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Milton Brumer

Milton Brumer (1902–1999) was an American civil engineer who served as chief engineer and later president of Ammann & Whitney, responsible for major suspension bridges including the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck.

Milton C. Edlund

Milton C. Edlund (Milton Carl Edlund) was an American nuclear engineer who invented spectral shift reactor control and built the nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech.

Milton C. Weinstein

Milton C. Weinstein is an American health economist at Harvard who developed cost-effectiveness analysis and decision science in medicine, co-chairing the 1996 U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness.

Milton Carl Edlund

Milton Carl Edlund (1924–1993) was an American nuclear engineer who co-wrote the first authoritative book on nuclear reactor theory and led Virginia Tech's nuclear engineering program.

Milton Delgado

Milton Delgado, Argentine midfielder born 2005, Boca Juniors youth product; Bronze Ball at the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup (runner-up with Argentina); Boca rejected a near-$10M Atlanta United bid in 2026.

Milton Dick

Milton Dick is an Australian Labor politician who serves as the 32nd Speaker of the House of Representatives and represents Oxley, having previously been a Brisbane City Councillor.

Milton E. Harr

Milton E. Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and longtime Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.

Milton E. Terry

Milton E. Terry was an American statistician who earned his 1951 doctorate from the University of North Carolina and co-authored the highly cited Bradley–Terry paired-comparisons method.

Milton E. Wadsworth

Milton E. Wadsworth (1922–2013) was an American extractive metallurgist at the University of Utah, known for hydrometallurgy and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.

Milton Edward Harr

Milton Edward Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and emeritus Purdue professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an American economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and led the Chicago school.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser (1929–2020), American graphic designer, co-founder of Push Pin Studios and New York magazine, creator of the I ♥ NY logo and the 1966 Bob Dylan poster, and first graphic designer to receive the National Medal of Arts (2009).

Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, father of modern clinical hypnosis and founder of Ericksonian hypnotherapy; permissive, indirect, utilization-based hypnosis; founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; influenced brief, strategic, and solution-focused therapy.

Milton H. Saier

Milton H. Saier is a professor of molecular biology at the University of California San Diego, known for the Transporter Classification Database and the major facilitator superfamily of transport proteins.

Milton H. Ward

Milton H. Ward, known as Milt Ward, was an American mining engineer who directed development of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Milton H. Werner

Milton H. Werner is an American molecular biologist and structural biologist known for determining NMR solution structures of protein–DNA complexes, including the human SRY–DNA complex, and later founded Inhibikase Therapeutics.

Milton Harris (chemist)

Milton Harris (1906–1991) was an American chemist who developed shrink-proof wool and wrinkle-resistant cotton, founded the Harris Research Laboratory, and won the 1980 Priestley Medal.

Milton Hatoum

Milton Hatoum, born in Manaus in 1952 to a Lebanese immigrant family, is a Brazilian novelist whose Amazon-set fiction includes Dois irmãos and has won the Jabuti Prize three times.

Milton I. Roemer

Milton I. Roemer, full name Milton Irwin Roemer (1916–2001), was an American physician and UCLA professor known for Roemer's Law and advocacy of national health insurance.

Milton J. Cormier

Milton J. Cormier is an American biochemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia whose laboratory performed the first cloning of a bioluminescent protein gene.

Milton J. Schlesinger

Milton J. Schlesinger was an American molecular biologist and virologist, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1979 work led to the discovery of protein S-palmitoylation.

Milton Jones

Milton Jones (born 1964) is an English stand-up comedian known for surreal one-liners and puns, wild hair and loud shirts; Perrier Best Newcomer 1996, Mock the Week regular 2009-2021, and star of many BBC Radio 4 comedy series.

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes: Buckinghamshire new town designated 23 January 1967, Britain's largest post-war new town, built on a 1 km road grid with 322 km Redways; recommended for renewed new-town status in 2025.

Milton Keynes Dons F.C.

Milton Keynes Dons F.C. (MK Dons), English EFL League Two club formed in 2004 when Wimbledon F.C. relocated to Milton Keynes; plays at 30,000-capacity Stadium MK, owned since 2024 by Fahad Al Ghanim's Kuwaiti consortium, rivals of phoenix club AFC Wimbledon.

Milton Levenson

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, Milton Levenson was a nuclear engineer known for his work on fast reactor technology and fuel reprocessing.

Milton Mallawarachchi

Milton Mallawarachchi (මිල්ටන් මල්ලවාරච්චි) was a Sri Lankan vocalist and leading romantic singer of Sinhala popular music from the late 1960s through the 1980s, remembered as the "Prince of Love Songs" until his death in 1998.

Milton Margai

Sir Milton Margai (1895–1964) was a Sierra Leonean physician and political leader who became the country's first prime minister, guiding it to independence from Britain in 1961.

Milton Maurer

Milton Maurer, American sprinter for the University of Southern California; member of the 1931 USC 4x110-yard relay world record quartet (40.8, Fresno) with Delby, Guyer, and Wykoff; also fourth in the 1930 AAU 100 yards.

Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento, known as Bituca, is a Brazilian singer-composer (born 1942, Rio de Janeiro) and central figure of the Clube da Esquina movement, famous for the 1972 double LP Clube da Esquina, the 1998 Grammy-winning album Nascimento, and songs like Travessia.

Milton Nunn Bramlette

Milton Nunn Bramlette (1896–1977) was an American geologist and professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for pioneering the use of calcareous nannofossils to date ocean sediments.