Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his action hero roles,particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series Lethal Weapon.
Melanie Janine Brown,commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B,is an English singer,songwriter,television personality,and actress. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s as a member of the pop girl group the Spice Girls,in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide,the group became the best-selling female group of all time.
Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who,which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 October 1987.
Melvin Emery Patton was an American sprinter,who set the world record of 9.2 seconds in the 100 yard dash in 1948. He also set a 220 yd world record in 1949 on a straightaway of 20.2,breaking the record held by Jesse Owens.
Melvin Jack Hein,nicknamed "Old Indestructible",was an American professional football player. In the era of one-platoon football,he played as a center and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963 as part of the first class of inductees. He was also named to the National Football League (NFL) 75th,and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams.
James Melville "Mel" White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s,1970s,and 1980s,writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell,Pat Robertson,and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right,he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians,gays,bisexuals,and transgender people,also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.
Melvin John Ramos was an American figurative painter,specializing most often in paintings of female nudes,whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.
Orville Vogel (1907–1991) was an American scientist and wheat breeder whose research enabled the "Green Revolution" in world food production.
Melvin T. Mason is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1984 United States presidential election.
Melvin Dean Gray is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 1971 to 1982. He attended college at the University of Missouri.
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels,short stories,plays,and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22,a satire on war and bureaucracy,whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Matthew Haynes Vogel is a swim coach of over forty years,an American former competition swimmer for the University of Tennessee,a 1976 Olympic gold medalist in the butterfly and medley relay,and a former world record-holder in the 4x100-meter medley relay event.
California's 44th State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Laura Friedman of Glendale.
Irving "Speed" Vogel was an American sculptor,painter,and co-author,along with Joseph Heller,of the best-selling memoir,No Laughing Matter.
Snow Chief was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
Mitchel L. "Mitch" Vogel is an American former child actor,musician and director. As of 2023,he is one of two surviving main cast members from Bonanza,next to Tim Matheson.
The 1948 NCAA Track and Field Championships were held in Minneapolis,Minnesota in June 1948. The University of Minnesota won the team title. Two NCAA meet records were broken,and one American record was tied,at the event. Fortune Gordien was the high point scorer for Minnesota as he won the discus thrown and finished second in the shot put,accounting for 18 of Minnesota's points.
The 1963 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of American football players chosen by the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI) as the best college football players by position in the Pacific Coast region during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season.
Johannes Vogel is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.
