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Marc A. Schuckit

Marc A. Schuckit is an American psychiatrist at UC San Diego known for research on alcohol-use disorders and the genetically influenced low level of response to alcohol.

Marc Alaimo

Marc Alaimo (Michael Joseph Alaimo, born 1942, Milwaukee) is an American character actor famous as Gul Dukat on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (35 episodes, 1993–1999), the first Cardassian and first TNG-era Romulan, with film credits including Total Recall.

Marc Alan Lee

Marc Alan Lee (1978–2006), Navy SEAL of Hood River, Oregon, Charlie Platoon SEAL Team 3, first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, died August 2, 2006 in Ramadi; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, Purple Heart.

Marc Albrighton

Marc Albrighton is an English retired winger who spent ten seasons at Leicester City, winning the Premier League in 2016 and the FA Cup in 2021.

Marc Alexandre

Marc Alexandre (Marc Robert Alexandre), born 1959 in Paris, French judoka, USO Orléans; Olympic gold 1988 Seoul -71 kg, bronze 1984 Los Angeles -65 kg, world silver 1987 Essen; later French national coach and Pôle France Marseille head.

Marc Alizon

Marc Alizon (born 1957) is a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur who helped produce the first nucleotide sequence of the AIDS virus, later named HIV-1, in 1985.

Marc Almond

Marc Almond (born 1957, Southport) is the English singer of synth-pop duo Soft Cell, formed with Dave Ball at Leeds Polytechnic in 1979, famed for "Tainted Love"; his eclectic solo career and the final Soft Cell album Danceteria (2026) distinguish him.

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur who co-created the Mosaic web browser at NCSA in 1993, co-founded Netscape, and founded Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz in 2009.

Marc Andrus

Marc Handley Andrus is a retired American Episcopal bishop who led the Diocese of California from 2006 to 2024 and became one of the church's leading voices on climate change.

Marc Anthony

Marc Anthony (Marco Antonio Muñiz, born 1968, New York) is an American salsa and Latin pop singer of Puerto Rican parents, the best-selling salsa artist of all time, a six-time Grammy/Latin Grammy winner with hits like 'Vivir Mi Vida'.

Marc Auslander

Marc Auslander is an American computer scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center known for the PL.8 compiler, the AMERICA architecture behind the RS/6000, and K42.

Marc Baldo

Marc Baldo is an American electrical engineer at MIT known for phosphorescent OLEDs and singlet exciton fission solar cells, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Marc Baldus

Marc Baldus is an NMR spectroscopist who has been professor of structural biology at Utrecht University since 2008, known for solid-state NMR studies of membrane proteins and biomolecules in cells.

Marc Barry Taub

Marc Barry Taub is an American bioengineering executive at Abbott Diabetes Care who led design of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Marc Bartra

Marc Bartra Aregall (born 1991) is a Spanish centre-back from La Masia who plays for Real Betis, captaining them into the 2026/27 Champions League; formerly Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund (2017 bus attack survivor), and Trabzonspor, and a Spain Euro 2016 squad member.

Marc Bendavid

Marc Bendavid (born 1986) is a Canadian actor from Toronto, Ontario, best known for his starring role as One on the Syfy science-fiction series Dark Matter (2015–2017).

Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff, born Marc Russell Benioff, is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Salesforce in 1999 after 13 years at Oracle, and pioneered cloud computing and the 1-1-1 philanthropy model.

Marc Berman

Marc Berman is an American Democratic politician representing California's 23rd Assembly District since 2022, first elected in 2016 after serving on the Palo Alto City Council.

Marc Bernal

Marc Bernal Casas (born 2007, Berga) is a Spanish defensive midfielder for FC Barcelona, a La Masia product who debuted at 17, overcame a 382-day ACL injury, and signed to 2029.

Marc Bhargava

Marc Bhargava is a Managing Director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he leads the Creation strategy of incubations and AI-enabled roll-ups and invests in crypto and fintech.

Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch (1886-1944), French historian, co-founder with Lucien Febvre of the Annales journal (1929), author of Les Rois thaumaturges and La Société féodale, Resistance fighter under pseudonym Blanchard, executed by the Gestapo 16 June 1944; entered the Panthéon 23 June 2026.

Marc Blucas

Marc Blucas (Marcus Paul Blucas, born 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter, a former Wake Forest and Manchester Giants basketball player, known for Riley Finn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Matthew Donnally on Necessary Roughness, and George Walter on My Life with the Walter Boys.

Marc Bockrath

Marc Bockrath is an experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University, known for transport studies of carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan (Mark Feld, 1947–1977), English singer-guitarist who led Tyrannosaurus Rex then T. Rex; ten straight UK Top Ten singles, Electric Warrior, glam rock pioneer, died in a 1977 car crash.

Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine

Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is a fan-maintained memorial on Queen's Ride, Barnes Common, London, at the sycamore tree where the T. Rex singer died in a car crash on 16 September 1977, now cared for by the T-Rex Action Group.

Marc Botenga

Marc Botenga is a Belgian politician of the Workers' Party of Belgium, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Vice-Chair of The Left group.

Marc Brown (author)

Marc Tolon Brown (born 1946) is an American children's author and illustrator, creator of Arthur the Aardvark (Arthur's Nose, 1976) and creative producer of the Emmy-winning PBS series Arthur; also illustrator of Wild About Books.

Marc Bühler

Marc Bühler is a molecular biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel who studies how non-coding RNAs and RNA interference shape chromatin.

Marc Bulger

Marc Bulger, born 1977 in Pittsburgh, is a former NFL quarterback (West Virginia, Saints sixth-round pick 2000) who starred for the St. Louis Rams 2002–2009, two Pro Bowls, 22,814 passing yards, later Ravens backup, retired 2011.

Marc Burns

Marc Burns (born 1983, Port of Spain) is a retired Trinidad and Tobago sprinter, 100 m and 4x100 relay specialist; four-time Olympian, 2008 Olympic relay gold (upgraded 2022), 2012 silver, three World silvers, 100 m PB 9.96.