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Mark Baisley

Mark Baisley is an American Republican politician, a Colorado state senator elected in 2022, and the Republican nominee for US Senate in Colorado in 2026.

Mark Ballas

Mark Ballas (Mark Alexander Ballas Jr., born 1986, Houston) is a three-time Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball champion, judge on DWTS: The Next Pro, Broadway performer (Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, Chicago's Billy Flynn), and half of the duo Alexander Jean with wife BC Jean.

Mark Barron

Mark Barron (born 1989, Mobile, AL) is a former NFL safety-turned-linebacker, drafted 7th overall by Tampa Bay in 2012 after an All-American Alabama career; traded to the Rams in 2014, played in Super Bowl LIII, finished with Pittsburgh in 2019.

Mark Bathe

Mark Bathe is a biological engineer and Professor at MIT who leads the Bathe BioNanoLab, known for DNA origami design algorithms and DNA-based vaccine scaffolds.

Mark Begich

Mark Begich (born 1962) is an Alaska Democrat, Anchorage mayor 2003–2009 and U.S. Senator 2009–2015, who defeated Ted Stevens in 2008, lost to Dan Sullivan in 2014, and ran for governor in 2018.

Mark Bellhorn

Mark Bellhorn (born 1974) is an American former MLB switch-hitting infielder (1997-2007) who won the 2004 World Series with the Red Sox, hitting ALCS and World Series home runs, and once homered from both sides of the plate in one inning with the Cubs.

Mark Benton

Mark Benton (born 1965) is an English actor from Guisborough, trained at RADA, known for Early Doors, Waterloo Road, Shakespeare & Hathaway and Patience, plus Strictly Come Dancing 2014.

Mark Bernes

Mark Bernes (Марк Бернес), born Mark Naumovich Neyman, was a Soviet estrada singer and film actor, born in Ukraine in 1911, known for "Tyomnaya noch" and "Zhuravli".

Mark Bezos

Mark Bezos is an American marketing executive who flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard first crewed flight on July 20, 2021, alongside his brother Jeff Bezos.

Mark Bingham

Mark Bingham was an American public relations executive and rugby player from San Francisco who fought back against the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

Mark Blaxter

Mark L. Blaxter is a British evolutionary genomicist who leads the Tree of Life Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and directs the Darwin Tree of Life project.

Mark Blenner

Mark Blenner is an American chemical and biological engineer who received the PECASE award and built a CRISPR editing toolkit for the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.

Mark Blum

Mark Blum (1950–2020), American character actor of New York stage, film, and TV; Gary Glass in Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee editor, Union Bob in Mozart in the Jungle, Obie winner for Gus and Al; died of COVID-19.

Mark Bonnar

Mark Bonnar (born 1968, Edinburgh) is a Scottish actor known for Line of Duty, Catastrophe, Guilt, Shetland, Dept. Q, and Ludwig; BAFTA Scotland Actor Television winner 2017 for Unforgotten.

Mark Boone Junior

Mark Boone Junior (born Mark Heidrich, 1955, Cincinnati) is an American character actor known for Bobby Munson in Sons of Anarchy, Burt in Memento, and Detective Flass in Batman Begins.

Mark Bosnich

Mark Bosnich, Australian goalkeeper (born 1972, Sydney), played for Aston Villa, Manchester United, and Chelsea in the Premier League; two League Cups, 1999-2000 title, 17 Australia caps, nine-month cocaine ban in 2002.

Mark Bothwell

Mark Bothwell is a neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology at the University of Washington known for work on neurotrophins, the growth factors that control neuron survival.

Mark Boucher

Mark Boucher, born 1976, South African wicketkeeper-batsman; world-record 998 international and 555 Test dismissals; later coached South Africa, Mumbai Indians, and MI Emirates.

Mark Bower

Mark Bower is a British medical oncologist, Professor at Imperial College London and consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, known for AIDS-related cancer care and a 2006 Kaposi's sarcoma prognostic index.

Mark Bowman

Mark Bowman names two sports figures: the MLB.com beat writer covering the Atlanta Braves since 2001 and author of The Franchise (2024), and the five-star Mater Dei tight end who committed to USC in 2025.

Mark Bradford

Mark Bradford (born 1961, Los Angeles) is an American artist known for large-scale abstract paintings built from scavenged billboard paper and perm end-papers; he represented the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Mark Braverman

Mark Braverman (מארק ברוורמן), born 1984, is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist at Princeton University who developed information complexity, the interactive analog of Shannon's information theory, winning the 2022 Abacus Medal.

Mark Breland

Mark Anthony Breland, born 1963 in Brooklyn, is an American boxer, 1984 Olympic welterweight gold medalist with a 110-1 amateur record, two-time WBA welterweight champion (1987, 1989-90), later actor and trainer.

Mark Brendanawicz

Mark Brendanawicz, also called Mark Brendanaquits, is the Pawnee city planner played by Paul Schneider in Parks and Recreation seasons 1-2 (30 episodes, 2009-2010), erased from the show after his departure.

Mark Briscoe

Mark Briscoe (Mark Pugh, born 1985) is an AEW and ROH wrestler, half of The Briscoes with late brother Jay; 13-time ROH tag champion, former ROH World and AEW TNT Champion.

Mark Brongersma

Mark L. Brongersma is a materials scientist and nanophotonics researcher at Stanford University who coined the term "plasmonics" and studies metasurfaces that control light at the nanoscale.

Mark Brunell

Mark Brunell, born 1970, left-handed NFL quarterback (1993-2011), Washington Huskies star, Jacksonville Jaguars franchise QB with three Pro Bowls and 32,072 career passing yards; now Detroit Lions quarterbacks coach.

Mark Brzezinski

Mark Brzezinski (born 1965) is an American lawyer-diplomat, son of Zbigniew Brzezinski; U.S. Ambassador to Sweden 2011-2015, first Arctic Executive Steering Committee director, and Ambassador to Poland 2021-2025.

Mark Buehrle

Mark Buehrle (born 1979) is a retired MLB left-handed pitcher (2000-2015) for the White Sox, Marlins, and Blue Jays; 214-160, 3.81 ERA, 2007 no-hitter, 2009 perfect game, 2005 World Series champion, four Gold Gloves.

Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett (born 1960, London) is a British-born American TV producer behind Survivor, The Apprentice, Shark Tank, and The Voice, former MGM Worldwide Television chairman, and US Special Envoy to the UK since 2025.