Marko Gerbec (24 October 1658 – 9 March 1718; Latinized: Marcus Gerbezius) was a Carniolan physician and scientist, notable as the founder of modern medicine among the Slovenes and for the first description of Adams–Stokes syndrome.

[1] Marko Gerbec was born in Šentvid pri Stični (then part of the Duchy of Carniola, now in Slovenia) to the family of a serf.

Just a few days before the arrival of the Ottoman Army at Vienna in 1683, he left the city for Padua.

In 1712, he also founded the first scholarly society of physicians and surgeons in Carniola, named the College of Saints Cosmas and Damian (Slovenized: bratovščina sv.

As member of the nobilis forolensis, Gerbec is described on a memorial tablet at Padua.