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John Mason Clarke
John Mason Clarke (1857–1925) was an American paleontologist and geologist who directed the New York State survey and museum and became a leading authority on the Devonian system.
John Masters
John Masters (1914-1983), British soldier-novelist born in Calcutta, author of Nightrunners of Bengal and Bhowani Junction and of the Savage family cycle of historical novels on British India; Gurkha officer, Chindit veteran, later US citizen in Santa Fe.
John Mateer
John Mateer, Oklahoma Sooners quarterback (No. 10), transferred from Washington State; led the nation with 44 total touchdowns in 2024, threw 14 TDs with 11 INTs in an injury-shortened 2025, and is a 2026 NFL Draft prospect.
John Mather (mathematician)
John Mather (1942–2017) was an American mathematician and Princeton professor known for work in singularity theory and for Aubry–Mather theory, his action-minimizing approach to Hamiltonian dynamics.
John Matuszak
John Matuszak (1950-1989), nicknamed "The Tooz," was an NFL defensive lineman, first overall pick of the 1973 draft, two-time Super Bowl winner with the Oakland Raiders, and the actor who played Sloth in The Goonies.
John Mauchly
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who co-invented ENIAC and UNIVAC I with J. Presper Eckert after working at the University of Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1946.
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen
John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen), known in Dutch history as "the Brazilian," was governor-general of Dutch Brazil for the Dutch West India Company from 1636 to 1644.
John Maus
John Maus (born 1980, Austin, Minnesota) is an American synth-pop musician and political science PhD, ex-Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti keyboardist, known for We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (2011) and Later Than You Think (2025).
John Mayall
John Mayall (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024), the Godfather of British Blues, led the Bluesbreakers and launched Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor and Fleetwood Mac's founders; his 1966 Beano album reached UK No. 6, and he entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, English blues band founded by John Mayall in London in 1963, a finishing school for Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor, famed for Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (1966) until the name was retired in 2008.
John Mayasich
John Mayasich (born 22 May 1933, Eveleth, Minnesota), American amateur ice hockey player; silver 1956 and gold 1960 Olympics; Minnesota career records of 144 goals and 298 points; U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame 1976.
John Mayer
John Mayer (John Clayton Mayer, born 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist behind Room for Squares, Continuum, and Sob Rock, a seven-time Grammy winner, PRS Silver Sky co-designer, and Dead & Company lead guitarist.
John Mayer discography
John Mayer discography: eight studio albums from Room for Squares (2001) to Sob Rock (2021), the Inside Wants Out EP, live albums, RIAA-certified singles, and the 2026 single Tom and Jerry.
John Maynard
John Maynard is a ballad by Theodor Fontane, first published in 1886, about a helmsman who saves a burning ship's passengers on Lake Erie at the cost of his life.
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose 1936 General Theory argued that market economies can settle with persistent unemployment, reshaping economic policy; he also shaped the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist who introduced game theory into evolutionary biology, coined the evolutionarily stable strategy, and won the 2001 Kyoto Prize.
John McAfee
John David McAfee (1945–2021) was a British-American programmer who founded antivirus pioneer McAfee Associates in 1987, promoted cryptocurrency, ran for president twice, and died in a Spanish prison in 2021 awaiting US extradition.
John McAleese
John Thomas "John Mac" McAleese (1948/1949 - 26 August 2011), SAS soldier who led the Blue Team assault ending the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege (Operation Nimrod) live on TV; Military Medal 1988, Northern Ireland; later TV presenter.
John McBride (California politician)
John McBride is an American politician, small business owner, and community volunteer who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in California's 9th Congressional District.
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (1936–2018), American Navy aviator, Vietnam POW, and Arizona senator from 1987 to 2018; co-author of McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, 2000 and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, died August 25, 2018.
John McCann (California politician)
John McCann is an American Republican politician and retired Navy Reserve commander serving as Mayor of Chula Vista, California, since 2022, after serving on the city council from 2002.
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
John McCarthy (1927–2011) was an American computer scientist at Stanford University who coined the term "artificial intelligence," created LISP, and won the 1971 Turing Award.
John McCarthy (referee)
John "Big" McCarthy (born 1962) is an American retired MMA referee, former LAPD officer, and co-author of the Unified Rules of MMA; first UFC head referee from UFC 2 (1994), founder of COMMAND, later Bellator commentator.
John McClane
John McClane is the fictional NYPD detective played by Bruce Willis in the five Die Hard films (1988-2013), an everyman action hero created from the novel character Joe Leland, known for vulnerability and the catchphrase Yippee-ki-yay.
John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey
John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey (1929-2017), Scottish advocate, Solicitor General for Scotland 1974-79, Senator of the College of Justice 1984-2004, crossbench life peer, Reith Lecturer and chair of the 2011 UK Supreme Court review.
John McCook
John McCook (born 1944, per IMDb; some sources say 1945), American actor from Ventura, California; Eric Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful since its 1987 debut, formerly Lance Prentiss on The Young and the Restless, 2022 Daytime Emmy winner.
John McCrae
John McCrae (1872-1918), Canadian physician, pathologist, soldier, and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields" (Punch, 8 December 1915), which made the poppy the flower of remembrance; he died of pneumonia at Boulogne in 1918.
John McCrea (musician)
John McCrea (born 1964) is the American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who founded the Sacramento alternative rock band Cake in 1991, known for deadpan vocals, 'The Distance,' Upbeat Records independence, and a No. 1 album in 2011.
John McCririck
John McCririck (1940–2019), known as 'Big Mac', was an English horse racing journalist and broadcaster, the deerstalker-hatted betting-ring reporter for ITV and Channel 4 Racing, who won journalism awards at the Sporting Life, appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, and lost a 2013 age discrimination case against Channel 4.
John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon is an American evolutionary biologist and HHMI Investigator at Arizona State University, known for work on genome reduction in insect symbiotic bacteria and lichens.