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Marc Feldmann

Sir Marc Feldmann (born 1944) is an immunologist born in Lviv, Ukraine, whose cytokine research led to anti-TNF therapy for rheumatoid arthritis, treating over 5 million patients.

Marc Fesneau

Marc Fesneau, born in 1971, is a French MoDem politician who was Minister of Agriculture from 2022 and now leads the Les Démocrates group in the National Assembly.

Marc Fogel

Marc Fogel, also known as Marc Hilliard Fogel, is an American history teacher arrested in Russia in 2021 for medically prescribed marijuana and freed in February 2025.

Marc Fontecave

Marc Fontecave is a French bioinorganic chemist who studies metalloenzymes and develops bioinspired catalysts for water splitting and carbon dioxide conversion, holding a Collège de France chair since 2008.

Marc Foreman

Marc Foreman (also spelled Mark Foreman), American swimmer for the University of Tennessee 1977-1979; SEC 400 IM and 200 backstroke champion, 13-time All-American, member of the 1978 NCAA championship team, later suspended by the AAU in 1978.

Marc Forster

Marc Forster (Marc Thomas Forster), German-born, Swiss-naturalized director of Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace, World War Z, and A Man Called Otto; NYU-trained, founder of Apparatus, based in the US.

Marc Freeman

Marc R. Freeman is an American neuroscientist who studies glial biology and neuron-glia signaling in fruit flies, directing the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University since 2016.

Marc Freiberger

Marc Freiberger (Marcus Ross Freiberger, 1928-2005) was an American basketball center from Amarillo, Texas, who won gold in men's basketball at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and was drafted 3rd overall by the Indianapolis Olympians in 1951.

Marc Fumaroli

Marc Fumaroli (1932–2020) was a French historian of rhetoric and 17th-century literature, a professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie française.

Marc G. Besselink

Marc G. Besselink is a Dutch pancreatic and hepatobiliary surgeon-scientist, professor of surgery at Amsterdam UMC, who led the 2021 PONCHO trial on infected pancreatitis.

Marc G. Caron

Marc G. Caron (1946–2022) was a Canadian-born molecular pharmacologist and James B. Duke Professor at Duke University, known for cloning dopamine receptors and establishing arrestin as a major signaling mediator.

Marc Gagnon

Marc Gagnon, born 1975 in Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a Canadian short track speed skater with five Olympic medals (three gold) and four overall world titles, later head coach of Canada's national short track team; distinct from the engineer and the mining executive of the same name.

Marc Galletti

Marc Galletti, full name Marc-Henri Galletti, is an American life-sciences venture capitalist who co-founded Longitude Capital in 2006, a Menlo Park firm investing in biotechnology and medical technology.

Marc Garneau

Marc Garneau, full name Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau (1949–2025), was a Canadian naval officer and astronaut who became the first Canadian in space in 1984.

Marc Gasol

Marc Gasol, Spanish center born 1985 in Barcelona; 14 NBA seasons with Memphis, Toronto, and the Lakers; 2019 NBA champion, 2013 Defensive Player of the Year, three-time All-Star; Grizzlies retired his No. 33; retired January 2024.

Marc Gené

Marc Gené (born 1974, Sabadell, Spain), Spanish racing driver; 36 F1 starts 1999-2004 for Minardi and Williams with 5 points, and 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours overall winner with Peugeot; now Ferrari ambassador and Sky F1 commentator.

Marc Gerstein

Marc Gerstein is a former IBM developer who co-founded Jane Street, the New York proprietary trading firm that grew into one of the world's largest market makers.

Marc Guéhi

Marc Guéhi (Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéhi), English centre-back born 2000 in Abidjan; Chelsea academy, Crystal Palace captain 2021–2026 (188 apps, 2025 FA Cup), Euro 2024 finalist with 26 England caps, joined Manchester City for £20m in January 2026.

Marc Guiu

Marc Guiu (Marc Guiu Paz), Spanish centre-forward born 2006; La Masia graduate, fastest and youngest Barcelona debutant scorer (October 2023); Chelsea 2024-2026, Conference League winner; RB Leipzig from September 2026.

Marc Henneaux

Marc Henneaux (born 1955) is a Belgian theoretical physicist who directed the International Solvay Institutes from 2004 and held the Collège de France chair in fields, strings, and gravity from 2020.

Marc Hermann

Marc Hermann is a German-born technology founder and co-founder and CEO of Everlab, an Australian preventive health and longevity company founded in 2023 that had raised $80 million by 2026.

Marc Hoemberger

Marc Hoemberger is a biochemist and enzymologist who trained in Dorothee Kern's laboratory at Brandeis University, known for ancestral enzyme reconstruction and AF-Cluster, an AlphaFold2 method predicting alternative protein conformations.

Marc Humbert

Marc Humbert (born 1963) is a French physician-scientist known for transforming the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and Dean of the Université Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine.

Marc Huster

Marc Huster (born 1970, Altdöbern) is a German weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 in the light-heavyweight class, three-time world record holder, and later a TV sports reporter.

Marc I. Chimowitz

Marc I. Chimowitz is a vascular neurologist and professor emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina who led the WASID and SAMMPRIS stroke trials.

Marc I. Diamond

Marc I. Diamond, also known as Marc Diamond, is an American neurologist known for showing that misfolded tau protein propagates between cells, founding the Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Southwestern in 2014.

Marc Isambard Brunel

Marc Isambard Brunel, knighted in 1841, was a French-born engineer who settled in England, invented the tunnelling shield, and directed the Thames Tunnel, the first under a navigable river.

Marc J. J. Vrakking

Marc J. J. Vrakking, or Marc Vrakking, is a Dutch physicist working on attosecond science and director at the Max Born Institute in Berlin since 2010.

Marc J. M. Bonten

Marc J. M. Bonten is a Dutch physician-scientist in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for large trials on pneumonia treatment and pneumococcal vaccination in older adults.

Marc J. Melitz

Marc J. Melitz is an economist and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, whose 2003 Econometrica model made firm productivity central to trade theory.