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Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer who killed 35 people and wounded 23 at Port Arthur, Tasmania on 28 April 1996; sentenced to 35 life sentences without parole, prompting Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement and gun buyback.
Martin Buber (מרטין בובר)
Martin Buber (מרטין בובר, 1878–1965), Austrian-born Jewish philosopher of dialogue, author of I and Thou (1923) with its I-Thou/I-It distinction, Bible translator with Rosenzweig, cultural Zionist and binational-state advocate, professor at the Hebrew University from 1938.
Martin Bucer
Martin Bucer (1491–1551) was a former Dominican friar who became the leading pastor and Reformer of Strasbourg for twenty-five years, famed for reconciling Protestant groups and later exiled to Cambridge.
Martin Buck
Martin Buck is a British molecular microbiologist at Imperial College London, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009 for his work on bacterial transcription.
Martin Buday
Martin "Badys" Buday (born 1991, Nitra, Slovakia) is a Slovak heavyweight MMA fighter, former Oktagon heavyweight champion, 7-1 in the UFC, released July 2025, then lost to Will Fleury at Oktagon 81.
Martin C Jonikas
Martin C Jonikas is an American molecular biologist at Princeton University and an HHMI Investigator known for studying the pyrenoid, the algal organelle that concentrates CO2.
Martin C. Carey
Martin C. Carey (Martin Conrad Carey) was an Irish-born gastroenterologist and Harvard Medical School professor in Boston known for his work on cholesterol solubility in bile and gallstone formation.
Martin C. Hemsworth
Martin C. Hemsworth (1918–2009) was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric Aircraft Engines who led the design of the TF39, the world's first high-bypass turbofan engine.
Martín C. Mihm
Martin C. Mihm Jr. (1934–2022) was an American dermatopathologist and melanoma specialist at Harvard who helped define how early cutaneous melanoma is classified and staged.
Martín Cáceres
Martín Cáceres (José Martín Cáceres Silva), Uruguayan defender born 1987 in Montevideo; 116 caps, 2011 Copa América winner, four World Cups; long Juventus spells, later LA Galaxy and Juventud de Las Piedras. Not Sebastián Cáceres.
Martin Caffrey
Martin Caffrey is a structural biologist and Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, known for developing the lipidic cubic phase method for crystallizing membrane proteins.
Martin Cahill
Martin Cahill, "The General" (1949–1994), Dublin crime boss behind the 1983 O'Connor's jewellery robbery and 1986 Russborough House art theft; shot dead by the IRA in Ranelagh, Dublin, in 1994.
Martin Campbell
Martin Campbell (born 1943, Hastings, New Zealand) is a director who relaunched James Bond twice with GoldenEye (1995, Pierce Brosnan) and Casino Royale (2006, Daniel Craig); also The Mask of Zorro and BBC's Edge of Darkness.
Martin Chalfie
Martin Chalfie is an American biologist at Columbia University who introduced green fluorescent protein as a gene marker, sharing the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Martín Chambi
Martín Chambi (1891–1973) was a Peruvian photographer from Puno, the leading portrait photographer of Cuzco and one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers.
Martin Champoux
Martin Champoux is a Canadian politician and Bloc Québécois member of Parliament for Drummond, Quebec, first elected in 2019, who serves as the party's Caucus Chair and spokesperson for culture.
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield (1913-1999), British Army officer and courtier; Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II 1972-77, life peer from 1978, Provost of Eton 1978-91.
Martin Chemnitz
Martin Chemnitz, also known as Martin Kemnitz, was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent of Braunschweig who co-authored the Formula of Concord and was called "the second Martin."
Martin Cherkasky
Martin Cherkasky (1912–1997) was an American physician and hospital administrator who led Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for three decades and advised Mayor Koch on health.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) is Charles Dickens's sixth novel, serialized 1843-44, a satire of selfishness with famous American chapters drawn from his 1842 US visit, memorable comic characters, and initially weak sales.
Martin Circus
Martin Circus is a French rock band formed in Paris in 1969, a pioneer of French-language rock whose hit "Je m'éclate au Sénégal" sold 800,000 copies.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes (born 1961, Wimbledon) is an English actor famous as Gary in Men Behaving Badly and Dr Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin (2004–2022), produced by Buffalo Pictures with his wife Philippa Braithwaite; also Conan Doyle in Arthur & George and Huw Edwards on Channel 5.
Martin Compston
Martin Compston (born 1984) is a Scottish actor and former youth footballer, discovered for Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen and best known as Steve Arnott in Line of Duty.
Martin Cooper (engineer)
Martin Cooper, born in 1928, is an American engineer who led Motorola's team in making the first public handheld cellular phone call, in New York in 1973.
Martin County, Florida, United States
Martin County, Florida: Atlantic-coast county established 1925, named for Governor John W. Martin; county seat Stuart, the "Sailfish Capital of the World" on the Treasure Coast; population about 166,000 (2025).
Martin Cross
Martin Cross (born 1957), British rower, gold in the coxed four at Los Angeles 1984 and bronze at Moscow 1980; later Guardian rowing correspondent, commentator, and author of Olympic Obsession.
Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe (1962–2016), New Zealand cricketer and captain, scored 5,444 Test runs with 17 centuries and a record 299, led NZ to the 1992 World Cup semi-final, and was player of that tournament.
Martin Cummins
Martin Cummins (born 1969) is a Canadian actor, director, and writer; Henry Gowen on When Calls the Heart, Tom Keller on Riverdale, Ames White on Dark Angel, Nick Boyle on Poltergeist: The Legacy; Genie winner for Love Come Down. Not the location manager or the pharmaceutical executive of the same name.
Martin D. Bootman
Martin D. Bootman is a British cell biologist at The Open University, known for 1990s work at the Babraham Institute showing that cellular calcium waves are built from elementary local release events.
Martin D. Brand
Martin D. Brand is a biochemist and bioenergeticist who studies how mitochondria transform energy and produce reactive oxygen species, with work at Cambridge and the Buck Institute.