List of Famous people named Melchior

Melchior Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt was an Imperial Field Marshal, who fought in the Thirty Years' War under Albrecht von Wallenstein and Matthias Gallas.

Melchior Ndadaye was a Burundian intellectual and politician. He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election. Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country's bitter ethnic divide, his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army, and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993, after only three months in office. His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups, and ultimately sparked the decade-long Burundi Civil War.

Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé was a French archaeologist, diplomat, and member of the Académie française in seat 18.

Melchior Treub was a Dutch botanist. He worked at the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Buitenzorg on the island of Java, south of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, gaining renown for his work on tropical flora. He also founded the Bogor Agricultural Institute. He traveled and collected across many areas of Southeast Asia.

Melchior of Brunswick-Grubenhagen was a German aristocrat, prince-bishop of Osnabrück from 1369, and then prince-bishop of Schwerin from 1376 to 1381.

Melchior Cardinal de Polignac was a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet.

Melchior Lengyel was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter of Jewish heritage.