American Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is an American short-story writer and novelist.Robison was born in Washington, D.C. to a patent atto

Is an American short-story writer and novelist.Robison was born in Washington, D.C. to a patent attorney and a child psychologist. She has seven brothers and sisters as well as a half brother. From an early age she was interested in writing and as a child kept journals and wrote poetry as a teen ager.

Was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical li

Was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics.Haas attended high school in Richmond, Indiana, and later Earlham College. At the University of Chicago she undertook graduate work on comparative philology. Her first published paper, A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text, a collaboration with Morris Swadesh (to whom she would later be married for a time), was published in 1933.She went on to complete her Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University in 1935 with a dissertation entitled A Grammar of the Tunica Language. (Tunica was a language once spoken in present-day Louisiana.) Haas worked with the last fluent speaker of Tunica, Sesostrie Youchigant, producing extensive texts and vocabularies.

Is an American Democratic politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives

Is an American Democratic politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, the first Democratic woman elected to the United States Congress from that state.In 1991, she was one of nearly one-hundred Members of Congress

Is an American politician who represented the 2nd Hampden district in the Massachusetts House of Rep

Is an American politician who represented the 2nd Hampden district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991–2009 and was a member of the Longmeadow School Committee from 1982–1988.From 1999–2003 she was the Assistant Minority Whip and from

Is an individual Rhythmic Gymnast. Mary holds dual citizenship of both the United States and Canada,

Is an individual Rhythmic Gymnast. Mary holds dual citizenship of both the United States and Canada, as her father was from the US and her mother is Canadian.She began her career representing Canada but began to compete for the USA in late 2002.

S an American folk artist with no formal visual art training. Her art work has variously been descri

S an American folk artist with no formal visual art training. Her art work has variously been described as naïve, primitive or self-taught. She graduated from Cornell University in 1972 with a degree in English and Creative Writing, and has lived her entire adult life in Ithaca, NY. She began making her painted low relief woodcarvings in 1974, after her father sent her a painted woodcarving (inspired by the art work of Mario Sanchez, Key West, Florida) that he made of Shelley as a child at the family farm. Shelley worked as a sign painter and carpenter from 1973 to 1990, and the learning these trades helped her to develop woodworking and design skills important to her evolution into a visual artist.

Was an American thoroughbred jockey and model. She was raised in Toledo, Ohio by her father a one-ti

Was an American thoroughbred jockey and model. She was raised in Toledo, Ohio by her father a one-time big band pianist later involved in construction and her mother who was a stay at home mother. She had one sister and brother. While having no horses of

Was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first

Was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Is a retired freestyle swimmer from Canada, who twice broke the world record in the women's 100m but

Is a retired freestyle swimmer from Canada, who twice broke the world record in the women's 100m butterfly in the early 1960s. She represented her native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1960 in Rome, Italy.

Was an American actress and singer/songwriter.After appearing in various bit parts in several movies

Was an American actress and singer/songwriter.After appearing in various bit parts in several movies throughout the 1940s, Warner Brothers offered her a three-year contract in 1948. She appeared with such stars as Ronald Reagan (in The Girl from Jones Beach), Errol Flynn (in Adventures of Don Juan), Clark Gable (in The Hucksters), Esther Williams (in This Time for Keeps) and Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball (in The Big Street).

Mary Stuart Masterson was born in New York City to writer/director Peter Masterson and actress Carli

Mary Stuart Masterson was born in New York City to writer/director Peter Masterson and actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings: Peter and Alexandra Masterson, who are both involved in the entertainment industry. As a teen, she attended Stagedoor Manor

Was an American politician. The sixth woman in the United States Congress, she was the first from an

Was an American politician. The sixth woman in the United States Congress, she was the first from an Eastern state (New Jersey), and the first non-Republican (she was a Democrat). She went on to serve an unprecedented 13 consecutive terms in the United St

Is an Olympic champion and former World Record holding swimmer from the United States. In 1981 she b

Is an Olympic champion and former World Record holding swimmer from the United States. In 1981 she bettered her own existing World Records in the 100m (57.93) and 200m butterfly (2:05.96): these marks stood as the respective World Records for 18 and 19 ye

Is a former competitive swimmer from the United States. Meagher, originally from Kentucky, began com

Is a former competitive swimmer from the United States. Meagher, originally from Kentucky, began competing at an early age, setting her first world record in the butterfly at the age of 14 in 1979 at the Pan American Games. She completed her education at the Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside her sister Anne Northup, who gained fame as a member of the US House Representatives.

An American indie rock singer, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist.In 1990-91 Timony played guitar a

An American indie rock singer, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist.In 1990-91 Timony played guitar and shared lead vocals in the Washington, D.C.-based all-female band Autoclave. She later relocated to Boston, where she graduated from Boston University wi

Was a sculptor and studio potter. She trained as a sculptor with Ralph Stackpole, Alexander Archipen

Was a sculptor and studio potter. She trained as a sculptor with Ralph Stackpole, Alexander Archipenko, Isamu Noguchi, and Jose de Creeft, working in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco between 1930 and 1945. Widowed in World War II, she turned to ceramics, studying with Antonio Prieto at California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), and was an active studio artist and leader in potters' and craftsmen circles in the Bay Area from 1946 to 1969. She lived for most of those years in Forest Knolls and Sausalito. In 1969 she moved to Bolinas, a coastal community in west Marin County

Is an Academy Award-nominated and seven-time Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedian, prima

Is an Academy Award-nominated and seven-time Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her early role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)

Was an Tony Award and Emmy Award winning actress. She originated many roles over her career includin

Was an Tony Award and Emmy Award winning actress. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989.Martin's life as a child, as Martin descr

Was an American philosopher.Mary Whiton Calkins started her career as a Greek instructor at Wellesle

Was an American philosopher.Mary Whiton Calkins started her career as a Greek instructor at Wellesley College, but developed an interest in psychology. She established a psychology lab at Wellesley, the first psychology lab at a woman's college. Studying with William James and Hugo Munsterberg at Harvard University, she wrote her dissertation on memory. She developed the paired-associate technique for studying memory.Her philosophical creed was expressed through her four principal statements which were shown in her books, The Persistent Problems of Philosophy (1907) & The Good Man and The Good (1918), that the universe contained distinct mental realities, and, although the mind was from a lower level of existence, it emerged from that level to one higher that answered to new special laws. This level of reality was ultimately personal & consciousness as such never happened impersonally.

Who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturi

Who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World from 1890 to 1901, providing illustrated celebrity interviews.

Is an American singer best known as a member of the Motown soul and pop group The Supremes. Wilson w

Is an American singer best known as a member of the Motown soul and pop group The Supremes. Wilson was the only Supreme who remained in the group from the time it was formed in 1959, as The Primettes, until the very end, when the group was disbanded in 1977. The Supremes (Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and later, Cindy Birdsong along with Mary Wilson) enjoyed twelve US number-one hit records.

Is an American volleyball player, author, and the head coach of the Florida Gators volleyball team t

Is an American volleyball player, author, and the head coach of the Florida Gators volleyball team that represents the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.

Is a former board member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Connaughton was a candidate for Ma

Is a former board member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Connaughton was a candidate for Massachusetts Auditor in 2010.Connaughton held the position of senior manager on the audit staff of Ernst and Young in the Entrepreneurial Services division

Was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. She was born in Kiev an

Was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she was forced to work in a factory during the

A Toronto based singer who primarily sings Arabic songs. She gained her fame through her own band ca

A Toronto based singer who primarily sings Arabic songs. She gained her fame through her own band called Mernie!.Maryem went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada with her parents when she was 1 in 1969. 4 years later, her father began working in Qatar and Saud