Madeira (disambiguation)
Madeira (the Portuguese word for wood), officially named the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with the Azores); it is an archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal.
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Madeira may also refer to:
Geography
- Madeira, Ohio, a city in the United States
- Madeira Beach, Florida, an American city
- Madeira Island, the largest of the Madeira group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
- Madeira River, one of the tributaries of the Amazon River in South America
People
- George Madeira (1836–1922), a mining engineer and mineralogist who founded the first astronomical observatory in California
- Jamila Madeira (born 1975), a Portuguese socialist politician and Member of the European Parliament
- Phil Madeira (born 1952), an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Nashville, Tennessee
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Have Some Madeira M'Dear, a darkly comic song by Flanders and Swann
- Madeira, the fictionalized name of Debra Newell's interior design firm in the Bravo TV series, Dirty John
- Miss Madeira, a 2011 novel by Austin Gary
Food and wine
- Madeira cake, an old English cake
- Madeira wine, a fortified wine made on the island of Madeira
Schools
- Madeira School, a private girls' school in the state of Virginia, in the United States
- Universidade da Madeira, a public university in Madeira
Other uses
- Madeira (shipwreck), a schooner-barge which sank on the north shore of Lake Superior in November 1905
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See also
- Madera (disambiguation)
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