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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! is a two-part, four-hour HBO documentary directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio profiling Mel Brooks, the EGOT and PEGOT comedy legend, premiering January 22, 2026 before his 100th birthday.
Mel Counts
Mel Counts (Melvin Grant Counts), born 1941 in Coos Bay, Oregon, is a 7-foot American center who won 1964 Olympic basketball gold with the USA, played 12 NBA seasons (789 games, 8.3 ppg), and won two NBA championships as Bill Russell's backup with the Boston Celtics.
Mel Ferrer
Mel Ferrer (Melchior Gaston Ferrer, 1917–2008), American actor, director, and producer, first husband of Audrey Hepburn; starred in Lost Boundaries, Scaramouche, and Lili, produced Wait Until Dark, and later played Phillip Erikson in Falcon Crest.
Mel Fronckowiak
Mel Fronckowiak (Melanie Nunes Fronckowiak, born 1988) is a Brazilian actress, presenter, and writer from Pelotas, known for Carla in Rebelde, the band Rebeldes, Netflix's 3%, and the book Inclassificável.
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, is an American actor and director raised in Australia, who became a Hollywood star with Mad Max and won the Academy Awards for Braveheart.
Mel Gibson filmography
Mel Gibson filmography: acting, producing, and directing credits from 1977's Summer City through Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Hacksaw Ridge, and the planned Resurrection of the Christ.
Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc (Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc, born 1968) is an English presenter, comedian and writer, co-host with Sue Perkins of seven BBC series of The Great British Bake Off, later a novelist, panel-show host, and ENO HMS Pinafore guest star.
Mel Greaves
Mel Greaves, born 1941, is a British leukemia researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research in London who proposed that common infections trigger childhood leukemia in susceptible children.
Mel Harris
Mel Harris (Mary Ellen Harris, born 1956, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American actress known for Hope Steadman on thirtysomething (1987–1991), a 1990 Golden Globe nomination, Something So Right, Stargate SG-1's Oma Desala, and films K-9 and Suture.
Mel King (The Pitt)
Mel King (Dr. Melissa King) is a fictional second-year, later third-year, emergency medicine resident on HBO Max's The Pitt, played by Taylor Dearden. A neurodivergent doctor and caregiver for her autistic twin sister Becca, she is The Pitt's acclaimed portrayal of workplace neurodivergence.
Mel McLaughlin
Mel McLaughlin (Melanie Louise McLaughlin, born 1979) is an Australian sports presenter, 7NEWS Sydney sports anchor since 2016 and host of Seven's Olympic, Commonwealth Games, FIFA World Cup, and 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup coverage; formerly Fox Sports and Network Ten.
Mel Morris
Mel Morris is a British internet entrepreneur and early investor in King, the games company behind Candy Crush Saga, which Activision Blizzard bought for $5.9 billion in 2016.
Mel Ott
Mel Ott (Melvin Thomas Ott), nicknamed Master Melvin, was an American outfielder who spent 1926 to 1947 with the New York Giants, hitting a then-NL-record 511 home runs.
Mel Patton
Mel Patton (Melvin Emery Patton, 1924-2014), American sprinter nicknamed "Pell Mel"; 1948 Olympic gold medalist at 200 m and 4x100 m relay, fifth in the 100 m; set world records of 9.3 for 100 yards (1948) and 20.2 for 220 yards (1949) for USC.
Mel Pender
Mel Pender (born 1937, Atlanta) is an American sprinter and Army captain who won 4x100m relay gold in a world record 38.24 at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and was sixth in the 100m in 1964 and 1968.
Mel Robbins
Mel Robbins, also known as Melanie Robbins, is an American author, podcast host, and former CNN legal analyst known for the 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory.
Mel Rodriguez
Mel Rodriguez (Melvin Dimas Rodriguez, born 1973, Miami) is an American character actor known for Getting On, The Last Man on Earth, Better Call Saul, CSI: Vegas, and The Residence, and the voice of Officer Colt Bronco in Onward.
Mel Schilling
Mel Schilling (Melanie Jane Schilling, 1972–2026), Australian psychologist and dating coach, MAFS Australia expert from 2016 and MAFS UK from 2021; died of bowel cancer aged 54.
Mel Schlanger
Mel Schlanger (Melanie Wright), born 1986, Australian freestyle swimmer; five Olympic medals including 4x100m freestyle relay gold at London 2012; retired 2016, later a Bond University medical student.
Mel Sheppard
Mel Sheppard (Melvin Winfield Sheppard, 1883–1942), American middle-distance runner nicknamed "Peerless Mel"; won four Olympic golds and one silver at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912, setting 800m and 4x400m relay world records.
Mel Smith
Melvyn Kenneth (Mel) Smith (1952-2013), English comedian, actor, writer and director of Not the Nine O'Clock News and the Alas Smith and Jones double act with Griff Rhys Jones, Talkback co-founder and director of Bean.
Mel Stewart
Mel Stewart (Melvin Monroe Stewart, born 1968) is an American swimmer, 1992 Olympic 200 m butterfly and medley relay gold medalist, 1991 world champion, former 200 fly world record holder (1:55.69), and co-founder of SwimSwam.
Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis (Lonnie Melvin Tillis, 1932–2017), American country singer-songwriter and actor who wrote over 1,000 songs, won 1976 CMA Entertainer of the Year, and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame, Grand Ole Opry, and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame despite a lifelong stutter.
Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé (1925-1999), the Velvet Fog, American jazz singer, composer, and drummer; child star at 4, writer of The Christmas Song, only top 40 hit Comin' Home Baby, Grammy-winning George Shearing collaborations.
Mel Tracina
Mel Tracina (Melissa Tracina, born 1989) is an Australian TV and radio presenter. Cultural Correspondent on The Cheap Seats and host of the 2025 Big Brother Australia revival on Channel 10; also a Nova daytime announcer.
Mel Trutt
Mel Trutt (Melverne I. Trutt, born 12 January 1916), American middle-distance runner from Hammond, Indiana; Indiana University miler, 1937 NCAA mile bronze medalist, and lead-off leg on IU's world-record 17:16.2 four-mile relay at the 1937 Penn Relays.
Mel Tucker
Mel Tucker (Melvin Tucker II, born 1972) is an American football coach, former Colorado (2019) and Michigan State (2020-23) head coach, 25-21 college record, fired for cause in 2023 after a sexual harassment investigation.
Mel Williams
Mel Williams (Mel Andrew Williams) is an American venture capital investor who co-founded TrueBridge Capital Partners in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2007 with Edwin Poston.
Mel Β. Feany
Mel B. Feany is a physician scientist and Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for building fruit fly models of Parkinson's disease.
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are audio features that approximate human pitch perception and are widely used in speech recognition, introduced by Davis and Mermelstein in 1980.