Marek is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Henryk Marek Henryk Marek (born 8 January 1939) is a Polish cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 30 kilometre event at the 1964 Winter Olympics. References 1939 births Living people Polish male cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country ...

(born 1939), Polish cross-country skier * Jan Marek (ice hockey, born 1947), American ice hockey player * Jan Marek (ice hockey, born 1979) (1979–2011), Czech ice hockey player *

Josef Marek Josef Marek (born 11 June 1987) is a professional Czech football player who plays for FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf. Career Marek came to Bohemians for a trial while playing for third division side Kunice in January 2011. He went on to make three ...

(born 1987), Czech footballer * Kamel Marek (born 1980), Algerian footballer * Krzysztof Marek (born 1949), Polish rower *

Marcus Marek Markus Marek (born January 8, 1961) is a former American football linebacker who played three seasons with the Boston/New Orleans/Portland Breakers of the United States Football League. He played college football at Ohio State University. and at ...

(born 1961), American football player * Václav Marek (footballer) (born 1981), Czech football goalkeeper

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Christine Marek Christine Marek (born 26 January 1968) is an Austrian politician who served as state secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Labour from January 2007 to November 2010 under the Gusenbauer cabinet. Additionally, she was the first woman to serv ...

(born 1968), Austrian politician and government minister *

Czesław Marek Czesław Marek (1891–1985) was a Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher who settled in Switzerland during World War I. Life Born in the town of Przemyśl in Eastern Galicia, near Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine), Marek studied in that ci ...

(1891–1985), Polish composer *

Franz Marek Franz Marek (1913–1979) was an Austrian communist politician who edited '' Weg und Ziel'', a monthly journal of the Communist Party of Austria. British historian Eric Hobsbawm described Franz Marek as the hero of the 20th century. Early life ...

(1913–1979), Austrian communist politician *

George Richard Marek George Richard Marek (13 July 1902 – 7 January 1987) was an Austrian-born American music executive and author of biographies of classical composers. Marek was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of dentist M ...

(1902–1987), American biographer of classical composers * Jan Jindřich Marek (1803–1853), also known as Jan z Hvězdy, Czech priest and poet * Jeff Marek (born 1969), Canadian television personality and radio host *

Jiří Marek Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (30 May 1914, in Prague – 10 December 1994, in Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter.Adamovič, Ivan; NNeff, Ondřej. Slovník české literární fantastiky a science fiction. Prah ...

(1914–1994), Czech writer *

John Marek John Marek (born 24 December 1940) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham from 1983 to 2001, and the Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for Wrexham from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party until ...

(born 1940), Welsh Conservative politician *

John Marek (murderer) John Richard Marek (September 17, 1961 – August 19, 2009) was an American death row inmate at Florida State Prison for the rape and murder of a woman in 1983. Marek was executed on August 19, 2009. Kidnapping and murder On June 16, 1983, Adel ...

(1961–2009), American death row inmate at Florida State Prison *

József Marek József Marek (; March 18, 1868 – September 2, 1952) was a Hungarian veterinarian and scientist. Marek is best known for his discovery of the poultry disease that would eventually bear his name, Marek's disease. In his lifetime, Marek was kno ...

(1868–1952), Hungarian veterinarian *

Larry Marek Larry Marek (born 1940) is a Democratic politician, representing the 89th District in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2008. From Washington County, Iowa, Marek served in the Iowa National Guard for eight years. He went to the Universit ...

(born 1940), Democratic politician *

Oldřich Marek Oldřich Marek (3 April 1911–1986) was a Czechoslovak entomologist and teacher, and a member of Czechoslovak entomological society in Prague starting in 1940. Life Oldřich Marek was born on 3 April 1911 in Ústí nad Orlicí. He attended Prima ...

(1911–1986), Czech entomologist and teacher *

Richard Marek Richard Marek (June 14, 1933 – March 22, 2020) was an American writer, editor, and publisher who is best known for his novel ''Works of Genius'' that explores the odd relationships between authors and publishers in the publishing industry. Life ...

(1933–2020), American writer, editor, and publisher *

Tadek Marek Tadeusz "Tadek" Marek (1908–1982) was a Polish automobile engineer, known for his Aston Martin engines. Marek was from Kraków and studied engineering at Technische Universität Berlin before working for Fiat in Poland and also for General Mo ...

(1908–1982), Polish-British engineer * Tadeusz Marek, pen name of

Tadeusz Żakiej Tadeusz Żakiej (; 13 January 1915 – 6 October 1994) was a Polish musicologist and music publicist, as well as a food writer. He used the pen name Tadeusz Marek when writing about music and the double pen name Maria Lemnis and Henryk Vitry for ...

(1915–1994), Polish musicologist * Václav Marek (writer) (1908–1994), Czech writer, traveller, publicist and researcher of Saami languages * Victor W. Marek (born 1943), Polish mathematician and computer scientist * Voitre Marek (1919–1999), Czech-born Australian artist, brother of Dusan

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