Famous People with Name Mark

Mark August Stoermer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark August Stoermer: Stoermer worked as a medical courier, shipping biohazardous materials and live organs for transplants in the Vegas Valley area. During this time he listened to the music of The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Television, and others on his car stereo.Stoermer's previous bands include Habit Rouge, and the Negative Ponies with whom he played guitar. He got to know The Killers in 2002 and filled in as a temporary bass player off and on throughout the year. He officially joined the band later that year, after Ronnie Vannucci Jr. joined the band on drums. Although now primarily a bassist, Stoermer plays guitar during live performances of For Reasons Unknown.

Mark Althavan Andrews            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark Althavan Andrews: is a Grammy Award-nominated American R&B singer and actor. He is best known for being the lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and also for "Thong Song," a song from his first solo LP, Unleash the Dragon, that became an international hit.After Woody left Dru Hill in 1999 to pursue a solo career, it was decided that the other three members would do the same. Sisq='s solo debut, Unleash the Dragon, was released on Def Soul Records in November 1999. Unleash the Dragon sold moderately at first, until the February 2000 release of its second single, a novelty "Thong Song". A runaway hit, "Thong Song" and its follow-up, "Incomplete," were major hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, with "Thong Song" making it to number-three, and "Incomplete" going to number-one. The success later got Sisq= a doll made of himself by Play Along Toys in 2001.[citation needed

Mark Nichols,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark Nichols,: is a Canadian curler from St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.Nichols currently plays third for Brad Gushue's team which represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Nichols has played third for Gushue since 1999. With Gushue, Nichols has been to three Canadian Junior Curling Championships (winning in 2001) and three Briers (2003, 2004, 2005). He won the World Junior Curling Championships in 2001 with Gushue as well. He also won Gold in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, at which he threw a spectacular shot - running back a guard onto to another stone which picked another rock that was sitting in a dead zone - in the 6th end of the final against Finland,

Mark William Prior            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark William Prior: is a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. His career has notably been muddled with injuries after a promising start which had pundits calling him a future superstar.His repertoire of pitches includes a low to mid 90's fastball, a curveball, a slurve, and a changeup.Prior graduated from University of San Diego High School. He was originally drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1998 amateur draft, but they were unable to sign him to a contract.In 2001, Prior re-entered the draft, and was considered by some to be the top prospect, but the Minnesota Twins, who had the top pick, were warned that Prior didn't want to play for them. Fearing a tough signability problem, the Twins opted to take local talent catcher Joe Mauer,

Mark Lavon Helm            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark Lavon Helm: is an American rock musician and actor most famous as the drummer (and often vocalist) for the rock group The Band. Helm is known for his deeply soulful, country-style voice, and powerful drumming style highlighted on many of the The Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "King Harvest", "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". His 2007 comeback album Dirt Farmer earned the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in February 2008.

Inky Mark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Inky Mark: is a Canadian politician and a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, sitting for the Manitoba riding of Dauphin

Mary Ellen Mark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Ellen Mark: is an American photographer, known for her images which fall between social photojournalism and portraiture.Mary began photographing with a Box Brownie camera at age nine. During high school, she was head cheerleader with a knack for painting and drawing. Pursuing a career in art, she studied painting and art history for a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania around 1959. She turned professional as a freelance in the mid-1960s when she returned to school at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.