MG

MG, M.G., M-G and variants may refer to:

Business

• MG Cars (1924–present), a British automobile manufacturer, now part of SAIC
• Champion Air (MG) (1995–), an American charter airline with IATA code MG

Education

• Main gauche (m.g., French), a term indicating "left hand" in piano music
• Matematička Gimnazija, a special school, elementary and high school, for gifted in areas of mathematics, physics and ICT
• mg (editor) (mg), an Emacs-compatible Unix text editor

Entertainment

• Match Game (MG) (1962–1969; 1973–1979; 1983–1984; 1990–1991), an American television game show
• Mechagodzilla, a fictional character from various films in the Godzilla series
• Memphis Group (M.G.), from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s fronted by Booker T. Jones
  • The MG's (album), an album recorded by Booker T.'s band
• Metal Gear (series) (MG), a video game series directed by Hideo Kojima
  • Metal Gear, the first game in the series
• Meteor Garden, a 2001 Taiwanese drama
• Miami Guns, anime series
• MorgenGrauen, a German-language MUD (text-based online role-playing game)
• Mother Goose, a character and poem
• MG (The Perhapanauts), a character in The Perhapanauts comics
• Meg Griffin, a character on Family Guy voiced by Mila Kunis
• Mystery Girl, a Roy Orbison album
• Mondo Generator, an American rock band

Military

• MG, a prefix typically used for machine guns model designations (for example "MG42" and "MG3")
• Major General, a military rank used by many countries; the specific "MG" abbreviation is used in the United States
• Medal for Gallantry (MG), an Australian military decoration, introduced in 1991

Nations

• Madagascar ISO 3166-1 country code
• .mg, the Internet country code top-level domain for Madagascar
• Malagasy language (mg), the national language of Madagascar
• Minas Gerais (MG), a Brazilian state
• Mongolia FIPS 10-4 country code

People

• Mahatma Gandhi, a popular name for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Mel Gibson, an actor
• Muammar Gaddafi or Muammar al-Gaddafi, the ruler of Libya 1969-2011

Units

• Milligram (mg) and megagram (Mg), multiples of the base unit of mass gram, 10^-3 gram and 10⁶ grams, respectively.
• Milligauss (mG) and megagauss (MG), multiples of a unit of magnetic field Gauss (unit), equivalent to 1.0 × 10⁻⁷ tesla and 100 teslas, respectively.

Science

• the mass of an object multiplied by the gravitational acceleration which equals the force due to gravity
• Magnesium, symbol for the chemical element (Mg)
• Michaelis-Gutmann bodies (M-G bodies), concentrically layered basophilic inclusions in the urinary tract
• Molecular gastronomy, the applied use of chemical and physical processes in the preparation of food
• Motor-generator (M-G), a device for converting electrical power to another form
• Myasthenia gravis (MG), an autoimmune disease