| Hannah More (1745–1833), English religious writer |
| Henry More (1614–1687), English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school |
| Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), English Lord Chancellor, and author of Utopia |
| Jean Moréas (1856–1910), French poet |
| Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), French painter |
| Hégésippe Moreau (1810–1838), French lyric poet |
| Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763–1813), French general |
| José María Morelos (1765–1815), Mexican patriot |
| Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750–1819), French politician |
| Morel, surname of several French classical scholars and printers |
| John Daniel Morell (1816–1891), British educationalist |
| Léonard Morel-Ladeuil (1820–1888), French goldsmith and sculptor |
| André Morellet (1727–1819), French economist and miscellaneous writer |
| Giovanni Morelli (1816–1891), Italian patriot and art critic |
| Agustín Moreto y Cavana (1618–1669), Spanish dramatist and playwright |
| Moretto da Brescia (1498?–1554), celebrated painter |
| Giambattista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian anatomist |
| Daniel Morgan (1736–1802), American soldier |
| Edwin Dennison Morgan (1811–1883), American merchant and philanthropist |
| Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635–1688), Welsh buccaneer, and lieutenant-governor of Jamaica |
| John Hunt Morgan (1825–1864), American Confederate soldier |
| John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), American financier and banker |
| Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881), American ethnologist |
| Lady Sydney Morgan (1783–1859), British author |
| Thomas Morgan (d. 1743), English deist |
| Raffaello Morghen (1758–1833), Italian engraver |
| Simon Morhier (d. c. 1450), Provost of Paris |
| Daniel Georg Morhof (1639–1691), German man of letters |
| James Justinian Morier (1780?–1849), English traveller and author |
| Sir Robert Morier (1826–1893), British diplomatist |
| Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), German poet |
| Jean Morin (1591–1659), French theologian |
| James Cotter Morison (1832–1888), British author |
| Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), German author |
| George Morland (1763–1804), English painter of animals and rustic scenes |
| Barons and Earls of Morley |
| George Morley (1597–1684), English Bishop |
| Henry Morley (1822–1894), British man of letters |
| John Morley (1838–1923), English statesman and author |
| Samuel Morley (1809–1886), English manufacturer and politician |
| Thomas Morley (1557–1603?), English musical composer |
| Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549–1623), French Protestant |
| Charles, Duc de Morny (1811–1865), French statesman |
| Giovanni Morone (1509–1580), Italian Cardinal |
| Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1523–1578), Italian portrait-painter of the Venetian school |
| Morosini, noble Venetian family |
| Paul Charles Morphy (1837–1884), American chess player |
| Justin Smith Morrill (1810–1898), American political leader and financier |
| Clara Morris (1848?–1925), American actress |
| George Pope Morris (1802–1864), American journalist |
| George Sylvester Morris (1840–1889), American educator and author |
| Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), American statesman |
| John Morris (1810–1886), English geologist and palæontologist |
| Lewis Morris (1726–1798), American patriot, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Lewis Morris (1833–1907), British poet |
| Richard Morris (1833–1894), English philologist |
| Robert Morris (1734–1806), American financier |
| William Morris (1834–1896), English poet and artist |
| Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), English novelist |
| George Ernest Morrison (1862–1920), British traveller and journalist |
| Richard James Morrison (1795–1874), English astrologer |
| Robert Morrison (1782–1834), first Protestant missionary to China |
| John Torrey Morse, Jr. (1840–1937), American author |
| Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872), American artist and inventor |
| Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), Italian Jew |
| Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier (1768–1835), Marshal of France |
| Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898), French anthropologist |
| Mortimer |
| Morto da Feltre (1474–1526/7), Italian painter of the Venetian school |
| James Douglas, Earl of Morton (1516?–1581), Scottish statesman |
| John Morton (c. 1420–1500), Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal and statesman |
| John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), English playwright |
| Levi Parsons Morton (1824–1920), American banker and politician |
| Oliver Perry Morton (1823–1877), American political leader, “war governor” of Indiana |
| Thomas Morton (1564–1659), English Bishop |
| Thomas Morton (1575–1646), English adventurer in America |
| Thomas Morton (1764–1838), English dramatist |
| Hugh de Morvile (d. c. 1202), English knight |
| Fynes Moryson (1566–1630), English traveller and writer |
| John Singleton Mosby (1833–1916), American soldier |
| Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), Bohemian pianist |
| Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601–1669), German satirist |
| Manuel Moschopulus (fl. 1282–1328), Byzantine commentator and grammarian |
| Moschus? (fl. 150 B.C.), Greek bucolic poet |
| Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), British physicist |
| Julius Mosen (1803–1867), German poet and author |
| Johann Jakob Moser (1701–1785), German jurist |
| Justus Möser (1720–1794), German publicist and statesman |
| Moses, the great Jewish lawgiver, prophet and mediator, and leader of the Israelites |
| Moses of Chorene (fl. Fifth Century), Armenian historian |
| Moses de Leon (1250–1305), Jewish scholar |
| Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (c. 1694–1755), German Lutheran divine and Church historian |
| Henry Mosler (1841–1920), American artist |
| Henry Mossop (1729?–1774), Irish actor |
| Johann Joseph Most (1846–1906), German-American anarchist |
| Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), Polish musical composer |
| William Motherwell (1797–1835), Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist |
| John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), American historian |
| Lucretia Mott (1793–1880), American reformer |
| Valentine Mott (1785–1865), American surgeon |
| Peter Anthony Motteux (1660–1718), English translator and dramatist, of French parentage |
| Françoise de Motteville (d. 1689), French memoir writer |
| Felix Mottl (1856–1911), German conductor and composer |
| Amédée Ernest Barthélémy Mouchez (1821–1892), French astronomer |
| Handley Carr Glyn Moule (1841–1920), English divine |
| John Fletcher Moulton (1844–1921), English judge |
| Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908), American poet, story-writer and critic |
| William Fiddian Moulton (1835–1898), English divine and educator |
| John Moultrie (1799–1874), English poet |
| William Moultrie (1730–1805), American soldier |
| Jean Mounet-Sully (1841–1916), French actor |
| Jean Joseph Mounier (1758–1806), French politician |
| William Sidney Mount (1807–1868), American artist |
| William Mountford (1816–1885), American author |
| William Mountfort (c. 1664–1692), English actor and dramatic writer |
| Barons and Viscounts Mountjoy |
| George Stephen, Baron Mount Stephen (1829–1921), Canadian financier |
| William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron Mount-Temple (1811–1888), English politician |
| Markos Mousouros (c. 1470–1517), Greek scholar |
| Franz Carl Movers (1806–1856), German Roman Catholic divine and orientalist |
| Sir Oliver Mowat (1820–1903), Canadian judge and statesman |
| Mowbray, name of an Anglo-Norman baronial house |
| Harry Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), American artist |
| Robert Mowbray (d. 1125), Earl of Northumberland |
| Edward Moxon (1801–1858), British poet and publisher |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), German composer |
| James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878), English theologian |
| Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), English divine and writer |
| Mubarrad (c. 826–898), Arabian grammarian |
| Gaius Licinius Mucianus (fl. 52–77 A.D.), Roman general and statesman |
| Charles Edward Mudie (1818–1890), English publisher |
| Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896), German botanist and explorer |
| Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von Müffling (1775–1851), Prussian general field marshal |
| Lodowick Muggleton (1609–1698), English sectarian |
| Luise Mühlbach (1814–1873), German novelist |
| Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), German-American Lutheran clergyman |
| John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746–1807), American preacher and soldier |
| William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796–1877), American philanthropist and Protestant Episcopal clergyman |
| John Muir (1810–1882), Scottish orientalist |
| John Muir (1838–1914), American naturalist and writer |
| Sir William Muir (1819–1905), Scottish orientalist |
| Elisha Mulford (1833–1885), American ethico-political writer |
| Earldom of Mulgrave |
| Michael George Mulhall (1836–1900), British statistician |
| Karsondas Mulji (1832–1875), Indian journalist and social reformer |
| Friedrich Müller (1749–1825), German poet, dramatist and painter |
| Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900), Anglo-German orientalist and comparative philologist |
| George Müller (1805–1898), English preacher and philanthropist |
| Hermann Müller (1876–1931), German Socialist leader |
| Johannes Müller (1801–1858), German physiologist and comparative anatomist |
| Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Swiss historian |
| Julius Müller (1801–1878), German Protestant theologian |
| Karl Otfried Müller (1797–1840), German scholar |
| Lucian Müller (1836–1898), German scholar |
| Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827), German lyric poet |
| William James Müller (1812–1845), English landscape and figure painter |
| Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (1816–1873), German poet |
| Adolf Müllner (1774–1829), German dramatic poet |
| Sir William Mulock (1843–1944), Canadian statesman and jurist |
| William Mulready (1786–1863), English subject painter |
| Lucius Mummius (Second Century B.C.), Roman statesman and general |
| Albert, Comte de Mun (1841–1914), French politician |
| Thomas Mun (1571–1641), English writer on economics |
| Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen (1720–1797), name famous in literary history |
| Anthony Munday (1553–1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Anthony John Mundella (1825–1897), English educational and industrial reformer |
| Joseph Shepherd Munden (1758–1832), English actor |
| Theodor Mundt (1808–1861), German author |
| Theodore Thornton Munger (1830–1910), American clergyman |
| Salomon Munk (1805–1867), French-Jewish historian and orientalist |
| Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1900), Hungarian painter |
| Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), Russian soldier and statesman |
| Agustín Fernando Muñoz, Duke of Riánsares (1808–1873), morganatic husband of Maria Christina, queen and regent of Spain |
| Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745–1799), Spanish historian |
| Sir Hector Munro (1726–1805), British general |
| Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), British scholar |
| Sir Thomas Munro (1761–1827), Anglo-Indian soldier and statesman |
| Frank Andrew Munsey (1854–1925), American publisher and newspaper proprietor |
| Georg zu Münster (1776–1844), German palæontologist |
| Sebastian Münster (1489–1552), German geographer, mathematician and Hebraist |
| Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916), German-American psychophysiologist |
| Ramón Muntaner (1265–1336), Catalan historian |
| Thomas Münzer (c. 1490–1525), German religious enthusiast |
| Werner Munzinger (1832–1875), Swiss linguist and traveller |
| Murad, name of five Ottoman sultans |
| Joachim Murat (1767–1815), King of Naples |
| Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italian scholar, historian and antiquary |
| Michael Nikolaievich Muraviev (1845–1900), Russian statesman |
| Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871), British geologist |
| William Murdock (1754–1839), British inventor |
| William Mure (1799–1860), Scottish classical scholar |
| Murena, name of a Roman plebeian family from Lanuvium |
| Marc-Antoine Muret (1526–1585), French humanist |
| Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) (1850–1922), American author |
| Henri Murger (1822–1861), French man of letters |
| Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Spanish painter |
| Adam Murimuth (c. 1274–1347), English ecclesiastic and chronicler |
| William Urwick Murkland (1842–1899), American clergyman |
| Thomas Murner (1475–1537), German satirist |
| Arthur Murphy (1727–1805), Irish actor and dramatist |
| Charles Francis Murphy (1858–1924), American politician |
| Fred Towsley Murphy (1872–1948), American surgeon |
| John Francis Murphy (1853–1921), American landscape painter |
| Robert Murphy (1806–1843), British mathematician |
| Earls of Murray |
| Alexander Murray (1775–1813), Scotch philologist |
| Alexander Stuart Murray (1841–1904), British archæologist |
| Sir Archibald James Murray (1860–1945), British general |
| Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), English art expert and collector |
| Sir David Murray (1849–1933), Scottish painter |
| David Christie Murray (1847–1907), English novelist |
| Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1824–1881), English journalist |
| Lord George Murray (1694–1760), Scottish Jacobite general |
| George Robert Milne Murray (1858–1911), British botanist |
| Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), British classical scholar |
| James Murray (1721–1794), British governor of Canada |
| Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), British lexicographer |
| John Murray, London publishers |
| John Murray (1778–1820), Scottish chemist |
| Sir John Murray (1841–1914), British geographer and naturalist |
| Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Anglo-American grammarian |
| Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray, Baron Murray of Elibank (1870–1920), British politician |
| al-Mutanabbī (915/6–965), most famous representative of the last period of Arabic poetry |
| Munemitsu Mutsu (1844–1897), Japanese statesman |
| Mus, name of a Roman family |
| Musaeus, name of three Greek poets |
| Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), German author |
| Samuel Musgrave (1732–1780), English classical scholar and physician |
| Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (c. 821–875), Imam and author of one of the two books of Mahommedan tradition |
| Musonius Rufus (b. c. 30 A.D.), Roman philosopher |
| James Muspratt (1793–1886), British chemical manufacturer |
| Adolfo Mussafia (1835–1905), Austrian philologist |
| Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch natural philosopher |
| Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French poet, playwright and novelist |
| Modest Mussorgsky (1835–1881), Russian composer |
| Muẓaffar al-Dīn (1853–1907), Shah of Persia |
| Girolamo Muziano (1528?–1592), Italian painter |
| Giovanni Muzzioli (1854–1894), Italian painter |
| Friedrich Myconius (1490–1546), Lutheran divine |
| Oswald Myconius (1488–1552), Zwinglian divine |
| Sir Hugh Myddelton (c. 1560–1631), contractor for supplying London with water |
| Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901), English poet and essayist |
| Sir Christopher Myngs (1625–1666), British admiral |
| Myron (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek sculptor |
| Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), English dramatist |
| Nābighah al-Dhubyānī (Sixth Century), Arabian poet |
| Gustav Nachtigal (1834–1885), German explorer in Central Africa |
| Tamás Nádasdy I. (1498–1562), Hungarian statesman |
| Constance Naden (1858–1889), English author |
| Nadīm (d. 995), author of one of the most interesting works in Arabic literature |
| Karl Wilhelm von Naegeli (1817–1891), Swiss botanist |
| Gnaeus Naevius (c. 270–c. 200 B.C.), Latin epic poet and dramatist |
| Nāgārjuna (Third Century?), celebrated Buddhist philosopher and writer |
| Karl Friedrich von Nägelsbach (1806–1859), German classical scholar |
| Naḥmanides (c. 1195–c. 1270), Jewish scholar |
| Nahum, Old Testament prophet |
| Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845), Scottish song-writer |
| Israel ben Moses Najara (1555?–1625?), Hebrew poet |
| Nana Farnavis (1741–1800), the great Mahratta minister at Poona |
| Nana Sahib (1820?–1859?), Indian rebel |
| Maharaja Nandakumara (d. 1775), Indian official |
| Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian scientist, explorer and statesman |
| Hans Nansen (1598–1667), Danish statesman |
| Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), French line-engraver |
| Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917), Indian politician |
| Naphtali, in the Bible, the name of an Israelite tribe |
| Sir Charles Napier (1786–1860), British admiral |
| Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), British soldier and statesman |
| John Napier (1550–1617), Scottish mathematician and inventor of logarithms |
| Macvey Napier (1776–1847), British encyclopædist |
| Sir William Napier (1785–1860), British soldier and military historian |
| Francis Napier, Baron Napier and Ettrick (1819–1898), British diplomatist |
| Robert Cornelis Napier, Baron Napier of Magdala (1810–1890), British field-marshal |
| Napoleon I. (1769–1821), Emperor of the French |
| Napoleon II., Emperor of the French |
| Napoleon III. (1808–1873), Emperor of the French |
| Alfred Naquet (1834–1916), French chemist and politician |
| Louis de Narbonne (1755–1813), French soldier and diplomatist |
| Sir John Narborough (1640–1688), English naval commander |
| Jacopo Nardi (1476–c. 1563), Florentine historian |
| George Strong Nares (1831–1915), English Arctic explorer |
| Robert Nares (1753–1829), British clergyman and writer |
| Narses (c. 478–573), important officer of Justinian |
| Pánfilo de Narváez (c. 1480–1528), Spanish adventurer |
| Ramón María Narváez (1800–1868), Spanish soldier and statesman |
| Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (1734–1819), Portuguese poet |
| Richard Nash (1674–1761), English dandy, better known as “Beau Nash,” |
| Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), English poet, playwright and pamphleteer |
| Joseph Nasi (1520–1579), Jewish statesman and financier |
| Nāṣir al-Dīn (1831–1896), Shah of Persia |
| Nāṣir Khusraw (1004–c. 1088), first great didactic poet of Persia |
| Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), Scottish portrait and landscape painter |
| James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Scottish engineer |
| Thomas Nast (1840–1902), American caricaturist |
| Nathanael, a character in the New Testament |
| Sir Mangaldas Nathubhoy (1832–1890), Seth or head of the Kapol Bania caste |
| Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766), French painter |
| August Nauck (1822–1892), German classical scholar and critic |
| Gabriel Naudé (1600–1653), French librarian and scholar |
| Naumachius, Greek gnomic poet |
| Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), German mineralogist and geologist |
| Sir Robert Naunton (1563–1635), English politician |
| Martín Fernández de Navarrete (1765–1844), Spanish historian |
| Pedro Navarro (c. 1460–1528), Spanish military engineer and general |
| Attus Navius (c. Sixth Century B.C.), in Roman legendary history, a famous augur |
| Nawāwī (1233–1278), Arabian writer |
| James Naylor (1617?–1660), English Puritan |
| Nazarius (fl. 322), Latin rhetorician and panegyrist |
| Daniel Neal (1678–1743), English historian |
| David Dalhoff Neal (1838–1915), American artist |
| John Neal (1793–1876), American author |
| Edward Vansittart Neale (1810–1892), English co-operator and Christian Socialist |
| John Mason Neale (1818–1866), English divine and scholar |
| Joachim Neander (1650–1680), German hymn-writer |
| Johann August Wilhelm Neander (1789–1850), German theologian and church historian |
| Nearchus (Fourth Century B.C.), one of the officers in the army of Alexander the Great |
| Antonio de Nebrija (1444?–1522), Spanish scholar |
| Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon |
| Alexander Neckam (1157–1217), English schoolman and man of science |
| Jacques Necker (1732–1804), French statesman |
| van der Neer, Dutch painters |
| Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858), German botanist and entomologist |
| Félix Neff (1798–1829), Swiss Protestant divine and philanthropist |
| Ada Negri (1870–1945), Italian poet |
| Nehemiah, Governor of Judaea under Artaxerxes |
| Richard Neile (1562–1640), English divine |
| Edward Duffield Neill (1823–1893), American educator and author |
| James George Smith Neill (1810–1857), British soldier |
| Adelaide Neilson (1848–1880), English actress |
| Lord Nelson (1758–1805), British naval hero |
| Robert Nelson (1656–1715), English philanthropist and religious writer |
| Thomas Nelson (1738–1789), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesianus (fl. c. 283), Roman poet |
| Nemesius (fl. c. 390), Christian philosopher |
| Lords and Dukes of Nemours |
| Louis-Charles-Philippe Raphaël d’Orléans, Duc de Nemours (1814–1896), French noble |
| Mateja Nenadović (1777–1854), Servian patriot |
| Nennius (fl. 796), Welsh writer to whom we owe the Historia Britonum |
| Cornelius Nepos (c. 99–24 B.C.), Roman historian |
| Julius Nepos (d. 480), last but one of the Roman emperors of the West |
| Saint Filippo Neri (1515–1595), Italian churchman
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