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John McDonald (New York politician)
John T. McDonald III is an American politician and pharmacist, a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 108th district since 2013 and former Mayor of Cohoes.
John McDonnell
John McDonnell (born 1951) is a British Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington since 1997 and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2015-2020 under Jeremy Corbyn; the whip was withdrawn in July 2024 and restored September 2025.
John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), Scottish surveyor-explorer of Australia, led six expeditions 1858–1862, first European south-to-north crossing, reached Indian Ocean 24 July 1862; route used by Overland Telegraph and Stuart Highway.
John McEnroe
John McEnroe (born 1959, Wiesbaden, Germany) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player, seven-time Grand Slam singles champion (Wimbledon 1981, 1983, 1984; US Open 1979-81, 1984), record 1984 season of 82-3, Hall of Fame 1999, later a broadcaster.
John McEntee (political aide)
John McEntee, Trump's former bodyman and Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office (February 2020 to January 2021), who led loyalty-based personnel purges, later joined Project 2025 as senior advisor and founded the conservative dating app The Right Stuff.
John McFee
John McFee (born 1950, Santa Cruz, California) is a multi-instrumentalist and longtime Doobie Brothers guitarist, formerly of Clover (on Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True) and Southern Pacific, and a 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
John McGahern
John McGahern (1934–2006) was an Irish novelist and short story writer whose spare realist fiction about rural Ireland included Amongst Women, shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize.
John McGeoch
John McGeoch (1955–2004), Scottish post-punk guitarist of Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, the Armoury Show, and Public Image Ltd; known for icy effects-driven playing, "Spellbound", "Shot by Both Sides", and influence on Marr, Frusciante, and The Edge.
John McGinn
John McGinn (born 1994) is a Scottish midfielder and Aston Villa captain; 93 Scotland caps, 22 goals; won 2025/26 Europa League and scored Scotland's first World Cup goal since 1998.
John McGiver
John McGiver (John Irwin McGiver, 1913–1975) was an American character actor known for pompous, comic authority figures in over one hundred film and television roles from 1955 to 1975.
John McGraw
John McGraw (1873-1934), nicknamed Little Napoleon and Mugsy, Hall of Fame manager of the New York Giants 1902-1932; won 10 NL pennants, 3 World Series, and 2,763 games, second to Connie Mack.
John McGuire (Virginia politician)
John McGuire (born 1968), full name John J. McGuire III, is a Republican U.S. representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district, first elected in 2024 and serving since January 2025.
John McIntire
John Herrick McIntire (1907-1991) was an American character actor of westerns and crime dramas; replaced Ward Bond as wagonmaster Chris Hale on Wagon Train, played Clay Grainger on The Virginian, the sheriff in Psycho, and married Jeanette Nolan for 56 years.
John McKay
John McKay (1939–2022) was a British-Canadian mathematician at Concordia University in Montreal known for monstrous moonshine, the McKay correspondence, and the McKay conjecture on group characters.
John McKeon
John McKeon is an American politician and Democratic member of the New Jersey Senate representing the 27th district, known for sponsoring gambling regulation bills on online gaming taxes and problem gambling.
John McLaughlin (host)
John McLaughlin (1927-2016), American TV host and former Jesuit priest and Nixon speechwriter, created and moderated The McLaughlin Group from 1982 until his death, popularizing combative panel punditry with his 'Wrong!' catchphrase.
John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin (born 1942) is an English jazz-fusion guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti with Zakir Hussain, and a Miles Davis and Tony Williams Lifetime collaborator.
John McLean
John McLean (1785–1861) was an American jurist who served nearly 32 years as a US Supreme Court justice, appointed by Andrew Jackson, and dissented in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
John McLoughlin (police officer)
John McLoughlin, retired Port Authority police sergeant, was the last person pulled alive from the World Trade Center rubble on September 12, 2001, after 22 hours buried; his rescue inspired Oliver Stone's 2006 film World Trade Center.
John McMichael
Sir John McMichael (1904–1993) was a British cardiologist, professor of medicine at Hammersmith from 1946 to 1966, who introduced cardiac catheterisation into British practice and overturned prevailing views of heart failure.
John McPhee
John McPhee, full name John Angus McPhee, is an American writer of creative nonfiction, a New Yorker staff writer since 1965, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
John McQueeney
John McQueeney is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 97 in southwest Tarrant County, first elected in 2024.
John McTiernan
John McTiernan, American action film director from Albany, New York, directed Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October, then was convicted in the Pellicano wiretapping case; his last film to date is Basic (2003).
John McVie
John McVie (John Graham McVie), born 1945, is a British bassist whose name supplies the "Mac" in Fleetwood Mac, which he joined in 1967 after playing with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
John McWhorter
John McWhorter (born 1965) is an American linguist at Columbia University, creator of the Creole Prototype hypothesis, author of The Power of Babel and Woke Racism, NYT columnist, and Lexicon Valley podcast host.
John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer is an American political scientist at the University of Chicago and the leading exponent of offensive realism, set out in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
John Megna
John Megna (1952-1995), American child actor who played Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and a boy in Star Trek's "Miri"; Broadway debut in Greenwillow and All the Way Home; later a Los Angeles stage director and teacher; half-brother of Connie Stevens.
John Meillon
John Meillon (1934–1989) was an Australian actor of radio, stage, film, and television, known as Wal in the Crocodile Dundee films, Wally Stiller in My Name's McGooley, AFI best actor 1977, OBE 1979.
John Melendez
John Melendez, known as Stuttering John, is an American radio personality who interviewed celebrities on The Howard Stern Show and announced The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp, born 1951 in Seymour, Indiana, is an American heartland rock singer-songwriter also known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, famous for Jack & Diane, Pink Houses, American Fool, Farm Aid, and 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.