English Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a British Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Ol

Is a British Olympic fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Was an English breaststroke and freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer

Was an English breaststroke and freestyle swimmer who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

An English singer, best known for her sometimes quirky, early 1960s influenced pop music songs, and

An English singer, best known for her sometimes quirky, early 1960s influenced pop music songs, and her (former) trademark beehive hairdo.Produced by Tot Taylor's Compact label she enjoyed six chart hits in the UK in the early 1980s, including her biggest hit, the #8 chart hit "Just What I Always Wanted", performed with jazz bands, and sang the theme-song to the TV sitcom Coupling, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" and contributed the song "Cry me a River" to the crime drama series McCallum. In 1985 she performed the song "Dance with a Stranger" for the film of the same name and turned her career towards live performances. Although for a while she distanced herself from her beehive days, she started touring with her old songs again in 2007. In 1992 the album "The Rhythm Romance" which combined classic Jazz standards with 60s songs and original material did not find the success critics said it deserved as the record company did not have sufficient funds to promote it.

Is a female English snooker player. In the 2008 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough

Is a female English snooker player. In the 2008 season she won the British Open and the Connie Gough National Championship. In December 2002, she was ranked number four in the world.

A English actress of television and musical theatre.She first gained fame when she won an Olivier Aw

A English actress of television and musical theatre.She first gained fame when she won an Olivier Award for her one-woman cabaret, Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement and another Olivier Award starring in Stephen Sondheim's Passion in 1996, and later became one of the main leading ladies on the London Stage. She would later star in Chicago and Ragtime, both on the West End.As previews for The Woman in White started for the Broadway production, she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and left the show to have surgery to have the lump removed. Less than a week after the surgery she returned to the stage for the previews and performed on the official opening night. She said she would begin radiation treatment for the cancer in December 2005.[3] The Broadway production closed after only 109 performances on 22 February 2006, in part due to her and co-star Michael Ball's frequent absences due to illness.

An English singer who appeared and came 8th on the second edition of The X Factor.Before finding fam

An English singer who appeared and came 8th on the second edition of The X Factor.Before finding fame on the prime-time TV show, The X Factor, Lawson was discovered by Active Music Management, who obtained her first record deal with President Records and her first publishing deal. Her first single was "A Night to Remember" which was used by the Gala Bingo Advert, after the producers of the advert thought that her version was better than the original[citation needed]. Lawson was in a band called Skye [1]. This band was managed by Lawson's husband, Lawrence Garry. Kyra Simone provided backing vocals, Mark Coutier and Mark Hubden played guitar, Evgeni Vachov was on bass and the drums were courtesy of Ramy Abood. Two of the Skye tracks include "Woman's Intuition" and "Body & Soul".

An English dancer and singer who has been a member of the bands Solid HarmoniE and the Honeyz but st

An English dancer and singer who has been a member of the bands Solid HarmoniE and the Honeyz but started her career as a dancer.. She started as a dancer in 1995 in the ITV show, The Ant & Dec Show together with Beki Onslow. They started the girl group Solid HarmoniE with Melissa Graham in 1996. She left the group in late 1996 to return in mid 1997. In early 1999, she and Melissa Graham left Solid HarmoniE and she joined the girl band Honeyz, replacing Heavenli Abdi. Goodman left the Honeyz in 2000, she toured in USA with O-Town. Since then, Goodman stepped out of the public eye.

Is a garden and portrait photographer based in London. She is one of Europe's leading specialist gar

Is a garden and portrait photographer based in London. She is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers.[1] Her company, Marianne Majerus Garden Images, is one of the major providers of garden images to the media in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Daughter of Nicolas Majerus (Luxembourgish heart specialist and politician) and Blanche Baron, she grew up in the town of Esch-sur-Alzette with her brother and sister. After taking her international baccalaureate at the Lycée Hubert Clément she left for England to further her studies.

An English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans five decades. Her early work i

An English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans five decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the landmark album, Broken English. Faithfull's subsequent work, very frequently the subject of great critical acclaim, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.

Was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854-1935

Was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854-1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Marianne Stokes was considered one of the leading artists in Victorian England. [1]Preindlsberger first studied in Munich under Lindenschmidt and having been awarded a scholarship for her first picture, 'Muttergluck', she worked in France under Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), Colin and Gustave Courtois (1853-1923). She painted in the countryside and Paris, and, as with many other young painters, fell under the spell of the rustic naturalist Jules Bastien-Lepage. Her style continued to show his influence even when her subject matter changed from rustic to medieval romantic and biblical. [2] While in France she met the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, in whose company she visited Pont-Aven in 1883.

Is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1960s. Competing two Summer Olympics, sh

Is a British sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1960s. Competing two Summer Olympics, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m events at both games (1960: fourth place, 1964: fifth place).

Is a British waterskier. She was a member of the British Waterski Team from 1991 to 2004, after whic

Is a British waterskier. She was a member of the British Waterski Team from 1991 to 2004, after which she took a break from the sport, returning in 2007 to win the British National Slalom Championship in the 25–35 age group. She was the European under-21

Is an English former international women's footballer. She played 91 times for England. Spacey made

Is an English former international women's footballer. She played 91 times for England. Spacey made her debut for England against Belgium in 1984.[1] She went on to play 91 times for her country, scoring 28 goals before retiring in 2001. She played in all four of England's games at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Is a British ice dancer. With her first partner, Justin Lanning, she won the gold medal at the Briti

Is a British ice dancer. With her first partner, Justin Lanning, she won the gold medal at the British Ice Figure and Dance Championships in 1992. She then teamed up with Philip Askew to win the British title in 1995 and 1996. In 1998, she teamed up with

A singer songwriter who also plays piano, violin, clarinet and guitar. She is of Eritrean, Italian,

A singer songwriter who also plays piano, violin, clarinet and guitar. She is of Eritrean, Italian, Welsh and English extraction.She started writing songs at the age of 11, after being bullied at school. After attending Blackpool and The Fylde College's School of Performing Arts she pursued a career in nursing and moved to London to work at the Florence Nightingale Hospital for eating disorders.In 2002, after two record deals had fallen through, she successfully auditioned and was chosen to appear on the BBC talent show Fame Academy 1. She impressed the judges in week one by singing the Ednaswap song Torn, made famous by Natalie Imbruglia, which garnered her Star Pupil. She was also praised for her duets, Fields of Gold (Sting) with Malachi Cush and Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) with Ainslie Henderson. She was put on probation and was voted out of the academy in week five after singing Tracks of My Tears

Was an accomplished photo-journalist and ordained Buddhist nun.[1] Hers would be an eventful life, a

Was an accomplished photo-journalist and ordained Buddhist nun.[1] Hers would be an eventful life, and she is said to have proclaimed with undeniable truth: "I can say that I did it all.

Is an English show-jumper. She competed for Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics, winning a sil

Is an English show-jumper. She competed for Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the individual jumping event.

She was a popular British singer in the 1950's.Once called "the Marilyn Monroe of popular song" she

She was a popular British singer in the 1950's.Once called "the Marilyn Monroe of popular song" she was a pop singer of the 1950's in the early years of British Independent Television. She was the regular singer in the popular musical quiz "[2]", on Granada Television for 7 years from 1956, with a total of 209 half-hour programmes. Several star hosts including disc-jockey Pete Murray, the Canadian pop singer Jackie Rae, and the comedians Ken Platt and Ted Ray. The big band in support was that of Peter Knight and his Orchestra. She made one brief appearance as herself in a feature film with singer Tommy Steele[3]. THe show re-emerged in the 1970s as "Name That Tune".

Was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted over fifty years.near Birmingham, she stu

Was an English radio actress and singer. Her career lasted over fifty years.near Birmingham, she studied Voice at the Royal College of Music in London between 1927 and 1930. During the 1930s she made many radio broadcasts as a soprano from the BBC studios at Birmingham. By the late 1930s she had moved into acting as well as singing. This led in 1942 to a small part in Francis Durbridge's Paul Temple Intervenes.In 1945 she took on the role of Paul's wife, Steve Temple, and continued to play the part until the serials came to an end in 1968. The broadcast of many of the surviving Paul Temple serials on BBC7 has introduced a younger audience to her work, and led to a revival of interest in her.

Is a British grindcore singer, who has been a member of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Bened

Is a British grindcore singer, who has been a member of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Benediction.While out of Napalm Death, during 1998, Greenway started a band called Nothing But Comtempt with Cancer's drummer Carl Stokes. After Stokes left Not

Is an English professional golfer, best known for being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship

Is an English professional golfer, best known for being disqualified from the 2003 Open Championship for a scorecard error.Roe played for 21 years on the European Tour between 1985 and 2006,winning three tournaments and over £2 million in prize money.

Was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a bu

Was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher; he was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver.

Is a cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, his county of birth. He attended King Edward

Is a cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, his county of birth. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham where he played alongside Anurag Singh. Having originally played first class cricket for Oxford University, captaining them in 1997 a

Played first-class cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club and subsequently Middlesex County Cricket

Played first-class cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club and subsequently Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1983 and 1996. An all-rounder, his right-arm medium-fast bowling was insufficiently penetrative for him to reach the highest level, as his car

Is an English swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres.He is a specialist short

Is an English swimmer, specialising in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres.He is a specialist short course (25 metre pool) swimmer. In terms of medals and longevity (1986-2006)(2007-?), Foster is amongst the most successful British swimmers of all-time.