- Forrest Edward Mars Sr.
Forrest Edward Mars, Sr. was the reclusive and eccentric son of giant candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars and is best known for inventing M&M's, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's. He developed M&M's, the chocolate candy covered in a crunchy shell which "melts in your mouth, not in your hands," in 1940. They were modeled after a candy that he had discovered while in Spain during the 1930s. He was married to Audrey Mars, who died in 1989, … - Forrest Edward Mars Jr.
Forrest Edward Mars, Jr. is the son of Forrest Mars Sr. and grandson of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With his share of the company, he is worth US$10.0 billion as of 2006 and is the 46th richest person in the world, according to "Forbes". - Ed Mars
Edward M. Mars (December 4, 1866 - December 9, 1941) was a 19th century major league baseball player. He was a starting pitcher for the Syracuse Stars of the American Association for the last two months of the 1890 season. Mars led the 55-72 Stars in winning percentage (.643) with a 9-5 record. That achievement was also good for fourth-best in the entire league. He had a rather high earned run average of 4.67 but enjoyed good run support. - John Franklyn Mars
John Franklyn Mars is the son of Forrest Mars, Sr., and grandson of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With his share of the company, he is worth $10.5 billion as of 2006 and is the 27th richest person in the world, according to "Forbes". He is the current chairman of Mars, Incorporated. - Kenneth Mars
Kenneth Mars (born April 14, 1935 or 1936) is an American television, movie and voice actor, perhaps best known for his roles in several Mel Brooks films, the most memorable being the insane Nazi playwright of "Springtime for Hitler", Franz Liebkind, in 1968's "The Producers" and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's "Young Frankenstein". - Mademoiselle Mars
Mademoiselle Mars, (Anne Francoise Hyppolyte Boutet, French actress, was born in Paris, the natural daughter of the actor-author named Monvel (Jacques Marie Boutet), 1745-1812, and Mlle Mars Salvetat, an actress whose southern accent had made her Paris debut a failure. Mlle Mars began her stage career in children's parts, and by 1799, after the rehabilitation of the Comédie-Française, she and her sister (Mars aînée) joined that company, … - Franklin Clarence Mars
Franklin Clarence Mars (September 24, 1883 - 1934) was the founder of the American company Mars, Incorporated, which makes mostly chocolate candy. Mars and his son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M's. Frank Mars learned how to produce candy from his mother. In 1902, he began making candy, but all his endeavors failed until 1923 when he made the Milky Way candy bar, the chocolate coating for which came from Hershey's brand chocolate. - Chris Mars
Chris Mars (b. April 26, 1961) is an American musician. He was the drummer for seminal Minneapolis, Minnesota alternative rock band The Replacements and later joined informal supergroup Golden Smog before launching a solo career. He is a talented painter, and has more or less left music behind to concentrate on showing his artwork. - Tommy Mars
- David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for his direction of "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. - Mick Mars
Mick Mars (born Bob Alan Deal., May 4 1951 in Terre Haute, Indiana.) is the guitar player for heavy metal/glam metal band Mötley Crüe. - Florence Mars
Florence Mars (January 1 1923-April 23 2006) was a civil rights activist and author best known for her book "Witness in Philadelphia" about the murder of three civil rights activists in the U.S. state of Mississippi. - Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Mars is the daughter of Forrest Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With her share of the company, she is worth US$10.5 billion as of 2004 and is the 27th richest person in the world, according to "Forbes". She maintains a residence on Landmark Road between Dover, Virginia, and The Plains, Virginia. - Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with Mars which culminated in his most famous work. He has, due to his fascination with Mars, … - Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin is an American aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration. He was the driving force behind Mars Direct-a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. - Percival Lowell
Percival Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906-1997) was an American astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh built his first telescope and sent drawings of his observations of Jupiter and Mars to the Lowell Observatory. These resulted in a job offer. Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945. - Richard C. Hoagland
Richard C. Hoagland (born April 25, 1945) is a proponent of fringe theories on astronomical topics, as well as a number of conspiracy theories connected to the space program. His major focus is on previous advanced civilizations in the solar system, in particular on Mars and the Moon. His theories are not widely supported by mainstream astronomers. - Paul Spudis
Paul D. Spudis is an American geologist and lunar scientist. In 1976 he earned a B.S. in geology at the Arizona State University. Following his graduation he performed an internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during the Mars landing of that year. The following year he went to Brown University to study planetary geology, with a focus on the Moon. - Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14,1835 - July 4,1910) was an Italian astronomer. He studied at the University of Turin and Berlin Observatory and worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory. He observed objects in the solar system, and after observing Mars he named the "seas" and "continents". Beginning in 1877 he also believed he had observed long straight features he called "canali" in Italian, meaning "channels" but mistranslated as "canals". - Asaph Hall
Asaph Hall (October 15, 1829 - November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars (namely Deimos and Phobos) in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. Hall was born in Goshen, Connecticut. Apprenticed to a carpenter at 16, he later enrolled at the Central College in McGrawville, New York. In 1856 he married Angeline Stickney. - Kurd Lasswitz
Kurd Lasswitz was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called the father of German science fiction He sometimes used the pseudonym "Velatus". Lasswitz studied mathematics and physics at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, and earned his doctorate in 1873. He spent most of his career as a teacher at the Gymnasium Ernestinsium in Gotha. - Phil Christensen
Dr. Phil Christensen, Ph.D., is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for four instruments at Mars (2 in orbit and two more roving around on the surface of the planet). - David Gill
Sir David Gill (June 12 1843 - January 24 1914) was a Scottish astronomer born in Aberdeen who spent much of his career in South Africa. He used the parallax of Mars to determine the distance to the Sun, and also measured distances to the stars. He perfected the use of the heliometer. He was Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope from 1879 to 1906. He was a pioneer in the use of astrophotography, … - Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, KT, (November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875) was a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Angus, the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute and first exposed the younger Charles to the study of nature. Charles spent much of his childhood at the family’s other home, Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England, … - Amulius
In Roman mythology, Amulius was the brother of Numitor and son of Procas. His brother, Numitor, was the King of Alba Longa. Amulius overthrew him and took the throne. Amulius forced Rhea Silvia, Numitor's daughter, to become a Vestal Virgin, a devotee of Vesta, so that she would never bear any sons that might overthrow him. However, she was raped by the god Mars, resulting in the birth of Romulus and Remus. - Justin King
Justin King is CEO of J Sainsbury plc, parent company of the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's. King was previously Director of Food at Marks and Spencer and has held senior positions at ASDA. King was involved in the introduction of Haagen Dazs ice cream to the UK and has worked for Pepsi-Cola International and Mars. Raised in Dorridge just outside Birmingham, and schooled at Tudor Grange School in Solihull, … - Marc Hempel
Marc Hempel is an American cartoonist/comics artist best known for his work on "The Sandman" with Neil Gaiman, "Mars" and "Breathtaker" with Mark Wheatley, his own comics "Gregory" and "Tug & Buster", as well as the anthology series "Marc Hempel's Naked Brain". He has recently joined the "usual gang of idiots" at "MAD Magazine". Hempel is also a drummer. - Jens Martin Knudsen
Jens Martin Knudsen (October 12, 1930 - February 17, 2005) was an internationally renowned Danish astrophysicist, particularly well known in his home country. Born in Haurum near Aarhus, he was author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles, and a long time advisor to NASA. Originally educated as a school teacher, but in 1962 got his degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Copenhagen. - Maria Zuber
Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. She received her B.A. in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and Sc.M. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown University. - Barbie Hsu
Barbie Hsu (name also transliterated as Barbie Xu) is an actress and singer. She is most known for her role in Taiwanese dramas, especially "Meteor Garden". The first movie she appeared in was the Chinese movie "The Ghost Inside". Barbie has also appeared in the Taiwanese series "Mars". She started out her career in a duo group called "S.O.S." (Sisters of Shu) with her sister Xu Xi Di. She was recently voted Asia's sexiest vegetarian. - Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Peter Kuiper, born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (Dec 7 1905, Harenkarspel (Tuitjenhorn) - Dec 23 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch American astronomer who became a naturalized citizen of the United States and lived most of his life in his new homeland. Kuiper, the son of a tailor in a rural village in North Holland, had an early interest in astronomy. He was blessed with an extraordinarily sharp eyesight, … - William Lassell
William Lassell (June 18 1799 - October 5 1880) was a British astronomer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He made his fortune as a beer brewer, which enabled him to indulge his interest in astronomy. He built an observatory near Liverpool with a 24-inch reflector telescope, for which he pioneered the use of an equatorial mount for easy tracking of objects as the earth rotates. He ground and polished the mirror himself, using equipment he also constructed himself. - Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle (June 9, 1812 in Radis, Saxony-Anhalt - July 10, 1910 in Potsdam, Brandenburg) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (September 23, 1846). He used the calculations of Urbain Le Verrier to know where to look. - Orlando Figueroa
Dr. Orlando Figueroa a.k.a. NASA Mars Czar (born September 9, 1955 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) was Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters. Figueroa always had an interest in learning how mechanical toys functioned, as a child. During his elementary school years, he would occupy most of his time building things and looking for solutions to problems. - Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625-September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as Giandomenico Cassini, was born in Perinaldo, nearby Sanremo, at that time in the Republic of Genoa. Cassini was an astronomer at the Panzano Observatory, from 1648 to 1669. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna and became, in 1671, director of the Paris Observatory. - Pascal Lee
Pascal Lee is chairman and co-founder of the Mars Institute, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, and the Principal Investigator of NASA's Haughton-Mars Project (HMP). In conjunction with his role with HMP, he has travelled to the Arctic to conduct studies using Devon Island as a Martian analog. Lee has also participated in several planetary flyby missions. - Alvan Clark
Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the decendant of a Cape Cod whaling family, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 become involved in telescope making. Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm "Alvan Clark & Sons" ground lenses for refracting telescopes, … - James South
Sir James South (October 1785 - October 19 1867) was a British astronomer. He helped found the Astronomical Society of London, and it was under his name that a petition was successfully submitted to obtain a royal charter in 1831, whereupon it became the Royal Astronomical Society. He and John Herschel jointly produced a catalogue of 380 double stars in 1824, reobserving many of the double stars that had been discovered by William Herschel.
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