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Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経, 1159–1189), Genpei War commander who destroyed the Taira at Dan-no-ura and was hunted down by his brother Yoritomo; central figure of the Gikeiki legend cycle with Benkei, Noh and kabuki plays, and Edo survival myths.
Minamoto no Yukiie
Minamoto no Yukiie, also known as Shingū Jirō, was a late Heian Minamoto warrior, uncle of Yoritomo, who carried Prince Mochihito's 1180 call to arms and was executed in 1186.
Mir Jafar (میر سید جعفر علی خان بہادر)
Mir Jafar (میر سید جعفر علی خان بہادر, c.1691-1765), commander of the Nawab of Bengal's cavalry, secretly allied with the East India Company before Plassey (23 June 1757), withheld his troops, and was installed Nawab of Bengal 1757-1760 and 1763-1765.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysos (Μιθραδάτης), the Great, last king of Pontus (r. 120–63 BCE), builder of a Black Sea empire and Rome's most determined enemy since Hannibal in three Mithridatic Wars, defeated by Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey, dead by his own order in 63 BCE.
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満)
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満, 1887–1945), Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, commanded the 120,000-strong 32nd Army in the defense of Okinawa (April–June 1945) behind the Shuri Line and committed hara-kiri with chief of staff Isamu Cho on Hill 89 on 22 June 1945.
Mkhitar Sparapet
Mkhitar Sparapet (Մխիթար Սպարապետ), also called Mkhitar Bek, was an Armenian commander, born in Gandzak in the late 17th century, who led the Syunik resistance of 1722–1730 after David Bek died in 1728.
Mohamed Abshir Muse
Mohamed Abshir Muse, also known as Mahamed Abshir Musa, was a Somali major general and the first commander of the independent Somali Police Force from 1960 to 1969.
Mohamed Atta (محمد عطا)
Mohamed Atta (محمد عطا), Egyptian al Qaeda operative born 1968 in Kafr el Sheikh, was tactical commander of the 9/11 hijackers and believed pilot of American Airlines Flight 11; Hamburg cell member, FAA-certified pilot trained in Florida.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid), Somali general and Habr Gedir faction leader; USC chairman and SNA head, rival of Ali Mahdi, target of the 1993 UN/U.S. manhunt and Battle of Mogadishu, self-declared president 1995, died August 1996.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Mauritanian writer born 1970, held 14 years at Guantánamo Bay without charge; author of the bestseller Guantánamo Diary (2015), basis of the 2021 film The Mauritanian; released October 17, 2016, now a Dutch citizen.
Mohammad Marani
Mohammad Marani (محمد مارانی) is an IRGC Ground Forces brigadier general, not the academic Mohammad Marandi. He commanded the IRGC Quds Headquarters in Sistan-Baluchestan and Kerman from 2015 to 2020, then Medina Headquarters in southern Iran.
Mohammed al-Qahtani
Mohammed al-Qahtani, the suspected 20th 9/11 hijacker denied US entry at Orlando in August 2001; tortured at Guantanamo (Detainee 063), never tried, repatriated to Saudi Arabia in 2022. Distinct from Saudi ACPRA activist Mohammed Fahad al-Qahtani.
Mohammed Atef (محمد عاطف)
Mohammed Atef (محمد عاطف), Abu Hafs al-Masri, born Sobhi Mohamed Abu Sitta, was al-Qaeda's Egyptian military commander after 1996, indicted for the 1998 embassy bombings, named a 9/11 planner, and killed by a U.S. airstrike near Kabul in November 2001.
Mohammed Deif (محمد ضيف)
Mohammed Deif (محمد ضيف), real name Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, commanded Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades from 2002, masterminded the October 7, 2023 attack, and was killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 13, 2024, confirmed by Hamas in January 2025.
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (محمد حيدر زمار)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (محمد حيدر زمار), Syrian-born German jihadist born 1961 in Aleppo, recruiter and ideological guide of al Qaeda's Hamburg cell around Atta; rendered to Syria in 2001, sentenced 2007, released 2014, recaptured 2018.
Mohammed Odeh (Palestinian militant)
Mohammed Odeh (محمد عودة), born 1974, was a Hamas militant and longtime intelligence chief of the al-Qassam Brigades who led the armed wing for about eleven days in May 2026 before Israel killed him in a Gaza City airstrike.
Mohammed Sinwar
Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Yahya Sinwar, was a Hamas military commander, Khan Younis Brigade head by 2005, Gilad Shalit kidnapping planner, and al-Qassam Brigades chief in Gaza killed in Israel's May 2025 European Hospital strike.
Mohand al-Shehri
Mohand al-Shehri (1979-2001) was a Saudi al Qaeda muscle hijacker from Tanumah, Asir province, assigned to seat 2B of United Flight 175 on September 11, 2001; not a pilot, distinct from the unrelated al-Shehri brothers on Flight 11.
Mohit Malhotra (general)
Lieutenant General Mohit Malhotra, AVSM, SM is an Indian Army armoured corps officer, commissioned into the 47 Armoured Regiment in June 1989, serving since 1 July 2026 as GOC-in-C of the Jaipur-based South Western Command.
Moisi Golemi
Moisi Golemi (Moisi Golem Arianiti, Moisiu i Dibrës), Albanian lord of Dibra and Skanderbeg's commander in the League of Lezhë; defected to the Ottomans after Berat, was defeated at Oranik 1456, pardoned, and executed in Constantinople (1464 or 1465).
Molly Pitcher
Molly Pitcher, legendary Revolutionary War heroine and "patriot-cannoneer," likely a composite figure based chiefly on Mary Ludwig Hays of the 1778 Battle of Monmouth and Margaret Corbin of Fort Washington.
Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו)
Mordechai Vanunu (מרדכי ואנונו), Israeli former Dimona nuclear technician born 1954 in Morocco, revealed Israel's nuclear weapons program to the Sunday Times in 1986, was abducted by Mossad in Rome, served 18 years including 11 in solitary, and remains under annually renewed movement and speech restrictions since his 2004 release.
Morgan Earp
Morgan Seth Earp was an American Old West lawman and younger brother of Wyatt Earp, wounded at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and assassinated in Tombstone in 1882.
Mosab Hassan Yousef (مصعب حسن يوسف)
Mosab Hassan Yousef (مصعب حسن يوسف), the Green Prince, eldest son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, spied for Israel's Shin Bet inside Hamas for about ten years, then wrote Son of Hamas and became a pro-Israel public speaker.
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין)
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין), 1915–1981, Israeli military commander and politician: fourth IDF Chief of Staff (1953–1958), defense minister during the 1967 Six-Day War, foreign minister 1977–1979, architect of the Egypt peace treaty.
Mostefa Ben Boulaïd
Mostefa Ben Boulaïd (مصطفى بن بولعيد) was an Algerian revolutionary, a founding leader of the FLN who commanded the Aurès zone in the war of independence.
Movses Silikyan
Movses Silikyan (Մովսես Սիլիկյան), born Moisey Silikov, was a general of the Russian and Armenian armies who commanded the Armenian forces at Sardarabad in 1918.
Mu Chong
Mu Chong (무정, 武亭) was a Korean communist military leader who commanded the Korean Volunteer Army from Yan'an and was purged by Kim Il Sung in 1950.
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري)
Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari (محمد عبد الكريم الغماري), alias Sayyid Hashim, was the Houthi chief of general staff from 2016, a US- and UN-sanctioned major general trained by the IRGC and Hezbollah, killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 28, 2025.
Muhammad al-Hajj al-Muqrani
Muhammad al-Hajj al-Muqrani, also written Mohamed El Mokrani (c. 1815 – 1871), was an Algerian aristocrat who led the Mokrani revolt, the largest insurrection against French rule since 1830.