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- Ma Hezhi (artist)
- Maat (Egyptian goddess)
- Macbeth (king from Shakespeare's tragedy)
- Macbeth, Donald (photographer)
- Mackintosh, Charles Rennie (architect, designer and artist)
- Maclaine, James (highwayman)
- Maclise, Daniel (artist)
- Macrinus (Roman emperor)
- Madden, Sir Frederic (Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum)
- Magnentius (Roman emperor)
- Mah K'ina Skull II (Maya ruler)
- Mahadevi Vilasa Devi (Sena queen)
- Mahakala (Buddhist protective figure, dharmapala)
- Mahapatra, Jaggarnath (artist)
- Maharana Jai Singh (Rajput ruler)
- Mahashveta (Hindu goddess)
- Mahasthamaprapta (Buddhist bodhisattva)
- Mahavidya (Buddhist goddess)
- Mahavira (Jain tirthankara)
- Mahdaoui, Nja (artist)
- Mahendrakumara (Hindu god)
- Mahisha (Hindu demon)
- Mahmud I (Ottoman sultan)
- Maitreya (Buddhist bodhisattva)
- Malik Shah (Seljuq sultan)
- Mallowan, Max (archaeologist)
- Mamaki (Buddhist goddess)
- Man, Felix (photojournalist)
- Mandela, Nelson (black leader and president of South Africa)
- Manderson, Thomas (glassmaker)
- Manet, Edouard (artist)
- Manetho (Egyptian historian and priest)
- Manin, Ludovico (doge of Venice)
- Manjushri (Buddhist bodhisattva)
- Manohar (artist)
- Mantegna, Andrea (artist)
- Manuel I Comnenus (Byzantine emperor)
- Mao Zedong (Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party)
- Mao, Zedong (chairman of the People's Republic of China)
- Marchand, David le (sculptor)
- Marchant, Nathaniel (gem engraver)
- Marchi, Luigi (artist)
- Marcks, Gerhard (sculptor and designer)
- Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
- Marduk (Babylonian god)
- Marduk-nadin-ahhe (king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin)
- Margaret (queen of England)
- Margaret of Antioch (Christian saint)
- Maria Theresa (archduchess of Austria)
- Mark (Christian saint)
- Mark Antony (Roman general and triumvir)
- Mars (Roman god)
- Marsyas Painter (vase painter)
- Martin, David (artist)
- Martin, John (artist)
- Maruyama ōkyo (artist)
- Maruyama ōshin (artist)
- Mary (mother of Jesus Christ)
- Mary I (queen of England)
- Mary Magdalene (Christian saint)
- Masaaki (netsuke maker)
- Masanao (netsuke carver)
- Master ES (artist)
- Master FVB (artist)
- Master of the Chora (artist)
- Master of the London Satyr (gem engraver)
- Masuyama Sessai (artist)
- Matilda ('queen' of England)
- Matisse, Henri (artist)
- Matsumara Keibun (artist)
- Matsuno Chikanobu (artist)
- Matsya (incarnation of Vishnu)
- Matthew (Christian saint)
- Maudslay, Alfred P. (archaeologist)
- Maussollos (Hekatomnid satrap of Karia)
- Maximian (Roman emperor)
- Maximilian I (Holy Roman emperor)
- Maximus, Magnus (Roman military commander)
- Maya (queen, mother of the Buddha)
- Mayerne, Sir Theodore (royal doctor)
- McDaniel Painter (vase painter)
- Meckenem, Israhel van (artist)
- Medea (devotee of the goddess Hecate)
- Medici, Cosimo I de' (grand duke of Tuscany)
- Medici, Francesco de' (grand duke of Tuscany)
- Medici, Giuliano de'
- Medici, Lorenzo de', 'Il Magnifico' (ruler of Florence)
- Medusa (mythological creature)
- Meidias (potter)
- Meidias Painter (vase painter)
- Meissen, Agnes II von (abbess of Quedlinburg)
- Mékaisto, or Red Crow (chief of the Kainai, or Blood people)
- Meleager (mythological figure)
- Melillo, Giacinto (jeweller)
- Meli-shipak (Kassite king of Babylonia)
- Mellan, Claude (artist)
- Mellor, Thomas (craftsman)
- Memnon (king of Ethiopia)
- Menander (Indo-Greek king)
- Menas (Christian saint)
- Mennicken, Jan Emens (potter)
- Mentuhotep II (king of Egypt)
- Menzies, Archibald (botanist and surgeon)
- Mercator, Michael (silversmith)
- Mercury (Roman god)
- Merenptah (king of Egypt)
- Merian, Maria Sibylla (artist)
- Merymose (viceroy of Kush)
- Meryrahashtef (Egyptian tomb owner)
- Meshkenet (Egyptian goddess)
- Metsys, Quentin (artist)
- Micali Painter (vase painter)
- Micali, Guiseppe (archaeologist)
- Michael (Archangel)
- Michael III (Byzantine emperor)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (artist)
- Mictlantecuhtli (Aztec god)
- Milarepa (Tibetan saint)
- Millais, Sir John Everett (artist)
- Millet, Jean François (artist)
- Min (Egyptian god)
- Minamoto Masakatsu (metalworker)
- Minamoto no Yoritomo (Kamakura shogun)
- Minamoto Yorimitsu (Japanese warrior)
- Minerva (Roman goddess)
- Mithradates I (king of Parthia)
- Mithras (Persian god)
- Miyagawa Chōshun (artist)
- Mladenovic, Branco (Serbastocrator)
- Morel, Léon (archaeologist)
- Morgan, Octavius (collector)
- Morrison, Arthur (novelist and collector)
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (composer)
- Müller, William James (artist)
- Mursili II (king of Hatti)
- Mut (Egyptian goddess)
- Mutemwia (queen of Egypt)
- Muziano, Girolamo (artist)
- Myōchin family (metalworkers)
- Myron (sculptor)