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M. Night Shaym-Aliens!
"M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" is Rick and Morty season 1 episode 4 (Adult Swim, January 13, 2014), a Shyamalan-parody twist episode in which Zigerion scammers trap Rick, Jerry, and a simulated Morty in nested simulations to steal his concentrated dark matter recipe.
M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan (Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan), Indian-American filmmaker born 1970, director of The Sixth Sense, Signs, Split, and Trap, known for supernatural thrillers with late-plot twists and a career of hits, decline, and comeback.
M. Night Shyamalan filmography
M. Night Shyamalan filmography: the films and TV of Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, Split, and Trap, known for twist-ending supernatural thrillers and a 2015 self-financed comeback.
M. P. Abdussamad Samadani
M. P. Abdussamad Samadani, born in 1959, is an Indian Union Muslim League politician who has represented Ponnani, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
M. P. Jayaraj
M. P. Jayaraj (எம். பி. ஜெயராஜ்), Mysore Puttaswamaiah Jayaraj (1947–1989), Bengaluru's first underworld don, not a Chennai figure: Congress-linked Indira Brigade leader, convicted in the 1977 courtroom sword attack, assassinated 21 November 1989 by Muttappa Rai with D-gang shooters.
M. P. Narayana Pillai
M. P. Narayana Pillai (എം.പി. നാരായണപിള്ള) was a Malayalam short story writer, novelist, and journalist whose only novel, Parinamam, won the 1991 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, which he declined.
M. P. Paul
M. P. Paul (Malayalam: എം. പി. പോൾ) was a Malayalam literary critic and teacher whose 1930 monograph Novel Sahityam was the first authoritative Malayalam study of the novel.
M. Paul Capp
M. Paul Capp is an American radiologist who founded and chaired the Department of Radiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine for 23 years.
M. Pokora
M. Pokora, also known as Matt Pokora (born Matthieu Tota in 1985), is a French pop and R&B singer who won Popstars in 2003 and has recorded ten albums.
M. R. C. Greenwood
M. R. C. Greenwood, born 1943, is an American physiologist and nutrition scientist known for obesity research who served as president of the University of Hawaii from 2009 to 2013.
M. R. James
M. R. James (Montague Rhodes James, 1862-1936), English medieval scholar, provost of King's College Cambridge and Eton, vice-chancellor of Cambridge, and author of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) and three further ghost-story collections.
M. R. Radha
M. R. Radha (Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, 1907–1979), Tamil Nadigavel stage and film actor, Periyar follower, star of Ratha Kanneer, over 5,000 stage plays, 200+ films, shot MGR in 1967.
M. R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke is a Dutch polar meteorologist and professor at Utrecht University known for quantifying Greenland's ice sheet mass loss and leading the RACMO model.
M. Rajesh
M. Rajesh (Rajesh Muthukumarasamy, born 1985, Nagercoil) is a Tamil film director and screenwriter, not the actor Rajesh, known for the hit comedies Siva Manasula Sakthi (2009), Boss Engira Bhaskaran (2010), Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (2012), and later Mr. Local and Brother (2024).
M. Ravisankar
M. Ravisankar (எம். ரவிசங்கர்), Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam politician, TVK MLA for Thuraiyur (AC 146) since 2026 and Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 12 May 2026; won by 9,614 votes over AIADMK's E. Saroja.
M. Reza Ghadiri
M. Reza Ghadiri is a chemist who chairs the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research, known for cyclic peptide nanotubes, the first peptide self-replication, and antibacterial cyclic peptides.
M. Robert Aaron
M. Robert Aaron was a Bell Labs engineer who applied computer-aided design to the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1, and shared the 1978 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
M. Rosa Palacín
M. Rosa Palacín (María Rosa Palacín Peiró, born 1968 in Barcelona) is a Spanish solid-state chemist and Research Professor at ICMAB-CSIC working on lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and calcium battery materials.
M. Russell Ballard
M. Russell Ballard, born Melvin Russell Ballard, Jr., was an American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death in 2023.
M. S. Bartlett
M. S. Bartlett, full name Maurice Stevenson Bartlett, was a British statistician known for the Bartlett test, the Bartlett adjustment, and his 1955 book on stochastic processes.
M. S. Bhaskar (எம். எஸ். பாஸ்கர்)
M. S. Bhaskar (எம். எஸ். பாஸ்கர்), born 1957, is a Tamil film, television, and dubbing actor; Pattabhi in Chinna Papa Periya Papa, and National Film Award Best Supporting Actor winner for Parking (2023).
M. S. Golwalkar
M. S. Golwalkar (Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar, 1906–1973), "Guruji", second RSS sarsanghchalak 1940–1973 and Hindutva ideologue, author of We, or Our Nationhood Defined (1939) and Bunch of Thoughts (1966), distinct from Savarkar.
M. S. Narasimhan
M. S. Narasimhan, born Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan, was an Indian mathematician whose 1965 theorem with C. S. Seshadri linked stable vector bundles to unitary representations.
M. S. Subbulakshmi (மதுரை சண்முகவடிவு சுப்புலட்சுமி)
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, known as M.S., Carnatic vocalist (1916–2004); first musician to win the Bharat Ratna (1998), first woman Sangita Kalanidhi (1968), first Indian musician to sing at the UN General Assembly (1966).
M. S. Swaminathan
M. S. Swaminathan, also known as Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, was an Indian plant geneticist who led India's Green Revolution and received the first World Food Prize in 1987.
M. S. Tharanivendhan
M. S. Tharanivendhan is an Indian politician and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam member who has represented the Arani constituency in Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
M. S. Viswanathan
M. S. Viswanathan, known as MSV and by the Tamil title Mellisai Mannar, was an Indian film composer who scored up to 1,700 films, chiefly in Tamil cinema, from 1952 until retiring in 2014.
M. Sasikumar (மகாலிங்கம் சசிகுமார்)
M. Sasikumar (Mahalingam Sasikumar), born 1975 in Madurai, is a Tamil film director, actor, and producer. His debut Subramaniapuram (2008) won Filmfare Best Film and Director; later roles include Petta, Ayothi, and Tourist Family.
M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck (Morgan Scott Peck, 1936–2005), American psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled (1978), People of the Lie, and The Different Drum; blended psychiatry with spirituality, founded community-building workshops, died of cancer in 2005.
M. Shadows
M. Shadows, born Matthew Charles Sanders in 1981, is the American lead vocalist of Avenged Sevenfold, known for vocal surgeries, hematoma injuries in 2017 and 2025, Seth Riggs training, and two No. 1 Billboard albums.