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- Machaon - Spartan general
- Machon - New Comedy poet
- Marcellinus - two writers
- Marcellus of Side - physician and poet
- Marinus - philosopher
- Marsyas of Pella - writer
- Matris of Thebes - rhetor
- Matron of Pitane - parodist
- Maximus of Smyrna - anatomist and philosopher
- Megacles - numerous; archon of Athens, Athenian statesman, various other Athenians
- Megasthenes - traveller
- Meidias - Athenian potter
- Melanippides - poet
- Melanthius - three; tragedian, painter, writer
- Melas - sculptor
- Meleager of Gadara - poet and anthologist
- Meleager of Macedon - King of Macedon
- Melesagoras of Chalcedon - writer
- Meletus - two; tragedian, son
- Melinno - poetess
- Melissus of Samos - Eleatic philosopher
- Memnon of Heraclea Pontica - historian
- Memnon of Rhodes - military leader
- Menaechmus - mathematician
- Menander - playwright
- Menander the Just - Indo-Greek king
- Menander of Ephesus - writer
- Menander of Laodicea - writer
- Menecrates of Ephesus - poet
- Menecrates of Xanthus - historian
- Menedaius - Spartan general
- Menedemus of Eretria - poet
- Menedemus (Cynic) - Cynic philosopher
- Menelaus (sculptor) - sculptor
- Menelaus of Alexandria - mathematician
- Menestor - botanical writer
- Menexenus - student of Socrates
- Menippus - satirist
- Menippus of Pergamum - writer on geography
- Meno - student of Aristotle
- Menodotus - writer
- Menodotus of Nicomedia - medical writer
- Mentor of Rhodes - military leader
- Mesatos - tragedian
- Metagenes - Athenian comic writer
- Meton - astronomer
- Metrodorus - five:
- Metrodorus of Chios - philosopher
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the elder) - philosopher
- Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) - philosopher
- Metrodorus of Scepsis - writer
- Metrodorus of Stratonicea - philosopher
- Miciades - Corcyrean general
- Micciades - sculptor
- Micon - Athenian painter and sculptor
- Milo of Croton - athlete
- Miltiades - numerous; archon of Athens, Athenian general, various other Athenians
- Mimnermus - poet
- Mindarus - Spartan general
- Mnasalces - writer
- Mnaseas - traveller
- Mnesicles - architect
- Mnesimachus - Middle Comedy poet
- Moderatus - philosopher
- Moeris - Attic lexicographer
- Moiro - poetess
- Morsimus - poet
- Moschion (tragic poet) - tragedian
- Moschion (physician) - physician
- Moschus - poet
- Musaeus - three poets
- Myia - daughter of Pythagoras
- Myron - sculptor
- Myronides - Athenian general
- Myrsilus - historian
- Myrtilus - Athenian comic poet
- Myrtis - Boeotian poetess
- Myrtis - Athenian girl, whose remains were discovered in 1994–1995
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