All articles starting with M

Manuel Ferrara

Manuel Ferrara (Manuel Jeannin, born 1975) is a French pornographic actor and director, record six-time AVN Male Performer of the Year, AVN Hall of Fame 2013, active since 1997, married to Kayden Kross.

Oct 21, 2026

Manuel Fettner

Manuel Fettner, Austrian ski jumper born 1985 in Vienna (Fetti), SV Innsbruck-Bergisel; 2022 Olympic team gold and normal hill silver, 2013 world team gold; retired March 2026 after 25 years without an individual World Cup win.

Manuel Gálvez

Manuel Gálvez (1882–1962) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and biographer, the leading literary voice of Catholic nationalism, who wrote 44 books, including the novels Nacha Regules and Historia de Arrabal.

Manuel Gamio

Manuel Gamio (1883–1960) was a Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist, regarded as the father of anthropology in Mexico, who directed the excavations and study of Teotihuacán.

Manuel Gómez Morín

Manuel Gómez Morín (1897–1972) was a Mexican lawyer and politician, rector of UNAM in 1933–1934 and founder of the Partido Acción Nacional, which he led from 1939 to 1949.

Manuel González Prada

Manuel González Prada (José Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa) was a Peruvian poet, essayist, and radical reformer born in Lima in 1844.

Manuel Gual

Manuel Gual was a Venezuelan military officer who co-led the 1797 Gual y España conspiracy, an early pro-independence uprising, and died in exile in Trinidad in 1800.

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (1859–1895), known by his pseudonym El Duque Job, was a Mexican poet, journalist, and theater critic regarded as the initiator of Modernismo in Mexico.

Manuel Hidalgo (oncologist)

Manuel Hidalgo, full name Manuel Hidalgo Medina, is a Spanish-trained medical oncologist known for pancreatic cancer drug development, pioneering patient-derived xenograft "avatar" mouse models, and advancing nab-paclitaxel.

Manuel I Charitopoulos

Manuel I Charitopoulos, also Sarantenos, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople at Nicaea from about 1215 to 1222, and consecrated Sava as first archbishop of Serbia in 1219.

Manuel I Komnenos (Μανουήλ Α΄ Κομνηνός)

Manuel I Komnenos (Μανουήλ Α΄ Κομνηνός), Byzantine emperor 1143–1180, third great Komnenian ruler; pursued Italy, Hungary, crusader-state and Anatolian ambitions, arrested Venice's traders in 1171, and was defeated by Kilij Arslan II at Myriokephalon in 1176.

Manuel I of Portugal

Manuel I of Portugal (D. Manuel I, O Venturoso, 1469–1521), 14th king, reigned 1495–1521: da Gama's India route, Brazil 1500, Ordenações Manuelinas, forced conversion of Jews 1497, deficit despite spice trade.

Manuel II

Manuel II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in exile at Nicaea, serving from about 1240 until 1255; his exact dates are disputed, and three canonical sentences survive.

Manuel II of Portugal

Manuel II of Portugal (D. Manuel II, o Patriota, 1889–1932), last king of Portugal and the Algarves, reigned 1908–1910 after the Lisbon Regicide killed Carlos I and Luís Filipe; deposed by the 5 October 1910 republican revolution, he died in exile in London.

Manuel II Palaiologos

Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) was the third-to-last emperor of the East-Roman Empire, reigning from 1391 to 1425 and serving as a prolific author of theological works.

Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga

Manuel Inácio da Silva Alvarenga (1749–1814) was a Brazilian colonial poet and lawyer, a leading figure of Arcadism who wrote under the pen name Alcindo Palmireno.

Manuel Irimia

Manuel Irimia is a Spanish RNA biologist and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, known for discovering neuronal microexons and their misregulation in autism.

Manuel Isidoro Belzu

Manuel Isidoro Belzu was a Bolivian general and populist caudillo who served as president of Bolivia from 1848 to 1855, ruling with the support of artisans and cholos.

Manuel José Arce

Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga was a Salvadoran soldier and Liberal politician, elected the first president of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1825.

Manuel José Othón

Manuel José Othón (1858–1906) was a Mexican poet, playwright, and politician from San Luis Potosí, remembered for Poemas rústicos and the sonnet sequence Idilio salvaje.

Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel L. Quezon (Manuel Luis Quezon, 1878–1944), Filipino lawyer-statesman, first Commonwealth president, Senate President 1916–1935, secured the 1934 Tydings-McDuffie independence law; honored by Quezon City, Quezon Province, and Quezon Day.

Manuel Lanzini

Manuel Lanzini, born 1993, Argentine attacking midfielder for Vélez Sarsfield; formerly River Plate, Fluminense, Al Jazira, and West Ham United (226 games, 32 goals), Conference League 2023 winner; missed 2018 World Cup with ACL rupture.

Sep 19, 2026

Manuel Le Saux

Manuel Le Saux is an Italian trance DJ and producer based in Rome, known for euphoric, uplifting peaktime trance, whose Extrema radioshow has aired over 1,000 episodes.

Manuel Locatelli

Manuel Locatelli (born 1998, Lecco) is an Italian midfielder and captain of Juventus, signed from Sassuolo in 2021. Euro 2020 winner with Italy; contract extended to 2030.

Manuel Mameli

Manuel Mameli is a neuroscientist and full professor at the University of Lausanne since 2025, known for work on synaptic plasticity in addiction and on lateral habenula mechanisms in depression.

Manuel Mamikonian

Manuel Mamikonian, also rendered Manuēl Mamikonean, was an Armenian sparapet who seized the family's hereditary office after his father's murder and ruled Armenia as regent until his death in 385/386.

Sep 27, 2026

Manuel Marrero Cruz

Manuel Marrero Cruz is a Cuban politician of the Communist Party of Cuba who serves as Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba and leads the 2026 Economic and Social Transformations.

Manuel Matamoros

Manuel Matamoros (Manuel Matamoros García) was a Spanish soldier turned Protestant who founded the first Protestant churches of contemporary Spain and died in exile in 1866.

Manuel Mayr

Manuel Mayr is an Austrian-trained physician-scientist who has held the BHF Chair in Cardiovascular Proteomics at Imperial College London since 2023, known for blood biomarkers of heart attack and stroke.