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Manuel Mendive
Manuel Mendive (Manuel Mendive Hoyo, born 1944 in Havana) is a Cuban painter, sculptor, and performance artist whose work draws on Santería, making him a leading Afro-Cuban artist.
Manuel Montt
Manuel Montt Torres (1809–1880) was a Chilean lawyer and statesman who served as president from 1851 to 1861, then presided over the Supreme Court until his death.
Manuel Müller
Manuel Müller is a German entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Emma – The Sleep Company, a Frankfurt mattress and sleep products seller, winning the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2021.
Manuel Neuer
Manuel Neuer (born 1986, Gelsenkirchen) is a German goalkeeper at Bayern Munich since 2011 and 2014 World Cup winner; record 23 World Cup appearances by a keeper, 13 Bundesliga titles, 2 Champions Leagues, pioneer of the sweeper-keeper style.
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general and de facto dictator 1983–1989, former CIA informant, PDF commander; indicted for drug trafficking, deposed by the December 1989 US invasion (Operation Just Cause), imprisoned in the US, France, and Panama, died 2017.
Manuel Nunes Viana
Manuel Nunes Viana was a Portuguese trader, cattle rancher, and militia commander in colonial Brazil who led the emboabas in the Emboaba War of 1707 to 1709.
Manuel O. Díaz
Manuel O. Díaz is a cancer biologist and cytogeneticist at the University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago, known for research on MLL rearrangements and interferon-gene deletions in leukemia.
Manuel Odorico Mendes
Manuel Odorico Mendes (1799–1864) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, politician, and translator from São Luís, Maranhão, who produced the first complete Portuguese translations of Homer and Virgil.
Manuel Oribe
Manuel Oribe (Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana) was the second president of Uruguay, 1835 to 1838, whose rivalry with Rivera produced the country's Blanco and Colorado parties.
Manuel Orozco y Berra
Manuel Orozco y Berra (1816–1881) was a Mexican engineer, geographer, linguist, and historian, born and died in Mexico City, known for major reference works on Mexican history and geography.
Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua
Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua, Equatoguinean banker and politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea in charge of administrative coordination since 16 August 2024, reappointed 19 June 2026; former CEO of BANGE bank.
Manuel Panselinos
Manuel Panselinos (Μανουὴλ Πανσέληνος) is the traditional name of a Byzantine painter of the late 13th and early 14th century, credited with the Protaton frescoes at Karyes on Mount Athos.
Manuel Pardo
Manuel Pardo (Manuel Justo Pardo y Lavalle) was a Peruvian economist and politician who served as president from 1872 to 1876 and founded the Civilista Party, Peru's first political party.
Manuel Payno
Manuel Payno (José Manuel Román Payno y Flores) was a Mexican novelist and politician, a liberal who served several terms as Minister of the Treasury and wrote Los bandidos de Río Frío.
Manuel Peimbert
Manuel Peimbert is a Mexican astronomer at UNAM known for work on planetary nebulae and the temperature-fluctuation (t²) formalism, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Manuel Pellegrini
Manuel Pellegrini Ripamonti, "The Engineer" (born 1953, Santiago), Chilean football manager of Real Betis; won the 2013/14 Premier League and two EFL Cups with Manchester City, Copa del Rey 2022 with Betis.
Manuel Perucho
Manuel Perucho is a Spanish cancer biologist known for discovering human ras oncogenes and the microsatellite mutator phenotype, with career work at Cold Spring Harbor, La Jolla, and Barcelona.
Manuel Piar
Manuel Piar (1774–1817) was a general en jefe in Venezuela's war of independence, victor of San Félix and Liberator of Guayana, executed in 1817 for insubordination against Bolívar.
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche (1889–1967), Peruvian banker, engineer, and 105th president; twice head of state (1939–1945, 1956–1962), led Peru into WWII on the Allied side, settled the 1942 Rio Protocol with Ecuador, legalized APRA during the convivencia, and was deposed by the July 1962 military coup.
Manuel Preto
Manuel Preto (died 1630) was a bandeirante from São Paulo who led slave-hunting expeditions against the Jesuit missions of Guairá, known as the "hero of Guairá".
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig (Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, 1932-1990) was an Argentine novelist, screenwriter, and LGBTQ activist, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Boquitas pintadas, exiled in 1973 after the Triple A threats.
Manuel Puig Rocha
Manuel Puig Rocha is a Spanish businessman, third-generation member of the family behind Puig Brands, the Barcelona perfume and beauty group founded in 1914, where he is vice-chairman and largest individual shareholder.
Manuel Rivera Cambas
Manuel Rivera Cambas (1840–1917) was a Mexican mining engineer and historian whose works include Los gobernantes de México and the illustrated México pintoresco, artístico y monumental.
Manuel Roboredo
Manuel Roboredo was a Kongo-born priest who helped compile the Capuchins' Kikongo dictionary and died as a military chaplain at the battle of Mbwila in 1665.
Manuel Rocha
Manuel Rocha (1913–1981) was a Portuguese engineer who helped found rock mechanics, directed Portugal's LNEC laboratory from 1954 to 1974, and led the International Society for Rock Mechanics.
Manuel Rodríguez
Manuel Rodríguez, also known as Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader of independence, born in Santiago in 1785 and killed in 1818.
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (died 1971) was a Mexican painter and muralist of the Contemporáneos group, best known for the mural La piedad en el desierto (1942), painted in prison.
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) was a Chilean guerrilla organization founded in 1983 as the armed wing of the Communist Party to fight Pinochet's dictatorship.
Manuel Romero Valdez
Manuel Romero Valdez is a Peruvian business executive who became president of Grupo Romero in 2026, succeeding Dionisio Romero Paoletti after more than 25 years.
Manuel Roxas
Manuel Acuña Roxas (1892–1948), Filipino statesman and lawyer from Capiz, last Commonwealth president and first president of the independent Philippine Republic, 1946–1948; died of a heart attack at Clark Field after passing the Bell Trade Act.