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Martin Rees

Martin Rees, also known as M. J. Rees, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and studies black holes and galaxy formation.

Martin Riggs is the fictional suicidal LAPD detective played by Mel Gibson in the four Lethal Weapon films (1987-1998), written by Shane Black and directed by Richard Donner, partner of Roger Murtaugh; recast as Clayne Crawford in the 2016-2019 Fox TV series, with an unproduced Lethal Weapon 5 pending.

Oct 10, 2026

Martin Rinckart

Martin Rinckart (1586–1649) was a Lutheran pastor, dramatist, and hymn writer who served as archdeacon of St. Nikolai in Eilenburg, Saxony, and wrote "Nun danket alle God."

Martin Roberts (presenter)

Martin Roberts (Martin Leyland Roberts, born 1963, Warrington) is a British TV presenter, property expert, and author, presenter of BBC One's Homes Under the Hammer since 2003, formerly of Wish You Were Here...? and I'm a Celebrity 2016.

Martin Röcken

Martin Röcken is a German dermatologist and immunologist who led the dermatology department at the University of Tübingen and was EADV president from 2022 to 2024.

Martin Rodbell

Martin Rodbell (1925–1998) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered G-proteins, the cell's signal-transducing proteins, and shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Oct 21, 2026

Martin Rodriguez

Martin Rodriguez, full name Martin Emilio Rodriguez Gutierrez, nicknamed Cochise, Colombian cyclist born 1942 in Medellin; four-time Vuelta a Colombia winner, world 4,000 m pursuit champion, and 1964 and 1968 Olympian.

Martin Roland

Martin Oliver Roland, born 1951, is a British general practitioner and health services researcher, Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, known for the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire and pay-for-performance evaluations.

Martin Romualdez

Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, Leyte 1st District representative, cousin of President Marcos Jr., and Speaker of the 19th Congress; later charged with 7.4-billion-peso plunder in the Philippine flood-control scandal and linked to nickel mining and media holdings.

Martin Rosenberg

Martin Rosenberg is a molecular biologist who spent a decade at the National Institutes of Health and two decades in industry, retiring in 2001 as senior vice president of anti-infectives drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.

Martin Rössle

Martin Rössle, born 1946 in Stuttgart, is a German hepatologist who developed the TIPS procedure for treating liver cirrhosis complications at University Medical Center Freiburg.

Martin Rossor

Martin Rossor is a British clinical neurologist and dementia researcher, Professor Emeritus at UCL, who served as National Director for Dementia Research and helped identify the first familial Alzheimer's gene.

Martin Ryle

Sir Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer at Cambridge who invented aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first awarded for astronomical research.

Martín S. Cetron

Martin S. Cetron is a physician-scientist in travel medicine and migration health who directed the CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine from 2003 to 2022.

Oct 10, 2026

Martin S. Feldstein

Martin S. Feldstein (1939–2019) was a Harvard economist who led the NBER from 1977 to 2008, chaired Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, and won the 1977 John Bates Clark Medal.

Martin S. Maron

Martin S. Maron is an American cardiologist who directs the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, and researches hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Martin S. Tallman

Martin S. Tallman is an American hematologist and medical oncologist specializing in leukemia, formerly chief of the Leukemia Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering and president of the American Society of Hematology.

Oct 21, 2026

Martin Sauer

Martin Sauer (born 1982, Wriezen) is a German rowing coxswain of the Deutschland-Achter: Olympic gold London 2012, silver Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, multiple world and European men's eight titles.

Martin Saunders (chemist)

Martin Saunders is an American chemist who spent 67 years on the Yale faculty, pioneered NMR methods, and trapped noble gases and small molecules inside fullerene cages.

Oct 10, 2026

Martin Schadt

Martin Schadt, born 1938 in Liestal, Switzerland, is a Swiss physicist who co-invented the twisted nematic liquid-crystal effect at Roche in 1970, the basis of LCDs.

Oct 20, 2026

Martin Schaudt

Martin Schaudt (born 1958, Balingen) is a German dressage rider, twice Olympic team gold medalist (Atlanta 1996 on Durgo, Athens 2004 on Weltall VA), 1995 European team champion, and three-time German champion who runs a training stable in Albstadt.

Martin Scheffner

Martin Scheffner is a biochemist and Full Professor at the University of Konstanz since 2004, known for identifying E6AP as the first HECT-family ubiquitin-protein ligase.

Sep 27, 2026

Martin Schirdewan

Martin Schirdewan is a German politician of The Left (Die Linke), a Member of the European Parliament since 2017 and Co-Chair of The Left group, who previously led Die Linke.

Martin Schlumberger

Martin Schlumberger is a French thyroid-cancer oncologist and nuclear medicine specialist who headed Gustave Roussy's nuclear medicine department from 1980 to 2019 and led the SELECT lenvatinib trial.

Martin Schmitt

Martin Schmitt (born 1978, Villingen-Schwenningen) is a retired German ski jumper, not to be confused with other athletes named Martin Schmitt. Two-time overall World Cup winner (1999, 2000), 28 World Cup wins, 2002 Olympic team gold, and later Eurosport expert and TV competitor.