Markus Werner was a Swiss writer, known as the author of the novels Zündels Abgang, Am Hang, and Die kalte Schulter.

Markus Zusak is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels which became international bestsellers. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2014.

Marla Frazee is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. She has received two Caldecott Honors for picture book illustration.

Marlen Haushofer was an Austrian author, most famous for her novel The Wall (1963).

Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Marlene Perez is an American fiction writer for pre-teens and teens.

Marlene Streeruwitz is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer.

Marlo Morgan is an American author, best known for the bestselling book Mutant Message Down Under. She has also written Message from Forever (1998), another novel based on Australian Aboriginal themes. In 1996, she was confronted about the veracity of her book by Aboriginal protesters and stated that she never meant to hurt any of the people described in her book, whom she also stated that she loved.

Marlon James is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing.