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Malik Kafur (مالک کافور)
Malik Kafur (مالک کافور) was a slave-general of the Delhi Sultanate who led Sultan Alauddin Khalji's conquests across the Deccan and southern India, dying in 1316.
Malin Craig
Malin Craig (1875-1945) was a U.S. Army general, Chief of Staff 1935-1939 between MacArthur and Marshall; West Point 1898, cavalry officer, WWI I Corps chief of staff, modernized the Army and chose Marshall as successor.
Mamady Doumbouya
Mamady Doumbouya, born 1984, is Guinea's president and former special forces commander who led the 5 September 2021 coup against Alpha Condé, ruled the transition, won the December 2025 election with 86.7%, and was sworn in 17 January 2026.
Man Singh I
Man Singh I (মানসিংহ, Mirza Raja, 1550–1614), Kachhwaha raja of Amber 1589–1614, Akbar's foremost Rajput general: Haldighati 1576, subahdar of Kabul, Bihar and Bengal, first Commander of Seven Thousand, temple patronage at Vrindavan, Varanasi and Puri.
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren
Manlaibaatar Damdinsüren (Манлайбаатар Дамдинсүрэн), born Jamsrangiin Damdinsüren, was a Barga Mongol military commander, diplomat, and independence leader who liberated Khovd in 1912 and died in a Chinese prison in 1921.
Manoj Kumar Pandey (मनोज कुमार पांडे)
Manoj Kumar Pandey (मनोज कुमार पांडे; 1975–1999) was an Indian Army officer of 1/11 Gorkha Rifles posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra for the 1999 Kargil War.
Manoj Kumar Sharma (मनोज कुमार शर्मा)
Manoj Kumar Sharma (मनोज कुमार शर्मा) is a 2005-batch Maharashtra-cadre IPS officer, UPSC AIR 121 on his fourth attempt after failing Class 12, the subject of the book and film 12th Fail, and Mumbai's Joint CP (Law and Order) since May 2026.
Manoj Mukund Naravane
Manoj Mukund Naravane, 28th Chief of the Army Staff of India (31 December 2019 to 30 April 2022), led the army through the 2020 Galwan clash and Ladakh standoff; his unpublished Penguin memoir Four Stars of Destiny sparked a 2026 controversy.
Manpreet Singh (soldier)
Colonel Manpreet Singh (died 2023), Indian Army officer and third-generation soldier, commanded 19 Rashtriya Rifles in Anantnag, Kashmir; Sena Medal recipient who refused a peace posting, killed in the Kokernag terrorist encounter with Major Ashish Dhonchak and DSP Himayun Bhat. Not the Agniveer soldier Amritpal Singh nor politician Manpreet Badal.
Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa, also known as Musa I or Kankan Musa, was the ruler of the Mali Empire from about 1312 to 1337, known for his wealth.
Mansfield Smith-Cumming
Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), born Mansfield George Smith, was a Royal Navy commander and first Chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), origin of the 'C' designation in green ink, 1909–1923.
Manto Mavrogenous
Manto Mavrogenous (Μαντώ Μαυρογένους) was a Greek heroine of the War of Independence, known as the Heroine of Mykonos, who funded the war with her inherited fortune.
Manuel Artime
Manuel Artime (Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa, 1932–1977), Cuban physician and anti-Castro revolutionary, civil leader of Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs, later headed the CIA-backed AMWORLD exile commando operation from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1963–1965.
Manuel Ascencio Padilla
Manuel Ascencio Padilla (1774–1816) was a criollo guerrilla commander who, with his wife Juana Azurduy, led the Republiqueta de La Laguna in Bolivia's independence wars.
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general and de facto dictator 1983–1989, former CIA informant, PDF commander; indicted for drug trafficking, deposed by the December 1989 US invasion (Operation Just Cause), imprisoned in the US, France, and Panama, died 2017.
Manuela Sáenz
Manuela Sáenz (Manuelita Sáenz, La Libertadora), Quito 1797 – Paita 1856, was an Ecuadorean independence figure, Order of the Sun recipient, Bolívar's archivist and ally, and savior of his life in 1828.
Manuelito
Manuelito, also known as Hastiin Ch'il Haajiní, was a Navajo war leader and headman (about 1818 to 1893) who signed the Navajo Treaty of 1868, ending the Long Walk.
Mao Anying (毛岸英)
Mao Anying (毛岸英), 1922–1950, eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui; Soviet-trained Red Army tank officer, Russian interpreter to Peng Dehuai in the Korean War, killed in a 1950 US air strike, buried at Hoechang, subject of the egg fried rice controversy.
Marc Alan Lee
Marc Alan Lee (1978–2006), Navy SEAL of Hood River, Oregon, Charlie Platoon SEAL Team 3, first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, died August 2, 2006 in Ramadi; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, Purple Heart.
Marcin Kątski
Marcin Kazimierz Kątski, also spelled Kącki or Kontski (1636–1710), was a Polish nobleman who served as general of Crown artillery and commanded the guns at Vienna in 1683.
Marcus Luttrell
Marcus Luttrell (born 1975) is a retired United States Navy SEAL, the sole survivor of an ambush in Afghanistan during Operation Red Wings in 2005.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64/63–12 BCE), Augustus's foremost general and admiral, victor at Naulochus and Actium, builder of the Pantheon and Aqua Virgo, son-in-law and intended successor of Augustus.
Marian Langiewicz
Marian Langiewicz (1827–1887) was a Polish general who proclaimed himself dictator of the January Uprising of 1863, commanding about 3,000 insurgents before his arrest by Austrian authorities.
Mariana Bracetti
Mariana Bracetti (1825–1903) was a Puerto Rican seamstress and revolutionary who helped plan the 1868 Grito de Lares insurrection, tradition crediting her with sewing the Lares flag.
Mariano Escobedo
Mariano Escobedo (1826–1902) was a Mexican general and politician who commanded the Army of the North during the French Intervention and accepted Maximilian's surrender at Querétaro in 1867.
Mariano Matamoros
Mariano Matamoros (1770–1814) was a Mexican priest and insurgent general, José María Morelos's chief lieutenant in the War of Independence, executed by the royalists in 1814.
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière was a Haitian woman soldier of the Haitian Revolution, known for fighting in male uniform at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in March 1802.
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898-1970), French general and posthumous Marshal of France, commanded the 1st Free French Brigade at Bir Hakeim in 1942, led the FFI in 1944, governed liberated Paris, and later served as defense minister.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya
Mariya Oktyabrskaya (Мария Октябрьская) was a Soviet tank driver in the Red Army who, after her husband was killed in 1941, bought a T-34 named Fighting Girlfriend and became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mark Bingham
Mark Bingham was an American public relations executive and rugby player from San Francisco who fought back against the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.