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Mark Rylance

Sir Mark Rylance (born David Mark Rylance Waters, 1960, Ashford, Kent) is an English stage and screen actor, first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe (1995-2005), winner of the 2016 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Bridge of Spies, two Tonys, two Oliviers, and knighted in 2017.

Mark Rypien

Mark Rypien, Canadian-born NFL quarterback, won Super Bowl XXVI MVP with the 1991 Washington Redskins; career included 18,473 passing yards and two Pro Bowl selections.

Mark Rzchowski

Mark Rzchowski is an American condensed matter experimentalist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for complex-oxide thin films, oxide interfaces, and spin transport.

Mark S. Ain

Mark S. Ain (1943–2025) was an American software entrepreneur who founded Kronos Incorporated in 1977, led it as chief executive until 2005, and built it into a workforce management company.

Mark S. Anderson

Mark S. Anderson is an American endocrinologist and immunologist who directs the UCSF Diabetes Center and studies immune tolerance, the AIRE gene, and autoimmune diabetes.

Mark S. Boguski

Mark S. Boguski was an American physician-scientist and computational biologist who helped build the dbEST database and human transcript maps at NCBI, and later founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Mark S. Bretscher

Mark S. Bretscher, born 1940, is a British cell biologist who spent his career at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, studying membrane structure and cell migration.

Mark S. Daskin

Mark S. Daskin is an American operations researcher known for facility location modeling and supply chain design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Mark S. Davis

Mark S. Davis, also known as Mark Steven Davis, is an American judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2008.

Mark S. Granovetter

Mark S. Granovetter, born 1943, is an American sociologist at Stanford University known for the "strength of weak ties" theory and the concept of embeddedness, which founded modern economic sociology.

Mark S. Klempner

Mark S. Klempner is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher who led the 2001 trials showing prolonged antibiotics do not relieve persistent Lyme symptoms, and later directed MassBiologics.

Mark S. Lachs

Mark S. Lachs, also published as Mark Lachs, is an American geriatrician and elder-abuse researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he leads geriatrics and palliative medicine.

Mark S. Link

Mark S. Link is an American cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for his 1998 commotio cordis model.

Mark S. Lundstrom

Mark S. Lundstrom is an American electrical engineer at Purdue University whose research on nanoscale transistor physics supported 10-nanometer device design, and who founded the nanoHUB simulation platform.

Mark S. Mooseker

Mark S. Mooseker is an American cell biologist who holds a Yale professorship and is known for identifying novel myosin motor classes and the tight-junction protein ZO-1.

Mark S. Norris, Sr.

Mark S. Norris, Sr., also known as Mark Saalfield Norris, Sr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Tennessee since 2018.

Mark S. P. Sansom

Mark S. P. Sansom is Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford, known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins and ion channels.

Mark S. Schlissel

Mark S. Schlissel is an American immunologist known for research on B cell development, and the 14th president of the University of Michigan from 2014 to 2022.

Mark Saffman

Mark Saffman is an American atomic physicist and quantum information scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Rydberg blockade gate mechanism and neutral-atom quantum computing.

Mark Salling

Mark Salling (1982–2018), American actor and musician, best known as Noah "Puck" Puckerman on Fox's Glee; released albums as Jericho; died by suicide in 2018 after pleading guilty to child pornography possession.

Mark Sanchez

Mark Sanchez, American former NFL quarterback (Jets, Eagles, Cowboys, Washington), drafted 5th overall 2009, back-to-back AFC title games, retired 2019, later Fox Sports analyst.

Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman (1952–1999), American singer-songwriter and two-string slide bassist, frontman of the Cambridge, Massachusetts trio Morphine of "low rock" fame, also of Treat Her Right, died of a heart attack on stage in Palestrina, Italy, in 1999.

Mark Sanford

Mark Sanford, South Carolina Republican, served six House terms (1995-2001, 2013-2019) and was governor 2003-2011; the 2009 Appalachian Trail affair scandal, 2018 Trump-primary defeat, and brief 2020 primary challenge distinguish him.

Mark Scheifele

Mark Scheifele, Winnipeg Jets centre and alternate captain, first pick (7th overall, 2011) of the returned Jets; 970 games, 374 goals, 915 points; franchise leader; $8.5M AAV through 2030-31; first 100-point season in 2025-26.

Mark Scheuerell

Mark Scheuerell is an American applied quantitative ecologist who studies conservation of aquatic resources, known for portfolio-effect work on salmon and for evaluating Columbia River salmon recovery spending.

Mark Schlereth

Mark Schlereth (born 1966), nicknamed "Stink," is a former NFL guard for Washington and Denver, three-time Super Bowl champion, and current FOX Sports NFL game analyst and Denver radio host.

Mark Schoesler

Mark Schoesler is a Republican member of the Washington State Senate representing the 9th district, a fifth-generation wheat farmer from Ritzville who served eight years as Senate Republican Leader.

Mark Schultz (wrestler)

Mark Schultz (born 1960, Palo Alto) is an American freestyle wrestler, 1984 Olympic middleweight gold medalist, 1985 and 1987 World champion, three-time NCAA champion, and author of the Foxcatcher memoir.

Mark Schwahn

Mark Schwahn (born 1966) is an American TV writer and producer, creator of One Tree Hill (2003-2012) and The Royals; fired by Lionsgate in December 2017 after sexual harassment allegations by 43 women.

Mark Schwarzer

Mark Schwarzer, born 1972, Australian goalkeeper; record 109 Socceroos caps and 44 clean sheets; 514 Premier League games, first non-Briton past 500; saved two penalties vs Uruguay to reach 2006 World Cup.