South Carolina People
Andie MacDowell
Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, better known as Andie MacDowell, is an actress and fashion model.
Brooklyn Mack
Brooklyn Mack is a danseur from Elgin, SC.
Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane was an actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
Andrew Gordon Magrath
Andrew Gordon Magrath was a federal judge and later governor of South Carolina during the Civil War.
Elizabeth Mahon
Elizabeth "Lib" Mahon was a baseball player in the 1940s in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Rudy Mancke
Naturalist Rudy Mancke served as naturalist and co-host of South Carolina ETV's NatureScene which began its long run in 1978. His field trips, broadcast nationwide, have earned him a legion of dedicated viewers. Rudy's knowledge of the complex inner-workings of different ecosystems and his great admiration for the natural world make him the perfect guide.
Mary Jane Manigault
Mary Jane Manigault was a Seagrass Basket Maker from Charleston, SC.
Richard Irvine Manning I
Governor, congressman
Francis Marion
Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion was a strategic fighter against the British during the War of Independence.
Linda Martell
Linda Martell is a singer. She became the first commercially successful black female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry.
John Mathews
John Mathews was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1781, where he endorsed the Articles of Confederation on behalf of South Carolina.
Cassandra Maxwell
Cassandra Maxwell was the first Black woman admitted to the South Carolina Bar.
Burnet R. Maybank
Mayor of Charleston, governor, U.S. senator.
Benjamin Elijah Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was a teacher, civil rights leader, president of Morehouse College, dean of Howard University's School of Religion, and first black president of Atlanta's school board.
Kadra Maysi (Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons)
Poet, novelist, playwright, historian. Her primary love was poetry, with a focus on lyrical verse, sonnets, and nature poems.
Danny McBride
American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer known for numerous movie roles and his television role as Kenny Powers on HBO's Eastbound and Down.
Edwin McCain
Edwin McCain is an alternative rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Elliott Crayton McCants
Novelist, short story writer, educator
Katrina McClain
Charleston, SC native Katrina McClain is a retired basketball player. She played for the University of Georgia and many other USA Basketball teams, including three Olympic teams.
George McDuffie
George McDuffie was the 55th Governor of South Carolina.
Johnnie McFadden
Dr. Johnnie McFadden is the Benjamin Elijah Mays Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina.
Nina Mae McKinney
Nina Mae Mckinney was one of the first Black leading actresses in Hollywood.
Virginia McLaurin
Born in Cheraw, SC, Virginia McLaurin is a community volunteer and supercentenarian.
Henry Dargan McMaster
Governor
Robert Evander McNair
Attorney, legislator, governor
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American NASA astronaut and physicist.
Amanda McNulty
Host and Producer, Making It Grow; Extension Agent
John McQueen
US congressman, Confederate official, lawyer, and planter. Lived in Marlboro, SC
Swingin' Medallions
The Swingin' Medallions is a beach music group from Greenwood County, South Carolina.
Craig Melvin
Craig Melvin is a broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC.
Arthur Middleton
Arthur Middleton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was the 2nd President of the Continental Congress and served as President of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created South Carolina Government.
Stephen Decatur Miller
Stephen Decatur Miller was the 52nd Governor of South Carolina.
Patina Miller
Born in Pageland, SC, Patina Miller is an actress and singer.
Kelly Miller, Jr.
Essayist, editor, publisher, educator
Arthenia J. Bates Millican
American poet, short-story writer, essayist, and educator
Roger Milliken
Roger Milliken was a Spartanburg Textile magnet, Businessman, and political activist.
Robert Mills
Robert Mills was one of the first Americans to become a professional architect.
Frieda Mitchell
Frieda Mitchell was a civil rights and social justice activist from Beaufort County.
Toro y Moi
Chaz Bear, known professionally as Toro y Moi, is a singer, songwriter, record producer, and graphic designer.
Penina Moïse
Penina Moïse was a poet and the first Jewish American woman to contribute to the worship service, writing 190 hymns for Beth Elohim.
Mary Alice Monroe
Mary Alice Monroe is a best-selling author known for fiction that explores the compelling parallels between nature and human nature.
Darla Moore
Darla Dee Moore is an investor and philanthropist.
Franklin J. Moses, Jr.
Governor
Rebecca Motte
Rebecca Motte was a widower and landowner along the Congaree River who graciously allowed Francis Marion and other Patriot soldiers to set fire to her plantation home when the British took command of the house.
William Moultrie
William Moultrie was a general in the Revolutionary War who had Fort Moultrie built out of Palmetto logs on Sullivan’s Island, in the Charleston Harbor.
Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis grew up in Columbia, SC, and was an esteemed biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Bill Murray
American Actor
Mark and Sandra Myers
Mark and Sandra Myers are the founders of The Black Cowboy: Man or Myth African American Cultural Festival in Rembert, SC.
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