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Mark Raasveldt
Mark Raasveldt is the Dutch database researcher who co-created DuckDB at CWI Amsterdam and is co-founder and CTO of DuckLabs, lead architect of its execution engine.
Mark Rakita
Mark Semyonovich Rakita (Марк Семёнович Ракита), born 1938 in Moscow, Soviet sabre fencer; two-time Olympic team champion (1964, 1968), 1968 individual silver, 1967 world champion, later coach of Krovopuskov and Burtsev.
Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ramprakash (born 1969), English batsman for Middlesex, Surrey and England; 52 Tests at 27.32 but 114 first-class centuries, one of 25 players to reach 100; later England batting coach 2014-2019.
Mark Rathbun
Mark "Marty" Rathbun, born 1957, is a former senior Church of Scientology executive and chief lieutenant of David Miscavige who left in 2004 and led Independent Scientology.
Mark Recchi
Mark Recchi, Canadian NHL right winger (born 1968, Kamloops), 1,652 games and 1,533 points, three Stanley Cups with Pittsburgh, Carolina, and Boston, Hockey Hall of Fame 2017.
Mark Redman (American football)
Mark Redman (born 2002, Newport Beach, CA) is an NFL tight end for the Green Bay Packers; Washington/SDSU/Louisville product, undrafted 2025, traded from the Rams in 2026; not the baseball pitcher of the same name.
Mark Reid
Mark Reid is an American radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a pioneer of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and leader of the BeSSeL Survey.
Mark Reynolds
Mark Jeffrey Reynolds (born 1955, San Diego) is an American Star class sailor, two-time Olympic gold medalist (1992, 2000) and 1988 silver medalist, distinct from MLB player Mark Andrew Reynolds.
Mark Richards (cardiologist)
A. Mark Richards (Arthur Mark Richards) is a New Zealand cardiologist and professor at the University of Otago Christchurch, known for research that made NT-proBNP a global heart failure test.
Mark Richt
Mark Richt (born 1960) is a retired American college football coach, College Football Hall of Famer (2023), who went 171-64 as head coach at Georgia (2001-15, two SEC titles) and Miami (2016-18, 2017 ACC Coastal title), and announced a Parkinson's diagnosis in 2021.
Mark Ritchie (commodities trader)
Mark Ritchie is an American options and commodities trader who co-founded Chicago Research and Trading Group in 1977 and wrote the 1989 memoir God in the Pits.
Mark Rober
Mark Rober is an American mechanical engineer and YouTube creator known for large-scale science videos, the glitter bomb package-theft pranks, and co-founding the #TeamTrees and #TeamSeas fundraisers with MrBeast.
Mark Robins
Mark Robins, English football manager and former Manchester United striker; scored the 1990 FA Cup goal credited with saving Alex Ferguson's job; managed Coventry 2017-2024 with two promotions, then Stoke City from January 2025.
Mark Robinson (American politician)
Mark Robinson, American Republican politician, 35th lieutenant governor of North Carolina (2021-2025), first Black person in that office; lost the 2024 governor's race to Josh Stein after a CNN report on offensive forum posts.
Mark Rockefeller
Mark Fitler Rockefeller (born 1967) is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, younger son of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, serving as Vice Chairman of the family's financial-services firm.
Mark Rogowski
Mark "Gator" Rogowski (Mark Anthony Rogowski), born 1966 in Brooklyn, is an American former Vision Skateboards vert star of 1980s skateboarding, serving 31 years to life since 1991 for the rape and murder of Jessica Bergsten.
Mark Rolston
Mark Rolston (born 1956, Baltimore) is an American character actor trained at Drama Centre London, known for Drake in Aliens, Bogs Diamond in The Shawshank Redemption, Delahunt in The Departed, and voice roles such as Lex Luthor.
Mark Roma
Mark Roma is a British trance and future rave DJ and producer based in Liverpool, England, whose debut single 'Subsonic Bass' topped Beatport's Psy-Trance chart in 2020.
Mark Romanek
Mark Romanek (born 1959) is an American director of Static, One Hour Photo, and Never Let Me Go, and of acclaimed 1990s music videos including Nine Inch Nails' Closer, Johnny Cash's Hurt, and Jay-Z's 99 Problems.
Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson (born 1975, London) is an English DJ, producer, and songwriter behind Back to Black, Uptown Funk, Shallow, and Barbie; 9 Grammy wins, 18 nominations, and a 2019 Oscar.
Mark Rosenzweig (American psychologist)
Mark Richard Rosenzweig (1922–2009) was an American research psychologist at UC Berkeley whose rat experiments first demonstrated that experience structurally changes the brain, including the adult brain.
Mark Roth
Mark Roth is a biochemist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle who reported in 2005 that hydrogen sulfide put mice into reversible suspended animation, winning a MacArthur Fellowship.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko (Markus Rothkowitz, 1903–1970), Latvian-born American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter of luminous soft-edged rectangles; Seagram, Harvard, and Rothko Chapel commissions; died by suicide in New York in 1970.
Mark Rowlands
Mark Rowlands (born 1962, Newport, Wales) is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Miami; philosopher of mind known for vehicle externalism, the extended mind, the amalgamated mind, animal ethics, and the memoir The Philosopher and the Wolf.
Mark Rowley (actor)
Mark Rowley (born 1990, Paisley, Scotland) is a Scottish actor trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, best known as Finan in The Last Kingdom (2017–2022) and Seven Kings Must Die, with roles in SAS: Rogue Heroes, One Day, and Macbeth (2018).
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo (Mark Alan Ruffalo, born 1967, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American actor, the MCU's Bruce Banner/Hulk since 2012, a four-time Oscar nominee (The Kids Are All Right, Foxcatcher, Spotlight, Poor Things), Emmy winner for I Know This Much Is True, and co-founder of Water Defense and The Solutions Project.
Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte (born 1967), Dutch VVD politician, longest-serving Dutch Prime Minister (2010–2024), now NATO's 14th Secretary General since 1 October 2024; drove the 5% GDP defense-spending target.
Mark Ryan (actor)
Mark Ryan (born 1956, Doncaster, Yorkshire) is an English actor who originated Nasir, the first Muslim Merry Man, in Robin of Sherwood, voiced Transformers characters including Lockdown, and played Hal Gates in Black Sails.
Mark Rydell
Mark Rydell (Mortimer Harold Rydell), American actor-turned-director born 1929 in New York City, died 2026 at 97; directed The Fox, The Rose, The Cowboys, and Oscar-nominated On Golden Pond (1981), plus TV work including Ben Casey and James Dean.
Mark Ryden
Mark Ryden (born 1963, Medford, Oregon), American painter and pioneer of Pop Surrealism or Lowbrow Art, blending old-master oil glaze technique with pop culture; former illustrator for Michael Jackson's Dangerous, retrospectives in Seattle and Malaga, record auction price 714,000 USD.