Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) at Stanford University.
He studied at the University of Western Australia from where he matriculated in 1959, and graduated (with majors in mathematics and statistics) in 1964.
Karlin influenced him to pursue his research in population genetics using his computational know-how.
In 1971 he was appointed as assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford, and went back to US.
He is the author of more than 625 scientific papers and several books on evolution, ecology, and mathematical biology.