FACTBOX: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna, folk singer Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, pop group The Dave Clark Five and instrumental band The Ventures will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday.

Here is a brief biography of each inductee:

MADONNA Ciccone made her debut in 1982 and her first album "Madonna" included hits such as "Holiday," "Borderline" and "Lucky Star," which helped her become one of the best-selling pop artists, with more than 200 million albums sold worldwide.

The 49-year-old -- known for constantly reinventing her image -- will release her 11th studio album, "Hard Candy," next month. Forbes.com has dubbed her the "Cash Queen of Music," saying she earned $72 million in the past year.

The Grammy winner also has written children's books, acted in movies including "Evita," "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Dick Tracy," and recently directed her first feature film, "Filth and Wisdom."

She is married to British director Guy Ritchie, with whom she has a son, Rocco. The couple also are raising a young Malawian boy, David, whom they are adopting. She has a daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship.

LEONARD COHEN is a gravel-voiced Canadian whose songs tell of love and sex, faith and betrayal. He published four books of poetry and two novels before trying music, partly to escape from life as a starving artist.

His 1967 debut album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen," included what became one of his most popular songs, "Suzanne." Other favorites include "Hallelujah," "Sisters of Mercy" and "Bird on a Wire." His songs have been recorded by R.E.M., Billy Joel, Elton John, Don Henley and others.

Born in Montreal, Cohen started his musical career in New York in the late 1960s. He fought depression and retreated to a California monastery in the 1990s to study Zen.

Cohen has recorded 11 studio albums, most recently "Dear Heather" in 2004 at age 70. The 2005 documentary "Leonard Cohen -- I'm Your Man" was an art house hit, featuring Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Bono.

THE DAVE CLARK FIVE is a '60s British band made up of Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, Denis Payton and Mike Smith. The group topped the British charts in 1965 with "Glad All Over" and has sold more than 50 million albums to date.

The group, whose hits also included "Bits and Pieces" and "Because," was one of the first British bands to find major success in the United States after the Beatles. The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame foundation described the group as "an enormous pop phenomenon" before disbanding in 1970.

Lead singer Smith, 64, died last month of pneumonia at a British hospital. He had been admitted with a chest infection resulting from complications of a 2003 spinal cord injury that had left him paralyzed from the waist down.

THE VENTURES are made up of Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards, Gerry McGee, Mel Taylor and Don Wilson.

The band's hits include "Walk Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O" and the foundation credits the band with defining instrumental guitar rock and a California surf sound in the 1960s. The group hit the Billboard chart nearly three dozen times in that decade.

The Ventures also inspired a classic line of Mosrite guitars in the '60s and in the '90s Fender issued a limited edition series of Ventures signature guitars.