| Ma'arri, Abu al-'Ala Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah -al (Arab poet) |
973-1057 |
| Maathai, Wangari Muta (Kenyan environmentalist, activist) |
b.1940 |
| Mabilon, Jean (French scholar) |
1632-1707 |
| Mabini, Apolinario (Philippine revolutionary) |
1864-1903 |
| Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de (French philosopher, historian) |
1709-1785 |
| Macarius "the Egyptian" or "the Great" (Egyptian ascetic) |
c.300-c.390 |
| Macarius Magnes (Eastern Orthodox cleric, polemicist) |
5th cent. |
| MacArthur, Arthur (American army officer; father of Douglas) |
1845-1912 |
| MacArthur, Charles Gordon (American playwright, journalist) |
1895-1956 |
| MacArthur, Douglas (American general; son of Arthur) |
1880-1964 |
| Macarthur, John (English-born Australian agriculturist) |
1767-1834 |
| Macartney, George (Irish-born British diplomat) |
1737-1806 |
| Macaulay, Catharine née Sawbridge (English historian) |
1731-1791 |
| Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose (English novelist, poet, essayist) |
1881-1958 |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington (English writer, politician) |
1800-1859 |
| Macbeth (also Macbeathadh) (Scottish king 1040-1057) |
d.1057 |
| MacBeth, George Mann (Scottish poet, writer) |
1932-1992 |
| MacBride, Sean (French-born Irish statesman) |
1904-1988 |
| Maccabees, Judas or Judah (surname Maccabaeus) (Jewish patriot) |
d.160 BC |
| MacCaig, Norman Alexander (Scottish poet) |
b.1910 |
| MacCarthy, Sir Desmond Charles Otto (Eng. journalist, critic) |
1877-1952 |
| MacCullagh, James (Irish physicist) |
1809-1847 |
| MacDiarmid, Alan Graham (New Zealand-born Kiwi-Am. chemist) |
1927-2007 |
| MacDiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Murray Grieve) (Scottish poet) |
1892-1978 |
| MacDonagh, Donagh (Irish poet, playwright, balladeer) |
1912-1968 |
| MacDonagh, Thomas (Irish poet) |
1878-1916 |
| MacDonald, Alexander (Scottish poet, patriot) |
1700?-1770? |
| Macdonald, Cynthia (American poet, teacher) |
b.1928 |
| Macdonald, Dwight (American essayist, critic) |
1906-1982 |
| Macdonald, Flora (Scottish Jacobite heroine) |
1722-1790 |
| Macdonald, George (Scottish novelist, poet) |
1824-1905 |
| Macdonald, Sir Hector Archibald (Scottish-born British soldier) |
1853-1903 |
| Macdonald, Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre (French soldier) |
1765-1840 |
| MacDonald, James Ramsay (Scottish-born British politician) |
1866-1937 |
| Macdonald, Sir James Ronald Leslie (British soldier, engineer) |
1862-1927 |
| Macdonald, Sir John Alexander (Scottish-born Can. politician) |
1815-1891 |
| MacDonald, John Dann (American writer) |
1916-1986 |
| Macdonald, John Ross (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) (Am. writer) |
1915-1983 |
| Macdonald, John Sandfield (Canadian politician) |
1812-1872 |
| MacDonald, Lucy Maud née Montgomery (Canadian novelist) |
1874-1942 |
| MacDonald-Wright, Stanton (American painter) |
1890-1973 |
| MacDonnell, Randal (1st Marquis of Antrim) (Irish intriguer) |
1609-1683 |
| MacDonnell, Sorley Boy (Irish chieftain of Scottish descent) |
c.1510-1590 |
| Macdonough, Thomas (American naval officer) |
1783-1825 |
| MacDowell, Edward Alexander (American composer) |
1860-1908 |
| Mace, James (also Jem) (English boxer) |
1831-1910 |
| Macedo, Jose Agostinho de (Port. poet, critic, pamphleteer) |
1761-1831 |
| Macedonius (Greek Orthodox prelate, theologian) |
d.c.362 |
| Macek, Vladimir (Croatian nationalist) |
1879-1964 |
| Maceo y Grajales, Antonio (Cuban patriot; brother of Jose) |
1845-1896 |
| Maceo y Grajales, Jose (Cuban patriot; brother of Antonio) |
1846-1896 |
| MacEwen, Gwendolyn (Canadian poet, writer) |
1941-1987 |
| Macewen, Sir William (Scottish surgeon) |
1848-1924 |
| Macfadden, Bernarr (American physical culturist, publisher) |
1868-1955 |
| Macfarren, Sir George Alexander (English composer) |
1813-1887 |
| Macfarquhar, Colin (Scot. printer; co-fd. Encyc. Brittannica) |
1745?-1793? |
| MacGregor, John (pseud. Rob Roy) (Scottish traveler, writer) |
1825-1892 |
| MacGregor, Robert "Rob Roy" (Scottish freebooter) |
1671-1734 |
| Mach, Ernst (Austrian physicist, philosopher) |
1838-1916 |
| Macha, Karel Hynek (Czech poet, novelist) |
1810-1836 |
| Machado, Bernardino Luis (Portuguese politician) |
1851-1944 |
| Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Brazilian poet, writer) |
1839-1908 |
| Machado y Morales, Gerardo (Cuban general; president 1925-33) |
1871-1939 |
| Machado y Ruiz, Antonio (Spanish poet, playwright) |
1875-1939 |
| Machado y Ruiz, Manuel (Spanish poet; brother of Antonio) |
1874-1947 |
| Machar, Josef Svatopluk (Czech poet) |
1864-1942 |
| Machen, Arthur (pseud. of Arthur Llewellyn Jones)(Welsh writer) |
1863-1947 |
| Machen, John Gresham (American theologian) |
1881-1937 |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo (Italian political philosopher) |
1469-1527 |
| Machin, John (English mathematician) |
1680-1751 |
| Macia, Francesc (Spanish Catalan politician) |
1859-1933 |
| MacInnes, Colin (English novelist, essayist) |
1914-1976 |
| MacInnes, Thomas Robert Edward "Tom" (Canadian writer) |
1867-1951 |
| Macintosh, Charles (Scottish chemist, inventor) |
1766-1843 |
| Macintosh, Douglas Clyde (Canadian-born American theologian) |
1877-1948 |
| Maciulis, Jonas (pseudonym Maironis) (Lithuanian poet) |
1862-1932 |
| MacIver, Robert Morrison (Scottish-born American sociologist) |
1882-1970 |
| Mack, Connie (C.A. McGillicuddy) (Am. baseball player, manager) |
1862-1956 |
| Mackay, Clarence Hungerford (American businessman; son of J.W.) |
1874-1938 |
| MacKay, John Henry (Swiss-German anarchist, writer) |
1864-1933 |
| Mackay, John William (Irish-born American businessman) |
1831-1902 |
| Mackay, Mary (pseudonym Marie Corelli) (English novelist) |
1855-1924 |
| MacKaye, Benton (Am. forester; proposed A-Trail; son of Steele) |
1879-1975 |
| MacKaye, James Morrison Steele (Am. actor, dramatist, producer) |
1842-1894 |
| MacKaye, Percy (American poet, dramatist; son of Steele) |
1875-1956 |
| Macke, August (German painter; member Der Blaue Reiter group) |
1887-1914 |
| Macken, Walter (Irish writer, dramatist) |
1915-1967 |
| Mackensen, August von (German field marshal) |
1849-1945 |
| Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (Scottish explorer) |
1764-1820 |
| Mackenzie, Alexander (Scottish-born Canadian politician) |
1822-1892 |
| Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell (Scottish-born British comp.) |
1847-1935 |
| Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell (American naval officer) |
1803-1848 |
| Mackenzie, Charles Frederick (Scottish clergyman) |
1825-1862 |
| MacKenzie, Sir Edward Montague Compton (English writer) |
1883-1972 |
| Mackenzie, George Henry (Scottish-born American chess player) |
1837-1891 |
| Mackenzie, Henry (Scottish writer, playwright, poet, editor) |
1745-1831 |
| Mackenzie, John (Scottish missionary) |
1835-1899 |
| Mackenzie, Sir John (Scottish-born New Zealand politician) |
1838-1901 |
| Mackenzie, Kenneth (pseud. Seaforth Mackenzie)(Australian poet) |
1903-1954 |
| Mackenzie, Sir Morell (English laryngologist) |
1837-1892 |
| Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Sir George (Scottish lawyer) |
1636-1691 |
| Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell (American army officer; son of A.S.) |
1840-1889 |
| Mackenzie, Sir William (Canadian financier, railroad builder) |
1849-1923 |
| Mackenzie, William Lyon (Scottish-born Can. insurgent leader) |
1795-1861 |
| Mackinder, Sir Halford John (English geographer) |
1861-1947 |
| Mackintosh, Charles Rennie (Scottish architect) |
1868-1928 |
| Mackintosh, Elizabeth (pseud. Gordon Daviot) (Scottish writer) |
1897-1952 |
| Macklin, Charles (b. Charles McLaughlin)(Ir. actor, playwright) |
1697?-1797 |
| Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate (English architect, designer) |
1851-1942 |
| Mack von Leiberich, Karl (Austrian general) |
1752-1828 |
| MacLaine, Shirley (Shirley Beaty) (American actor) |
b.1934 |
| Maclaren, Charles (Scottish journalist) |
1782-1866 |
| Maclaurin, Colin (Scottish mathematician) |
1698-1746 |
| Maclay, William (American lawyer) |
1734-1804 |
| Maclean, George (Scottish-born Brit. soldier, colonial admin.) |
1801-1847 |
| MacLeish, Archibald (American poet, playwright) |
1892-1982 |
| MacLennan, John Hugh (Canadian writer, essayist) |
1907-1990 |
| Macleod, Henry Dunning (Scottish economist) |
1821-1902 |
| Macleod, John James Rickard (Scottish physiologist) |
1876-1935 |
| Macleod, Mary (Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) (Scottish poet) |
c.1615-c.1706 |
| Macleod, Norman (Scottish clergyman, author) |
1812-1872 |
| Mac Liammoir, Micheal (Irish actor, scenic designer, producer) |
1899-1978 |
| MacLise, Angus (American musician, composer, mystic, poet) |
1938-1979 |
| Maclise, Daniel (Irish painter, illustrator) |
1806-1870 |
| Maclure, William (Scottish-born American geologist) |
1763-1840 |
| Mac-Mahon, Marie-Edme-Patrice-Maurice de (Fr. soldier, polit.) |
1808-1893 |
| MacMahon, Percy Alexander (Maltese-born English mathematician) |
1854-1929 |
| Macmillan, Alexander (Scottish publisher; brother of Daniel) |
1815-1896 |
| Macmillan, Daniel (Scottish bookseller, publisher) |
1813-1857 |
| MacMillan, Donald Baxter (American explorer) |
1874-1970 |
| Macmillan, Sir Frederick Orridge (Scot. publisher; son of Dan.) |
1851-1936 |
| Macmillan, John (Scottish minister) |
1670-1753 |
| Macmillan, Maurice Harold (British prime minister 1957-1963) |
1894-1986 |
| MacMonnies, Frederick William (American sculptor) |
1863-1937 |
| Macnaghten, Sir William Hay (British diplomat) |
1793-1841 |
| MacNeice, Frederick Louis (Irish poet, playwright) |
1907-1963 |
| MacNeill, John Gordon Swift (Irish politician, historian) |
1849-1926 |
| MacNelly, Jeffrey Kenneth (American cartoonist) |
1947-2000 |
| Macomb, Alexander (American army officer) |
1782-1841 |
| Macon, Nathaniel (American politician) |
1758-1837 |
| MacPhail, Agnes Campbell (Canadian politician) |
1890-1954 |
| Macpherson, Sir David Lewis (Scottish-born Canadian politician) |
1818-1896 |
| Macpherson, James (Scottish poet, writer, literary forger) |
1736-1796 |
| MacPherson, Jean Jay (English-born Canadian poet) |
b.1931 |
| Macquarie, Lachlan (Scottish-born British soldier, col. admin.) |
1761-1824 |
| Macready, William Charles (English tragedian) |
1793-1873 |
| Macrinus (Marcus Opellius Macrinus) (Roman emperor 217-218) |
c.164-218 |
| Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Latin grammarian, philosopher) |
fl. c.400 |
| Macy, Anne Sullivan (American teacher of Helen Keller) |
1866-1936 |
| Madach, Imre (Hungarian poet, dramatist) |
1823-1864 |
| Madan, Martin (English barrister, clergyman) |
1726-1790 |
| Madariaga y Rojo, Salvador de (Spanish writer, diplomat) |
1886-1978 |
| Madelin, Emile-Louis-Marie (French historian) |
1871-1956 |
| Maderna, Bruno (Italian composer) |
1920-1973 |
| Maderna (or Maderno, Maderni), Carlo (Italian architect) |
1556-1629 |
| Madero, Francisco Indalecio (Mexican revolutionist, politician) |
1873-1913 |
| Madetoja, Leevi Antti (Finnish composer) |
1887-1947 |
| Madhavacarya (Hindu scholar, royal counselor) |
1296?-1386? |
| Madhav Rao I (Peshwa of the Marathas 1761-1772) |
1754-1772 |
| Madhav Rao II (Peshwa of the Marathas 1774-1795) |
1774-1795 |
| Madhubuti, Haki R. (Don Luther Lee)(American writer, publisher) |
b.1942 |
| Madhva (Indian philosopher) |
c.1199-c.1278 |
| Madigan, Edward Rell (American administrator) |
b.1936 |
| Madison, Dolley née Payne (American socialite; wife of James) |
1768-1849 |
| Madison, James (American polit.; 4th U.S. president, 1809-17) |
1751-1836 |
| Madler, Johann Heinrich von (German astronomer) |
1794-1874 |
| Madog (or Madoc) ab Owain Gwynedd (Welsh prince) |
fl. 1170 |
| Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) (American singer) |
b.1958 |
| Madox, Thomas (English legal antiquary, historian) |
1666-1727 |
| Madvig, Johan Nicolai (Danish scholar, politician) |
1804-1882 |
| Maebara, Issei "Hikotaro", "Hachijuro" (Japanese soldier, pol.) |
1834-1876 |
| Maecenas, Gaius (Roman statesman, patron of literature) |
c.70-8 BC |
| Maelzel (or Malzel), Johann Nepomuk (Ger. musician, inventor) |
1772-1838 |
| Maerlant, Jacob van (Flemish poet) |
c.1225-c.1291 |
| Maes, Nicolaes (also called Nicolas Maas) (Dutch painter) |
1634-1693 |
| Maeterlinck, Maurice-Polydore-Marie-Bernard (Belgian author) |
1862-1949 |
| Maetsuyker, Joan (Dutch colonial administrator) |
1606-1678 |
| Maeztu y Whitney, Ramiro de (Spanish journalist) |
1875-1936 |
| Maffei, Francesco Scipione (Italian dramatist, archaeologist) |
1675-1755 |
| Magalhães, Antonio Carlos Peixoto de (Brazilian politician) |
1927-2007 |
| Magalhaes, Fernao de (Fernando de Magallanes) (Port. navigator) |
c.1480-1521 |
| Magellan, Ferdinand (Portuguese navigator, explorer) |
c.1480-1521 |
| Magendie, Francois (French physiologist, vivisectionist) |
1783-1855 |
| Maggini, Giovanni Paolo (Italian violin maker) |
c.1580-c.1632 |
| Magha (Sanskrit poet) |
fl. 8th cent. |
| Maghostut, Malachi Favors (b. Malachi Favors) (Am. musician) |
1927-2004 |
| Maginn, William (Irish writer) |
1793-1842 |
| Maginot, Andre-Louis-Rene (Fr. polit.; eponym of Maginot Line) |
1877-1932 |
| Magnan, Bernard-Pierre (French soldier) |
1791-1865 |
| Magnani, Anna (Italian actor) |
1908-1973 |
| Magnasco, Alessandro "Lissandrino" (Italian painter) |
1667-1749 |
| Magnentius, Flavius Popilius (Roman emp. of the West 350-353) |
d.353 |
| Magnes, Judah Leon (American religious leader, educator) |
1877-1948 |
| Magnol, Pierre (Fr. physician, botanist; eponym of "magnolia") |
1638-1715 |
| Magnus, Heinrich Gustav (German chemist, physicist) |
1802-1870 |
| Magnus, Olaus (orig. Olaf Mansson) (Swed. ecclesiastic, hist.) |
1490-1557 |
| Magnusson, Arni (Icelandic antiquary, philologist) |
1663-1730 |
| Magnusson, Jon (Icelandic clergyman, writer) |
c.1610-1696 |
| Mago (or Magon) (Carthaginian general; son of Hamilcar Barca) |
d.c.203 BC |
| Magoon, Charles Edward (American lawyer, administrator) |
1861-1920 |
| Magritte, Rene-Francois-Ghislain (Belgian painter) |
1898-1967 |
| Magsaysay, Ramon (Philippine politician; president 1953-57) |
1907-1957 |
| Mahan, Alfred Thayer (American naval officer, historian) |
1840-1914 |
| Mahapatra, Jayanta (Indian writer, translator, educator) |
b.1928 |
| Mahendra (Mahinda) (Indian missionary) |
c.270-c.204 BC |
| Mahendra (King of Nepal 1955-1972) |
1920-1972 |
| Mahfouz, Naguib Abdel Aziz al-Sabilgi (Egyptian writer) |
1911-2006 |
| Mahillon, Victor-Charles (Belgian music scholar) |
1841-1924 |
| Mahir Pasha, 'Ali (Egyptian politician) |
1882-1960 |
| Mahler, Gustav (Austrian composer) |
1860-1911 |
| Mahmud I (Sultan of Ottoman empire 1730-1754) |
1696-1754 |
| Mahmud II (Sultan of Ottoman empire 1808-1839) |
1785-1839 |
| Mahmud of Ghazna (Muslim sultan 997-1030) |
971-1030 |
| Mahmud Muzaffar Shah (Last sultan of Riau & Lingga 1834-1857) |
1823-1864 |
| Mahmud Nedim Pasa (Turkish politician) |
c.1818-1883 |
| Mahmud Shah (Founder of Johore; sultan of Malacca 1488-1511) |
d.1528 |
| Mahon, Charles James Patrick (Irish adventurer, politician) |
1800-1891 |
| Mahon, Derek (Irish poet) |
b.1941 |
| Mahone, William (American soldier) |
1826-1895 |
| Mahony, Francis Sylvester (ps. Father Proust) (Irish humorist) |
1804-1866 |
| Mai, Angelo (Italian prelate, antiquary) |
1782-1854 |
| Maigrot, Emile (pseud. Emile Henriot) (French writer) |
1889-1961 |
| Mailath, Janos (Hungarian historian, poet) |
1786-1855 |
| Mailer, Norman Kingsley (American journalist, writer) |
1923-2007 |
| Maillart, Louis "Aime" (French composer) |
1817-1871 |
| Maillart, Robert (Swiss civil engineer) |
1872-1940 |
| Maillet, Antonine (Canadian writer, playwright) |
b.1929 |
| Maillol, Aristide (French sculptor) |
1861-1944 |
| Mailly-Nesle, Marie-Anne de (French courtier) |
1717-1744 |
| Maiman, Theodore Harold "Ted" (Am. physicist; made first laser) |
1927-2007 |
| Maimbourg, Louis (French ecclesiastical historian) |
1610-1686 |
| Maimon, Salomon (Polish Lithuanian-born German philosopher) |
1753-1800 |
| Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner (English jurist) |
1822-1888 |
| Mairet, Jean (French dramatist) |
1604-1686 |
| Mais, Roger (Jamaican writer) |
1905-1955 |
| Maison, Nicolas-Joseph (French soldier) |
1771-1840 |
| Maisonneuve, Paul de Chomedey de (Fr. colonial administrator) |
1612-1676 |
| Maistre, Casimir-Leon (French soldier, explorer) |
1867-1957 |
| Maistre, Joseph-Marie de (French polemical writer, diplomat) |
1753-1821 |
| Maitland, Edward (Eng. mystic; co-founder of Hermetic Society) |
1824-1897 |
| Maitland, Frederic William (English legal historian) |
1850-1906 |
| Maitland, Sir Richard, Lord Lethington (Scottish poet, lawyer) |
1496-1586 |
| Major, Charles (pseud. Sir Edwin Caskoden) (American novelist) |
1856-1913 |
| Major, Georg (German Lutheran theologian) |
1502-1574 |
| Major (or Mair), John (Scottish Scholastic) |
1469-1550 |
| Major, John Roy (British prime minister 1990-) |
b.1943 |
| Majorelle, Louis (French cabinetmaker) |
1859-1926 |
| Majorian (Roman emperor in the West 457-461) |
d.461 |
| Majumdar, Dhirenda Nath (Indian anthropologist) |
1903-1960 |
| Makarenko, Anton Semyonovich (Soviet social worker, educator) |
1888-1939 |
| Makarios III (orig. M.K. Mouskos) (Cypriot prelate, politician) |
1913-1977 |
| Makarov, Stepan Osipovich (Russian admiral) |
1849-1904 |
| Makart, Hans (Austrian painter) |
1840-1884 |
| Makary (Macarius) (Russian prelate) |
c.1482-1564 |
| Makemie, Francis (Irish-born American clergyman) |
c.1658-1707/8 |
| Maksimov, Vladimir Yemelyanovich (Lev Samsonov) (Rus. writer) |
b.1930 |
| Malachowski, Stanislaw (Polish politician) |
1736-1809 |
| Malachy, Saint (Mael Maedoc Ua Morgair) (Ir. prelate, reformer) |
1094?-1148 |
| Malalas, John (Byzantine historian) |
c.491-c.578 |
| Malamud, Bernard (American writer) |
1914-1986 |
| Malan, Daniel Francois (S. African polit.; prime min. 1948-54) |
1874-1959 |
| Malan, Francois Stephanus (South African politician) |
1871-1941 |
| Malbone, Edward Greene (American painter) |
1777-1807 |
| Malcolm X (orig. Malcolm Little) (American religious leader) |
1925-1965 |
| Malczewshi, Antoni (Polish poet) |
1793-1826 |
| Malebranche, Nicolas de (French philosopher) |
1638-1715 |
| Malenkov, Georgy Maksimilianovich (Soviet politician) |
1902-1988 |
| Malesherbes, Chretien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de (Fr. polit.) |
1721-1794 |
| Malet, Claude-Francois de (French general) |
1754-1812 |
| Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich (Russian painter) |
1878-1935 |
| Malfatti, Gian Francesco (Italian mathematician) |
1731-1807 |
| Malherbe, Daniel Francois (S. African writer, poet, dramatist) |
1881-1969 |
| Malherbe, Francois de (French poet, theoretician) |
1555-1628 |
| Malietoa Tanumafili II (aka Susuga) (Samoan head of state) |
1913-2007 |
| Malik ibn Anas (Muslim theologian) |
c.715-795 |
| Malik-Shah (Sultan of Seljuq Turks 1073-1092) |
1055-1092 |
| Malinovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich (Soviet marshal) |
1898-1967 |
| Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper (Polish-born Brit. anthropologist) |
1884-1942 |
| Malipiero, Gian Francesco (Italian composer) |
1882-1973 |
| Mallarme, Stephane (French poet, translator) |
1842-1898 |
| Malle, Louis (French film director, scenarist) |
1932-1995 |
| Mallea, Eduardo (Argentinean writer, essayist) |
1903-1982 |
| Mallet, David (orig. surname Malloch) (Scottish poet) |
1705?-1765 |
| Mallet-Joris, Francoise (b. Francoise Lilar) (Belgian writer) |
b.1930 |
| Mallon, Mary "Typhoid Mary" (American cook, typhoid carrier) |
1870?-1938 |
| Mallory, Stephen Russell (Trinidadian-born American politician) |
1813?-1873 |
| Mallowan, Sir Max Edgar Lucien (English archaeologist) |
1904-1978 |
| Malmstrom, Bernhard Elis (Swedish poet, critic) |
1816-1865 |
| Malone, Dumas (American historian, editor, biographer) |
1892-1986 |
| Malone, Edmond (Irish Shakespearean scholar) |
1741-1812 |
| Malone, Kemp (American philologist) |
1889-1971 |
| Malory, Sir Thomas (English author, poet, translator) |
fl.1470 |
| Malouet, Pierre-Victor (French politician) |
1740-1814 |
| Malouf, David George Joseph (Australian poet, writer) |
b.1934 |
| Malpighi, Marcello (Italian anatomist) |
1628-1694 |
| Malraux, Andre-Georges (Fr. writer, art historian, politician) |
1901-1976 |
| Malte-Brun, Conrad (Danish-born French geographer) |
1775-1826 |
| Malthus, Thomas Robert (English economist) |
1766-1834 |
| Malus, Etienne-Louis (French engineer, physicist) |
1775-1812 |
| Malvy, Louis-Jean (French politician) |
1875-1949 |
| Mamdouh Edwan (Syrian Arab poet, playwright) |
1941-2004 |
| Mameli, Goffredo (Italian poet, patriot) |
1827-1849 |
| Mamertinus, Claudius (Roman politician) |
4th cent. |
| Mamet, David Alan (American dramatist, screenwriter) |
b.1947 |
| Mammeri, Mouloud (Kabyle writer, playwright, translator) |
1917-1989 |
| Ma'mun, al- (Seventh 'Abbasid caliph 813-833) |
786-833 |
| Manasseh (Manasses) (King of Judah 692?-639? BC) |
d.639? BC |
| Manasseh ben Israel (Dutch Jewish theologian, cabalist) |
1604-1657 |
| Manasses, Constantine (Byzantine prelate, historian) |
d.1187 |
| Mance, Sir Henry Christopher (English electrical engineer) |
1840-1926 |
| Mance, Jeanne (French philanthropist) |
1606-1673 |
| Mancini, Olympe (Comtesse de Soissons) (French noblewoman) |
1639-1708 |
| Mancini, Pasquale Stanislao (Italian politician) |
1817-1888 |
| Mancini-Mazarini, Louis-Jules (French soldier, diplomat) |
1716-1798 |
| Manco Inca Yupanqui (Manqo 'Inka Yupanki) (Inca ruler) |
d.1545 |
| Mandel, Elias Wolf "Eli" (Canadian poet, editor, lit. critic) |
1922-1993 |
| Mandel, Georges (orig. Louis-Georges Rothschild) (Fr. polit.) |
1885-1944 |
| Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (South African president) |
b.1918 |
| Mandelbrot, Benoit (Polish-born French mathematician) |
b.1924 |
| Mandelstam, Osip Yemilyevich (Russian poet, author, translator) |
1891-1938 |
| Mander, Karel van (Dutch painter, writer) |
1548-1606 |
| Mander, Mary Jane (pseudonym Manda Lloyd) (New Zealand writer) |
1877-1949 |
| Mandeville, Bernard (Dutch-born British philosopher, satirist) |
1670-1733 |
| Mandeville, Geoffrey de (1st Earl of Essex) (English baron) |
d.1144 |
| Mandeville, Sir John (pseud. of unidentified traveler writer) |
fl.1356 |
| Manes (or Mani or Manichaeus) (Persian religious leader) |
216-276/7 |
| Manet, Edouard (French painter) |
1832-1883 |
| Manetho (or Manethon or Manethos) (Egyptian priest, historian) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Manfaluti, Mustafa Lutfi al- (Egyptian writer) |
1876-1924 |
| Manfred (King of Naple & Sicily 1258-1266) |
c.1232-1266 |
| Mangan, James Clarence (Irish poet) |
1803-1849 |
| Manganelli, Giorgio (Italian critical theorist, writer) |
1922-1990 |
| Mangelsdorff, Albert (German musician) |
b.1928 |
| Mangin, Charles-Marie-Emmanuel (French soldier) |
1866-1925 |
| Mangoaela, Zakea Dolphin (Southern Sotho writer, folklorist) |
1883-1963 |
| Mangrai (Thai ruler 1296-1311) |
fl. 1287-1311 |
| Mangu Khan (Mongol khan 1251-1259) |
1208-1259 |
| Mangunkusumo, Tjipto (Indonesian nationalist) |
1884-1942 |
| Manifold, John Streeter (Australian poet, folklorist) |
1915-1985 |
| Manilius, Gaius (Roman politician) |
1st cent. BC |
| Manilius, Marcus (Roman poet) |
1st cent. |
| Manin, Daniele (Italian patriot, politician) |
1804-1857 |
| Maning, Frederick Edward (Irish-born New Zealand jurist) |
1811-1883 |
| Maniu, Iuliu (Romanian politician) |
1873-1953 |
| Manley, Mary de la Riviere née Manley (English writer) |
1663-1724 |
| Manly, Charles Matthews (American mechanical engineer) |
1876-1927 |
| Manly, John Matthews (American philologist) |
1865-1940 |
| Mann, Sir Donald D. (Canadian railroad builder) |
1853-1934 |
| Mann, Heinrich (German writer, essayist; brother of Thomas) |
1871-1950 |
| Mann, Sir Horace (English diplomat) |
1701-1786 |
| Mann, Horace (American educator; pioneer of Am. public schools) |
1796-1859 |
| Mann, James Robert (American politician) |
1856-1922 |
| Mann, Thomas "Tom" (English labor leader, Socialist) |
1856-1941 |
| Mann, Thomas (German-born American writer, essayist) |
1875-1955 |
| Manner, Eeva-Liisa (Finnish poet, dramatist) |
b.1921 |
| Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil von (Finnish soldier, politician) |
1867-1951 |
| Mannering, Mary (orig. Florence Friend) (Eng.-born Am. actor) |
1876-1953 |
| Manners, John Hartley (English-born American playwright) |
1870-1928 |
| Manners-Sutton, Charles (Eng. archbishop of Canterbury 1805-28) |
1755-1828 |
| Manners-Sutton, Charles (English politician; son of Charles) |
1780-1845 |
| Mannes, Clara née Damrosch (Prussian-born American pianist) |
1869-1948 |
| Mannes, David (American musician, educator) |
1866-1959 |
| Mannhardt, Wilhelm (German ethnologist) |
1831-1880 |
| Mannheim, Karl (German sociologist) |
1893-1947 |
| Manninen, Otto (Finnish poet, translator) |
1872-1950 |
| Manning, Frederic (Australian writer) |
1882-1935 |
| Manning, Henry Edward (English prelate) |
1808-1892 |
| Manning, James (American clergyman, educator) |
1738-1791 |
| Manning, Olivia (married name Smith) (Eng. writer, journalist) |
1911-1980 |
| Mannix, Daniel (Irish-born Australian prelate) |
1864-1963 |
| Mannlicher, Ferdinand von (Austrian firearms designer) |
1848-1904 |
| Mannucci, Aldo "the Younger" (Italian printer; son of Paolo) |
1547-1597 |
| Mannucci, Paolo (Italian printer; son of Aldo) |
1512-1574 |
| Mannucci, Teobaldo "Aldo" (Italian scholar, editor, printer) |
1449-1515 |
| Manny, Sir Walter de (English military commander) |
d.1372 |
| Mannyng, Robert (aka Robert de Brunne) (Eng. chronicler, poet) |
fl. 1288-1338 |
| Manohar (Indian painter; son of Basavan) |
fl. 1580-1620 |
| Manrique, Gomez (Spanish soldier, dramatist, poet) |
c.1415-1490 |
| Manrique, Jorge (Spanish author; nephew of Gomez) |
1440?-1479 |
| Mansa Musa (Emperor of Mali) |
d.1332? |
| Mansart, Jules Hardouin- (Fr. architect; grandnephew of N.F.) |
1646-1708 |
| Mansart, Nicolas-Francois (French architect) |
1598-1666 |
| Mansbridge, Albert (English educator) |
1876-1952 |
| Mansel, Henry Longueville (English philosopher, clergyman) |
1820-1871 |
| Mansfeld, Peter Ernst von (German soldier) |
1517-1604 |
| Mansfeld, Peter Ernst (German general; son of Peter) |
1580-1626 |
| Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno (American army officer) |
1803-1862 |
| Mansfield, Katherine (New Zealand-born British writer) |
1888-1923 |
| Mansfield, Richard (Germany-born American actor) |
1854-1907 |
| Manship, Paul (American sculptor) |
1885-1966 |
| Manso de Velasco, Jose Antonio (Spanish colonial administrator) |
1688-1767 |
| Manson, Charles (American cult leader) |
b.1934 |
| Manson, Sir Patrick (Scottish parasitologist) |
1844-1922 |
| Manstein, Fritz Erich von (German army officer) |
1887-1973 |
| Mansur "Ustad Mansur" (Mughal painter) |
17th cent. |
| Mansur, Abu Ja'far al- (Arab caliph 754-775; founded Baghdad) |
709/14-775 |
| Mansur, Abu 'Amir al- (Muslim regent of Cordoba, Spain) |
c.938-1002 |
| Mansur, Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al- (Third ruler of Mu'minid dynasty) |
c.1160-1199 |
| Mantegazza, Paolo (Italian physiologist, anthropologist) |
1831-1910 |
| Mantegna, Andrea (Italian painter, engraver) |
1431-1506 |
| Mantell, Gideon Algernon (English geologist, paleontologist) |
1790-1852 |
| Manteuffel, Edwin Hans Karl von (Prussian soldier) |
1809-1885 |
| Mantuanus, Battista Spagnoli (Mantuan humanist, Carmelite monk) |
1448-1516 |
| Manuel I Comnenus (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 1143-1180) |
c.1122-1180 |
| Manuel II Palaeologus (Emperor of E. Roman Empire 1391-1425) |
1350-1524 |
| Manuel, Eugene (French writer) |
1823-1901 |
| Manuel, Juan "Don Juan Manuel" (Span. prince, general, writer) |
1282-1348 |
| Manuel, Niklaus (Swiss painter, wood engraver, polit., writer) |
1484-1530 |
| Manzoni, Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio (It. nov., poet) |
1785-1873 |
| Mao Ch'ang (Chinese scholar) |
fl. 145 BC |
| Mao Tse-tung (Mao Ze-dong) (Chinese soldier, statesman) |
1893-1976 |
| Map, Walter (English ecclesiastic, author, wit) |
c.1140-c.1209 |
| Mapplethorpe, Robert (American photographer) |
1946-1989 |
| Mapu, Abraham (Lithuanian Jewish novelist) |
1808-1867 |
| Maqdisi, al- (aka al-Muqaddasi) (Arab geographer) |
c.946-c.1000 |
| Maquet, Auguste (French writer) |
1813-1888 |
| Marais, Marin (French composer) |
1656-1728 |
| Maraldi, Giacomo Filippo (Italian astronomer) |
1665-1729 |
| Maramzin, Vladimir Rafailovich (Russian writer) |
b.1934 |
| Maran, Rene (Martinique-born French novelist) |
1887-1960 |
| Marat, Jean-Paul (Swiss-born French politician, physician) |
1743-1793 |
| Maratti (or Maratta), Carlo (Italian painter) |
1625-1713 |
| Marbeck (or Merbecke), John (English composer, writer) |
d.c.1585 |
| Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin de (French soldier) |
1782-1854 |
| Marc, Franz (German painter; member of the Blue Rider group) |
1880-1916 |
| Marca, Pierre de (French prelate) |
1594-1662 |
| Marcabru (or Marcabrun) (Gascon troubadour) |
fl. c.1130-1148 |
| Marceau, Francois-Severin (French soldier) |
1769-1796 |
| Marceau, Marcel (b. Marcel Mangel) (French mime) |
1923-2007 |
| Marcel, Etienne (French bourgeois leader) |
c.1316-1358 |
| Marcel, Gabriel-Honore (French philosopher, dramatist) |
1889-1973 |
| Marcellinus, Saint (Pope 296-304) |
d.304 |
| Marcello, Alessandro (Italian composer; brother of Benedetto) |
1684-1750 |
| Marcello, Benedetto (Italian composer, public official) |
1686-1739 |
| Marcellus I, Saint (Pope 308-309) |
d.309 |
| Marcellus II (orig. Marcello Cervini) (Pope April-May 1555) |
1501-1555 |
| Marcellus, Marcus Claudius (Roman general) |
268?-208 BC |
| Marcellus, Marcus Claudius (Roman orator, politician) |
d.45 BC |
| March, Ausias (Catalan poet) |
1397-1459 |
| March, Francis Andrew (American philologist) |
1825-1911 |
| March, Francis Andrew (American lexicographer; son of Francis) |
1863-1928 |
| March, Fredric (orig. Frederick McIntyre Bickel) (Am. actor) |
1897-1975 |
| March, Peyton Conway (American army officer; son of Francis) |
1864-1955 |
| Marchand, Jean-Baptiste (French soldier, explorer) |
1863-1934 |
| Marchand, Jean-Hippolyte (French painter) |
1883-1941 |
| Marchesi, Blanche (It. singer; daughter of Mathilde, Salvatore) |
1863-1940 |
| Marchesi, Mathilde née Graumann (It. concert singer, teacher) |
1826-1913 |
| Marchesi, Salvatore (It. baritone, singing teacher, composer) |
1822-1908 |
| Marchetti, Filippo (Italian composer) |
1831-1902 |
| Marchiano, Linda Boreman "Linda Lovelace" (American actor) |
1949-2002 |
| Marcian (Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450-457) |
c.392-457 |
| Marciano, Rocky (orig. Rocco Francis Marchegiano) (Am. boxer) |
1923-1969 |
| Marcion (Christian Gnostic) |
d.c.160 |
| Marclay, Christian (American composer) |
b.1955 |
| Marconi, Guglielmo (Italian physicist, inventor) |
1874-1937 |
| Marcos, Ferdinand Edralin (Philippine president 1965-1986) |
1917-1989 |
| Marcoussis, Louis (orig. Ludwig C.L. Markus) (Polish painter) |
1883-1941 |
| Marcus Aurelius (surnamed Antoninus) (Roman emperor 161-180) |
121-180 |
| Marcus, Rudolph Arthur (Canadian-born American chemist) |
b.1923 |
| Marcus, Siegfried (German inventor) |
1831-1898 |
| Marcuse, Herbert (German-born American political philosopher) |
1898-1979 |
| Marcy, William Learned (American politician) |
1786-1857 |
| Marden, Luis (b. Annibale Luigi Paragallo) (Am. journalist) |
1913-2003 |
| Mardersteig, Giovanni (orig. Hans) (German-born It. printer) |
1892-1977 |
| Mardonius (Persian general) |
d.479 BC |
| Marechal, Leopoldo (Argentinean writer, critic) |
1900-1970 |
| Marechal, Pierre-Sylvain (French writer) |
1750-1803 |
| Marechera, Dambudzo (Zimbanwean writer, playwright, poet) |
1952-1987 |
| Marees, Hans von (German painter in Italy) |
1837-1887 |
| Marenco, Carlo (Italian dramatist) |
1800-1846 |
| Marenco, Leopoldo (Italian dramatist; son of Carlo) |
1831-1899 |
| Marenzio, Luca (Italian composer) |
1553/4-1599 |
| Maret, Hugues-Bernard (French diplomat) |
1763-1839 |
| Marett, Robert Ranulph (English anthropologist) |
1866-1943 |
| Marey, Etienne-Jules (French physiologist) |
1830-1904 |
| Margadant, Simon (pseud. Simon Lemnius) (German poet) |
c.1511-1550 |
| Margai, Sir Milton Augustus Striery (Sierra Leone politician) |
1895-1964 |
| Margaret of Anjou (French-born queen of England) |
1430-1482 |
| Margaret of Antioch, Saint (Christian martyr) |
3rd/4th cent. |
| Margaret of Navarre (Margaret of Angouleme) (Fr. queen, writer) |
1492-1549 |
| Margaret of Valois (Queen Margot; Reine Margot) (French queen) |
1533-1615 |
| Margerie, Emmanuel-Marie-Pierre-Martin Jacquin de (Fr. geol.) |
1862-1953 |
| Marggraf, Andreas Sigismund (German chemist) |
1709-1782 |
| Marghiloman, Alexandru (Romanian politician) |
1854-1925 |
| Margoliouth, David Samuel (English scholar) |
1858-1940 |
| Margolis, Max Leopold (Russian-born American philologist) |
1866-1932 |
| Margueritte, Paul (French novelist) |
1860-1918 |
| Margueritte, Victor (French novelist; brother of Paul) |
1866-1942 |
| Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Charles de (French writer) |
c.1617-1703 |
| Margunios, Maximus (Greek Humanist, prelate) |
d.1602 |
| Mariana, Juan de (Spanish historian) |
1536-1624 |
| Marianus Scotus (orig. Moel-Brigte) (Irish chronicler) |
1028-1082/3 |
| Marias Augilera, Julian (Spanish philosopher, essayist) |
b.1914 |
| Maria Stella (Italian adventuress) |
1773-1843 |
| Mariategui, Jose Carlos (Peruvian political leader, essayist) |
1895-1930 |
| Marie, Pierre (French neurologist) |
1853-1940 |
| Marie-Antoinette (Queen of Louis XVI of France) |
1755-1793 |
| Marie de France (French poet) |
12th cent. |
| Marie de Medicis (Italian-born queen of France) |
1573-1642 |
| Mariette, Auguste-Ferdinand-Francois (French archaeologist) |
1821-1881 |
| Marignac, Jean-Charles-Galissard de (Swiss chemist) |
1817-1894 |
| Marignolli, Giovanni dei (Italian traveler) |
fl. 1290-1357 |
| Magigny, Enguerrand de (French politician) |
1260-1315 |
| Marillac, Charles de (French ecclesiastic, diplomat) |
1501?-1560 |
| Marin, Biagio (Italian poet) |
1891-1985 |
| Marin, Francisco de Paula "Manini" (Spanish horticulturist) |
1774-1837 |
| Marin, John Cheri (American painter) |
1870-1953 |
| Marin, Richard Anthony "Cheech" (American comedian, actor) |
c.1946 |
| Marina (orig. Malintzin; aka Dona Marina) (Aztec princess) |
c.1501-1550 |
| Marinatos, Spyridon Nikolaou (Greek archaeologist) |
1901-1974 |
| Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso (Egyptian-born It. writer) |
1876-1944 |
| Marini (or Marino), Giambattista (Italian poet) |
1569-1625 |
| Marini, Marino (Italian sculptor) |
1901-1980 |
| Marinkovic, Vijislav (Yugoslav statesman) |
1876-1935 |
| Marinus I (Pope 882-884) |
d.884 |
| Marinus II (Pope 942-946) |
d.946 |
| Marinus of Tyre (Greek geographer) |
2nd cent. |
| Marion, Francis "the Swamp Fox" (Am. Revolutionary commander) |
1732?-1795 |
| Mariotte, Edme (French physicist) |
c.1620-1684 |
| Maris, Jacob (Dutch painter; brother of Matthijs & Willem) |
1837-1899 |
| Maris, Matthijs (Dutch painter; brother of Jacob & Willem) |
1839-1917 |
| Maris, Willem (Dutch painter; brother of Jacob & Matthijs) |
1844-1910 |
| Maritain, Jacques (French philosopher, diplomat) |
1882-1973 |
| Maritz, Salomon Gerhardus (South African general, rebel) |
1876-1940 |
| Marius, Gaius (Roman general, politician) |
c.157-86 BC |
| Marius, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor) |
3rd cent. |
| Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de (Fr. playwright, nov.) |
1688-1763 |
| Mark the Hermit (Marcus Eremita) (Christian theological writer) |
d.430? |
| Markandaya, Kamala (b. Kamala Purnaiya Taylor) (Indian writer) |
b.1924 |
| Markham, Beryl née Clutterbuck (British aviator, horse trainer) |
1902-1986 |
| Markham, Sir Clements Robert (English geographer, hist. writer) |
1830-1916 |
| Markham, Edwin (b. Charles Edward Anson Markham)(American poet) |
1852-1940 |
| Markham, Gervase (or Jervis) (English writer) |
1568?-1637 |
| Markish, Peretz (or Perets, Perez)(Soviet Yiddish poet, writer) |
1895-1952 |
| Marko Kraljevic (King of Serbia 1371-1395) |
c.1335-1395 |
| Markov, Andrey Andreyevich (Russian mathematician) |
1856-1922 |
| Markova, Alicia (b. Lilian Alicia Marks) (British ballerina) |
1910-2004 |
| Markovic, Svetozar (Serbian political writer) |
1846-1875 |
| Markovnikov, Vladimir Vasilyevich (Russian chemist) |
1838-1904 |
| Markowitz, Harry M. (American economist) |
b.1927 |
| Marlatt, Daphne (Canadian poet, writer) |
b.1942 |
| Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of (Eng. military leader) |
1650-1722 |
| Marlette, Doug (American cartoonist, writer) |
1949-2007 |
| Marley, Bob (Rhoden Hall) (Jamaican reggae musician, singer) |
1945-1981 |
| Marlowe, Christopher (English dramatist, poet) |
1564-1593 |
| Marlowe, Julia (orig. Sarah F. Frost) (Eng.-born Am. actor) |
1866-1950 |
| Marmaduke, John Sappington (American soldier, politician) |
1833-1887 |
| Marmion, Shackerley (or Shakerley) (English dramatist) |
1603-1639 |
| Marmol, Jose Pedro Crisologo (Argentinean poet, writer) |
1818-1871 |
| Marmont, Auguste-Frederic-Louis Viesse de (French soldier) |
1774-1852 |
| Marmontel, Jean-Francois (Fr. poet, dramatist, writer, critic) |
1723-1799 |
| Marmor, Judd (English-born American psychiatrist) |
1910-2003 |
| Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, Philips van (Dutch theologian) |
1540-1598 |
| Marobodus (King of the Marcomanni) |
d.37 |
| Marot, Clement (French poet, translator, editor) |
1496?-1544 |
| Marot, Daniel (French architect; son of Jean c.1619-1679) |
1661-1752 |
| Marot, Jean (French poet; father of Clement) |
c.1463-1526 |
| Marot, Jean (French architect) |
c.1619-1679 |
| Marozia (Italian noblewoman; dau. of Theodora & Theophylact) |
d.945? |
| Marpa (Tibetan Buddhist mystic) |
1012-1096 |
| Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm (German composer, writer on music) |
1718-1795 |
| Marquand, John Phillips (American novelist) |
1893-1960 |
| Marques, Rene (Puerto Rican writer, playwright, essayist) |
1919-1979 |
| Marquet, Pierre-Albert (French painter) |
1875-1947 |
| Marquette, Jacques "Pere Marquette" (Fr. missionary, explorer) |
1637-1675 |
| Marquina, Eduardo (Spanish poet, dramatist) |
1879-1946 |
| Marquis, Donald Robert Perry "Don" (Am. journalist, humorist) |
1878-1937 |
| Marr, Nikolay Yakovlevich (Russian linguist, archaeologist) |
1865-1934 |
| Marradi, Giovanni (Italian poet) |
1852-1922 |
| Marriott, Sir John Arthur Ransome (English historian) |
1859-1945 |
| Marroquin, Jose Manuel (Colombian politician, philologist) |
1827-1908 |
| Marryat, Frederick (English naval commander, novelist) |
1792-1848 |
| Mars, Mlle (Anne-Francoise-Hippolyte Boutet) (French actor) |
1779-1847 |
| Marsalis, Wynton (American trumpeter, composer) |
b.1961 |
| Marschner, Heinrich August (German composer) |
1795-1861 |
| Marse, Juan (Spanish writer) |
b.1933 |
| Marsh, Dame Edith Ngaio (New Zealand writer, artist, actor) |
1899-1981 |
| Marsh, Sir Edward Howard (English man of letters) |
1872-1953 |
| Marsh, George Perkins (American lawyer, diplomat, philologist) |
1801-1882 |
| Marsh, John (English composer) |
1752-1828 |
| Marsh, Othniel Charles (American paleontologist) |
1831-1899 |
| Marsh, Reginald (France-born American painter) |
1898-1954 |
| Marsh, Sylvester (American inventor) |
1803-1884 |
| Marshall, Alfred (English economist) |
1842-1924 |
| Marshall, Christopher (Irish-born American patriot, diarist) |
1709-1797 |
| Marshall, Frank James (American chess master) |
1877-1944 |
| Marshall, George Catlett (American army officer, statesman) |
1880-1959 |
| Marshall, James Ward "Jay" (American magician, ventriloquist) |
1919-2005 |
| Marshall, James Wilson (American carpenter, gold miner) |
1810-1885 |
| Marshall, John (American Supreme Court chief justice 1801-35) |
1755-1835 |
| Marshall, Sir John Hubert (English archaeologist) |
1876-1958 |
| Marshall, John Kennedy (American anthropologist, filmmaker) |
1932-2005 |
| Marshall, Louis (American lawyer, civic leader) |
1856-1929 |
| Marshall, Paule née Burke (American writer) |
b.1929 |
| Marshall, Stephen (English clergyman) |
c.1594-1655 |
| Marshall, Thomas (American Revolutionary leader) |
1730-1802 |
| Marshall, Thomas Riley (American vice-president 1913-1921) |
1854-1925 |
| Marshall, Thurgood (First black Supreme Court Justice) |
1908-1993 |
| Marshall, Tom (Canadian poet, writer, critic) |
1938-1993 |
| Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando (It. naturalist, geographer, soldier) |
1658-1730 |
| Marsilius of Padua (Marsilio da Padova) (Italian scholar) |
c.1280-c.1343 |
| Marsman, Hendrik (Dutch poet, novelist, critic) |
1899-1940 |
| Marston, John (English dramatist) |
1576-1634 |
| Marston, John Westland (English dramatist) |
1819-1890 |
| Marston, Philip Bourke (English poet; son of John Westland) |
1850-1887 |
| Marsus, Domitius (Roman poet) |
c.54-c.4 BC |
| Marsyas Painter (Greek painter) |
fl. c.350-325 BC |
| Martel, Edouard-Alfred (French speleologist) |
1859-1938 |
| Martelli (or Martello), Pier Jacopo (Italian poet, dramatist) |
1665-1727 |
| Martens, Adolphe Adhemar Louis Michel (Belgian playwright) |
1898-1962 |
| Martens, Fyodor Fyodorovich (Russian jurist, diplomat) |
1845-1909 |
| Martens, Georg Friedrich von (German jurist, diplomat) |
1756-1821 |
| Martens, Wilfried (Belgian prime minister 1979-1992) |
b.1936 |
| Marti y Perez, Jose Julian (Cuban patriot, poet, essayist) |
1853-1895 |
| Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) (Spanish-born Roman poet) |
c.40-c.103 |
| Martin, Saint (aka Saint Martin of Tours) (French prelate) |
c.316-397 |
| Martin, Albert-Alexandre "Albert l'Ouvrier" (French politician) |
1815-1895 |
| Martin, Archer John Porter (English biochemist) |
b.1910 |
| Martin, Bon-Louis-Henri (French historian) |
1810-1883 |
| Martin, Don (American cartoonist) |
1931-2000 |
| Martin, Edward Sandford (American editor, writer) |
1856-1939 |
| Martin, Etienne-Simon (Fr. artisan; bro. of Guillaume, Julien) |
d.1770 |
| Martin, Glenn Luther (American airplane manufacturer) |
1886-1955 |
| Martin, Gregory (English biblical translator) |
c.1540-1582 |
| Martin, Guillaume (Fr. artisan; bro. of E.S., Julien, Robert) |
d.1749 |
| Martin, Homer Dodge (American painter) |
1836-1897 |
| Martin, Homer Zettler (Am. chem. eng.; one of Four Horsemen) |
1910-1993 |
| Martin, James Henry "Jimmy" (American musician, singer) |
1927-2005 |
| Martin, John (English painter) |
1789-1854 |
| Martin, Joseph William Jr. (American publisher, politician) |
1884-1968 |
| Martin, Judith (American writer) |
b.1938 |
| Martin, Julien (Fr. artisan; bro. of E.S., Guillaume, Robert) |
d.1752 |
| Martin, Lecil Travis (Boxcar Willie) (American musician) |
1931-1999 |
| Martin, Luther (American lawyer, public official) |
1748?-1826 |
| Martin, Lynn née Morley (American Secy. of Labor 1991-1993) |
b.1939 |
| Martin, Pierre-Emile (French engineer) |
1824-1915 |
| Martin, Robert (Fr. artisan; bro. of E.S., Guillaume, Julien) |
1706-1765 |
| Martin, Violet Florence (pseud. Martin Ross) (Irish novelist) |
1862-1915 |
| Martin Diaz, Juan "el Empecinado" (Spanish patriot) |
1775-1825 |
| Martin du Gard, Roger (French author, dramatist) |
1881-1958 |
| Martineau, Harriet (English novelist, economist) |
1802-1876 |
| Martineau, James (English Unitarian theologian) |
1805-1900 |
| Martinet, Jean (French army officer) |
17th cent. |
| Martinez, Maria Antonita née Montoya (American potter) |
1887-1980 |
| Martinez, Tomas (Nicaraguan general, politician; pres. 1857-67) |
1812-1873 |
| Martinez de Campos, Arsenio (Spanish soldier, politician) |
1834-1900 |
| Martinez de Irala, Domingo (Spanish conquistador) |
1509?-1556 |
| Martinez de la Rosa, Francisco de Paula (Span. polit., writer) |
1787-1862 |
| Martinez de Toledo, Alfonso (Spanish prelate, writer) |
1398?-1468? |
| Martinez Estrada, Ezequiel (Argentinean writer, poet) |
1895-1964 |
| Martinez Pasqualis (Portuguese mystic) |
1727-1779 |
| Martinez Ruiz, Jose (pen name Azorin) (Spanish writer) |
1873-1967 |
| Martinez Sierra, Gregorio (Spanish playwright, novelist) |
1881-1947 |
| Martinez Zuviria, Gustavo (pseud. Hugo Wast) (Argentine writer) |
1883-1962 |
| Martini, Ferdinando (Italian writer, administrator) |
1841-1928 |
| Martini, Giovanni Battista (Italian composer, music scholar) |
1706-1784 |
| Martini, Jean-Paul-Egide (German-born French composer) |
1741-1816 |
| Martini, Simone (Italian painter) |
c.1284-1344 |
| Martin-Santos, Luis (Spanish psychiatrist, writer) |
1924-1964 |
| Martinson, Harry Edmund (Swedish novelist, poet) |
1904-1978 |
| Martinson, Moa née Helga Maria Swartz (Swedish novelist) |
1890-1964 |
| Martinu, Bohuslav Jan (Czech composer) |
1890-1959 |
| Martinus (or Martinus Gosia) (Italian jurist) |
c.1100-c.1166 |
| Martinuzzi, Gyorgy (orig. Juraj Utiesenovic) (Hung. statesman) |
1482-1551 |
| Martyn, Edward (Irish playwright) |
1859-1923 |
| Martyn, Henry (English missionary) |
1781-1812 |
| Martyn, John (English botanist) |
1699-1768 |
| Martyn, Thomas (English botanist; son of John) |
1735-1825 |
| Marulic, Marko (Croatian poet, philosopher) |
1450-1524 |
| Marvell, Andrew (English poet, politician) |
1621-1678 |
| Marx, Adolf Bernhard (German composer, music scholar) |
1795-1866 |
| Marx, Arthur (orig. Adolf) "Harpo" (American comedian) |
1893-1964 |
| Marx, Herbert "Zeppo" (American comedian) |
1901-1979 |
| Marx, Julius Henry "Groucho" (American comedian) |
1890-1977 |
| Marx, Karl Heinrich (German political philosopher) |
1818-1883 |
| Marx, Leonard "Chico" (American comedian) |
1891-1961 |
| Marx, Milton "Gummo" (American comedian) |
1894-1977 |
| Marx, Paul (American Benedictine monk, sociologist) |
b.1920 |
| Marx, Wilhelm (German politician) |
1863-1946 |
| Mary (Mary Stuart) "Mary, Queen of Scots" (Queen of Scotland) |
1542-1587 |
| Mary of the Incarnation (orig. Barbe-Jeanne Acarie) (Fr. rel.) |
1566-1618 |
| Masamune Hakucho (orig. Tadao) (Japanese novelist, critic) |
1879-1962 |
| Masaoka Shiki (orig. Tsunenori) (Japanese poet) |
1867-1902 |
| Masaryk, Jan Garrigue (Czechoslovak diplomat; son of T.G.) |
1886-1948 |
| Masaryk, Tomas Garrigue (Czechoslovak statesman, philosopher) |
1850-1937 |
| Mascagni, Pietro (Italian composer) |
1863-1945 |
| Mascart, Eleuthere-Elie-Nicolas (French physicist) |
1837-1908 |
| Mascheroni, Lorenzo (Italian mathematician) |
1750-1800 |
| Masdeu, Juan Francisco de (Spanish historian) |
1744-1817 |
| Masefield, John Edward (English author; poet laureate 1930) |
1878-1967 |
| Masham, Lady Abigail née Hill (English courtier) |
d.1734 |
| Masina, Giulia Anna "Giulietta" (Italian actor) |
1921-1994 |
| Masinissa (or Massinissa) (King of Numidia) |
c.240-148 BC |
| Masip, Juan Vicente "Juan de Juanes" (Spanish painter) |
d.1579 |
| Masip, Vicente (Spanish painter; father of Juan) |
c.1480-c.1545 |
| Maskelyne, John Nevil (English magician) |
1839-1917 |
| Maskelyne, Nevil (English astronomer) |
1732-1811 |
| Maslak, Keshavan (aka Kenny Millions) (American musician, poet) |
b.1947 |
| Maslow, Abraham Harold (American humanistic psychologist) |
1908-1970 |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann (American writer) |
b.1940 |
| Mason, Charles (English astronomer, surveyor w/Jeremiah Dixon) |
1728-1786 |
| Mason, Daniel Gregory (American composer; son of Henry) |
1873-1953 |
| Mason, George (American planter, Revolutionary statesman) |
1725-1792 |
| Mason, Henry (American piano manufacturer; son of Lowell) |
1831-1890 |
| Mason, James Murray (American politician; grandson of George) |
1798-1871 |
| Mason, Sir John (English diplomat) |
1503-1566 |
| Mason, John (English colonist; founded New Hampshire) |
1588-1635 |
| Mason, John Mitchell (American clergyman, educator) |
1770-1829 |
| Mason, Lowell (American musician) |
1792-1872 |
| Mason, Max (American mathematician, physicist) |
1877-1961 |
| Mason, Otis Tufton (American ethnologist) |
1838-1908 |
| Mason, Ronald Alison Kels (New Zealand poet, editor, dramatist) |
1905-1971 |
| Mason, William (English poet) |
1724-1797 |
| Mason, William (American concert pianist; son of Lowell) |
1829-1908 |
| Maspero, Gaston-Camille-Charles (French Egyptologist) |
1846-1916 |
| Massasoit (American Wampanoag Indian chief) |
d.1661 |
| Masse, Felix-Marie "Victor" (French composer) |
1822-1884 |
| Massena, Andre (Duc de Rivoli; Prince d'Essling) (French gen.) |
1758-1817 |
| Massenet, Jules-Emile-Frederic (French composer) |
1842-1912 |
| Massey, Charles Vincent (Canadian diplomat) |
1887-1967 |
| Massey, Gerald (English poet) |
1828-1907 |
| Massey, William Ferguson (Irish-born New Zealand politician) |
1856-1925 |
| Massillon, Jean-Baptiste (French prelate) |
1663-1742 |
| Massine, Leonide (Russian dancer, choreographer) |
1896-1979 |
| Massingberd, Hugh John née Montgomery (English obituary editor) |
1946-2007 |
| Massinger, Philip (English dramatist) |
1583-1640 |
| Massingham, Harold John (English journalist; son of Henry) |
1888-1952 |
| Massingham, Henry William (English journalist) |
1860-1924 |
| Massio, Niccolo di Giovanni di (Italian painter) |
c.1370-1427 |
| Masson, Antoine (French engraver) |
1636-1700 |
| Masson, David (Scottish scholar) |
1822-1907 |
| Masson, Frederic (French historian) |
1847-1923 |
| Massue, Henri de (Marquis de Ruvigny) (French soldier) |
1605-1689 |
| Massue, Henri (French soldier; son of Henri) |
1648-1720 |
| Massys, Cornelis (Flemish painter; son of Quentin) |
1513-1579 |
| Massys, Jan (Flemish painter; son of Quentin) |
1509-1575 |
| Massys (or Matsys, Messys, Metsys), Quentin (Flemish painter) |
c.1466-1530 |
| Masters, Edgar Lee (American poet, writer) |
1869-1950 |
| Masters, William Howell (American sexuality researcher, writer) |
1915-2001 |
| Masterson, William Barclay "Bat" (American peace officer) |
1853-1921 |
| Mas'udi, Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al- (Arab historian, traveler) |
d.957 |
| Mata Hari (orig. M.G. MacLeod) (Dutch dancer, courtesan, spy) |
1876-1917 |
| Matamoros, Mariano (Mexican priest, patriot) |
1770-1814 |
| Mather, Cotton (American clergyman, author; son of Increase) |
1663-1728 |
| Mather, Increase (Am. Congregational clergyman; son of Richard) |
1639-1723 |
| Mather, Richard (English-born Am. Congregational clergyman) |
1596-1669 |
| Mather, Stephen Tyng (American conservationist) |
1867-1930 |
| Matheson, Richard Burton (American writer) |
b.1926 |
| Matheson, Samuel Pritchard (Canadian prelate) |
1852-1942 |
| Mathew, Theobald (Irish temperance missionary) |
1790-1856 |
| Mathews, Charles (English comedian) |
1776-1835 |
| Mathews, Charles James (Eng. actor, playwright; son of Charles) |
1803-1878 |
| Mathews, Shailer (American theologian) |
1863-1941 |
| Mathews, William (American lawyer, academic, writer) |
1818-1909 |
| Mathewson, Christopher "Christy" (American baseball player) |
1880-1925 |
| Mathias, Thomas James (English satirist, scholar) |
1754?-1835 |
| Mathieu, Albert-Xavier-Emile (French historian) |
1874-1932 |
| Mathieu, Emile-Louis-Victor (Belgian composer) |
1844-1932 |
| Matilda, Saint (Queen of Henry I of Germany) |
895-968 |
| Matisse, Henri-Emile-Benoit (French painter, sculptor) |
1869-1954 |
| Matos Fragoso, Juan de (Portuguese-born Spanish dramatist) |
1608-1688 |
| Matos Guerra, Gregorio de "boca do inferno" (Brazilian poet) |
1633-1696 |
| Matshikiza, Todd T. (South African writer, musician) |
1921-1968 |
| Matsudaira Sadanobu (surname orig. Tayasu) (Japanese polit.) |
1758-1829 |
| Matsudaira Tsuneo (Japanese diplomat) |
1877-1949 |
| Matsudaira Yoshinaga (Japanese noble, politician) |
1829-1890 |
| Matsukata Masayoshi (Japanese politician) |
1835-1924 |
| Matsunaga Teitoku (orig. Katsuguma) (Japanese scholar, poet) |
1571-1654 |
| Matsuo Munefusa (pseud. Matsuo Basho) "Basho" (Japanese poet) |
1644-1694 |
| Matsuoka Yosuke (Japanese politician) |
1880-1946 |
| Matsuyama Motonori (Japanese geophysicist) |
1884-1958 |
| Matsyendranatha (aka Mina-nath) (Indian religious) |
10th? cent. |
| Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastian Antonio (Chilean painter) |
b.1912 |
| Matteo Serafini da Bascio (or di Bassi) (Italian monk) |
c.1495-1552 |
| Matteotti, Giacomo (Italian Socialist politician) |
1885-1924 |
| Matteucci, Pellegrino (Italian explorer, physician) |
1850-1881 |
| Matthay, Tobias Augustus (English composer, pianist, teacher) |
1858-1945 |
| Matthes, Francois Emile (Dutch-born American geologist) |
1874-1948 |
| Mattheson, Johann (German composer, writer on music) |
1681-1764 |
| Matthew, Wiliam Diller (Canadian-born American paleontologist) |
1871-1930 |
| Matthews, James Brander (Am. educator, author, drama critic) |
1852-1929 |
| Matthews, Stanley (Am. jurist; Supreme Court justice 1881-89) |
1824-1889 |
| Matthias (Holy Roman emperor 1612-1619) |
1557-1619 |
| Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458-1490) |
1443-1490 |
| Matthiessen, Francis Otto (American scholar) |
1902-1950 |
| Matthiessen, Peter (American writer, traveler, nature writer) |
b.1927 |
| Matthisson, Friedrich von (German poet) |
1761-1831 |
| Mattioli, Ercole Antonio (Italian diplomat) |
1640-1703 |
| Matto de Turner, Clorinda (Peruvian novelist) |
1854-1909 |
| Ma Tuan-lin (Chinese historian) |
13th cent. |
| Maturidi, al-, Abu Mansur Muhammad (Muslim theologian) |
d.944 |
| Maturin, Charles Robert (Irish clergyman, writer, dramatist) |
1782-1824 |
| Matute, Ana Maria (Spanish writer) |
b.1926 |
| Matveyev, Artamon Sergeyevich (Russian politician) |
1625-1682 |
| Matzeliger, Jan Ernst (Dutch Guiana-born American inventor) |
1852-1889 |
| Mauch, Karl Gottlieb (German explorer in Africa) |
1837-1875 |
| Mauchly, John William (American physicist, engineer: ENIAC) |
1907-1980 |
| Maude, Sir Frederick Stanley (Gibraltar-born British soldier) |
1864-1917 |
| Maudslay, Henry (English engineer) |
1771-1831 |
| Maudslay, Joseph (English engineer; son of Henry) |
1801-1861 |
| Maudslay, Thomas Henry (English engineer; son of Henry) |
1792-1864 |
| Maugham, Robert Cecil Romer "Robin" (Eng. writer, journalist) |
1916-1981 |
| Maugham, William Somerset (English novelist, playwright) |
1874-1965 |
| Mauguin, Charles Victor (French mineralogist, crystallographer) |
1878-1958 |
| Maunick, Edouard Joseph Marc (Mauritian poet, critic) |
b.1931 |
| Maunoury, Michel-Joseph (French soldier) |
1847-1923 |
| Maupassant, Henri-Rene-Albert-Guy de (French writer) |
1850-1893 |
| Maupeou, Rene-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de (French politician) |
1714-1792 |
| Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de (French math., astronomer) |
1698-1759 |
| Maupin, Armistead (American writer) |
b.1944 |
| Maura y Montaner, Antonio (Spanish politician) |
1853-1925 |
| Maurel, Victor (French baritone) |
1848-1923 |
| Maurepas, Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux de (French politician) |
1701-1781 |
| Mauriac, Claude (French literary critic, writer) |
b.1914 |
| Mauriac, Francois (French novelist, essayist, dramatist) |
1885-1970 |
| Mauriat, Paul (French conductor) |
1925-2006 |
| Maurice, Saint (Mauritius) (Christian martyr) |
d.c.286 |
| Maurice (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 582-602) |
c.539-602 |
| Maurice (Maurice of Nassau) (Stadholder of the Dutch Republic) |
1567-1625 |
| Maurice (Hermann Moritz) "Maurice of Saxony" (French general) |
1696-1750 |
| Maurice, Sir John Frederick (English soldier; son of Frederick) |
1841-1912 |
| Maurice, John Frederick Denison (English theologian) |
1805-1872 |
| Maurois, Andre (b. Ernile Herzog) (French biographer, writer) |
1885-1967 |
| Mauropus, John (Byzantine scholar, ecclesiastic) |
11th cent. |
| Maurras, Charles-Marie-Photius (Fr. writer, political theorist) |
1868-1952 |
| Maury, Jean-Siffrein (French prelate) |
1746-1817 |
| Maury, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred (French scholar, archaeologist) |
1817-1892 |
| Maury, Matthew Fontaine (American naval officer, oceanographer) |
1806-1873 |
| Mauser, Peter Paul (German gun inventor; brother of Wilhelm) |
1838-1914 |
| Mauser, Wilhelm (German gun inventor; brother of Peter) |
1834-1882 |
| Mausolus (Persian satrap of Caria 377/6-353/2 BC) |
d.353/2 BC |
| Mauss, Marcel (French sociologist, anthropologist) |
1872-1950 |
| Mauthner, Fritz (German writer) |
1849-1923 |
| Mauve, Anton (Dutch painter) |
1838-1888 |
| Maverick, Samuel Augustus (American cattleman, politician) |
1803-1870 |
| Mavor, Elizabeth Osborne (Scottish-born British writer) |
b.1927 |
| Mavor, Osborne Henry (Scottish physician, playwright) |
1888-1951 |
| Mavrokordatos, Alexandros (Greek politician, patriot) |
1791-1865 |
| Mavura (or Manuza) (Ruler of Mwene Mutapa empire) |
17th cent. |
| Mawardi, Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad al- (Arab jurist) |
d.1058 |
| Mawson, Sir Douglas (Eng.-born Australian explorer, geologist) |
1882-1958 |
| Max, Adolphe (Belgian politician) |
1869-1939 |
| Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius (Roman emperor 306-312) |
d.312 |
| Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (American-born British inventor) |
1840-1916 |
| Maxim, Hiram Percy (American inventor; son of Sir Hiram) |
1896-1936 |
| Maxim, Hudson (orig. Isaac) (Am. inventor, explosives expert) |
1853-1927 |
| Maximian (Roman emperor 286-305, 306-308; father of Maxentius) |
d.310 |
| Maximilian (Prinz zu Wied) (German traveler, naturalist) |
1782-1867 |
| Maximilian "Prince of Baden" (German politician) |
1867-1929 |
| Maximinus (Gaius Julius Maximinus) (Roman emperor 235-238) |
173-238 |
| Maximinus (Gaius Galerius Valerius Max.) (Roman emp. 308-313) |
d.313 |
| Maximus, Saint "the Confessor" (Byzantine theologian) |
c.580-662 |
| Maximus (Maksim) "the Greek" (Greek monk, Humanist scholar) |
1480-1556 |
| Maximus of Ephesus (Greek philosopher) |
d.370 |
| Maximus Planudes (Greek Orthodox monk, scholar) |
1260-c.1310 |
| Maxton, James (Scottish-born British politician) |
1885-1946 |
| Maxwell, Elsa (Am. columnist, songwriter, prof. party-giver) |
1883-1963 |
| Maxwell, Gavin (Scottish writer, conservationist) |
1914-1969 |
| Maxwell, James Clerk (Scottish physicist, mathematician) |
1831-1879 |
| Maxwell, William Keepers (American editor, writer) |
1908-2000 |
| May, Karl Friedrich (German novelist) |
1842-1912 |
| May, Philip William "Phil" (English caricaturist) |
1864-1903 |
| May, Rollo Reece (American psycologist) |
1909-1994 |
| May, Thomas (English poet, parliamentary historian) |
1595-1650 |
| May, Sir Thomas Erskine (1st Baron Farnborough) (Eng. jurist) |
1815-1886 |
| Mayakovski, Vladimir Vladimirovich (Georgian-born Russian poet) |
1893-1930 |
| Maybach, Wilhelm (German automobile builder) |
1846-1929 |
| Maybeck, Bernard Ralph (American architect) |
1862-1957 |
| Mayer, Johann Tobias (German math., physicist, astronomer) |
1723-1762 |
| Mayer, Julius Robert von (German physician, physicist) |
1814-1878 |
| Mayer, Louis Burt (Russian-born Am. motion-picture producer) |
1885-1957 |
| Mayer, Maria Gertrude née Goeppert (German-born Am. physicist) |
1906-1972 |
| Mayer, Milton Sanford (American journalist, writer) |
1908-1986 |
| Mayer, Oscar (German-born American meat industrialist) |
1859-1955 |
| Mayfield, Curtis (American songwriter, singer) |
1942-1999 |
| Mayhew, Augustus Septimus (English author; brother of Henry) |
1826-1875 |
| Mayhew, Henry (English journalist; a founder of Punch) |
1812-1887 |
| Mayhew, Jonathan (Am. clergyman; great-great-grandson of Thom.) |
1720-1766 |
| Mayhew, Thomas (English-born American colonist) |
1593-1682 |
| Maynard (or Mainard), Francois (French poet) |
1582-1646 |
| Mayne, Jasper (English dramatist, clergyman) |
1604-1672 |
| Mayo, Charles Horace (American surgeon; son of W.W. Mayo) |
1865-1939 |
| Mayo, Charles William (American surgeon; son of C.H. Mayo) |
1898-1968 |
| Mayo, George Elton (Australian-born American psychologist) |
1880-1949 |
| Mayo, William James (American surgeon; son of W.W. Mayo) |
1861-1939 |
| Mayo, William Worrall (English-born American physician) |
1819-1911 |
| Mayow, John (English physiologist, chemist) |
1641-1679 |
| Mayr, Ernst (German biologist) |
1904-2005 |
| Mayr (or Mayer), Johann Simon (German composer in Italy) |
1763-1845 |
| Mayr (also Mair, Mayer), Simon (Simon Marius) (Ger. astronomer) |
1573-1624 |
| Ma Yuan (Chinese general) |
14 BC-AD 49 |
| Ma Yuan (Chinese painter) |
c.1160-1225 |
| Maywood, Augusta (surname orig. Williams) (American dancer) |
1825-1876 |
| Mazarin, Jules (Italian-born French cardinal, statesman) |
1602-1661 |
| Mazas, Jacques-Fereol (French violin virtuoso, composer) |
1782-1849 |
| Mazdak (Persian religious leader) |
5th cent. |
| Mazepa, Ivan Stepanovich (Cossack hetman) |
c.1644-1709 |
| Mazo, Juan Bautista Martinez del (Spanish painter) |
c.1612-1667 |
| Mazowiecki, Tadeusz (Polish post-Communist prime min. 1989-91) |
b.1927 |
| Mazuranic, Ivan (Croatian poet, politician) |
1814-1890 |
| Mazzei, Philip (Italian physician, wine merchant) |
1730-1816 |
| Mazzini, Giuseppe (Italian patriot) |
1805-1872 |
| Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria "Parmigianino" (It. painter) |
1503-1540 |
| Mazzoli, Ludovico "Mazzolino" (Italian painter) |
c.1478-1528 |
| Mazzoni, Guido "Il Modanino" (Italian sculptor) |
c.1450-1518 |
| M'ba-Derlinon (Gabonese politician) |
1902-1967 |
| Mbire (or Nembire) (Founder of the Mwene Motapa empire) |
14th cent. |
| Mboya, Thomas Joseph "Tom" (Kenyan polit., nationalist leader) |
1930-1969 |
| McAdam, John Loudon (Scottish-born British engineer) |
1756-1836 |
| McAdoo, William Gibbs (Am. railroad executive, public official) |
1863-1941 |
| McAllister, Samuel Ward (American lawyer, social leader) |
1827-1895 |
| McAlmon, Robert Menzies (American writer, publisher) |
1896-1956 |
| McAlpine, William Jarvis (American civil engineer) |
1812-1890 |
| M'Carthy, Justin (Irish historian, politician, writer) |
1830-1912 |
| McAuley, Catherine Elizabeth (Irish religious) |
1787-1841 |
| McAuley, James Phillip (Australian poet, critic) |
1917-1976 |
| McAuliffe, Anthony Clement (American army officer) |
1898-1975 |
| McBride, Sir Richard (Canadian politician) |
1870-1917 |
| McCabe, Joseph (English atheist author, lecturer) |
1867-1955 |
| McCann, Una Deirdre (American psychiatrist) |
b.1958? |
| McCarthy, Charles Jr. "Cormac" (American writer) |
b.1933 |
| McCarthy, Eugene Joseph (American politician) |
b.1916 |
| McCarthy, Joseph Raymond (American politician) |
1908-1957 |
| McCarthy, Joseph Vincent "Marse Joe" (Am. baseball manager) |
1887-1978 |
| McCarthy, Mary Therese (American writer, critic) |
1912-1989 |
| McCauley, Mary née Ludwig "Molly Pitcher" (Am. Rev. heroine) |
1754-1832 |
| McCay, Winsor (American cartoonist, pioneer of cartoon films) |
1872-1934 |
| McClellan, George Brinton (American army officer, politician) |
1826-1885 |
| McClintic, Guthrie (American theatrical producer, director) |
1893-1961 |
| McClintock, Barbara (American botanist, geneticist) |
1902-1992 |
| McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold (Irish-born Brit. nav. officer) |
1819-1907 |
| McCloskey, John (American prelate; 1st American cardinal 1875) |
1810-1885 |
| McCloy, John Jay (American banker, government official) |
1895-1989 |
| McClung, Clarence Erwin (American zoologist) |
1870-1946 |
| McClure, James Howe (South African-born British writer) |
b.1939 |
| McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (British naval officer) |
1807-1873 |
| McClure, Samuel Sidney (Irish-born American editor, publisher) |
1857-1949 |
| McCollister, Betty (American writer, activist) |
1920-2002 |
| McConnell, Francis John (American clergyman) |
1871-1953 |
| McCook, Alexander McDowell (American army officer) |
1831-1903 |
| McCook, Anson George (American army officer; brother of E.M.) |
1835-1917 |
| McCook, Edward Moody (American army officer, politician) |
1833-1909 |
| McCormack, John Francis (Irish-born American tenor) |
1884-1945 |
| McCormack, John Joseph Jr. (American insurance executive) |
b.1944 |
| McCormack, John William (American politician) |
1891-1980 |
| McCormick, Anne Elizabeth née O'Hare (English-born Am. journ.) |
1880-1954 |
| McCormick, Cyrus Hall (American inventor, industrialist) |
1809-1884 |
| McCormick, Cyrus Hall (American industrialist; son of Cyrus) |
1859-1936 |
| McCormick, Robert Rutherford (Am. newspaper editor, publisher) |
1880-1955 |
| McCormick, Samuel Black (Am. Presbyterian clergyman, educator) |
1858-1928 |
| McCoy, Sir Frederick (Irish-born Australian geologist, paleon.) |
1817-1899 |
| McCoy, Horace (American novelist, screenwriter) |
1897-1955 |
| McCoy, Joseph Geating (American cattleman) |
1837-1915 |
| McCrae, Hugh Raymond (Australian poet) |
1876-1958 |
| McCrae, John (Canadian physician, poet) |
1872-1918 |
| McCrea, William Hunter (English astronomer) |
b.1904 |
| McCullers, (Lula) Carson née Smith (American novelist) |
1917-1967 |
| McCulloch, Hugh (American lawyer, financier) |
1808-1895 |
| McCulloch, Sir James (Scottish-born Australian politician) |
1819-1893 |
| McCulloch, John Ramsay (Scottish economist) |
1789-1864 |
| McCutcheon, George Barr (American novelist) |
1866-1928 |
| McCutcheon, John Tinney (American cartoonist; bro. of George) |
1870-1949 |
| McDermott, Eugene (Am. geophysicist; co-fd. Texas Instr.) |
1899-1973 |
| McDougall, Alexander (Scottish-born Am. Revolutionary general) |
1732-1786 |
| McDougall, William (Canadian politician) |
1822-1905 |
| McDougall, William (English-born American psychologist) |
1871-1938 |
| McDowell, Edward Alexander (American composer) |
1860-1908 |
| McDowell, Ephraim (American surgeon) |
1771-1830 |
| McDowell, Irvin (American army officer) |
1818-1885 |
| McDuffie, George (American politician) |
1790?-1851 |
| McElroy, Joseph Prince (American writer) |
b.1930 |
| McEwan, Ian Russell (British writer, screenwriter) |
b.1948 |
| McEwen, Sir John Blackwood (Scottish-born British composer) |
1868-1948 |
| McFarland, George Emmett (American actor; Our Gang, "Spanky") |
1928-1993 |
| McGahern, John (Irish writer, teacher) |
b.1934 |
| McGee, Thomas D'Arcy (Irish-born Canadian politician, writer) |
1825-1868 |
| McGee, William John (American geologist, anthropologist) |
1853-1912 |
| McGill, James (Scottish-born Can. businessman, philanthropist) |
1744-1813 |
| McGillivray, Alexander (American Creek Indian chief) |
1759?-1793 |
| McGinley, Phyllis (American poet, writer, essayist) |
1905-1978 |
| McGivney, Michael Joseph (American clergyman) |
1852-1890 |
| McGovern, George Stanley (American politician) |
b.1922 |
| McGraw, John Joseph (American baseball player, manager) |
1873-1934 |
| McGuane, Thomas Francis III (American writer) |
b.1939 |
| McGuffy, William Holmes (American writer, textbook compiler) |
1800-1873 |
| McHarg, Ian Lennox (Scottish-born American landscape architect) |
b.1920 |
| McHenry, James (Irish-born Am. Rev. patriot, public official) |
1753-1816 |
| McIntire, Samuel (American architect, wood carver) |
1757-1811 |
| McIntosh, Lachlan (Scottish-born Am. Revolutionary soldier) |
1725-1806 |
| McIntyre, James Francis Aloysius (American prelate) |
1886-1979 |
| McIntyre, Oscar Odd (American journalist) |
1884-1938 |
| McKay, Claude (Jamaican-born American poet, writer) |
1890-1948 |
| McKay, David Oman (American religious leader) |
1873-1970 |
| McKay, Donald (Canadian-born American shipbuilder) |
1810-1880 |
| McKean, Thomas (American politician, jurist) |
1734-1817 |
| McKenna, Dennis J. (American ethnobotanist) |
b.1951? |
| McKenna, Joseph (Am. jurist; Supreme Court justice 1898-1925) |
1843-1926 |
| McKenna, Reginald (English politician) |
1863-1943 |
| McKenna, Siobhan (Irish actor) |
1923?-1986 |
| McKenna, Terence Kemp (American ethnobotanist, writer) |
1946-2000 |
| McKenney, Ruth (American writer) |
1911-1972 |
| McKenzie, Sir John (Scottish-born New Zealand politician) |
1838-1901 |
| McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees (English scholar, publisher) |
1872-1940 |
| McKim, Charles Follen (American architect) |
1847-1909 |
| McKinder, Sir Halford John (English geographer) |
1861-1947 |
| McKinley, John (American jurist; Supreme Court justice 1837-52) |
1780-1852 |
| McKinley, William (American polit.; 25th U.S. pres., 1897-1901) |
1843-1901 |
| McLachlan, Alexander (Scottish-born Canadian poet) |
1818-1896 |
| McLaren, Bruce Leslie (New Zealand racing driver, designer) |
1937-1970 |
| McLaren, Wayne (Am. rodeo rider, actor, stuntman; Marlboro Man) |
1940-1992 |
| McLaughlin, John (English guitarist, composer) |
b.1942 |
| McLean, David (American actor, Marlboro Man) |
1922-1995 |
| McLean, John (Am. politician; Supreme Court justice 1829-61) |
1785-1861 |
| McLean, John Lenwood "Jackie" (American musician, teacher) |
1932-2006 |
| McLean, Robert (American newspaper publisher; son of William) |
1891-1980 |
| McLean, William Lippard (American newspaper proprietor) |
1852-1931 |
| McLennan, John Ferguson (Scottish socialist) |
1827-1881 |
| McLoughlin, John (Canadian fur trader) |
1784-1857 |
| McLuhan, Herbert Marshall (Canadian communications theorist) |
1911-1980 |
| McMahon, Sir William (Australian pol.; prime minister 1971-72) |
1908-1988 |
| McManus, George (American cartoonist: "Bringing up Father") |
1884-1954 |
| McMaster, John Bach (American historian) |
1852-1932 |
| McMillan, Edwin Mattison (American chemist, physicist) |
1907-1991 |
| McMillan, Terry (American writer, editor) |
b.1951 |
| McMillian, Theodore "Ted" (American judge) |
1919-2006 |
| McMurtry, Larry Jeff (American writer) |
b.1936 |
| McNair, Lesley James (American army officer) |
1883-1944 |
| McNally, Terrence (American playwright) |
b.1939 |
| McNamara, Robert Strange (American businessman, administrator) |
b.1916 |
| McNarney, Joseph Taggart (American army officer) |
1893-1972 |
| McNaughton, Andrew George Latta (Canadian general, diplomat) |
1887-1966 |
| McNeile, Herman Cyril (pseud. Sapper) (Eng. army officer, nov.) |
1888-1937 |
| McNeill, James (Irish politician) |
1869-1938 |
| McParlan, James (Irish-born American detective) |
1844-1919 |
| McPhee, John Angus (American journalist, writer) |
b.1931 |
| McPhee, Joseph "Joe" J. Jr. (American musician) |
b.1939 |
| McPherson, Aimee Semple (Canadian-born American religious) |
1890-1944 |
| McPherson, James Alan (American writer, editor) |
b.1943 |
| McPherson, James Birdseye (American army officer) |
1828-1864 |
| McQuay, Michael Dennis (American? writer) |
1949-1995 |
| McRae, Milton Alexander (American newspaper publisher) |
1858-1930 |
| McReynolds, James Clark (Am. Supreme Court justice 1914-41) |
1862-1946 |
| McRuer, James Chalmers (Canadian jurist) |
1890-1985 |
| McTammany, John (Scottish-born American inventor) |
1845-1915 |
| McWilliams, Peter Alexander (American writer, poet, activist) |
1949-2000 |
| Mead, George Herbert (Am. philosopher, social psychologist) |
1863-1931 |
| Mead, Larkin Goldsmith (American sculptor) |
1835-1910 |
| Mead, Margaret (American anthropologist) |
1901-1978 |
| Mead, Richard (English physician) |
1673-1754 |
| Meade, George Gordon (American army officer) |
1815-1872 |
| Meade, James Edward (British economist) |
b.1907 |
| Meadmore, Clement Lyon (Australian sculptor) |
1929-2005 |
| Meadows, Donella Hager "Dana" (Am. systems analyst, journalist) |
1941-2001 |
| Meagher, Thomas Francis (Irish-born Am. politician, soldier) |
1823-1867 |
| Means, Gaston Bullock (American detective, swindler) |
1879-1938 |
| Meany, George (American labor leader) |
1894-1980 |
| Mechain, Pierre-Francois-Andre (Fr. astronomer, hydrographer) |
1744-1804 |
| Meckel, Johann Friedrich (German anatomist) |
1781-1833 |
| Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (Brazilian-born British anatomist) |
1915-1987 |
| Medeiros, Humberto Sousa (Portuguese-born American cardinal) |
1915-1983 |
| Medici, Cosimo "the Elder" (Florentine financier, ruler) |
1389-1464 |
| Medici, Cosimo I "the Great" (It. duke of Florence, Tuscany) |
1519-1574 |
| Medici, Giovanni di Bicci de' (Florentine merchant) |
1360-1429 |
| Medici, Lorenzo "the Elder" (Florentine banker) |
1395-1440 |
| Medici, Lorenzo (Florentine statesman, ruler, patron) |
1449-1492 |
| Medill, Joseph (Canadian-born American journalist) |
1823-1899 |
| Medina, Bartolome de (Spanish theologian) |
1527/8-1580 |
| Medina, Harold Raymond (U.S. Senior Circuit Judge) |
1888-1990 |
| Medina, Jose Toribio (Chilean bibliographer, historian) |
1852-1930 |
| Medina Angarita, Isaias (Venezuelan soldier, politician) |
1897-1953 |
| Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich (Russian pianist, composer) |
1880-1951 |
| Medwall, Henry (English cleric, dramatist) |
fl. 1490 |
| Medwin, Thomas (English biographer) |
1788-1869 |
| Mee, Arthur (English journalist, editor, writer) |
1875-1943 |
| Meeker, Nathan Cook (American journalist, reformer) |
1817-1879 |
| Meer, Jan van der (Dutch painter; father of Jan) |
1628-1691 |
| Meer, Jan van der (Dutch painter; son of Jan) |
1656-1705 |
| Meersch, Jean-Andre Van Der (Belgian soldier) |
1734-1792 |
| Meese, Edwin III (American politician, Attorney General) |
b.1931 |
| Megabyzus (Persian general) |
5th cent. BC |
| Megacles (Athenian political leader) |
6th cent. BC |
| Megasthenes (Greek historian) |
c.350-c.290 BC |
| Meher Baba (Merwan Sheheriarji Irani) (Indian religious leader) |
1894-1969 |
| Mehmed I (Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1402-1421) |
d.1421 |
| Mehmed II "Fatih" (Sultan of Ottoman Empire 1444-46, 1451-81) |
1432-1481 |
| Mehmed Aga (or Agha) (Ottoman architect) |
16th-17th cent. |
| Mehmed Es'ad (pen names Galib Dede, Seyh Galib) (Turkish poet) |
1757-1799 |
| Mehmed Siyah-Kalam (Turkish artist) |
15th cent. |
| Mehmet Fuat Koprulu (aka Kopruluzade) (Turkish scholar, polit.) |
1890-1966 |
| Mehring, Franz (German Socialist historian, journalist) |
1846-1919 |
| Mehta, Sir Pherozeshah Merwanji (Indian lawyer, politician) |
1845-1915 |
| Mehta, Ved Parkash (Indian journalist, memoirist, writer) |
b.1934 |
| Mehul, Etienne-Nicolas (French composer) |
1763-1817 |
| Meidias Painter (Greek vase painter) |
5th-4th cent. BC |
| Meierovics, Zigfrids Anna (Latvian politician) |
1887-1925 |
| Meiggs, Henry (American businessman) |
1811-1877 |
| Meighen, Arthur (Canadian politician; prime min. 1920-21, 1926) |
1874-1960 |
| Meigs, Josiah (American lawyer, educator) |
1757-1822 |
| Meikle, Andrew (Scottish millwright, inventor) |
1719-1811 |
| Meiklejohn, Alexander (English-born American educator) |
1872-1964 |
| Mei Lan-fang (Chinese actor) |
1894-1961 |
| Meilhac, Henri (French playwright) |
1831-1897 |
| Meillet, Antoine (French linguist) |
1866-1936 |
| Meinecke, Friedrich (German historian) |
1862-1954 |
| Meingre, Jean I le "Boucicaut" (French soldier) |
d.1367 |
| Meingre, Jean II le "Boucicaut" (French marshal; son of Jean I) |
c.1366-1421 |
| Meinong, Alexius (Austrian philosopher, psychologist) |
1853-1920 |
| Meir (orig. perhaps Miasa or Moise) (Palestinian rabbi) |
2nd cent. |
| Meir of Rothenburg (aka Meir ben Baruch) (German rabbi) |
c.1215-1293 |
| Meir, Golda (Russian-born Israeli prime minister 1969-1974) |
1898-1978 |
| Meireles, Cecilia (Brazilian poet, teacher, journalist) |
1901-1964 |
| Meissner, Georg (German physiologist, anatomist) |
1829-1905 |
| Meissonier, Jean-Louis-Ernest (French painter) |
1815-1891 |
| Meissonnier, Juste-Aurele (It.-born Fr. goldsmith, decorator) |
1693/5-1750 |
| Meitner, Lise (Austrian physicist in Sweden) |
1878-1968 |
| Mei Yaochen (or Mei Yao-ch'en) (Chinese poet) |
1002-1060 |
| Mekhitar (or Mechitar) (orig. Peter Manoug)(Armenian religious) |
1676-1749 |
| Mela, Pomponius (Latin geographer) |
1st cent. |
| Melanchthon, Philipp (German scholar, religious reformer) |
1497-1560 |
| Melas, Michael Friedrich Benedikt von (Austrian general) |
1729-1806 |
| Melba, Dame Nellie (orig. Helen Mitchell) (Australian soprano) |
1861-1931 |
| Melchers, Julius Gari (American painter) |
1860-1932 |
| Melchers, Paulus (German prelate) |
1813-1895 |
| Melchior, Johann Peter (German porcelain modeller) |
1742-1825 |
| Melchior, Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel (Danish-born American tenor) |
1890-1973 |
| Meldola, Raphael (English chemist) |
1849-1915 |
| Meldolla, Andrea "Lo Schiavone" (Italian painter) |
1522-1563 |
| Meleager (Greek epigrammatist) |
1st cent. BC |
| Melendez Valdes, Juan (Spanish poet, politician) |
1754-1817 |
| Meletios Pegas (also spelled Meletius) (Greek prelate) |
1549-1601 |
| Meletius, Saint (Greek prelate) |
d.381 |
| Meletius (Greek prelate) |
4th cent. |
| Melgarejo, Mariano (Bolivian general, polit.; pres. 1865-71) |
1818-1871 |
| Meli, Giovanni (Sicilian physician, poet) |
1740-1815 |
| Melies, Georges (French film director) |
1861-1938 |
| Melin, Arthur "Spud" (Am. inventor; co-founded Wham-O in 1948) |
1925-2008 |
| Meline, Felix-Jules (French politician) |
1838-1925 |
| Meliq-Hakobian, Hakob (pseud. Raffi) (Armenian novelist) |
1835-1888 |
| Melissus (Greek philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Melito (Greek prelate) |
2nd cent. |
| Mellitus, Saint (English prelate) |
d.624 |
| Mellon, Andrew William (American financier) |
1855-1937 |
| Melloni, Macedonio (Italian physicist) |
1798-1854 |
| Melo, Francisco Manuel de (Portuguese soldier, historian, poet) |
1608-1666 |
| Melozzo da Forli (Italian painter of Umbrian school) |
1438-1494 |
| Melus (or Melo) of Bari (Lombard noble) |
d.1020 |
| Melville (or Melvill), Andrew (Scottish religious reformer) |
1545-1622 |
| Melville, George Wallace (American naval officer, explorer) |
1841-1912 |
| Melville (orig. Melvill), Herman (American writer) |
1819-1891 |
| Melville (or Melvill), James (Scottish religious reformer) |
1556-1614 |
| Melville of Hallhill, Sir James (Scottish soldier, diplomat) |
1535-1617 |
| Memling (or Memlinc), Hans (Flemish painter) |
c.1430/5-1494 |
| Memmi, Albert (Tunisian writer, poet, sociologist) |
b.1920 |
| Mena, Juan de (Spanish poet, scholar) |
1411-1456 |
| Mena y Medrano, Pedro de (Spanish sculptor) |
1628-1688 |
| Menaechmus (Greek mathematician, geometer) |
c.380-c.320 BC |
| Menage, Gilles (French scholar, man of letters) |
1613-1692 |
| Menahem (King of Israel c.746-c.736 BC) |
8th cent. BC |
| Menahem ben Jacob ibn Saruq (Spanish poet, lexicographer) |
c.910-c.970 |
| Menander (Athenian dramatist) |
342-292 BC |
| Menander (Milinda or Minedra or Menadra) (Greek king in India) |
fl. 160-135 BC |
| Menander Protector (Byzantine historian) |
6th cent. |
| Menard, John Willis (American politician) |
1838-1893 |
| Menard, Louis-Nicolas (French scholar, poet, artist) |
1822-1901 |
| Menard, Michel Branamour (Canadian-born American fur trader) |
1805-1856 |
| Menard, Pierre (Canadian-born American fur trader, pioneer) |
1766-1844 |
| Menchu, Rigoberta (Guatemalan human rights activist) |
b.1959 |
| Mencke (or Mencken), Johann Burkhard (German writer, historian) |
1674-1732 |
| Mencke (or Mencken), Otto (German scholar; father of Johann) |
1644-1707 |
| Mencken, Henry Louis (American journalist, writer) |
1880-1956 |
| Mendana de Neira, Alvaro de (Spanish mariner, explorer) |
1541-1595 |
| Mendel, Gregor Johann (Austrian monk, botanist) |
1822-1884 |
| Mendel, Lafayette Benedict (American physiological chemist) |
1872-1935 |
| Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich (Russian chemist) |
1834-1907 |
| Mendelssohn, Arnold Ludwig (German composer; cousin of Felix) |
1855-1933 |
| Mendelssohn, Erich (East Prussian-born American architect) |
1887-1953 |
| Mendelssohn, Moses (orig. Moses Dessau) (German philosopher) |
1729-1786 |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, (Jakob Ludwig) Felix (German composer) |
1809-1847 |
| Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin (American physicist) |
1841-1924 |
| Mendes, Abraham-Catulle (French man of letters) |
1841-1909 |
| Mendes, Murilo (Brazilian poet, diplomat) |
1901-1975 |
| Mendes-France, Pierre (French politician; prime min. 1954-1955) |
1907-1982 |
| Mendieta, Carlos (Cuban politician; provisional pres. 1934-35) |
1873-1960 |
| Mendoza, Antonio de (Spanish colonial governor) |
c.1490-1552 |
| Mendoza, Daniel (English boxer) |
1764-1836 |
| Mendoza, Eduardo (Spanish writer, translator) |
b.1943 |
| Mendoza, Inigo Lopez de (Marques de Santillana) (Spanish poet) |
1398-1458 |
| Mendoza, Juan Gonzales de (Spanish prelate) |
c.1540-1617 |
| Mendoza, Pedro de (Spanish soldier, explorer) |
1487-1537 |
| Mendoza, Pedro Gonzalez de (Span. prelate, statesman, soldier) |
1428-1495 |
| Mendoza de la Cerda, Ana (Princesa de Eboli) (Spanish courtier) |
1540-1592 |
| Menedemus (Greek philosopher, of Eretria) |
c.339-c.265 BC |
| Menelaus (Greek mathematician, of Alexandria) |
1st cent. |
| Menelik II (orig. Sahle Mariam) (Ethiopian emperor 1889-1913) |
1844-1913 |
| Menem, Carlos Saul (Argentinean president 1989-) |
b.1930 |
| Menen, Salvator Aubrey Clarence (British writer) |
1912-1989 |
| Menendez de Aviles, Pedro (Spanish mariner, explorer) |
1519-1574 |
| Menendez Pidal, Ramon (Spanish philologist) |
1869-1968 |
| Menendez y Pelayo, Marcelino (Spanish critic, historian) |
1856-1912 |
| Menes (sometimes Mena) (Egyptian king; founded Memphis) |
fl. 3100 BC |
| Mengelberg, Josef Willem (Dutch orchestra conductor, pianist) |
1871-1951 |
| Menger, Carl von (Austrian economist) |
1840-1921 |
| Menghistu (or Mengistu) Lemma (Ethiopian poet, playwright) |
1925-1988 |
| Mengli Giray (or Mengli Girai) (Tatar ruler) |
c.1440-1515 |
| Mengs, Anton Raphael (German painter) |
1728-1779 |
| Meng T'ien (Chinese general) |
d.209 BC |
| Meng-tzu (orig. Meng K'o; aka Mencius) (Chinese philosopher) |
c.371-c.289 BC |
| Menippus (Greek Cynic philosopher, satirist) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Menken, Adah Isaacs née Adah Bertha Theodore (American actor) |
1835?-1868 |
| Menkure (or Menkaure; Mykerinos, Mycerinus) (King of Egypt) |
26th cent. BC |
| Menninger, Karl Augustus (American psychiatrist) |
1893-1990 |
| Menno Simons (Dutch religious reformer) |
1469-1561 |
| Menodotus (Greek physician, philosopher, or Nicomedia) |
fl. c.120 |
| Menotti, Gian Carlo (Italian-born American operatic composer) |
b.1911 |
| Menou, 'Abd Allah (orig. Jacques-Francois de) (French soldier) |
1750-1810 |
| Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich (Russian soldier) |
c.1670-1729 |
| Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (Russian soldier) |
1787-1869 |
| Mentelin, Johann (German printer) |
c.1410-1478 |
| Mentuhotep II (aka Nebhapetre) (King of Egypt 2060-2010 BC) |
21st cent. BC |
| Menuhin, Yehudi (American-British musician) |
1916-1999 |
| Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von (German painter, illus.) |
1815-1905 |
| Menzel, Donald Howard (American astrophysicist) |
1901-1976 |
| Menzel, Wolfgang (German critic, historian) |
1798-1873 |
| Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon (Australian politician) |
1894-1978 |
| Mercadante, Giuseppe Saverio (Raffaele) (Italian composer) |
1795-1870 |
| Mercalli, Giuseppe (Italian clergyman, geologist) |
1850-1914 |
| Mercati, Michele (Italian physician, naturalist) |
1541-1593 |
| Merce, Antonia (stage name La Argentina) (Argentinean dancer) |
1888?-1936 |
| Mercer, Cecil William (pen name Dornford Yates) (Eng. novelist) |
1885-1960 |
| Mercer, David (English playwright) |
1928-1980 |
| Mercer, John (English calico printer, chemist) |
1791-1866 |
| Mercer, John H. "Johnny" (Am.songwriter: "Jeepers Creepers") |
1909-1976 |
| Mercie, Marius-Jean-Antonin (French sculptor) |
1845-1916 |
| Mercier, Desire-Joseph (Belgian prelate, philosopher) |
1851-1926 |
| Mercier, Honore (Canadian politician) |
1840-1894 |
| Mercier, Louis-Sebastien (French man of letters) |
1740-1814 |
| Merck, Johann Heinrich (German writer, critic) |
1741-1791 |
| Mercy, Claudius Florimund von (Austrian field marshal) |
1666-1734 |
| Mercy, Franz von (Bavarian field marshal) |
c.1590-1645 |
| Mercy d'Argenteau, Anton (Austrian field marshal) |
1691-1767 |
| Mercy d'Argenteau, Florimund (Austrian diplomat) |
1727-1794 |
| Meredith, George (English novelist, poet) |
1828-1909 |
| Merenre (aka Merenre Antyemsaf) (King of Egypt) |
23rd? cent. BC |
| Meres, Francis (English clergyman; author of Palladis Tamia) |
1565-1647 |
| Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich (Russian poet, writer, critic) |
1865-1941 |
| Mergenthaler, Ottmar (German-born American inventor) |
1854-1899 |
| Meri, Veijo (Finnish writer, poet, dramatist) |
b.1928 |
| Merian, Anna Maria Sibylla (Swiss painter, engraver, natural.) |
1647-1717 |
| Merian, Kaspar (Swiss etcher, engraver; son of Matthaus) |
1627-1686 |
| Merian, Matthaus (Swiss engraver, bookseller) |
1593-1650 |
| Merian, Matthaus (Swiss painter, engraver; son of Matthaus) |
1621-1687 |
| Merici, Saint Angela (Italian religious) |
1470/4-1540 |
| Merikanto, Aarre (Finnish teacher, composer; son of Oskar) |
1893-1958 |
| Merikanto, Frans Oskar (Finnish organist, composer) |
1868-1924 |
| Merimee, Prosper (French dramatist, man of letters) |
1803-1870 |
| Mering, Joseph von (German physician, physiologist, pharmacol.) |
1849-1908 |
| Merisi, Michelangelo "Caravaggio" (Italian painter) |
1573-1610 |
| Merkys, Antanas (Lithuanian politician) |
1887-1955 |
| Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (French philosopher) |
1908-1961 |
| Merle d'Aubigne, Jean-Henri (Swiss Protestant theologian) |
1794-1872 |
| Merlin, Antoine-Christophe "Merlin de Thionville" (Fr. polit.) |
1762-1833 |
| Merlin, Maria de las Mercedes, comtesse (Cuban-born Fr. writer) |
1789-1852 |
| Merlin, Philippe-Antoine "Merlin de Douai" (Fr. jurist, polit.) |
1754-1838 |
| Merlo, Aime (French writer, with Georges Athenas) |
1880-1958 |
| Mermillod, Gaspard (Swiss prelate) |
1824-1892 |
| Merneptah (King of Egypt 1236-1223 BC) |
13th cent. BC |
| Merodach-baladan II (Mardukapal-iddina) (King of Babylonia) |
d.c.694 BC |
| Merovech (or Merowech) (Frankish ruler) |
fl. c.450 |
| Merriam, Charles (American publisher; brother of George) |
1806-1887 |
| Merriam, Clinton Hart (American naturalist) |
1855-1942 |
| Merriam, George (American publisher; brother of Charles) |
1803-1880 |
| Merriam, John Campbell (American paleontologist) |
1869-1945 |
| Merrick, Leonard (orig. surname Miller) (English writer) |
1864-1939 |
| Merrifield, Robert Bruce (American biochemist) |
b.1921 |
| Merrill, Frank Dow (American army officer) |
1903-1955 |
| Merrill, George Perkins (American geologist) |
1854-1929 |
| Merrill, James Ingram (American poet, writer, playwright) |
1926-1995 |
| Merrill, Judith (Josephine Judith Zissman) (Canadian writer) |
1923-1997 |
| Merrill, Stuart Fitzrandolph (American poet in France) |
1863-1915 |
| Merriman, John Xavier (English-born South African politician) |
1841-1926 |
| Merritt, Anna née Lea (American artist) |
1844-1930 |
| Merritt, Wesley (American army officer) |
1834-1910 |
| Merry, Robert (English poet) |
1755-1798 |
| Merry del Val, Rafael (English-born Spanish prelate) |
1865-1930 |
| Mersenne, Marin (French mathematician; disc. Mersenne numbers) |
1588-1648 |
| Merton, Thomas (aka Father M. Louis) (Am. religious, writer) |
1915-1968 |
| Merton, Walter de (English prelate) |
d.1277 |
| Merulo, Claudio (orig. surname Merlotti) (It. organist, comp.) |
1533-1604 |
| Merwin, William Stanley (American poet, translator) |
b.1927 |
| Meryon, Charles (French etcher, engraver) |
1821-1868 |
| Mesdag, Hendrik Willem (Dutch painter) |
1831-1915 |
| Mesha (King of Moab) |
fl. c.850 BC |
| Mesmer, Franz (or Friedrich) Anton (German physician) |
1734-1815 |
| Mesonero Romanos, Ramon de (Spanish journalist, essayist) |
1803-1882 |
| Mesrob (or Mesrop), Saint (aka Mashtots) (Armenian religious) |
c.350-439/440 |
| Messager, Andre-Charles-Prosper (French composer, conductor) |
1853-1929 |
| Messager, Charles (pseud. Charles Vildrac) (French writer) |
1882-1971 |
| Messala Corvinus, Marcus Valerius (Roman general, statesman) |
c.64 BC-AD 8 |
| Messali Hajd, Ahmed (Algerian nationalist) |
1898-1974 |
| Messalina, Valeria (Roman empress; 3rd wife of Emp. Claudius) |
c. 22-48 |
| Messerschmitt, Willy (German aircraft designer, manufacturer) |
1898-1978 |
| Messiaen, Olivier (Eugene Prosper Charles) (French composer) |
b.1908 |
| Messier, Charles (French astronomer; catalogued nebulae) |
1730-1817 |
| Messikomer, Jakob (Swiss farmer, archaeologist) |
b.c.1828 |
| Messner, Tammy Faye née Bakker nee LaValley (Am. evangelist) |
1942-2007 |
| Mestrovic, Ivan (Slavonia Austrian-born American sculptor) |
1883-1962 |
| Metastasio, Pietro (Italian poet, dramatist) |
1698-1782 |
| Metaxas, Ioannis (Greek general, politician; dictator 1936-41) |
1871-1941 |
| Metcalfe, Charles Theophilus (India-born Eng. colonial admin.) |
1785-1846 |
| Metcalfe, Robert Melancton (Am. engineer, inventor,businessman) |
b.1946 |
| Metchnikoff, Elie (Russian zoologist, bacteriologist) |
1845-1916 |
| Metford, William Ellis (English inventor) |
1824-1899 |
| Metge, Bernat (or Bernardo) (Catalan poet, writer) |
1350-1413 |
| Metheny, Pat (Am. guitarist, composer, producer, instructor) |
b.1954 |
| Methodius, Saint (Christian missionary; brother of St. Cyril) |
c.825-884 |
| Methuen, Paul Sanford (British soldier) |
1845-1932 |
| Methuen, Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall (English publisher) |
1856-1924 |
| Metochites, George (Byzantine theologian) |
c.1240-c.1328 |
| Metochites, Theodore (Byzantine politician, diplomat) |
c.1260-1332 |
| Meton (Greek astronomer of Athens) |
fl. 432 BC |
| Metraux, Alfred (Swiss anthropologist) |
1902-1963 |
| Metrocles (Greek philosopher) |
4th cent. BC |
| Metrodorus (Greek philosopher of Chios) |
4th cent. BC |
| Metrodorus (Greek philosopher of Lampascus) |
5th cent. BC |
| Metrodorus "the Younger" (Greek philosopher of Lampascus) |
c.330-278/7 BC |
| Metrophanes Kritopoulos (Greek prelate) |
1589-1639 |
| Metsu (or Metzu or Metsue), Gabriel (Dutch painter) |
1629-1667 |
| Metternich, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von (Austrian polit.) |
1773-1859 |
| Metternich, Richard (Austrian diplomat; son of Klemens) |
1829-1895 |
| Metz, Christian (Prussian-born American religious leader) |
1794-1867 |
| Metzinger, Jean (French painter) |
1883-1956 |
| Meulen, Adam Frans van der (Flemish painter) |
1632-1690 |
| Meunier, Constantin (Belgian sculptor, painter) |
1831-1905 |
| Meurice, Francois-Paul (French dramatist) |
1820-1905 |
| Meurier, Gabriel (Flemish grammarian, writer) |
1530-1601 |
| Meusnier de la Place, Jean-Baptiste-Marie (Fr. general, math.) |
1754-1793 |
| Mew, Charlotte Mary (English poet, writer) |
1869-1928 |
| Meyer, Adolf (Swiss-born American psychiatrist) |
1866-1950 |
| Meyer, Annie Florance née Nathan (American educator, writer) |
1867-1951 |
| Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand (Swiss poet, writer) |
1825-1898 |
| Meyer, Eduard (German historian) |
1855-1930 |
| Meyer, Joseph (German publisher, industrialist, publicist) |
1796-1856 |