Mǎ Wénshēng 馬文升 (1426–1510), zì Fùtú 負圖, posthumous Duānsù 端肅, was a senior Míng official from Jūnzhōu 均州 (modern Hu-běi). He passed the jìnshì in Jǐngtài xīnwèi 景泰辛未 (1451) and rose through frontier-defence and personnel-administration posts to the Bīngbù shàngshū 兵部尚書 in 1492 and Lǐbù shàngshū 吏部尚書 in 1502 (under the Hóngzhì emperor). He served on the northwestern and southwestern frontiers — including a long tenure as Xúnfǔ Liáodōng and Zǒngdū cáoyùn in the Chénghuà period — and served four reigns from Jǐngtài through Hóngzhì into early Zhèngdé. Together with Wáng Shù 王恕 and Liú Dàxià 劉大夏 he made up the Hóngzhì sān jūnzǐ 弘治三君子 (Three Worthies of the Hóngzhì Reign).
Mǎ was attacked in the Chénghuà period by Wāng Zhí’s faction and again by Lǐ Zīshěng 李孜省, and could not fully implement his policies until his late-life rehabilitation under Hóngzhì. His enduring achievements include the reorganization of the Jiǔbiān 九邊 frontier defence system, the Liáodōng governorship reforms, and the foundational Hóngzhì-era personnel-evaluation system as Lǐbù shàngshū.
His memorials are preserved in the KR2f0019 Duānsù zòuyì 端肅奏議 in 12 juàn (55 pieces), edited by his grandson Mǎ Tiānyòu 馬天祐 in Jiājìng dīngwèi 嘉靖丁未 (1547). Míng shǐ j. 182 has his biography. CBDB id 33862; lifedates 1426–1510 confirmed by both catalog meta and CBDB.