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John Macnaghten Whittaker
John Macnaghten Whittaker (1905–1984) was a British mathematician, son of E. T. Whittaker, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1952 to 1965.
John Madden
John Madden (1936-2021), American NFL coach, broadcaster, and video game namesake. Coached Oakland Raiders 1969-1978 (112-39-7, Super Bowl XI), won 16 Emmys, and lent his name to the Madden NFL game series.
John Madden (director)
John Madden is an English film and theater director from Portsmouth, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), The Debt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011); distinct from the NFL coach John Madden.
John Maddox
John Maddox, formally Sir John Royden Maddox, was a Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist who edited Nature for 22 years across two tenures, establishing its peer review system.
John Maeda
John Maeda, born 1966 in Seattle, is an American computer scientist, artist, and design executive known for Design by Numbers, his MIT Media Lab work, and STEM-to-STEAM advocacy.
John Magaro
John Magaro (John Robert Magaro, born 1983, Akron, Ohio) is an American actor known for First Cow, Past Lives, September 5, Koln 75, The Big Short, and The Agency, distinguished from others of the same name by his indie-film career.
John Magnier
John Magnier (born 1948), Irish bloodstock breeder known as 'The Boss', head of Coolmore Stud in Tipperary; with Vincent O'Brien and Robert Sangster he industrialized stallion marketing, standing Sadler's Wells and Galileo.
John Magufuli
John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (1959–2021), fifth president of Tanzania (2015–2021) and CCM chairman, a chemist and former works minister known for cost-cutting, economic nationalism, authoritarian crackdowns, and COVID-19 denialism.
John Mahama
John Dramani Mahama, Ghanaian politician and leader of the NDC, president of Ghana 2013–2017 and again from January 2025, first Ghanaian president elected to a non-consecutive second term, winning the 2024 election with 56.55 percent.
John Mahoney
John Mahoney (1940–2018), English-born American actor Charles John Mahoney, Tony winner and star of Martin Crane on Frasier; Steppenwolf member, voice actor in The Iron Giant and Antz; died in Chicago aged 77.
John Major
Sir John Major (born 1943) is a British Conservative politician, Prime Minister 1990-1997 after Margaret Thatcher. Known for the 1992 election win, Black Wednesday ERM exit, Maastricht Treaty, Gulf War, and starting the Northern Ireland peace process.
John Malalas
John Malalas (Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας) was a sixth-century Greek-speaking chronicler born in or near Antioch, whose eighteen-book Chronographia, written in colloquial Greek, runs from the Creation to Justinian I.
John Malcolm
John Malcolm (1769–1833) was a Scottish soldier, diplomat, and historian in the service of the East India Company, serving mainly in British India and Qajar Persia.
John Malkovich
John Malkovich (born 1953), American actor and Steppenwolf Theatre founding member, two-time Oscar nominee known for Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, and starring as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999).
John Mallard
John Rowland Mallard was a British medical physicist who led the University of Aberdeen team that built the first whole-body MRI scanner and made its first clinically useful patient images in 1980.
John Mannion (New York politician)
John Mannion, also known as John W. Mannion, is an American Democratic politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 22nd Congressional District since 2025.
John Mappin
John Mappin, born 1965, is a British hotel owner from the Mappin and Webb jewelry family who runs Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall.
John Mara
John K. Mara (born 1954) is president and CEO of the NFL's New York Giants, grandson of founder Tim Mara, chairman of the NFL Management Council Executive Committee, and a 24-year Competition Committee member.
John Marin
John Marin (1870–1953) was an early American modernist painter and etcher known for semi-abstract views of Manhattan and Maine, and received a MoMA retrospective in 1936.
John Marioni
John C. Marioni is a computational biologist known for statistical methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing data, including normalization and batch correction, who led EMBL-EBI research before joining Genentech in 2022.
John Mark
John Mark, also called John, surnamed Mark, is a New Testament figure who assisted Paul and Barnabas, was close to Peter, and is venerated by the Coptic Church as Mark the Evangelist, first patriarch of Alexandria.
John Marley
John Marley (Mortimer Leon Marlieb, 1907–1984), American character actor. Known for Faces (1968, Volpi Cup), Love Story (Oscar nomination), and Jack Woltz in The Godfather (1972); died after open-heart surgery.
John Marrs (author)
John Marrs is a British author of psychological thrillers and speculative fiction from Northamptonshire, best known for The One, translated into 35 languages and adapted as a Netflix series.
John Marshall
John Marshall (1755–1835), fourth and longest-serving US Chief Justice (1801–1835), established judicial review in Marbury v. Madison and led landmark federalism cases, while also owning hundreds of enslaved people and writing proslavery opinions.
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), Kentucky lawyer, Union colonel, and Supreme Court associate justice 1877–1911; the "Great Dissenter" whose lone Plessy v. Ferguson dissent declared the Constitution color-blind and whose grandson Harlan II also served on the Court.
John Marshall Harlan II
John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971), also known as Harlan II, grandson of Justice John Marshall Harlan I, was a US Supreme Court associate justice 1955–1971, appointed by Eisenhower; known for judicial restraint, First Amendment doctrine, and the Katz reasonable-expectation-of-privacy test.
John Marston
John Marston (1576–1634) was an English playwright, poet, and satirist best known for the plays The Malcontent and The Dutch Courtesan and for his feud with Ben Jonson.
John Martin (painter)
John Martin was an English Romantic painter who created vast, apocalyptic scenes. His major works, including The Last Judgement, were celebrated for their dramatic scale and detail.
John Martyn
John Martyn, born Iain David McGeachy (1948–2009), was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music blended folk, jazz, blues, and dub; his signature album was Solid Air (1973).
John Masefield
John Edward Masefield (1878–1967), English poet, novelist, and playwright from Ledbury, Herefordshire; UK Poet Laureate 1930–1967, author of Salt-Water Ballads, The Everlasting Mercy, Reynard the Fox, The Midnight Folk, and The Box of Delights.