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Martin Kneser
Martin Kneser (1928–2004) was a German mathematician, professor at Göttingen from 1963, known for the Kneser–Tits conjecture, strong approximation, Kneser's addition theorem, and the Kneser graphs whose chromatic number Lovász proved in 1978.
Martin Knudsen
Martin Knudsen (1871–1949) was a Danish physicist who founded the quantitative study of rarefied gas flow and set the international standards for measuring sea water salinity.
Martin Koch
Martin Koch (born 1982, Villach) is an Austrian ski jumper, 2006 Olympic team large hill gold medalist, six-time world/ski-flying team champion, 16 World Cup wins, later ORF commentator; distinct from the 1912 cyclist and a Slovak triple jumper of the same name.
Martin Kove
Martin Kove (born 1946) is an American actor best known for playing karate villain John Kreese in The Karate Kid (1984), its sequels, and the series Cobra Kai.
Martin Krönke
Martin Krönke is a German physician-scientist in immunology and medical microbiology, known for defining how TNF signals through sphingomyelinases and ceramide and for an antibody program against Staphylococcus aureus.
Martin L. Hooper
Martin L. Hooper is a University of Edinburgh researcher whose 1987 team produced HPRT-mutant mice from embryonic stem cells, work cited by the 2007 Nobel Committee.
Martin L. Perl
Martin L. Perl (1927–2014) was an American particle physicist at Stanford who discovered the tau lepton and won half of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Martin L. Privalsky
Martin L. Privalsky (1953–2020) was an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, known for his studies of the v-erbA oncogene and nuclear hormone receptors.
Martin L. Weitzman
Martin L. Weitzman (1942–2019) was an American economist and Harvard professor whose work on environmental policy, long-horizon discounting, and catastrophic climate risk shaped the EPA's social-cost-of-carbon analysis.
Martin L. Yarmush
Martin L. Yarmush is an American physician-scientist and bioengineer known for liver engineering and robotic vascular access, founding the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Martin Lake Steam Station
Martin Lake Steam Station is a lignite-fired electric power station in Rusk County, Texas, owned and operated by Vistra Corp. through its Luminant subsidiaries since 1977.
Martin Landau
Martin Landau (1928-2017), American character actor; Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible, Commander Koenig in Space: 1999; won the 1995 Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood after nominations for Tucker and Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Martin Lang (engineer)
Martin Lang is a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water resources, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for sustainable water resources and education.
Martin Lauer
Martin Lauer (Karl-Martin Lauer) was a West German sprint hurdler who set world records over 110 and 200 meters hurdles in 1959 and won 4 × 100 m relay gold at Rome 1960.
Martin Laurberg
Martin Laurberg is a structural biologist who, in Harry Noller's laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, led the 3.2 Å crystal structure of the ribosome with release factor RF1.
Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence (born 1965, Frankfurt, Germany) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, original host of HBO's Def Comedy Jam, creator-star of Fox's Martin (1992-97), and Marcus Burnett in the Bad Boys films including Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024).
Martin Lee (李柱铭)
Martin Lee Chu-ming (李柱銘), born 1938, Hong Kong Senior Counsel, founding chairman of the Democratic Party, LegCo member 1985–2008, called the father of Hong Kong's democracy movement; prosecuted over the 2019 protests.
Martin Lewis (financial journalist)
Martin Lewis CBE is a British financial journalist and broadcaster, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com (2003, £80 startup, sold 2012 for £87m), ITV Money Show host since 2012, PPI and bank charge campaigner, and 2026 BAFTA Television Special Award recipient.
Martin Lidegaard
Martin Lidegaard, born in 1966 in Humlebæk, is a Danish politician who has led the Social Liberals since 2022 and serves as Minister for Business and Competitiveness.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer (1918–2008) was a German behavioral scientist and sensory physiologist, the best-known student of Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch, credited with discovering bees' gravity sense organ and magnetic orientation in animals.
Martin Linge Oil and Gas Field
Martin Linge, previously called Hild, is an Equinor-operated oil and gas field in the northern North Sea, discovered in 1978 and started up in 2021 on power from shore.
Martin Litchfield West
Martin Litchfield West (1937–2015) was a British classical scholar and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a leading authority on Greek poetry, meter, and music.
Martin Litschel
Martin Litschel is a German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Vector Informatik in Stuttgart in 1988 with Eberhard Hinderer and Helmut Schelling, after contributing to CAN bus development at Bosch.
Martin Löb
Martin Hugo Löb (1921–2006) was a German-born mathematical logician who worked in Britain and the Netherlands, best known for Löb's theorem of 1955 and the provability logic GL.
Martin Looney
Martin Looney is an American Democratic politician who has been President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate since 2015, after 12 years as Majority Leader, representing New Haven.
Martin Lopez Zubero
Martin Lopez Zubero (Martín López-Zubero, born 1969, Jacksonville) is a Spanish swimmer, 1992 Olympic 200 m backstroke champion, two-time world champion, and multiple 200 m backstroke world record holder.
Martin Lorentzon
Martin Lorentzon is a Swedish tech entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Tradedoubler in 1999 and, with Daniel Ek, founded Spotify in 2006, serving as its chairman from 2008 to 2016.
Martin Lotz
Martin Lotz, also known as Martin K. Lotz, is a German-born physician-scientist in rheumatology at The Scripps Research Institute known for work on joint aging and osteoarthritis.
Martin Lueck
Martin Lueck, also known as Marty Lueck, is a quantitative investor who co-founded the hedge fund firm AHL in 1987 and Aspect Capital in 1997.
Martín Luis Guzmán
Martín Luis Guzmán (1887–1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist whose El águila y la serpiente and La sombra del caudillo portray the Mexican Revolution's leaders.