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Mark Parker
Mark Parker is a business executive and footwear designer who joined Nike in 1979 and served as its President and CEO from 2006 to 2020.
Mark Patton
Mark Patton (born 1959) is an American actor and interior designer known for Jesse Walsh in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).
Mark Pavelich
Mark Pavelich (1958-2021), American center from Eveleth, Minnesota; 1980 'Miracle on Ice' Olympic gold medalist, Rangers rookie scoring record holder, later NHL North Stars and Sharks player; died by suicide after CTE-linked illness.
Mark Peake
Mark Peake is an American Republican politician in the Virginia Senate, elected in 2017 and representing the 8th district, covering Bedford County, Campbell County, and Lynchburg, since 2024.
Mark Peifer
Mark Peifer is an American cell and developmental biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for work on β-catenin, cell adhesion, and Wnt signaling.
Mark Pellegrino
Mark Pellegrino (born 1965, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Jacob on Lost, Lucifer and Nick on Supernatural, and Bishop in Being Human; acting since 1987 with 127 credits.
Mark Perutz
Mark Perutz is an American venture capitalist and a Partner at DBL Partners since the firm's founding in 2008, investing in companies including Revolution Foods, ZincFive, and Pallet.
Mark Petronczki
Mark Petronczki is an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studies cell division and cancer drug discovery, trained at the IMP in Vienna and now a group leader at Boehringer Ingelheim.
Mark Philippoussis
Mark Philippoussis, "The Scud", Australian tennis player born 1976 in Melbourne; world No. 8, 11 ATP titles, 1998 US Open and 2003 Wimbledon finalist, two-time Davis Cup champion (1999, 2003), three-time Olympian.
Mark Phillips
Mark Phillips (born 1948), English Olympic eventer, Captain, 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards; 1972 Munich team gold, 1988 Seoul silver, four-time Badminton winner; first husband of Princess Anne; later US team chef d'equipe and leading cross-country course designer.
Mark Pickard (Two Sigma Investments)
Mark Pickard is a finance executive who served as President of Two Sigma Investments, the New York quantitative hedge fund, from 2005 to 2006, retiring in 2006.
Mark Pinsker
Mark Semenovich Pinsker (Марк Семёнович Пинскер, 1925–2003) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at Moscow's Institute for Information Transmission Problems, known for Pinsker's inequality and the Pinsker factor.
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan (born 1964) is an American Democratic politician who has represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after 14 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Mark Pope
Mark Pope, American college basketball coach and former player, captain of Kentucky's 1996 NCAA title team; head coach at Utah Valley, BYU, and since April 2024 the 23rd head coach of Kentucky, with a 233-134 career record.
Mark Price
Mark Price (William Mark Price, born 1964) is a former NBA point guard, 1986-1998, mainly with the Cleveland Cavaliers; four-time All-Star, 90.4% career free-throw shooter, Georgia Tech star, later a coach.
Mark Prior
Mark Prior, Cubs right-hander drafted second overall in 2001 out of USC; 2003: 18-6, 2.43 ERA, third in Cy Young; shoulder injuries ended career at 25; now Dodgers pitching coach.
Mark Proksch
Mark Proksch (born 1978, Onalaska, Wisconsin) is an American comedian and character actor, aka K-Strass yo-yo prankster; Colin Robinson in What We Do in the Shadows, Nate in The Office, Pryce in Better Call Saul.
Mark Ptashne
Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist, emeritus at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who isolated the lambda repressor in 1967 and won the 1997 Lasker Award for work on gene regulation.
Mark Pulisic
Mark Pulisic, born on Long Island, is an American soccer coach and former pro indoor player with the Harrisburg Heat; MISL Coach of the Year 2006-07 with Detroit Ignition and father of Christian Pulisic.
Mark Q. Martindale
Mark Q. Martindale, also published as M. Q. Martindale, is an American evolutionary developmental biologist known for studying animal body plans using cnidarians and ctenophores.
Mark R. Chassin
Mark R. Chassin is an American physician and health policy researcher, president and CEO of The Joint Commission from 2008 to 2021 and a co-author of the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human.
Mark R. Haussler
Mark R. Haussler is an American molecular endocrinologist at the University of Arizona known for identifying the renal vitamin D hormone and discovering the vitamin D receptor.
Mark R. Hornak
Mark R. Hornak, also known as Mark Raymond Hornak, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2011.
Mark R. Hughes
Mark R. Hughes (Mark Reynolds Hughes, 1956–2000) founded Herbalife in February 1980 in Los Angeles and built a multilevel-selling nutrition company; he died at 44, and his name marks a UCLA lab, a distributor bonus, and a family trust.
Mark R. Krumholz
Mark R. Krumholz, also known as Mark Reuben Krumholz, is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist at the Australian National University, known for work on star formation and the interstellar medium.
Mark R. Philips
Mark R. Philips is a professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for showing that Ras, the most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer, signals on internal membranes.
Mark R. Pinto
Mark R. Pinto is an American electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for co-developing the PISCES semiconductor simulator and serving as CTO of Applied Materials.
Mark R. Prausnitz
Mark R. Prausnitz is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for developing microneedle patches that deliver drugs and vaccines through the skin without needles.
Mark R. Rosenzweig
Mark R. Rosenzweig is an American development economist who pioneered microeconometric methods for studying development, holds Yale's Frank Altschul Professorship, and directs its Economic Growth Center.
Mark R. Wiesner
Mark R. Wiesner is an environmental engineer and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for membrane water treatment and nanomaterials research.