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- Edward Henry Madge (1901–1970), from Great Britain
- Virginia Orr Maes (1920-1986), American malacologist associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
- August Wilhelm Malm
- Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (Ernesto) (1893–1968), from Germany/Brazil, a spouse of Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus
- Eveline Agnes du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1901–1990), from Germany/Brazil
- Jan Marcus (Jacob) (1702–1750), from Netherlands
- Patrick Marshall (1869–1950), geologist in New Zealand
- Eduard von Martens
- Friedrich Wilhelm Martini
- Thomas Martyn
- James Hamilton McLean
- J. C. McConnell
- Albert Raymond Mead (1915–2009), American malacologist specialist in Achatinidae
- Karl Theodor Menke
- Friedrich Christian Meuschen
- Louis André Gaspard Michaud (1795–1880), French malacologist, also known as Gaspard Michaud and as A. L. G. Michaud
- Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (1795–1861), from the USA
- Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783-1873), from France
- Adolph Modéer
- Otto Franz von Möllendorff (1848–1903), German malacologist
- Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato (1841–1927), from Italy
- Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878), from Sweden, Denmark and France
- Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805-1890), from France and Switzerland
- Robert C. Murdoch
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