MEL
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Mel can be a nickname, short for Melanie, Melissa, Melvin or Melville. It is also a standalone name from the Gaelic Maol, meaning "follower of Jesus." People with this name include:
- Mel B and Mel C of the Spice Girls (short for Melanie)
- Mel Blanc, Mel Brooks, and Mel Lastman (short for Melvin)
- Mel Gibson, American film actor (standalone name)
- Mel Kaye, the archetypical Real Programmer lionized in "The Story of Mel"
- Mel Peachey, host of PlayMania (short for Melissa).
- Mel Smith, British actor, writer and director
- Mel Winfield, Canadian autodidact and inventor
Fictional characters
- Dr. Melanie Karnofsky, the second ex-wife of Niles Crane on the TV comedy Frasier
- Mel, a character on the children's television program Sesame Street, who appears primarily in the Monsters Clubhouse segments
- Melanie Bush, a character on the TV series Doctor Who
- Melanie Owen, an ex-character in TV soap Eastenders
- Mel Burton, a character in soap Hollyoaks
- Sideshow Mel, a minor character in The Simpsons
Others
- Mel, Italy, a commune in the province of Belluno (northern Italy)
- Mel scale, a scale for measuring musical pitches as perceived by the human ear
- Maya Embedded Language, a scripting language used in the 3D graphics program Maya.
- MEL, the IATA airport code for Melbourne, Australia
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