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Mark Carleton-Smith
Mark Carleton-Smith (born 1964) is a retired British Army general, Chief of the General Staff 2018–2022, former Director Special Forces and 22 SAS commander, later Senior Advisor to CT Group and director of SafeLane Global.
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born 1955) is the American who murdered John Lennon outside the Dakota in New York on 8 December 1980; he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1981, received 20 years to life, and has been denied parole 14 times, most recently in 2025.
Mark Esper
Mark Esper (born 1964) is an American former Army officer, Raytheon lobbyist, 23rd Secretary of the Army, and 27th U.S. Secretary of Defense (July 2019 to November 9, 2020) under Trump, fired after opposing use of active-duty troops against protesters; author of A Sacred Oath.
Mark Felt
W. Mark Felt (1913-2008), FBI deputy associate director, was revealed May 31, 2005 as "Deep Throat," Woodward and Bernstein's anonymous Watergate source; convicted in 1980 of authorizing warrantless break-ins, pardoned by Reagan.
Mark Milley
Mark Milley, born in 1958, is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023.
Mark W. Clark
Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), U.S. Army four-star general, commanded the Fifth Army and 15th Army Group in Italy, captured Rome in 1944, signed the 1953 Korean armistice as UN Command chief, and led The Citadel 1954-1965.
Marko Bezruchko
Marko Bezruchko (Марко Безручко, 1883–1944) was a Ukrainian general-horunzhy of the UNR Army, best known for commanding the defense of Zamość against Budyonny's cavalry in 1920.
Marko Miljanov
Marko Miljanov (Marko Miljanov Popović, Марко Миљанов Поповић; 1833–1901) was a Montenegrin vojvoda and writer from the Kuči tribe who commanded at the 1876 Battle of Fundina.
Markos Botsaris
Markos Botsaris (Greek: Μάρκος Μπότσαρης) was a Souliote chieftain and leading commander of the Greek War of Independence, best known for defending Missolonghi and dying in battle in 1823.
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913-1999), British Army officer and courtier; Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II 1972-77, life peer from 1978, Provost of Eton 1978-91.
Martin Dempsey
Martin Edward Dempsey (born 1952) is a retired U.S. Army general, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-2015), 37th Army Chief of Staff, 1st Armored Division commander in Baghdad, and author of Radical Inclusion.
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信)
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信, born 1901), Imperial Japanese Army staff officer behind the Malaya–Singapore campaign, linked to the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan; escaped prosecution, became a Diet member, and vanished in Laos in 1961.
Mat Salleh
Mat Salleh, also known as Datu Muhammad Salleh, was a chief in North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) who led the longest resistance to the British North Borneo Chartered Company from 1894 to 1900.
Mata Hari
Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, 1876–1917), Dutch exotic dancer who debuted at Paris's Musée Guimet in 1905, was recruited by both German (agent H21) and French intelligence in WWI, convicted on thin evidence, executed at Vincennes 15 October 1917, and later widely judged a scapegoat.
Mathias Rust
Mathias Rust, West German amateur pilot who flew a Cessna 172 from Helsinki into Soviet airspace and landed near Moscow's Red Square on 28 May 1987, triggering the dismissal of Soviet defense minister Sokolov and air defense chief Koldunov and serving 432 days in Soviet custody.
Matthew Axelson
Matthew Gene "Axe" Axelson (1976–2005) was a US Navy SEAL, STG2 of SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team ONE, killed in Operation Red Wings, Afghanistan, and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, and Purple Heart.
Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794–1858), American commodore and brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, led the 1853–1854 expedition whose Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan and built the steam navy.
Matthew Ridgway
Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-1993), U.S. Army general, 82nd Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps commander in World War II, Eighth Army commander who reversed the Korean War, SACEUR 1952-1953, and Army Chief of Staff 1953-1955 who opposed intervention in Vietnam.
Maurice Oldfield
Sir Maurice Oldfield (1915–1981), Chief of SIS/MI6 1973–1978, first merit-promoted chief, later Northern Ireland security coordinator; model for George Smiley.
Mavia (Arab queen)
Mavia, also spelled Mawiyya, was an Arab warrior-queen of the Tanukhid confederation who defeated Roman forces in a revolt around 377 to 378, then sent cavalry to defend Constantinople after Adrianople.
Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi
Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi, real name Abdullah Orakzai, was a Pakistani ex-Lashkar-e-Taiba commander who led Islamic State Khorasan Province from 2019 until his April 2020 arrest in Kandahar by Afghan intelligence; reportedly killed in January 2022.
Max Boot
Max Boot, Moscow-born American historian and foreign-policy analyst, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Washington Post columnist; author of Savage Wars of Peace, Invisible Armies, and Reagan: His Life and Legend.
Max Hoffmann
Max Hoffmann (Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann, 1869–1927), Prussian general; planned Tannenberg (1914), chief of staff of the German Eastern Front from 1916, and German military lead negotiator at Brest-Litovsk; later advocated the anti-Soviet Hoffmannplan.
Max Manus
Max Manus (Maximo Guillermo Manus, 1914–1996) was a Norwegian resistance fighter in Kompani Linge and the Oslo gang, known for the Mardonius ship sabotage and the 1945 sinking of the Donau, later a businessman and subject of the 2008 film Max Manus.
Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) was a French general, chief of staff to Foch in World War I and supreme commander of Allied armies in May 1940.
Maximilian Andronnikov (Максимилиан Александрович Андронников)
Maximilian Andronnikov (Максимилиан Александрович Андронников), callsign Caesar, is deputy commander of the Freedom of Russia Legion, a Russian volunteer unit in Ukraine's armed forces; former Russian Imperial Movement member who left for Ukraine in summer 2022.
Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Maximilian Ulysses Browne was an Austrian field marshal of Irish descent who commanded Habsburg forces against Frederick the Great and died of wounds from the 1757 Battle of Prague.
Maxwell D. Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), American four-star general, 101st Airborne commander on D-Day, Army Chief of Staff 1955–59, author of flexible response doctrine, Kennedy's military representative and JCS Chairman 1962–64, later US ambassador to South Vietnam 1964–65.
McCain family
McCain family: American naval and political dynasty of Scots-Irish origin; admirals John S. McCain Sr. and Jr., the first father-son four-star admirals, and Senator and POW John McCain III.
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.