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Mark Cubbon

Sir Mark Cubbon (1784–1861) was a British army officer who served as commissioner of Mysore from 1834 to 1861, moving its capital to Bangalore, which preserves his name in Cubbon Park.

Mark Curry (rapper)

Mark Curry is an American rapper and author, a Bad Boy Records artist from 1997 to 2005, featured on "Bad Boy for Life" (2001) with Diddy and Black Rob, Diddy's ghostwriter, and author of Dancing with the Devil (2009).

Mark D. Allendorf

Mark D. Allendorf is a chemist and Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, who founded and co-directs HyMARC, a five-laboratory Department of Energy consortium on hydrogen storage materials.

Mark D. Altschule

Mark D. Altschule was a physician-investigator at Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital whose 1956 progesterone trial anticipated modern neurosteroid treatment of postpartum depression.

Mark D. Biggin

Mark D. Biggin, born 1960 in England, is a molecular biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies the transcriptional networks controlling Drosophila development, after earlier faculty appointments at Yale.

Mark D. Hollis

Mark Dexter Hollis (1908–1998) was an American sanitary engineer and Public Health Service rear admiral who directed the Communicable Disease Center, forerunner of the CDC.

Mark D. Kurz

Mark D. Kurz, also known as Mark Kurz, is an American isotope geochemist and Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for pioneering helium isotope studies of the mantle.

Mark D. Maughmer

Mark D. Maughmer is an American aerodynamicist and professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State since 1984, known for airfoil and winglet designs employed on hundreds of production sailplanes.

Mark D. Perkins

Mark D. Perkins is an American infectious-disease diagnostics researcher who co-founded FIND in Geneva, was its Chief Scientific Officer, and co-authored the 2010 Xpert MTB/RIF tuberculosis study.

Mark D. Rausher

Mark D. Rausher is an American evolutionary biologist, Kilgo Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology at Duke University, known for work on adaptation in morning glories.

Mark D. Rose

Mark D. Rose (Mark Rose) is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, known for using budding yeast genetics to study how cells and nuclei fuse.

Mark D. Smith

Mark D. Smith is an American physician, professor of clinical medicine at UCSF, and founding president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation from 1996 to 2013.

Mark D. Szczelkun

Mark D. Szczelkun is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol who studies bacterial defense enzymes, including restriction-modification motors and CRISPR-Cas, at the single-molecule level.

Mark D. Zoback

Mark D. Zoback is an American geophysicist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for measuring crustal stress, fault strength, and reservoir geomechanics for energy development.

Mark D’Esposito

Mark D'Esposito is an American neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley, known for his work on working memory, cognitive control, and frontal lobe function.

Mark Dacascos

Mark Alan Dacascos (born 1964, Honolulu) is an American actor and martial artist in Wun Hop Kuen Do, known for Only the Strong, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Zero in John Wick 3, Wo Fat in Hawaii Five-0, and as Iron Chef America's Chairman.

Mark Daigneault

Mark Daigneault, born 1985, is an American basketball coach and head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder since 2020, winning Coach of the Year in 2024.

Mark Dantonio

Mark Dantonio, Zanesville, Ohio native; college football coach at Cincinnati (2004-06) and Michigan State (2007-19); 132-74 career record, 114 wins at MSU, three Big Ten titles, 2014 Rose Bowl, College Football Hall of Fame.

Mark Davenport

Mark A. Davenport is an American electrical engineer and machine learning researcher, a professor at Georgia Tech who received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE).

Mark David Chapman

Mark David Chapman (born 1955) is the American who murdered John Lennon outside the Dakota in New York on 8 December 1980; he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1981, received 20 years to life, and has been denied parole 14 times, most recently in 2025.

Mark Davis (American football)

Mark Davis, son of Al Davis, is owner and managing general partner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders (since October 2011) and owner of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces; he moved the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020.

Mark Dawson

Mark Richard Dawson (born 1960, London), son of Richard Dawson and Diana Dors, is a British-American entertainment manager, CEO of DRZ Entertainment Group, Family Feud crew veteran, producer of Nudity Required, and manager of Phantom Blue and The Iron Maidens; distinct from the 1973-born novelist Mark Dawson.

Mark Dayton

Mark Dayton (born 1947) is a Minnesota DFL politician, the state's 40th governor (2011–2019), earlier state auditor and U.S. senator; won the narrow 2010 recount race and presided over the 2011 shutdown.

Mark Dean (computer engineer)

Mark Dean is an American computer engineer who holds three of the nine patents on the original IBM PC, co-invented the ISA bus, and holds more than 40 patents.

Mark Deklin

Mark Deklin (born 1967, Pittsburgh) is an American actor and fight director known for GCB, Lone Star, Devious Maids, Designated Survivor, Broadway fight direction for Sweet Smell of Success and Cyrano de Bergerac, and NCIS: Origins.

Mark DeRosa

Mark DeRosa (born 1975) is a former MLB utility infielder, 16 seasons, .268, 100 HR, and manager of Team USA at the 2023 and 2026 World Baseball Classics, winning 2023 silver.

Mark Derwin

Mark Derwin (Mark James Derwin, born 1960, Park Forest, Illinois) is an American actor since 1987, known for A.C. Mallet on Guiding Light, Dr. Ben Davidson on One Life to Live, Life with Bonnie, and George Juergens on The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Mark DeSaulnier

Mark DeSaulnier, born 1952, is a Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 10th congressional district since 2023, after serving the 11th district from 2015 and the State Senate and Assembly.

Mark Dice

Mark Dice (Mark Shouldice, born 1977, Milwaukee) is an American conservative YouTuber, media analyst, and author of Illuminati and fake-news books; his channel began January 24, 2007, reaching about 1.9 million subscribers and 712 million views.

Mark Donowitz

Mark Donowitz is an American gastroenterologist and physiologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies intestinal sodium absorption, the Na/H exchanger NHE3, and diarrheal disease.