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John Molson
John Molson (1763–1836) was an English-born Montreal businessman who founded the Molson Brewery in 1786, financed Canada's first commercial steamship, and led the Bank of Montreal.
John Monahan (psychologist)
John Monahan (John Thomas Monahan, born 1946) is an American psychologist and emeritus law professor at the University of Virginia, known for violence risk assessment research cited by the Supreme Court.
John Monash
Sir John Monash (1865–1931), Australian civil engineer and citizen soldier, commanded the 4th Brigade at Gallipoli, the 3rd Division, and the Australian Corps from May 1918, planning Hamel and leading it through the victories of 1918 before heading Victoria's State Electricity Commission.
John Monckton
John James Monckton (1938-2017), Australian backstroke swimmer; silver in 100 m backstroke at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, seventh at Rome 1960, beaten both times by David Theile; set 100 m and 200 m backstroke world records in 1958.
John Money
John William Money (1921-2006), New Zealand-born Johns Hopkins psychologist and sexologist who coined "gender role," directed the first US Gender Identity Clinic, and whose failed David Reimer case discredited his rearing-based gender theory.
John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich
John Edward Hollister Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich (1943–2025), British cross-bench hereditary peer, succeeded 1995, co-founded Earl of Sandwich restaurants in 2004, campaigned on development and asylum.
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, also known as Jemmy Twitcher, was a British statesman who served three terms as First Lord of the Admiralty and gave his name to the sandwich.
John Monteath Robertson
John Monteath Robertson (1900–1989) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered X-ray determination of organic molecular structures, held Glasgow's Gardiner Chair of Chemistry from 1942 to 1970, and won the Davy Medal in 1960.
John Montgomery (organic chemist)
John Montgomery is an American organic chemist at the University of Michigan, known for nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions and for boron-catalyzed iterative glycosylation, a method for assembling carbohydrates.
John Moolenaar
John R. Moolenaar (born 1961) is an American Republican politician who has represented Michigan's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2023, after the 4th District from 2015.
John Moore
John Moore (1730–1805) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1783 until his death in office in 1805, a tenure of nearly 22 years.
John Moores (BMC Software co-founder)
John Moores is an American software entrepreneur who founded BMC Software in Houston, Texas, in 1980, served as its first CEO, and later founded Peregrine Systems and JMI Equity.
John Moores (British businessman)
Sir John Moores (1896–1993) was an English businessman who founded Littlewoods in Liverpool in 1923 as a football-pools company and built it into a retail group.
John Moran Bailey
John Moran Bailey (1904-1975), Connecticut Democratic state chairman from 1946 and Democratic National Committee chairman 1961-68, built a Hartford-based Democratic machine and coalition of ethnic voters, labor, and the poor.
John Morgan (lawyer)
John Morgan, American personal injury lawyer (born in Kentucky), founder of Morgan & Morgan in Orlando, Florida in 1988, the largest U.S. personal injury firm; billionaire, Florida ballot-measure funder.
John Morgan (mathematician)
John Morgan, also known as John Willard Morgan, is an American mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, known for work in topology, gauge theory, and the Ricci flow.
John Morley
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, was a British Liberal statesman, journalist, and biographer who served as Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910.
John Morris (curler)
John Morris (Johnny Mo), Canadian curler born 1978 in Winnipeg; first man with two Olympic curling golds, Vancouver 2010 with Kevin Martin and PyeongChang 2018 mixed doubles with Kaitlyn Lawes; also world junior and Brier champion.
John Morris (FBI)
John Morris (FBI) was a Boston FBI supervisory special agent, head of the organized crime squad, who admitted taking $7,000 in bribes from Whitey Bulger and testified under immunity against John Connolly and Bulger.
John Morrison (wrestler)
John Morrison (John Randall Hennigan; also Johnny Nitro, Johnny Mundo, Johnny Impact, Johnny TV), American pro wrestler and actor; Tough Enough 2002 winner, three-time Intercontinental and four-time tag team champion in WWE, ECW Champion, parkour-based style.
John Morrissey
John Morrissey (1831–1878), nicknamed Old Smoke, Irish-born American bare-knuckle heavyweight boxing champion, Tammany-linked gambling-house owner, founder of Saratoga Race Course in 1863, and Democratic U.S. Representative from New York, 1867–1871.
John Mortimer
Sir John Mortimer (1923-2009), English barrister, playwright, and novelist, creator of Horace Rumpole in Rumpole of the Bailey, author of A Voyage Round My Father and the 1981 Brideshead Revisited adaptation, and a noted free-speech defense counsel.
John Morton (cardinal)
John Morton (c. 1420–1500) was an English churchman and lawyer who served as Bishop of Ely, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor, becoming a cardinal in 1493 and Henry VII's closest adviser.
John Moschitta Jr.
John Moschitta Jr. (born 1954), the "Fast Talking Guy" and Micro Machines pitchman, is an American fast-talk performer and voice actor, Guinness record holder at 586 wpm and Clio-winning FedEx ad star.
John Moschus
John Moschus (Ἰωάννης Μόσχος) was a Byzantine monk and ascetical writer, author of the Pratum Spirituale, a collection of stories about Eastern monks and hermits.
John Motson
John Motson (1945-2023), 'Motty', English BBC football commentator for 50 years; Match of the Day from 1971, Hereford v Newcastle 1972 breakthrough, 10 World Cups, 29 FA Cup finals, OBE 2001, retired 2018.
John Moult
John Moult is a computational biologist who co-founded the CASP experiments in 1994, the blind tests credited by the 2024 Nobel Committee behind the AlphaFold prize.
John Muafangejo
John Muafangejo (1943–1987) was a Namibian printmaker, born in Angola, internationally known for his black-and-white linocuts depicting Kwanyama culture, mission life, Bible stories, and the injustices of apartheid.
John Muir
John Muir (1838–1914), Scottish-born American naturalist and preservationist, co-founded the Sierra Club (1892, first president until 1914), drove the creation of Yosemite National Park (1890), studied Sierra glaciers, and lost the Hetch Hetchy dam fight.
John Muir Trail
John Muir Trail (JMT), a roughly 211-mile Sierra Nevada hiking trail from Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney's summit, built with 1915 California funding won by the Sierra Club, completed 1938, sharing about 160 miles with the Pacific Crest Trail.