of the Middle Volga, Russia, centered in Mari El; two written languages (Hill, Meadow), traditional grove religion, population falling from 547,605 (2010) to 423,803 (2021).
Maroons
Maroons: communities of self-liberated enslaved Africans and their descendants, also called palenques or quilombos, who escaped plantation slavery across the Americas; Palmares in Brazil was the largest, and descendant communities persist in Suriname, Jamaica, and Colombia.