Mas (, ) is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

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Occitan Occitan may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain. * Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France. * Occitan language Occitan (; o ...

North German Northern Germany (german: link=no, Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony an ...

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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

origin. It accounts for 0.068% of the population in Spain, with 0.879% found amongst Catalans, and 0.017% in France.

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topographic name Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country, rather than in a village, from

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mas Mas, Más or MAS may refer to: Film and TV * Más y Menos, fictional superhero characters, from the Teen Titans animated television series * Más (Breaking Bad), "Más" (''Breaking Bad''), a season three episode of ''Breaking Bad'' Songs * Más ( ...

'farmstead' (

Late Latin Late Latin ( la, Latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.Roberts (1996), p. 537. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the , and continuing into the 7th century in t ...

mansum,

mansus A ''mansus'', sometimes anglicised as manse, was a unit of land assessment in medieval France, roughly equivalent of the hide. In the 9th century AD, it began to be used by Charlemagne to determine how many warriors would be provided: one for eve ...

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Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

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Mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementar ...

People

* Alejandro Bofill Mas (born 1960), Catalan chess player and FIDE international master * Alphonse Mas (1817–1875), French President of the French Pomological Society and Ain Horticultural Society * André Boyer-Mas (1904–1972), French cleric and diplomat *

Alexandre Mas Alexandre Mas (born c. 1978) is William S. Tod Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, Director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and Director of the Labor Studies program of the National Burea ...

, Catalan-American economist *

Álvaro Mas Álvaro Mas Huertas (born 22 May 1992) is a Spanish footballer who plays for CFUD Ilicitana as a midfielder. Club career Born in Elche, Valencian Community, Mas made his senior debuts with lowly FC Jove Español San Vicente. In the summer of 201 ...

(born 1992), Spanish footballer *

Andreu Mas-Colell Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu ...

(born 1944), Catalan economist * Antoni Colom Mas (born 1978), Catalan cyclist *

Antoni Mas i Borràs Antoni is a Catalan, Polish, and Slovene given name and a surname used in the eastern part of Spain, Poland and Slovenia. As a Catalan given name it is a variant of the male names Anton and Antonio. As a Polish given name it is a variant of the fem ...

, Knight of the Order of Montesa * Antoni Mas Fornés (born 1968), historian and writer, who in 2005 received the OCB Miquel dels Sants Oliver Prize *

Anna Genover-Mas Anna Genover-Mas (born 1963) is a Catalan journalist and writer of children's books, one of which won the Vicenta Ferrer Vila de Paterna prize for the best children's literature book of 2007. Genover-Mas was born in Girona in 1963. She studied jo ...

(born 1963), Catalan journalist and writer of children's books, one of which won the Vicenta Ferrer Vila de Paterna prize for the best children's literature book of 2007 *

Arcadi Mas i Fondevila Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, or Fontdevila (12 November 1852 in Barcelona – 31 January 1934 in Sitges), was a Catalan painter and graphic artist. Biography He was the son of a tailor. His father recognized his artistic talent at an early age ...

(1852–1934), Catalan painter and artist and founder of the Sitges Luminista School *

Artur Mas Artur Mas i Gavarró (; born 31 January 1956) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia. He was president of the Government of Catalonia from 2010 to 2015 and acting president from September 2015 to 12 January 2016. Mas is a long time member of D ...

(born 1956), Catalan politician * Bernat Mas "des Plá del Rey", knighted for his service to King John II of Castile in the wars against the Prince of Vienna * Carlos Mas Samora (born 1957), Catalan former all-terrain motorcyclist *

Carolyne Mas Carol Patricia Mas (born October 20, 1955), professionally known as Carolyne Mas, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and producer. She broke out of the Greenwich Village music scene boom of the late 1970s, along with other ar ...

(born 1955), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and producer * Ezequiel González Mas (1919–2007), Spanish historian * Francesc Joan Mas (1522–?), Catalan philosopher * Francesc Mas i Ros (1901–1985), Catalan composer * Francis Mas (1936–2006), French former player for the French rugby union team and rugby league team * Gabriel Mas Arbona (born 1933), Catalan cyclist, known for placing in the 1959 Volta a Espanya and winning the 1960 Volta a Andalusia * Guillem Mas, among those who formed the "Sixteen" in 1521 * Isidro Más de Ayala (1899-1960), Uruguayan psychiatrist and author * Jaume Mas "des Plá del Rey", alderman of the municipality of Palma *

Jaume Mas Jaume Mas was the Bishop of Vic in Tarragona Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of ...

, Bishop of Vic (1674–1684) * Jean-Baptiste Charles Mas de Polart (1775–1843), French General and Lieutenant General *

Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas is a French pop singer. She is well known in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was "Toute première fois" in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the ...

(born 1958), Catalan born French pop singer and actress *

Joan Mas Joan Mas i Ramon (Barcelona, 1934) is a post-impressionist style fine artist based at Barcelona and Paris. Biography Joan Mas was born in Barcelona in 1934. He went to Paris in the late 1950s, when he studied painting under the guidance of R ...

(1520–?), in 1550 fought against the Turks that had invaded Pollensa * Joan Mas i Bauzà (1928–1992), Catalan writer * Juan Vicente Mas Quiles (1921–2021), Catalan orchestra and band conductor and composer * Joan Mas i Cantí, Catalan economist * Joan Mas i Ramon (born 1934), Catalan post-impressionist painter * Joan Mas i Ramon (born 1932), Catalan postimpressionist painter * Joan Mas i Vives (born 1951), Catalan literary critic, author and philologist *

Josep Moragues i Mas Josep Moragues i Mas (; Sant Hilari Sacalm, 1669 - Barcelona, 1715) was a Catalan general during the War of the Spanish Succession. He fought on the Archduke Charles' side. After Barcelona was defeated on 11 September 1714, he tried to sail to Ma ...

(1669–1715), Catalan General who fought in the War of Spanish Succession *

Jorge Mas Canosa Jorge Lincoln Mas Canosa (21 September 1939 – 24 November 1997) was a Cuban-American businessman who founded the Cuban American National Foundation and MasTec, a publicly traded company. Regarded within the United States as a powerful lobbyist o ...

(1939–1997), Cuban-American activist best known for his strong opposition to Fidel Castro and his leadership of the Cuban-American National Foundation *

Jorge Mas Jorge Mas Santos (born 1963) is an American billionaire businessman and the chairman and largest shareholder of MasTec, a Miami-based construction and engineering company, founded by his father Jorge Mas Canosa. Mas is also chairman of the Cuba ...

, Cuban-American entrepreneur, philanthropist and human rights advocate, son of

Josep Vicenç Foix i Mas Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José''). People named Josep include: * Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician * Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and w ...

(1893–1987), Catalan poet, journalist and essayist * Lluís Mas i Borràs, Knight of the Order of Montesa * Lluís Mas i Pons (1903–1975), Catalan lawyer, teacher, poet and writer * Lluís Mas i Ossó (1908–1984), Catalan athlete and politician *

Manuel Mas Ribó Manuel Mas Ribo (February 26, 1946 – July 30, 2001) was the foreign minister of Andorra from 1994 to 1997. Miguel Mas (actor), Miguel Mas (born 1967), Argentinian actor, producer, director and screenwriter, known for his roles on television, as a guest star on the long-running medical drama ER * Miquel Mas Ferrà (born 1950), Catalan writer * Miquel Mas Gayà (born 1943), Catalan cycling world champion * Nicolas Mas (born 1980), French player for the French rugby union team * Nicolas Mas-Castellane (died 1586), French Huguenot General in the French Wars of Religion *

Oscar Más Oscar Antonio Más (born October 29, 1946) is an Argentine former football striker. He played the majority of his career for River Plate, and is the club's second highest goalscorer of all time. He was born in the city of Villa Ballester in th ...

(born 1946), Argentine former football striker for Club Atlético River Plate * Pere Sampol Mas (born 1951), Cantalan technical engineer in the electronics industry, known for his political facet of the PSM *Father Vicente Mas, member of the Carthusian Order * Regino Más i Marí (1899–1968), Catalan Falles artist *

Roger Mas Roger Mas i Solé (born 1975 in Solsona, Lleida) is a Spanish Catalan singer–songwriter. Biography Mas was born in 1975 to a family of musicians. When he was five years old, he began playing instruments under the guidance of his grandfather. ...

(1931–2009), French politician *

Salvador Mas i Conde Salvador Mas i Conde (born 27 February 1951 in Barcelona) is a Spanish classical music conductor.Who's who in Spain 1988 "MAS CONDE Salvador, conductor born Barcelona, Feb. 27, 1951 " Born in Barcelona, the conductor Salvador Mas-Conde started hi ...

(born 1951), Catalan conductor and musical and artistic director of the City of Granada Orchestra * Sergi Mas, Andorran sculptor, designer, illustrator, painter, engraver, lithographer and writer * Sergi Mas y Abad (born 1964), Catalan actor and journalist * Sinibaldo de Mas (1809–1868), Catalan sinologist, painter, calligrapher, writer, ambassador, adventurer, photography pioneer, and known Spanish government diplomat to Asia during the 19th century * Teodoro de Mas y Nadal (1858-1936), Catalan engineer and politician

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