May - Mira
- May 1873, Day of 24
- May 1958, Crisis of
- May 1968, Events of
- Mayenne, Charles of Lorraine, duke de
- Mazarin, Jules, Cardinal
- Méchain, Pierre
- Méliès, Georges
- Mendès France, Pierre
- Mérimée, Prosper
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Merlin, Antoine-Christophe
- Merlin, Philippe-Antoine, count
- Mersenne, Marin
- Méry, Joseph
- Messiaen, Olivier
- Messmer, Pierre
- Michel, Louise
- Michelet, Jules
- Michelin brothers
- Mignard, Pierre
- Milhaud, Darius
- Millerand, Alexandre
- Millet, Jean-François
- Mink, Paule
