What is "marek"

Marek is a Czech, Polish and Slovak given name, the equivalent of Mark in English.

Some people with the given name Marek:

• Marek Kukula, British Astronomer, Public Astronomer for Greenwhich Observatory.
• Marek Deska, Polish pitcher and Leon's inventory.
• Marek Bílek, Czech discus thrower
• Marek Borowski, Polish politician, the former leader of Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej and the former Speaker of the Sejm
• Marek Edelman, Jewish-Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, and the longest living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist, the initiator and spokesperson of the NA61 Shine Experiment
• Marek Grechuta, Polish musician and songwriter.
• Marek Kaleta, Estonian javelin thrower
• Marek Kolbowicz, Polish rower
• Marek Krawczyk, Polish breaststroke swimmer
• Marek Rosa, Slovak video game producer and designer
• Marek Svatos, Retired Slovakian NHL hockey player
• Marek Židlický, Czech ice hockey player (NHL)
• Stanke Dimitrov, known under the pseudonym "Marek", Bulgarian communist

Several footballers bear the given name Marek:

• Marek Čech, Slovak footballer
• Marek Čech, Czech footballer
• Marek Heinz, Czech football striker
• Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer
• Marek Jankulovski, Czech football left-back of Macedonian origin
• Marek Saganowski, Polish football player

Marek is the surname of:

• Czesław Marek (1891–1985), Polish composer
• George Richard Marek (1902–1987), American biographer of classical composers
• Jan Marek (born 1947), American ice hockey player
• Jan Marek (1979–2011), Czech ice hockey player
• Jeff Marek (born 1969), Canadian television personality and radio host
• Jiří Marek (1914–1994), Czech writer
• Josef Marek (born 1987), Czech footballer
• József Marek (1868–1952), Hungarian veterinarian
• Marcus Marek (born 1961), American football player
• Paul E. Marek, Czech-Canadian blogger
• Richard Marek (born 1933), American writer
• Tadek Marek (1908–1982), Polish-British engineer
• Tadeusz Marek, pen name of Tadeusz Żakiej (1915–1994), Polish musicologist
• Václav Marek (born 1981), Czech footballer

Marek may be an eleventh-century bishop of Płock, Poland. He was mentioned by the chronicler Jan Długosz.

Historian Wojciech Kętrzyński considered him as non-historical person, like his allegedly predecessors mentioned by Długosz. Historical of Marek was still doubted by historians. If he was a bishop of Płock, he was bishop since ca. 1075, where the diocese was erected.

According to Jan Długosz, he died on 8 August 1087. We do not know which was base for this information.