- Heather MacDonald
- Stephanie (Crayton) Mahin
- Harold Martin
- Jane Mayer
- Vickie Mays
- David McCoy
- Brian McDonald
Brian McDonald earned his B.A. from Elon University and M.A. from North Carolina Central University. He has taught government, history, race relations and poverty in Durham, North Carolina for more than a decade. In 2009, McDonald was named Teacher of the Year at Jordan High School and was a finalist for District Teacher of the Year. He was named "Most Inspirational Teacher" in 2007, 2011, and 2012. He also serves as an Adjunct Lecturing Fellow in the Program in Education at Duke University and was the first fellow at the UNC Poverty Center. In 2014, McDonald was a winner of the Williams College George Olmsted Jr. Class of of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching. Most recently, he published his first book Not the End, but the Beginning: The Impact of Race and Class on the History of Jordan High School, 1963-1988 (Patterson & Quinn Press, 2013).
- Hortense McClinton
Hortense McClinton was hired by UNC's School of Social Work in 1966 as the university's first Black faculty member.
- Lauren McCullough
- O.J. McGhee
- Tasseli McKay
1994 MPH graduate from UNC, Dr. McKay was a REACH co-chair with MSC during 2003-2004 and served as a moderator in the 2004 Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health
- Floyd Bixler McKissick
- Senator Floyd B. McKissick Jr
- Anthony McMichael
- Alan McSurely
- Dara Mendez
- Yesenia Merino
- Steven Meshnick
- Cash Michaels
- Nancy Milio
- Harvey Milk
- Robert Millikan
Robert ("Bob") C. Millikan, Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (1957-2012)
- Linda Rae Murray
- Pauli Murray
- James Murrell
- Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General
About Vivek Murthy At 37 years old, physician, public health advocate, entrepreneur and grassroots organizer Vivek Murthy is one of the youngest U.S. Surgeon Generals in our nation’s history, and the first one of Indian descent. Prior to his confirmation, he was a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Hospitalist Attending and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was President and cofounder of Doctors for America, a national grassroots organization of 15,000 medical students and physicians advocating for high-quality and equitable health care. In 2011, Dr. Murthy was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. Dr. Murthy is also cofounder of TrialNetworks, Epernicus and VISIONS.