{{Short description|American businessman (born 1953)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Mark Lerner | image = Mark Lerner 2019.jpg | caption = Lerner in 2019 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1953|9}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Managing principal owner of Washington Nationals & {{nowrap|Lerner Enterprises}} | alma_mater = B.B.A. George Washington University | spouse = Judy Lenkin | children = | parents = Ted and Annette Lerner | awards = 2019 World Series Champion | website = }}
'''Mark Lerner''' (born September 1953)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hansen |first=Drew |date=August 18, 2017 |title=Mark Lerner recovering from cancer |work=Washington Business Journal |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/08/18/mark-lerner-recovering-from-cancer.html |quote=Lerner, 63, told The Washington Post in a letter he is now cancer-free. |url-access=subscription}}</ref> is an American businessman who is the principal owner of Major League Baseball's (MLB) Washington Nationals and the managing owner of the real estate firm Lerner Enterprises.<ref name="Post">{{Cite news |last=Svrluga |first=Barry |date=June 14, 2018 |title=Nationals owner Ted Lerner, 92, to cede control of club to his son, Mark |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-owner-ted-lerner-92-to-cede-control-of-club-to-son-mark/2018/06/14/3902cb24-6f80-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615124144/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-owner-ted-lerner-92-to-cede-control-of-club-to-son-mark/2018/06/14/3902cb24-6f80-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?utm_term=.a28beaa9b1a7 |archive-date=June 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lerner Family Biographies |url=http://www.lerner.com/newsArchives/natsLernerFamily.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506214136/http://www.lerner.com/newsArchives/natsLernerFamily.html |archive-date=May 6, 2017 |access-date=November 21, 2012 |publisher=Lerner Enterprises}}</ref>
==Early life== Lerner is the son of Annette and Ted Lerner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Irene and Abe Pollin Humanitarian Award |url=https://www.benderjccgw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LernerFamilyBio.pdf |access-date=October 29, 2019 |website=Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191029100018/https://www.benderjccgw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LernerFamilyBio.pdf |archive-date=October 29, 2019}}</ref> He graduated from the George Washington University School of Business with a BBA in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Briahnna |title=Washington Nationals Owner Discusses Baseball's Future |url=https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/washington-nationals-owner-discusses-baseball%E2%80%99s-future |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=September 23, 2019 |website=GW Today}}</ref>
==Sports ownership== thumb|upright=.7 | left | alt=Lerner family stands when acknowledged (Mark is waving) | Lerner family stands when acknowledged (Mark is waving) In 2006, Lerner's father purchased the Washington Nationals from MLB for $450 million.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 3, 2006 |title=Lerner selected as new Nationals owner |work=ESPN |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2432187}}</ref> In 2018, his father retired and he stepped into the managing principal owner position.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Reddington |first=Patrick |date=June 14, 2018 |title=Washington Nationals: Mark D. Lerner Named Nationals' Managing Principal Owner... |publisher=SB Nation |work=Federal Baseball |url=https://www.federalbaseball.com/2018/6/14/17463446/washington-nationals-mark-d-lerner-named-nationals-managing-principal-owner |access-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Post" />
==Personal life== He is married to Judy Lenkin.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Heath |first1=Thomas |last2=Nakamura |first2=David |title=After 17 Months, Baseball Introduces Nats' Owners |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050301121.html |access-date=April 2, 2026 |work=The Washington Post |date=May 4, 2006}}</ref> In January 2017, Lerner learned he had spindle cell sarcoma above his left knee. After wounds related to radiation did not heal properly, his left leg was amputated in April of the same year.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruiz |first=Nathan |date=August 18, 2017 |title=Lerner has leg amputated, now cancer free |work=MLB.com |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/mark-lerner-has-leg-amputated-free-of-cancer-c249171190 |access-date=September 26, 2019}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * 2019 World Series Champion (as owner of the Washington Nationals)
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