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

* 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!

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

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

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

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.

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 ,.

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.

* Mele Mel ( born Melvin Glover in 1961 ), hip-hop musician and songwriter

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Other important early publications include: Edward H. Chamberlin's ( 1950 ) The Theory of Monopolistic Competition ; François Perroux's ( 1950 ) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application ; Torsten Hägerstrand's ( 1953 ) Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt ; Edgar S. Dunn's ( 1954 ) The Location of Agricultural Production ; Martin J. Beckmann, C. B McGuire, and Clifford B. Winston's ( 1956 ) Studies in the Economics of Transportation ; Melvin L. Greenhut's ( 1956 ) Plant Location in Theory and Practice ; Gunnar Myrdal's ( 1957 ) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions ; Albert O. Hirschman's ( 1958 ) The Strategy of Economic Development ; and Claude Ponsard's ( 1958 ) Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales.

Policy changed under the Nixon administration, when mistreatment of the prisoners was publicized by U. S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and others.

The artists names are Melvin R. Mims Jr, Venis Lamar Mims, Hubert John C Mims, Glanda L. Mims / Jackson, Joy S. Mims / Roberts, Dennis Ontonia Mims, Amy L Mims / Perry, Kimberly L Mims / Beard and Jarvis M. Mims.

The Glenn family contracted George T. Melvin and Henry S. Mancha to lay out and promote the town.

Melvin is a village in Sanilac County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Carl Melvin went down with the U. S. S.

* Melvin Laird, U. S. House of Representatives ( 1952-1969 ), Secretary of Defense ( 1969-1973 )

In 1985, S. Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner, both of Emory University, published a key paper on Paleolithic nutrition in the New England Journal of Medicine, which caused the concept to gain mainstream medical attention.

Three years later, S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak and Melvin Konner published a book about this nutritional approach,

Directors have included Philip S. Hopkins, 1958-1964, S. Paul Johnston, 1964-1969, Frank A. Taylor ( acting ), 1969-1971, Michael Collins, 1971 – 1978, Melvin B. Zisfein ( acting ), 1978-1979, Noel W. Hinners, 1979-1982, Walter J. Boyne ( acting 1982 – 1983, director 1983-1986 ), James C. Tyler ( acting ), 1986-1987, Martin O. Harwit, 1987-1995, Donald D. Engen, 1996-1999, and John R. Dailey, 2000 – present

Francis Melvin Rogallo ( January 27, 1912 – September 1, 2009 ) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U. S. A .; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or " flexible wing ", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider.

Succeeding Presidents in the NMBCA were: Dr. S. M. Wright of Dallas, Texas, who died shortly after his election but prior to his installation ; Dr. W. T. Snead, Sr. of Los Angeles, California ; and Dr. Melvin Von Wade, Sr., also of Los Angeles.

* Melvin Calvin ( B. S.

Today, quiet storm is a broad term given to an array of mellow, slow-groove contemporary R & B, soul and smooth jazz offerings of the type featured on Melvin Lindsey's WHUR program, and on myriad other stations that followed his lead — most notably KBLX-FM in San Francisco, which in 1979 became the first radio station in the U. S. to present a 24-hour quiet storm format.

One protester, Eau Claire student John Laird, the son of U. S. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, made headlines when he announced his opposition to the war in Vietnam and his intention to join his fellow students in peaceful protest.

* Melvin Brunetti ( 1964 ) – Senior Circuit Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

* Charles Melvin Price ( 1905 – 1988 ), U. S. Congressman

Lincoln University has an impressive list of notable alumni which includes: U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall ; Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes ; musical legend, Cab Calloway ; the first President of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe ; the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ; song artist and activist Gil Scott-Heron ; Tony Award winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne ; and architect of the debate team portrayed in the film The Great Debaters, Melvin B. Tolson.

During this time he hired American intellectual and former U. S. Army combat historian Melvin J. Lasky.

" She has also taken to sampling songs from other artist such as, Lyn Collins's " Think ( About It )" and Rob Base's " It Takes Two " on " Make It Last Forever ," Jive Rhythm Trax ’ s 80's electro cut " 122 BPM " on " C. R. U. S. H " and also Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes ' " If You Don't Know Me by Now ," sampling the chorus of the song onto " Never Ever.

* Melvin Maas ( 1898 – 1964 ), U. S. Representative from Minnesota

Grant announced that Apostle Melvin J. Ballard and Seventy Rulon S. Wells would go with Pratt to establish the LDS Church in South America.