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Myrmidon of Athens

Myrmidon of Athens was an Athenian general serving Ptolemy I of Egypt, known from Diodorus for leading 10,000 men to Cyprus in 315 BC and aiding Asander in Caria against Antigonus.

Myrmidons

Myrmidons (Myrmidones), legendary Thessalian people led by Achilles to Troy, fabled to have been ants changed into men under King Aeacus; linked to Aegina, prominent in the Iliad, and title people of Aeschylus' lost tragedy.

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams, 1905–1993), American actress, Hollywood's top female box-office star of the mid-1930s; Nora Charles in The Thin Man series with William Powell, UNESCO representative, 1991 Honorary Oscar.

Myrna M. Weissman

Myrna M. Weissman is an American psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University who co-developed interpersonal psychotherapy and has run a three-generation study of depression risk for four decades.

Myrna Pérez

Myrna Pérez, born 1974 in San Antonio, Texas, is a US circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2021, appointed by President Biden after fifteen years leading voting rights work at the Brennan Center.

Myrna Velasco

Myrna Velasco (Myrna Garcia Velasco, born 1988) is a Mexican-American actress from Los Angeles known for voicing Torra Doza in Star Wars Resistance, Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern in DC Super Hero Girls, and Tater in Primos; distinct from the Filipino actress of the same name.

Myrnohrad Municipality

Myrnohrad Municipality (Myrnohradska miska rada) is an urban territorial community in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, Ukraine, formed in 2020, center Myrnohrad (formerly Dymytrov, renamed 2016), 66.72 km², a contested front-line area since 2022.

Myron

Myron is a genus of three live-bearing mangrove snakes (family Homalopsidae), type species M. richardsonii, dwarf aquatic snakes under 415 mm from northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands.

Myron Allukian Jr

Myron Allukian Jr. is an American dental public health specialist who was Boston's dental director for 34 years, led water fluoridation in Boston, and served as APHA president.

Myron Bolitar (TV series)

Myron Bolitar is an upcoming Netflix crime drama adapted from Harlan Coben's twelve-novel series about a basketball star turned sports agent. Showrun by David E. Kelley and Kyle Long, it stars Colin Woodell, KJ Apa, and Diane Guerrero, filming in New York and New Jersey since July 2026.

Myron Brakke

Myron Brakke (1921–2007) was an American biochemist and virologist who invented sucrose density-gradient centrifugation, a routine laboratory tool key to modern virology and molecular biology.

Myron Cope

Myron Cope (Myron Sydney Kopelman, 1929–2008) was the Pittsburgh Steelers' radio color commentator for 35 seasons (1970–2004) and creator of the Terrible Towel, whose trademark he gave to charity.

Myron F. Goodman

Myron F. Goodman is a molecular biologist and biochemist, Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Gerontology at USC, known for work on DNA polymerase V and AID.

Myron Floren

Myron Floren (1919-2005), American accordionist and assistant conductor on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1950 to 1982, nicknamed the Happy Norwegian; joined Welk after a 1950 St. Louis ballroom audition and later played about 150 concerts a year.

Myron Gardner

Myron Gardner (born 2001, Detroit) is an undrafted 6'5" NBA forward, Miami Heat, formerly Orlando's G League affiliate; 2025-26: 45 games, 3.6 PPG, 2.7 RPG, 15.4 rebound percentage.

Myron H. Thompson

Myron H. Thompson, born Myron Herbert Thompson, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Alabama since 2013.

Myron J. Levin

Myron J. Levin, also known as Myron Levin, is a pediatric infectious diseases and virology physician at the University of Colorado, known for the shingles vaccine.

Myron J. Tong

Myron J. Tong (Myron Tong) is an American hepatologist credited as the first to link hepatitis B with liver cancer, and a longtime UCLA liver program director who practices in Pasadena, California.

Myron L. Bender

Myron L. Bender (Myron Lee Bender, 1924–1988) was an American bioorganic chemist who spent most of his career at Northwestern University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968.

Myron L. Weisfeldt

Myron L. Weisfeldt is an American cardiologist who chaired the Department of Medicine at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins and served as president of the American Heart Association.

Myron M. Levine

Myron M. Levine is an American physician-scientist who built the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and led creation of the first single-dose cholera vaccine.

Myron Mathisson

Myron Mathisson (1897–1940) was a Polish physicist who derived the Mathisson–Papapetrou equations for spinning bodies in general relativity and proved a special case of Hadamard's conjecture.

Myron Pollycove

Myron Pollycove (1921–2013) was an American hematologist and nuclear medicine physician, a UCSF professor known for radiotracer studies of vitamin B12 absorption and iron kinetics and for arguing low-dose radiation can be beneficial.

Myron Rolle

Myron Rolle (born 1986), Bahamian-American pediatric neurosurgeon and former NFL safety; 2009 Rhodes Scholar, FSU All-American, Titans' 207th pick in 2010 with zero regular-season games; Harvard/MGH neurosurgery residency, Nemours Orlando attending since 2025.

Myron S. Cohen

Myron S. Cohen is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina who led the HPTN 052 trial showing HIV treatment prevents transmission.

Myron S. Magen

Myron S. Magen (born 1926) is an American pediatrician and osteopathic medical educator, founding dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine from 1970 to 1990.

Myron Scholes

Myron S. Scholes, born 1941 in Timmins, Ontario, is a Canadian-born finance economist who co-created the Black-Scholes options pricing model and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Myron Tarnavsky

Myron Tarnavsky (Тарнавський, Мирон; 1869–1938) was a Ukrainian general from Galicia who commanded the Ukrainian Galician Army in the 1919 offensive that took Kyiv, and was court-martialed for an unauthorized armistice with Denikin.

Myron Tribus

Myron Tribus (1921–2016) was an American engineer known for aircraft ice-protection systems, thermodynamics, and coining the term thermoeconomics in 1962; he led MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering Study and Dartmouth's Thayer School.

Myron Tsosie

Myron Tsosie is an American Democratic politician who serves in the Arizona House of Representatives from the 6th district and has served on the Chinle Unified School District School Board since 2014.