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Matthew Beard (English actor)

Matthew Beard (born 1989, London) is an English actor known for An Education, The Imitation Game, and the lead in Vienna Blood, with a Tony nomination for Skylight.

Matthew Becker

Matthew Becker, also known as Matthew L. Becker, is an American polymer chemist and biomaterials researcher who is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Duke University.

Matthew Berriman

Matthew Berriman, known as Matt Berriman, is a parasite genomics researcher who led the parasite genomics group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is now Professor of Parasitology at Glasgow.

Matthew Biggerstaff

Matthew Biggerstaff is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the CDC who leads the Influenza Division's modeling team and helped build US epidemic forecasting systems.

Matthew Birir

Matthew Kiprotich Birir, Kenyan steeplechase runner born 1972 in Eldama Ravine; 1992 Barcelona Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion (8:08.84) in a Kenyan medal sweep; fourth at 1993 Worlds and 1996 Olympics; later marathoner with 2:11:43 best.

Matthew Bogyo

Matthew G. Bogyo is a Stanford professor of pathology and microbiology known for co-establishing activity-based protein profiling, which measures enzyme activity directly in living tissue.

Matthew Boling

Matthew Boling (born 2000), American sprinter and long jumper from Houston; viral wind-aided 9.98 100m in 2019, PBs 9.98/19.92/45.17/8.25m, Georgia NCAA indoor 200m champion, two-time 2023 world champion in relays.

Matthew Botvinick

Matthew Botvinick is a physician-scientist and AI researcher who held faculty posts at Penn and Princeton before serving as Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind.

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne, born in 1960, is a British choreographer and director of the company New Adventures, famous for his 1995 Swan Lake danced by male swans.

Matthew Bracken

Matthew J. Bracken (born 1957, Baltimore) is an American novelist and former Navy SEAL, author of the self-published Enemies trilogy (Enemies Foreign and Domestic, 2003) and the Dan Kilmer series, and an InfoWars guest.

Matthew Bradford

Matthew Bradford is an American politician and Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House, representing the 70th district since 2008 and serving as Majority Leader; he previously chaired the House Appropriations Committee.

Matthew Brake

Matthew Brake is an American mechanical engineer who studies jointed structures and coined tribomechadynamics; he won the 2012 PECASE at Sandia and is now a professor at the University of Delaware.

Matthew Brittain

Matthew Brittain (born 1987, Johannesburg) is a South African rower, gold medallist in the lightweight men's coxless four at London 2012 with Thompson, Smith, and Ndlovu; brother of Lawrence Brittain.

Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born 1962) is an American actor, star of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and a two-time Tony winner for Brighton Beach Memoirs and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Matthew Broome

Matthew Broome (born 2001, Bedford, England) is a British actor, Guildhall graduate, known as Guy Thwarte in The Buccaneers and Nick Leister in My Fault: London and its sequels.

Matthew Burns

Matthew Burns was an American restaurateur from Long Beach, California, who co-founded Insta-Burger King in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953, the chain that became Burger King.

Matthew Bush

Matthew L. Bush is an American otolaryngologist and hearing-health researcher who chairs Otolaryngology at the University of Kentucky and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Matthew C. Gibson

Matthew C. Gibson is a developmental biologist and Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, known for his 2011 Cell paper on epithelial topology.

Matthew C. Hansen

Matthew C. Hansen is a University of Maryland remote sensing scientist known for the 2013 Science global forest change maps and GLAD near-real-time deforestation alerts.

Matthew C. Kiernan

Matthew C. Kiernan, also known as Matthew Kiernan, is an Australian neurologist and CEO of Neuroscience Research Australia, known for ALS research and the Sheila Essey Award.

Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794–1858), American commodore and brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, led the 1853–1854 expedition whose Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan and built the steam navy.

Matthew C. Whitby

Matthew C. Whitby is a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Oxford who studies homologous recombination and genome stability, known for work on RecG helicase and Fml1.

Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter, born in London in 1937, is a British type designer who created Verdana, Georgia, and Bell Centennial, co-founded Bitstream, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Matthew Casey

Matthew Casey is the fictional firefighter played by Jesse Spencer on NBC's Chicago Fire, lieutenant then captain at Firehouse 51 from 2012, who left in season 10 for Portland, Oregon, with guest returns afterward.

Matthew Centrowitz, Jr.

Matthew Centrowitz, Jr., American middle-distance runner born 1989 in Beltsville, Maryland; 2016 Olympic 1500m gold medalist (3:50.00), first US winner since 1908, also 2016 world indoor champion and 2011/2013 World Championships medalist.

Matthew Charles Johnson

Matthew Charles Johnson, an Australian prisoner with more than 150 prior convictions, murdered gangland boss Carl Williams with an exercise bike stem at Barwon Prison in April 2010; sentenced in 2011 to life with a 32-year non-parole period.

Matthew Cowles

Matthew Cowles (1944–2014), American actor and playwright, played villain Billy Clyde Tuggle on All My Children (1977–1990, 2013 revival), earned two Daytime Emmy nominations, appeared on Broadway in Malcolm, and was married to Christine Baranski.

Matthew Cox

Matthew Bevan Cox, American former Tampa mortgage broker and FBI most-wanted con man, committed an estimated $55 million in mortgage fraud using forged documents and stolen identities, pleaded guilty in 2007 to a 316-month sentence later cut to 234 months.

Matthew D Disney

Matthew D Disney is an American chemical biologist and Chair of Chemistry at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter, Florida, known for designing small-molecule drugs that target RNA.

Matthew D. Breyer

Matthew D. Breyer is an American nephrologist who was a Vanderbilt professor of medicine for 21 years, then led diabetic kidney disease drug discovery at Eli Lilly and Janssen.