* ( with Mel Watkins ), African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today ( Library of Black America )

Its leaders were university professors Mel Watkins, James Laxer and Robert Laxer.

University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, lost his vice-president position, but managed to get elected to the party's federal council.

Mel Watkins and even Elie Martel have argued that the NDP lost a generation of volunteers and members due to the way the Waffle was handled.

In 1969, Laxer, along with his father Robert Laxer and Mel Watkins, founded the Waffle, a radical left wing group influenced by the New Left, the anti-Vietnam War movement and Canadian economic nationalism, that tried to win control of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

He continued to argue for economic nationalist causes and in 1968, along with Peter C. Newman of the Toronto Star ; economist Abraham Rotstein ; and University of Toronto professor Mel Watkins, founded the Committee for an Independent Canada.

* Watkins, Mel.

In 1969, he joined his son, James Laxer, and Mel Watkins to form the Waffle, a socialist group within the New Democratic Party.

Mel Watkins writing in The New York Times Book Review praised Gardner for adding " a touch of the plot subtlety of less insistently action-oriented thrillers.

* Watkins, Mel, ed.

* Watkins, Mel ( 1994 ).

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

* In 1950, Mel Blanc recorded " Daffy Duck's Rhapsody ", a comic song written by Warren Foster, Billy May, and Michael Maltese.

: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May – Mel Tormé

* Oral History Interview by Dr. Mel Steely, May 1997 ( Georgia's Political Heritage Project, University of West Georgia )

Of the six modern-day players to score 6 runs in a game, the first to perform the feat was Mel Ott of the New York Giants on August 4, 1934 ( he repeated the accomplishment ten years later, making him the only player ever to do it twice ); the most recent was Shawn Green, then of the Los Angeles Dodgers, on May 23, 2002.

May 15 is officially National Danny Glover & Mel Gibson Day.

Studio C was the first room completed and it began operation in May 1969 with staff that included General Manager Mel Tanner, Booking Agent Ginger Mews, Technician Harry Sitam and Staff Engineer Russ Gary.

From February 2007, Kay played flamboyant gay director Roger DeBris in the Mel Brooks musical, The Producers for the Manchester leg of the UK Tour, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 12 May 2007.

* Mel Gibson ( June 1983, February 1987, May 1995, November 1996 )

The Toronto Marathon, held annually in May, is a race from Mel Lastman Square, in the north end of Toronto, to Queen's Park.

Mel Lewis ( May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990 ) was the stage name of an American drummer, jazz musician and bandleader.

Crist announced on May 12, 2009 that he would run instead for the United States Senate seat being vacated by then-fellow Republican Mel Martinez.

A montage of couples in Watts is shown while a discussion about dating and romance is heard, with " I May Not Be What You Want " performed by Mel and Tim in the background.

* " I May Not Be What You Want ", performed by Mel and Tim

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.

* Voices: Charlie Adler, Bever-Leigh Banfield, Jon Bauman, Michael Bell, Mel Blanc, Susan Blu, Hamilton Camp, Henry Corden, Peter Cullen, Jim Cummings, Julie Dees, Rick Dees, Dick Erdman, Takayo Fischer, June Foray, Pat Fraley, Arte Johnson, Buster Jones, Aron Kincaid, René Le Vant, Allan Lurie, Tress MacNeille, Kenneth Mars, Janet May, Howard Morris, George O ' Hanlon, Rob Paulsen, Bumper Robinson, Michael Rye, Ronnie Schell, Avery Schreiber, Marilyn Schreffler, John Stephenson, B. J.

In addition, he appeared in the television series Early Edition on May 6, 2000 as a biker in the episode " Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter ".

Further charges were levied in May 2003, when labor historian Mel Dubofsky accused Foner of having " borrowed wholesale from my then unpublished dissertation " on the Industrial Workers of the World for use in Volume 4 of his History of the Labor Movement in the United States.

The film's soundtrack includes " I Know a Place " by Petula Clark, " I May Never Go Home Anymore " by Marlene Dietrich, " Comin ' Home Baby " by Mel Tormé, " There Is No Greater Love " and " A Lot of Livin ' to Do " by Sammy Davis Jr., " Stealing My Love from Me " by Lulu, " Troubles " by Blair Tefkin and the Adagio from the Sonata No. 1 in G minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Ashantha Lakdasa Francis De Mel ( born 9 May 1959, Colombo ) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and selector for the national team.

" by Lillian " Lil " Green and the 1942 and 1947 versions recorded by Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee, other versions were recorded over the years by Kay Kyser ( vocals by Julie Conway ), Ella Fitzgerald ( see her album: " Jazz at the Philharmonic, the Ella Fitzgerald Set ") and Joe Pass, Julie London, Cal Tjader and Mary Stallings, Mark Murphy, Shirley Horn, Johnny Otis, Mel Torme, Rasputina, Imelda May, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ashlee Simpson, Sinéad O ' Connor, Eden Brent on her album " Mississippi Number One " ( 2008 ), White Ghost Shivers on their album Everyone's Got ' Em ( 2006 ), and the Carolina Chocolate Drops on their album " Genuine Negro Jig " ( 2010 ).

But after only 25 games in Vancouver, Sullivan was called up to manage the A's on May 16, 1965, succeeding Mel McGaha.