1869–1948 · Modern
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Thought
Thinker of satyagraha and disciplined nonviolence.
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1138–1204 · Medieval
Maimonides
Philosophy
Integrated Jewish law, Aristotelian philosophy, medicine, ethics, and disciplined negative theology.
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1925–1965 · Contemporary
Malcolm X
Political Thought
Thinker of Black dignity, self-defense, Islam, and transformation.
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1887–1940 · Modern
Marcus Garvey
Political Thought
Pan-African organizer of Black pride, self-reliance, and return.
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1911–1980 · Modern
Marshall McLuhan
Media Theory
Media theorist of technology, perception, and the global village.
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1947–present · Contemporary
Martha Nussbaum
Philosophy
Gave global justice a practical language of capabilities, dignity, emotion, and human flourishing.
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1878–1965 · Modern
Martin Buber
Philosophy
Made genuine encounter and relation a central philosophical and spiritual category.
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1889–1976 · Modern
Martin Heidegger
Philosophy
Reoriented philosophy toward Being, finitude, authenticity, care, and the technological disclosure of the world.
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1929–1968 · Contemporary
Martin Luther King Jr.
Political Thought
Leader of nonviolent civil rights, justice, and beloved community.
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1868–1933 · Modern
Mary Parker Follett
Social Thought
Thinker of power-with, management, democracy, and creative conflict.
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1759–1797 · Enlightenment
Mary Wollstonecraft
Philosophy
Argued that women’s equality depends on education, reason, dignity, and equal moral agency.
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1908–1961 · Contemporary
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Philosophy
Phenomenologist of embodiment, perception, and the lived world.
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1864–1920 · Modern
Max Weber
Sociology
Sociologist of authority, bureaucracy, rationalization, and meaning.
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c. 372–289 BCE · Classical
Mencius
Philosophy
Confucian thinker of human goodness and moral cultivation.
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1953–present · Contemporary
Michael Sandel
Political Philosophy
Public philosopher of justice, markets, and civic life.
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1926–1984 · Contemporary
Michel Foucault
Philosophy
Showed how institutions, discourse, knowledge, and power shape subjects, bodies, norms, and truth regimes.
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1912–2006 · Modern
Milton Friedman
Economics
Economist of monetarism, markets, and individual choice.
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1950–present · Contemporary
Mogobe Ramose
Philosophy
Argued that ubuntu is a serious philosophical framework for being, law, community, and justice.
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c. 470–391 BCE · Classical
Mozi
Philosophy
Ancient Chinese philosopher of impartial care and anti-war ethics.
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1877–1938 · Modern
Muhammad Iqbal
Philosophy
Joined poetry and philosophy to rethink Muslim selfhood, freedom, and renewal in a modern world.
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