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Mario Kummer

Mario Kummer (born 1962, Suhl) is a German former road cyclist, Olympic 100 km team time trial champion for East Germany at Seoul 1988 and world champion in 1981 and 1989, later a Telekom, T-Mobile, and Astana sports director.

Mario L. Suvà

Mario L. Suvà is a physician-scientist, Vice-Chair of Pathology for Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard associate professor, known for single-cell studies of glioma cellular states.

Mario Lanza

Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, 1921-1959), American lirico spinto tenor and MGM film star from South Philadelphia. Star of The Great Caruso; million-selling RCA recordings; influenced the Three Tenors; died in Rome aged 38.

Mario Leclerc

Mario Leclerc is a Canadian chemistry professor at Université Laval and a world leader in plastic electronics, known for conjugated polymers used in solar cells, LEDs, and DNA biosensors.

Mario Lemieux

Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey center (born 1965, Montreal), played 17 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins; 690 goals, 1,723 points, six Art Ross and three Hart Trophies, Stanley Cups 1991-92 as captain and 2009-17 as owner, survived Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Mario Lemina

Mario René Junior Lemina, Gabonese defensive midfielder born 1993 in Libreville; ex-Juventus (2017 Champions League final), Southampton, Wolves; Galatasaray since 2025, contract to 2028.

Mario Levrero

Mario Levrero was the pen name of Uruguayan novelist Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero (1940–2004), whose cult books include the involuntary trilogy, El discurso vacío, and La novela luminosa.

Mario Livio

Mario Livio, born 1945 in Bucharest, Romania, is an astrophysicist who studied supernovae at the Space Telescope Science Institute and wrote eight popular science books.

Mario Lopez

Mario Lopez (born 1973) is an American actor and host, famous as A.C. Slater on Saved by the Bell and later host of Extra, Access Hollywood, and Access Daily, with a 2024 Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Mario Lusiani

Mario Lusiani (1903-1964), Italian cyclist, Olympic gold medalist in the 4,000 m team pursuit at Amsterdam 1928 with Facciani, Gaioni, and Tasselli; also won the 1926 Piccolo Giro di Lombardia.

Mario Majoni

Mario Majoni (Mario Guglielmo Enrico Majoni, 1910–1985), Italian water polo player and coach; 1948 Olympic and 1947 European champion with Italy, later national coach, first Italian in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (1972).

Mario Mandžukić

Mario Mandžukić, born 1986 in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, is a former forward who won the 2013 Champions League with Bayern Munich and 2018 World Cup silver with Croatia.

Mario Matt

Mario Matt, Austrian alpine skier (SC Arlberg), slalom specialist; Olympic slalom gold Sochi 2014 as oldest alpine champion, world slalom champion 2001 and 2007, 15 World Cup wins, retired 2015.

Mario Mattera

Mario Mattera is an American politician and Republican member of the New York State Senate from the 2nd district, and a lifelong resident of Smithtown who led Plumbers Local Union #200 for over 39 years.

Mario Maurer (มาริโอ้ เมาเร่อ)

Mario Maurer, also known as มาริโอ้ เมาเร่อ, is a Thai actor born in 1988 in Bangkok who starred in The Love of Siam (2007) and Pee Mak (2013).

Mario Merola

Mario Merola (1934–2006) was an Italian singer and actor from Naples, remembered as the "king" of the sceneggiata napoletana, which he revived in the 1970s through television and film.

Mario Merz

Mario Merz (1925–2003) was an Italian painter and sculptor, a central figure of the Arte Povera movement, known for his igloo constructions, neon tubing, and Fibonacci sequences.

Mario Mikulincer

Mario Mikulincer is an Israeli social psychologist known for his experimental research on attachment theory in adulthood, and a Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mario Miranda

Mario Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011), Indian cartoonist and painter of Goan village and Bombay life; creator of Miss Nimbupani and Miss Fonseca; Times of India, Illustrated Weekly; Padma Vibhushan 2012.

Mario Molina

Mario Molina (Mario José Molina, 1943–2020) was a Mexican atmospheric chemist who predicted in 1974 that CFCs destroy ozone, earning the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Mario Monteforte Toledo

Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911–2003) was a Guatemalan writer, sociologist, and politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala and wrote more than fifty works of fiction and essay.

Mario Monti

Mario Monti, born in 1943, is an Italian economist who served as European Competition Commissioner and as Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013.

Mario Paint

Mario Paint is a 1992 SNES creativity game, also called Mario Paint (SNES), requiring the bundled SNES Mouse for drawing, music composition, animation, and the Gnat Attack minigame; re-released on Nintendo Switch Online in 2025.

Mario Party

Mario Party is Nintendo's board-game party video game series, begun by Hudson Soft on Nintendo 64 in 1998 and now by Nintendo Cube, known for dice-rolled boards, Stars as victory points, and four-player minigames.

Mario Party Superstars

Mario Party Superstars is a 2021 party game for the Nintendo Switch, developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo, collecting boards and minigames from the series' history.

Mario Pašalić

Mario Pašalić, born 1995 in Mainz, is a Croatian midfielder for Atalanta and Croatia. Ex-Chelsea loanee (Elche, Monaco, Milan, Spartak), Europa League 2024 winner, EURO 2020 scorer vs Spain, 2026 World Cup squad member.

Mário Pedrosa

Mário Pedrosa (1900–1981) was a Brazilian art critic and political militant regarded as central to Brazil's postwar modern art scene and a founder of the Workers' Party.

Mario Pieri

Mario Pieri (1860–1913) was an Italian mathematician, a major figure in the axiomatic foundations of geometry and arithmetic who reduced geometry's undefined terms to point and motion.

Mario Pinto

Mario Pinto (Mario Joao Jauad Pinto, born 1998) is an undefeated Portuguese UFC heavyweight from Lisbon fighting out of London, 13-0 with 8 knockouts, former LFL champion, 4-0 in the UFC.

Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo (1920-1999), American novelist and screenwriter of The Godfather (1969), which sold over 21 million copies; he co-wrote the three Godfather screenplays with Coppola, winning two Oscars, and also wrote The Sicilian, The Last Don, and Superman.