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Mandy Rice-Davies
Mandy Rice-Davies (Marilyn Rice-Davies, 1944–2014), Welsh showgirl of the 1963 Profumo affair, famous for the retort "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" at Stephen Ward's trial, later nightclub owner in Israel and novelist.
Manipulation (psychology)
Psychological manipulation is social influence that changes behavior or perception through deceptive, underhanded tactics, distinct from persuasion and coercion; gaslighting, its best-studied form, makes victims doubt their own reality.
Manoj Jarange
Manoj Jarange Patil (मनोज जरांगे पाटील), Maratha reservation activist from Antarwali Sarati, Jalna, Maharashtra; leads Kunbi-certificate/OBC quota agitation through repeated hunger strikes since 2023, distinct from other Maratha quota leaders.
Manosphere
The manosphere is a decentralized network of anti-feminist, male-supremacist online communities, including MRAs, Pick-Up Artists, The Red Pill, MGTOW, and incels; term coined 2009, roots in 1970s men's rights movement, increasingly linked to radicalization and mainstream influencers like Andrew Tate.
Mansi people
The Mansi people, formerly called Voguls, are an indigenous group of western Siberia in Russia. They live in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and traditionally practice hunting and fishing.
Mansplaining
Mansplaining, a blend of man and explain coined in 2008 after Rebecca Solnit's essay, is a man's condescending explanation to a woman regardless of her expertise; OED-listed since 2018.
Manspreading
Manspreading: pejorative term for men sitting with legs wide apart on public transport, encroaching on adjacent seats. Coined in print October 2014; MTA 'Courtesy Counts' campaign; banned in Madrid metro from 2015.
Manufacturing Consent
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (Pantheon, 1988), argues US media serve elite interests via five structural filters: ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, anticommunism.
Manvendra Singh Gohil (मानवेंद्र सिंह गोहिल)
Manvendra Singh Gohil (मानवेंद्र सिंह गोहिल), prince of the erstwhile state of Rajpipla, Gujarat, and 39th of the Gohil dynasty, came out in 2006 as India's first openly gay prince, was disowned by his family, and founded the Lakshya Trust.
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.
Māori Land March
The Māori Land March was a 1975 protest march led by Whina Cooper, who walked 1,000 km from Te Hāpua to Parliament in Wellington to protest Māori land loss.
Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (tangata whenua); ancestors arrived by canoe before 1300 CE, signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, and numbered 978,246, 19.6% of the population, in the 2023 Census.
Mapuche
Mapuche, "people of the earth" in mapuzugun, are the largest indigenous people of Chile and Argentina, centered in Araucanía, known for resisting Inca, Spanish, and Chilean conquest until the 1880s Pacification of Araucanía.
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.
Maratha (caste)
Maratha (caste): dominant caste cluster of Maharashtra formed from Kunbi, Lohar, Sutar, Bhandari, Thakar, and Dhangar families via Deccan military service from the 14th century; linked to Shivaji's empire and Maharashtra's reservation politics.
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.
March and March
March and March (March & March) is a South African civic movement founded in March 2024 in Durban by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, campaigning for stricter immigration enforcement, citizen priority for jobs and services, and the 30 June 2026 national shutdown, distinct from Operation Dudula and from the Arizona law firm of the same name.
March of Dimes
March of Dimes, originally the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis founded by FDR on January 3, 1938, is a US nonprofit that funded the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines and now fights preterm birth and maternal mortality.
March of the Hundred Thousand
The March of the Hundred Thousand (Passeata dos Cem Mil) was a protest by about 100,000 people in Rio de Janeiro on 26 June 1968 against Brazil's military dictatorship.
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 Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (Ethel Margaret Whigham, 1912–1993), Scottish socialite and heiress whose 1963 divorce from the 11th Duke of Argyll, with 'headless man' Polaroids and 88 alleged lovers, made her the 'Dirty Duchess'.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller (1897–1990), only child of Andrew Carnegie and Louise Whitfield Carnegie, nicknamed "Baba"; married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, had four children, and served as a Carnegie Corporation trustee 1934–1973.
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.
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).
María Belón
María Belón (Madrid, 1966), Spanish physician and psychotherapist, survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Khao Lak, Thailand, with her family; her story inspired J. A. Bayona's film The Impossible.
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (Jerônimo), Brazilian former slave and longevity claimant (5 March 1871 – 14 June 2000), reportedly died at 129 in Itajubá, Minas Gerais; Guinness never validated her age for lack of a birth certificate, leaving Jeanne Calment's 122-year record intact.
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.