Marcos (given name)
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Marcos is a male given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Mark
. Markos in Greek. Marcos may refer to:
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. Markos in Greek. Marcos may refer to:
Sports
- Marcos AmbroseMarcos AmbroseMarcos Ambrose is a championship winning Australian racing car driver. He currently drives the #9 Stanley Black & Decker Ford Fusion for Richard Petty Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series...
, Australian racing driver - Marcos ArmasMarcos ArmasMarcos Rafael Armas Ruiz , better known as Marcos Armas, is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played for the Oakland Athletics .Armas was born in Puerto Píritu, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela...
, Venezuela-born American baseball player - Marcos AssunçãoMarcos AssunçãoMarcos dos Santos Assunção is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Palmeiras.A Central Midfielder, he is renowned as a world-class free kick specialist, and is best known for his spell at Real Betis, having represented teams in four different countries.-Club career:Assunção began his career at Rio...
, Brazilian football player - Marcos BaghdatisMarcos BaghdatisAt the French Open, Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 7-6, 4-6.At Wimbledon, Baghdatis defeated British player Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets. In the quarterfinals, Baghdatis beat the 2002 champion and former world no. 1...
, Cypriot tennis player and 2006 Australian Open finalist - Marcos CarvajalMarcos CarvajalMarcos Jose Carvajal [car-va-HAL] is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the St. George Roadrunners of the Golden Baseball League....
, Venezuela-born American baseball player - Marcos DanielMarcos DanielMarcos Diniz Daniel is a professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 14, 2009, when he became World No. 56...
, Brazilian tennis player - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing car driver
- Marcos Evangelista de Moraes, Brazilian football player better known as Cafu
- Marcos Martinez UchaMarcos Martinez UchaMarcos Martínez Ucha is a professional racecar driver.-Career:Martínez competed in karting events from 1998 until 2002, when he entered Spanish Formula Junior. He would stay there with moderate success for three years, moving to Spanish Formula Three in 2005 with the team Racing Engineering and...
, Spanish racing car driver - Marcos MilinkovicMarcos MilinkovicMarcos Antonio Milinković is an Argentine volleyball player. Milinković is 203 cm and weighs 100 kg.Milinković started playing the sport at age 17, a relatively late age....
, Argentine volleyball player - Marcos OndruskaMarcos OndruskaMarcos Ondruska is a former tennis player from South Africa, who turned professional in 1989. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he defeated Goran Ivanišević in the first round before falling to Norway's Christian Ruud...
, South African tennis player - Marcos PainterMarcos PainterMarcos David Painter is a footballer who is currently contracted to Brighton & Hove Albion.-Career:Born in Birmingham, Painter was brought up in the Chelmsley Wood area of Solihull and attended the Archbishop Grimshaw secondary school....
, Irish football player - Marcos PaquetáMarcos PaquetáMarcos César Dias de Castro, better known as "Marcos Paquetá", born 27 August 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the current coach of the Libya national football team...
, Brazilian football player - Marcos Roberto Silveira ReisMarcos Roberto Silveira ReisMarcos Roberto Silveira Reis , known simply as Marcos, is a Brazilian World Cup winning footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He plays for Palmeiras, of the Série A, since he started playing professional football in 1992 and has since become one of its greatest idols, being nicknamed "São Marcos"...
, a Brazilian goalkeeper from Palmeiras. - Marcos Sanchez, Ecuador-born American baseball player
- Marcos SennaMarcos SennaMarcos Antônio Senna da Silva , known as Senna, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Villarreal CF as a central midfielder.He is known for his passing range and long shooting and is also a penalty specialist.-Club career:...
, Spanish-Brazilian football player - Marcos-Antonio SerranoMarcos-Antonio SerranoMarcos Antonio Serrano Rodríguez is a professional cyclist from Pontevedra, Spain. Turning professional in 1993, he joined the Kelme team and then in 1999 the lottery-sponsored Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles...
, Spanish cyclist
Politics
- Markos DrakosMarkos DrakosMarkos Drakos was a Cypriot guerrilla fighter who was killed in the EOKA struggle against the British. His nom de guerre was Lykourgos....
, Cypriot guerrilla fighter - Marcos Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician
- Marcos MorínigoMarcos MorínigoMarcos Antonio Morínigo Fleytas was a Paraguayan politician who served as President of Paraguay in 1894.He was born in 1848 in Quyquyho . In 1887 Morinigo participated in founding the Colorado Party und was elected Vice President of Paraguay in 1890...
, Paraguayan politician and former president - Markos NatsinasMarkos NatsinasMarkos Natsinas is a former Greek politician.Born in Siatista, he grew up in Kozani, Greece. He studied law at the University of Thessaloniki and practised until he was elected as an MP for PASOK in 1977. He was elected overall three times up to 1989. He served as a vice president of the Greek...
, Greek politician - Marcos Pérez JiménezMarcos Pérez JiménezMarcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was a soldier and Presidents of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958.-Career:Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was born in Michelena, Táchira State. His father, Juan Pérez Bustamante, was a farmer; his mother, Adela Jiménez, a schoolteacher...
, Venezuelan politician - Marcos Silvo Nogales, Spanish politician
- Markos VafiadisMarkos VafiadisMarkos Vafiadis ]], Ottoman Empire, 1906 – Athens, Greece, February 23, 1992) was a leading figure of the Communist Party of Greece during the Greek Civil War.-Pre-war life:...
, leading cadre of the Communist Party of Greece
Television and film
- Marcos FerraezMarcos FerraezMarcos Antonio Humberto Ferraez IV is an American actor best known for his work on the mid-1990s television drama, Pacific Blue....
, American actor - Marcos SiegaMarcos SiegaMarcos Siega is a film, television, commercial, and music video director. He has also worked as a producer and a musician....
, American film and music director
Music
- Marcos CurielMarcos CurielMarcos Curiel is the guitarist of rock bands P.O.D., The Accident Experiment and Daylight Division.Curiel was born in San Diego California in 1974 and is of Mexican descent. He grew up in the neighboring city of Chula Vista, where he graduated from Bonita Vista High School in 1992. Curiel started...
, American guitarist and a member of P.O.D.P.O.D.Payable on Death is an American Christian metal band formed in 1992. The band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Wuv Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels. Their Christian faith is an important part of their music.They have released seven studio albums and... - Marcos Escoriza, lead vocalist of the punk rock band No Children
- Marcos Hernandez (singer), American pop singer
- Marcos MundstockMarcos MundstockMarcos Mundstock, born May 25, 1942, in Santa Fe, Argentina, is a musician, writer, comedian and former broadcaster and copywriter, most famous for being a founding member of Les Luthiers, their emcee, and writing many of their libretti and lyrics...
, Argentine classic musician - Marcos PortugalMarcos PortugalMarcos António da Fonseca Portugal was a Portuguese classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas in Italian....
, Portuguese classical composer - Marcos SuzanoMarcos SuzanoMarcos Suzano is a Brazilian percussionist, famous for playing with many Brazilian and international musicians, such as Nando Reis and Titãs. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Originally a rock fan, he experienced a carnaval bloco and became passionate about percussion thereafter...
, Brazilian percussionist - Marcos ValleMarcos ValleMarcos Kostenbader Valle is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, incidental music and fusions of American/European rock, soul and dance music with Brazilian styles.-Biography:Valle's talent was evident from...
, Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer - Markos VamvakarisMarkos VamvakarisMarkos Vamvakaris , was a rebetiko musician. He is universally referred to by rebetiko writers and fans simply by his first name, Markos...
, Greek songwriter and musician - Marcos WittMarcos WittMarcos Witt , is an American, four-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Christian singer and pastor.-Biography:Marcos Witt is the second born of three children to Jerry and Nola Witt, a young American missionary couple. The Witt family moved to Durango, México, in 1964 and they started a missionary...
, American pastor and musician
Christianity
- Marcos da Silva, Portuguese Franciscan friar and historian
- Marcos de NizaMarcos de NizaFray Marcos de Niza was a Franciscan friar. He was born in Nice , which was at that time under the control of the Italian House of Savoy....
, Spanish Franciscan friar - Marcos de Torres y RuedaMarcos de Torres y RuedaMarcos de Torres y Rueda was bishop of Yucatan , viceroy of New Spain, and president of the Audiencia of New Spain. His term as viceroy ran from May 13, 1648 to April 22, 1649...
, Spanish bishop of Yucatan and viceroy of New Spain
Literature
- Marcos Denevi, Argentine writer and journalist
- Markos GioliasMarkos GioliasMarkos Giolias is a historian and writer. He was born in Granitsa, Evrytania and is a professor at Panteios University.-References:...
, Greek historian and writer - Marcos Jiménez de la EspadaMarcos Jiménez de la EspadaMarcos Jiménez de la Espada was a Spanish zoologist, explorer and writer, born in Cartagena, Spain, although he spent most of his life in Madrid, where he died. He is known for participating in the Pacific Scientific Commission, with whom he traveled America from 1862 to 1865...
, Spanish zoologist, explorer and writer - Marcos ReyMarcos ReyEdmundo Donato was a popular Brazilian writer, whose pseudonym is Marcos Rey. He was born in São Paulo city, state of São Paulo, in 1925. His brother Mário Donato is also a writer. He started writing short stories when he was sixteen years old. His first book is a novella which is called Um Gato no...
, Brazilian writer and playwright - Markos SklivaniotisMarkos SklivaniotisMarkos Sklivaniotis is a Greek writer and a poet.He was born in Patras, Greece, 1954. He studied chemical engineering in Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki and following that he was engaged in research in the University of Leeds, UK, achieving his Ph.D. degree in 1982...
, Greek writer and a poet - Marcos ValérioMarcos ValérioMarcos Valério Fernandes de Souza is a Brazilian businessman in the field of public relations and a key figure in the mensalão scandal. He is the owner of two communications firms, DNA and SMP&B.- Early life :...
, Brazilian publicist
Other
- Markos MamalakisMarkos MamalakisMarkos Mamalakis is a Greek economist specialising in development economics, particularly in Latin America....
, Greek economist - Marcos MoshinskyMarcos MoshinskyMarcos Moshinsky was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997....
, Mexican physicist - Marcus MusurusMarcus MusurusMarcus Musurus was a Greek scholar and philosopher born in Retimo, Castello, Venetian Crete . The son of a rich merchant, he became at an early age a pupil of John Lascaris in Venice....
, Greek scholar and philosopher - Marcos PontesMarcos PontesMarco Pontes is a Brazilian Air Force pilot. He became the first Brazilian and the first Lusophone to go into space when he launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006...
, Brazilian astronaut - Marcos RestrepoMarcos RestrepoMarcos Restrepo Restrepo is a Latin American painter who is a member of the artist group Artefactoría, founded by Xavier Patiño. Artefactoría formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious...
, Ecuatorian painter - Marcos Raul Lara, Municipal Free Wireless Evangelist
- Marcos Elioterio, Baker