Mark (given name)

Mark is a common male given name and is derived from old Latin "Mart-kos", which means "consecrated to the god Mars", and also may mean "God of war" or "to be warlike". Marcus was one of the three most common Roman given names.

Mark
Statue of Marte (Mars).
Pronunciation/ˈmɑːrk/
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameLatin
Meaning"Of Mars, warlike, warrior"
Other names
Related namesMarc, Marco, Marcos, Marcus, Marek, Marko, Martin

Meaning and history

Mark is a form of the name Marcus. Mark the Evangelist is the traditionally ascribed eponymous author of the second Gospel in the New Testament. He is the patron saint of Venice, where he is supposedly buried. Though in use during the Middle Ages, Mark was not common in the English-speaking world until the 19th century, when it began to be used alongside the classical form Marcus.

In the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde this was the name of a king of Cornwall. It was also borne by the American author Mark Twain (1835–1910), real name Samuel Clemens, the author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He actually took his pen name from a call used by riverboat workers on the Mississippi River to indicate a depth of two fathoms. This is also the usual English spelling of the name of the 1st-century BC Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony).[1]

In other languages

Academics
  • Mark Adler (born 1959), American software engineer
  • Mark Azadovsky (1888–1954), Russian scholar of folk-tales and Russian literature
  • Mark Benecke (born 1970), German forensic biologist
  • Mark Blaug (1927–2011), Dutch-born British economist
  • Mark Buchanan (born 1961), American physicist
  • Mark Catesby (1682–1749), English naturalist
  • Mark Wayne Chase (born 1951), American-born British botanist
  • Mark R. Cohen (born 1943), American scholar of Jewish history
  • Mark Dean (born 1957), American inventor and a computer engineer
  • Mark Fettes (born 1961), Canadian Esperantist
  • Mark Fisher (1968–2017), British cultural theorist and philosopher
  • Mark Z. Jacobson (born 1965), American civil and environmental engineer
  • Mark Jerrum (born 1955), British computer scientist and computational theorist
  • Mark Lilla (born 1956), American political scientist and philosopher
  • Mark van Loosdrecht (born 1959), Dutch biotechnologist
  • Mark Mazower (born 1958), British historian
  • Mark P. McCahill (born 1956), American computer scientist and internet pioneer
  • Mark Borisovich Mitin (1901–1987), Soviet Marxist-Leninist philosopher
  • Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist and humanitarian
  • Mark Overmars (born 1958), Dutch computer scientist, creator of Game Maker
  • Mark Pattison (1813–1884), English educational reformer and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Mark Ptashne (born 1940), American molecular biologist
  • Mark Ridley (born 1956), British zoologist and writer on evolution
  • Mark Satin (born 1946), American political theorist
  • Mark Sedgwick (born 1960), British historian
  • Mark R. Showalter (born 1957), American astronomer
  • Mark Solonin (born 1958), Russian WWII historian
  • Mark Steedman (born 1946), British computational linguist and cognitive scientist
  • Mark van Vugt (born 1967), Dutch evolutionary psychologist
  • Mark Waer (born 1951), Belgian biomedical scientist and university president
  • Mark Wainberg (1945–2017), Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and activist
  • Mark Walport (born 1953), British medical scientist
  • Mark Weiser (1952–1999), American chief scientist at Xerox PARC
  • Mark Zborowski (1908–1990), American anthropologist and Soviet spy

Acting

Arts

Business

Christianity

Literature

Music

Politics

Sports

Crime
  • Mark Barton (1955–1999), American spree killer, mass murderer, and family annihilator
  • Mark David Chapman (born 1955), American assassin of John Lennon
  • Mark Goudeau (born 1964), American serial killer, rapist, and kidnapper
  • Mark Hofmann (born 1954), American counterfeiter, forger, bomber, and spree killer

Other
  • Mark, American slave executed in 1755
  • Mark N. Brown (born 1951), American astronaut
  • Mark of Cornwall, king of Kernow in the early 6th century
  • W. Mark Felt (1913–2008), American FBI official known as Deep Throat
  • Mark Fields, multiple people
  • Mark Fischbach, (a.k.a. Markiplier) American YouTuber known as "Markiplier"
  • Mark Hulsbeck, American aquanaut
  • Mark Labbett, English TV personality
  • Mark Newhouse (born 1985), American professional poker player
  • Mark Read (disambiguation)
  • Mark Reed (disambiguation)
  • Mark Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Mark Uytterhoeven, Belgian television presenter
  • Mark White (disambiguation), multiple people

See also

References
  1. Behind the Name - Mark
  2. de:Mark Seibert
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