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Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio (El Chueco), Argentine Formula One driver, five-time world champion 1951 and 1954–1957 with four teams; 24 wins in 51 starts; ranked greatest F1 driver by several statistical studies.
Juan Manuel Márquez
Juan Manuel Márquez Méndez, 'Dinamita', Mexican boxer born 1973 in Mexico City; four-division world champion (featherweight to junior welterweight), 56-7-1 (40 KOs), famed for four Pacquiao fights ending in a 2012 sixth-round knockout and 2020 Hall of Fame induction.
Juan Manuel Moreno
Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla is a Spanish People's Party politician who has served as President of the Junta of Andalusia since 2019, ending 36 years of socialist rule.
Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Colombian president 2010–2018, Nobel Peace Prize 2016 laureate, architect of the 2016 FARC peace accord; former defense, finance and trade minister.
Juan March Delgado
Juan March Delgado, born in Palma de Mallorca in 1940, is a Spanish banker and investor who sat on the Banca March board for 27 years until 2021.
Juan María Gutiérrez
Juan María Gutiérrez (1809–1878) was an Argentine statesman, jurist, and poet, the principal drafter of the Constitution of 1853 and foreign minister of the Argentine Confederation.
Juan Maria Salvatierra
Juan María de Salvatierra (1648–1717) was a Jesuit missionary in New Spain who founded the first permanent mission in Baja California, Our Lady of Loreto, in 1697.
Juan Marichal
Juan Marichal (Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez), "The Dominican Dandy," Dominican pitcher for the Giants 1960–1973; 243–142, 2.89 ERA, 2,303 strikeouts; first Dominican elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1983.
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó, born Juan Faneca Roca (1933–2020), was a Spanish novelist whose fiction of postwar Barcelona made him one of Spain's major writers, winning the Cervantes Prize.
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón was an Argentine leader who served as Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata from 1816 to 1819.
Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro, nicknamed "La Torre," is an Argentine professional tennis player known for his 2009 US Open title and high ranking of No. 3.
Juan Martin Lopez
Juan Martín López, nicknamed Gato, born 1985, is an Argentine field hockey defender (Banco Provincia) who won Olympic gold with Los Leones at Rio 2016 and Pan American golds in 2011, 2015, and 2019.
Juan Martinez (prosecutor)
Juan Martinez, Maricopa County, Arizona prosecutor famous for convicting Jodi Arias of murdering Travis Alexander; handled capital cases including Falater, Andriano, and Grant; later faced State Bar disciplinary proceedings.
Juan Martínez de Rozas
Juan Martínez de Rozas (1759–1813) was a Chilean lawyer and politician, second vocal of Chile's First Government Junta of 1810 and leader of the radical independence movement.
Juan Martínez Montañés
Juan Martínez Montañés (1568–1649) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor and altarpiece architect in Seville, called the "God of Wood" and portrayed by Velázquez around 1635.
Juan Mata
Juan Mata (Juan Manuel Mata García, born 1988, Burgos) is a Spanish attacking midfielder who won the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, the 2012 Champions League with Chelsea, and now plays for and owns a stake in Melbourne Victory.
Juan Matta-Ballesteros
Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros, born in 1945, was a Honduran cocaine trafficker and broker who pioneered transit routes linking the Medellín and Guadalajara Cartels in the 1980s.
Juan Meléndez Valdés
Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), who wrote under the pseudonym Batilo, was a Spanish poet and magistrate regarded as the leading Spanish lyric poet of the eighteenth century.
Juan Mendoza
Juan Mendoza, known as El Tariácuri, was a Mexican mariachi singer from Michoacán who recorded extensively for the Peerless label and was the brother of Amalia Mendoza.
Juan Merchan
Juan Manuel Merchan is a Colombian-born, Queens-raised acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court (since 2009) who presided over the Trump Organization tax fraud trial, the Weisselberg plea, Steve Bannon's state case, and Trump's 34-count hush-money trial ending in conviction.
Juan Miles
Juan Miles (Juan Bautista Miles Passo, 1895-1981), Argentine polo back, won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics with Argentina, four Argentine Opens, 1922 Hurlingham and US Open titles, 9-goal handicap.
Juan Miranda
Juan Miranda (Juan Miranda González, born 2000, Olivares, Spain) is a Spanish left-back at Bologna; Olympic silver Tokyo 2020 and gold Paris 2024, Copa del Rey 2022 with Betis, Coppa Italia 2025.
Juan Modolell
Juan Modolell (1937–2023) was a Spanish molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who spent his career at CSIC in Madrid, characterizing the Drosophila proneural genes and the iroquois complex.
Juan Molins Amat
Juan Molins Amat, also printed as Joan Molins Amat, is a Spanish businessman who led the cement group Cementos Molins, joining its board in 1967 and chairing it 2017 to 2025.
Juan Morales
Juan Morales (Juan Morales Hechavarría, born 1948, Santiago de Cuba), Cuban hurdler and sprinter; 1968 Olympic 4x100 m relay silver medallist, two-time Pan American Games relay silver and 110 m hurdles bronze winner.
Juan Moreira
Juan Moreira was a rural gaucho outlaw of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, killed by police in 1874 and immortalized by Eduardo Gutiérrez's serialized novel of 1879–1880.
Juan Mr Parrondo
Juan M. R. Parrondo is a Spanish physicist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, known for Parrondo's paradox, where two losing games alternate into a winning one.
Juan Navarro (Argentine financier)
Juan Carlos Navarro is an Argentine financier, born in Uruguay, who founded the Exxel Group in 1991 and was called the buyout king of Argentina by Bloomberg.
Juan O'Donojú
Juan O'Donojú was a Spanish army officer of Irish descent who, as the last Spanish ruler of New Spain, signed the Treaties of Córdoba in 1821.
Juan Oliver (nephrologist)
Juan A. Oliver is a nephrologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University in New York, known for his work on vasodilatory shock and kidney stem cells.