Ma as First Name

Ma Lin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Ma Lin: is a male table tennis player born in the Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. He is the world's number two ranked player as of December 5, 2007 in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Ma Mingyu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Ma Mingyu: is a retired Chinese football player.He played for China national football team and was captain for Chinese national team during 2002 FIFA World Cup

Ma Ning            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Ma Ning: is a Chinese javelin thrower.At the 2004 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the first round of the javelin throw competition.

Ma Rong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Ma Rong: was a commentaror of the Han Dynasty. He was born in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi in former Fufeng (??) county. He was known for his commentaries on the books on the Five Classics, and the first scholar known to have done this. He also developed the double column commentary while doing it. His main students were Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan.

Ma Shuli            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Ma Shuli: is a Chinese discus thrower.Her personal best throw is 62.50 metres, achieved in April 2005 in Zhongshan. The Chinese, and Asian, record is currently held by Xiao Yanling with 71.68 metres.[1]

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Ma as Last Name

Yo-Yo Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Yo-Yo Ma: is a French-born American[1] cellist and winner of multiple Grammy Awards.Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a conductor and composer. His family moved to New York when he was seven years old.

Jack Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Jack Ma: Ma graduated from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988 (he initially failed the entrance exam twice) and became a lecturer in English and International Trade in the same university.Ma first started building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. Ma has commented that "The day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house," and on a very slow dial-up connection, "we waited three and a half hours and got half a page.... We drank, watched TV and played cards, waiting. But I was so proud. I proved the Internet existed."[original research?]