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Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau, born Marcel Mangel (1923–2007), French Jewish mime who created the white-faced clown Bip; Resistance forger of ID cards who smuggled over 70 Jewish children to Switzerland, then founded his own mime company and schools in Paris.
Marcel Mauss
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), French sociologist and anthropologist, Durkheim's nephew, first sociology professor at the Collège de France, author of Essai sur le don (The Gift), originator of the total social fact and triple obligation concepts.
Marcel Méchali
Marcel Méchali (born 1949) is a French molecular biologist and CNRS research director at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier, known for work on DNA replication origins.
Marcel Minnaert
Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970) was a Belgian-born Dutch astronomer who directed the Utrecht Observatory from 1937 to 1963 and created the Photometric Atlas of the Solar Spectrum.
Marcel Nicolet
Marcel Nicolet (1912–1996) was a Belgian geophysicist who studied the ionosphere and upper-atmosphere chemistry, taught at the Université de Bruxelles, and served as Secretary General of the International Geophysical Year.
Marcel Pagnol
Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974) was a French playwright, novelist, and filmmaker who shot sound films in Provence, built his own Marseille studios, and in 1946 became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française.
Marcel Petiot
Marcel Petiot, "Docteur Satan" (1897–1946), French physician and serial killer who ran a fake escape network under the Occupation, murdering and robbing people, mostly Jews, at 21 rue Le Sueur; tried in 1946 and guillotined.
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, 1871–1922), French novelist, author of the seven-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), published 1913–1927, famous for involuntary memory and the madeleine episode.
Marcel R.M. van den Brink
Marcel R.M. van den Brink is a Dutch hematologist-oncologist and immunologist who, after 24 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering, became president of City of Hope in 2023.
Marcel Reed
Marcel Reed, Texas A&M Aggies quarterback from Nashville and 2023 Tennessee Mr. Football; 2025 Manning Award finalist who led the Aggies to an 11-0 start and first College Football Playoff berth, and 2026 team captain.
Marcel Riesz
Marcel Riesz (1886–1969) was a Hungarian-born mathematician who spent nearly his whole career in Sweden, known for Riesz means, the Riesz potential, and the Riesz–Thorin interpolation theorem.
Marcel Rozier
Marcel Rozier (Jean-Marcel Rozier, born 22 March 1936) is a French show jumper, Olympic team gold medallist at Montreal 1976 and team silver at Mexico 1968, later coach of French, Italian, and UAE teams and father of Rio 2016 champion Philippe Rozier.
Marcel Sabitzer
Marcel Sabitzer, Austrian midfielder born 1994, plays for Borussia Dortmund (#20) and Austria with 100+ caps. Formerly Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United; 2024 Champions League finalist and EURO 2024 semifinalist-level international.
Marcel Schein
Marcel Schein (1902–1960) was a Slovak-born American experimental physicist who became professor at the University of Chicago and studied cosmic rays and mesotron production with balloon flights.
Marcel Schmelzer
Marcel Schmelzer, born 1988 in Magdeburg, is a German former footballer who played his whole career as a left back at Borussia Dortmund, making 367 appearances.
Marcel Schreier
Marcel Schreier is a Swiss electrocatalysis researcher who is the Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Marcel Tanner
Marcel Tanner is a Swiss epidemiologist and public-health scientist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Basel, who led the Swiss Tropical Institute from 1997 to 2015.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021 film)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) is Dean Fleischer Camp's A24 stop-motion/live-action mockumentary about a one-inch shell (voiced by Jenny Slate) seeking his lost family, expanded from a 2010 viral YouTube short; Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.
Marcel Theroux
Marcel Theroux, British-American novelist and broadcaster, son of Paul Theroux and brother of Louis; author of Far North (National Book Award finalist), Strange Bodies (Campbell Award), and The Paperchase (Somerset Maugham Award).
Marcel Tijsterman
Marcel Tijsterman is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of Genome Stability at the Leiden University Medical Center, whose group characterized the DNA repair pathway TMEJ and studies genome instability.
Marcel Vogel
Marcel Joseph Vogel (1917–1991) was an American research chemist who held 32 patents at IBM, including a magnetic disk coating, before founding a private psychic-research laboratory.
Marcel Wouda
Marcel Wouda (Marcel Reinier Wouda), Dutch swimmer born 1972 in Tilburg; 1998 world champion 200 m medley at Perth, only Dutch male long-course world champion, Sydney 2000 relay bronze; later KNZB national coach.
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920–1996) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne and member of the Academy of Sciences, known for formal language theory, combinatorics on words, and his late-life mathematical critique of Darwinian evolution.
Marcela Mitaynes
Marcela Mitaynes is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing Brooklyn's 51st district, including Red Hook, Sunset Park, and northern Bay Ridge.
Marcela V. Maus
Marcela Maus is a physician-scientist who directs the Cellular Immunotherapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and develops CAR T cell therapies for solid tumors, especially glioblastoma.
Marcela Valladolid
Marcela Valladolid, American chef and cookbook author born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana, hosted Food Network's Mexican Made Easy (2010) and The Kitchen, wrote six cookbooks including Familia, and now runs Casa Marcela, Inc. and Matriarca Foods.
Marcelijus Martinaitis
Marcelijus Martinaitis (1936–2013) was a Lithuanian poet, essayist, and translator best known for The Ballads of Kukutis (1977), whose trickster hero voiced dissent under Soviet censorship.
Marcelina Zawisza
Marcelina Zawisza is a Polish politician of the party Partia Razem who serves as leader of the Razem caucus in the Sejm, focusing on health care financing.
Marceline the Vampire Queen
Marceline the Vampire Queen (Marceline Abadeer) is a 1,000-year-old half-demon vampire in Adventure Time, voiced by Olivia Olson, who feeds on the color red, plays an ax bass, and is Princess Bubblegum's partner.
Marcelinho da Lua
Marcelinho da Lua is a Brazilian DJ, producer, and composer from Rio de Janeiro, active since the 1990s, who co-founded Bossacucanova and released the acclaimed solo album Tranquilo! in 2003.