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Mark Morrison

Mark Morrison (born 1972) is a German-born British R&B singer whose 1996 single "Return of the Mack" topped the UK chart and reached No. 2 in the US; later albums include Innocent Man.

Mark Moseley

Mark Moseley (born 1948, Laneville, Texas) is a former NFL placekicker for the Eagles, Oilers, Redskins, and Browns, the last full-time straight-on toe kicker, and the only kicker to win the AP NFL MVP award, in strike-shortened 1982 at 95.2% field goals.

Mark Moses

Mark Moses (born 1958) is an American character actor, Paul Young on Desperate Housewives and Duck Phillips on Mad Men, also Lt. Wolfe in Platoon and President Michener in The Last Ship.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh (born 1950, Akron, Ohio) is a Devo co-founder, lead vocalist, and keyboardist behind "Whip It," and a prolific film, TV, and video game composer via Mutato Muzika, also a visual artist with the Myopia retrospective.

Mark Mylod

Mark Mylod (born 1965) is an English film and TV director and executive producer known for Succession (16 episodes directed, two Emmy directing wins), The Menu, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us, and HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series with Francesca Gardiner.

Mark N. Levine

Mark N. Levine is a Canadian medical oncologist and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University whose trials shortened chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery and reshaped radiotherapy.

Mark N. Wegman

Mark N. Wegman is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for Static Single Assignment form and Wegman–Carter hash functions.

Mark N. Wu

Mark N. Wu is a neuroscientist and physician who is Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, known for describing the first neural circuit encoding sleep drive in an animal.

Mark Naimark

Mark Aronovich Naimark (1909–1978) was a Soviet mathematician considered a founder of functional analysis, known for the 1943 Gelfand–Naimark theorem, the Naimark dilation theorem, and the GNS construction.

Mark Nair

Mark Nair is an American politician, educator, and inventor, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 13th District in 2026 and a former Amarillo City Council member.

Mark Nash (announcer)

Mark Nash is the ring name of Mark Shunock, Canadian-born WWE SmackDown ring announcer since March 2025, formerly Top Rank Boxing on ESPN announcer and Vegas Golden Knights in-arena host with a 2023 Stanley Cup ring.

Mark Nenow

Mark Nenow (born 1957), American distance runner; set the US 10,000m record 27:20.56 in Brussels, 1986, which stood until 2001, and a 1980s world-best road 10K; later a footwear executive at Nike and Columbia.

Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols (born 1980, Labrador City) is a Canadian curler, longtime third for Brad Gushue; Olympic gold 2006 and bronze 2022 in men's curling, four Brier titles, 2017 world champion, joined Team Dunstone in 2026.

Mark Noble

Mark Noble, born 1987 in Canning Town, is an English midfielder who spent 18 years at West Ham United, captained the club from 2015, made 414 Premier League appearances, and became Sporting Director in January 2023.

Mark Normand

Mark Normand (born 1983) is a New Orleans-born, New York-based stand-up comedian known for rapid-fire joke writing, the Netflix specials Soup to Nuts and None Too Pleased, the self-released Out to Lunch, and the podcasts Tuesdays with Stories and We Might Be Drunk.

Mark Nuvelstijn

Mark Nuvelstijn is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded the Amsterdam-based crypto exchange Bitvavo in 2018 and served as its CEO until resigning in July 2025.

Mark O. Robbins

Mark O. Robbins (1956–2020) was an American condensed matter and statistical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who used molecular dynamics simulations to explain the atomic origins of friction, adhesion, and earthquakes.

Mark O'Meara

Mark Francis O'Meara, American golfer, 16 PGA Tour wins; won the 1998 Masters and 1998 Open at Royal Birkdale at 41, the oldest to take two majors in one year; World Golf Hall of Fame 2015.

Mark Obenshain

Mark Obenshain, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1962, is a Republican member of the Virginia Senate, representing the 2nd district since 2004, and a lawyer.

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire (1935) is Tod Browning's MGM horror-mystery, a remake of his lost London After Midnight, starring Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, and Carroll Borland, with a hoax twist ending and censored incest backstory.

Mark of the Web

Mark of the Web (MotW) is a Windows security feature that records a downloaded file's internet origin, so SmartScreen and Microsoft Office apply extra precautions before opening it.

Mark Olfson

Mark Olfson is an American psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University Medical Center, known for national studies of mental health care, suicide prevention, and premature mortality in schizophrenia.

Mark Oliphant

Mark Oliphant (Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant) was an Australian nuclear physicist who discovered nuclear fusion between heavy-hydrogen nuclei and helped set the Manhattan Project in motion.

Mark Oliver Everett

Mark Oliver Everett, known as E, is the American founder and sole permanent member of the indie rock band Eels, author of the memoir Things the Grandchildren Should Know, and son of quantum physicist Hugh Everett III.

Mark Owen

Mark Owen (born 1972, Oldham) is the English singer-songwriter of Take That, distinct from the Canadian actor and the UK civil servant Marc Owen. Solo albums Green Man (1996) through Land of Dreams (2022, UK No. 5).

Mark P. Kamps

Mark P. Kamps is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Pathology at UC San Diego, known for the E2A-Pbx1 leukemia oncoprotein and the conditional Hoxb8 system.

Mark P. Mattson

Mark P. Mattson is an American neuroscientist known for research on brain aging and intermittent fasting, and Chief of the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Neurosciences from 2000 to 2019.

Mark P. Taylor

Mark P. Taylor is an economist and former FX trader, professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis and Olin Business School dean from 2016 to 2022.

Mark Pagani

Mark Pagani (died 2016) was an organic geochemist and paleoclimatologist at Yale University who reconstructed atmospheric CO2 over 50 million years and directed the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.

Mark Pagel

Mark Pagel is an evolutionary biologist and Professor at the University of Reading who develops statistical methods for reconstructing evolution from phylogenetic trees, and studies language evolution.