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Marilyn Vann is a Cherokee Nation engineer and activist who is the first citizen of Freedmen descent to be appointed to a government commission within the Cherokee Nation. She has served on the Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission since 2021.
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Marimba Ani (born Dona Richards) is an anthropologist and African Studies scholar best known for her work Yurugu, a comprehensive critique of European thought and culture, and her coining of the term "Maafa" for the African holocaust.
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Mário Américo (July 28, 1912 – April 9, 1990) was a Brazilian massage therapist, physical educator, and politician.
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Marion Lee Johnson is an American mathematician whose work was crucial to the landing of the Apollo 11 mission. She was a mathematician on the Boeing/NASA team, where she worked in preparing data for the vehicle impact trajectories. Her perfect score over…
1920–2022
Marion Mann (March 29, 1920 – August 20, 2022) was an American physician and pathologist. He was a Dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University from 1970 to 1979.
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Marion Patrick Jones (16 August 1931 – 2 March 2016) was a Trinidadian novelist, whose training was in the fields of library science and social anthropology. She is also known by the names Marion Glean and Marion O'Callaghan (her married name). Living in…
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Marissa Kawehi Loving is an American theoretical mathematician. In 2022, she joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as the Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Loving, who is both native Hawaiʻian and Black, was the first woman faculty member from a…
1896–1994
Marjorie Joyner (née Stewart; October 24, 1896 – December 27, 1994) was an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, philanthropist, educator, and activist. Joyner is noted for being the first African-American woman to create and patent a permanent…
1914–1979
Marjorie Lee Browne (September 9, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a mathematics educator. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics.
1957–
Dean holds three of IBM's original nine patents for the personal computer and helped develop the color PC monitor and the ISA bus that let devices connect to computers.
1970–
Mark Edwin Lewis (born 1970) is an American industrial engineer and professor at Cornell University. He was the first African-American faculty member hired in Industrial Engineering at University of Michigan and the first tenured African-American faculty…
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Sir Mark Phillip Hendrick (born 2 November 1958) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston since 2000. Hendrick was previously elected to the Lancashire Central constituency as a Member of the…
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Marques Keith Brownlee ( mar-KEZ BROWN-lee; born December 3, 1993), known professionally as MKBHD, is an American influencer, tech reviewer, postcaster and professional ultimate frisbee player, best known for his YouTube videos reviewing technology…
1906–1961
Marron William Fort (June 11, 1906 – September 18, 1961) was an American chemist who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in any engineering field. He also was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of…
1980–
Marshall Leonard (born December 29, 1980, in El Paso, Texas) is an American soccer defender and midfielder, who last played for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Leonard is African American. He attended high school in Columbus, Georgia,…
1970–
Marta Dark McNeese is an American physicist and professor at Spelman College. She was the first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on laser interactions with biological…
1951–
Martha E. Banks (born July 1951) is a retired clinical psychologist known her expertise on issues involving women, race, trauma, disability, religion, and their intersectionality. She is a research neuropsychologist and computer programmer at ABackans DCP…
1870–1968
Martha Minerva Franklin (October 29, 1870 – September 26, 1968) was an African-American nurse, one of the first people to campaign for racial equality in nursing.
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Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an American abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer, and writer. Delany was an early and influential proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of…
1931–2019
Martin Luther Kilson Jr. (February 14, 1931 – April 24, 2019) was an American political scientist. He was the first black academic to be appointed a full professor at Harvard University, where he was later the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from…
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Martin L. Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his…
1962–
Martin Jamie Roach (born July 15, 1962) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his live-action roles as T. Abner Hall in the Disney XD television series Aaron Stone (2009–2010), Mike in the science-fiction television series Falling Skies (2011), Admiral…
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Mary Antona Ebo, FSM, (born Elizabeth Louise "Betty Lou" Ebo; April 10, 1924 – November 11, 2017) was an American nun, hospital administrator, and civil rights activist. She was the first African-American woman to head a Catholic hospital, and is known for…
1920–1992
Mary Zoner Hurston Barksdale Lawes (November 24, 1920 - October 9, 1992 ) was a prominent African-American nurse and businesswoman. She was the owner and administrator, for twenty-seven years, of the Hurstdale Rest Home, the only black-owned rest home in…
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