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Martin PBM Mariner

The Martin PBM Mariner, also known as the Martin Mariner, was an American twin-engine gull-wing flying boat patrol bomber that served the US Navy from 1940 to 1956.

Martin Peninsula

Martin Peninsula: ice-covered peninsula, 110 km long, on Marie Byrd Land coast, West Antarctica, between Getz and Dotson Ice Shelves; delineated 1947 from Operation HighJump photos, named for geographer Col. Lawrence Martin.

Martin Peters

Martin Peters, born Martin Stanford Peters (1943–2019), was an English attacking midfielder who scored England's second goal in the 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.

Martin Petrov (Мартин Петйов Петров)

Martin Petrov (Мартин Петйов Петров), born 1979 in Vratsa, is a retired Bulgarian left winger; 90 caps, 19 goals, Euro 2004 scorer, played for Wolfsburg, Atlético Madrid, Manchester City, and Bolton.

Martin Pfister

Martin Pfister (born 1963) is a Swiss Centre-party politician from Zug, elected to the Federal Council on 12 March 2025 with 134 votes and head of the defence department DDPS since April 2025.

Martin Picard

Martin Picard is a Canadian-American biologist and Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University, known for mitochondrial psychobiology and for leading a 2025 Nature study mapping mitochondria across the human brain.

Martin Pilhofer

Martin Pilhofer (born 1980 in Amberg, Germany) is a Professor of Cryo-Electron Microscopy at ETH Zurich who uses cryo-electron tomography to study bacterial cell-cell interactions and Asgard archaea.

Martin Pioletti

Martin Pioletti is a structural biologist, first author of the 2001 EMBO Journal paper reporting a 3.2 Å crystal structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus.

Martin Pistorius

Martin Pistorius (born 1975, Johannesburg), author of the memoir Ghost Boy, fell into an unexplained locked-in state at age 12 in 1988; aware but unable to move or speak for about 10 years, he communicated via eye-movement computer software from 2001 and now works in assistive technology.

Martin Point power station

Martin Point power station is a 2,449 MW natural gas-fired generating station in Indiantown, Florida, owned and operated by Florida Power & Light, a NextEra Energy subsidiary.

Martin Ponsiluoma

Martin Ponsiluoma (Karl Martin Ponsiluoma, "Ponsi"), Swedish biathlete born 1995 in Östersund, Tullus SG. 2026 Olympic pursuit gold, 2022 mass start silver, 2021 Pokljuka sprint world champion; son of Olympian Jyrki Ponsiluoma.

Martin Pope

Martin Pope, born Isidore Poppick, was an American physical chemist at New York University whose experiments on organic molecular crystals established the physical basis of OLED displays.

Martin Prakkat (മാർട്ടിൻ പ്രക്കാട്ട്)

Martin Prakkat (മാർട്ടിൻ പ്രക്കാട്ട്) is a Malayalam film director and producer from Kerala, founder of Prakkat Films, who directed Best Actor, ABCD, Charlie, and Nayattu and produced Iratta.

Martin Prince

Martin J. Prince is a psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at King's College London, coordinating the 10/66 Dementia Research Group since 1998.

Martin Pumera

Martin Pumera is a Czech chemist who leads the Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC Brno and studies two-dimensional nanomaterials, nanorobots, and graphene electrocatalysis.

Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear, born in Washington, D.C., in 1941, is an American sculptor known for handmade abstract works in wood that combine traditional craft with Minimalism.

Martin Putze

Martin Putze (born 1985, Apolda) is a German former bobsleigh brakeman, BSR Rennsteig Oberhof, who won four-man Olympic gold at Turin 2006 and silver at Vancouver 2010 in André Lange's crews, plus three world titles, retiring in 2016 to coach.

Martin R. Bennett

Martin R. Bennett is a British cardiologist and physician-scientist who holds the British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Cambridge, studying atherosclerosis and coronary plaque imaging.

Martin R. Bryce

Martin R. Bryce is a British materials chemist at Durham University, a Professor of Chemistry since 1995, known for organic conductors, OLED materials, and single-molecule electronics.

Martin R. Gluck

Martin R. Gluck (1957–2023) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the Bronx VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai, known for research on dopamine oxidation and mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.

Martin R. Palmer

Martin R. Palmer is a geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Southampton since 2000, known for seawater strontium isotopes and boron isotope paleo-pH work.

Martin R. Pollak

Martin R. Pollak is an American geneticist and nephrologist who leads the Division of Nephrology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and studies the genetics of glomerular kidney disease.

Martin R. Wilkins

Martin R. Wilkins, also known as Martin Wilkins, is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Imperial College London who studies pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Martin R. Zamora

Martin R. Zamora is an American Republican politician serving in the New Mexico House of Representatives since 2019 and the 2026 Republican nominee for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.

Martin Rade

Martin Rade (1857–1940) was a German Protestant theologian, journal editor, and left-liberal politician who taught at Marburg, edited Die Christliche Welt for 45 years, and defended the Weimar Republic.

Martin Raff

Martin Raff, born 1938, is a Canadian-British cell biologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for work on glial development, cell survival, and apoptosis.

Martin Ravallion

Martin Ravallion was an Australian development economist who proposed the dollar-a-day international poverty line in 1990 and led World Bank poverty research from 1988 to 2013.

Martin Rázus

Martin Rázus (1888–1937) was a Slovak poet, prose writer, dramatist, journalist, Lutheran pastor, and politician who led the Slovak National Party from 1927 and sat in the Czechoslovak National Assembly.

Martin Rechsteiner

Martin C. Rechsteiner is a biochemist at the University of Utah known for work on ubiquitin and proteasome biology, including the PEST hypothesis and the 11S REG (PA28) proteasome activator.

Martin Reck

Martin Reck (M. Reck) is a German medical oncologist who heads thoracic oncology and clinical trials at LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Germany, and is known for lung cancer immunotherapy research.