Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer, mystic and Freemason. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). In 1934 he founded the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.
Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.
Manuel María del Pilar Eduardo de Gorostiza y Cepeda was a Mexican Spanish writer, dramatist and diplomat. He was the son of Pedro Fernández de Gorostiza, governor of the port of Veracruz, and the poet Rosario Cepeda. Gorostiza was in 1824 the first Mexican ambassador to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Later he was ambassador in London. Gorostiza was the Mexican envoy to the United States in 1836 with the mission to halt the support of Washington to Texas. As Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1838 and 1839 he had to deal with the Republic of Texas.
Manuel Maria Barbosa l'Hedois du Bocage foi um poeta nacional português e, possivelmente, o maior representante do arcadismo lusitano. Embora ícone deste movimento literário, é uma figura inserida num período de transição do estilo clássico para o estilo romântico que terá forte presença na literatura portuguesa do século XIX. Era primo em segundo grau do zoólogo José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage.
Marah Ellis Ryan, also known as Ellis Martin, was an author, actress, and activist from the United States. She was considered an authority on Native Americans after living with the Hopi.
Marc Elder, nom de plume de Marcel Auguste Tendron, né à Nantes le 31 octobre 1884 et mort à Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine le 16 août 1933, est un écrivain de langue française, lauréat du prix Goncourt 1913.
Marc Lescarbot, né à Vervins (Aisne) vers 1570 et mort à Presles-et-Boves (Aisne) en 1641, est un érudit, avocat, voyageur, écrivain et courtisan originaire de Picardie.
