List of Famous people named Mack
Mack Brown
William Mack Brown is an American college football coach. He is currently in his second stint as the head football coach for the University of North Carolina, where he first coached from 1988 until departing in 1997 to become head coach for the University of Texas. He was recently a college football commentator for ESPN. In January 2018, Brown was selected to enter the College Football Hall of Fame. In November 2018, Brown took the vacant job at North Carolina, replacing Larry Fedora.
Mack Horton
Mackenzie "Mack" Horton is an Australian freestyle swimmer. He is an Olympic gold medallist, World Championships medallist, and Commonwealth Games medallist. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he finished first in the 400m freestyle, winning his first gold medal and became the first male swimmer from the state of Victoria to do so in the Games' history.
Mack Beggs
Mack Beggs is an American high school wrestler from Euless, Texas. Beggs is a trans man, meaning he was assigned female at birth. State athletic rules only allowed him to compete in the league for his assigned sex. In 2017, he defeated Chelsea Sanchez in the girls' league to win the Texas girls' 110 lb championship. In 2018, he won the second consecutive state title, defeating Chelsea Sanchez again. In 2019, Beggs was featured in the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary short film Mack Wrestles and as part of the feature-length documentary Changing the Game.
Mack Hollins
Mack Hollins is an American football wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Carolina, and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times in 11 years, including five consecutive years between 1940 and 1944, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know". That song has proved among his most enduring, and remains popular in films and television commercials to this day. "At Last" is another of his best-known songs.
Mack Mattingly
Mack Francis Mattingly is an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a United States senator from Georgia, the first Republican to have served in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
Mack Wilberg
Mack J. Wilberg is an American composer, arranger, conductor, and choral clinician who has served as music director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (Choir) since 2008.
Mack Maine
Jermaine Anthony Preyan, better known by his stage name Mack Maine, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. Mack Maine has been the president of Young Money Entertainment since 2009, and has founded his own label, Soothe Your Soul Records. In addition, Preyan has also been credited for co-writing singles such as "How to Love" and "Got Money" by Lil Wayne, and "So Sophisticated" by Rick Ross.
Mack McLarty
Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, III is an American business and political leader who served as President Bill Clinton's first White House Chief of Staff from 1993 to June 1994, and subsequently as Counselor to the President and Special Envoy for the Americas, before leaving government service in June 1998.