| Moses Mendelssohn (17291786), Jewish philosopher |
| Felix Mendelssohn (18091847), German composer |
| Catulle Mendès (18411909), French poet and man of letters, of Jewish extraction |
| Menedemus of Eretria (FourthThird Century B.C.), Greek philosopher, and founder of the Eretrian school of thought |
| Menelek II. (18441913), Emperor of Abyssinia |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15191574), Spanish seaman, founder of St. Augustine, FL |
| Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (18561912), Spanish scholar and critic |
| Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (fl. 503493 B.C.), Roman patrician and statesman |
| Menes, name of the founder of the 1st Dynasty of historical kings of Egypt |
| Anton Raphael Mengs (17281779), German painter |
| Émile-Justin Menier (18261881), French manufacturer and politician |
| Menippus (Third Century B.C.), Greek cynic and satirist |
| Justus Menius (14991558), Lutheran theologian |
| Adah Isaacs Menken (18351868), American actress |
| Menno Simons (14961561), Religious leader |
| Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (18611945), Austro-Hungarian diplomatist |
| Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (16731729), Russian statesman |
| Alexander Sergeievich Menshikov (17871869), Russian noble |
| Mentor of Rhodes (c. 385340 B.C.), Commander |
| Adolph von Menzel (18151905), German artist |
| Wolfgang Menzel (17981873), German poet, critic and literary historian |
| John Merbecke (c. 1510c. 1585), English theological writer and musician |
| Mercadier (d. 1200), French warrior |
| Gerardus Mercator (15121594), Flemish mathematician and geographer |
| Hugh Mercer (c. 17251777), Scotch-American soldier |
| Antonin Mercié (18451916), French sculptor and painter |
| Désiré Mercier (18511926), Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, Belgium |
| Honoré Mercier (18401894), Canadian lawyer and statesman |
| Louis-Sébastien Mercier (17401814), French dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Johann Heinrich Merck (17411791), German author and critic |
| Seigneurs and Dukes of Mercur |
| Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duc de Mercur (15581602), French soldier |
| Franz, Freiherr von Mercy (15901645), German general in the Thirty Years War |
| Florimond-Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (17271794), Austrian diplomatist |
| George Meredith (18281909), British novelist and poet |
| Francis Meres (15651647), English divine and author |
| Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (18651941), Russian novelist and critic |
| Matthäus Merian (15931650), Swiss engraver |
| Prosper Mérimée (18031870), French novelist, archæologist and essayist |
| Charles Merivale (18081893), English historian and Dean of Ely |
| Herman Merivale (18061874), English civil servant and author |
| Herman Charles Merivale (18391906), English author |
| Jean Henri Merle dAubigné (17941872), Swiss Protestant divine and historian |
| Merlin, the famous bard of Welsh tradition, and enchanter of Arthurian romance |
| Antoine-Christophe Merlin de Thionville (17621833), French revolutionist |
| Philippe-Antoine Merlin (17541838), French politician and lawyer |
| Flavius Merobaudes (Fifth Century A.D.), Latin rhetorician and poet |
| Selah Merrill (18371909), American clergyman, traveler and orientalist |
| Henry Seton Merriman (18621903), English novelist |
| John Xavier Merriman (18411926), South African statesman |
| Wesley Merritt (18341910), American soldier |
| William Walter Merry (18351918), English classical scholar |
| Marin Mersenne (15881648), French philosopher and mathematician |
| John Charles Bigham, Viscount Mersey (18401929), English judge |
| Georgius Merula (c. 14301494), Italian humanist and classical scholar |
| Adalbert Merx (18381909), German theologian and orientalist |
| Charles Méryon (18211868), French etcher |
| Hendrik Willem Mesdag (18311915), Dutch marine painter |
| Franz Anton Mesmer (17341815), Austrian doctor |
| Nicolas Mesnager (16581714), French diplomatist |
| Mesomedes of Crete (Second Century), Greek lyric poet |
| Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (18031882), Spanish prose-writer |
| André Messager (18531929), French musician |
| Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 B.C.c. 8 A.D.), Roman general, author and patron of literature and art |
| Valeria Messallina (d. 48 A.D.), third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius |
| Gustave Mesureur (18471925), French politician |
| Pietro Metastasio (16981782), Italian poet |
| Andreas Metaxas (17861860), Greek politician |
| Willard Leroy Metcalf (18581925), American artist |
| Charles Theophilus, Baron Metcalfe (17851846), Indian and colonial administrator |
| Metellus, name of a distinguished family of the Caecilian gens in ancient Rome |
| Saint Methodius (c. 825885), Apostle of the Slavs |
| Barony of Methuen |
| Methuselah, in the Old Testament, the seventh in descent from Adam |
| Theodore Metochita (12701332), Byzantine author |
| Metrocles (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek philosopher of the Cynic school |
| Metrodorus, name of five philosophers |
| Gabriel Metsu (16291667), Dutch painter |
| Quentin Metsys (1465/61530), Flemish artist |
| Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von Metternich (17731859), Austrian statesman and diplomatist |
| Adam Frans van der Meulen (16321690), Flemish painter |
| Constantin Meunier (18311905), Belgian painter and sculptor |
| Paul Meurice (18181905), French dramatist |
| Johannes van Meurs (15791639), Dutch classical scholar and antiquary |
| Peter Mews (16191706), English royalist and divine |
| Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (18251898), Swiss poet and novelist |
| George von Lengerke Meyer (18581918), American diplomatist |
| Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (18001873), German Protestant divine |
| Hermann von Meyer (18011869), German palæontologist |
| Lothar Meyer (18301895), German chemist |
| Paul Meyer (18401917), French philologist |
| Victor Meyer (18481897), German chemist |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer (17911864), German composer |
| Alice Meynell (18471922), English poet and essayist |
| Melchoir Meyr (18101871), German poet, novelist and philosopher |
| Frederick Meyrick (18271906), English divine |
| François Eudes de Mézeray (16101683), French historian |
| Alfred Mézières (18261915), French littérateur, educator and statesman |
| Philippe de Mézières (c. 13271405), French soldier and author |
| Giuseppe Mezzofanti (17741849), Italian Cardinal and linguist |
| Edward Miall (18091881), English Nonconformist divine and journalist |
| Miantonomo (d. 1643), Chief of the Narraganset tribe of North American Indians |
| Andreas Miaoulis (17681835), Greek admiral and politician |
| Micah, in the Bible, the name prefixed to the sixth in order of the books of the minor prophets |
| Micah, in the Bible, a man of the hill-country of Ephraim |
| Pietro Micca (16771706), Piedmontese soldier |
| Michael (15961645), Tsar of Russia |
| Michael, name of nine East-Roman emperors |
| Michaelangelo (14751564), the most famous of the great Florentine artists of the Renaissance |
| Michael Obrenović III. (18231868), Prince of Servia |
| Georg Michaelis (18571936), Prussian official |
| Johann David Michaelis (17171791), German biblical scholar and teacher |
| Joseph François Michaud (17671839), French historian and publicist |
| André Michaux (17461802), French botanist and traveller |
| Francisque Xavier Michel (18091887), French antiquary |
| Louise Michel (18301905), French anarchist |
| Dan Michel of Northgate (fl. 1340), English writer |
| Jules Michelet (17981874), French historian |
| Karl Ludwig Michelet (18011893), German philosopher |
| John Michell (1724?1793), English natural philosopher and geologist |
| Auguste Michel-Lévy (18441911), French geologist |
| Michelozzo (13911472?), Italian sculptor |
| Albert Abraham Michelson (18521931), American physicist |
| Nozu Michitsura (18401908), Japanese field-marshal |
| Adam Mickiewicz (17981855), Polish poet |
| William Julius Mickle (17351788), Scottish poet |
| Micon (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek painter |
| Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex (15751645), Successful London merchant |
| Earls of Middleton |
| Arthur Middleton (17421787), American politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Conyers Middleton (16831750), English divine |
| John Henry Middleton (18461898), English educator and art critic |
| Thomas Middleton (15801627), English dramatist |
| Midhat Pasha (18221884), Turkish statesman |
| St. John Brodrick, Earl of Midleton (18561942), English politician |
| Michiel van Miereveld (15671641), Dutch painter |
| Mieris, name of a family of artists who practised painting at Leiden |
| Thomas Mifflin (17441800), American soldier and politician |
| Pierre Mignard (16121695), French painter |
| Jacques-Paul Migne (18001875), French priest and publisher |
| François Auguste Alexis Mignet (17961884), French historian |
| Abraham Mignon (16401697), Dutch painter |
| Claudine Françoise Mignot (c. 16171711), French adventuress |
| Miguel I. (18021866), Usually known as Dom Miguel |
| Franz von Miklosich (18131891), Austrian philologist |
| Gaetano Milanesi (18131895), Italian scholar and writer on the history of art |
| Milan Obrenović (18541901), King of Servia |
| Manuel Milá y Fontanals (18181884), Spanish scholar |
| Nelson Appleton Miles (18391925), American soldier |
| Jan Milíč (d. 1374), Bohemian divine |
| James Mill (17731836), historian and philosopher |
| John Mill (c. 16451707), English theologian |
| John Stuart Mill (18061873), English philosopher and economist |
| Sir John Everett Millais (18291896), English painter |
| Andrew Millar (17051768), British publisher |
| John Milledge (17571818), American statesman |
| Hugh Miller (18021856), Scottish geologist and man of letters |
| Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (18371913), American poet |
| Joe Miller (16841738), English actor |
| Samuel Freeman Miller (18161890), American jurist |
| William Miller (17821849), leader of the Second Adventists in America |
| William Miller (17951861), British soldier |
| William Miller (17961882), Scottish line-engraver |
| William Hallowes Miller (18011880), British mineralogist and crystallographer |
| Alexandre Millerand (18591943), French socialist and politician |
| Francis Davis Millet (18461912), American painter |
| Jean François Millet (c. 16421679), painter of Flanders |
| Jean François Millet (18141875), French painter, who came of a peasant family |
| William Milligan (18211892), Scottish theologian |
| John Mills (d. 1736), English actor |
| Roger Quarles Mills (18321911), American legislator |
| Henry Hart Milman (17911868), English historian and ecclesiastic |
| John Milne (18501913), British seismologist and mining engineer |
| Henri Milne-Edwards (18001885), French zoologist |
| Alfred, Viscount Milner (18541925), British statesman and colonial administrator |
| Joseph Milner (17441797), English evangelical divine |
| Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (18091885), English poet and man of letters |
| Milo (Sixth Century B.C.), Greek athlete |
| Titus Annius Milo (d. 48 B.C.), Roman political agitator |
| Milo of Gloucester (d. 1143), Lord of Brecknock and Earl of Hereford |
| Mikhail Miloradovich (17711825), Russian general |
| Milosh Obrenović I. (17801860), Prince of Servia, founder of the Obrenović dynasty |
| Miltiades, name of two Athenian statesmen and generals |
| Miltiades (d. 314), Pope |
| John Milton (16081674), English poet |
| Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov (18591943), Russian politician and historian |
| Mimnermus (fl. c. 630600 B.C.), Greek elegiac poet |
| Minas (c. 17901860), Greek scholar |
| Marco Minghetti (18181886), Italian economist and statesman |
| Mino da Fiesole (c. 14291484), Italian sculptor |
| Robert Crannell Minor (18391904), American artist |
| Laurence Minot (1300?1352?), English poet |
| Earls of Minto |
| William Minto (18451893), Scottish man of letters |
| Marcus Minucius Felix, early Latin apologist for Christianity |
| Peter Minuit (15801638), Dutch colonist |
| André François, Comte Miot de Mélito (17621841), French statesman and scholar |
| Johann von Miquel (18291901), German statesman |
| André Boniface Louis Riqueti, Vicomte de Mirabeau (17541792), Reactionary leader at the opening of the French Revolution |
| Mirabeau (17491791), French statesman |
| Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de Mirabeau (17151789), French author and political economist |
| Antonio Mira de Amescua (d. 1644), Spanish dramatist |
| Miguel Miramón (18321867), Mexican soldier of French extraction |
| Francisco de Miranda (17501816), Spanish-American soldier and adventurer |
| Octave Mirbeau (18481917), French dramatist and journalist |
| Mīr Khvānd (14331498), Persian historian |
| Frédéric Mistral (18301914), Provençal poet |
| John Mitchel (18151875), Irish Nationalist |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1810?1862), American astronomer |
| Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) (18221908), American author |
| Maria Mitchell (18181889), American astronomer |
| Silas Weir Mitchell (18291914), American physician and author |
| Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (17921855), Australian explorer |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill (17641831), Scientist of universal attainments |
| Mary Russell Mitford (17871855), English novelist and dramatist |
| William Mitford (17441827), English historian |
| Mithridates, Persian name |
| Rajendra Lala Mitra (18241891), Indian orientalist |
| Eilhardt Mitscherlich (17941863), German chemist |
| St. George Jackson Mivart (18271900), English biologist |
| Mnesicles (Fifth Century B.C.), architect of the great Propylae of the Athenian Acropolis |
| George Moberly (18031885), English divine |
| Robert Campbell Moberly (18451903), English theologian |
| August Ferdinand Möbius (17901868), German astronomer and mathematician |
| Frederick David Mocatta (18281905), English Jewish philanthropist |
| Mocenigo, name of a noble and ancient Venetian family |
| Moderatus of Gades (fl. First Century A.D.), Greek philosopher of the Neo-Pythagorean school |
| Herennius Modestinus (fl. 250 A.D.), celebrated Roman jurist |
| Helena Modjeska (18401909), Polish actress |
| Moeris (SecondThird Century), Greek grammarian |
| Robert Moffat (17951883), Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa |
| Peter Mogila (c. 15961647), Metropolitan of Kiev |
| Hugo von Mohl (18051872), German botanist |
| Julius von Mohl (18001876), German orientalist |
| Johann Adam Möhler (17961838), German theologian |
| Karl Friedrich Mohr (18061879), German pharmacist |
| Friedrich Mohs (17731839), German mineralogist |
| Charles, Baron Mohun (c. 16751712), English noble |
| Michael Mohun (c. 16251684), English actor |
| David Macbeth Moir (17981851), Scottish physician and writer |
| Henri Moissan (18521907), French chemist |
| Abraham de Moivre (16671754), English mathematician of French extraction |
| Edmund von Mojsisovics (18391907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palæontologist |
| Jacques de Molay (c. 12431314), last grand master of the Knights Templars |
| Louis-Mathieu, Comte Molé (17811855), French statesman |
| Mathieu Molé (15841656), French statesman |
| Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth (18391921), novelist and popular writer for the young |
| Robert, Viscount Molesworth (16561725), English noble |
| Sir William Molesworth (18101855), English politician |
| Molière (16221673), the great French dramatist |
| Luis de Molina (15351600), Spanish Jesuit |
| Tirso de Molina (1571?1648), Spanish dramatist |
| Jean Molinet (14351507), French poet and chronicler |
| Auguste Molinier (18511904), French historian |
| Miguel de Molinos (c. 16281696), Spanish divine |
| Bernhard Molique (18021869), German violinist and composer |
| Shlomo Molkho (c. 15001532), Marano kabbalist |
| Richard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (17241816), Prussian soldier |
| François Nicolas, Count Mollien (17581850), French financier |
| Adam Gottlob Moltke (17101792), Danish courtier |
| Adam Wilhelm Moltke (17851864), Danish statesman |
| Count Helmuth von Moltke (18001891), Prussian field marshal |
| Molyneux, historic English name |
| Theodor Mommsen (18171903), German historian and archæologist |
| James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (17141799), Scottish judge and anthropologist |
| Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Duc de Conegliano (17541842), Marshal of France |
| Ludwig Mond (18391909), British chemist |
| Claude Monet (18401926), French painter |
| Gaspard Monge (17461818), French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry |
| Sir Monier Monier-Williams (18191899), British orientalist |
| James Henry Monk (17841856), English divine and classical scholar |
| Maria Monk (d. 1850), adventuress and impostor |
| William Cosmo Monkhouse (18401901), English poet and critic |
| Robert Porrett Collier, Baron Monkswell (18171886), English judge |
| Monluc, name of a French family |
| Blaise, Seigneur de Monluc (c. 15001577), Marshal of France |
| James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (16491685), leader of his abortive insurrection against James II. |
| Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth (c. 15601639), English noble |
| Marc Monnier (18271885), French writer |
| Adolphe Monod (18021856), French Protestant divine |
| Gabriel Monod (18441912), French historian |
| Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (18601929), British general |
| David Binning Monro (18361905), English Homeric scholar |
| Robert Monro (d. c. 1680), Scots general |
| James Monroe (17581831), fifth President of the United States |
| Monrose (17831843), French actor |
| Sir William Monson (15691643), British admiral |
| Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 13901453), French chronicler |
| Montagu, English noble family |
| Edwin Samuel Montagu (18791924), English politician |
| Elizabeth Montagu (17201800), English leader of society |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (16891762), English letter-writer |
| Ralph, Duke of Montagu (c. 16381709), English diplomatist |
| Richard Montagu (15771641), English divine |
| Michel de Montaigne (15331592), French essayist |
| Charles Forbes René, Comte de Montalembert (18101870), French publicist and historian |
| Marc-René, Marquis de Montalembert (17141800), French military engineer and writer |
| Marthe-Camille Bachasson, Comte de Montalivet (18011880), French statesman |
| Giuseppe Montanelli (18131862), Italian statesman and author |
| Arthur de Montauban (d. 1479), French magistrate and prelate |
| Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duc de Montausier (16101690), French soldier |
| Louis Pierre Montbrun (17701812), French cavalry general |
| Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint Véran (17121759), French soldier |
| Antoine de Montchrétien (c. 15751621), French dramatist and economist |
| Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron Monteagle (17901866), English statesman |
| William Parker, Baron Monteagle (1574/51622), English noble |
| Raimondo Montecuccoli (16091680), Prince of the holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan Duke of Melfi |
| Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (17841885), Jewish philanthropist |
| Émile Montégut (18251895), French critic |
| Jorge de Montemayor (1520?1561), Spanish novelist and poet |
| Eugenio Montero Ríos (18321914), Spanish politician |
| Madame de Montespan (16411707), mistress of Louis XIV. |
| Montesquieu (16891755), French philosophical historian |
| Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17391798), French general and writer |
| Madame de Montesson (17381806), French noble |
| Claudio Monteverdi (15671643), Italian priest and musician |
| Lola Montez (18181861), dancer and adventuress |
| Montezuma I. (13981469), seventh King of Mexico |
| Montezuma II. (14661520), eleventh King of Mexico |
| Bernard de Montfaucon (16551741), French scholar and critic |
| Count of Montferrat |
| Montfleury (c. 16011667), French actor |
| Montfort, name of a famous French family |
| Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (1208?1265), English statesman and soldier |
| Maurice, Comte de Montgaillard (17611841), French political agent |
| Maximilian Joseph, Count von Montgelas (17591838), Bavarian statesman |
| Alexander Montgomerie (1545?1598), Scottish poet |
| Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery (15301574), French soldier |
| James Montgomery (17711854), British poet and journalist |
| Richard Montgomery (17381775), American soldier |
| Robert Montgomery (18071855), English poet |
| Charles-Tristan, Comte de Montholon (17831853), French soldier |
| François-Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier (17551838), French publicist |
| Montmorency, name of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in France |
| Anne, Duc de Montmorency (14931567), Constable of France |
| Mathieu Jean Félicité de Montmorency-Laval, Duc de Montmorency (17661826), French politician |
| Armand-Marc, Comte de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem (17451792), French statesman |
| Counts and Dukes of Montpensier |
| Anne-Marie-Louise dOrléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (16271693), French memoir-writer |
| Claude de Bourdeille, Comte de Montrésor (c. 16061663), French intriguer and memoir-writer |
| Casimir, Comte de Montrond (17681843), French diplomatic agent |
| Marquesses and Dukes of Montrose |
| James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (16121650), Scottish noble |
| Manuel Montt (18091880), Chilean statesman |
| Jean Étienne Montucla (17251799), French mathematician |
| Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auget, Baron de Montyon (17331820), French philanthropist |
| Monvel (17451812), French actor and dramatic writer |
| William Flavelle Monypenny (18661912), British journalist |
| Dwight Lyman Moody (18371899), American evangelist |
| William Vaughn Moody (18691910), American poet and playwright |
| Sir Richard Moon (18141899), English railway administrator |
| James Mooney (18611921), American ethnologist |
| William Moorcroft (17671825), English traveller |
| Albert Joseph Moore (18411893), English decorative painter |
| Clement Clarke Moore (17791863), American educator |
| Edward Moore (17121757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| George Moore (18521933), Irish novelist and poet |
| George Foot Moore (18511931), American biblical scholar |
| Henry Moore (18311895), English painter |
| John Moore (17291802), Scottish physician and writer |
| Sir John Moore (17611809), British general |
| Thomas Moore (17791852), Irish poet |
| Thomas Sturge Moore (18701944), English poet, art critic and engraver |
| Anthonis Mor (c. 15171576/7), eminent portrait-painter |
| José Mora (16381725), Spanish sculptor |
| Francisco de Moraes (c. 15001572), Portuguese romance writer |
| Edward Moran (18291901), American artist |
| Thomas Moran (18371926), American artist |
| Olympia Fulvia Morata (15261555), Italian classical scholar |
| James Stewart, Earl of Moray (c. 15311570), Regent of Scotland |
| Robert Moray (16081673), one of the founders of the Royal Society |
| Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray (d. 1332), Scottish warrior and statesman |
| Morcar (fl. 1066), Earl |
| Sebastián Fox Morcillo (c. 15261560), Spanish scholar and philosopher |
| Mordecai ben Hillel (1240?1298), German rabbi
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