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Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) was a Danish proletarian novelist and communist whose Pelle the Conqueror became the second most widely distributed Danish literary work after H.C. Andersen.
Martín Arrau
Martín Arrau is a Chilean Republican Party politician and civil industrial engineer, Chile's Minister of Public Security since May 2026 and previously the first intendant of the Ñuble Region.
Martin B-10
The Martin B-10, also known as the Martin YB-12, was an American twin-engine bomber, the first all-metal monoplane bomber produced in quantity for the US Army Air Corps.
Martin B-26 Marauder
The Martin B-26 Marauder was an American twin-engine medium bomber built by Glenn L. Martin that served the USAAF in World War II, with more than 5,000 built.
Martin B-57 Canberra
The Martin B-57 Canberra was an American twin-engine jet light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, license-built by Martin from the British English Electric Canberra and flown by the US Air Force from 1953 until 1983.
Martin B. Leon
Martin B. Leon, also known as Martin Leon, is an American interventional cardiologist at Columbia University, founder of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the TCT meeting, and leader of the PARTNER TAVR trials.
Martin B. Plenio
Martin B. Plenio, born 1968 in Kassel, Germany, is a German theoretical physicist working on quantum information, quantum optics, and quantum biology at Ulm University.
Martin Bain
Martin Edward Bain is a Scottish football executive, former chief executive of Rangers, Maccabi Tel Aviv, and Sunderland; his Rangers tenure ended in suspension and breach-of-contract litigation after Craig Whyte's 2011 takeover, later dropped in 2012.
Martin Bakole
Martin Bakole (Martin Bakole Ilunga), Congolese heavyweight boxer based in Airdrie, Scotland, brother of Ilunga Makabu; WBA No. 1 contender in December 2023, beat Tony Yoka and Jared Anderson, later stopped by Joseph Parker and drew with Efe Ajagba in 2025.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam (1919–1996), American character actor; Oscar winner for A Thousand Clowns (1965) and Tony winner for You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running; known for 12 Angry Men, Psycho, and All the President's Men.
Martin Baron
Martin Baron (born 1954, Tampa, Florida), American newspaper editor who led the Miami Herald, Boston Globe (Spotlight clergy-abuse investigation, 2003 Pulitzer), and Washington Post (2013-2021, 11 Pulitzers, Bezos-era growth); memoirist and 2026 Ortega y Gasset Prize winner.
Martin Barre
Martin Barre, English rock guitarist born 1946 in Birmingham, lead guitarist of Jethro Tull 1968–2011, played on every Tull album from Stand Up (1969) to The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003); his Aqualung solo ranked 25th in the USA, and Crest of a Knave won a 1989 Grammy.
Martin Bashir
Martin Bashir, also known as Martin Henry Bashir, is a British broadcast journalist best known for his 1995 BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, which was the subject of a 2021 inquiry.
Martin Bayfield
Martin Bayfield (born 1966) is an English former rugby union lock, 6 ft 10 in, with 31 England caps, two Grand Slams, and the 1993 Lions tour; later Hagrid's body double in Harry Potter and a rugby TV presenter.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck is the fictional Swedish homicide detective of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's ten novels (1965-1975), collectively Roman om ett brott. The socially critical Stockholm police procedural is regarded as the origin of Nordic noir.
Martin Bell
Martin Bell (born 1938, Suffolk) is a British broadcast war reporter, OBE, and former independent MP for Tatton 1997-2001, not the Scottish actor Martin Bell. Known for BBC Bosnia reporting and the 'journalism of attachment'.
Martin Bizzarro
Martin Bizzarro, born 1967 in Montreal, is a Canadian-born cosmochemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who dates the earliest solar system through meteorite isotope studies.
Martin Blackledge
Martin Blackledge is a structural biologist and deputy director of the Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble, known for NMR studies of disordered proteins and influenza polymerase.
Martin Bland
Martin Bland is a British medical statistician, Professor Emeritus of Health Statistics at the University of York, co-author of the 1986 Lancet paper introducing the Bland–Altman plot.
Martin Blum
Martin Blum (born 1983) is an Austrian engineer and co-owner of Julius Blum GmbH, the furniture fittings manufacturer in Höchst, Vorarlberg, which he leads in its third generation with his cousin Philipp Blum.
Martin Boos
Martin Boos (1762–1825) was a Bavarian Roman Catholic priest who preached justification by faith alone, led South German Catholic Pietism, and was repeatedly imprisoned by his own church.
Martin Borgmeier
Martin Borgmeier (born 1991, Paderborn, Germany) is a German long drive professional, 2022 World Long Drive Champion who beat Bryson DeChambeau with a 426-yard final drive, 2018 European champion, with a 239.3 mph ball speed record.
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann (1900–1945), Nazi Party Chancellery chief and Hitler's secretary, controlled access to the Führer, signed Jewish deportation edicts, died in Berlin on 2 May 1945, was sentenced to death at Nuremberg in absentia, and was identified by DNA in 1998.
Martin Bott
Martin Bott (1926–2018) was an English geophysicist who spent his career at Durham University, interpreting gravity and magnetic anomalies and pioneering finite element modeling of lithospheric stress.
Martin Braithwaite
Martin Christensen Braithwaite, Danish forward born 1991 in Esbjerg; Esbjerg, Toulouse, Middlesbrough, Leganes, Barcelona (emergency 2020 signing, Copa del Rey 2021), Espanyol, Grêmio; 69 Denmark caps, 10 goals.
Martin Brest
Martin Brest (born 1951, Bronx) is an American film director of Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, and Scent of a Woman; his career ended with Gigli (2003). Not the MotoGP rider Jorge Martin or the city of Brest.
Martin Bridson
Martin Robert Bridson (born 1964, Isle of Man) is a mathematician at Oxford known for geometric group theory, and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute since 2018.
Martin Brodeur
Martin Brodeur, Canadian NHL goaltender (New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues), all-time leader in wins (691), shutouts (125), and games (1,266); three Stanley Cups, four Vezinas, Hockey Hall of Fame 2018.
Martin Browning
Martin Browning, born 1946 in London, is a British economist and professor at Nuffield College, Oxford, best known for the collective model of household behavior developed with Pierre-André Chiappori.
Martin Brundle
Martin Brundle (born 1959), British former F1 driver (158 GPs, nine podiums, no wins), 1990 Le Mans winner and 1988 World Sportscar champion, now a Sky Sports F1 commentator famous for grid walks.