American Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of nine seasons in the majors be

Is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played all or part of nine seasons in the majors between 1990 and 1999. Six of those seasons (1990-92 and 1994-96) were spent with the Houston Astros, and three (1997-99) with the Texas Rangers. Most of his career highs were set in 1998 for the Rangers, when he batted .296 with 16 home runs and 46 RBI in just 186 at bats. Despite his performance, he played just four games with Texas in 1999 and none in the majors thereafter.

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). He is a

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). He is also a Wall Street analyst and consultant as well as president of The Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET) and a founding member of International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies (ISCANEE).Hudson served as Chief Economic Advisor for Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and holds the same position in Kucinich’s Congressional campaign. He has been economic advisor to the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian governments, to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and he is president of the Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET).

Is an American heavyweight boxer best known to win the National Super Heavyweight championships in 2

Is an American heavyweight boxer best known to win the National Super Heavyweight championships in 2007 and 2009. He is the son of Mike "the Bounty" Hunter. In 2006 at the age of 18 he made it to the finals of the National Golden Gloves with only five bo

Is a Canadian character actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and scr

Is a Canadian character actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American works. He is best known for playing villains, "tough guy" heroes and amputees, though he has also portrayed sympathetic characters. Ironside is a method actor who keeps in character between takes.

Was a Minnesota Republican politician and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A forme

Was a Minnesota Republican politician and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A former newspaper publisher, Dowling had suffered extreme frostbite in 1880, leaving him disabled. He had lost parts of both legs, his left arm, and fingers on h

Is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly for two te

Is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly for two terms from 2004 until 2008, where he represented the 12th legislative district. Resident of Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

Is a former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, the lower house of the Wisconsin legislature, a

Is a former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, the lower house of the Wisconsin legislature, and a former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, who represented the 44th Assembly District from 2005 to 2011.He was a member of the Committe

Anderson was born with a genetic bone condition osteogenesis imperfecta. He grew up in a wheelchair.

Anderson was born with a genetic bone condition osteogenesis imperfecta. He grew up in a wheelchair. In his late 20s he was the subject of a 30-minute documentary called "Little Mike" (1984), directed by Norris J. Chumley

Is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1989

Is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1989 to 2004, where he represented the 12th legislative district.Arnone was the Mayor of Red Bank from 1978–90, was the Red Bank Fire and Police Commissioner fr

He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and p

He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, slightly behind independent candidate Ralph Nader. He was recently a Libertarian candidate in the 2006 Congressional elections in Texas for the 10th district seat near Austin. He finished in third place with 4.3% of the vote.

Is a retired American basketball player.He played for the Virginia Squires (1972-74) and Spirits of

Is a retired American basketball player.He played for the Virginia Squires (1972-74) and Spirits of St. Louis (1974-76) in the ABA and for the Kansas City Kings (1976-77) in the NBA for 307 games.

Is an American Republican Party politician who serves in the New Jersey Senate representing the 23rd

Is an American Republican Party politician who serves in the New Jersey Senate representing the 23rd legislative district. He won the seat held by Marcia A. Karrow, who had earlier been selected by a party convention to succeed Leonard Lance after his ele

A Canadian/American film and television actor. His roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Fu

A Canadian/American film and television actor. His roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from Spin City (1996–2000), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Was an American electronics and computer industry executive who played major roles in the developmen

Was an American electronics and computer industry executive who played major roles in the development of the personal computer, mobile devices and the Internet.After Go closed in 1994, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Go's main venture capital backer, made the connection for Homer at Marc Andreessen's Netscape Communications Corporation.[1] Homer was a vice president at the Netscape in the 1990s at the dawn of the World Wide Web. There, Homer developed the company's initial business plan and played a pivotal role in obtaining the private financing necessary to allow the company to progress to its 1995 initial public offering.[2] He developed marketing plans for Netscape in 1994 at a time when few people had ever heard of the Internet.[1] During the period where Microsoft challenged Netscape's early browser dominance with its Internet Explorer product, Homer headed the firm's marketing department as it faced bitter competition from Microsoft, a challenge that ultimately resulted in an antitrust suit.[2] Homer helped argue that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power in the operating system market to push out Netscape's browser in favor of its own.[1]

Was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Illinois, who was elected several times to statew

Was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Illinois, who was elected several times to statewide office. Secretary of State Howlett was prepared to run for re-election in 1976, but was pressured by the Daley political organization to challenge incu

Is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'8" power forward from Duke University, Lewi

Is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'8" power forward from Duke University, Lewis played in the American Basketball Association from 1968 to 1974 as a member of the Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Pipers, Pittsburgh Pipers, Pittsburgh Condors, and Carolina Cougars. He averaged 12.1 points per game and 11.9 rebounds per game in his ABA career and appeared in the 1971 league All-Star Game.[1]

Is a Democratic politician from Linden, California. He served from 200-2008 in the California State

Is a Democratic politician from Linden, California. He served from 200-2008 in the California State Senate. Machado represented the 5th District,which includes the cities of Tracy, Manteca and Stockton in San Joaquin County; Suisun City, Fairfield, Dixon

Is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. The son of a trainer, he learned the business fro

Is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. The son of a trainer, he learned the business from his father then set up his own public stable in 1991. In 1993 he went to work as an assistant to U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas where he

Is the Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts. He has been mayor since 1988. He also served from 1977- 1988

Is the Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts. He has been mayor since 1988. He also served from 1977- 1988 as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 37th Middlesex District (Medford/Malden).

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 226 games in the National Hockey League in 19

Is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 226 games in the National Hockey League in 1977–81. Polich was a college hockey star for the University of Minnesota and also played for Team USA at the 1974 and 1975 Ice Hockey World Championship tou

Is an American actor.Pollard was born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of S

Is an American actor.Pollard was born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Sonia (n

Is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the 1st Bristol and Plymouth distric

Is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the 1st Bristol and Plymouth district. He is a resident of Westport who has served since January 2011. From 1996 to 2011 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the

Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the

Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the eyes of some a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary geopolitics, social movements and oil. As Perrault notes, his work charted a "rigorous and wide-ranging theoretical engagement with Marxian political economy" (Perrault, 2004:323,[1]), with contributions to the development of political ecology, struggles over resources, and - more recently - how the politics of identity play out in the contemporary world.

Was a Canadian figure skater who competed in men's singles.In the later 1940s, Kirby moved to Califo

Was a Canadian figure skater who competed in men's singles.In the later 1940s, Kirby moved to California and appeared in several movies with Sonja Henie. He later relocated to Chicago and established a chain of instructional ice skating rinks. As a coach,

Is a former professional baseball player who played his entire career for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Is a former professional baseball player who played his entire career for the Philadelphia Phillies. Schmidt was voted National League MVP three times, an All-Star 12 times, and received more votes than any other third basemen in 1999's Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1995, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame,