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

* 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

* 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.

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.

Melvin Bragg, moderator, with Ian Stewart, Emeritus, University of Warwick, Andrew Colman, University of Leicester, and Richard Bradley, London School of Economics.

Carolyn later married Melvin Burton Ericson, and Virginia married Richard Thompson Cragg in 1936.

Northwood has three elected local Councillors: Cllr Scott Seaman-Digby ( first elected 1998 ), Cllr Richard Lewis ( first elected 2002 ) and Cllr Carol Melvin ( first elected 2008 ).

* Richard Leech as Squadron Leader Melvin " Dinghy " Young DFC RAF, pilot of " Apple "

Patrick McCaughey, Richard Cork, Emily M. Weeks, The School of London and their Friends – The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA.

These included Yootha Joyce, Glynn Edwards, Harry H. Corbett, George A. Cooper, Richard Harris, Stephen Lewis, Howard Goorney, Brian Murphy, Murray Melvin, Nigel Hawthorne and Barbara Windsor.

Obey was elected to the House to replace eight-term incumbent Republican Melvin R. Laird, who was appointed Secretary of Defense under President Richard Nixon.

The Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard " Ringo " Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who have recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files.

While Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird and the Joint Chiefs of Staff strongly supported the station, Central Intelligence Agency head Richard Helms did not support the project because he feared that the death of a MOL astronaut might ground launches and thus damage the nation's satellite reconnaissance program.

Richard Cromwell, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh ( – ), was an American actor.

Taking on his stepfather's surname for his stage name as a teenager, David English-now Melvin Franklin-was a member of a number of local singing groups in Detroit, including The Voice Masters with Lamont Dozier and David Ruffin, and frequently performed with his best friend, Richard Street.

Some of the leading lights attending the Titania Palace conference included Franz Borkenau, Karl Jaspers, John Dewey, Ignazio Silone, James Burnham, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Ernst Reuter, Raymond Aron, Alfred Ayer, Benedetto Croce, Jacques Maritain, Arthur Koestler, James T. Farrell, Richard Löwenthal, Robert Montgomery, Melvin J. Lasky, Tennessee Williams and Sidney Hook.

Vocal jobs are performed in a true ensemble style: Temptations singers Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin, Richard Street ( who was a frequent fill-in for Paul Williams and his eventual replacement ) and Damon Harris ( who had replaced Eddie Kendricks as the group's falsetto singer the previous year ) alternate vocal lines, taking the role of siblings questioning their mother about their now-deceased father ; their increasingly pointed questions, and the mother's repeated response (" Papa was a rollin ' stone / wherever he laid his hat was his home / and when he died, all he left us was alone ") paint a somber picture for the children who have never seen their father and have " never heard nothing but bad things about him.

Featured in the collection is Terry Adkins, Romare Bearden, Skunder Boghossian, Robert Colescott, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Jolimeau, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Philome Obin, Betye Saar, Nari Ward and Hale Woodruff, among others.

Many of well-known figures in animation today went through Larson's training program, including Brad Bird, Don Bluth, Chris Buck, Tim Burton, Randy Cartwright, Ron Clements, Andreas Deja, Gary Goldman, Ed Gombert, Mark Henn, Dan Haskett, Glen Keane, Bill Kroyer, John Lasseter, John Musker, Phil Nibbelink, Richard Rich, Burny Mattinson, Melvin Shaw, Jeffrey J. Varab, John Pomeroy, Joe Ranft, Jerry Rees, Henry Selick and Tad Stones among many others.

Also featured are Richard Street and Melvin Franklin on the track " Firefly ".

Born in Kansas City, Missouri to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York City by his paternal grandparents Frank and Helen ( née Campbell ) Melvin, he attended Columbia University.

He played Melvin Panton, a young rookie cop who disagrees with the ways of Richard Gere's character a soon to be retired cop Eddie.

Richard Melvin Schoen ( born October 23, 1950 ) is an American mathematician.

Solid Rock's third single, " Take a Look Around ", was a Top 30 hit which showcased Harris ' Kendricksesque falsetto voice alongside the leads of Richard Street, Dennis Edwards, Otis Williams, and Melvin Franklin.

* Lead and background vocals by Dennis Edwards, Melvin Franklin, Damon Harris, Richard Street, and Otis Williams

The album also features then-current Temptations Dennis Edwards, Glenn Leonard, Richard Street, and founding members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin.

Superscripts denote lead singers for each track: ( a ) Ali-Ollie Woodson, ( b ) Ron Tyson, ( c ) Richard Street, ( d ) Melvin Franklin, ( e ) Otis Williams.