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Maurice B. Strauss
Maurice B. Strauss (1904–1974) was an American physician-scientist in Boston known for early work on vitamin B12 and pernicious anemia and for characterizing cystic disease of the renal medulla.
Maurice Benard
Maurice Benard (Mauricio José Morales, born 1963) is an American actor, Sonny Corinthos on General Hospital since 1993, three-time Daytime Emmy winner, bipolar disorder advocate, memoirist, and host of the State of Mind podcast.
Maurice Bishop
Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944–1983), Grenadian lawyer and New Jewel Movement leader, seized power in 1979, headed the People's Revolutionary Government, and was executed October 19, 1983, before the US invasion.
Maurice Bolks Visscher
Maurice Bolks Visscher (1901–1983) was an American physiologist who led the University of Minnesota's physiology department for three decades and introduced the term "active transport".
Maurice Boucher
Maurice "Mom" Boucher (1953–2022) led the Hells Angels' Nomads chapter in Quebec, ordered the 1997 murders of prison guards Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau during the biker war, was convicted in 2002, and died of throat cancer in prison.
Maurice Bowra
Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and literary critic who was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
Maurice Brookhart
Maurice Brookhart is an American organometallic chemist known for late-transition-metal olefin polymerization catalysts and the agostic bond, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Maurice Bucaille
Maurice Bucaille (1920 or 1922–1998), French gastroenterologist and family physician to King Faisal, author of The Bible, the Qur'an and Science (1976), whose Qur'an-science concordism gave rise to Bucailleism.
Maurice Buret
Maurice Marcel Buret (1909–2003), French dressage rider and decorated officer; won team dressage gold at the 1948 London Olympics riding Saint Ouen after Sweden's disqualification, and placed 15th individually.
Maurice C. Bondurant
Maurice C. Bondurant is a hematology researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who, with Mark J. Koury, showed in 1986 that hypoxia raises erythropoietin production mainly by increasing EPO mRNA accumulation.
Maurice C. Fuerstenau
Maurice C. Fuerstenau (1933–2012) was an American mineral processing researcher known for froth flotation chemistry and hydrometallurgy, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Maurice Cheeks
Maurice "Mo" Cheeks (born 1956, Chicago) is a Hall of Fame point guard and NBA assistant coach for the Knicks; 1983 champion with the 76ers, retired NBA steals leader, and three-time NBA head coach (Portland, Philadelphia, Detroit).
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), French singer, actor, and music-hall star, Folies Bergère partner of Mistinguett, Hollywood musical lead under Ernst Lubitsch, Oscar and Cecil B. DeMille honoree, and singer of The Aristocats title song.
Maurice Clarett
Maurice Clarett, Youngstown, Ohio running back whose lone 2002 Ohio State season (1,237 yards, 16 TDs) won a national title before an unsuccessful NFL eligibility lawsuit, a brief Broncos stint, prison, and a second career in speaking.
Maurice Clenock
Maurice Clenock (Morys Clynnog) was a Welsh Roman Catholic theologian and canonist who served Cardinal Pole, published a Welsh catechism, and was lost at sea about 1580.
Maurice Couette
Maurice Couette (1858–1943) was a French physicist and a father of modern rheology whose 1890 Paris thesis on liquid friction gave fluid mechanics the concentric-cylinder viscometer and Taylor–Couette flow.
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie (1875–1960), was a French experimental physicist who pioneered X-ray spectroscopy, discovered the corpuscular spectra of the elements, and trained a generation of French physicists.
Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), French self-taught painter, Fauvism founder and School of Chatou partner of André Derain; exhibited in the 1905 Salon d'Automne 'cage aux fauves', later hostile to Cubism.
Maurice Dekkers
Maurice Dekkers is a Dutch television journalist and co-founder of Tony's Chocolonely, the Amsterdam chocolate company launched in 2005 after his 2003 cocoa-industry investigation; he financed its first bars.
Maurice Delvart
Maurice Paul Léon Delvart (1899–1986), French 400 m sprinter with Stade français; won bronze in the 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, was three times French Championships runner-up, and set a 500 m world record.
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter and the chief theorist of the Nabis, known for defining a painting as a flat surface covered with colors.
Maurice Dior
Maurice Dior, full name Alexandre Louis Maurice Dior, was a French fertilizer and chemicals manufacturer in Granville, Normandy, and the father of couturier Christian Dior.
Maurice E. Shank
Maurice Edwin "Bud" Shank (1921–2012) was an American metallurgist and aerospace engineer who led development of single-crystal turbine blades at Pratt & Whitney and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
Maurice Enriquez‐Sarano
Maurice Enriquez-Sarano is a cardiologist and valvular heart disease researcher, formerly Professor of Medicine and founding director of the Valvular Heart Disease Clinic at Mayo Clinic, now at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.
Maurice Evans (actor)
Maurice Evans (Maurice Herbert Evans, 1901–1989), British-born American actor: Broadway Shakespearean (Richard II, first uncut American Hamlet), G.I. Hamlet for WWII troops, producer of Teahouse of the August Moon, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Bewitched, Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes.
Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing (1906–1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who used seismic methods to study the ocean floor, discovered the SOFAR channel, and founded the Lamont Geological Observatory.
Maurice Flitcroft
Maurice Gerald Flitcroft (1929–2007) was a British crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness who, having never played a full round, shot 121 in qualifying for the 1976 Open, then re-entered for years under pseudonyms.
Maurice Françon
Maurice Françon (1913–1996) was a French engineer-physicist who spent his career at the Institut d'Optique in Paris, working on phase contrast, polarization interferometry, coherence, and holography, and winning the Optical Society's C.E.K. Mees Medal in 1981.
Maurice Germot
Maurice Germot (Marie Claude Maurice Germot, 1882-1958), French tennis player from Vichy; two Olympic doubles golds (1906 with Decugis, 1912 with Gobert), 1906 singles silver, and multiple French championships.
Maurice Gibb
Maurice Gibb (1949–2003), born in Douglas, Isle of Man, was a singer and multi-instrumentalist who, with twin Robin and older brother Barry, founded the Bee Gees.