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Martin G. Lockley

Martin G. Lockley (1950–2023) was a Welsh-born paleontologist and geologist who became a leading specialist in vertebrate ichnology, the study of fossil footprints and trackways.

Martin G. Myers

Martin G. Myers is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies how the brain controls metabolism, including leptin's regulation of body weight and blood glucose.

Martin G. Pomper

Martin G. Pomper is an American physician-scientist in radiopharmaceutical chemistry who created the first PSMA imaging agents for prostate cancer and chairs Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Martin Gabel

Martin Gabel (1911 or 1912-1986), American character actor, Mercury Theatre original, husband of Arlene Francis, 1961 Tony winner for Big Fish, Little Fish, director of The Lost Moment, and most frequent What's My Line? guest.

Martín García Óñez de Loyola

Martín García Óñez de Loyola was a Basque soldier who captured the last Inca, Tupac Amaru, in 1572 and governed Chile until his death in 1598.

Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner, who also wrote as Armand T. Ringer, was an American popular mathematics and science writer, best known for the Scientific American "Mathematical Games" column from 1957 to 1980.

Martin Garrix

Martin Garrix (Martijn Garritsen, born 1996) is a Dutch EDM DJ and producer whose 2013 instrumental 'Animals' hit UK No.1; five-time DJ Mag Top 100 winner, STMPD RCRDS label founder, distinct from any same-named acts.

Martin Gaynor

Martin Gaynor is an American health economist at Carnegie Mellon University who studies hospital competition and prices, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Martin Gellert

Martin Gellert is an American biochemist and molecular geneticist who leads a laboratory at NIH, known for his work on V(D)J recombination and DNA topology.

Martin Gerard Plys

Martin Gerard Plys is a nuclear engineer at Fauske and Associates in Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for modeling severe reactor accidents.

Martin Gibbs

Martin Gibbs (1922–2006) was an American plant biochemist who traced carbon through photosynthesis, worked at Brookhaven, Cornell, and Brandeis, and edited Plant Physiology for 29 years.

Martin Gibson

Martin Gibson is a Scottish venture capitalist and Partner at Accel London, which he joined in 2009 after Atlas Venture, investing in GoCardless, Catawiki, and MyHeritage.

Martin Goland

Martin Goland was an American aerospace engineer and applied-mechanics researcher known for flutter analysis and for serving as president of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman (Moses Goodman, 1908–1992), American pulp and comic-book publisher, founder of Timely/Atlas/Marvel Comics; launched Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, sold the business in 1968, later founded the short-lived Seaboard Atlas Comics.

Martin Gore

Martin Lee Gore (born 1961, London) is the English songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist of Depeche Mode, primary songwriter since Vince Clarke's 1981 exit; solo work includes Counterfeit (1989), Counterfeit² (2003), MG (2015) and VCMG's Ssss (2012).

Martin Green (photovoltaics researcher)

Martin A. Green is an Australian photovoltaics researcher at UNSW Sydney who invented the PERC solar cell in 1983 and won the 2022 Millennium Technology Prize.

Martin Greif (poet)

Martin Greif, born Friedrich Hermann Frey, was a German poet and dramatist (1839–1911) who lived in Munich and Vienna, known for nature lyrics and the play Agnes Bernauer.

Martin Grothkopp

Martin Grothkopp (born 1986, Dresden) is a German former bobsledder, pusher in Francesco Friedrich's four-man sled that won Olympic gold at PyeongChang 2018, plus four world titles; earlier a 400 m sprinter.

Martin Group (company)

Martin Group, or Martin Group of Companies, is an Indian conglomerate founded by Santiago Martin, known as the "Lottery King", spanning lotteries, real estate, hospitality, education, and media.

Martin Gruebele

Martin Gruebele (born 1964) is a German-born American physical chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for ultrafast protein-folding kinetics and imaging folding in living cells.

Martin Guilliams

Martin Guilliams is a Belgian immunologist and senior full professor at Ghent University who leads the Laboratory of Myeloid Cell Biology at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, studying liver macrophages.

Martin Guptill

Martin Guptill, New Zealand opening batter born 1986 in Auckland; played 367 internationals 2009–2022, NZ's top T20I run-scorer (3,531), 7,346 ODI runs, record World Cup score 237; retired internationally January 2025.

Martin Gutzwiller

Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014) was a Swiss-born theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM, known for the Gutzwiller projection in correlated-electron physics and the trace formula founding quantum chaos.

Martin H. Kalser

Martin H. Kalser, published also as M. H. Kalser, is a gastroenterologist known for studies of intestinal flora and pancreatic disease at the University of Miami.

Martin H. Steinberg

Martin H. Steinberg is an American hematologist and professor at Boston University who led sickle cell disease research, helping develop hydroxyurea and Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR therapy.

Martin H. Studier

Martin H. Studier was an American chemist who spent 35 years at Argonne National Laboratory, known for selective-oxidation studies of coal and for Fischer-Tropsch-type hypotheses on meteorite organic matter.

Martin H. Teicher

Martin H. Teicher is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directs the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and studies how childhood maltreatment alters brain development.

Martin H.N. Tattersall

Martin H.N. Tattersall (1941–2020) was a British-born Australian medical oncologist, the first professor of cancer medicine in the southern hemisphere, at the University of Sydney from 1977.

Martin Hairer

Martin Hairer, born 1975, is an Austrian mathematician who won the 2014 Fields Medal for regularity structures, a theory giving rigorous meaning to stochastic partial differential equations.

Martin Halusa

Martin Halusa, born 1955, is a private-equity executive who was CEO of London-based Apax Partners from 2003 to 2014, then Chairman until 2016, after co-founding its German business in 1990.