Biographies for Kids

Matt Drudge — So Matt Drudge was right. Not about Bill Clinton’s love child or John Kerry’s affair, but he was right about this: “We are all newsmen now.” Drudge hates the word blogger, yet his exclusive about the former President and intern Monica Lewinsky set out an animated-gif siren for an army of armchair pundits to follow. Today a …

Mary Leakey was born Mary Douglas Nichol on February 6, 1913, in London, England to Erskine Edward Nichol and Cecilia Marion (Frere) Nichol. Since Erskine worked as a painter, specializing in water colour landscapes, the Nichol family would move from place to place, visiting numerous locations in the USA, Italy, and Egypt, where Erskine painted scenes to be sold in …

Martin Palermo earned his recall to the Argentina side by doing what he does best: scoring goals, and lots of them. Boca Juniors’ all-time top scorer with 218 in all, El Loco endured a frustrating time in his first spell in the blue and white striped jersey, during which he had the misfortune to miss three penalties in a 1999 …

Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. He is hailed for bringing a gripping realism to film acting, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. A cultural icon, Brando is most famous for his Oscar-winning performances as Terry Malloy in …

Mark Tully — Sir William Mark Tully, (Order of the British Empire) OBE (born 1935 in Calcutta, India) is the former Chief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi for 20 years. Since 1994 he has been …

Marie Curie — Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw on 7 November 1867, the daughter of a teacher. In 1891, she went to Paris to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne where she met Pierre Curie, professor of the School of Physics. They were married in 1895. The Curies worked together investigating radioactivity, building on the work of the …

Maria Sharapova is the most dazzling tennis player who has ever stepped on court. Maria Sharapova was born April 19, 1987 in Nyagan, a town in western Siberia, where Maria parents, Yuri and Yelena, had fled from Belarus a year previous to let alone fallout from Chernobyl. Still too close to the calamity site, her family left their home as …

Manohar Shyam Joshi born August 9, 1933 at Ajmer in Rajasthan, was a Hindi writer and is often called “the Father of Indian Soap Operas”. His popular creations Hum Log and Buniyad have influenced an entire generation of Indians. When the first soap opera Hum Log started in 1982, Television was still a luxury item for majority of Indians. This …

Manju Kapur (born Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia. She is married; they have three children and three grandchildren, and live in New Delhi. Manju Kapur is a professor of English at Miranda House in Delhi. Having done her graduation from Miranda …

Mallika Sarabhai, one of the leading exponents of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi, is the daughter of the dancing legend Mrinalini Sarabhai and the renowned scientist Vikram Sarabhai. A multifaceted personality, Mallika is not only a dancer, but also a noted film-maker, internationally known choreographer, an actress, a TV anchor, an editor, a publisher and so on. Throughout her different careers dancing …