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Margaret Brown
Margaret Tobin Brown (1867–1932), Denver philanthropist and reformer mythologized as "Molly Brown" after the Titanic; juvenile justice, Ludlow relief, suffrage, Devastated France; not actually named Molly.
Margaret Brownson Usen
Margaret Brownson Usen, also known as Margaret Brownson Obi, is a Nigerian philanthropist who was First Lady of Anambra State as the wife of Governor Peter Obi.
Margaret Trudeau
Margaret Trudeau is a Canadian author and mental health speaker, known for her public disclosure of bipolar disorder and her marriage to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Marguerite Alibert
Marguerite Alibert (Maggie Meller, Marguerite Fahmy), French courtesan and mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales; acquitted at the 1923 Old Bailey trial for shooting her Egyptian husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey at the Savoy Hotel; died 1971.
Maria Rasputin
Maria Rasputin (Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina, 1898-1977), daughter of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin; emigre memoirist, Paris cabaret dancer, and American circus lion tamer who wrote three books defending her father.
Maria Schicklgruber
Maria Anna Schicklgruber (1795–1847), Austrian peasant of Strones, mother of Alois Hitler and grandmother of Adolf Hitler; her 1876 posthumous legitimization by Johann Georg Hiedler and the debunked Frankenberger Jewish-grandfather myth define her historical notability.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American civil rights lawyer and children's rights activist, first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and founder and 45-year president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Marie-France van Heel
Marie-France van Heel (Frankie), born 1970, Dutch-born marketing executive, wife of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham since 2000; met at Cambridge 1989, 1992 Blind Date contestant, Be.EV/Iduna executive, Plan International UK trustee.
Marilyn Quayle
Marilyn Tucker Quayle (born 1949), American lawyer and Second Lady of the United States 1989-1993 as Dan Quayle's wife; Purdue and Indiana University law graduate, FEMA board member, breast cancer advocate, novelist with sister Nancy Northcott.
Marina Oswald Porter (Марина Николаевна Прусакова)
Marina Oswald Porter (Марина Николаевна Прусакова), Russian-born widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, married him in Minsk in 1961, testified first before the Warren Commission, and was cleared by the HSCA.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio (1942–1996), American Free Speech Movement leader at UC Berkeley; philosophy student and Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer famous for the 1964 police-car speech and "bodies upon the gears" address.
Marital debt
Marital debt covers debts spouses owe before or during marriage. Liability depends on common law versus community property regimes; divorce decrees divide debt internally but do not bind creditors, who can pursue either contracting spouse.
Marital separation
Marital separation, also called a trial separation, occurs when a married couple stops living together and keeps separate residences and finances; a legal separation is a court process, and the marriage continues.
Marius Borg Høiby
Marius Borg Høiby, born 1997, is Queen Mette-Marit of Norway's eldest son and King Haakon's stepson, with no royal title. Convicted June 2026 of two rapes and abuse, sentenced to four years, now appealing to Borgarting Court of Appeal with retrial set for February 2027.
Mark Anthony Stroman
Mark Anthony Stroman (1969-2011) was an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas member who killed two men and blinded a third in Dallas-area post-9/11 revenge shootings; executed July 20, 2011, after victim Rais Bhuiyan's forgiveness campaign failed.
Mark Ashton
Mark Ashton (1960–1987) was a Northern Irish communist and gay rights activist, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners during the 1984–85 miners' strike and General Secretary of the Young Communist League, portrayed in the 2014 film Pride.
Mark Dice
Mark Dice (Mark Shouldice, born 1977, Milwaukee) is an American conservative YouTuber, media analyst, and author of Illuminati and fake-news books; his channel began January 24, 2007, reaching about 1.9 million subscribers and 712 million views.
Marko Milošević
Marko Milošević (born 1974) is the son of Slobodan Milošević and Mirjana Marković, owner of Požarevac's Madonna club and Bambiland park, in Russian exile since 2000; distinct from his MP son and several footballers of the same name.
Marriage
Marriage: socially and legally recognized union establishing rights between partners, their children, and kin. Also called matrimony; forms include civil, religious, customary, monogamous and polygamous. Recorded from about 2350 B.C. in Mesopotamia; same-sex marriage legal in nearly 40 jurisdictions since 2001.
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30) is the UK law legalizing same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Royal Assent 17 July 2013; first marriages 29 March 2014; includes the quadruple lock religious protection.
Marriage à la façon du pays
Marriage à la façon du pays, or country marriage, was the customary common-law marriage between European fur traders and Indigenous or Métis women in North America, combining Indigenous bride-price customs with European elements, sustaining trade alliances, and producing the Métis people.
Marriage age in the United States
Marriage age in the United States: state-set minimum marriage ages and exceptions. As of 2025, 16 states, 2 territories, and D.C. ban marriage under 18 with no exceptions; 4 states and 2 territories set no statutory floor; over 300,000 minors married 2000–2018.
Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines
Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines: Family Code legal rules, Catholic veil, cord, coins and candle rituals, sponsors, Muslim and indigenous traditions, and declining marriage statistics.
Marriage in Anglicanism
Marriage in Anglicanism is the teaching and liturgical practice of Anglican churches, treating marriage as a permanent, lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, governed by canon law.
Marriage in Hinduism
Marriage in Hinduism, or Vivaha (विवाह), is a Hindu sacrament regarded as a sacred, indissoluble bond spanning multiple lifetimes and counted among the samskaras, or rites of passage.
Marriage in Iran
Marriage in Iran is governed by the Civil Code as interpreted through Jaʿfari Shiʿite jurisprudence, with a minimum marriage age of 13 for girls and 15 for boys.
Marriage in Islam
Marriage in Islam (nikah) is a civil-law contract with offer, acceptance, mahr dower, wali, and witnesses. Covers classical fiqh rules, divorce, polygyny, codification, and 2025 state-law changes.
Marriage in Japan
Marriage in Japan is a legal union registered through the koseki family register, requiring a single shared surname and defined by civil law as between a man and a woman.
Marriage in Pakistan
Marriage in Pakistan (nikah) is a family-centered legal contract under Muslim family law: high cousin-marriage rates, 80.5% of women reporting a say in spouse choice (PDHS 2017-18), and evolving child-marriage laws by province.
Marriage in the Catholic Church
Marriage in the Catholic Church (matrimony) is a sacrament: a lifelong covenant between a baptized man and woman, defined in canon 1055 of the 1983 Code, marked by unity and indissolubility, formed by consent, and governed by canon law on impediments, nullity, and remarriage.