Countries  |  Italy

Raffaello Merolle

Person, Italy

Alice Meynell

Poet and journalist.  Alice Thompson was born in Barnes.  Her paternal grandmother was an unmarried Creole.  Educated with her sister entirely by their father as they lived a peripatetic life mainl...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Poetry, Italy

Michelangelo

Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.

Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy

Giulio Mignosi

Person, Italy

Mary of Modena

Second wife of King James II. Born in the Duchy of Modena, Italy. She lost five children in infancy, before giving birth in 1688 to James Francis Edward Stuart (the future 'Old Pretender'). News of...

Person, Royalty, France, Italy

Sir Moses Montefiore

Philanthropist and Jewish leader. Born Italy, brought up in London. Married into the Rothschild family.

Person, Philanthropy, Religion, Israel/Palestine, Italy

Field Marshal Montgomery

Army Commander. Born Bernard Law Montgomery, son of Sir H. H. Montgomery, in St Mark's Vicarage, Kennington Oval, or Kensington, Knightsbridge, depending on source. Spent the early years of his lif...

Person, Armed Forces, Seriously Famous, Australia, Egypt, France, Italy

John Pierpont Morgan

International banker and philanthropist. Inherited a fortune from his father Junius S. Morgan and then made so much more that his wealth was only exceeded by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie...

Person, Commerce, Philanthropy, Italy, USA

Samuel Morse

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA. He was an artist who travelled to Italy, Switzerland ,France and England where in 1811 he gained admittance...

Person, Art, Science, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA

Carlo Moscatelli

Person, Italy