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1,666 profilesMarcel Proust
10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental seven-volume novel In Search of...
Marco Polo
c. 1254 – 8 January 1324
Marco Polo (c. 1254 - 1324) was a Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled overland to Asia and spent about seventeen...
Marcos Baghdatis
17 June 1985 – present
Marcos Baghdatis is a Cypriot former professional tennis player. He reached the final of the 2006 Australian Open and th...
Marcus Garvey
17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvemen...
Margaret Atwood
18 November 1939 – present
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and critic. Her work ranges from early poetry and the novel Surfacing to th...
Margaret Bourke-White
14 June 1904 – 27 August 1971
Margaret Bourke-White was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, the first female war correspondent a...
Margaret Hamilton
17 August 1936 – 30 September 2026
Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist who led the team at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory that wrote th...
Margaret Thatcher
13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013
British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 — the first woman to hold the office — and reshaped t...
Margot Fonteyn
18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991
Dame Margot Fonteyn was an English ballerina widely regarded as one of the greatest classical dancers of the 20th centur...
Maria Callas
2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977
Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th c...
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
16 May 1718 – 9 January 1799
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, celebrated as the first woman to write a...
Maria Mitchell
1 August 1818 – 28 June 1889
Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer who in 1847 discovered a comet that became known as 'Miss Mitchell's Comet', m...
Maria Sibylla Merian
2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, one of the first Europeans to study insect...
Maria Theresa
13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was the ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death, and the only woman to hold...
Mariama Bâ
17 April 1929 – 17 August 1981
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) was a Senegalese author and teacher whose epistolary novel Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter...
Marie Antoinette
2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution, born an Austrian archduchess as...
Marie Curie
7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934
Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the firs...
Marilyn Monroe
1 June 1926 – 4 August 1962
American actress and cultural icon of the 1950s, star of Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Mario Molina
19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020
Mario Molina was a Mexican chemist whose research on the atmospheric chemistry of chlorofluorocarbons showed that the co...
Mario Vargas Llosa
28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025
Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist and journalist associated with the Latin American Boom, aut...
Marjane Satrapi
21 September 1969 – 3 June 2026
Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator and film director. She is best known for the aut...
Mark Rothko
25 September 1903 – 25 February 1970
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. He is best known for his...
Mark Shuttleworth
18 September 1973 – present
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and software developer who founded the certificate authority Thawte an...
Mark Twain
30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910
American writer and humorist, born Samuel Clemens, whose Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often called the great Americ...
Mark Zuckerberg
14 May 1984 – present
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook in 2004 while a student at Harvard Univer...
Marlon Brando
3 April 1924 – 1 July 2004
Marlon Brando was an American actor widely considered one of the most influential performers of the 20th century. A pion...
Marquis de Condorcet
17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), was a French mathematician, philosopher, and po...
Marquis de Lafayette
6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the Unit...
Martin Luther
10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546
German theologian and former Augustinian monk whose Ninety-five Theses sparked the Protestant Reformation. His German tr...
Martin Luther King Jr.
15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968
American Baptist minister and the most visible leader of the civil rights movement, whose nonviolent activism helped end...
Martin Scorsese
17 November 1942 – present
Martin Scorsese is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter regarded as one of the most significant filmmak...
Martina Navratilova
18 October 1956 – present
Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, includin...
Marvin Gaye
2 April 1939 – 1 April 1984
Marvin Gaye was an American singer, songwriter and producer who recorded for Motown from the early 1960s, first as a hit...
Marvin Minsky
9 August 1927 – 24 January 2016
Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist who was a co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligen...
Mary Anning
21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector and palaeontologist who made important discoveries in the Jurassic marine fo...
Mary Astell
12 November 1666 – 11 May 1731
Mary Astell was an English philosopher and writer often described as the first English feminist. In works such as A Seri...
Mary Cassatt
22 May 1844 – 14 June 1926
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter and printmaker who spent most of her career in France, where she became...
Mary Kom
24 November 1982 – present
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an Indian boxer from Manipur who has won six world amateur championship titles, in 2002,...
Mary Leakey
6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996
Mary Leakey was a British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose fieldwork in East Africa produced several of the...
Mary Quant
11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023
Mary Quant was a British fashion designer and a central figure of the 1960s London mod and youth fashion movements. She...
Mary Robinson
21 May 1944 – present
Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician who served as the seventh President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, the fi...
Mary Seacole
c. 1805 – 14 May 1881
Mary Seacole (1805-1881) was a Jamaican-born nurse and businesswoman who cared for sick and wounded soldiers during the...
Mary Shelley
30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851
English novelist who wrote Frankenstein, widely regarded as one of the earliest works of science fiction.
Mary Wollstonecraft
27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
English writer and philosopher whose A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a founding text of feminist thought.
Mary, Queen of Scots
8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587
Mary Stuart was Queen of Scotland from 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567, and briefly queen consort of France. He...
Maryam Mirzakhani
12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, moduli spaces and th...
Masaccio
21 December 1401 – 1428
Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) was a Florentine painter regarded as the first great master of the Italian...
Masaru Ibuka
11 April 1908 – 19 December 1997
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and businessman who co-founded Sony with Akio Morita in 1946. Under his...