All articles starting with M

Melania Grego

Melania Grego is an Italian former water polo player, a 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist who scored the winning goal in a 10-9 final over Greece.

Melania Trump (Melanija Knavs, born 1970, Novo Mesto, Slovenia) is a former model and first lady of the United States 2017-2021 and from 2025, wife of Donald Trump, founder of BE BEST, and author of the 2024 memoir MELANIA.

Melanie (singer)

Melanie, the professional name of Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (1947–2024), was an American singer-songwriter who played the 1969 Woodstock festival solo and had 1970s hits including "Brand New Key" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".

Melanie Behringer

Melanie Behringer (born 1985, Lörrach) is a German football coach and former midfielder; 123 caps, World Cup 2007, Euro 2009 and 2013, Olympic gold 2016 as top scorer, Bayern captain; now DFB U19 head coach.

Melanie Blatt

Melanie Blatt (born 1975, Camden, London) is an English singer, founding member of All Saints (1993), solo hit "TwentyFourSeven" with Artful Dodger, X Factor NZ judge, DJ, and burger-business owner.

Melanie C

Melanie C (Melanie Chisholm), Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls, is an English singer-songwriter with nine solo albums including Northern Star (1999) and Sweat (2026), two UK No. 1 singles, and her own label Red Girl Records.

Melanie Calvert

Melanie J. Calvert is a British health services researcher and Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham, known for her work on patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials.

Melanie Ehrlich

Melanie Ehrlich is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Tulane University School of Medicine, known for early discoveries in DNA methylation and cancer epigenetics.

Melanie Fiona

Melanie Fiona (Melanie Hallim, born 1983) is a Guyanese-Canadian R&B singer from Toronto; debut The Bridge (2009) with "It Kills Me," two Grammys for "Fool for You" with Cee Lo Green, Juno-winning 2025 EP Say Yes.

Melanie Freeman

Melanie Freeman is a cell and molecular biologist known for co-authoring whole-cell correlative cryogenic imaging and volume electron microscopy studies at Janelia, now at Infinimmune.

Melanie Greter

Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist who leads a lab at the University of Zurich, known for defining the origins and identity of microglia and other brain macrophages.

Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith, American actress born 1957 in New York City, daughter of Tippi Hedren and mother of Dakota Johnson; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee as Tess McGill in Working Girl (1988), later also an expressionist painter.

Melanie H. Cobb

Melanie H. Cobb is an American biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for purifying, cloning, and naming the mammalian ERK MAP kinases.

Melanie Hill

Melanie Jane Hill, English actress born 1962 in Sunderland, trained at RADA; best known as Aveline in Bread, Maggie Budgen in Waterloo Road, Cathy Matthews in Coronation Street 2015-2022, and Siobhan McKenzie in Casualty from 2024. Not the American Melanie Hill of Scandal.

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Melanie J. Davies

Melanie J. Davies, also known as Melanie Davies, is a British physician-scientist who is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre.

Mélanie Joly

Mélanie Joly, Canadian Liberal politician, MP for Ahuntsic-Cartierville since 2015; former foreign affairs minister (2021–2025) leading Canada's Ukraine response; now Minister of Industry and Quebec economic development.

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born psychoanalyst in London, pioneer of child analysis and play technique; founder of Kleinian theory: paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, projective identification.

Mélanie Laurent

Mélanie Laurent (born 1983, Paris) is a French actress, director, and singer, a two-time César winner known for Don't Worry, I'm Fine, Inglourious Basterds, Breathe, and the documentary Tomorrow; distinct from the French harpist of the same name.

Melanie Leupolz

Melanie Leupolz, German midfielder (born 1994, Wangen im Allgäu); 79 caps, Euro 2013 and Olympic gold 2016; played for Freiburg, Bayern, Chelsea, Real Madrid; retired June 2025, now DFB Female Player Care coordinator.

Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey (Melanie Jayne Lynskey, born 1977, New Plymouth, New Zealand) is a New Zealand actress who debuted in Heavenly Creatures (1994), played Rose on Two and a Half Men, and earned Emmy nominations for Yellowjackets and The Last of Us.

Melanie Margalis

Melanie Margalis (Melanie Ann Margalis-Fink), American swimmer born 1991 in Clearwater, Florida; Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Rio 2016, three-time world relay champion, former short-course American record holder in the 100, 200, and 400 m IM, now a Georgia Tech assistant coach.

Melanie Martinez

Melanie Martinez (born 1995, Queens, NY) is an American alt-pop singer, songwriter, and director, aka the "Cry Baby" persona. The Voice 2012 contestant; albums Cry Baby (2015), K-12 (2019), PORTALS (2023), HADES (2026) with Elysium planned.

Melanie Mayron

Melanie Mayron, born 1952, American actress and director; Emmy-winning Melissa on thirtysomething, Bronze Leopard for Girlfriends, later director of Jane the Virgin, Julia, and The Hunting Wives.