Yeah .... the Winchester 1886 was the Hercules of lever rifles in its day, and it is still a fantasmagoricaly strong action. It's junior brother, the 1892 is also a titan in pistol caliber sized cartridges.
Now, Marlin is a very very strong action and in any caliber it is provided in, will do very well. Winchester lovers who remember that brand as "the rifle that won the west" (an apellation applied really to the 1873) might use that as a indice to claim it has a better pedigree than Marlin, but the truth is Marlin was back there too and had better stronger rifles than the Winchester and earlier. In fact, that's why Winchester bought the 1886 from John Moses Browning.
There were also other historical leverguns, the Spencer, the Kennedy Repeater, and even Colt's Burgess 1883 in limited numbers.
Today the strongest levers are the 1886, the various centerfire Marlins, a Mossberg copy of the Winchester 1894, the Henry Rifles which load from the front, are all good.
There are repros, usually by Uberti, of the true original Henry, the Winchester 1866, 1873, and 1876, and Burgess, which are used by Western reenactors and use specialty cartridges like .44-40 which are less potent than .44 magnum, and harder to find. Other calibers like that may be .38-40, .32-20, .25-20 that you might find. Theses are historically correct calibers, but are hard to locate, and if you're not into the reenact or style shooting, are probably not going to be what you would want.
Modern leverguns that fire .44 mag will fire 44 special, while .357 magnum will handle .38 special comfortably.
And .30-30, .45-70, and a few other rifle calibers will do if you want their greater power.