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Melchior Klesl
Melchior Klesl, also spelled Khlesl or Klesel (1552 to 1630), was an Austrian cardinal and chief minister to Emperor Matthias, nicknamed the "Vizekaiser," who led the re-Catholicization of Lower Austria.
Melchior Ndadaye
Melchior Ndadaye (1953–1993), Burundian banker and FRODEBU founder, became Burundi's first democratically elected and first Hutu president in June 1993, winning 64.75 percent, and was assassinated by army officers on 21 October 1993 in a failed coup that triggered a decade-long civil war.
Melchior von Diepenbrock
Melchior Ferdinand Joseph von Diepenbrock was a German cardinal and Romantic writer who served as Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1845 until his death in 1853.
Melchizedek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק)
Melchizedek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק, Malki-Tzedek) is a priest-king of Salem who blesses Abram in Genesis 14 and is invoked in Psalm 110:4 as a model of an eternal priesthood.
Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros
Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros (1629–1708) was a Spanish cleric and colonial administrator who served as interim viceroy of Peru from 1678 to 1681 and as archbishop of Lima for about 30 years.
Melchor de Navarra, Duke of la Palata
Melchor de Navarra y Rocafull, Duke of la Palata, was a Spanish administrator who served as viceroy of Peru from 1681 to 1689 under Charles II.
Melchor de Talamantes
Melchor de Talamantes (1765 to 1809) was a Peruvian Mercedarian friar who in 1808 presented the first plan for Mexican independence through a national congress.
Melchor Ocampo
Melchor Ocampo was a Mexican liberal lawyer, botanist, and statesman who helped draft the Reform Laws separating church and state, and was executed by conservative forces in 1861.
Melchor Pérez de Holguín
Melchor Pérez de Holguín (c. 1660–c. 1732) was a Bolivian painter active in the silver-mining city of Potosí, known as the "Golden Brush" and regarded as Bolivia's greatest colonial artist.
Melchor Portocarrero
Melchor Portocarrero, third Count of Monclova (1636–1705), was a Spanish nobleman and soldier who served as viceroy of New Spain (1686–1688) and of Peru (1689–1705).
Melchora Aquino
Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 – February 1919), known as Tandang Sora, Ina ng Katipunan, was a Filipina revolutionary heroine who fed and nursed Katipuneros in 1896, was jailed and deported to Guam, and is honored with a Quezon City national shrine and Tandang Sora Day.
Meldia
Meldia (also Meldi) was a Roman road station on the Naissus-Serdica road, placed near Dragoman in western Bulgaria, attested 30 BC-AD 640, with an excavated limestone road section near the Nišava river.
Meldonium
Meldonium (Mildronate, MET-88) is a Latvian-developed anti-ischemic drug that lowers carnitine by inhibiting gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase; sold in Eastern Europe, WADA-prohibited since 2016, with unproven ergogenic effects.
Meldric Daluz
Meldric Daluz (Meldric St. Clair daLuz Vieira, 1921-2011) was an Indian field hockey halfback who won gold with India at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, playing one match in India's fifth consecutive title run.
Meldrick Taylor
Meldrick Taylor, nicknamed "The Kid," is an American former professional boxer from Philadelphia who won 1984 Olympic featherweight gold and later held two IBF world titles.
Meldrum's acid
Meldrum's acid (2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane-4,6-dione) is a cyclic malonate derivative prepared from malonic acid and acetone, used in organic synthesis as a highly acidic building block for heterocycles.
Mele
Mele is the Hawaiian word for song, chant, or poem, and the body of Hawaiian poetic compositions that served as the primary record of history before writing.
Mele hula
Mele hula are Hawaiian chants performed to accompany hula dance, often with instruments like the pahu drum, in contrast with chant without dance, mele oli.
Mele inoa
Mele inoa, or name chants, are Hawaiian poetic compositions honoring a person and their name, often praising chiefs and preserving family history, traditionally containing no word of ill-omen.
Mele Kalikimaka
Mele Kalikimaka is the Hawaiian loan phrase for "Merry Christmas" and a 1949 hapa haole song by R. Alex Anderson, first recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 on Decca.
Mele kanikau
Mele kanikau are Hawaiian death chants or laments composed for someone who has passed away, traditionally given orally and later widely published in Hawaiian-language newspapers.
Mele pule
Mele pule are Hawaiian prayer chants, compositions of mele, the traditional Hawaiian song form, whose purpose is worship; they belong to the unaccompanied oli style.
Meleager
Meleager was a Greek epigrammatist from Gadara, active around 100 BCE, whose Garland anthology of epigrams became the principal root of the Greek Anthology tradition.
Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman
Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman is an American politician from Ta'u, Manu'a, running as a Democrat for American Samoa's at-large US House seat in 2026, her sixth campaign for the seat.
Meleagris
Meleagris is the turkey genus of Phasianidae, with two living species: the wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo (six subspecies, ancestor of all domestic turkeys) and the Yucatán ocellated turkey M. ocellata; extinct relatives include M. californica.
Meleek Thomas
Meleek Thomas (born 2006) is an American NBA guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers, drafted 34th overall in 2026 after a freshman season at Arkansas averaging 15.6 points on 41.6% three-point shooting.
Melem-ana
Melem-ana is a king of the first dynasty of Uruk in the Sumerian King List, placed between Meš-he the smith and Lugal-kitun with a reign of six years.
Melena
Melena is black, tarry, foul-smelling stool from gastrointestinal bleeding, usually upper GI (stomach, duodenum); hematin from digested blood colors it, over 100 mL blood makes one stool, and iron or bismuth can mimic it.
Melena Bellin
Melena Bellin is an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Minnesota who studies and treats chronic pancreatitis and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Melencolia I
Melencolia I, also known as Melancholia I, is a 1514 copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer showing a winged female figure seated in dejection among tools of geometry and measurement.