Mab

Mab, Mabs or MAB may refer to:

Fictional or legendary persons

• Queen Mab, a fairy in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet and later works of English literature
• Mab Darogan, a figure of Welsh legend

In science and technology

• Mab (moon), one of the moons of Uranus, named after Queen Mab
• Monoclonal antibody (mAb), a molecular component of the vertebrate immune system and a type of biotechnology reagent and medical therapeutic
• Middle Atlantic or Mid-Atlantic Bight, an unofficial term used by oceanographers for the continental shelf region off the U.S. east coast
• Multi-armed bandit, a problem in probability theory
• Mozilla Address Book
• mAbs (journal), a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2009

In business

• MAB Corporation, an Australian property company
• MAB Paints, an American manufacturer from 1899 to 2007
• Malaysia Airlines, an airline operating under the code MAB.
• Malicet et Blin aka M.A.B., French manufacturer of bicycles, cars, components, and aero engines. (Badged MaB) (c.1890-1925)
• Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne, a French firearms manufacturer
• Mercado Alternativo Bursátil, Spain's alternative stock market
• Mabuhay Gardens, a nightclub in San Francisco also known as The Mab
• Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS), an initiative designed to encourage the Philippine rural banking industry

Organizations

• Marine Amphibious Brigade
• Metropolitan Asylums Board, operating in London, dealing with the Poor Law
• Metric Advisory Board, set up to aid metrication in New Zealand
• Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, a Brazilian left-wing organization
• Muslim Association of Britain, a Muslim group in the United Kingdom established in 1997

People

• Mab Segrest (born 1949), American feminist writer and activist
• James Mabbe or Mab (1572–1642), English scholar and poet
• Marco Antonio Barrera (born 1974), Mexican retired boxer
• Michael Angelo Batio (born 1956), American guitarist
• Marc-André Bergeron (born 1980), ice hockey defenceman
• Mabel Besant-Scott or "Mabs" (1870-1952), a Theosophist, Co-Freemason and Rosicrucian
• Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (1922-2003), Venezuelan politician

Other uses

• Man and the Biosphere Programme, a project of UNESCO
• Medical Affairs Bureau, a bureau in Taiwan
• Beretta Model 38 (Moschetto Automatico Beretta), a sub-machine gun manufactured in Italy during World War II
• Medical ambulance bus
• Multi-author blog
• mab, ISO 639-3 code for the Yutanduchi variety of the Mitlatongo-Yutanduchi Mixtec language of Mexico

See also

• Mabb., author abbreviation for David John Mabberley (born 1948), British botanist, educator and writer
• Henry Mabb (1872-1961), British-born Canadian politician