Marx (disambiguation)

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Marx may refer to:

In politics:

• Karl Marx, German philosopher
  • Eleanor Marx, politically active daughter of Karl Marx
  • Laura Marx, daughter of Karl Marx and wife of Paul Lafargue
• Wilhelm Marx, German politician and Chancellor
• Marx Dormoy, a French socialist
• Charles Marx, doctor, political militant and minister from Luxembourg

In television and film:

• Marx Brothers, a team of sibling comedians that appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television
  • Barbara Marx wife of Zeppo Marx
  • Chico Marx, one of the Marx Brothers
  • Harpo Marx, one of the Marx Brothers
  • Groucho Marx, American comedian
  • Gummo Marx, the only Marx Brother to have served in the military
  • Minnie Marx, the mother and manager for the Marx Brothers and the sister of Al Shean
  • Zeppo Marx, Jewish American comedian
• Paul Marx, British television screenwriter
• Christy Marx, TV series writer
• Samuel Marx, MGM story editor, film producer, and author

In music:

• Jeff Marx, American composer of musicals
• Joseph Marx, Austrian composer
• Karl Marx, German composer
• Richard Marx, American pop singer
• Adolph Bernhard Marx, a nineteenth century German music critic

In geography:

• Chemnitz, a German city named Karl-Marx-Stadt from 1953 to 1990
• Karl-Marx-Allee
• Marx-Engels-Forum
• Karl-Marx-Haus
• Karl-Marx-Hof, large residential building in Vienna, Austria
• Karl Marx House Museum, the house in Trier in which Karl Marx was born
• Marx Memorial Library, a library in London
• St. Marx cemetery, cemetery in Landstraße, Vienna
• University of Leipzig, named Karl-Marx-University from 1953 to 1991

In business:

• Louis Marx, American toy maker and businessman
  • Louis Marx and Company, American toy manufacturer

In sport:

• Michael Marx, American fencer
• Thorben Marx, German footballer who currently plays for Arminia Bielefeld

In other media:

• Marx, the final boss in the game Milky Way Wishes on Kirby Super Star for the SNES
• Bernard Marx, one of the main characters in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
• Carlo Marx, a character in the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In other fields:

• Leo Marx, a professor at MIT
• Marx generator, a type of electrical circuit
• Roberto Burle Marx, a Brazilian landscape designer
• Order of Karl Marx, order in the German Democratic Republic
• 2807 Karl Marx, a small main-belt asteroid

[edit] See also

• Marxism