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Manuel Belgrano
Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820) was an Argentine lawyer, politician, and general of the independence war who created Argentina's national flag and won the victories of Tucumán and Salta.
Manuel Bibes
Manuel Bibès (born 1976) is a French physicist and CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire Albert Fert, a pioneer of oxitronics who received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2025.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum, born 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela, is an American theoretical computer scientist who won the 1995 Turing Award for work on computational complexity theory and cryptography.
Manuel Bompard
Manuel Bompard (born 1986, Firminy) is a French La France insoumise politician, MEP 2019–2022, deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône's 4th constituency (Marseille) since 2022, LFI national coordinator since January 2023, and Nouveau Front populaire co-founder.
Manuel Bonilla
Manuel Bonilla Chirinos (1849–1913) was a Honduran military officer and politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as president, 1903–1907 and 1912–1913, and founded the National Party of Honduras.
Manuel Brunet
Manuel Brunet, Argentine field hockey player born 1985 in Rosario; won gold with Argentina at Rio 2016 Olympics and Pan American golds in 2011 and 2015; 168 caps, 26 goals.
Manuel Buchwald
Manuel Buchwald is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for cloning the first Fanconi anemia gene, FANCC, in 1992.
Manuel Bulnes
Manuel Bulnes, also known as Manuel Bulnes Prieto, was a Chilean general and Conservative politician who served as president from 1841 to 1851 after winning the Battle of Yungay in 1839.
Manuel Candamo
Manuel Candamo (1841–1904) was a Peruvian politician of the Civilista Party who served as President of Peru from 1903 until his death eight months into his term.
Manuel Cardona Castro
Manuel Cardona Castro (1934–2014) was a Spanish-born condensed matter physicist known for optical spectroscopy of solids and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.
Manuel Carpio
Manuel Carpio, full name Manuel Eulogio Carpio Hernández, was a Mexican poet, physician, and Conservative politician (1791–1860), known for the first printed depiction of La Llorona.
Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is a Spanish sociologist known for his theory of the network society and for serving as Spain's Minister of Universities.
Manuel Castro Almeida
Manuel Castro Almeida is a Portuguese Social Democratic Party politician serving as Minister of Economy and Territorial Cohesion, after serving as Minister Adjunct and of Territorial Cohesion.
Manuel da Costa
Manuel da Costa is the name of several Portuguese men of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including two Jesuits, one the attributed author of Arte de Furtar.
Manuel da Nóbrega
Manuel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest who organized the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil from 1549 and founded the village of Piratininga, the nucleus of São Paulo.
Manuel de Abreu
Manuel de Abreu, also known as Manoel Dias de Abreu, was a Brazilian physician and inventor who created abreugraphy, cheap mass chest screening for tuberculosis, in 1936.
Manuel de Amat y Junient
Manuel de Amat y Junient was a Spanish nobleman and soldier from Catalonia who governed Chile from 1755 to 1761 and was viceroy of Peru from 1761 to 1776.
Manuel de Borba Gato
Manuel de Borba Gato (c. 1628 or 1649 – 1718) was a Brazilian bandeirante who found gold in the Rio das Velhas region and administered the early Minas Gerais mines.
Manuel de Pedrolo
Manuel de Pedrolo was a prolific Catalan novelist, playwright, and translator who introduced crime fiction to the region. His best-selling work is the science-fiction novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen.
Manuel de Salas
Manuel de Salas was a Chilean jurist, educator, and statesman, born in Santiago in 1754, who championed free trade, education reform, and the abolition of slavery.
Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, born in Utrera in 1985, is a Spanish soil ecologist who leads the BioFunLab at IRNAS-CSIC in Seville, known for global studies of soil biodiversity and dryland biogeochemistry.
Manuel Diaz
Manuel Diaz (Díaz, Dias) names several Olympians: Cuban fencer Manuel Dionisio Díaz y Martínez (1874-1929, two 1904 golds), Portuguese marathoner Manuel Dias (b. 1904, Record newspaper founder), and Spanish runner Andrés Manuel Díaz (b. 1969).
Manuel dos Santos
Manuel dos Santos, born 1939, is a Brazilian swimmer who won 100-meter freestyle bronze at the 1960 Rome Olympics and in 1961 became Brazil's first male swimming world record holder.
Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza (1789–1851) was a Mexican diplomat, cabinet minister, and dramatist, best known for his neoclassical comedy of manners Contigo pan y cebolla (1833).
Manuel Elices
Manuel Elices, full name Manuel Elices Calafat, is a Spanish materials scientist and emeritus professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, known for pioneering fracture mechanics in Spain.
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo was a Colombian pathologist and immunologist who developed SPf66, the first chemically synthesized malaria vaccine, and donated its patent to the World Health Organization.
Manuel Endres
Manuel Endres is a German-born experimental physicist, professor of physics at Caltech since 2021, who builds optical tweezer arrays of individually controlled atoms for quantum science.
Manuel Estiarte
Manuel Estiarte (Manel Estiarte i Duocastella), Spanish water polo player born 1961 in Manresa; six Olympics 1980-2000, gold 1996, silver 1992, record 127 Olympic goals, 1,561 goals for Spain, later IOC member and Guardiola's assistant.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
Manuel Estrada Cabrera was a Guatemalan politician who ruled as president from 1898 to 1920, one of Central America's longest reigning dictators, until declared mentally incapable.
Manuel F. Morales
Manuel Francisco Morales (1919–2009) was a Honduran-born American biophysicist who spent six decades studying how muscle converts ATP's chemical energy into mechanical force, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.