Grandmaster Flash split from the group after contract disputes between Mele Mel and their promoter Sylvia Robinson in regard to royalties for " The Message ".

Grandmaster Mele Mel & Scorpio-Sleepwalkers

* Radio interview with Mele Mel on NPR

Born in The Bronx, New York, The Kidd Creole ( aka Nathaniel Glover Jr .) and his brother Mele Mel ( aka Melvin Glover ) joined up with the late Keith Cowboy ( aka Robert Keith Wiggins ) in 1975 to form the Three Emcees, with Grandmaster Flash ( aka Joseph Saddler ) as the group's DJ.

When Flash brought his turntables and speakers in to the parks Mele Mel, Cowboy who is credited with coining the term " hip hop " and The Kidd Creole talked on the microphone ( Mele Mel and The Kidd Creole wrote the first hip hop style rhymes ).

Sabath Anthony " Sam " Mele ( born January 21, 1922 in Astoria, New York ) is a former right fielder, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball.

Members of the Hawthorne Borough Council are Council President John Bertollo ( Ward 2, 2011 ), Council Vice President Bruce Bennett ( at large, 2013 ), Frank E. Matthews ( Ward 4, 2015 ), John Lane ( at large, 2013 ), Dominic Mele ( at large, 2013 ), Gary Sinning ( Ward 3, 2015 ) and Joseph Wojtecki ( Ward 1, 2015 ).

* Alphonse Van Mele ( 1891 – 1972 ), a Belgian gymnast

Long and David Sedley ( 1987 ), the philosopher Alfred Mele ( 1995 ), the astrophysicist and philosopher Bob Doyle ( inventor ) ( 2008 ), and most recently, the neurogeneticist and biologist Martin Heisenberg ( 2009 ), son of the physicist Werner Heisenberg, whose quantum indeterminacy principle lies at the foundation of indeterministic physics.

In the United States, scholarship and reconstruction of the techniques of the Italian fencing masters was initiated by the founders of various HEMA schools and academies, such as Brian R. Price of the Schola Saint George and Bob Charron of St. Martin's Academy ( both studying Fiore dei Liberi ), and Gregory Mele of the Chicago Swordplay Guild ( studying Vadi ).

Mele won the Eastern League Most Valuable Player award, leading the league in average (. 342 ), total bases and triples.

During his playing days ( 1947 – 56 ), Mele saw duty with six major league clubs: the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians, batting. 267 with 80 home runs in 1, 046 games.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

Mel Trotter who established a chain of rescue missions during his lifetime, was born in the village on May 16, 1870 and lived there until he was five years old when his family moved to Polo, Illinois.

* Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri ( 1993 – 2000 ), the only person to be posthumously elected to the U. S. Senate was born in Birch Tree.

* Grandmaster Melle Mel, Melvin Glover ( born 1961 ), hip-hop musician

Notable people who were born in Epsom include television personalities Jeremy Vine, Mel Giedroyc and Michaela Strachan ( born in Ewell ) as well as artist Simon Starling, actors Tom Felton, Warwick Davis, actress Alex Kingston, and the current Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations, Thomas Mayr-Harting.

Melvin Douglas " Mel " Lastman ( born March 9, 1933 ), nicknamed " Mayor Mel ", is a former businessman and politician.

This, Urkonn tells Mel, is the gateway to the demon world, and thousands more demons will be born from its womb.

Mel B changed her stage name to Melanie G. Their daughter, Phoenix Chi Gulzar, was born in Westminster, London, on 19 February 1999.

Melquíades Rafael Martínez Ruiz, usually known as Mel Martinez ( born October 23, 1946 ), is a former United States Senator from Florida and served as Chairman of the Republican Party from November 2006 until October 19, 2007, the first Latino to serve as chairman of a major party.

* Mel Hopkins ( born 1934 ), international footballer

Former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman and actor Al Waxman ( who starred in the CBC Television series King of Kensington ) were both born and raised in the Kensington Market neighbourhood.

Mel & Peter Harrison were born to British and Jamaican parents.

Mel Mermelstein ( born September 25, 1926, Örösveg, near Munkacs ) is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated the Institute for Historical Review in an American court and had the occurrence of gassings in Auschwitz during the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact.

* Mel Gorham ( born 1959 ), American actress

The daughter of Mel and Claire Shulman, she was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but raised in New York City.

Melvin Emery " Mel " Patton ( born November 16, 1924 ) is an American track and field athlete, who won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

* The mother of actor Mel Gibson, Anne Reilly Gibson, was born in Colmcille Parish, County Longford, Ireland.

Gibson's first name comes from the 5th-century Irish saint, Mel, founder of the diocese of Ardagh ( which contains most of his mother's native county ), while his second name, Colmcille, also linked to an Irish saint, is the name of the parish in County Longford where Anne Reilly was born and raised.

Mel Powell ( born Melvin Epstein ) ( February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998 ) was an American jazz pianist, composer of classical music, and music educator.

Mel Powell was born Melvin D. Epstein on February 12, 1923 in The Bronx, New York City to Russian Jewish parents, Milton Epstein and Mildred Mark Epstein ,.

* John Morris ( composer ) ( born 1926 ), film composer often employed by Mel Brooks

Walker was born Rebecca Leventhal in Jackson, Mississippi, the daughter of Alice Walker, the African-American author of The Color Purple, and Mel Leventhal, a Jewish American lawyer.

* Melle Mel ( born 1961 ), an American rapper

* Melvin " Mel " Cooley ( Richard Deacon ) – the balding producer of The Alan Brady Show ( and Brady's brother-in-law ), who is constantly at odds with Buddy, who often makes insulting comments about Mel's baldness, to which Mel often responds with a simple " Yechh!

Melvin Eugene " Mel " Carnahan ( February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000 ) was an American politician.

Melvin " Mel " Powell died at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on April 24, 1998, after a battle with liver cancer.

Melvin Whinfield " Peerless Mel " Sheppard ( September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942 ) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club and winner of four gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.

It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Carol Lawrence, Ronny Graham, performer / writer Mel Brooks ( as Melvin Brooks ), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

Melvin Lacy " Mel " Renfro ( born December 30, 1941 in Houston, Texas ) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who spent his entire fourteen-year career with the Dallas Cowboys.

Melvin " Mel " Pender, Jr. ( born October 31, 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

* Melvin Purvis ( 1903-1960 ), American law enforcement official nicknamed " Little Mel "

* Melvin Kaminsky ( born 1926 ), given name of actor Mel Brooks

* Melvin ( Mel ) S. Narol, foremost authority on legal rights of sports officials

Melle Mel (; born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961 ), also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

This group included ( but was not necessarily limited to ): Arthur Wright ( bass ), Pete Fox ( guitar ), Streamline Ewing ( trombone ), Herman Riley ( tenor sax ), Jackie Kelso ( tenor sax ), Melvin Jernigan ( tenor sax ), Mel Brown ( guitar ), Abraham Mills ( drums ).

Melvin Alan " Mel " Karmazin ( born August 24, 1943 ) is an American executive.

Lonnie Melvin Tillis ( born August 8, 1932 ), known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer.