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1,666 profilesMohammad Reza Pahlavi
26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He succeeded h...
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian was an Iranian singer and master of Persian classical vocal music, known for his command of the...
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
13 March 1902 – 4 May 1991
Mohammed Abdel Wahab was an Egyptian singer, composer, oud player and film actor. Active from the 1920s, he introduced W...
Mohammed Dewji
8 May 1975 – present
Mohammed Dewji is a Tanzanian businessman and former politician. He is chief executive of MeTL Group, a conglomerate fou...
Mohammed Rafi
24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian playback singer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian s...
Moinuddin Chishti
c. 1143 – 15 March 1236
Moinuddin Chishti was a Persian-born Sufi mystic who established the Chishti order in the Indian subcontinent. Settling...
Molière
15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673
Molière (1622-1673), born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was a French playwright, actor, and theatre director regarded as one o...
Montesquieu
18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), was a French judge, man of letters, and poli...
Morris Chang
10 July 1931 – present
Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American business executive and engineer who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp...
Moses Mendelssohn
6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786
Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and a central figure of the Enlightenment, often called the father of...
Moshe Dayan
20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military commander and politician, born in 1915 at Degania Alef. He served as Chief of Staff...
Mostafa El-Sayed
8 May 1933 – present
Mostafa El-Sayed (born 1933) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist known for the spectroscopic selection rule that be...
Mother Teresa
26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and devoted her life to the poorest of...
Motoori Norinaga
21 June 1730 – 5 November 1801
Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese scholar of the Edo period and the greatest figure of the kokugaku (national learning) mo...
MS Dhoni
7 July 1981 – present
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and wicket-keeper who captained India to the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 20...
Mstislav Rostropovich
27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He premiered works written for him by composers in...
Muddy Waters
4 April 1913 – 30 April 1983
Muddy Waters was an American blues singer and guitarist often called the 'Father of Modern Chicago Blues'. His electrifi...
Muhammad al-Idrisi
c. 1100 – c. 1165
Muhammad al-Idrisi was an Arab geographer, cartographer, and traveler who worked at the Norman court of King Roger II of...
Muhammad Ali
17 January 1942 – 3 June 2016
American heavyweight boxing champion and activist, three-time world champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest ath...
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and politician who founded Pakistan and served as its first Governor-General. As lea...
Muhammad Ali Pasha
c. 1769 – 2 August 1849
Muhammad Ali Pasha was an Ottoman Albanian commander who became the effective ruler of Egypt and is often regarded as th...
Muhammad Yunus
28 June 1940 – present
Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, banker and social entrepreneur who founded Grameen Bank and devel...
Mulla Sadra
c. 1571 – c. 1640
Mulla Sadra (Sadr al-Din Muhammad Shirazi) was a Persian Shia Islamic philosopher, theologian, and mystic of the Safavid...
Mungo Park
11 September 1771 – c. 1806
Mungo Park (1771-1806) was a Scottish explorer and surgeon, famous for his expeditions to West Africa in search of the c...
Munshi Premchand
31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936
Munshi Premchand was an Indian writer regarded as one of the foremost authors of Hindi and Urdu literature. Known for so...
Murray Gell-Mann
15 September 1929 – 24 May 2019
Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1881 – 10 November 1938
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who founded the Republic of Turkey and ser...
Mutaz Essa Barshim
24 June 1991 – present
Mutaz Essa Barshim is a Qatari high jumper and one of the most decorated athletes in the event's history. He has won mul...
Muttiah Muralitharan
17 April 1972 – present
Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who bowled off spin for Sri Lanka between 1992 and 2011. He holds...
Nader Shah
c. 1688 – 20 June 1747
Nader Shah Afshar (c. 1688-1747) was the Shah of Iran from 1736 to 1747 and founder of the Afsharid dynasty, often descr...
Nadia Murad
1993 – present
Nadia Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights advocate. She was abducted by Islamic State fighters during the 2014 attack...
Nadine Gordimer
20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist whose novels and short stories examined the moral and...
Nadine Labaki
18 February 1974 – present
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and actress. Her features include Caramel, Where Do We Go Now? a...
Naguib Mahfouz
11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006
Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer regarded as one of the first contemporary authors of Arabic literature to explore...
Naguib Sawiris
15 June 1954 – present
Naguib Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman who built Orascom Telecom into one of the largest mobile operators in the Midd...
Naim Süleymanoğlu
23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017
Naim Süleymanoğlu was a Bulgarian-born Turkish weightlifter who competed in the featherweight and lightweight divisions....
Nam June Paik
20 July 1932 – 29 January 2006
Nam June Paik was a Korean-American artist who worked with television sets, video and satellite broadcasting and is wide...
Namık Kemal
21 December 1840 – 2 December 1888
Namık Kemal was an Ottoman poet, playwright, journalist, and intellectual, and a leading figure of the Young Ottomans re...
Naomi Osaka
16 October 1997 – present
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player who has won four Grand Slam singles titles and was the first Asian...
Napoleon Bonaparte
15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821
French military commander and Emperor who rose from the Revolution to dominate Europe before his final defeat at Waterlo...
Narendra Modi
17 September 1950 – present
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician who has served as Prime Minister of India since 2014. A member of the Bharatiya Ja...
Narges Mohammadi
21 April 1972 – present
Narges Mohammadi is an Iranian human rights activist and journalist who has campaigned against the death penalty and aga...
Nargis
1 June 1929 – 3 May 1981
Nargis was an Indian actress regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stars of Hindi cinema. She is best kno...
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a Persian polymath — astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, and theologian — often called the...
Nasser Al-Attiyah
21 December 1970 – present
Nasser Al-Attiyah is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He has won the Dakar Rally five times, in 2011, 2015, 2019...
Nat King Cole
17 March 1919 – 15 February 1965
Nat King Cole was an American singer and jazz pianist who led the influential King Cole Trio before becoming one of the...
Natalie Portman
9 June 1981 – present
Natalie Portman is an Israeli-American actress and filmmaker. She made her film debut in Léon: The Professional (1994) a...
Nawal El Moutawakel
15 April 1962 – present
Nawal El Moutawakel is a Moroccan former hurdler and sports administrator. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles sh...