M: Sir Miles Messervy (James Bond's superior)
Moms Mabley: Loretta Mary Aitken [aka Jackie Mabley] (comedienne/singer/actress, b1894 d1975)
Hugh MacDiarmid: Christopher Murray Grieve (Scottish poet, b1892 d1978)
Ross Macdonald: Kenneth Millar (crime novelist/Archer)
Andie Macdowell: Rosalie Anderson Qualley (movie actress/model, b1958)
Spanky MacFarlane: Elaine MacFarlane (lead singer/songwriter with Spanky & Our Gang, b1942)
Ali MacGraw: Alice MacGraw (movie actress/model, b1938)
Machito: Frank Paul Grillo (jazz singer/bandleader/promoter of Salsa music)
Macho Man Randy Savage: Randy Poffo (professional wrestler)
Vargas Machuca: Garci Perez de Vargas (Medieval Spanish knight who, after his sword was broken at conquest of Seville, fought on with a wooden club)
Amanda Mack: Jean Adelson (author)
Connie Mack: Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy (professional baseball player/manager/Philadelphia Athletics team owner, b1862 d1956)
Connie Mack: Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III (banker/U.S. Senator from Florida, b1940)
Lonnie Mack: Lon McIntosh (blues & rock singer/songwriter/guitarist, b1941)
Ted Mack: William Edward Maguiness (variety show host/saxaphone player, b1904 d1976)
Gisele MacKenzie: Marguerite Louise Gisele LeFleche (Canadian singer/actress/radio & tv host, b1927) {MacKenzie was husband's surname}
Shirley MacLaine: Shirley Maclean Beaty (movie & tv actress/director/producer/writer/time traveler, b1934 et alia)
Ian Maclaren: John Watson (Scotish clergyman/author, b1850 d1907)
Fiona MacLeod: William Sharp (Scotish poet, b1855 d1905)
Elle MacPherson: Eleanor MacPherson Gow (Australian model/actress, b1964)
Mad Cobra: Ewart Everton Brown (Jamaican reggae singer, b1968)
Madame Tojo: Fourny Saisho (Japanese radio propagandist during World War II)
No Name Maddox: Charles Willis Manson [aka Charles Mills Manson] (cult leader/murderer)
Grazia Madesani: Grazia Deledda (Italian novelist, b1875 d1936)
* Madhubala: Mumtaz Jehan Dehlavi [nn: Madhu] (incredibly beautiful & talented Indian movie actress, b1933 d1969)
Dolley Madison: Dorothea Dandridge Payne Todd (U.S. First Lady, b1768? d1849)
Guy Madison: Robert Moseley (tv & movie actor, primarily in westerns)
Madonna: Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (singer/actress/exhibitionist, b1958)
Magic Sam: Samuel Maghett (blues guitarist/vocalist, b1937 d1969)
Il Magnifico: Lorenzo de' Medici (Italian statesman/patron of the arts/ruler of Florence, 1478-1492)
Maharaj-Ji: Neem Karoli Baba (guru of Ram Dass, spiritual teacher)
Jock Mahoney: Jacques O'Mahoney (stuntman/actor/13th Tarzan, b1919)
Marjorie Main: Mary Tomlinson Krebs (movie actress who played Ma Kettle)
Mainbocher: Main Rousseau Bocher (American fashion designer)
Ferdinand Magellan: Fernando de Magalhaes (Portugese explorer)
Lee Majors: Harvey Lee Yeary, II (tv actor, b1940)
Makarios III: Mihail Christodolou Mouskos (Cypriot Greek leader/Orthodox archbishop & 1st president of Cyprus, b1913 d1977)
Miriam Makeba: Zensi Makeba (South African rhythm & blues singer/actress)
Mako: Makoto Iwamatsu [aka Jimmy Sakuyama] (Japanese movie & tv actor, b1933)
Karl Malden: Malden Sekulovich (movie, stage & tv actor/director, b1914)
Lucas Malet: Mary St. Leger Kingsley (English novelist, b1852 d1931)
Carole Mallory: Carole Wagner (actress)
Dorothy Malone: Dorothy Eloise Maloney (movie & tv actress, b1925)
Man-Bat: Kirk Langstrom (Batman adversary)
Boom Boom Mancini: Lenny Mancini (professional boxer/wounded war veteran)
Boom Boom Mancini: Ray Mancini (championship professional lightweight boxer)
Mancow: Mancow Muller (Chicago radio DJ)
Hana Mandlikova: Hana Mandlikova Zach (professional Czech tennis player/coach)
Camryn Manheim: Debra Francis Manheim (movie, stage & tv actress - The Practice)
Barry Manilow: Barry Alan Pincus (singer/pianist/arranger/composer/director/producer/and, oh yes, he writes the songs too, b1946)
Handsome Dick Manitoba: Richard Blum (singer with The Dictators)
Anthony Mann: Emil Anton Bundsmann (director)
Barry Mann: Barry Iberman (rhythm & blues singer/songwriter/composer who put the bomp in the Bomp de Bomp de Bomp)
Daniel Mann: Daniel Chugerman (director)
Herbie Mann: Herbert Jay Solomon (jazz musician/singer/songwriter)
Manfred Mann: Manfred Lubowitz [aka Manfred Manne] (South Africa-born musician/songwriter/producer)
Miss Manners: Judith Martin (etiquette advice columnist)
Jayne Mansfield: Vera Jane Palmer (movie actress/40-18-36 model/auto accident victim, b1933 d1967)
Katherine Mansfield: Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (British short-story author, b1888 d1923)
Charles Manson: No Name Maddox (failed musician/rapist/thief/forger/murderer) {born out of wedlock}
Marilyn Manson: Brian Warner (heavy metal rock singer/musician, b1969) {taken from MARILYN Monroe + Charles MANSON}
Mantovani: Annunzio Paulo (orchestra conductor) {Mantovani was his mother's maiden name}
Heinie Manush: Henry Emmett Manush (professional baseball left-fielder, b1901 d1971)
Marcel Marceau: Marcel Mangel (French mime/actor, b1923)
Sophie Marceau: Sophie Maupu (French actress, b1966)
Jocko Marcellino: John Marcellino (singer with Sha Na Na, b1950)
April March: Elinor Blake (French cartoonist/chanteuse, known for the 1960's hit Fe Fe, b1965)
Frederic March: Frederick Ernest McIntyre Bickel (stage, movie & tv actor, b1897 d1975)
Little Peggy March: Margaret Battavio (pop singer - I Will Follow Him, b1948)
Catherine Marchant: Catherine Cookson (British novelist, b1906 d1998)
Raymond T. Marcus: Bernard Gordon (Hollywood-blacklisted writer)
Dalny Marga: Dalny Marga Valdes (x-rated movie actress)
Margo: Maria Marguerita Guadelupe Boldao y Casyilla (Mexican-born dancer/movie & stage actress, b1918 d1985)
* Rose Marie: Rose Marie Mazetta [aka Baby Rose Marie] (child & adult comic movie & tv actress, best known for role of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, b1923)
Teena Marie: Mary Christine Brockert (rhythm & Blues singer/composer/keyboardist/guitarist/actress)
Little Margie: Myrtle Lipton (Japanese radio propagandist during World War II)
Flip Mark: Philip Mark Goldberg (tv actor, co-starred in Guestward-Ho tv series, b1948) {WebMister's Note: Flip & I played together as children on Long Island in the mid-50's. My "brush with greatness!"}
Marky Mark: Mark Robert Walhberg (singer/model/movie actor, b1971)
Tom Mark: Mark Wong Nark (Thai-born fashion designer)
Pigmeat Markham: Dewey Markham (comedian/entertainer)
Robert Markham: Sir Kingsley William Amis (English author/poet/satirist, b1922 d1995)
Robert Markham: (pseudonym used by various James Bond authors)
Dame Alicia Markova: Lilian Alicia Marks (British prima ballerina, b1910)
Marlboro Cowboy: Wayne McLaren (cowboy entertainment figure/cigarette company smokesperson, b1941? d1992 of lung cancer, but with his boots on)
Marlboro Man: David McLean (actor/model/cigarette company smokesperson, b1922? d1995 of lung cancer)
Hugh Marlowe: Hugh Hipple (movie, radio & tv actor)
Julia Marlowe: Sarah Frances Frost (actress)
June Marlowe: Gisella Goetten (movie actress - Our Gang's teacher, Mrs. Crabtree)
J.P. Marquand: John Phillips Marquand (novelist/creator of Japanese detective Mr. Moto character, b1893 d1960)
J.J. Marric: John Creasey (British mystery writer)
Mick Mars: Robert Deal (heavy metal guitarist/songwriter of Motley Crue)
E.G. Marshall: Edda Gunnar Marshall (American movie, stage & tv actor, b1910 d1998)
Garry Marshall: Garry Marscharelli (film producer/brother of Penny Marshall)
Penny Marshall: Carole Penelope Masciarelli (movie & tv actress/director/producer, b1942)
Peter Marshall: Pierre LaCock (actor/singer/game show host, b1927)
Tully Marshall: William Phipps (movie character actor, b1864 d1943)
Richard Marsten: Salvatore Lombino [aka Evan Hunter, Ed McBain, Hunt Collins] (novelist/movie & tv screenwriter, whose work was for The Birds, b1926) {from his sons' surnames, Ted, Mark & Richard}
Doc Martens: Dr. Claus Maertens (German doctor that designs heavy, utilitarian shoes for folks with orthopedic problems)
Martial: Marcus Valerius Martialis (Roman satiric poet)
Martika: Marta Marrero Martinez (Cuban singer, b1969)
Billy Martin: Alfred Manuel Martin (professional baseball player/ex-manager/sportscaster, b1928 d1989)
Dean Martin: Dino Paul Crocetti (movie & tv actor/singer/comedian, who tended to lead a lush life, b1917 d1995)
Jack Martin: Dennis Etchison (writer)
* Ricky Martin: Enrique Jose' Martin Morales (singer, b1971)
Ross Martin: Martin Rosenblatt (movie & Wild, Wild Western tv actor, b1920 d1981)
Wink Martindale: Winston Conrad Martindale (game show host and High Roller)
Justin Martyr: Flavius Justinus (Christian apologist who lost his head)
Holt Marvell: Eric Maschwitz (Foolish songwriter)
Hank Marvin: Brian Rankin (singer with The Shadows and The Drifters)
Chico Marx: Leonard Marx (movie actor/comedian/pianist)
Groucho Marx: Julius Henry Marx (movie & tv actor/comedian/writer, b1890 d1977)
Gummo Marx: Milton Marx (movie actor/comedian)
Harpo Marx: Adolph "Arthur" Marx (movie actor/comedian)
Zeppo Marx: Herbert Marx (movie actor/comedian)
Mary: Mary Travers [of Peter, Paul & Mary] (folk singer, b1936)
Mary I: Mary Tudor [aka "Bloody Mary"] (Queen of England & Northern Ireland, 1553-1558)
Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary Stuart (Queen of Scotland, 1542-1567)
Typhoid Mary: Mary Mallon (NY City household cook who was twice feeling a tad under the weather, b1870 d1938)
Mary Ann: Mary Ann Summers (fictitious island castaway/friend of Gilligan)
Masaccio: Tommaso Guidi (Florentine painter, considered a founder of modern art)
J. Mascis: Joseph Mascis (Proto-indie rock musician/singer/bandleader with Dinosaur Jr., B1965)
Ma$e: Mason Durell Betha (hip hop singer)
Jackie Mason: Yokoff Moshe Maza [aka Jacob Masier] (stand-up comedian/stage & tv actor/rabbi, b1931)
Aristide Massaccesi: Joe D'Amato (writer)
Massacio: Tommaso di Ser Giovanni (Italian fresco painter)
Ilona Massey: Ilona Hajmassy (Hungarian singer/movie actress, b1910 d1974)
Master Olympia: Vince Taylor (1996 winner)
Bat Masterson: William Barclay Masterson (legendary western gunman/lawman, b1853 d1921) {who hated birth name of Bartholemew!}
Jerry Mathers: Gerald Patrick Mathers (tv actor/Beaver Cleaver, b1948)
Matisse: Mike (Border Collie co-star of the film Down & Out in Beverly Hills)
Walter Matthau: Walter Matuschanskatasky (movie & tv actor/director, b1920 d2000)
Ian Matthews: Ian Matthews McDonald (British folksinger/songwriter/guitarist, b1946)
W. Somerset Maugham: William Somerset Maugham (French novelist/dramatist/playwright/doctor)
Andre Maurois: Emile Salomon Herzog (French author/biographer, b1885 d1967)
Peter Max: Peter Max Finkelstein (colorful artist)
Robert Maxwell: Jan Ludwick Hoch (Czech-born British publisher/business tycoon, b1923 d1991)
Vera Maxwell: Vera Huppe (American fashion designer)
Elaine May: Elaine Berlin [of Nichols & May comedy team] (comedienne/writer)
Mathilda May: Karima Mathilda Haim (French actress)
Priscilla May: Florence Barker (actress, b1891 d1913) (this was an off-screen pseudonym)
Mayte: Mayte Jannell Garcia (backup singer/wife fit for a Prince)
P.K. McAllister: Paula King (writer)
Ed McBain: Salvatore Lombino [aka Evan Hunter, Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins] (novelist/movie & tv screenwriter, whose work was for The Birds, b1926)
Mercedes McCambridge: Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (actress, b1918)
Joseph R. McCarthy: Joseph Raymond McCarthy (Republican U.S. senator that found Communists everywhere he looked)
Paul McCartney: Sir James Paul McCartney [aka songwriter Bernard Webb] (British singer/songwriter/bass player/Beatle, b1942)
O.B. McClinton: Obie Burnet McClinton (country western performer, b1940 d1987)
Neal McCoy: Hubert Neal McGauhey, Jr. (Irish/Filipino country singer)
* Sylvester McCoy: Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith [aka Kent Smith, Sylveste McCoy] (Scottish-born priest/insurance salesman/Rolling Stones bodyguard/movie & tv actor/director is Who he is, b1943)
Dylan McDermott: Mark McDermott (movie, stage & well-Practiced tv actor, b1961)
Ronald McDonald: King Moody (actor who 1st portrayed the red-headed hamburger pitchman)
Ross McDonald: Kenneth Millar (mystery writer)
Mississippi McDowell: Fred McDowell (blues singer/guitarist, b1904 d1972)
John McEnroe: Patrick John McEnroe, Jr. (professional tennis player)
Gates McFadden: Cheryl Gates McFadden (tv actress, b1949)
Spanky McFarland: George Emmett Robert Phillips (movie actor/gang member, b1928 d1993)
Mike McGear: Michael McCartney (singer/songwriter/photographer/Paul's brother)
Fibber McGee: James Jordan [aka Himself] (radio actor/comedian, b1897 d1961)
Molly McGee: Marion Jordan (radio actress/comedienne, b1898 d1967)
Patrick McGee: Barry Lyndon (movie actor)
Brownie McGhee: Walter McGhee (blues guitarist and actor)
Roger McGuinn: James Joseph McGuinn III (lead rock & roll singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist with The Byrds, b1942)
MCJ: James McQuaid [of MCJ & Cool G] (Canadian rap & blues singer/dancer)
Red McKenzie: William McKenzie (musician/singer/bandleader of Mound City Blue Blowers)
G.A. McKevett: Sonja Massie (author)
Herchel McLandress: John Kenneth Galbraith (Canadian-born American economist)
Marshall McLuhan: Herbert Marshall McLuhan (Canadian writer/professor/medium massager, b1911 d1980)
Horace McMahon: Horace MacMahon (tv actor, b1907 d1971)
Robert S. McNamara: Robert Strange McNamara (banker/U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-68)/president of the World Bank, b1916)
Kristy McNichol: Christina Ann McNichol (movie & tv actress/clothing designer, b1962)
Butterfly McQueen: Thelma McQueen (ballet dancer/Prissy movie actress/radio & tv actress, b1911 d1995) {stage name came from the Butterfly Ballet}
Steve McQueen: Terence Steve McQueen (movie & tv actor/producer, b1930 d1980)
Kitty McShane: Kathleen McShane (Irish movie actress, b1898 d1964)
Vaughn Meader: Abbott Vaughn Meader (entertainer/comedian/JFK voice-impersonator)
Audrey Meadows: Audrey Cotter (stage & tv actress/panelist/cartoon voice, b1924 d1996)
Meat Loaf: Marvin Lee Aday (rock singer, b1947? b1951?)
Tony Meehan: Daniel Meehan (rock & roll drummer/songwriter with The Shadows)
Ralph Meeker: Ralph Rathgeber (movie, stage & tv actor/movie producer, b1920 d1989)
Meiji: Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan, 1868-1912) {Meiji was his reign name}
Meilani: Meilani Paul (actress/Diet-Pepsi spokesmodel, uh-huh)
Golda Meir: Golda Mabovitz Meyerson (Israeli Prime Minister/author, b1898 d1978)
Melanchthon: Philipp Schwarzert 16th-century German scholar/professor)
Melanie: Melanie Safka (pop singer/songwriter/guitarist)
Dame Nellie Melba: Helen Armstrong (Australian coloratura soprano opera singer/prima donna, b1861 d1931)
Larry Bud Melman: Calvert Deforest (portly comic persona known for hanging with David Letterman and dispensing 'Cheap Advice', Hahahahahahahah!)
Jean Pierre Melville: Jean Pierre Grumbach (French film director, b1917 d1973)
Memphis Minnie: Lizzie Douglas (blues singer/composer/guitarist)
Memphis Slim: John Chatman [aka, Peter Chatman] (blues pianist/composer)
Mencius: Meng-tzu (Chinese philosopher, 371-288 B.C.)
H.L. Mencken: Henry Louis Mencken (author/journalist/editor/critic/columnist/satarist/lexicographer)
Felix Mendelssohn: Jakob Ludwig Bartholdy (German musical composer/conductor/musician)
Gerhardus Mercator: Gehard Kremer (16th-century Flemish geographer/cartographer)
Paul Merchant: Harlan Ellison (writer)
Melina Mercouri: Anna Amalia Mercouri (Greek movie & stage actress/member of Greek Parliment (1977-92)/Greek Minister of Culture (1981-89 & 1993-94), b1920 d1994)
Freddie Mercury: Farookh Pluto Bulsara [aka Farookh Bulsara] (rock singer/songwriter/musician/bandleader, b1946 d1991)
Burgess Meredith: George Burgess (extraordinary movie, radio, stage & tv actor, b1908 d1997)
Owen Meredith: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (British poet/politician/viceroy of India, b1831 d1891)
Merenptah: Baenrehotephirmaat (4th pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, 1213-1203BC)
Merlin: Myrddin Emrys (legendary magician at Camelot/a character created by Geoffrey on Monmouth in the 12th century)
Ethel Merman: Ethel Agnes Zimmerman (singer/actress, b1909 d1984)
Varla Jean Merman: Jeffery Roberson (New York City cabaret performer/singer/drag queen)
* Merriam-Webster: George Merriam, Charles Merriam and Noah Webster (lexographers/authors)
David Merrick: David Margulois (stage producer)
Robert Merrill: Moishe Miller (opera baritone, b1919)
Stump Merrill: Carl Harrison Merrill (professional baseball player)
Metallo: John Corben (professor-turned-robotic foe of Superman)
* Method Man: Clifford Smith [aka Shaquan God Allah, Johnny Blaze, Hott Nikkels, Iron Lung] (movie & tv actor/writer/composer, b1971)
Meursault: Patrice Meursault (character in Albert Camus' book The Stranger; the 1st name was only ever mentioned in Camus' journals)
Russ Meyer: Russel Albion Meyer (filmmaker whose softcore titillation cinema generally revolves around Amazonian actresses with improbably large mammory glands, b1922)
Kweisi Mfume: Frizzell Gray [aka Willie Jones?] (U.S. Congressman from Maryland/president of the N.A.A.C.P., b1950) {Swahili for "conquering son of kings"}
George Michael: Georgios Panayiotou Kyriacos (English-born singer/songwriter/guitarist/music producer/hand organist, b1963)
Barbara Michaels: Dr. Barbara Mertz [also uses pseudonym of Elizabeth Peters] (author)
Lorne Michaels: Lorne Michael Lipowitz (movie & tv actor/writer/producer - Saturday Night Live, b1944)
Michelangelo: Michelangelo de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian Renaissance sculpter/painter/architect/poet, b1475)
Michelin Man: Bibendum (portly, retired rubber spokescharacter, b1898) {derived from a Latin verse of Horace}
Michelozzo: Michelozzo di Bartolommeo (Italian architect)
Dr. Mid-Nite: Dr. Charles McNider (fictional superhero)
Mikaila: Mikaila Dominique Enriquez (American singer, b1987)
Mikey: child portrayed in the Life Cereal ads of the 1970's, played by John Gilchrist (Marli Biranna Hughes will play the part in an upcoming revival of the ad campaign)
Lizzie Miles: Elizabeth Landreaux (blues vocalist)
Vera Miles: Vera June Ralston (movie & tv actress, b1930)
Milla: Milla Jovovich (Ukranian singer/songwriter)
Ray Milland: Reginald Alfred Truscott-Jones [aka Spike Mullane] (movie & tv actor/director, b1907 d1986) {name derived from the flat area of land, called mill lands, on the banks of the river where he was born}
Mille: Millicent Small (Jamaican singer/mime-wannabe, b1947)
Ann Miller: Lucille Ann Collier (singer/dancer/movie & stage actress, b1919)
Jason Miller: John Miller (dramatist/playwrite/actor)
Mitch Miller: Mitchell William (musical conductor/composer/arranger/bandleader/tv variety show host/Columbia Records executive, b1911)
Mrs. Miller: Mrs. Lillian Miller [aka "the professional audience"] (permanent audience member on the old Merv Griffin Show, b1898 d1990)
Ned Miller: Henry Miller (country western singer/songwriter)
Rice Miller: Aleck Ford [aka Sonny Boy Williamson after the original died] (blues singer/harmonica player, b1899 d1965)
Milli: Fabrice Morvan [of Milli Vanilli] (Grammy award-losing pop lip-syncher)
Spike Milligan: Terence Alan Milligan (British comedian/singer/actor/writer/Goon)
Claude Milliken: Claudio Lattarizi (writer)
Lucky Millinder: Lucius Millinder (movie actor/composer/bandleader, b1900 d1966)
Hayley Mills: Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (actress)
Sir John Mills: Lewis Ernest Watts (British actor, b1908)
A.A. Milne: Alan Alexander Milne (author of children's books, whose work is often Pooh-Poohed)
Minerva: Orangey (feline movie & tv actor - Our Miss Brooks, Breakfast At Tiffany's)
Minerva: Pallas Athene (goddess of wisdom, knowledge & fine arts) {In Latin: Minerva; in Greek: Pallas, meaning "shake" & Athene, meaning "brandisher of the spear"}
Ho Chi Minh: Nguyen Tat Thanh [aka Nguyen Ai Quoc] (trail-blazing Vietnamese Communist leader, b1890 d1969)
DJ Minutemix: Jarrett Cordes (rhythm & blues singer with PM Dawn, b1971)
Miou-Miou: Sylvette Hery (actress)
Miranda: Ernesto Miranda ($8 thief who commanded the rights stuff)
Carmen Miranda: Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha [nn: The Brazilian Bombshell] (actress/dancer/singer who wore fruit on her head)
Helen Mirren: Yelena Lydia Mironovna [aka Ilynea Lydia Mironoff, Mrs. Taylor Hackford] (British actress, b1945)
Yukio Mishima: Hiraoka Kimitake (Japanese author)
Miss America: Nicole Johnson (Virginia, 1999 winner)
Miss America: Kate Shindle (Illinois, 1998 winner)
Miss America: Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas, 1997 winner)
Miss Asian America: Esther Hwang (1996 winner)
Miss Indian World: Shayai Lucero (Laguna-Acoma Pueblo tribe, New Mexico, 1997 winner)
Miss Nude Canada: Kitty Karlyle (1996 winner)
Miss Teen USA: Shelly Moore (Tennessee, 1997 winner)
Miss Understood: Alexander Heimberg (6' NYC drag queen/entertainer/movie actor)
Miss Universe: Mpule Kwelagobe (Botswana, Planet Earth, 1999 winner, b1980)
Miss Universe: Brook Mahealani Lee (Hawaii, Planet Earth, 1997 winner)
Miss USA: Kimberly Ann Pressler (New York, 1999 winner)
Miss USA: Brook Mahealani Lee (Hawaii, 1997 winner)
Miss Wheelchair USA: Christina M. Gilmore (Texas, 1999)
Miss World: Linor Abargil (Israel, 1998 winner)
Miss World: Diana Hayden (India, 1997 winner)
Mister Olympia: Dorian Yates (England, 1996 winner)
Mistinguett: Jeanne-Marie Bourgeois [nn: Queen of the Paris Music Hall] (French singer/dancer/all-around international entertainer, b1875 d1956)
Cameron Mitchell: Cameron Mizell (movie, stage & tv actor, b1918 d1994)
Clyde Mitchell: Harlan Ellison (writer)
Guy Mitchell: Albert Cernik (singer/actor/variety show host, b1925)
Jay Mitchell: Jennifer Roberson (writer)
Joni Mitchell: Roberta Joan Anderson (Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist, who got her start in the depths of Depression (a local coffee shop), b1943)
M. Mitchell: Maria Mitchell (there once was an astronomer from Nantucket, b1818 d1889)
Mitsou: Mitsou Gelinas (Canadian singer/actress)
* Mittéï: Jean Mariette [aka Hao] (Belgian cartoonist, b1932 d2001)
Mark Mizzark: Marlis Pugh (rap singer with Another Bad Creation)
Keb' Mo': Kevin Moore (blues singer/songwriter)
Moby: Richard Melville Hall (techno-rock musician, b1965)
Modjeska: Helena Opid Modjeska (Polish actress)
Billy Moeller: Cody Wells [aka Whistling Jack Smith] (whistler of Unit Four Plus Two band)
Moliere: Jean Baptiste Poquelin (French comic dramatist/actor, b1622 d1673)
Eddie Money: Edward Mahoney (rock & roll singer/guitarist/songwriter)
Zoot Money: George Bruno Money (British singer/keyboardist with The Animals, b1942)
Monica: Monica Arnold (R&B singer, b1980)
Mo'Nique: Monique Imes Jackson (comedian/tv actress)
Earl Monroe: Vernon Earl Monroe [aka "The Pearl"] (American basketball player, 1967-1980)
Marilyn Monroe: Norma Jean Mortenson [aka Norma Jean Baker, Norma Jean Dougherty] (movie actress/producer/model/singer, b1926 d1962)
Vaughn Monroe: Wilton Monroe (baratone singer/trumpeter/bandleader/movie actor, b1911 d1973)
Cookie Monster: Alistair Cookie (Sesame Street muppet/host of Monsterpiece Theatre)
Montana Slim: Wilf Carter (Canadian musician/singer, b1904 d1996)
Patsy Montana: Ruby Blevins (country western singer/songwriter/yodeler/guitarist)
Yves Montand: Ivo Montand Livi (Italian-born French actor/singer, b1921)
Montcalm: Marquis Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (French general, 1712-1759)
Chris Montez: Christopher Montanez (pop singer)
Lola Montez: Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (Irish dancer/fashion & beauty consultant, b1818 d18??)
Maria Montez: Maria Antonia Garcia Videl de Santo Silas (Spanish actress)
George Montgomery: George Montgomery Letz (movie actor, b1916)
Little Brother Montgomery: Eurreal Montgomery (blues sing/composer/pianist, b1906 d1985)
Robert Montgomery: Henry Montgomery, Jr. (movie actor/director/producer, b1904 d1981)
Catherine Montrose: Catherine Cooke (writer)
Monvel: Jacques Marie Boutet (French actor/comic dramatist, b1745 d1812)
Ron Moody: Ronald Moodnick (English actor/comedian)
Liliquoi Moon: Lisa Bonet (movie & tv actress/songwriter, b1967)
Sailor Moon: Usagi Tsukino (Japanese superhero cartoon character) {"Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon"}
Moondog: Louis Hardin (blind, homeless NYC street jazz musician, b1916) {adapted nickname in honor of his dog, who often howled at the moon}
Clayton Moore: Jack Carlton Moore (movie & tv actor/stuntman known for his portrayal of The Lone Ranger, b1914? d1999)
Colleen Moore: Kathleen Morrison (actress/flapper)
Demi Moore: Demetria Guynes (movie & tv actress/producer, b1962)
Garry Moore: Thomas Garrison Morfit (To Tell The Truth, he was tv personality and game show host, b1915 d1993)
Jessica Moore: Luciana Ottaviani [aka Gilda Germano] (movie actress, b1967)
Julianne Moore: Julie Anne Smith (movie actress, b1961)
* Mandy Moore: Amanda Leigh Moore (musician, b1984)
Scotty Moore: Winfield Moore (rockabilly guitarist/singer, b1931)
Terry Moore: Helen Koford (actress, b1929)
Johnny Moped: Paul Halford (musician)
Alberto Moravia: Alberto Pincherle (Italian writer, often associated with Two Women, b1907 d1990)
Rita Moreno: Rosita Dolores Alverio (actress/singer/dancer)
Cindy Morgan: Cynthia Cichorski (actress)
Frank Morgan: Francis Wupperman (movie actor, b1890 d1949)
Harry Morgan: Harry Bratsburg (movie, stage & tv actor, b1915)
Henry Morgan: Henry Lerner Von Ost, Jr. (comedian/radio actor/movie & tv actor/game show panelist, b1915 d1994)
Jane Morgan: Florence Currier (singer/movie & tv actress, b1880 d1971)
Jane Morgan: Florence Currier (singer, b1920)
Jane Morgan: Rosa Maria Almirall (Spanish actress/director, b1954)
Jaye P. Morgan: Mary Margaret Morgan (singer/actress, b1931)
J.P. Morgan: John Pierpont Morgan (American financier/philanthropist)
Kewpie Morgan: Horace A. Morgan (movie actor)
Lorrie Morgan: Loretta Lynn Morgan (country singer)
Misty Morgan: Maryanne Blanchard (country western singer/keyboardist/songwriter, b1945)
Ralph Morgan: Ralph Wupperman (movie actor, b1882 d1956)
Pat Morita: Noriyuki Morita (movie & tv actor/comedian, b1932)
Morris: Lucky (feline movie actor/initial commercial spokescat for 9 Lives Cat Food - rescued from a Chicago area shelter 20 minutes prior to euthanasia)
Morris: Harry (replacement commercial spokescat for 9 Lives Cat Food)
Bam Morris: Byron Morris (former football player with the Kansas City Chiefs)
Glen Morris: Glenn Morris (athlete/bad actor/9th Tarzan)
Toni Morrison: Chloe Anthony Wofford (novelist/essayist)
Van Morrison: George Ivan Morrison (Irish singer/songwriter/musician, b1945)
Morrissey: Stephen Patrick Morrissey (British rock & roll singer/songwriter, b1959)
Anthony Morton: John Creasey (British mystery writer)
Jelly Roll Morton: Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (jazz pianist/composer/colorful raconteur, b1890 d1941)
William T.G. Morton: William Thomas Green Morton (1st dental surgeon to use ether during an operation (1846), b1819 d1868)
Fab Morvan: Fabrice Morvan (individual that paid lip service to the art of singing, with Milli Vanilli, b1966)
Cactus Moser: Scott Moser (country singer)
Grandma Moses: Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (artist, b1860 d1961)
William R. Moses: William Remington Moses (movie & tv actor, b1959)
Moshoeshoe II: Constantine Bereng Seeiso (sole King of Lesotho with an Oxford education, b1938)
Zero Mostel: Samuel Joel Mostel (movie & stage actor/comedian, b1915 d1977)
Mother Bernadette Mary: Sinead O'Connor (singer/priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a dissident Roman Catholic group)
Mother Teresa: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian nun/missionary/humanitarian, b1910 d1997)
Motorhead: Euclid James Sherwood (rock & roll musician with the Mothers of Invention, b1942)
Motor Man: Leon Caplan (mechanic/host of a syndicated radio show that discusses anything that operates with a motor)
Lord Louis Mountbatten: Lord Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten (British navel officer/war hero/terrorist victim, b1900 d1979)
Mickey Mouse: Mortimer Mouse [aka Steamboat Willie] (animated children's entertain/Rat Pack member) {Walt's wife finally convinced him that Mortimer was too formal a name!}
Allison Moyet: Genevieve Moyet (English singer/songwriter, b1961)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (musical composer)
Ms. Olympia: Kim Chizevsky (1996)
Harry Mudd: Harcourt Fenton Mudd (fictious intergallactic traveller on Star Trek tv show)
Arlo Mudgett: Robert Furman (Vermont humorist & radio personality, b1953)
Patrice Munsel: Patrice Munsil (opera soprano/tv host, b1925)
Benjamin Muhammad: Ben Chavis (Nation of Islam minister/member of NC Wilmington 10)
Elijah Muhammad: Elijah Poole (religious leader/founder of Black Muslim organization)
Mancow Muller: Erich Muller (radio shock-jock)
Moon Mullican: Aubrey Mullican [nn: King of the Hillbilly Piano Players] (country singer/pianist/bandleader)
+ Multatuli: Eduard Douwes Dekker (Dutch writer, b1820 d1887) {NdG intended to mean "I have suffered a lot"}
Paul Muni: Muni Weisenfreund (actor)
Duncan H. Munroe: Eric Frank Russell (sci-fi author)
Lady Murasaki: Murasaki Shikibu (Japanese novelist & court figure of the Fujiwara period)
Rupert Murdoch: Keith Rupert Murdoch (businessman/publisher/media mogul who is crazy like a Fox)
Murph the Surf: Jack Murphy (convicted Florida jewel thief that stole the 563-carat Star of India sapphire in 1964)
Murray: Maui (Collie-mix mutt who co-stars on the TV show "Mad About You")
Arthur Murray: Arthur Teichman (dancing instructor/tv variety show host)
Jan Murray: Murray Janowski (movie & tv actor/tv game show host, b1917)
Mae Murray: Marie Adrienne Koenig (actress)
Edward R. Murrow: Egbert Roscoe Murrow (newscaster/journalist/commentator who would talk a mile for a Camel)
Fakir Musafar: Roland Loomis (advertising executive/body modification {e.g., piercing} guru, b1930)
Musashimaru: Fiamalu Penitani (Hawaiian sumo wrestler)
Story Musgrave: Dr. Franklin Story Musgrave (U.S. astronaut/NASA scientist, b1935)
A.J. Muste: Abraham Johannes Muste (Dutch Protestant clergyman/social activist/a co-founder of the A.C.L.U., b1885 d1967)
J.C. Mutt: Marcel Duchamp [aka R. Mutt] (famous Dada artist/prankster, who pissed off the artistic community in New York in 1917)
Eadweard Muybridge: Edward James Muggeridge (British photographer)
Mya: Mya Harrison (singer/songwriter/actress, b1979)
Myanmar: Burma (southeast Asian country - name change voted in in 1989 {wonder if it won by a close shave?})
Dee Dee Myers: Margaret J. Myers (former Presidential Press Secretary (1993-94)/political analyst & commentator)
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