Mir (disambiguation)

Mir was a Soviet/Russian space station.

Mir or MIR may also refer to:

Places

• Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
• Mir (Calixto García), a village in Holguín Province, Cuba
• 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 clan, a Kashmiri family line

Surname

• 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 Junaid, Indian politician and leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Workers Party
• Mir Kalam, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
• Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), Urdu poet
• Mir of Tidore (c. 1511-1550s), third sultan of Tidore, Maluku Islands

Science and technology

• Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
• Mir (payment system), Russia
• 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, a journal
• The Mechanics' Institute Review
• McGill International Review

Music

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

Organisations

• Revolutionary Left Movement, several South American socialist groups
• Mir, Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
• Military Intelligence Research (MIR), later MD1 (military R&D organisation), UK, WWII
• Mir (television company)

Judaism

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

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

Other uses

• Mir (commune), a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
• Battle of Mir (disambiguation)
• Mail-in rebate, a coupon
• MIR, Master of International Relations
• mir, ISO 639-3 code for Isthmus Mixe
• Meriam language or Mir, Torres Strait Islands, Australia

See also

• Mir-e Aliabad, in Yazd Province, Iran
• Myrrh
• Mire (disambiguation)
• The Legend of Mir (disambiguation)
• Mir 1 (disambiguation)
• Mir 2 (disambiguation)
• Mir 3 (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with mir
• All pages with titles containing mir