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Manfred M. Mayer

Manfred M. Mayer (1916–1984) was a German-born American immunochemist at Johns Hopkins University, regarded as a founder of complement research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.

Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann: 1960s British R&B and pop band named after South African keyboardist Manfred Lubowitz (born 21 October 1940, Johannesburg), with 13 UK Top 10 singles, US number one "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", and later the Earth Band.

Manfred Mann (musician)

Manfred Mann (Manfred Sepse Lubowitz, born 1940, Johannesburg) is a South African-born keyboardist who led the 1960s British band Manfred Mann, Chapter Three, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band, scoring hits with Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Mighty Quinn, and Blinded by the Light.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: British progressive rock group formed in 1971 by South African keyboardist Manfred Mann after Chapter Three; known for the 1976 US No.1 cover of Springsteen's Blinded by the Light and albums Solar Fire and The Roaring Silence.

Sep 19, 2026

Manfred Meyer

Manfred Meyer is an e-commerce executive who co-founded and co-led Opontia, a Dubai-based company that buys and operates e-commerce brands, from 2021 until his departure in December 2024.

Manfred Milinski

Manfred Milinski, born 1950 in Oldenburg, is a German behavioral ecologist who showed sticklebacks play TIT FOR TAT and modeled climate negotiations as cooperation games.

Manfred Morari

Manfred Morari, born 1951 in Graz, Austria, is a control theorist known for model predictive control and hybrid systems, with a career at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Penn.

Oct 20, 2026

Manfred Nerlinger

Manfred Nerlinger (born 1960, Munich), German super heavyweight weightlifter; Olympic silver 1988 and bronze 1984, 1992; two-time world clean & jerk champion, 1993 world record 247.5 kg.

Manfred R. Schroeder

Manfred R. Schroeder (1926–2009) was a German physicist and acoustician at Bell Labs and the University of Göttingen who invented linear predictive coding, the basis of digital cell phones, and Schroeder diffusers.

Manfred R. Strecker

Manfred R. Strecker, also known as Manfred Strecker, is a German geoscientist, Professor and Chair of Geology at the University of Potsdam since 1995, studying tectonics, climate, and erosion in mountain belts.

Manfred Rommel

Manfred Rommel was a German CDU politician who served as Lord Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 to 1996, and was the son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Manfred Rühle

Manfred Rühle is a German materials scientist and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, known for high-resolution electron microscopy of internal interfaces.

Oct 10, 2026

Manfred Sakel

Manfred Sakel (Manfred Joshua Sakel) was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who introduced insulin coma therapy for schizophrenia, announced in Vienna in 1933 and abandoned by the late 1960s.

Manfred Schartl

Manfred Schartl, born 1953, is a German biochemist and geneticist at the University of Würzburg known for the Xiphophorus fish melanoma model and lungfish genome sequencing.

Sep 20, 2026

Manfred Scheer

Manfred Scheer (born 1955) is a German inorganic chemist who held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg and is known for phosphorus and arsenic chemistry.

Manfred Schliwa

Manfred Schliwa is a cell biologist known for his work on molecular motors, above all kinesin, and cytoskeletal dynamics, as a professor at LMU Munich.

Manfred Schmid

Manfred Schmid (born 1944, Liezen, Austria), Austrian luger; Olympic singles champion and doubles silver medalist with Ewald Walch at Grenoble 1968; four-time Olympian and two-time world doubles champion.

Manfred Schnelldorfer

Manfred Schnelldorfer (born 1943, Munich), German figure skater, 1964 Olympic gold and World champion in men's singles; later national coach, pop singer, film actor, sports-shop owner.

Manfred Sigrist

Manfred Sigrist is a Swiss theoretical condensed matter physicist, now an emeritus professor at ETH Zurich, best known for his 1998 theory of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in Sr2RuO4.

Manfred Stamm

Manfred Stamm is a German polymer physicist and materials scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, known for work on polymer surfaces, thin films, interfaces, and neutron reflectometry.

Manfred Steinbach

Manfred Steinbach (1933-2026), German sprinter-long jumper; 4th in 1960 Rome Olympic long jump (8.00 m), 1958 4x100 m world record equaler, later professor of sports medicine and DLV sports director.

Manfred Stengl

Manfred Stengl (1946–1992), Austrian luger, bobsledder, and motorcycle racer. With Josef Feistmantl he won the first Olympic doubles luge gold at Innsbruck 1964; four-man world bronze 1975; died at the 1992 Isle of Man TT.

Manfred Sumper

Manfred Sumper was a German biochemist, professor at the University of Regensburg from 1978, who discovered silaffins and worked out how diatoms build their ornate silica cell walls.

Manfred T. Reetz

Manfred T. Reetz (1943–2026) was a German organic chemist who directed the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung from 1991 to 2011 and pioneered directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes.

Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot and World War I's leading ace with 80 credited victories, killed in 1918.

Manfred Weber

Manfred Weber (born 1972) is a German CSU politician, MEP since 2004, Chairman of the EPP Group since 2014, and EPP President since 2022; he was the EPP's 2019 Spitzenkandidat for Commission President.

Manfred Wolke

Manfred Wolke (1943–2024) was a German welterweight boxer who won Olympic gold for East Germany at the 1968 Mexico City Games and later coached champions Rudi Fink and Henry Maske.