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M. J. Lorenz

M. James Lorenz, born 1935, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of California, appointed by President Clinton in 1999.

M. J. Seaton

M. J. Seaton, full name Michael John Seaton (1923–2007), was a British atomic physicist and astronomer who spent his career at University College London and is called the "Father of Atomic Astrophysics".

M. Jayachandran

M. Jayachandran (എം. ജയചന്ദ്രൻ) is an Indian composer and singer in Malayalam cinema, winner of a National Film Award and nine Kerala State Film Awards.

M. K. Alagiri (முத்துவேல் கருணாநிதி அழகிரி)

M. K. Alagiri (முத்துவேல் கருணாநிதி அழகிரி), DMK leader and Karunanidhi's elder son, built the party's Madurai stronghold, was Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister 2009-13, and was removed from the DMK in 2014.

M. K. Pranesh

M. K. Pranesh is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served twice as Deputy Chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council, resigning in August 2026.

M. K. Raghavan

M. K. Raghavan, born 1952, in Payannur, Kerala, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Kozhikode in the Lok Sabha continuously since 2009.

M. K. Stalin

M. K. Stalin (Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin), DMK president since 2018 and Tamil Nadu chief minister 2021–2026; son of M. Karunanidhi, former Chennai mayor and deputy CM; known for Dravidian model welfare schemes and federalism advocacy; lost Kolathur in 2026.

M. K. Vishnu Prasad

M. K. Vishnu Prasad is an Indian National Congress politician and Member of the Lok Sabha for Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, elected in 2024 after representing Arani from 2019 to 2024.

M. Kabir Hassan

M. Kabir Hassan, or Mohammad Kabir Hassan, is an economist who has taught at the University of New Orleans since 1990 and researches Islamic finance and banking.

M. Kariuki Njenga

M. Kariuki Njenga (Moses Kariuki Njenga) is a Kenyan virologist and epidemiologist, professor at Washington State University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

M. Karunanidhi (முத்துவேல் கருணாநிதி)

M. Karunanidhi (முத்துவேல் கருணாநிதி), also Kalaignar, 1924–2018, Tamil Nadu politician and screenwriter; five-time Chief Minister, DMK leader for about 50 years, scriptwriter of Parasakthi (1952), and a central figure of Dravidian politics.

M. Kevin Brown

M. Kevin Brown is an American organic chemist, the James F. Jackson Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington since 2011, known for ladderane isosteres and boron-enabled photochemical reactions.

M. King Hubbert

M. King Hubbert (1903–1989) was an American geologist best known for the Hubbert curve and his correct 1956 prediction that US oil production would peak around 1970.

M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi (எம். குமரன் தா/பெ மகாலஷ்மி)

M. Kumaran Son of Mahalakshmi (எம். குமரன் சன் ஆஃப் மகாலட்சுமி), 2004 Tamil sports drama by Mohan Raja, remake of Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, starring Jayam Ravi, Asin, Nadhiya, Prakash Raj; kickboxer reconciles with estranged father in Malaysia.

M. Liju

M. Liju is an Indian National Congress politician from Kerala, MLA for Kayamkulam since 2026 and Minister for Excise and Cooperation in the V. D. Satheesan government; a lawyer born in Haripad who won on his fourth attempt.

M. Luisa Iruela‐Arispe

M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe is a Spanish-born cell and developmental biologist known for work on angiogenesis and VEGF signaling, and chair of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern.

M. M. Baker

M. M. Baker, also known as M. Miller Baker, is an American jurist appointed by President Trump in 2019 to the United States Court of International Trade.

M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка)

The M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden (Національний ботанічний сад імені М. М. Гришка) is a botanical garden and research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, founded in 1935.

M. M. Keeravani (కోడూరి మరకతమణి కీరవాణి)

M. M. Keeravani (Koduri Marakathamani Keeravaani, MM Kreem in Hindi, Maragathamani in Tamil/Malayalam), Telugu film composer born 1961 in Kovvur; Oscar, Golden Globe, and National Film Award winner for "Naatu Naatu" from RRR.

M. M. Manasi

M. M. Manasi is an Indian playback singer and dubbing artist in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi cinema, known for 'Rangamma Mangamma', 'Mahanubhavudu', 'Ranjithame' from Varisu, and dubbing Tamannaah in Baahubali; SIIMA and Filmfare winner 2018.

M. M. McKeown

M. M. McKeown, also known as M. Margaret McKeown, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.

M. M. Murugappan

M. M. Murugappan is an Indian businessman and chemical engineer who served as Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a Chennai conglomerate, from 2018 to 2020.

M. Madan Babu

M. Madan Babu is a computational biologist who spent 14 years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge before becoming St. Jude's first Chief Data Scientist in 2024.

M. Mallesh Babu

M. Mallesh Babu, born 1974, is an Indian politician of the Janata Dal (Secular) who has represented Kolar in Karnataka in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

M. Manikandan

M. Manikandan is an Indian Tamil cinema cinematographer, writer, and director from Usilampatti, Madurai, whose debut Kaaka Muttai (2014) won two 62nd National Film Awards and whose Kadaisi Vivasayi (2022) won a 69th National Film Award.

M. Michael Wolfe

M. Michael Wolfe is an American gastroenterologist who chaired the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University's MetroHealth center and is a leading authority on the gut hormone GIP.

M. N. Nambiar

M. N. Nambiar (Manjeri Narayanan Nambiar, 1919–2008) was a Kerala-born Tamil cinema actor famous as its defining screen villain for about fifty years, appearing in over a thousand films with MGR and Sivaji Ganesan, and known off screen as a Sabarimala pilgrimage leader called Nambiar Swami.

M. N. Roy

M. N. Roy (Narendra Nath Bhattacharya, 1887–1954), Indian revolutionary and philosopher: co-founded the Mexican Communist Party in 1919, senior Comintern leader until his 1929 expulsion, then originator of Radical Humanism.

M. Nafi Toksöz

M. Nafi Toksöz is a Turkish-born geophysicist and MIT professor emeritus known for earthquake seismology, lunar seismology from the Apollo program, and founding MIT's Earth Resources Laboratory.

M. Nagaraja

M. Nagaraja is an Indian politician and academician, an OBC leader from Hubballi who represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha for the BJP since 2026.