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Martin Taylor (guitarist)
Martin Taylor (born 1956) is a British jazz fingerstyle guitarist from Harlow, Essex, who toured with Stephane Grappelli 1979-1990, holds a record 14 British Jazz Awards, an MBE, and runs the Martin Taylor Guitar Academy. Not the guitar brand Taylor or Martin Guitars.
Martin Thanbichler
Martin Thanbichler is a microbiologist who leads the Bacterial Cell Biology group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, known for discovering that ParB proteins are controlled by CTP.
Martin Tieder
Martin Tieder is an Israeli nephrologist affiliated with Assaf Harofeh Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, known for describing the inherited kidney and bone disorder HHRH in 1985.
Martin Traverso
Martin Traverso, software engineer; co-creator of Presto (2012, Facebook) and its fork Trino, with Sundstrom, Phillips, and Hwang; co-founder of the Trino Software Foundation and CTO of Starburst Data.
Martin Truex Jr.
Martin Truex Jr. (born 1980), American NASCAR driver from Mayetta, New Jersey; 2017 Cup Series champion with Furniture Row Racing, 2004-05 Xfinity champion, 34 Cup wins, retired from full-time competition after 2024.
Martin Turner
Martin Turner is an immunologist at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge who studies lymphocyte development and signaling, known for his 1995 Nature paper on the kinase Syk in B-cell development.
Martin Tyler
Martin Tyler (born 1945), English football commentator; ITV from 1974, Sky Sports lead Premier League voice 1992-2023, famous for the 2012 'Agüeroooo' call, FIFA games voice 2005-2022, still active freelance.
Martin Underwood
Martin Underwood is a British primary care researcher and former general practitioner who is Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Warwick and studies back pain.
Martin Uribe
Martín Uribe is an Argentine-American macroeconomist, the Robert A. Mundell Professor at Columbia University and NBER research associate, known for work on sovereign default, capital controls, and exchange-rate policy.
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), eighth U.S. president (1837–1841), tenth Secretary of State and eighth Vice President under Andrew Jackson; founder of the Democratic Party, faced the Panic of 1837, created the Independent Treasury, carried out the Trail of Tears.
Martin Van Buren Bates
Martin Van Buren Bates, the Kentucky Giant (1837-1919), a 7'9" Confederate captain and circus performer who married the 7'11" giantess Anna Swan in London in 1871 and farmed in Seville, Ohio.
Martin van den Brink
Martin van den Brink, born 1957, is a Dutch engineer who joined ASML in 1984 and led its technology as CTO until retiring in 2024.
Martin van Hecke
Martin van Hecke, born 1967 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physicist, professor at Leiden University and group leader at AMOLF, known for programmable, shape-shifting mechanical metamaterials.
Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky, also known as Martín Varsavsky, is an entrepreneur who founded Viatel, Jazztel, and Eolia Renovables before co-founding the fertility biotech Gameto in 2021.
Martin Vessey
Martin Paterson Vessey, known as M P Vessey, is a British physician-epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Oxford, known for oral contraceptive safety studies.
Martin Vetterli
Martin Vetterli, born in Switzerland in 1957, is an electrical engineer known for wavelet theory and sampling research, and was president of EPFL from 2017 to 2024.
Martín Vizcarra
Martín Vizcarra Cornejo, Peruvian engineer and politician, president of Peru 2018–2020 after serving as Kuczynski's vice president; dissolved Congress in 2019, was impeached in 2020, and in 2025 was sentenced to 14 years for bribery as Moquegua governor.
Martin von Dunin
Martin von Dunin (Marcin Dunin Sulgustowski; 1774–1842) was a Polish Catholic prelate who, as Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań from 1831, led the Prussian mixed-marriage conflict.
Martin W. Hetzer
Martin W. Hetzer is an Austrian molecular biologist and, since 2023, president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, known for discovering long-lived nuclear proteins.
Martin Wainwright (statistician)
Martin J. Wainwright is a Canadian-trained statistician and information theorist, Cecil H. Green Professor at MIT since 2022 and director of its Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller, Latinized as Martinus Ilacomilus, was a German humanist and cartographer whose 1507 Universalis Cosmographia was the first map to name "America" and depict the New World as a separate continent.
Martin Wallström
Martin Wallström (Carl Martin Gunnar Wallström Milkéwitz, born 1983, Uddevalla) is a Swedish actor known for Tyrell Wellick in Mr. Robot (2015–2019) and Swedish roles in Simple Simon, Ego, and the Beck films.
Martin Walser
Martin Walser (1927–2023) was a German novelist, playwright, and essayist and a leading figure of postwar German literature, known for works like Ein fliehendes Pferd.
Martin Weber
Martin Weber is a German venture capitalist and Founding Partner at HV Capital, which he helped build from the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, backing Delivery Hero, Groupon, and Lazada.
Martin Wegener
Martin Wegener is a German physicist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for 3D laser-printed photonic and mechanical metamaterials, including invisibility cloaks working at optical wavelengths.
Martin Weigert
Martin Weigert is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, known for discovering receptor editing.
Martin Weitz
Martin Weitz is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Bonn, known for the Bose–Einstein condensate of photons reported in Nature in 2010.
Martin White (cosmologist)
Martin White is a theoretical cosmologist, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley who works on the cosmic microwave background, galaxy formation, and dark energy.
Martin Wickramasinghe
Martin Wickramasinghe (මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ, 1890–1976) was a Sri Lankan novelist and critic regarded as the father of modern Sinhala literature, known for the novel Gamperaliya.
Martin Widschwendter
Martin Widschwendter is an Austrian gynecological oncologist and epigenetics researcher, Professor in Women's Cancer at University College London and director of the EUTOPS Institute in Innsbruck.