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Maurice Matthews
Maurice Kershaw Matthews (1880-1957), British sport shooter of the Mansfield (Highgate) Rifle Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in small-bore rifle team and silver in moving target, later a lieutenant-colonel and London County Council member.
Maurice Mercer
Maurice Mercer is an American Democratic politician, the 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in Alabama's 6th District, and a former Pelham City Council president.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) was a French philosopher and leading figure in phenomenology, known for Phenomenology of Perception and his concepts of the body-subject and flesh.
Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Obstfeld, born in 1952, is an American economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who served as the IMF's chief economist from 2015 to 2018 and transformed open-economy macroeconomics.
Maurice Oldfield
Sir Maurice Oldfield (1915–1981), Chief of SIS/MI6 1973–1978, first merit-promoted chief, later Northern Ireland security coordinator; model for George Smiley.
Maurice Peeters
Maurice Peeters (Mouritius Prosper Peeters, 1882-1957), Dutch track cyclist and first Dutch Olympic cycling champion, winning the 1920 Antwerp sprint gold at 38 and 1924 tandem bronze.
Maurice Perrin
Maurice Perrin (Maurice Joseph Jean Perrin, 1911–1992), French track cyclist; won Olympic gold in the men's 2,000 m tandem sprint at Los Angeles 1932 with Louis Chaillot, beating the Chambers brothers.
Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff was a Russian-born American lawyer and sports executive who served as the first president of the NBA and negotiated the 1949 merger that created it.
Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) was a Newfoundlander-born American painter and watercolorist known for mosaic-like, brightly colored scenes of leisure, and an early adopter of post-impressionism in America.
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), also spelled Delatour, French pastel portraitist in Paris, painter to Louis XV from 1750, rival of Perronneau; famed for Voltaire, the Rieux portraits, and 15 self-portraits.
Maurice R. Greenberg
Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg, born 1925, is an American insurance executive who built AIG into the world's largest insurance company, was ousted in 2005, and later led Starr Insurance.
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel, born Joseph Maurice Ravel, was a French composer (1875–1937) known for Boléro, Daphnis et Chloé, and Gaspard de la nuit, ranked with Debussy among leading French composers.
Maurice René Fréchet
Maurice René Fréchet (1878–1973) was a French mathematician who founded metric space theory in his 1906 thesis, helped create functional analysis, and became a leader in French probability and statistics.
Maurice Richard
Maurice 'Rocket' Richard (1921–2000), Montreal Canadiens right winger 1942–1960; first NHL player with 50 goals in 50 games and 500 career goals, 544 goals, eight Stanley Cups, the 1955 Richard Riot, and the goal-scoring trophy named for him.
Maurice Roy
Maurice Roy (1899–1985) was a French mechanician, a pioneer of jet propulsion, director general of ONERA from 1949 to 1962, and president of the French Academy of Sciences in 1966.
Maurice S. Fox
Maurice S. Fox, also known as Maurice Sanford Fox, was an American geneticist and molecular biologist at MIT who helped establish modern understanding of DNA mutation, recombination, and mismatch repair.
Maurice S. Segal
Maurice S. Segal was an American physician and pulmonary researcher in Boston who pioneered inhalational aerosol drug therapy for bronchial asthma at Boston City Hospital and Tufts.
Maurice Sanford Fox
Maurice Sanford Fox (1924–2020) was an American geneticist and molecular biologist at MIT who studied bacterial transformation and DNA mismatch repair, and co-founded the Council for a Livable World.
Maurice Schilles
Maurice Schillès (Maurice Auguste Schillès, 1888–1957), French track cyclist; Olympic tandem sprint gold and 5,000 m silver at London 1908 with André Auffray, plus World Championship sprint medals 1909, 1924, 1925.
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), American children's book author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There; Caldecott, Andersen, Wilder, and Astrid Lindgren award winner and opera designer.
Maurice Sion
Maurice Sion (1927–2018) was a mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose 1958 minimax theorem, generalizing von Neumann's, remains standard in game theory, optimization, and machine learning.
Maurice Stacey
Maurice Stacey (1907–1994) was a British carbohydrate chemist who helped synthesize vitamin C in 1932 and led the chemical side of the Birmingham atomic-energy project in the Second World War.
Maurice Starr
Maurice Starr (Larry Curtis Johnson) is an American record producer who created New Edition and New Kids on the Block, wrote and produced their early hits including Candy Girl and Hangin' Tough, and pioneered the modern boy band formula.
Maurice Strong
Maurice Strong (1929–2015) was a Canadian oil executive who served as first head of the UN Environment Programme and Secretary-General of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
Maurice Tempelsman
Maurice Tempelsman (1929–2025) was a Belgian-born American diamond merchant who built Leon Tempelsman & Son into a key intermediary between De Beers and the US government, and was the final companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Maurice Thorez
Maurice Thorez was a French politician who led the French Communist Party as general secretary from 1930 until 1964, architect of the Popular Front and a minister in the early Fourth Republic.
Maurice Tweedie
Maurice Tweedie (1919–1996) was a British medical physicist and statistician at the University of Liverpool whose 1984 paper identified the Tweedie distributions, named for him by Bent Jørgensen in 1987.
Maurice van Ranst
Maurice Van Ranst, Belgian equestrian vaulter at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; fourth individually in vaulting (28.000 points) and team vaulting gold medalist with Bouckaert and Finet.
Maurice West
Maurice West, also known as Maurice A. West II, is an American Democratic politician and ordained minister representing Rockford in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2019.
Maurice White
Maurice White (1941–2016), Memphis-born American singer, drummer, songwriter and producer who founded and led Earth, Wind & Fire (formerly the Salty Peppers), selling over 90 million albums, winning 7 Grammys, and gaining Rock and Roll (2000) and Songwriters (2010) Hall of Fame induction.