List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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- Mead, Margaret, (1901-1978), US anthropologist
- Meade, Carl, astronaut
- Meade, George, (1815-1872)
- Meades, Jonathan
- Meadows, Audrey, (died 1996), television personality
- Meadows, Jayne, (born 1920), actress
- Meadows, Tim, US comedian
- Meads,Colin, (June 3, 1936), New Zealand All Black footballer
- Meads,Stanley, (July 12 1938), New Zealand All Black footballer
- Meaney, Colm, (born 1953), actor in Star Trek
- Means, Russell, (born 1940), Native American activist
- Meany, George, (1894-1980), American trade union leader
- Meara, Anne, (born 1929), comedienne, actress
- Mears, Rick, (born 1951), automobile racer
- Meazza, Giuseppe, athlete
- Meckel, Christoph, (born 1935), writer
- Medak, Peter, director
- Medeiros, Glenn, (born 1970)
- Medeiros, Maria de, (actress)
- Medici, Catherine de', (1519-1589), queen of France
- Medici, Cosimo de', (the Elder) (1389-1464), founder of the Medici political dynasty
- Medici, Cosimo I de', (1519-1574), first Grand Duke of Tuscany, restored the Medici lustre
- Medici, Gaston de', (1671-1737), Last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Medici, Giovanni de', (1475-1523), became Pope Leo X
- Medici, Giuliano de', (1453-1478), killed in Florence Cathedral
- Medici, Giulio de', (1523-1534), became Pope Clement VII
- Medici, Lorenzo de', (1449-1492), ("The Magnificent")
- Medici, Maria de', (1573-1642), queen and regent of France
- Medley, Bill, (born 1940), singer
- Medved, Anton, (1869-1910), poet
- Medved, Michael, (born 1948), author and film critic
- Medvedenko, Slava, basketball player
- Meegeren, Han van, (1889-1947), Dutch art forger
- Meeker, Ralph, (1920-1988), actor
- Meek, Joe, (1929-1967), musician
- Meese, Edwin, (born 1931), American politician
- Mehegan, John, musician
- Mehldau, Brad, musician
- Mehmed V, (1844-1918), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Mehmed VI, (1861-1926), last Ottoman sultan
- Mehoffer, Jozef, Polish painter
- Mehta, Shekhar, (born 1945), racer, winner of the Safari Rally
- Mehta, Zubin, (born 1936), conductor
- Meidani, Rexhep, (1997-2002), Albanian president
- Meier, Richard, architect
- Meighen, Arthur, (1874-1960), ninth Prime Minister of Canada
- Meighen, Michael A, Canadian senator
- Meijerfeldt, Johan August , junior, Swedish soldier
- Meiji, emperor of Japan, (1852-1912)
- Meinhof, Carl, (1857-1944), linguist
- Meinhof, Ulrike, (1934-1976), German member of Red Army Faction
- Meinong, Alexius, philosopher
- Meir, Golda, (1898-1978), Israeli prime minister
- Meiselas, Susan, (born 1948), photographer
- Meisetsu, (1847-1926 - haiku poet), poet
- Meisho, empress of Japan
- Meisho, Empress of Japan, (1623-1696)
- Meissner, Walther, (born 1882), physicist
- Meitner, Lise, (1878-1968), nuclear chainreaction
- Mejdell, Peter Ludwig, Sylow, (1832-1918), mathematician
- Melanchthon, Philipp, (1497-1560), Protestant Reformation
- Melanie, (born 1947), musician
- Melba, Nellie, opera singer
- Melcher, Terry, musician
- Melchior, Lauritz, (1890-1973)
- Melchior Simone, first female scuba diver, wife of Jacques Cousteau
- Mele, Diego
- Melendez, Ricky, (born 1968), former Menudo
- Meletius III, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Meletius II of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Meletius II, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Meletius I of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Meletius IV, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Méliès, Georges, (1861-1938), French film director, allegedly the first.
- Melik, Anton, (1890-1966), Slovene
- Méline, Jules, (1838-1925), French statesman
- Mellencamp, John Cougar, (born 1951), musician, singer-songwriter
- Mellin, Jurgen, Swedish soldier
- Mellitus, (died 624), (St.) 619
- Mellon, Andrew, (1855-1937), business person
- Mellon, Andrew W
- Melnick, Bruce, astronaut
- Meloni, Christopher, actor
- Melroy, Pamella, astronaut
- Melville, Herman, (1819-1891), American author of Moby Dick
- Melvin, Harold, musician
- Melzer, Hanna, (1904-1960), activist against Nazism
- Membrillo, Manuel, comedian
- Memling, Hans, (c. 1430-1494)
- Memon, Vladimir, poet
- Menard, Pierre, fictional re-creator of Don Quixote
- Menart, Janez, (born 1929), poet
- Menas, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Menchik-Stevenson, Vera, (1906-1944), chess player
- Menchu, Rigoberta, Guatemalan activist
- Mencius, (371 BC-289 BC)
- Mencken, H. L, (1880-1956), journalist and social critic.
- Mendel, Gregor, (1822-1884), German discoverer of heredity
- Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich, (1834-1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
- Mendelssohn, Fanny, (1805-1847), composer
- Mendelssohn, Felix, (1809-1847), German composer
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
- Mendelssohn, Moses, (born 1729), German philosopher
- Mendès-France, Pierre, Lawyer and Statesman
- Mendes, Sam, (born 1965), film director
- Mendes, Sergio, (born 1935), singer
- Méndez, Jerónimo, president of Chile
- Mendez, Lucia, (born 1955), Mexican actress, singer
- Méndez, Santiago (1790-1870) Governor of Yucatán
- Mendoza, Daniel, boxer
- Mendoza, Eduardo, writer
- Menem, Carlos
- Mengele, Josef, (1911-1979), Nazi doctor
- Menger, Carl, (1840-1921), economist
- Menger, Karl, (USA, 1902-1985), mathematician
- Mengs, Anton Raphael, (1728-1779)
- Menjou, Adolphe, (1890-1963), actor
- Menken, Adah Isaacs, actress
- Menkes, Zygmunt, Polish painter
- Menn, Christian, civil engineer
- Mennas of Constantinople, (died 536), patriarch of Constantinople
- Menninger, Karl, (1893-1990), psychiatrist
- Menotti, Gian-Carlo, composer
- Menten, Maud Leonora, biologist
- Menuhin, Yehudi, (1916-1999), violinist
- Menusa, Joseph, (1969-2003), US Marine
- Menzel, Adolph, (1815-1905), painter and graphic artist
- Menzel, Jiri, film director, actor
- Menzies, Robert, (1894-1978), Australian prime minister
- Meoushi, Boulos, Maronite Patriarch
- Mepeham, Simon, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Merbold, Ulf, (born 1941), German astronaut
- Mercadante, Giuseppe, composer
- Mercadante, Saverio, (1795-1870), Italian opera composer
- Mercader, Ramon, Mexican assassin of Leon Trotsky
- Mercado, Alberto, boxer
- Mercado, Walter, actor, astrologer
- Mercator, Gerardus, (1512-1594), cartographer
- Merced, Wilnelia, Miss World 1972
- Mercedes, Eleoncio, (1957-1985), world champion boxer
- Mercer, John, (1791-1866), chemist and industrialist
- Mercer, John Francis, US governor, politician
- Mercer, Johnny, (1909-1976), songwriter
- Mercer, Ray, boxer
- Mercer, Rick, actor/comedian, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
- Merchant, Ismail, (born 1936), movie producer
- Merchant, Larry, (born 1931), author, boxing commentator
- Merchant, Natalie, (born 1963), musician
- Merchant, Pana Papas, Canadian senator
- Merckx, Eddy, (born 1945), cyclist
- Mercouri, Melina, (1920-1994), Greek actress
- Mercury, Freddie, (1946-1991), British singer of the Queen
- Meredith, Burgess, (1908-1997), actor
- Meredith, Charles, (died 1964), actor
- Meredith, George, (1828-1909), English poet, novelist
- Meredith, James, (born 1933), civil rights activist
- Meretskov, Kirill, marshall in Winter War
- Mereu, Peppino
- Meriah, Matthaus, (born 1593), German illustrator.
- Meri, Lennart, Estonian president
- Merian, (1621-1687), cartographer
- Merici, Angela, (1474-1540), founder of the Ursulines
- Merikanto, Oskar, (1868-1924), Finnish poet
- Mérimée, Prosper, (1803-1870), 19th century novelist
- Merisi, Michelangelo, (1573-1610), Italian painter
- Meriwether, Maceo, composer of "Chicago Breakdown"
- Merkel, Angela, (1991-1994 and ; 1994-1998 , and), (CDU)
- Merkel, Una, (1903-1986), actress
- Merkys, Antanas, president
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, (1908-1961), existentialist philosopher
- Merman, Ethel, (1908-1984), actor
- Mermolja, Ace, (born 1951), poet
- Merriam, John C, biologist
- Merrick, David, (1911-2000), producer
- Merrick, Joseph, (1862-1890), Elephant Man
- Merril, Judith, author
- Merrill, Charles, (1885-1956), investment banker
- Merrill, Frank, Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders"
- Merrill, Gary, (1915-1990), actor
- Merrill, James, (1926-1995), (The Inner Room & Nights and Days)
- Merrill, Robert, (born 1919), opera singer
- Merrill, Stuart, (1863-1915), (symbolist)
- Merriman, Ryan, (born 1983), actor
- Merriweather, Big Maceo, musician
- Mersenne, Marin, (1588-1648), mathematician
- Mertens, Franz, (1840-1927), mathematician
- Mertens, Jakob, Polish painter
- Merton, Paul, (born 1957), (Have I Got News for You)
- Merton, Thomas, (1915-1968), American author and Trappist monk
- Merwin, W. S, (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Merwin, W.S, (The Miner's Pale Children)
- Merz, Hans-Rudolf, (born 1942), elected member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Mesdag, Hendrik Willem, (1831-1915), painter
- Mesmer, Franz, (died 1815), French progenitor of hypnotism
- Mesrine, Jacques, (1936-1979), French gangster
- Messemer, Hannes, (1924-1991), actor
- Messer, Don, fiddler
- Messerschmid, Ernst, (born 1945), astronaut
- Messerschmidt, Franz Xaver, (1736-1783), sculptor
- Messerschmidt, Willy, (1898-1978), aircraft designer
- Messiaen, Olivier, (1908-1992), composer
- Messick, Dale, (born 1906), cartoonist
- Messick, Don, (died 1997), voice actor
- Messier, Charles, (1730-1817), French astronomer
- Messier, Jean-Marie, former CEO of Vivendi-Universal
- Messier, Mark
- Messina, Antonello da
- Messina, Jim, (born 1947), musician
- Messmer, Otto, (died 1983), creator of Felix the Cat
- Messner, Reinhold, (born 1944)
- Metacomet (died 1676) American Indian Chief, known as King Philip
- Metalious, Grace, (died 1964), US writer
- Metastasio, (Pietro Trapassi) (1698 - 1782) poet/librettist
- Metaxas, Ioannis or Joannis, (1871-1941) Greek military dictator
- Metcalfe, Ralph, (1920-1978), track and field athlete
- Metcalf, John, Canadian writer
- Metcalf, Paul, (Melville's grandson)
- Metheny, Pat, (born 1954), musician
- Method Man (born 1971), musician
- Methodius III, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Methodius II, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Methodius I, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Methodius, Saint, (826-885)
- Metrophanes, patriarch of Constantinople
- Metrophanes III, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Metrophanes II, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Metrophanes of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Metrophanes, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Metsys, Kwinten, (c.1466-1530), (also known as Quentin Matsys/Quentin Massys)
- Metternich, Klemens Wenzel von, (1773-1858), diplomat
- Meulemans, Arthur (1884-1966), Belgian composer and conductor
- Meuron, Pierre de, (born 1950), Swiss architect
- Mew, Charlotte, (1869-1928), poet
- Mewes, Jason, (born 1974), actor
- Meyer, Albert, (1870-1953), Swiss president
- Meyer, Bertrand, Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, [[Design by c
- Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, (1825-1898)
- Meyer, Debbie, (born 1952), Olympic gold medal swimmer
- Meyerhof, Otto, (born 1884)
- Meyer, Julius Lothar von, (1830-1895), chemist
- Meyer, Viktor, chemist
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, (1791-1864), Opera composer
- Meyerbeer, Jacomo, opera composer
- Meyer, Kurt Heinrich, chemist
- Meyer, Nicholas, (born 1945), author
- Meyer, Russ, (1922-1997), US pornographic film producer
- Meyers, Maan, author
- Meyfarth, Ulrike, (born 1956), winner of Olympic Games in the high jump
- Mey, Reinhard, (born 1942), singer
- Meyrink, Gustav, author
- Meysel, Inge, (born 1910), actress
- Meza, Florinda, (born circa 1933), Mexican actress
- Meza, Juan, world boxing champion
- Meze, Drago, (born 1926), geographer.