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Marc J. Pelegrin

Marc J. Pélegrin (1923–2024) was a French automatic-control engineer who directed the SUPAERO aerospace school and ONERA's Toulouse research center, co-authored a standard control theory textbook, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Marc J. van de Vijver

Marc J. van de Vijver (born 1959) is a Dutch pathologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC whose 2002 study showed a 70-gene profile predicts breast cancer survival.

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer, founder of Marc Jacobs International with Robert Duffy; famed for the 1992 Perry Ellis grunge collection and Louis Vuitton creative director 1997–2013; brand sold by LVMH to WHP Global and G-III in 2026.

Marc John Jefferies

Marc John Jefferies (born 1990, New York City) is an American actor and producer who played the title child in Losing Isaiah (1995), young 50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Lil' Cease in Notorious, with recurring TV roles on Power, Treme, and City on a Hill; he also founded the MJJ Acting Academy.

Marc K. Jenkins

Marc K. Jenkins is an American immunologist and University of Minnesota professor known for research on CD4+ T cell activation, immune memory, and oral tolerance to food antigens.

Marc Kamionkowski

Marc Kamionkowski is an American theoretical cosmologist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1997 prediction that CMB polarization could reveal primordial gravitational waves.

Marc Kennedy

Marc Kennedy, Canadian curler born 1982 in St. Albert, Alberta; four-time Olympian, first Canadian curler with three Olympic medals (gold 2010 Team Martin, gold 2026 Team Jacobs, bronze 2022), two-time world champion.

Marc Kirschner

Marc W. Kirschner, born 1945 in Chicago, is an American cell and systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who discovered tau and founded Harvard's Cell Biology and Systems Biology departments.

Marc Koper

Marc Koper, full name Marc T. M. Koper (born 1967), is a Dutch electrochemist, professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry at Leiden University, and specialist in electrocatalytic CO2 conversion.

Marc Ladanyi

Marc Ladanyi is a molecular pathologist who is Chief of the Molecular Diagnostics Service and holds the William J. Ruane Chair in Molecular Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Marc LaHood

Marc LaHood is an American Republican politician and criminal defense attorney who represents Texas House District 121 in San Antonio, having unseated incumbent Steve Allison in the 2024 Republican primary with Governor Greg Abbott's endorsement.

Marc Lallemant

Marc Lallemant is a French physician-scientist who has studied HIV in pregnant women and children since 1985, leading Thailand's Perinatal HIV Prevention Trial and first-authoring a landmark 2004 nevirapine study.

Marc Lamont Hill

Marc Lamont Hill, born 1978 in Philadelphia, is an American academic, journalist, and activist who teaches at CUNY and hosts news programs for BET, theGrio, and Al Jazeera.

Marc Lasry

Marc Lasry, also known as Mark Lasry, is a Moroccan-born American investor who co-founded Avenue Capital Group in 1995 with his sister Sonia Gardner and co-owned the Milwaukee Bucks from 2014 to 2023.

Marc Lecuit

Marc Lecuit is a French microbiologist and infectious-diseases physician who directs the Biology of Infection Unit at the Institut Pasteur and studies Listeria invasion of cells.

Marc Leishman

Marc Leishman, Australian pro golfer from Warrnambool, Victoria; six-time PGA Tour winner, 2009 Rookie of the Year, 2015 Open runner-up; joined LIV Golf's Ripper GC in 2022, winning LIV Miami 2025 and the 2024 Team Championship.

Marc Lépine

Marc Lépine (Gamil Gharbi, 1964–1989), Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women at Montreal's École Polytechnique on 6 December 1989 with a Ruger Mini-14, saying he was fighting feminism; his attack drove Canada's Bill C-17 and 1995 Firearms Act.

Marc Lipsitch

Marc Lipsitch is an infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeler who joined Stanford University in 2026 after 25 years at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Marc Lopez

Marc Lopez (Marc López Tarrés), Spanish tennis player born 1982 in Barcelona; doubles specialist, 2016 Olympic gold with Nadal, 2016 Roland Garros and 2012 ATP Finals champion, retired 2022.

Marc Lore

Marc Lore is an American serial e-commerce entrepreneur who sold Quidsi to Amazon and Jet.com to Walmart, led Walmart's U.S. e-commerce business, and founded the food-tech company Wonder.

Marc M. Greenberg

Marc M. Greenberg is an American bioorganic chemist, the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, who studies DNA damage and repair.

Marc M. Hirschmann

Marc M. Hirschmann is an American experimental petrologist and geochemist at the University of Minnesota, known for work on mantle melting and deep Earth cycles of water and carbon.

Marc Maron

Marc Maron (born 1963, Jersey City, NJ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host of the WTF interview podcast, started 2009; guest Obama 2015, Robin Williams episode in the National Recording Registry, ended fall 2025.

Marc Márquez

Marc Márquez (born 1993, Cervera, Spain), #93, Spanish MotoGP rider for Ducati Lenovo Team; nine world championships (125cc 2010, Moto2 2012, seven MotoGP titles incl. 2025), 100 GP wins, comeback after 2020 Jerez humerus injury.

Marc Martel

Marc Martel, born 1977 in Montreal, Canadian singer and former Downhere frontman whose vocal resemblance to Freddie Mercury won him the Queen Extravaganza in 2012 and vocals in the film Bohemian Rhapsody.

Marc McClure

Marc McClure (born 1957, San Mateo, California) is an American actor, the Jimmy Olsen of the 1978-1987 Superman films and Supergirl, and Dave McFly in Back to the Future; also Apollo 13 and Freaky Friday.

Marc Menchaca

Marc Menchaca (born 1975, San Angelo, Texas) is an American actor, writer, and director known for Russ Langmore in Ozark, Jack Hoskins in The Outsider, Generation Kill, and the 2013 SXSW film This Is Where We Live; married to Lena Headey since 2022.

Marc Mero

Marc Mero (born 1960), also Johnny B. Badd, is a retired American wrestler, three-time WCW TV Champion and WWF Intercontinental Champion, now a motivational speaker via Champion of Choices.

Marc Mézard

Marc Mézard (born 1957) is a French theoretical physicist known for the cavity method, developed with Parisi and Virasoro, and a professor at Bocconi University since 2022.

Marc Mezvinsky

Marc Mezvinsky is an American macro investor who co-founded Eaglevale Partners, whose Greece-focused fund lost nearly 90 percent of its value, and later joined TPG on climate investing.