Mir (disambiguation)

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Mir was a space station owned by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.

Mir or MIR may also refer to:

Places

• Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
• Mir, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
• Mir, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
• Mir mine, an abandoned open-pit diamond mine in East Siberia
• Musiktheater im Revier, a theater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

People with the name

• Mir (title), a title for a ruler
• Mir (tribe), a tribe in the Punjab area of Pakistan

Family name

• Aasmah Mir, Scottish-Pakistani television presenter
• Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist, former UFC heavyweight champion
• Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist and a terrorism expert and security analyst
• Joaquin Mir Trinxet, modernist Spanish painter
• Magín Mir, Spanish footballer
• Pedro Mir (1913–2000), poet, laureate of the Dominican Republic
• Rafa Mir, Spanish footballer

Given name

• Mir Afsar Ali, Indian radio jockey and television anchor
• Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Pakistani politician
• Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), Urdu poet
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi, former prime minister of Iran

Science and technology

• Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
• Mid-infrared, infrared radiation of medium wavelength
• Micropower Impulse Radar, a radar system developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• microRNA (miRNA / miR), a small non-coding RNA molecule found in cells of eukaryotic organisms
• Multiple isomorphous replacement, a technique used in crystallography
• Music information retrieval, the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music.

Computing

• Mir, a content management system software developed and used by Independent Media Center
• Mir (software), a computer display server developed by Canonical
• MIR (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
• Maximum Information Rate, the maximum bandwidth in broadband wireless

Publishing

• Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
• Management International Review, an economical journal dealing with aspects of international management
• The Mechanics' Institute Review
• McGill International Review

Music

• Mir (band), a Canadian music group
• Mir (South Korean singer), the stage name for Bang Chul-yong, member of South Korean boy band MBLAQ
• Mir (album), a 2011 album by Ott

Organisations

• Mir, Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
• Military Intelligence Research (MIR), original name for MD1, a British weapon research and development organisation of the Second World War

Judaism

• Mir yeshiva (Belarus), the original Mir Yeshiva, a rabbinical school in what is now Mir, Belarus
• Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), a rabbinical school in New York, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus
• Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), a rabbinical school in Jerusalem, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus

Transportation

• Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
• STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
• Mir (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
• Monastir International Airport (IATA code), in Tunisia

Fiction

• Mir, a character in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
• Mir, a fictional place in Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• Mir, a fictional race in the game Magic: the Gathering

Other uses

• Battle of Mir (disambiguation)
• Obshchina or Mir, a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
• Mail-in rebate, a coupon for consumers to use to receive a refund
• Mir (payment system), a Russian payment system
• MIR, Master of International Relations
• Middle Irish, an historical language
• mir, ISO 639-3 code for Isthmus Mixe
• Mir, an alternative name of the Meriam language, a Papuan language spoken in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

See also

• Mir-e Aliabad, in Yazd Province, Iran
• Myrrh
• Mire (disambiguation)
• The Legend of Mir (disambiguation)
• Revolutionary Left Movement (disambiguation) (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria)
• Mir 1 (disambiguation)
• Mir 2 (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "mir"
• All pages with a title containing mir