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1,666 profilesMasatoshi Koshiba
19 September 1926 – 12 November 2020
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist who led the design and operation of the Kamiokande underground detectors at t...
Masayoshi Son
11 August 1957 – present
Masayoshi Son is a Japanese business executive who founded SoftBank in 1981 and serves as its chairman and chief executi...
Matsuo Bashō
1644 – 28 November 1694
Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called...
Matteo Ricci
6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. Mast...
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958
Abul Kalam Azad was an Indian scholar, Islamic theologian, and independence activist who was a senior leader of the Indi...
Maurice Hilleman
30 August 1919 – 11 April 2005
Maurice Hilleman was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed more than 40 vaccines, more...
Maurice Ravel
7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937
Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor regarded as one of the leading figures of musical Impressioni...
Maurice Wilkins
15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist whose X-ray diffraction...
Max Born
11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970
Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He is es...
Max Perutz
19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002
Max Perutz was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist who spent his career at Cambridge using X-ray crystallograph...
Max Planck
23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947
German theoretical physicist whose introduction of energy quanta founded quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in...
Maximilien Robespierre
6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a French lawyer and statesman who became one of the most influential figures of t...
Maya Angelou
4 April 1928 – 28 May 2014
American memoirist, poet and civil rights activist whose autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings became a landmark...
Mehmed the Conqueror
30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481
Mehmed II (1432-1481), known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was an Ottoman sultan who ruled first briefly in 1444-1446 and the...
Mei Wending
1633 – 1721
Mei Wending was a Chinese mathematician and astronomer of the early Qing dynasty who worked to reconcile traditional Chi...
Menachem Begin
16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician who served as the sixth prime minister of Israel and led the right-wing Likud p...
Menelik II
17 August 1844 – 12 December 1913
Menelik II was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 until his death in 1913, having previously ruled as King of Shewa. He decis...
Mercedes Sosa
9 July 1935 – 4 October 2009
Mercedes Sosa was an Argentine singer known as 'La Negra' and a leading voice of the Nueva Canción movement in Latin Ame...
Meriwether Lewis
18 August 1774 – 11 October 1809
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was an American soldier and explorer who co-led the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806),...
Michael Collins
16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922
Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician who was a key figure in the struggle for Iris...
Michael E. DeBakey
7 September 1908 – 11 July 2008
Michael E. DeBakey was an American cardiovascular surgeon and medical educator who spent most of his career at Baylor Co...
Michael Faraday
22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867
English scientist whose discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry, including electromagnetic induction, laid...
Michael Jackson
29 August 1958 – 25 June 2009
American singer, songwriter and dancer, the "King of Pop", whose album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all ti...
Michael Jordan
17 February 1963 – present
Michael Jordan is an American former basketball player who spent most of his career with the Chicago Bulls, winning six...
Michel de Montaigne
28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592
Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher and writer who established the essay as a literary genre with h...
Michelangelo
6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564
Italian sculptor, painter, and architect of the High Renaissance, creator of David, the Pietà, and the Sistine Chapel ce...
Michelle Bachelet
29 September 1951 – present
Michelle Bachelet is a Chilean physician and politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again fro...
Mick Jagger
26 July 1943 – present
Mick Jagger is an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Rolling Stones in 1962 and has been the band's lead v...
Miguel de Cervantes
1547 – 22 April 1616
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, author of Don Quixote, widely regarded as the first modern novel and a cornersto...
Mike Tyson
30 June 1966 – present
Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. In 1986 he became the youngest boxer...
Mikhail Gorbachev
2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022
The last leader of the Soviet Union, whose policies of glasnost and perestroika helped end the Cold War and, unintention...
Milan Kundera
1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born novelist who lived in France from 1975 and wrote his later works in French. His novels, i...
Miles Davis
26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991
Miles Davis was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer regarded as one of the most influential musicians o...
Milkha Singh
20 November 1929 – 18 June 2021
Milkha Singh was an Indian sprinter, known as the Flying Sikh, who took up athletics after joining the Indian Army. He w...
Millicent Fawcett
11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929
Millicent Fawcett was a British political leader, writer, and feminist who led the constitutional, non-militant wing of...
Milton Friedman
31 July 1912 – 16 November 2006
Milton Friedman was an American economist and a leading figure of the Chicago school of economics who championed free ma...
Mimar Sinan
c. 1490 – 17 July 1588
Mimar Sinan (c. 1490 - 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect for nearly fifty years under sultans Suleiman the Magnifice...
Minamoto no Yoritomo
9 May 1147 – 9 February 1199
Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199) was a Japanese warlord who founded the Kamakura shogunate, Japan's first warrior govern...
Mirabai
c. 1498 – c. 1546
Mirabai (c. 1498 – c. 1546) was a Rajput princess and one of the most celebrated poet-saints of the Bhakti movement. Dev...
Miriam Makeba
4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008
Miriam Makeba, known as 'Mama Africa,' was a South African singer and civil rights activist who brought African music to...
Mirza Ghalib
27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869) was an Indian poet who wrote in Urdu and Persian and is widely regarded as the g...
Miuccia Prada
10 May 1949 – present
Miuccia Prada (born 1949) is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman who took over her family's Milan leather-good...
Mo Ibrahim
3 May 1946 – present
Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British businessman who built mobile telephone networks across Africa. Trained as a telecommuni...
Mo Yan
17 February 1955 – present
Mo Yan is the pen name of Guan Moye, a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Gaomi County, Shandong. His fiction,...
Moctezuma II
c. 1466 – 29 June 1520
Moctezuma II (c. 1466 - 1520) was the ninth huey tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztec Empire, ruling from 1502 until his deat...
Mohamed Alabbar
1956 – present
Mohamed Alabbar is an Emirati businessman and the founder and chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai developer behind t...
Mohamed Salah
15 June 1992 – present
Mohamed Salah is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a forward for Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team. After...
Mohammad Mosaddegh
16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967
Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician who served as prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. He nationalized the...