Mark Johnson may refer to:

Entertainment

Mark Johnson (musician) Mark Johnson (born May 20, 1955) is an American banjoist credited with creating a style of five string banjo playing called Clawgrass, which incorporates bluegrass and clawhammer banjo styles as well as bluegrass guitar styles and bluegrass ensemb ...

(born 1955), American banjoist *

Mark Johnson (producer) Mark Johnson (born December 27, 1945) is an American producer. Johnson won the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the 1988 film ''Rain Man''. Early life Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Dorothy (née King), a realtor, ...

(born 1945), American film producer *

Mark Steven Johnson Mark Steven Johnson (born October 30, 1964) is an American filmmaker. Life and career Johnson began his career writing the Warner Bros. films '' Grumpy Old Men'' and its sequel ''Grumpier Old Men''. Johnson wrote and directed two comic book bas ...

(born 1964), American film director and writer *Mark Johnson, played officer Luke Everett in '' In the Heat of the Night'' *Mark Johnson, creator of the multimedia music project

Playing For Change Playing For Change is a multimedia music project, featuring musicians and singers from across the globe, co-founded in 2002 by American Grammy award-winning music producer/engineer and award-winning film director Mark Johnson and film producer/ph ...

Politics

Mark Johnson (North Carolina politician) Mark Johnson is an American attorney and politician who served as North Carolina's Superintendent of Public Instruction for one term. A Republican, he was first elected in 2016, narrowly defeating incumbent June Atkinson. Prior to his election ...

(active from 2016), American attorney, educator, and politician *

Mark Johnson (Oregon politician) Mark Johnson (born in 1957 in Parkdale, Oregon) is an American politician and a Republican Party (United States), Republican former member of the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 52 from 2011 until 2017. Education Johnson a ...

(born 1957), American politician *

Mark Johnson (Minnesota politician) Mark Johnson is an American lawyer, politician, and member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, Johnson represents parts of Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau counties in northwestern Minnesota. He previously served as ...

, American lawyer, businessman and member of the Minnesota Senate *

Mark Johnson (Ohio politician) Mark Johnson is an American politician who is an Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it ...

, Ohio state representative

Sports

Baseball

Mark Johnson (baseball coach) Mark Johnson is a Hall of Fame College Baseball Coach who coached the Texas A&M Aggies baseball team from 1985 to 2005 and Sam Houston State from 2007 to 2011. Johnson led the Aggies to the NCAA playoffs 13 times, College World Series appearance ...

, Texas A&M Aggies, Sam Houston State Bearkats *

Mark Johnson (catcher) Mark Landon Johnson (born September 12, 1975) is a former professional baseball player, a catcher who played with several major league teams, but primarily with the Chicago White Sox. In 2011, he retired as a player and became a minor league ...

(born 1975), former professional baseball catcher * Mark Johnson (first baseman) (born 1967), former professional baseball first baseman *

Mark Johnson (pitcher) Mark J. Johnson (born May 2, 1975) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. Johnson played for the Detroit Tigers in . He is currently the pitching coach for the Erie SeaWolves. Career A native of Dayton, Ohio, Johnson attended Spri ...

(born 1975), former Major League Baseball pitcher * Mark Johnson (umpire) (1950–2016), professional baseball umpire

Other sports

* Mark Johnson (announcer) (born 1966), British horse racing announcer * Mark Johnson (basketball), American basketball coach *

Mark Johnson (boxer) Marcellus Joseph Johnson (born August 13, 1971), better known as Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006. He is a three-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the IBF fly ...

(born 1971), American boxer *

Mark Johnson (cricketer, born 1963) Mark Rickland Johnson (born 28 October 1963) is a Jamaican born American former cricketer. A left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper,

, American cricketer *

Mark Johnson (Yorkshire cricketer) Mark Johnson (born 23 April 1958, Gleadless, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is a former English first-class cricketer, who played four first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1981. A right arm fast bowler and right-handed batsm ...

(born 1958), former English first-class cricketer *

Mark Johnson (curler) Mark Johnson (born September 6, 1958, in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American-Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. He is a former World Senior Curling Champion. Career Johnson has curled competitively in both Canada and the United States. ...

(born 1958), American-Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta *

Mark Johnson (footballer) Mark 'MJ' Johnson (born 23 May 1978) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Johnson is commonly known as "M ...

(born 1978), Australian rules footballer *

Mark Johnson (golfer) Mark William "Beer Man" Johnson (born May 22, 1954) is an American professional golfer who plays on the Champions Tour. Johnson was born in Barstow, California. He decided to forgo college and turned pro directly out of high school in 1972; he ...

(born 1954), American professional golfer *

Mark Johnson (ice hockey) Mark Einar Johnson (born September 22, 1957) is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games betwe ...

(born 1957), American gold medal winner at 1980 Winter Olympics *

Mark Johnson (rugby league) Mark Johnson (born 28 February 1969) is a South African former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who represented South Africa in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. Playing career Johnson originally played rugby union in South ...

(born 1969), South African wing *

Mark Johnson (wrestler) Mark Johnson is a former Olympic wrestler and two time NCAA All-American. He was the head coach at Oregon State University (1990–1992) and the University of Illinois (1992–2009), compiling a career record of 223-48-5 (.817). He has the most ...

, American former Greco-Roman wrestler and coach *

Mark "Slick" Johnson Mark Eric "Slick" Johnson is an American professional wrestling referee, best known for working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Career World Championship Wrestling Johnson gained national expos ...

, professional wrestling referee

Other

Mark Johnson (philosopher) Mark L. Johnson (born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is known for contributions to embodied philosophy, cognitive science an ...

(born 1949), philosophy professor *

Mark H. Johnson Mark Henry Johnson (born 1960) . . is a British cognitive neuroscientist who, since October 2017, has been Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Assoc ...

, developmental neuroscience professor * Mark W. Johnson, co-founder of Innosight * Mark A. Johnson, American physical chemist *Mark Johnson, chief meteorologist for