William Mulford Martin was born on June 29, 1813, in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey.

He was a clergyman and educator. He attended the College of New Jersey, now Princeton (1833-1836), and graduated from the University of New York (B.A., 1837, M.A., 1840). He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary (1839-1841). He was the founder and first principal of the New York Classical and Mathematical College School at Brooklyn (1838-1848). He also served as principal of the Athenian Academy at Rahway, N.J. (1848-1852). He was ordained by the presbytery of Brooklyn in 1852 and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Woodbridge, N.J. (1852-1863). He served during the Civil War as a chaplain under the auspices of the Christian Commission. While being a missionary of the Home Missionary Society, N.Y. (1864-1867), he built the churches at Columbia, California, Virginia, and Nevada. He was also a secretary of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association (1868-1876). He was a professor of Christian work at the Brooklyn Lay College (1876-1878) and was connected with the Brooklyn Society for the Benefit of the Poor.

In 1836, he married Ann Elizabeth Parmenter (1819–1885). He died on September 4, 1898, in San Francisco, California.

Simeon Jameson Martin was born April 18, 1904, Waterloo, Quebec. He was educated at Westmount High School and then at McGill University's Faculty of Arts, 1921-1922. He later graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1928. He did postgraduate studies in surgery in Edinburgh and worked as an assistant surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital. He served as the officer in charge of the surgical division of the No. 1. Canadian General Hospital during World War I. He returned to Canada in 1943 and was appointed director of the Tumor Clinic at the Montreal General Hospital on September 1, 1943. He served as a demonstrator in pathology, anatomy, and surgery at McGill University.

Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006.