All articles starting with M

Mark Wood (cricketer)

Mark Andrew Wood (born 1990, Ashington) is an English right-arm fast bowler for Durham and England, retired from internationals in September 2026; 119 Test wickets, 2019 ODI and 2022 T20 World Cup winner, England's fastest bowler at 95.6 mph.

Oct 20, 2026

Mark Woodforde

Mark Woodforde (born 1965, Adelaide) is an Australian left-handed tennis player, half of "The Woodies" with Todd Woodbridge; 11 Grand Slam doubles titles together, six Wimbledons, Olympic gold 1996 and silver 2000, later coach and ITF Davis Cup Committee chair.

Mark Woodward

Mark Woodward is a medical statistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who holds a chair at Imperial College London and is known for showing diabetes and smoking confer greater cardiovascular risk in women than men.

Mark Woolhouse

Mark E. J. Woolhouse is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on schistosomiasis, zoonotic emerging infections, and the UK's COVID-19 response.

Mark Wright (TV personality)

Mark Charles Edward Wright (born 1987, Buckhurst Hill) is an English TV personality and presenter, TOWIE original cast member, I'm a Celebrity runner-up, Heart radio host, and former Crawley Town footballer.

Mark Xu

Mark Xu is a Partner at Index Ventures in New York, investing across stages in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI since 2025 after a growth-stage career at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Mark Yeager

Mark J. Yeager is an American physician-scientist and structural biologist known for atomic-level cryo-EM structures of the HIV capsid, and executive director of the Frost Institute at the University of Miami since 2021.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American experimental novelist, author of House of Leaves (2000), National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, The Fifty Year Sword, and the five-volume series The Familiar; born in New York City, based in Los Angeles.

Mark Z. Jacobson

Mark Z. Jacobson is an American atmospheric scientist at Stanford University known for computer modeling of air pollution and climate, and for 100% wind-water-solar energy roadmaps.

Mark Zabel

Mark Zabel (born 1973, Calbe, Germany), German flatwater canoeist with SC Magdeburg; K4 1000 m Olympic gold 1996, silver 2000 and 2004; six world titles; later Saxony-Anhalt canoe coach.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, also known as Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, is an American technology executive who founded Facebook in 2004 and leads Meta Platforms, its parent company since 2021.

Mark-Francis Vandelli

Mark-Francis Vandelli is a British reality TV personality and jewellery designer, original cast member of E4's Made in Chelsea (2011-2022), former editor of Insider magazine, and first openly gay main cast member of Bravo's Ladies of London: The New Reign.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (b. 1974) is the American actor born Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar who played Zack Morris on NBC's Saved by the Bell (1989-1993), later Det. John Clark Jr. on NYPD Blue (2001-2005), Peter Bash on Franklin & Bash, and Sir on Found (2023-2025).

Mark-to-market accounting

Mark-to-market accounting, also called fair value accounting, measures assets and liabilities at current market value rather than historical purchase cost, as US GAAP and IFRS require.

MARK2

MARK2 (Par-1b/EMK1), microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 2, is a serine/threonine kinase phosphorylating tau and other MAPs, regulating cell polarity, WNT/PI3K/NF-κB signaling, cancer, and neurodegeneration.

Mark43

Mark43, formerly Nucleik, Inc., is a New York-based software company selling cloud-native public safety software, including computer-aided dispatch and records management, to more than 300 agencies.

Marka (singer)

Marka is the stage name of Serge Van Laeken (born 1961), Belgian singer-songwriter, ex-bassist of Allez Allez, hitmaker of "Accouplés" (1995), father of Angèle and Roméo Elvis, and maker of the 2025 album Appelez-moi Serge.

Sep 19, 2026

Markafoni

Markafoni was a Turkish e-commerce company, an invitation-based private shopping club for fashion founded in Istanbul in 2008 by Sina Afra, which Naspers shut down in 2017.

Markagunt Plateau

Markagunt Plateau: 800-square-mile high volcanic plateau in southwestern Utah, about 9,500 ft elevation, with a basaltic volcanic field, the giant Markagunt Megabreccia gravity slide, Cedar Breaks, and Sevier River headwaters.

Markakol Biosphere Reserve

Markakol Biosphere Reserve (Марқакөл) is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in East Kazakhstan, designated 2022 around Lake Markakol and the 1976 Markakol State Nature Reserve, protecting endemic lenok and grayling in the Southern Altai.

Markale massacres

Markale massacres: two mortar attacks on Sarajevo's Markale market during the 1992-1995 siege, on 5 February 1994 (68 dead) and 28 August 1995 (43 dead), fired from Bosnian Serb SRK positions per ICTY findings.

Sep 19, 2026

Markanda River (Haryana)

The Markanda River is an ephemeral river of the Indian Siwalik foothills that rises on the Haryana–Himachal Pradesh border and joins the Ghaggar after about 90 km.

Markandey Katju

Markandey Katju, Indian retired Supreme Court judge (2006-2011), former Chief Justice of Madras and Delhi High Courts, Press Council of India chairman 2011-2014, known for judicial restraint rulings and later public commentary.

Markandeya (मार्कण्डेय)

Markandeya, also known as Maharishi Markandeya, is a revered rishi of Hindu tradition, son of the sage Mrikandu, famed for conquering death at sixteen through Shiva's intervention.

Markapuram district

Markapuram district (మార్కాపురం జిల్లా), Andhra Pradesh's 27th district, formed 31 December 2025 from western Prakasam's Markapuram and Kanigiri divisions; headquarters Markapuram; 10,035 sq km, 21 mandals, population 11,42,313 (2011).

Oct 15, 2026

Markarian 231

Markarian 231, also cataloged as Mrk 231, is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy about 581 million light-years away and the nearest known galaxy hosting a quasar.

Oct 15, 2026

Markarian 421

Markarian 421, or Mrk 421, is a nearby blazar, a giant elliptical galaxy with a jet aimed at Earth, first detected at TeV gamma rays in 1992 by the Whipple Observatory.

Oct 15, 2026

Markarian 501

Markarian 501, also known as Mrk 501, is a nearby blazar, a type of galaxy with a jet pointed at Earth, and a source of TeV gamma rays.

Markaz Abū Tisht

Markaz Abū Tisht (مركز أبو تشت), also Abu Tesht, is a second-order administrative district in northern Qena Governorate, Egypt, on the Nile's west bank, with about 432,000-536,000 residents, one city, dozens of villages, and a sugarcane-based farm economy.