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Melvin H. Van Woert
Melvin H. Van Woert, also published as M. H. Van Woert, is a neurologist and neuropharmacologist known for the 1967 Brookhaven paper introducing high-dose D,L-dopa therapy for Parkinson's disease.
Melvin Hochster
Melvin Hochster is an American mathematician known for his work in commutative algebra, including tight closure theory, at the University of Michigan from 1977 to 2022.
Melvin I. Simon
Melvin I. Simon is an American molecular biologist who spent most of his career at Caltech, known for showing that bacterial flagella are driven by a rotary motor.
Melvin Ingram
Melvin Ingram III (born 1989, Hamlet, NC) is a former NFL linebacker/edge rusher, South Carolina Gamecocks star drafted 18th overall in 2012 by the Chargers; 58.5 career sacks, three Pro Bowls (2017-19), later Steelers, Chiefs, Dolphins.
Melvin J. Cohen
Melvin J. Cohen, also known as Melvin Joseph Cohen, was an American neurobiologist and Yale professor known for work on nerve regeneration in insects and lampreys.
Melvin Kranzberg
Melvin Kranzberg (1917–1995) was an American historian who built the history of technology into an academic field, co-founding SHOT, founding Technology and Culture, and formulating Kranzberg's Laws.
Melvin L. DePamphilis
Melvin L. DePamphilis is an American molecular biologist known for research on the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication, first in SV40 and later in mammalian chromosomes.
Melvin L. Marcus
Melvin L. Marcus was an American cardiologist at the University of Iowa whose 1984 New England Journal of Medicine study showed visual reading of coronary arteriograms poorly predicts stenosis severity.
Melvin Lax
Melvin Lax (1922–2002) was an American theoretical physicist, a pioneer in quantum optics, known for the quantum theory of laser fluctuations and the Lax-Onsager regression theorem.
Melvin M. Grumbach
Melvin M. Grumbach (1925–2016) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who chaired pediatrics at UCSF, made it a top world program, and pioneered growth hormone treatment for short stature.
Melvin M. Scheinman
Melvin M. Scheinman is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, who performed the first catheter ablation in humans in 1981 and helped found cardiac electrophysiology.
Melvin Manhoef
Melvin Manhoef, "No Mercy," was a retired Dutch-Surinamese kickboxer and MMA artist. He was a prolific knockout artist who won major titles throughout his 26-year career.
Melvin Martin Green
Melvin Martin Green (1916–2017) was an American geneticist who spent sixty years at UC Davis studying Drosophila mutations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.
Melvin Odoom
Melvin Odoom (born 1980) is a British radio DJ and TV presenter who hosted Kiss FM's breakfast show for 12 years before joining BBC Radio 1 in 2019 with Rickie Haywood-Williams and Charlie Hedges; also presenter of Lego Masters, The Xtra Factor, Strictly 2016, and I'm a Celebrity 2024.
Melvin P. Osborne
Melvin P. Osborne was an American surgeon and surgical scientist who worked at Boston City Hospital's Harvard teaching services, researching gastric secretion and hypersecretion after massive bowel resection.
Melvin Purvis
Melvin Horace Purvis Jr. (1903-1960), FBI Chicago special agent in charge, led the 1934 manhunt that killed John Dillinger at the Biograph Theater, also pursued Pretty Boy Floyd, resigned 1935 after Hoover's hostility, died 1960 in a disputed gunshot death.
Melvin Rivera
Melvin Rivera is an American politician and community activist, the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 7th Congressional District, facing Claire Valdez in November.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006) was an American experimental particle physicist who co-discovered the muon neutrino in the 1962 Brookhaven experiment, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Melvin Spencer Newman
Melvin Spencer Newman (1908–1993) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University known for the Newman projection, a notation for viewing molecules down carbon–carbon bonds.
Melvin Spigelman
Melvin Spigelman is a physician and tuberculosis drug-development researcher who serves as President and CEO of the TB Alliance, which developed pretomanid, approved by the FDA in 2019.
Melvin Stern
Melvin E. Stern (1929–2010) was an American physical oceanographer, a founding father of geophysical fluid dynamics, known for discovering salt fingers and for the monograph Ocean Circulation Physics.
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles (1932–2021), American filmmaker, composer, and writer, father of Mario Van Peebles; his independent Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) launched blaxploitation cinema.
Melvin Williams (actor)
Melvin Douglas Williams, known as Little Melvin (1941–2015), was a former West Baltimore drug figure who played the Deacon in later seasons of HBO's The Wire and is said to have inspired Avon Barksdale; he died in Baltimore in 2015.
Melvins
Melvins (The Melvins), American sludge/doom rock band formed 1983 in Montesano, Washington; Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover constant since 1984; over 25 albums, Atlantic era 1993–96, Ipecac since, pioneers of sludge metal influencing grunge.
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton (born 1939), English broadcaster, novelist and Labour peer; creator of The South Bank Show (ITV/Sky Arts) and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, which he hosted for over 1,000 episodes until 2025.
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, 1901-1981), American Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actor from Macon, Georgia; starred with Garbo in Ninotchka and won supporting-actor Oscars for Hud and Being There.
Melvyn F. Greaves
Melvyn F. Greaves, born 1941, is a British cancer biologist at London's Institute of Cancer Research known for classifying leukemias and showing childhood ALL starts before birth.
Melvyn Goldstein
Melvyn Goldstein is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar at Case Western Reserve University, known for fieldwork inside Tibet and the multi-volume A History of Modern Tibet.
Melvyn Goodale
Melvyn Goodale is a British-born Canadian cognitive neuroscientist at Western University, best known for his 1992 two-visual-streams hypothesis, which separates visual perception from the visual control of action.
Melvyn Hayes
Melvyn Hayes (né Hyams, born 11 January 1935) is an English actor best known as cross-dressing Gunner 'Gloria' Beaumont in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981), and for Cliff Richard musicals, voice roles in SuperTed, and pantomime dames.