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John Mellencamp discography
The John Mellencamp discography catalogs recordings released by the American rock singer-songwriter from 1976 through 2023, including the number-one album American Fool and the hit single "Jack and Diane."
John Menard Jr.
John Menard Jr. is an American billionaire retailer who founded and still owns Menards, the largest privately held US home-improvement chain, based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
John Mendelsohn (oncologist)
John Mendelsohn (1936–2019) was an American molecular biologist and oncologist whose research founded anti-EGFR targeted cancer therapies and who served as president of MD Anderson from 1996 to 2011.
John Mensah Sarbah
John Mensah Sarbah (1864–1910) was a Fante lawyer and nationalist in the Gold Coast, the first African from the colony to qualify as a barrister in England.
John Merivale
John Herman Merivale (Jack Merivale, 1917–1990), Canadian-born British stage, film, and TV actor; starred in A Night to Remember, King Rat, Arabesque; longtime partner of Vivien Leigh; married Jan Sterling and Dinah Sheridan.
John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter (1851–1928) was an American botanist, born in China to missionaries, who founded the Botanical Gazette and led the University of Chicago's botany department from 1896 to 1925.
John Metchie III
John Metchie III, born 2000 in Taiwan, raised in Brampton, Canada, is an NFL wide receiver (Alabama, Texans 2nd-round 2022 pick) who overcame APL leukemia and an ACL tear and now plays for the Carolina Panthers.
John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas (1932–2020) was a Welsh solid-state chemist and pioneer of heterogeneous catalysis, known for single-site catalysts, the Davy Medal, and directing the Royal Institution.
John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born 1963) is an American actor and game show host known for Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Pitch Perfect, The Late Shift as David Letterman, Great News, America Says, and Split Second.
John Michael McDonagh
John Michael McDonagh (born 1967, London) is a British-Irish writer-director, older brother of Martin McDonagh, known for The Guard (2011), Calvary, War on Everyone, The Forgiven, and the Ned Kelly screenplay.
John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery, born 1965, is an American country singer from Danville, Kentucky who dominated mid-1990s charts with number one hits like "I Swear" and "Sold," selling over 16 million albums.
John Michael Montias
John Michael Montias (1928–2005) was an American Yale economist who first studied Soviet-bloc economies, then pioneered the statistical study of the seventeenth-century Dutch art market.
John Michael Rysbrack
John Michael Rysbrack, born Jan Michiel Rijsbrack (1694–1770), was a Flemish sculptor who settled in London in 1720 and, with his rival Roubiliac, led sculpture in Georgian Britain.
John Michie
John Michie (born 1956, Burma) is a Scottish actor known as DI Robbie Ross in Taggart (1998–2010), Karl Munro in Coronation Street, Guy Self in Holby City, and Fergus Sinclair in Karen Pirie.
John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry (1889–1957) was an English critic and editor of the Athenaeum and founder of The Adelphi, husband of Katherine Mansfield, Eliot's romanticism rival, and critic of Keats, Dostoevsky, and Lawrence.
John Mikaelsson
John Mikaelsson (1913–1987) was a Swedish race walker who won the Olympic 10 km walk at both the 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki Games and set 14 world records.
John Mikulin
John K. Mikulin is an American politician, a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing the 17th district in Nassau County, first elected in 2018.
John Miles (musician)
John Miles (John Errington, 1949–2021), English rock singer-guitarist-keyboardist from Jarrow, famous for the 1976 UK No. 3 ballad "Music" and for touring with Tina Turner, the Alan Parsons Project, and Jimmy Page.
John Milius
John Milius is an American screenwriter and director who rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his work in New Hollywood, including Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn.
John Miller
John Miller: name shared by several athletes, chiefly John Lester Miller (1903-1965), American Yale rower, 1924 Paris Olympic gold in men's eights; also an Olympic weightlifter, champion wrestler, and Australian jockey.
John Millman
John Millman (born 1989, Brisbane) is a retired Australian tennis player, career-high No. 33, one ATP title (2020 Astana), famous for upsetting Roger Federer at the 2018 US Open; retired at Australian Open 2024.
John Mills
Sir John Mills (1908-2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, English actor with a 70-year, 100-plus-film career; Oscar winner for Ryan's Daughter (1970), famed for British war films, father of Hayley and Juliet Mills; not the WWI soldier or the Florida lawyer.
John Milne
John Milne (1850–1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who became a founder of modern seismology in Tokyo, developing the standard horizontal pendulum seismograph.
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician at Stony Brook University, known for differential topology, algebraic K-theory, and dynamical systems, who won the Fields Medal in 1962.
John Milton
John Milton (1608–1674), English poet, polemicist, and Commonwealth Secretary for Foreign Tongues; author of Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and Areopagitica; blind from 1651–1652, dictated his late epics.
John Milton Miller
John Milton Miller was an American electrical engineer and physicist who worked at the Bureau of Standards and Naval Research Laboratory, reported the Miller effect in 1919, and held over 20 radio patents.
John Milton Roberts
John Milton Roberts (1916–1990) was an American anthropologist who developed expressive culture as a field and made games a recognized part of cross-cultural research, teaching at Cornell and Pittsburgh.
John Mitchell Nuttall
John Mitchell Nuttall (1890–1958) was a British physicist who, as a junior colleague of Hans Geiger in Ernest Rutherford's Manchester laboratory, co-discovered the Geiger–Nuttall law, the 1911 relation between alpha-particle energy and radioactive decay period.
John Mitchum
John Mitchum (1919–2001) was an American character actor, singer, and poet, the younger brother of Robert Mitchum, best known as Inspector Frank DiGiorgio in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films.
John Moffet
John Clifford Moffet (born 1964) is an American breaststroke swimmer, 1980 and 1984 Olympian, 100 m breaststroke world record holder (1:02.13), and later a three-time Emmy-winning TV producer for The Amazing Race.