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.
Mary Jane Manigault
Mary Jane Manigault was a Seagrass Basket Maker from Charleston, SC.
Gabriel Manigault
Architect
Richard Irvine Manning I
Richard Irvine Manning I was the 50th Governor of South Carolina.
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
Burnet Rhett Maybank was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston.
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.
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
Elliott Crayton McCants was an author and educator. He is the author of In the Red Hills: A Story of the Carolina Country.
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.
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Essayist, poet
Carrie Allen McCray
Poet, author
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
Henry McMaster is the 117th governor of South Carolina.
Robert Evander McNair
Robert Evander McNair was the 108th governor of South Carolina.
Ron McNair
Ron McNair was an American NASA astronaut and physicist.
Amanda McNulty
Amanda McNulty is a Clemson University Extension Horticulture agent and the host of South Carolina ETV's Making It Grow!
John McQueen
John McQueen the U.S. Representative for South Carolina from 1853 to 1860. He also was a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.
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.
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.
Arthur Middleton
Arthur Middleton was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
Born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, Dr. Kelly Miller, Jr. was the first African American to attend Johns Hopkins University.
Arthenia J. Bates Millican
Arthenia J. Bates Millican was a poet, short-story writer, essayist, and educator from Sumter, South Carolina.
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.
Franklin J. Moses, Jr. was the 75th Governor of South Carolina.
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.
Barbara Wischan Moxon
Political activist
Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis grew up in Columbia, SC, and was an esteemed biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Bill Murray
Bill Murray is an actor and comedian best known for his deadpan humor on Saturday Night Live and his role in Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, and Caddyshack.
Ellen Murray
Ellen Murray co-founded the Penn Center with Laura Towne.
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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