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Marcia A. Testa

Marcia A. Testa is an American biostatistician and health services researcher who has been Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 1987.

Marcia Barrett

Marcia Barrett (born 1948, St. Catherine, Jamaica), Jamaican singer and original vocalist of disco group Boney M. alongside Liz Mitchell; lead on "Belfast"; author of memoir Forward (2018); cancer survivor and solo artist with Xoah Records.

Marcia Caldas de Castro

Marcia Caldas de Castro, also known as Márcia C. Castro, is a Brazilian demographer and Harvard professor who studies how deforestation drives malaria in the Brazilian Amazon.

Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark (born 1953) is an American former prosecutor, lead prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, later author of Without a Doubt and crime novels, and a TV legal commentator.

Marcia Cross

Marcia Cross (Marcia Anne Cross, born 1962) is an American actress, Juilliard-trained, known as Dr. Kimberly Shaw on Melrose Place and Bree Van de Kamp on all eight seasons of Desperate Housewives, with 2005 Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Márcia Fellipe

Márcia Fellipe is a Brazilian singer of forró eletrônico and piseiro, born in Manaus in 1979 and the first female forró artist to reach 1 billion YouTube views.

Marcia Fudge

Marcia Fudge, American Democratic politician, 18th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 2021-2024, former Ohio 11th District congresswoman, Warrensville Heights mayor, and Congressional Black Caucus chair.

Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden (born 1959, La Jolla, California) is an American actress who won the 2001 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Lee Krasner in Pollock, earned a second nomination for Mystic River, and won a Tony for God of Carnage.

Marcia Griffiths

Marcia Griffiths is a Jamaican reggae singer, honored as the Empress of Reggae, best known as a member of Bob Marley's backing trio the I-Threes and for "Electric Boogie", the song behind the Electric Slide.

Marcia Gudereit

Marcia Gudereit (born 1965) is a Canadian curler from Saskatchewan who played lead on Sandra Schmirler's rink, which won three world championships and the first women's Olympic curling gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Games.

Marcia Haigis

Marcia C. Haigis (마샤 헤이기스) is an American cancer biologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on tumor metabolism, anti-tumor immunity, and aging.

Marcia Hines

Marcia Hines AM (born 1953), Boston-born Australian singer and Queen of Pop 1976-1978, star of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, hit single "You", and founding Australian Idol judge 2003-2009.

Marcia J. Rieke

Marcia J. Rieke, born 1951, is an American infrared astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and principal investigator of the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam camera.

Marcia K. Johnson

Marcia K. Johnson is a cognitive psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Sterling Professor Emerita at Yale University, known for the source monitoring and reality monitoring frameworks explaining how people determine where a memory came from.

Marcia L. Stefanick

Marcia L. Stefanick is an American physiologist and professor of medicine at Stanford who studies chronic disease prevention and led the Women's Health Initiative hormone-therapy trials.

Marcia Langton

Marcia Langton, born in 1951, is an Aboriginal Australian anthropologist and geographer who has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since 2000.

Marcia Lucas

Marcia Lucas (1945-2026), born Marcia Griffin, American film editor who won the 1978 Best Film Editing Oscar for Star Wars with Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch; edited American Graffiti, Return of the Jedi, and Scorsese's Taxi Driver; first wife of George Lucas.

Marcia M. Howard

Marcia M. Howard, also known as Marcia Morales Howard, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2007.

Marcia McNutt

Marcia McNutt is an American geophysicist and the first woman to direct the U.S. Geological Survey and to serve as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Marcia S. Krieger

Marcia S. Krieger, born 1954 in Denver, is an American jurist who served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 2013 to 2019.

Marcia Strassman

Marcia Ann Strassman (1948–2014) was an American actress and singer, Julie Kotter on the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter and Diane Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; not to be confused with casting director Marcia, or psychologist James Marcia.

Marcia Wallace

Marcia Wallace (1942–2013), American actress and comedian, known as Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show and the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons, with a 1992 Emmy.

Marcial Maciel

Marcial Maciel Degollado (1920–2008) was a Mexican Catholic priest who founded the Legion of Christ in 1941 and was later found to have sexually abused minors.

Marcialonga

Marcialonga (Marcialonga di Fiemme e Fassa) is a 70 km classic-technique cross-country ski marathon from Moena to Cavalese in Trentino, Italy, first held 7 February 1971, a founding Worldloppet race and one of the four Ski Classics Grand Classics.

Marcian Hoff

Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. is an American electrical engineer who, as Intel's twelfth employee, proposed the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, in 1969.

Marcin Bielski

Marcin Bielski, born Wolski (c. 1495–1575), was a Polish chronicler, poet, and soldier; his Kronika wszytkiego świata (1551) was the first universal history in Polish, continued by his son Joachim.

Marcin Gortat

Born in 1984 in Lodz, Poland, Marcin Gortat is a Polish professional basketball center. He played in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, Suns, Wizards, and Clippers.

Marcin Imieliński

Marcin Imieliński, also published as Marcin Imielinski, is a cancer genomics researcher and molecular genetic pathologist who directs cancer genetics and genomics research at NYU's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Marcin Kątski

Marcin Kazimierz Kątski, also spelled Kącki or Kontski (1636–1710), was a Polish nobleman who served as general of Crown artillery and commanded the guns at Vienna in 1683.

Marcin Kierwiński

Marcin Kierwiński (born 1976 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician of Koalicja Obywatelska who serves as Minister of the Interior and Administration and the coalition's Secretary General.