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Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879 – 1964), artist
Madame D’Arblay 'Fanny Burney'
Madame Goldschmidt (1820 – 1887), singer
Magnus Volk (1914 – 1937), inventor
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)
Malcolm Campbell (1885 – 1948), Sir and world land and water speed record holder
Malcolm Sargent (1895 – 1967), conductor and Sir
Manchester United (born 1878), football club
Marc Isambard Brunel (1769 – 1849), civil engineer and Sir
Marcus Garvey (1887 – 1940), pan-Africanist leader
Marcus Stone (1840 – 1921), artist
Margaret Powell (died 1984)
Margaret Ramsay (1908 – 1991), playwrights' agent
Margaret Rutherford (1892 – 1972), actress and Dame
Margery Allingham (1904 – 1966), writer of crime fiction and creator of Albert Campion
Margery Blackie (1898 – 1981), homoeopathic physician and Dr
Margery Sharp (1905 – 1991), novelist
Maria Fitzherbert (1756 – 1837)
Marie Lloyd (1870 – 1922), music hall artiste
Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839 – 1908), novelist
Marie Rambert (1888 – 1982), founder of Ballet Rambert and Dame
Marie Stopes (1880 – 1958), writer, dramatist, poet, publicist of the campaign for sexual education, advocate of family planning, founder of pioneer birth control clinic, courageous crusader for the rights of women, palaeobotanist, pioneer of family planning, and lecturer in palaeobotany
Marie Taglioni (1809 – 1884), ballet dancer
Marie Tempest (1864 – 1942), actress and Dame
Marie Tussaud (1761 – 1850), artist in wax
Mark Barraud (1848 – 1887), owner and master of Bristol born dog Nipper and scenic designer
Mark Gertler (1891 – 1939), painter
Mark Rutherford (1831 – 1913), novelist
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American writer
Marquess of Pombal (1739 – 1744), Portuguese statesman and Ambassador
Marshal Tallart (1652 – 1728)
Martha Combe (1806 – 1893), philanthropist, patron of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and church founder
Martha Gunn (1726 – 1815), the original bathing woman
Martin Frobisher (1535 – 1594), Sir and navigator
Martin Van Buren (1782 – 1862), eighth US President
Martina Bergman Osterberg (1849 – 1915), pioneer of Physical Education for Women
Mary Coke (1727 – 1811), Lady and diarist
Mary Esslemont (1891 – 1984), general practitioner, soroptimist, and Free Burgess of Aberdeen
Mary Hughes (1860 – 1941), friend of all in need
Mary Kingsley (1862 – 1900), traveller and ethnologist
Mary Lamb (1764 – 1847), writer
Mary Prince (1788 – 1833), abolitionist and author
Mary Seacole (1805 – 1881), Jamaican nurse and heroine of the Crimean War
Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851), author of Frankenstein
Mary Wilcocks (1791 – 1864)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mathew Carrington Sykes
Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888), poet and critic
Matthew Boulton (1728 – 1809), engineer and co-founder of the Lunar Society
Matthew Flinders (1774 – 1814), explorer, navigator, and Captain
Max Beerbohm (1872 – 1956), artist and writer
Max Miller (1895 – 1963), 'The Cheeky Chappie' and the pure gold of music hall
May Baird (1901 – 1983), social pioneer and Lady
Melanie Klein (1882 – 1960), Psychoanalyst and pioneer of child analysis
Meredith Brown (1845 – 1908), social reformer and founder of the Shaftesbury Institute
Mervyn Peake (1911 – 1968), author and artist
Michael Balcon (1896 – 1977), film producer and Sir
Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867), man of science
Michael Redgrave (1908 – 1985), actor and film star
Michael Ventris (1922 – 1956), architect and decipherer of Linear B script
Michael William Balfe (1808 – 1870), musical composer
Millais Culpin
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 – 1929), pioneer of Women's Suffrage and Dame
Mont Abbott (1902 – 1989), carter, shepherd, and storyteller
Montagu Stopford (1892 – 1971), burma campaign, General, and KBE
Monty Python, film maker
Mortimer Wheeler (1890 – 1976), archaeologist and Sir
Muriel Lester
Muriel Matters-Porter
Mustapha Pasha Reschid (1800 – 1858), Turkish statesman and reformer
Muzio Clementi (1752 – 1832), composer
Myra Hess (1890 – 1965), pianist and Dame