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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)
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