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Marvin H. Davidson
Marvin H. Davidson (1935–2023) was an American investor who founded the New York distressed-debt firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management, starting it as his family office in 1983.
Marvin H. Sleisenger
Marvin H. Sleisenger (1924–2017) was an American gastroenterologist who was chief of gastroenterology at Cornell, then led medicine at UCSF and the San Francisco VA.
Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns
Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns, "The War" (April 15, 1985, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas): undisputed middleweight title fight won by Hagler via third-round TKO, widely ranked among boxing's greatest fights.
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012), American composer, pianist, and conductor of A Chorus Line and over 40 film scores including The Way We Were and The Sting; PEGOT winner with Richard Rodgers.
Marvin Harrison
Marvin Harrison, Philadelphia-born Syracuse alum, Colts wide receiver 1996-2008; 1,102 catches, 14,580 yards, 128 TDs, record 143 catches in 2002, Manning's top target, Hall of Fame 2016.
Marvin Harrison Jr.
Marvin Harrison Jr. (born 2002), son of Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison, is an NFL wide receiver; Ohio State Biletnikoff winner, drafted fourth overall by Arizona in 2024, traded to the Houston Texans in 2026.
Marvin Heemeyer
Marvin John Heemeyer was an American welder who, on June 4, 2004, drove a homemade armored bulldozer through Granby, Colorado, destroying 13 buildings before killing himself.
Marvin Humes
Marvin Humes (Marvin Richard James Humes, born 1985, London) is an English singer, DJ, and broadcaster: JLS member with five UK number-one singles, 2010 BRIT winner, Capital FM and Hits Radio presenter, The Voice UK and The Hit List co-host.
Marvin Jones (wide receiver)
Marvin Jones (Marvin Lewis Jones Jr.), NFL wide receiver 2012-2024; Bengals fifth-round pick (166th, 2012) out of California; Lions, Jaguars; 542 catches, 7,386 yards, 58 TDs; distinct from linebacker namesakes.
Marvin Jones Jr. (linebacker)
Marvin Jones Jr., edge rusher/linebacker, son of Marvin Jones Sr.; Georgia, Florida State, Oklahoma; 2026 NFL draft prospect, 4.69 40-yard dash, brief Seahawks practice squad stint.
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley, known for pseudopotential methods that predict materials' properties before they are made in a laboratory.
Marvin Leonard Goldberger
Marvin Leonard Goldberger, known as Murph Goldberger, was an American theoretical physicist who worked on dispersion relations and scattering theory and led Caltech from 1978 to 1987.
Marvin Lewis
Marvin Lewis, born in 1958, is an American football coach who led the Cincinnati Bengals for 16 seasons from 2003 to 2018, winning a franchise-record 131 games and the 2009 NFL Coach of the Year award.
Marvin M. Chun
Marvin M. Chun, also known as Marvin Chun, is a cognitive neuroscientist and the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, known for identifying the fusiform face area.
Marvin M. Johnson
Marvin M. Johnson (1928–2017) was an American chemical engineer at Phillips Petroleum who invented metal passivating agents for catalytic cracking, winning the 1985 National Medal of Technology.
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (1927–2016) was an American computer scientist who co-founded the MIT AI Laboratory, built the first neural network learning machine, and won the 1970 Turing Award.
Marvin R. Paule
Marvin R. Paule is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University known for his research on ribosomal RNA transcription and its regulation in growing and cancer cells.
Marvin Sapp
Marvin Louis Sapp (born 1967, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a gospel singer-songwriter and bishop, ex-Commissioned member, famous for "Never Would Have Made It" and Thirsty; pastor of The Chosen Vessel Cathedral, Fort Worth.
Marvin Sordell
Marvin Sordell (born 1991, Harrow) is an English former footballer, a forward for Watford, Bolton, Burnley, and Burton Albion, a Team GB London 2012 Olympian and England U21 player who retired at 28 in 2019 over mental health and became a filmmaker and CALM ambassador.
Marvin Stalder
Marvin Frederick Stalder (1905–1982), American rower; bow seat of the University of California eight that won gold for the United States in the coxed eights at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics; National Rowing Hall of Fame 1967.
Marvin Tanenbaum
Marvin E. Tanenbaum is a molecular biologist and senior group leader at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, known for SunTag and single-molecule imaging of translation in living cells.
Marvin the Martian
Marvin the Martian, a Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Martian villain created by Chuck Jones, debuted in Haredevil Hare (1948), appeared in only five classic shorts, was unnamed until 1979, and tries to blow up Earth for blocking his view of Venus.
Marvin the Paranoid Android
Marvin the Paranoid Android is a gloomy, hyperintelligent robot in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, created for the 1978 BBC radio series and voiced by Alan Rickman in the 2005 film.
Marvin Turck
Marvin Turck is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist, a University of Washington faculty member since 1964, who co-developed the Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1989 to 2002.
Marvin Vettori
Marvin Vettori, "The Italian Dream", is an Italian UFC middleweight born 1993 in Mezzocorona. Record 19-11-1; challenged Adesanya at UFC 263; never finished; five straight losses through 2026.
Marvin Wickens
Marvin Wickens, known as Marv Wickens, is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying how cells control messenger RNA.
Marvin Williams
Marvin Williams (born 1986) is an American former NBA forward, second overall pick in 2005 by Atlanta, who played 15 seasons for the Hawks, Jazz, Hornets, and Bucks, won the 2005 NCAA title with North Carolina, and retired in 2020.
Marvin Zuckerman
Marvin Zuckerman (1928–2018) was an American personality psychologist who codeveloped the Sensation Seeking Scale, defining sensation seeking, and was professor emeritus at the University of Delaware.
Marvin's Room (film)
Marvin's Room (1996) is a Jerry Zaks drama adapted from Scott McPherson's play, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Niro; estranged sisters reunite over a leukemia diagnosis, with Keaton earning an Oscar nomination.
Marvis Frazier
Marvis Frazier (born 1960, Philadelphia), son of champion Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer, 56-2 amateur with Golden Gloves and AAU titles, pro 1980-88, stopped in one round by Larry Holmes in 1983 and by Mike Tyson in 30 seconds in 1986.