Minié or Minie may refer to: *

Claude-Étienne Minié Claude-Etienne Minié (13 February 1804 – 14 December 1879) was a French military instructor and inventor famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle i ...

(1804-1879), French Army officer and weapons designer **

Minié rifle The Minié rifle was a rifled musket used by the infantry of a number of countries in the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of t ...

, designed by Claude-Étienne Minié **

Minié ball The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié for muzzle-loaded, rifled muskets. Invented in 1846 shortly followed by the Minié rifle, the Minié ball came to prominence during the Crime ...

, a rifle bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié *

Minie Brinkhoff Wilhelmina "Minie" Brinkhoff (born 19 December 1952) is a retired Dutch cyclist who was active between 1970 and 1978. She won a bronze medal in the road race at the 1977 UCI Road World Championships as well as two national track sprint titles, ...

(born 1952), retired Dutch cyclist

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