MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, vol.19, no.2, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
We prove that the mapping class group of a closed connected orientable surface of genus g >= 6 is generated by two elements of order g. Moreover, for g >= 7, we obtain a generating set of two elements, of order g and g', where g' is the least divisor of g greater than 2. We also prove that the mapping class group is generated by two elements of order g/gcd(g, k) for g >= 3k(2) + 4k + 1 and any positive integer k.