Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Malevich, Kasimir (Russian painter)
Malherbe, François de (French poet & critic)
Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper (English anthropologist)
Mallarmé, Stéphane (French poet)
Malle, Louis (French filmmaker)
Mallon, Mary (American cook and immune carrier of typhoid fever)
Malone, Moses (American basketball player)
Malory, Sir Thomas (English writer)
Malpighi, Marcello (Italian anatomist)
Malraux, André (French writer & politician)
Malthus, Thomas Robert (English economist & sociologist)
Mamet, David (American dramatist & filmmaker)
Manasseh (Bible)
Manco Capac (legendary founder of the Inca dynasty of Peru)
Manco Capac (d. 1544, Inca ruler)
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (Political Leader)
Mandeville, Bernard (English writer)
Mandeville, Sir John (English writer)
Manes (Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism)
Manet, Edouard (French painter)
Manley, Michael (Jamaican statesman)
Mann, Horace (Social Reformer / Political Figure / Educator)
Mann, Thomas (German novelist & writer)
Mansfield, Katherine (English writer)
Mansur, al- (d. 775, 2d Abbasid caliph)
Mantegna, Andrea (Italian painter)
Mantle, Mickey Charles (Baseball Player)
Manutius, Aldus (Italian printer)
Manzoni, Alessandro (Italian novelist & poet)
Mao Zedong (Political Leader)
Mapplethorpe, Robert (American photographer)
Marat, Jean Paul (French politician & military leader)
Marc, Franz (German painter)
Marceau, Marcel (French entertainer)
Marciano, Rocco Francis (American boxer)
Marconi, Guglielmo (Inventor / Entrepreneur)
Marcos, Ferdinand Edralin (Philippine politician)
Marcuse, Herbert (American-German political scientist & philosopher)
Margaret of Anjou (English royalty)
Margaret of Navarre (Navarre royalty)
Margaret of Valois (French-Navarre queen)
Margrethe II (Danish queen)
Maria Theresa (Austrian-Bohemian-Hungarian queen & stateswoman)