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Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman (born 1959), American composer-lyricist of Hairspray, Some Like It Hot, Mary Poppins Returns, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; seven Oscar nominations, Tony, two Emmys, two Grammys; longtime partner of Bette Midler's music and Scott Wittman.

Marc Singer

Marc Singer (born 1948) is a Canadian actor best known for playing Dar in The Beastmaster (1982) and Mike Donovan in the science fiction series V (1983–1985).

Marc Snyder

Marc Snyder is an American Democratic politician and attorney representing Colorado's 12th Senate district, elected in 2024 after six years in the Colorado State House.

Marc Spautz

Marc Spautz (born 1963) is a Luxembourgish politician of the Christian Social People's Party who has served as Minister of Labour since December 2025 and previously led the party from 2014 to 2019.

Marc Staal

Marc Staal (born 1987, Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a retired Canadian NHL defenseman, drafted 12th overall by the New York Rangers in 2005; he played 1,136 games, and with brothers Eric and Jordan was the first trio of NHL brothers each with 1,000 games.

Marc Stad

Marc Stad is an American investor, founder and managing partner of Dragoneer Investment Group, a San Francisco firm known for investments in OpenAI, Uber, and Spotify.

MARC standards

MARC standards, or Machine-Readable Cataloging, are formats libraries use to store and exchange catalog records between computer systems, developed from a 1960s Library of Congress initiative.

Marc Strous

Marc Strous is a Dutch-trained microbial ecologist and geomicrobiologist who is a professor at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair for Geomicrobiology, known for discovering the anammox bacteria that oxidize ammonium without oxygen.

Marc Suchard

Marc A. Suchard is a physician and computational statistician at UCLA who develops Bayesian methods for inferring evolutionary history and applies large-scale analysis to electronic health records for drug safety.

Marc Summers

Marc Summers (born 1951, born Marc Berkowitz) is an American TV host who hosted Nickelodeon's Double Dare (1986–1994) and Food Network's Unwrapped (2001–2011), later producing Restaurant: Impossible and hosting the podcast Marc Summers Unwraps.

Marc T. Treadwell

Marc T. Treadwell is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Canadian neuroscientist and axon-guidance researcher; Genentech CSO, Rockefeller president, and Stanford's 11th president (2016-2023), resigned after a research-integrity investigation; now Xaira Therapeutics CEO.

Marc Therrien

Marc Therrien is a Canadian molecular biologist at the Université de Montréal who identified the RAS signaling protein KSR in 1995 and became Executive Director of IRIC in 2024.

Marc Thiery

Marc Thiery is a German private equity investor who co-founded Deutsche Private Equity (DPE) in Munich in 2007, a firm managing about €3 billion in the DACH region.

Marc Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau (Marc Pierre Adolphe Émile Tiffeneau, 1873–1945) was a French chemist and pharmacist, professor and dean at Paris, known for the Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement published in 1937.

Marc Timme

Marc Timme is a physicist working on the collective dynamics of networks, including synchronization, neural circuits, and power grids, who heads the Chair for Network Dynamics at TU Dresden.

Marc Timmers

Marc Timmers is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of Medical Epigenetics at the University of Freiburg's German Cancer Consortium center, where he has held the chair since 2017.

MARC Train

MARC Train, short for Maryland Area Regional Commuter, is Maryland's commuter rail system, run by MDOT MTA on three lines linking Baltimore and Washington, D.C., established in 1983.

Marc Trestman

Marc Trestman (born 1956) is an American football coach, Grey Cup winner with Montreal (2009, 2010) and Toronto, CFL Coach of the Year 2009, and Chicago Bears head coach 2013-14 (13-19).

Marc Van Montagu

Marc Van Montagu, born 1933 in Ghent, Belgium, is a Belgian plant molecular biologist who discovered the Ti plasmid, invented Agrobacterium plant transformation, and founded Plant Genetic Systems.

Marc Veasey

Marc Veasey is an American Democrat who has represented Texas's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving in the Texas State House.

Marc Veldhoen

Marc Veldhoen is a Portuguese-based immunologist known for establishing how Th17 and Th9 helper T cells arise and for defining the aryl hydrocarbon receptor's role in T cells.

Marc Vendrell

Marc Vendrell is a Spanish-born chemical biologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for activatable fluorescent probes that image enzyme activity in cancer and inflammation.

Marc Victor Gorenstein

Marc Victor Gorenstein is an American astrophysicist who co-authored the 1977 detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole with George Smoot and Richard Muller at Berkeley.

Marc Vidal

Marc Vidal is a Belgian-born systems biologist who directs the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Marc Waldie

Marc Waldie (Marc Robert Waldie), born 1955 in Wichita, Kansas, American volleyball player; Ohio State All-American and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics gold medalist with the US men's national team.

Marc Wallice

Marc Wallice, born Marc Stephen Goldberg in 1959, is an American adult film actor with one of the largest filmographies recorded for a male performer, whose career ended in 1998.

Marc Wanamaker

Marc Wanamaker is an American film historian and archivist who founded Bison Archives in Los Angeles in 1971, a private photographic collection on Hollywood and Los Angeles history, author of Hollywood Behind the Lens and technical advisor on Chaplin and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Marc Warren

Marc Warren (born 1967, Northampton) is an English actor known for Danny Blue in Hustle, Band of Brothers, State of Play, The Musketeers, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Van der Valk; distinct from the American producer of Full House.

Marc Webb

Marc Preston Webb, American film and music video director; directed 100+ music videos, debuted with (500) Days of Summer (2009), then The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, 2014), The Society, and Snow White (2025).