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Mark Kerr (fighter)
Mark Kerr, nicknamed "The Smashing Machine", is an American retired mixed martial artist who won the heavyweight tournaments at UFC 14 and UFC 15 in 1997.
Mark Kerry
Mark Kerry (born 1959, Temora, NSW) is an Australian backstroke swimmer, triple Olympian 1976-1984, who won gold in the 1980 4x100m medley relay and bronze medals in the 1980 200m backstroke and 1984 medley relay.
Mark King (musician)
Mark King (born 1958, Cowes, Isle of Wight) is the English bassist, singer and frontman of Level 42, famed for his fast "machine gun" thumb-slap bass technique, 1980s hits like "Something About You," and solo albums Influences and One Man.
Mark Kirchner
Mark Kirchner, German biathlete born 1970 in Neuhaus am Rennweg, won 3 Olympic golds (1992, 1994) and 7 world titles, then coached Germany's national biathlon teams 2010-2023.
Mark Kirk
Mark Steven Kirk, born 1959, Illinois Republican; five-term U.S. Representative (2001–2010) and U.S. Senator (2010–2017); won Obama's former Senate seat in 2010, survived a 2012 stroke, lost to Tammy Duckworth in 2016.
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick is an American theoretical population geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and chromosome evolution.
Mark Knight
Mark Knight is a British house music DJ and producer who co-founded the label Toolroom Records in 2003 and is known for "Man With The Red Face."
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler (born 1949, Glasgow) is a British guitarist, singer, and songwriter, leader of Dire Straits (Sultans of Swing, Brothers in Arms) and solo artist since Golden Heart (1996), known for fingerstyle electric guitar without a pick.
Mark Knowles
Mark Knowles, born 1971 in Nassau, Bahamas, is a former ATP doubles world No. 1 who won 55 doubles titles, three men's doubles Grand Slams with Daniel Nestor, and the 2009 Wimbledon mixed doubles, later coaching Jessica Pegula.
Mark Kondratyuk
Mark Kondratyuk (Марк Кондратюк), Russian men's figure skater born 2003 in Podolsk; 2022 European and Russian national champion, 15th in Beijing singles, Olympic team bronze after Valieva disqualification.
Mark Kozelek
Mark Kozelek (born 1967, Massillon, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter frontman of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, founder of Caldo Verde Records, known for slowcore and diaristic song cycles.
Mark Krasnoselsky
Mark Krasnoselsky (Марк Александрович Красносельский, 1920 to 1997) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who helped found nonlinear analysis, known for his fixed point theorem and the Krasnosel'skii–Mann iteration.
Mark Krein
Mark Grigorievich Krein (1907–1989) was a Soviet mathematician in functional analysis and operator theory who built a research center at Odessa University and won the 1982 Wolf Prize.
Mark Kryder
Mark Kryder is an electrical engineer and CMU Professor recognized for his leading work on Perpendicular Recording in hard disk drives and for formulating Kryder's Law.
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky (born 1948) is an American journalist and author of Cod, Salt, Paper, Milk!, 1968, and The Basque History of the World, known for single-commodity world histories and a former foreign correspondent.
Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme is an American venture investor and former Sequoia Capital partner who co-founded Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, and later launched the $500 million Ohio Fund.
Mark L. Andermann
Mark L. Andermann is a neuroscientist and Harvard Medical School professor who studies how hunger and thirst shape what the brain attends to and remembers.
Mark L. Brusseau
Mark L. Brusseau is an American environmental scientist and professor at the University of Arizona known for foundational work on nonequilibrium solute transport and PFAS retention and vadose-zone migration models.
Mark L. Kahn
Mark L. Kahn is an American physician-scientist in hematology and vascular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on platelet receptors and cerebral cavernous malformations.
Mark L. Rosenberg
Mark L. Rosenberg (born 1945) is an American physician and public health researcher who founded the CDC's injury prevention center and led The Task Force for Global Health.
Mark L. Walberg
Mark L. Walberg (born 1962, Florence, SC) is an American TV and game show host, distinct from actor Mark Wahlberg, known for hosting PBS's Antiques Roadshow and USA's Temptation Island, plus The Moment of Truth and Joe Millionaire.
Mark L. Zeidel
Mark L. Zeidel is an American kidney and membrane physiologist whose 1992 purified-protein proof that CHIP28 conducts water is cited in the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry background.
Mark Labbett
Mark Andrew Labbett, born 1965 in Tiverton, Devon, nicknamed The Beast (from the French La Bête), is a British professional quizzer and Chaser on ITV's The Chase since 2009, and on US and Australian versions.
Mark Lamarr
Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones, 1967, Swindon) is an English comedian, TV presenter, and radio DJ, host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks 1996-2005, Shooting Stars team captain from 1995, and BBC Radio 2 music presenter until 2010.
Mark Lamb
Mark Lamb is an American Republican politician and former Pinal County, Arizona, sheriff who is the party's 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in Arizona's 5th District.
Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan (1964–2022), American singer and author, frontman of Screaming Trees, solo artist behind The Winding Sheet, and prolific collaborator with Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, and the Gutter Twins; died in Killarney, Ireland.
Mark Langston
Mark Langston (born 1960) is a former MLB left-handed pitcher (1984-1999) for the Mariners, Expos, Angels, Padres, and Indians; three-time AL strikeout leader, seven Gold Gloves, half of a 1990 combined no-hitter, traded for Randy Johnson.
Mark Latham
Mark Latham (born 1961) is an Australian politician: federal Labor leader and Opposition Leader 2003–2005, MP for Werriwa 1994–2005, later One Nation and now independent NSW Legislative Council MLC.
Mark Lautens
Mark Lautens is a Canadian organic chemist at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty in 1987, known for palladium and nickel catalysis that makes drug-like molecules with less waste.
Mark Lawrence (author)
Mark Lawrence, British-American fantasy author of Prince of Thorns and the Broken Empire, Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, and Library Trilogy series; former AI research scientist and founder of the SPFBO contest.