Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Mayr, Ernst (American zoologist)
Mays, Willie Howard, Jr. (Baseball Player)
Mazarin, Jules (French statesman & theologian)
Mazzini, Giuseppe (Italian military leader & politician)
Mbeki, Thabo (South African politician)
McCarthy, Mary Therese (American writer & critic)
McCartney, Sir (James) Paul (Rock Musician / Songwriter)
McCauley, Mary Ludwig Hays (American Revolutionary heroine)
McCay, Winsor (Animator/Cartoonist)
McClellan, George Brinton (American military leader)
McClintock, Barbara (American geneticist)
McCloskey, John (American religious leader)
McClure, Samuel Sidney (American editor & publisher)
McCormack, John (Celtic Artist)
McCormick, Anne Elizabeth O'Hare (British-born American journalist)
McCormick, Cyrus Hall (American inventor & industrialist)
McCormick, Patricia (American diver)
McCullough, David (American historian)
McEnroe, John Patrick, Jr. (American tennis player)
McGillivray, Alexander (American chief)
McGovern, George Stanley (American politician)
McGraw, John Joseph (American baseball player)
McGuffey, William Holmes (American educator)
McGwire, Mark David (Baseball Player)
McIntire, Samuel (American architect & artist)
McKay, Claude (American poet & novelist)
McKim, Charles Follen (American architect)
McKinley, William (25th President of the United States)
McLaughlin, John (Jazz Artist)
McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall (Canadian-American educator)
McMillan, Edwin Mattison (American physicist)
McNally, Terence (American playwright)
McNamara, Robert Strange (Business Personality / Presidential Advisor)
McRae, Carmen (Vocal Music Artist)
Mead, George Herbert (American philosopher & psychologist)
Mead, Margaret (American anthropologist)
Meade, George Gordon (American military leader)
Meade, James Edward (English economist)
Meany, George (American labor leader)
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (English zoologist)
Medici (Italian noble family)
Medill, Joseph (American journalist)
Meier, Richard (American architect)
Meighen, Arthur (Canadian statesman)
Meillet, Antoine (French linguist and Indo-Europeanist)