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Mark Oxtoby

Mark Oxtoby (born 21 August 1973) is a British actor, voice-over artist and writer. In September 2021, he played Doc Brown at the West End opening night of Back to the Future: The Musical after only a few hours rehearsal. He has appeared in the Bridge Theatre London revival of Guys & Dolls (2023), the National Theatre production of HEX (2022) and the London production of The Phantom of the Opera (2016–2019).
==Career==
Oxtoby made his West End debut in Elvis at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1996).
He originated the role of Mitch Maypole in the West End production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens at the Queens Theatre (1997).
In 2001 Oxtoby was in the Original London cast of La Cava at the Piccadilly Theatre. He left the production early to play Turnov and alternate Poppa in the final London cast of Starlight Express at the Apollo Victoria Theatre (2001–2002).
He played the role of Firechief in The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall|The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011).Oxtoby's association with the show continued when he played Monsieur Andre in the London production of The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre from 2016-2019.
On 13 September 2021 - the West End press night of Back to the Future: The Musical at the Adelphi Theatre - Oxtoby was thrust into the role of Doc Brown after Roger Bart tested positive for COVID-19. With only a few hours rehearsal, he won critical acclaim and much praise for his performance. He went on to win the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Performance By An Understudy/Alternate in Any Play or Musical for his portrayal of Doc Brown - the only award available to an understudy at the time.
Oxtoby played Bruiser Thorn in the National Theatre's revival production of HEX at the Olivier Theatre (2022/2023) which was filmed and released onto the National Theatre's 'NT AT HOME' streaming service in 2023.
In 2023 he was cast as Benny Southstreet in Sir Nicholas Hytner's multi-award-winning production of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre in London.
==Short film work==
January 2024 saw the world premiere of My Week with Maisy, based on a screenplay written by Oxtoby, at Flickerfest, Australia's international short film festival. Starring Dame Joanna Lumley, MyAnna Buring, Poppy Gilbert and Ellie-Mae Siame, it was directed by Mika Simmons and produced by French Fancy Productions, with Oxtoby credited as writer and executive producer. The screenplay currently has 20 Best Screenplay Awards, and three Nominations. The release of the film made news in the Daily Express, Variety (magazine)|Variety, My London Times and Theatre Full Stop.
==Personal life==
Oxtoby married fellow actor Dawn Buckland in 2001. They have 1 child together - Lily Oxtoby.
In 2019 Oxtoby had seven operations for Melanoma skin cancer, eventually having his entire nose replaced with a full forehead flap procedure. The Mirror newspaper wrongly reported it was half his nose.
Category:1973 births
Category:British actors
Category:British people
Category:Voice actors
Category:Writers
Mark Rains

Mark C. Rains is director of the University of South Florida's school of geosciences, In March 2021, he was appointed Florida's chief science officer by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who created the position. Rains succeeds Thomas Frazer (professor) in the office.https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-desantis-florida-chief-science-officer-20210330-5gdjzadwffaxjj4t7zu4u3v57a-story.html%3foutputThttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article250315944.html
His research is focused on water systems ("Hydrological controls on ecosystem structure and function in fresh, brackish, saline, and hypersaline aquatic ecosystems. Ecohydrology and Hydrogeology").http://hennarot.forest.usf.edu/main/depts/geosci/faculty/mrains/https://usf.discovery.academicanalytics.com/scholar/stack/252900/MARK-RAINS?unitId=26048&unitType=2https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Rains/amp According to his Linkedin page he obtained a doctorate in philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
He was interviewed on a podcast about USF during the Covid and social unrest.https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1463977558/calling-earth/mark-rains-chair-of-the-usf-school-of-geosciences
Rains took over as Florida's Chief Science Officer following a short sting by fellow USF professor Thomas Frazer, who was involved in a task force and legislative efforts to address water pollution issues in Florida. Frazer became a Dean at USF upon his departure.https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1463977558/calling-earth/mark-rains-chair-of-the-usf-school-of-geosciences
Category:American University faculty and staff
Mark Richey

Mark Richey (born May 15, 1958) and an American rock climber and alpinist with a history of significant first ascents around the world, and for which he won the Piolets d'Or, the highest award in mountaineering, in 2012 and in 2020. Richey was also made president of the American Alpine Club from 2003 to 2006. He is also the founder and president of Mark Richey Woodworking, a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
==Climbing career==
Richey began climbing at age 15 in the Boston area and has completed more than forty expeditions to the Greater Ranges. In the early 1980s, he made the first ascents of the south face of Ocshapalca, and the east face of Cayesh in Peru. Other first ascents have been done in Greenland and India.
Two of Richey's climbs in the Karakoram won Piolets d'Or, the best-known prize for alpine climbing. The first was for the first ascent of Saser Kangri II in 2011, with Steve Swenson and Freddie Wilkinson. The second was for the first ascent of the southeast face of Link Sar (2,300-metres, M6+, WI4, 90 degrees) in 2019, with Swenson, Chris Wright, and Graham Zimmerman.
==Business career==
Richey began his woodworking career as an apprentice to a master harpsichord builder named William Dowd. He started building fine cabinetry in 1979. In the early 1980s, he launched Mark Richey Woodworking, specializing in high-quality architectural woodworking. The company now employs about 100 and is based in a 130,000-square-foot plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, that is largely powered by wind and solar energy and a biomass furnace.
Category:1958 births
Category:American people
Category:Rock climbers
Category:Mountaineers
Mark Rossi

Mark S. Rossi is an American private equity investor. He is a founder and senior managing director of Cornerstone Equity Investors. 
Rossi is also an active corporate director. He is the previous Chairman of the Board of Maxwell Technologies, which was sold to Tesla in 2019,. and the current Chairman of the Board of Cardtronics, PLC.
== Career ==
From 1981 to 1984, Rossi was President of Prudential Equity Investors, the private equity subsidiary of Prudential Financial. He and other executives later founded Cornerstone Equity Investors, a New York-based investment firm.
From 1984 to 2011, Cornerstone funded over 120 companies through buyouts and growth equity financing in technology, healthcare services and products, business services, and consumer products. Portfolio investments included Conner Peripherals, Dell Computer, Equitrac, Inc., Health Management Associates, Linear Technology, Micron Technology, Centurion Wireless, Team Health, and True Temper Sports.
Subsequent to his years at Cornerstone Equity Investors, Rossi has been an active investor in early- and growth-stage companies. He was the largest individual investor and Board Chair of Voci Technologies which was sold to Medallia (MDLA) In May 2020. https://www.barrons.com/press-release/medallia-completes-acquisition-of-voci-technologies-01588798563?tesla=y&tesla=y Rossi is also an active investor in a number of private companies including Sight4All and Intelomed where he serves as the Chairman of the Board.
Rossi has been a supporter and board member of philanthropic organizations, including AFS, Saint Vincent College and Inner-City Scholarship Fund.
== Education ==
After graduating with highest honors from Saint Vincent College in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Rossi earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University as an FC Austin scholar
== Personal life ==
Rossi is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is an avid Steelers fan. He and his wife, award-winning fiction writer Maureen Pilkington, are based in New York and have two grown children.
== References ==
== External links ==
* Mark S Rossi, Cornerstone Equity Investors LLC: Profile
* Mark Rossi on linkedin
* Mark Rossi - Topio Networks
* Board of Directors - Investor Relations | Cardtronics, Inc.
* Mark Rossi - Chair of the Board at Cardtronics PLC | The Org
Category:American investors
Category:American financial businesspeople
Category:American company founders
Category:Bachelor's degrees
Category:Master's degrees
Category:Economics
Category:Saint Vincent College alumni
Mark S. White

Mark S. White (December 12, 1851 - ?) was a teacher and politician in Florida. He lived in Pensacola and represented Escambia County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives in 1883. He belonged to the Knights of Labor. He was described as "mulatto".Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867 - 1924 by Canter Brown Jr. University of Alabama Press (1998) pages 138 and 148
He was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He served as an election official.
 
Category:1851 births
Category:American educators
Category:Florida politician
Mark Shipman (author)

Mark Andrew Shipman is an author, investor and former money manager, and a trader on the financial markets.
He was born on 16th September 1962 in Crayford, Kent, England. He left school at 16 and joined the ranks of the unemployed in the early 1980’s. He eventually secured a job in the post room of an Australian Bank in London.
He has worked in the financial industry since 1979, initially for international investment banks in the City of London before leaving in 1990 to establish his own asset management business, ’Silver Knight Investment Management’, one of the UK’s first ever hedge funds.
In 1991 Shipman won the World Professional Futures Trading Championship.
Shipman retired from fund management to concentrate on managing his own money and continues to personally participate in long-term investment trends, He consults to a select group of City institutions and high net-worth investors; is a key-note conference speaker; and has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles.
He has been a regular commentator on CBNC, ‘The Late Late Show’ RTE Ireland, Sky News, IG Index and The Financial Times. IG Group is a trading name of IG Markets Ltd and IG Index Ltd.
Shipman is also Chairman of Project Wealth Group Limited.
Shipman is the author of three international bestsellers, which have been translated into several foreign languages: “The Next Big Investment Boom” (published by Kogan Page in 2006), “Big Money Little Effort" (published by Kogan Page in 2008) and “EQ vs. IQ” (published by Amazon Books in 2014), Hedge Fund Manager Secrets (published by ProjectWealthGroup.com 2018). 
== References ==
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Category:English writers
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Mark Siddall

Mark Siddall is a Canadian biologist. Siddall has studied the evolution and systematics of blood parasites and leeches, and systematic theory. He was formerly a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. In September 2020, Siddall was fired from the American Museum of Natural History for violating sexual harassment guidelines. 
Siddall completed a Masters and PhDhttps://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/mark_siddall/ under the supervision of Sherwin S. Desser at the University of Toronto in 1991 and 1994, respectivel
After completing his PhD, Siddall completed a postdoc at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Subsequently, he was a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows from 1996 - 1999. Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in 1999 and served there as a curator until 2020. He has written a popular science book, Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequenceshttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Poison/4PVBmQEACAAJ?hl=en. 
Siddall studies phylogenetics and evolution. He began his career publishing on blood parasites. He has published extensively on leech systematics. 
Siddall has been described as "a staunch supporter of parsimony and a harsh critic of maximum likelihood approaches” to inferring phylogenies; notably, Siddall was involved in the Twitter controversy #Parsimonygate in 2016. 
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Category:Canadian people
Category:Evolution
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Category:University of Toronto alumni
Mark Spears

Mark Spears is an American comic artist currently working on Spawn covers for Image Comics and covers for DC Comics. 
==Career==
Spears won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Artist of the Year in 2020. In 2022, Spears did the poster artwork fo Spirit Halloween the Movie and his artwork can be seen in the movie as well. Spears also did 'Monster' concept cards for the movie that were teased before the movie's release. In 2023, Spears was featured in the Artist Spotlight by Todd McFarlane and was given covers to Spawn, Scorched, King Spawn and Gunslinger Spawn all in the same month. Spears was selected for the Svengoolie Artist Collection on MeTv for July 2023. He did a cover for Boom Studios Power Rangers #111 released in August of 2023.
Spears released a trading card series featuring his own artwork in 2021 called "Mark Spears Monsters". He followed that up with a "Halloween Edition of Mark Spears Monsters the following year and a Series 2 of the Mark Spears Monsters will be released fall of 2023.
Spears was born in Huntsville, Alabama and graduated from New Hope High School in New Hope, Alabama.
Category:People from Huntsville, Alabama
Category:American people
Category:Comics artists
Mark Taubert

Professor Mark Taubert FRCP FRCGP is a German-British doctor and professor of medicine at Cardiff University. He is a palliative care doctor in Wales, who according to the Western Mail has contributed significantly to the development of his specialty, and has received recognition as an overseas doctor who has furthered the field of end-of-life care provision nationally and internationally. 
He wrote to the late David Bowie in January 2016 about a conversation he had with a dying patient, a letter that went viral.
He is the founder of Talk CPR, an international information campaign that discusses the sometimes controversial topic of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions.
==Open letter to David Bowie==
In 2016, he published a thank you letter to David Bowie after the singer's death, with refernece to Bowie's last album, Blackstar. The letter was published on a little-known medical blog site, but was seen and retweeted by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones. It went viral online and in global newsrooms, and was subsequently read out by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Jarvis Cocker at public events. The letter addresses issues such as palliative care and planning for the end of life. Bowie's story became a way to communicate important aspects of dying with a palliative care patient.
It was turned into a classical music string quartet composition for BBC Radio 3 by composer John Uren, featuring Taubert reading the letter. It toured, premiering at the Royal Northern College of Music.
==Other work==
He is the founder of Talk CPR, an international information campaign that discusses the sometimes controversial topic of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions, also known by the acronym DNACPR. His explanatory Talk CPR resources have been viewed over a million times worldwide.
Taubert has also featured on two palliative care themed recordings for the UK's BBC Listening Project 2019 and 2020.
==Awards==
He has won numerous national and international awards for his teaching and clinical work, including a Bafta award as part of a care team featured in an ITV documentary. He received the prestigious national BMJ/BMA Clinical Teacher of the year award, the Best Trainer Award Wales 2016 and the Royal College of Physicians Excellence in Patient Care Award.
Category:German physicians
Category:Professorships in medicine
Category:German people
Mark Tildesley (production designer)

Mark Tildesley (born 1963) is a British production designer. Tildesley has collaborated with film directors Danny Boyle, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Leigh, Roger Michell, Paul Thomas Anderson and Cary Fukunaga. He studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art in the 1980s before transitioning to film work. In 1998, he won a BAFTA Cymru award for best production design for his work on House of America. He also worked with Danny Boyle as a designer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony Isle of Wonder for which he won an Emmy Award for best art direction. In 2020, he replaced Dennis Gassner as the set designer for the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die. 
==Selected filmography==
* No Time to Die (2021) - Cary Fukunaga
* The Two Popes (2019) - Fernando Meirelles
* Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson
* T2: Trainspotting (2017) - Danny Boyle
* Snowden (film) (2016) - Oliver Stone
* In the Heart of the Sea (2015) - Ron Howard
* High-Rise (2015) - Ben Wheatley
* The Fifth Estate (2013) - Bill Condon
* The Boat That Rocked (2009) - Richard Curtis
* 28 Weeks Later (2007) - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
* The Constant Gardener (2005) - Fernando Meirelles
* Code 46 (2003) - Michael Winterbottom
* 28 Days Later (2002) - Danny Boyle 
* 24 Hour Party People (2002) - Michael Winterbottom 
* The Claim (2000 film) (2000) - Michael Winterbottom 
* House of America (1997) - Marc Evans
* Blue Juice (1995) - Carl Prechezer
Category:1961 births
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:British film designers
Category:English industrial designers
Mark Walrod Harrington

Mark Walrod Harrington (August 18, 1848 in Sycamore, Illinois; September 10, 1926 in Morris Plains, New Jersey) was an American scientist, the first civilian head of the National Weather Service|United States Weather Bureau, and former List of presidents of the University of Washington. Considered a prominent scientist in the late 19th century, Harrington studied and published works in multiple disciplines, including botany, astronomy, meteorology, and geology, and knew a half-dozen languages. His academic achievements were overshadowed by his disappearance in 1899, when he left home one day and disappeared for many years. His wife and son located him in 1908 at a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey where he had been admitted as patient John Doe No. 8. 
== Biography ==
Mark was the son of James Harrington and Charlotte Walrod Harrington. In 1878, he married Rose Martha Smith, with whom he had a son (Mark Raymond). Mark Raymond Harrington was a well-known Archaeology.
From 1879 to 1891, he was professor of Astronomie and director of the Detroit Observatory of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. During this time, he published an astronomical observation recorded by Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer as NGC 7040 in the New General Catalogue. He founded The American Meteorological Journal in 1884, of which he published the first seven volumes.
In 1891, Harrington was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as the first civilian chief of the United States Weather Bureau. He served in this role until 1895, when he was ousted by Secretary of Agriculture Julius Sterling Morton, who convinced newly inaugurated President Grover Cleveland to let him fire Harrington. 
In 1895, he was elected president of the University of Washington to succeed Thomas Milton Gatch. He remained in this office until 1897.
He left his home one evening in 1899 and disappeared for about 7 years. According to news accounts, Professor Harrington had lost his memory but after several years in psychiatric institutions, developed a fondness for music. 
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Category:People from Sycamore, Illinois
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Category:American scientists
Mark Wiens

Mark Wiens is an American YouTube travel and food Vlogger, restaurateur, and author based in Bangkok, Thailand.< He is married. He has millions of subscribers. He opened a restaurant in Bangkok called Phed Mark.
== Biography ==
Wiens was born in Phoenix, Arizona the son of Christian missionaries. The family lived in France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nairobi, Kenya. After high school, he attended Arizona State University, graduating in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in Global Studies. After graduation, Wiens traveled through South America, eventually teaching English in the mountains of Patagonia. 
In 2009, Wiens started Migrationology.com and after three years, published his first eBook, the Eating Thai Food Guide, and began blogging full-time job. Wiens has created travel and food videos from over a dozen countries and has two other channels, "Mark Abroad" and "Big on Spice". He has been featured as a Thai food expert by New York Magazine, CNN, and Andrew Zimmern. He resides in Thailand.
=== เผ็ดมาร์ค (Phed Mark) ===	
In 2019, Wiens, along with Khun Tan (Thai food blogger), Khun Pongthep (designer and actor), Chef Gigg (Chef and Thai Iron Chef Champion) opened a restaurant, เผ็ดมาร์ค (Phed Mark), in Bangkok, specializing in ผัดกะเพรา (pad kaprao)
==Travels==
In 2021 he visited Shady Maple Smorgasbord, a buffet, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 2022 he visited Trinidad and Tobago.
Category:YouTube travel vloggers
Category:Food blogger
Category:Writers
Mark Williams (Formula One)

Mark Richard Williams (born 7 April 1959) is an British engineer. He was known as the engineer for race cars development at McLaren from 1996 until 2015.
==Career==
He attended Imperial College London, where he studied mechanical engineering, graduating in 1980 with a master's degree. His first job in Formula One was as a composite engineer for the Ensign Racing.
In 1982, he became a design engineer for engine components at engineering technology firm Ricardo Consulting, and in his spare time at the Delta Cars based near Hove, embarked on freelancing race car design and engineering.
In 1983, he landed his first full-time job as a race car designer at Lola Cars working on projects ranging from Formula Ford to IndyCar, and running the Formula 3000 program from 1985 as chief operating officer. In 1987, he was responsible as race engineer for Luis Perez-Sala in the Lola Motorsport F3000 car. Later in 1994, he worked as a race technician for Forsythe Green Racing in Championship Auto Racing Teams.
In January 1996, he worked with Gordon Murray on the BMW Super Touring Car program run by McLaren Automotive, where he became Head of Vehicle Engineering. At the end of 1997, he moved to the McLaren F1 Team and was in charge of the technical team for many years. In 2001, he was appointed as Chief Engineer of Vehicle Development, overseeing research and development. A highlight of his track role was the car driven by Mika Hakkinen, who served until his last F1 win at Indianapolis in 2001.
In 2002, he worked as Chief Engineer under the technical guidance of Adrian Newey. In 2007 became Head of Vehicle Performance. Since 2011, he has successfully combined his F1 responsibilities to establish McLaren's growing GT3 sports car program.
He retired from his F1 job in January 2015. He currently runs a consulting firm called MW Consulting.
Category:1959 births
Category:People from Wolverhampton
Category:British people
Category:Alumni of Imperial College London
Category:British engineers