Notable inmates

Marija Kon (née Marie Bergmann; 15 January 1894 – 9 August 1987) was a Bosnian Germanist and the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be awarded a doctorate.

Macha Rolnikas, also Maria Rolnikaite and Masha Rolnik (21 July 1927, in Vilnius - 7 April 2016, in Saint Petersburg) was a Lithuanian writer and Holocaust survivor.

Marina Nemat (Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.

Jonkheer Marinus van der Goes van Naters (21 December 1900 – 12 February 2005) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and lawyer.

Mário Castelhano (1896–1940) was a Portuguese anarcho-syndicalist, railway worker and journalist.

Mário Costa Martins de Carvalho (born 25 September 1944) is a Portuguese playwright and novelist.

Mario Finzi (15 July 1913 – 22 February 1945) was a Jewish Italian lawyer who died in the Holocaust during World War II.

Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999.