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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.
Mariana Grajales
Mariana Grajales (1815–1893) was a Cuban nurse and patriot who lost her husband and nine children to the independence wars and died in exile in Jamaica.
Maricopa people
Maricopa people (Piipaash, Pee Posh), a Yuman-speaking Arizona tribe that migrated from the Colorado River to the Gila and Salt rivers, allied with the Akimel O'odham; about 100 language speakers remain.
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.
Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998), Swiss Jungian analyst and classical philologist, closest collaborator of C. G. Jung; known for fairy-tale interpretation, alchemy, Aurora consurgens, puer aeternus, synchronicity, and the Foundation for Jungian Psychology.
Marie-Rose Tessier
Marie-Rose Tessier (née Bousseau, 1910–2026), French supercentenarian from Vendée, doyenne of France from January 2023 and second-oldest person in the world; died at 115 years, 265 days, the fourth Frenchwoman verified to reach 115.
Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was the April-October 1980 exodus of about 125,000 Cubans from Mariel harbor to Florida after Castro opened the port, later famous as an economics natural experiment.
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.
Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant (born Marilyn Mach, 1946), American Parade columnist of "Ask Marilyn"; Guinness "Highest IQ" record holder with a 228 childhood ratio-IQ score, retired 1990; famous for correctly answering the Monty Hall problem in 1990.
Marina Chapman
Marina Chapman, Colombian-born Bradford woman (born about 1950), claims she was kidnapped as a child, lived five years with capuchin monkeys, and told the story in her 2013 memoir The Girl With No Name, a widely doubted account.
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.
Mark Manson
Mark Manson is an American self-help author and blogger best known for The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, a 2016 book urging readers to accept negative emotions.
Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn, Canadian conservative commentator and author of America Alone, guest-hosted Rush Limbaugh and hosted GB News; known for the Mann defamation verdict and Ofcom breach rulings.
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.
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.
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.