All articles starting with M

Marcel Cerdan

Marcel Cerdan (Marcellin Cerdan, 1916-1949), French boxer nicknamed Le Bombardier Marocain; world middleweight champion 1948-49 after beating Tony Zale, lost to Jake LaMotta, died in an Azores air crash.

Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch in 1892, was the French aircraft industrialist who founded the company behind the Mirage and Falcon jets, refusing to work for the Nazi occupation.

Marcel Déat

Marcel Déat (1894–1955), French neo-socialist politician, SFIO deputy excluded in 1933, author of 'Mourir pour Dantzig ?', founder of the collaborationist RNP, and Vichy Minister of Labour in 1944.

Marcel den Nijs

Marcel den Nijs is a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, co-author of the 1982 TKNN paper that explained the quantized Hall conductance using topological concepts.

Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly (born Odenke Abbey, 1968, Accra) is a Ghanaian-born French former footballer, 116-cap France captain, 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winner, and two-time European Cup champion with Marseille (1993) and AC Milan (1994).

Marcel Desprets

Marcel Desprets (Marcel Cyr Desprets, 1906–1973), French épée fencer with Racing Club de France; Olympic team épée gold at London 1948 and world team titles in 1935 and 1947.

Marcel Dicke

Marcel Dicke is a Dutch entomologist and chemical ecologist, professor at Wageningen University, known for discovering that plants cry for help and for promoting edible insects.

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-born American artist of Dada and Cubism, creator of the readymades and Fountain (1917, signed R. Mutt), The Large Glass, and Box in a Valise; forerunner of Conceptual art.

Marcel E. Conrad

Marcel E. Conrad, Jr. was an American physician-scientist in hematology known for research on iron absorption, malaria, and sickle-cell disease at Walter Reed and Alabama universities.

Marcel E. Visser

Marcel E. Visser is a Dutch evolutionary ecologist who heads the Animal Ecology department at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, known for research on climate change and great tits.

Marcel Erni

Marcel Erni, born in 1965, is a Swiss financier who co-founded Partners Group, a Zug-based global private markets firm, with two Goldman Sachs colleagues in 1996.

Marcel Fässler

Marcel Fässler (born 1959, Altendorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss bobsledder, not the racing driver of the same name; he won surprise four-man bobsleigh gold at the 1988 Calgary Olympics by 0.07 seconds.

Marcel Fischer

Marcel Fischer (born 1978, Biel/Bienne) is a Swiss épée fencer, Olympic champion at Athens 2004 (beat Wang Lei 15–9), the first Swiss Olympic fencing gold medalist, 2004 World Cup winner, later a physician.

Marcel Fratzscher

Marcel Fratzscher is a German economist who has been President of DIW Berlin since 2013, after eleven years at the European Central Bank heading international policy analysis.

Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, also known as Marcel van der Heijden, is a Dutch soil ecologist known for showing that mycorrhizal fungal diversity drives plant biodiversity.

Marcel Gery

Marcel Gery (Marcel Géry), born 1965 in Smolenice, is a Slovak-Canadian swimmer who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1986, set a short course 50 m butterfly world record in 1990, and won 1992 Olympic bronze in the 4x100 medley relay.

Marcel Gobillot

Marcel Gobillot (Marcel René Gaspard Gobillot), French road cyclist, 1900-1981. Olympic gold in the team road race at Antwerpen 1920; 14th individually; later professional, winning the 1924 Criterion of Alençon.

Marcel Grateau

Marcel Grateau (1852–1936) was a French hairdresser who created the Marcel Wave, a heated-iron waving technique so widespread that the waves were called "des Marcels" worldwide.

Oct 20, 2026

Marcel Hansenne

Marcel Fernand Hansenne (1917-2002), French middle-distance runner; 1948 Olympic 800m bronze (1:49.8), 1946 European bronze and 1950 European silver, 1000m world record 2:21.4, nine French 800m titles.

Marcel Herrmann Telles

Marcel Herrmann Telles, born 1950, is a Brazilian businessman who ran Brahma and Ambev, co-founded 3G Capital in 2004, and directs AB InBev, the world's largest brewer.

Marcel Hirscher

Marcel Hirscher, born 1989, Austrian alpine ski racer, record eight consecutive overall World Cup titles, 67 wins, two 2018 Olympic golds; retired 2019, returned 2024 racing for the Netherlands.

Marcel J. E. Golay

Marcel J. E. Golay (1902–1989) was a Swiss-born mathematician, physicist, and information theorist who discovered the perfect Golay codes and invented the Golay infrared detector and capillary chromatography column.

Marcel Jongmans

Marcel Jongmans (born 1966) is a Dutch finance executive who served as CFO of Amsterdam market maker Flow Traders from 2016 to 2019, after twelve years leading ABN AMRO Clearing Bank.

Marcel Jouhandeau

Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979) was a French novelist, essayist, and diarist who wrote more than a hundred books, including the Chaminadour cycle set in his native Guéret.

Marcel Khalifa

Marcel Khalife, also known as Marcel Khalifé, is a Lebanese composer, singer, and oud player born in 1950, best known for setting Mahmoud Darwish's poetry to music.

Marcel Kool

Marcel Kool is a pediatric neurooncology and cancer genomics researcher who leads research groups at the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg and the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht.

Oct 26, 2026

Marcel Kornacker

Marcel Kornacker, database engineer, UC Berkeley PhD (2000), founding tech lead of Google F1's query engine, creator of Apache Impala, co-creator of Apache Parquet, and CTO and co-founder of Pixeltable, the multimodal AI data infrastructure company launched December 2024.