Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
On this page: Mary to Mayo, William James.

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Mary (in the Bible)
Mary (Biblical Figure / Religious Figure / Saint)
Mary (1867–1953, queen consort of George V of England)
Mary I (1516–58, queen of England)
Mary II (1662–94, queen of England)
Mary Magdalene (in the New Testament)
Mary Queen of Scots (Scottish queen)
Masaccio (Italian painter)
Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue (Czech-Czechoslovak politician, philosopher & president)
Mascagni, Pietro (Italian composer)
Masefield, John (English poet)
Mason, George (American politician & statesman)
Mason, Lowell (American composer & educator)
Massasoit (American chief)
Massey, (Charles) Vincent (Canadian statesman)
Massine, Léonide (American dramatist & ballet dancer)
Massinger, Philip (English dramatist)
Masters, Edgar Lee (American poet & non-fiction writer)
Masterson, William Barclay (American frontier marshal and journalist)
Mastroianni, Marcello (Italian filmmaker)
Masur, Kurt (German musician)
Mata Hari (Dutch-German dancer & spy)
Mather, Increase (American theologian)
Mathewson, Christopher (American baseball player)
Mathias, Robert Bruce (American athlete)
Matilda (queen of England)
Matthew, Saint (Christian personage in the New Testament)
Mauchly, John William (American physicist and inventor)
Mauldin, William Henry (American cartoonist)
Maupassant, (Henri René Albert) Guy de (French novelist & writer)
Mauriac, François (French writer)
Maurice of Nassau (Dutch royalty)
Maurois, André (French non-fiction writer & novelist)
Maury, Matthew Fontaine (American-Hydrologist military leader)
Mauser, Peter Paul (German weapons manufacturer)
Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens (American-born British inventor of an automatic)
Maximilian (1832–67, emperor of Mexico)
Maximilian I (1573–1651, elector and duke of Bavaria)
Maximilian II (1527–76, Holy Roman emperor)
Maxwell, James Clerk (Scottish physicist)
Maybeck, Bernard Ralph (American architect)
Mayer, Louis Burt (American filmmaker)
Mayer, Marie Goeppert (German-born American physicist)
Mayo, William James (American surgeon)