Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), Jewish philosopher
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), German composer
Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), French poet and man of letters, of Jewish extraction
Menedemus of Eretria (Fourth–Third Century B.C.), Greek philosopher, and founder of the Eretrian school of thought
Menelek II. (1844–1913), Emperor of Abyssinia
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574), Spanish seaman, founder of St. Augustine, FL
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856–1912), Spanish scholar and critic
Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (fl. 503–493 B.C.), Roman patrician and statesman
Menes, name of the founder of the 1st Dynasty of historical kings of Egypt
Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779), German painter
Émile-Justin Menier (1826–1881), French manufacturer and politician
Menippus (Third Century B.C.), Greek cynic and satirist
Justus Menius (1499–1558), Lutheran theologian
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), American actress
Menno Simons (1496–1561), Religious leader
Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (1861–1945), Austro-Hungarian diplomatist
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), Russian statesman
Alexander Sergeievich Menshikov (1787–1869), Russian noble
Mentor of Rhodes (c. 385–340 B.C.), Commander
Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), German artist
Wolfgang Menzel (1798–1873), German poet, critic and literary historian
John Merbecke (c. 1510–c. 1585), English theological writer and musician
Mercadier (d. 1200), French warrior
Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594), Flemish mathematician and geographer
Hugh Mercer (c. 1725–1777), Scotch-American soldier
Antonin Mercié (1845–1916), French sculptor and painter
Désiré Mercier (1851–1926), Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, Belgium
Honoré Mercier (1840–1894), Canadian lawyer and statesman
Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), French dramatist and miscellaneous writer
Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791), German author and critic
Seigneurs and Dukes of Mercœur
Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duc de Mercœur (1558–1602), French soldier
Franz, Freiherr von Mercy (1590–1645), German general in the Thirty Years’ War
Florimond-Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (1727–1794), Austrian diplomatist
George Meredith (1828–1909), British novelist and poet
Francis Meres (1565–1647), English divine and author
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865–1941), Russian novelist and critic
Matthäus Merian (1593–1650), Swiss engraver
Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), French novelist, archæologist and essayist
Charles Merivale (1808–1893), English historian and Dean of Ely
Herman Merivale (1806–1874), English civil servant and author
Herman Charles Merivale (1839–1906), English author
Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné (1794–1872), Swiss Protestant divine and historian
Merlin, the famous bard of Welsh tradition, and enchanter of Arthurian romance
Antoine-Christophe Merlin de Thionville (1762–1833), French revolutionist
Philippe-Antoine Merlin (1754–1838), French politician and lawyer
Flavius Merobaudes (Fifth Century A.D.), Latin rhetorician and poet
Selah Merrill (1837–1909), American clergyman, traveler and orientalist
Henry Seton Merriman (1862–1903), English novelist
John Xavier Merriman (1841–1926), South African statesman
Wesley Merritt (1834–1910), American soldier
William Walter Merry (1835–1918), English classical scholar
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French philosopher and mathematician
John Charles Bigham, Viscount Mersey (1840–1929), English judge
Georgius Merula (c. 1430–1494), Italian humanist and classical scholar
Adalbert Merx (1838–1909), German theologian and orientalist
Charles Méryon (1821–1868), French etcher
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915), Dutch marine painter
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), Austrian doctor
Nicolas Mesnager (1658–1714), French diplomatist
Mesomedes of Crete (Second Century), Greek lyric poet
Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1803–1882), Spanish prose-writer
André Messager (1853–1929), 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 (1847–1925), French politician
Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), Italian poet
Andreas Metaxas (1786–1860), Greek politician
Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858–1925), American artist
Charles Theophilus, Baron Metcalfe (1785–1846), Indian and colonial administrator
Metellus, name of a distinguished family of the Caecilian gens in ancient Rome
Saint Methodius (c. 825–885), Apostle of the Slavs
Barony of Methuen
Methuselah, in the Old Testament, the seventh in descent from Adam
Theodore Metochita (1270–1332), Byzantine author
Metrocles (Fourth Century B.C.), Greek philosopher of the Cynic school
Metrodorus, name of five philosophers
Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667), Dutch painter
Quentin Metsys (1465/6–1530), Flemish artist
Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von Metternich (1773–1859), Austrian statesman and diplomatist
Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632–1690), Flemish painter
Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), Belgian painter and sculptor
Paul Meurice (1818–1905), French dramatist
Johannes van Meurs (1579–1639), Dutch classical scholar and antiquary
Peter Mews (1619–1706), English royalist and divine
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), Swiss poet and novelist
George von Lengerke Meyer (1858–1918), American diplomatist
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1800–1873), German Protestant divine
Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869), German palæontologist
Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
Paul Meyer (1840–1917), French philologist
Victor Meyer (1848–1897), German chemist
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), German composer
Alice Meynell (1847–1922), English poet and essayist
Melchoir Meyr (1810–1871), German poet, novelist and philosopher
Frederick Meyrick (1827–1906), English divine
François Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683), French historian
Alfred Mézières (1826–1915), French littérateur, educator and statesman
Philippe de Mézières (c. 1327–1405), French soldier and author
Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774–1849), Italian Cardinal and linguist
Edward Miall (1809–1881), English Nonconformist divine and journalist
Miantonomo (d. 1643), Chief of the Narraganset tribe of North American Indians
Andreas Miaoulis (1768–1835), 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 (1677–1706), Piedmontese soldier
Michael (1596–1645), Tsar of Russia
Michael, name of nine East-Roman emperors
Michaelangelo (1475–1564), the most famous of the great Florentine artists of the Renaissance
Michael Obrenović III. (1823–1868), Prince of Servia
Georg Michaelis (1857–1936), Prussian official
Johann David Michaelis (1717–1791), German biblical scholar and teacher
Joseph François Michaud (1767–1839), French historian and publicist
André Michaux (1746–1802), French botanist and traveller
Francisque Xavier Michel (1809–1887), French antiquary
Louise Michel (1830–1905), French anarchist
Dan Michel of Northgate (fl. 1340), English writer
Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French historian
Karl Ludwig Michelet (1801–1893), German philosopher
John Michell (1724?–1793), English natural philosopher and geologist
Auguste Michel-Lévy (1844–1911), French geologist
Michelozzo (1391–1472?), Italian sculptor
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931), American physicist
Nozu Michitsura (1840–1908), Japanese field-marshal
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet
William Julius Mickle (1735–1788), Scottish poet
Micon (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek painter
Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex (1575–1645), Successful London merchant
Earls of Middleton
Arthur Middleton (1742–1787), American politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence
Conyers Middleton (1683–1750), English divine
John Henry Middleton (1846–1898), English educator and art critic
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), English dramatist
Midhat Pasha (1822–1884), Turkish statesman
St. John Brodrick, Earl of Midleton (1856–1942), English politician
Michiel van Miereveld (1567–1641), Dutch painter
Mieris, name of a family of artists who practised painting at Leiden
Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800), American soldier and politician
Pierre Mignard (1612–1695), French painter
Jacques-Paul Migne (1800–1875), French priest and publisher
François Auguste Alexis Mignet (1796–1884), French historian
Abraham Mignon (1640–1697), Dutch painter
Claudine Françoise Mignot (c. 1617–1711), French adventuress
Miguel I. (1802–1866), Usually known as Dom Miguel
Franz von Miklosich (1813–1891), Austrian philologist
Gaetano Milanesi (1813–1895), Italian scholar and writer on the history of art
Milan Obrenović (1854–1901), King of Servia
Manuel Milá y Fontanals (1818–1884), Spanish scholar
Nelson Appleton Miles (1839–1925), American soldier
Jan Milíč (d. 1374), Bohemian divine
James Mill (1773–1836), historian and philosopher
John Mill (c. 1645–1707), English theologian
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), English philosopher and economist
Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896), English painter
Andrew Millar (1705–1768), British publisher
John Milledge (1757–1818), American statesman
Hugh Miller (1802–1856), Scottish geologist and man of letters
Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller (1837–1913), American poet
Joe Miller (1684–1738), English actor
Samuel Freeman Miller (1816–1890), American jurist
William Miller (1782–1849), leader of the Second Adventists in America
William Miller (1795–1861), British soldier
William Miller (1796–1882), Scottish line-engraver
William Hallowes Miller (1801–1880), British mineralogist and crystallographer
Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), French socialist and politician
Francis Davis Millet (1846–1912), American painter
Jean François Millet (c. 1642–1679), painter of Flanders
Jean François Millet (1814–1875), French painter, who came of a peasant family
William Milligan (1821–1892), Scottish theologian
John Mills (d. 1736), English actor
Roger Quarles Mills (1832–1911), American legislator
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), English historian and ecclesiastic
John Milne (1850–1913), British seismologist and mining engineer
Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), French zoologist
Alfred, Viscount Milner (1854–1925), British statesman and colonial administrator
Joseph Milner (1744–1797), English evangelical divine
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), 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 (1771–1825), Russian general
Milosh Obrenović I. (1780–1860), Prince of Servia, founder of the Obrenović dynasty
Miltiades, name of two Athenian statesmen and generals
Miltiades (d. 314), Pope
John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov (1859–1943), Russian politician and historian
Mimnermus (fl. c. 630–600 B.C.), Greek elegiac poet
Minas (c. 1790–1860), Greek scholar
Marco Minghetti (1818–1886), Italian economist and statesman
Mino da Fiesole (c. 1429–1484), Italian sculptor
Robert Crannell Minor (1839–1904), American artist
Laurence Minot (1300?–1352?), English poet
Earls of Minto
William Minto (1845–1893), Scottish man of letters
Marcus Minucius Felix, early Latin apologist for Christianity
Peter Minuit (1580–1638), Dutch colonist
André François, Comte Miot de Mélito (1762–1841), French statesman and scholar
Johann von Miquel (1829–1901), German statesman
André Boniface Louis Riqueti, Vicomte de Mirabeau (1754–1792), Reactionary leader at the opening of the French Revolution
Mirabeau (1749–1791), French statesman
Victor de Riquetti, Marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789), French author and political economist
Antonio Mira de Amescua (d. 1644), Spanish dramatist
Miguel Miramón (1832–1867), Mexican soldier of French extraction
Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Spanish-American soldier and adventurer
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917), French dramatist and journalist
Mīr Khvānd (1433–1498), Persian historian
Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914), Provençal poet
John Mitchel (1815–1875), Irish Nationalist
Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1810?–1862), American astronomer
Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) (1822–1908), American author
Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), American astronomer
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), American physician and author
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792–1855), Australian explorer
Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764–1831), Scientist of universal attainments
Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855), English novelist and dramatist
William Mitford (1744–1827), English historian
Mithridates, Persian name
Rajendra Lala Mitra (1824–1891), Indian orientalist
Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemist
St. George Jackson Mivart (1827–1900), English biologist
Mnesicles (Fifth Century B.C.), architect of the great Propylae of the Athenian Acropolis
George Moberly (1803–1885), English divine
Robert Campbell Moberly (1845–1903), English theologian
August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), German astronomer and mathematician
Frederick David Mocatta (1828–1905), 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 (1840–1909), Polish actress
Moeris (Second–Third Century), Greek grammarian
Robert Moffat (1795–1883), Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa
Peter Mogila (c. 1596–1647), Metropolitan of Kiev
Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), German botanist
Julius von Mohl (1800–1876), German orientalist
Johann Adam Möhler (1796–1838), German theologian
Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German pharmacist
Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), German mineralogist
Charles, Baron Mohun (c. 1675–1712), English noble
Michael Mohun (c. 1625–1684), English actor
David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851), Scottish physician and writer
Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist
Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754), English mathematician of French extraction
Edmund von Mojsisovics (1839–1907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palæontologist
Jacques de Molay (c. 1243–1314), last grand master of the Knights Templars
Louis-Mathieu, Comte Molé (1781–1855), French statesman
Mathieu Molé (1584–1656), French statesman
Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth (1839–1921), novelist and popular writer for the young
Robert, Viscount Molesworth (1656–1725), English noble
Sir William Molesworth (1810–1855), English politician
Molière (1622–1673), the great French dramatist
Luis de Molina (1535–1600), Spanish Jesuit
Tirso de Molina (1571?–1648), Spanish dramatist
Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French poet and chronicler
Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), French historian
Miguel de Molinos (c. 1628–1696), Spanish divine
Bernhard Molique (1802–1869), German violinist and composer
Shlomo Molkho (c. 1500–1532), Marano kabbalist
Richard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (1724–1816), Prussian soldier
François Nicolas, Count Mollien (1758–1850), French financier
Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–1792), Danish courtier
Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785–1864), Danish statesman
Count Helmuth von Moltke (1800–1891), Prussian field marshal
Molyneux, historic English name
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), German historian and archæologist
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–1799), Scottish judge and anthropologist
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Duc de Conegliano (1754–1842), Marshal of France
Ludwig Mond (1839–1909), British chemist
Claude Monet (1840–1926), French painter
Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry
Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1819–1899), British orientalist
James Henry Monk (1784–1856), English divine and classical scholar
Maria Monk (d. 1850), adventuress and impostor
William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840–1901), English poet and critic
Robert Porrett Collier, Baron Monkswell (1817–1886), English judge
Monluc, name of a French family
Blaise, Seigneur de Monluc (c. 1500–1577), Marshal of France
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (1649–1685), leader of his abortive insurrection against James II.
Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth (c. 1560–1639), English noble
Marc Monnier (1827–1885), French writer
Adolphe Monod (1802–1856), French Protestant divine
Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), French historian
Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (1860–1929), British general
David Binning Monro (1836–1905), English Homeric scholar
Robert Monro (d. c. 1680), Scots general
James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States
Monrose (1783–1843), French actor
Sir William Monson (1569–1643), British admiral
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1390–1453), French chronicler
Montagu, English noble family
Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879–1924), English politician
Elizabeth Montagu (1720–1800), English leader of society
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English letter-writer
Ralph, Duke of Montagu (c. 1638–1709), English diplomatist
Richard Montagu (1577–1641), English divine
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist
Charles Forbes René, Comte de Montalembert (1810–1870), French publicist and historian
Marc-René, Marquis de Montalembert (1714–1800), French military engineer and writer
Marthe-Camille Bachasson, Comte de Montalivet (1801–1880), French statesman
Giuseppe Montanelli (1813–1862), Italian statesman and author
Arthur de Montauban (d. 1479), French magistrate and prelate
Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duc de Montausier (1610–1690), French soldier
Louis Pierre Montbrun (1770–1812), French cavalry general
Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint Véran (1712–1759), French soldier
Antoine de Montchrétien (c. 1575–1621), French dramatist and economist
Thomas Spring-Rice, Baron Monteagle (1790–1866), English statesman
William Parker, Baron Monteagle (1574/5–1622), English noble
Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609–1680), Prince of the holy Roman Empire and Neapolitan Duke of Melfi
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784–1885), Jewish philanthropist
Émile Montégut (1825–1895), French critic
Jorge de Montemayor (1520?–1561), Spanish novelist and poet
Eugenio Montero Ríos (1832–1914), Spanish politician
Madame de Montespan (1641–1707), mistress of Louis XIV.
Montesquieu (1689–1755), French philosophical historian
Anne-Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1739–1798), French general and writer
Madame de Montesson (1738–1806), French noble
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Italian priest and musician
Lola Montez (1818–1861), dancer and adventuress
Montezuma I. (1398–1469), seventh King of Mexico
Montezuma II. (1466–1520), eleventh King of Mexico
Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), French scholar and critic
Count of Montferrat
Montfleury (c. 1601–1667), 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 (1761–1841), French political agent
Maximilian Joseph, Count von Montgelas (1759–1838), Bavarian statesman
Alexander Montgomerie (1545?–1598), Scottish poet
Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery (1530–1574), French soldier
James Montgomery (1771–1854), British poet and journalist
Richard Montgomery (1738–1775), American soldier
Robert Montgomery (1807–1855), English poet
Charles-Tristan, Comte de Montholon (1783–1853), French soldier
François-Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier (1755–1838), French publicist
Montmorency, name of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in France
Anne, Duc de Montmorency (1493–1567), Constable of France
Mathieu Jean Félicité de Montmorency-Laval, Duc de Montmorency (1766–1826), French politician
Armand-Marc, Comte de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem (1745–1792), French statesman
Counts and Dukes of Montpensier
Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627–1693), French memoir-writer
Claude de Bourdeille, Comte de Montrésor (c. 1606–1663), French intriguer and memoir-writer
Casimir, Comte de Montrond (1768–1843), French diplomatic agent
Marquesses and Dukes of Montrose
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612–1650), Scottish noble
Manuel Montt (1809–1880), Chilean statesman
Jean Étienne Montucla (1725–1799), French mathematician
Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auget, Baron de Montyon (1733–1820), French philanthropist
Monvel (1745–1812), French actor and dramatic writer
William Flavelle Monypenny (1866–1912), British journalist
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist
William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910), American poet and playwright
Sir Richard Moon (1814–1899), English railway administrator
James Mooney (1861–1921), American ethnologist
William Moorcroft (1767–1825), English traveller
Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893), English decorative painter
Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), American educator
Edward Moore (1712–1757), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
George Moore (1852–1933), Irish novelist and poet
George Foot Moore (1851–1931), American biblical scholar
Henry Moore (1831–1895), English painter
John Moore (1729–1802), Scottish physician and writer
Sir John Moore (1761–1809), British general
Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish poet
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), English poet, art critic and engraver
Anthonis Mor (c. 1517–1576/7), eminent portrait-painter
José Mora (1638–1725), Spanish sculptor
Francisco de Moraes (c. 1500–1572), Portuguese romance writer
Edward Moran (1829–1901), American artist
Thomas Moran (1837–1926), American artist
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526–1555), Italian classical scholar
James Stewart, Earl of Moray (c. 1531–1570), Regent of Scotland
Robert Moray (1608–1673), 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. 1526–1560), Spanish scholar and philosopher
Mordecai ben Hillel (1240?–1298), German rabbi