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Mark Butcher

Mark Alan Butcher (born 1972, Croydon) is an English former Test cricketer, commentator, and musician; 71 Tests for England 1997–2004/05, Surrey 1992–2009, famed for his unbeaten 173 at Headingley in the 2001 Ashes.

Mark C. Fishman

Mark C. Fishman is an American developmental biologist, geneticist, and cardiologist, a Harvard professor known for establishing the zebrafish as a genetic model of heart development and for leading Novartis research.

Mark C. Genovese

Mark C. Genovese is an American rheumatologist who spent over two decades at Stanford leading phase 3 trials of rheumatoid arthritis drugs, then joined Gilead Sciences in 2020.

Mark C. Herrmann

Mark C. Herrmann is an American plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who directed the National Ignition Facility and led the 2022 experiments achieving fusion ignition and scientific breakeven.

Mark C. Hersam

Mark C. Hersam, also known as Mark Hersam, is an American materials scientist and nanotechnologist at Northwestern University, a MacArthur Fellow known for nanoelectronic materials and memtransistors.

Mark C. Petrie

Mark C. Petrie is a Scottish cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, known for heart failure research and the STEP-HFpEF semaglutide trial.

Mark C. Scarsi

Mark C. Scarsi, also known as Mark Christopher Scarsi, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2020.

Mark C. Steinhoff

Mark C. Steinhoff was an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati Children's whose trials showed flu vaccination during pregnancy protects both mother and newborn.

Mark C. Willingham

Mark C. Willingham was a cell biologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda who proposed the receptosome in endocytosis and mapped P-glycoprotein, the cancer multidrug-resistance protein.

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht (born 1959) is a Dutch environmental biotechnologist at Delft University of Technology, known for wastewater treatment processes including SHARON, Anammox, and Nereda.

Mark Carleton-Smith

Mark Carleton-Smith (born 1964) is a retired British Army general, Chief of the General Staff 2018–2022, former Director Special Forces and 22 SAS commander, later Senior Advisor to CT Group and director of SafeLane Global.

Mark Carney

Mark Carney, Canadian economist and 24th Prime Minister of Canada (sworn in March 2025), former Governor of the Bank of Canada (2008–2013) and first non-British Governor of the Bank of England (2013–2020), led the Liberals to a 169-seat minority in April 2025.

Mark Carney (American football)

Mark Carney, American college football coach and former Fordham quarterback; 24th head coach of Kent State (2025), previously offensive coordinator at Charlotte and Virginia State; career head record 7-9.

Mark Carney's Davos speech

Mark Carney's Davos speech, 20 January 2026 WEF special address; PM of Canada declares the US-led rules-based order in 'rupture not transition', cites Havel and Thucydides, urges middle powers to build variable-geometry coalitions; won a standing ovation.

Mark Cavendish

Mark Cavendish, the Manx Missile, is a British road sprinter and knight who holds the all-time Tour de France record of 35 stage wins, breaking Eddy Merckx's 34 at Saint-Vulbas in 2024, with a 2011 world title and 2009 Milan-San Remo.

Mark Cerny

Mark Cerny, American game designer and lead system architect of PlayStation 4, PS5, and PS5 Pro; designer of Marble Madness (1984), Sega Technical Institute founder, Cerny Games consultant, AIAS Hall of Fame member.

Mark Chahwan

Mark Chahwan is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded Sarwa, an Abu Dhabi-based investing and personal finance platform, in December 2017 and serves as its Group CEO.

Mark Chamberlain

Mark Chamberlain names two English sportsmen: a winger born 1961 in Stoke-on-Trent, an eight-cap England international with Port Vale, Stoke, Sheffield Wednesday, and Portsmouth, father of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain; and a Waterlooville southpaw boxer, IBO super-lightweight champion.

Mark Chao (赵又廷)

Mark Chao (赵又廷, Zhao Youting), Taiwanese actor born 1984 in Taipei, son of Zhao Shuhai. Golden Bell winner for Black & White (2009), Asian Film Awards Best New Actor for Monga, famed for Ye Hua in Eternal Love (2017) and The Heart.

Mark Chapman (broadcaster)

Mark Chapman (Andrew Mark Chapman, 'Chappers', born 1973) is a British sports broadcaster, BBC Match of the Day co-host with Kelly Cates and Gabby Logan since 2025-26, MOTD2 host since 2013, Radio 5 Live Sports Report presenter, and Sky Sports Carabao Cup presenter; distinct from John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman.

Mark Chee

Mark Chee is a genomics inventor and biotech entrepreneur who co-founded Illumina in 1998, holds more than 100 U.S. patents, and was President and CEO of Encodia until 2025.

Mark Chesnutt

Mark Nelson Chesnutt, born 1963 in Beaumont, Texas, is an American neotraditionalist country and honky-tonk singer. Signed to MCA Nashville in 1989, he scored 1990s hits like "Brother Jukebox" and "Too Cold at Home," won the 1993 CMA Horizon Award, and later recorded on independent labels.

Mark Ciavarella

Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., former Luzerne County, Pennsylvania juvenile court judge (1996–2009), convicted in 2011 in the kids-for-cash scandal of racketeering and fraud for $2.8 million in payments tied to for-profit detention centers; serving a 28-year federal sentence.

Mark Clattenburg

Mark Clattenburg (born 1975) is an English former football referee, Premier League official 2004-2017 and FIFA referee from 2006, who refereed the 2016 Champions League and Euro finals and later worked in Saudi Arabia and on BBC Gladiators.

Mark Coleman

Mark Coleman (born 1964, Fremont, Ohio), 'The Hammer', NCAA wrestling champion and 1992 Olympian; first UFC heavyweight champion, UFC 10/11 tournament winner, Pride 2000 Grand Prix winner, godfather of ground and pound.

Mark Coles Smith

Mark Coles Smith (born 1987, Broome) is a Nyikina Australian actor, writer, musician and producer, AACTA-winning lead of Mystery Road: Origin as young Jay Swan, star of Beast of War, and host of ABC's The Kimberley.

Mark Connors

Mark Connors is an American physician-scientist who leads the HIV-Specific Immunity Section at NIAID, studying rare people who control HIV without therapy and isolating the antibody 10E8.

Mark Crimmin

Mark R. Crimmin is a British organometallic chemist and Professor at Imperial College London, known for a hexagonal planar transition-metal complex in Nature in 2019 and fluorocarbon recycling.

Mark Crowther

Mark A. Crowther is a Canadian hematologist and thrombosis physician-scientist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for clinical trials of anticoagulant reversal agents, including andexanet alfa.

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is an American technology entrepreneur and investor who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion, owned the Dallas Mavericks, and starred on Shark Tank.