Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.
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Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969–2026)
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi was an Iranian and French comic book author, film director, and children's book author.
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Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor (1913–1978)
Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor.
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American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.
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American YouTuber (born 1989)
Markiplier
Mark Edward Fischbach, known professionally as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor.
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French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, blasphemy, and pornography.
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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
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Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.
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1st-century Latin poet from Hispania
Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
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