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Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane

Michael Edward Adeane, Baron Adeane (1910–1984) was a British courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1954 to 1972, made a life peer in 1972.

Michael Aizenman

Michael Aizenman, born 1945 in Russia, is the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton, known for rigorous results on disorder and phase transitions.

Michael Akam

Michael Akam (born 1952) is an evolutionary developmental biologist and Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Cambridge whose 1989 review showed that insect and vertebrate Hox gene clusters are homologous.

Michael Alfonso (Wisconsin politician)

Michael Alfonso is an American Republican politician and the 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District, which his father-in-law Sean Duffy once held.

Michael Alig

Michael Alig was a New York nightclub promoter and leader of the 1990s Club Kids scene; he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 1996 killing of Angel Melendez, served 17 years, and died in 2020.

Michael Allman

Michael Allman (born 1966) is an American blues and Southern rock singer, eldest son of Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band; albums Blues Travels Fast, Hard Labor Creek, Creature of Habit; leads the Michael Allman Band.

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (Михаил Богданович Барклай-де-Толли) was a Russian field marshal and war minister who directed the 1812 retreat from Napoleon and commanded Russo-Prussian forces in 1813.

Michael Andreeff

Michael Andreeff is a physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who studies how leukemia cells evade programmed cell death, and is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.

Michael Andretti

Michael Andretti (born 1962), American racer, son of Mario Andretti; 1991 CART champion with Newman-Haas, 13 GPs for McLaren in 1993, then founded Andretti Global and stepped back in 2024.

Michael Andrew

Michael Andrew (born 1999, Edina, Minnesota) is an American sprint swimmer, Tokyo 2020 gold medalist in the 4x100m medley relay (world record 3:26.78), youngest US swimmer to turn pro at 14, USRPT-trained by father Peter Andrew.

Michael Andrew Fischbach

Michael A. Fischbach is the Liu Family Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he directs the Microbiome Therapies Initiative and co-founded Revolution Medicines and Azalea.

Michael Angarano

Michael Angarano, full name Michael Anthony Angarano, is an American actor and director born in 1987, a child star of Almost Famous and Sky High who earned an Emmy nomination for This Is Us.

Michael Angelis

Michael Angelis (1944-2020) was an English actor, Chrissie Todd in Boys from the Blackstuff, Lucien in The Liver Birds, and the longest-running narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (1992-2012), succeeding Ringo Starr.

Michael Angelo

Michael Angelo is an American board-certified pathologist and associate professor of pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for developing the MIBI-TOF multiplexed tissue imaging platform.

Michael Angelo Batio

Michael Angelo Batio (MAB), American shred guitarist of Holland and Nitro, creator of the Speed Kills DVDs, inventor of the Double Guitar and Quad Guitar, solo artist behind No Boundaries, now with Manowar.

Michael Angelo Covino

Michael Angelo Covino (born 1984) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer, director of The Climb (Cannes 2019 Coup de Coeur) and Splitsville (2025), co-written with Kyle Marvin.

Michael Ansara

Michael George Ansara (1922–2013) was a Syrian-born American actor best known as Cochise in Broken Arrow and the Klingon Kang in three Star Trek series.

Michael Ansara filmography

Michael Ansara filmography: credits of the Syrian/Lebanese-born American actor (1922–2013), known as Cochise in Broken Arrow, Kang in three Star Trek series, Kane in Buck Rogers, and the voice of Mr. Freeze.

Michael Anthony (musician)

Michael Anthony (born Michael Anthony Sobolewski, 1954) is an American bassist and backing vocalist, a member of Van Halen 1974 to the mid-2000s, later Chickenfoot and Sammy Hagar & the Circle, inducted into the Rock Hall in 2007.

Michael Anthony Zingale

Michael Anthony Zingale is an American computational astrophysicist at Stony Brook University who models thermonuclear burning in white dwarfs and neutron stars, and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Michael Antonius

Michael Antonius (born 2010, New York City) is an American right-handed tennis player, ITF junior No. 4, 2026 Roland Garros boys' singles finalist, and two-time ITF pro titlist with an ATP career high of No. 622.

Michael Appleton

Michael Antony Appleton (born 1975, Salford) is an English football coach and former player, manager of Oxford, Lincoln, Blackpool, Charlton, and Shrewsbury; known for Oxford's League One promotion and two EFL Trophy finals.

Michael Apted

Michael Apted (1941–2021) was a British director of the Up documentary series, which he researched on Seven Up! (1964) and directed from 7 Plus Seven (1970) through 63 Up (2019); also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, and the Bond film The World Is Not Enough, and was DGA president 2003–2009.

Michael Arden

Michael Arden (Michael Jerrod Moore, born 1982, Midland, Texas) is an American Broadway director and former actor; three-time Tony winner for Parade, Maybe Happy Ending, and The Lost Boys, husband of Andy Mientus.

Michael Aris

Michael Vaillancourt Aris (1946–1999), British Tibetologist and foremost Western authority on Bhutan, husband of Aung San Suu Kyi; author of Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom and founder figure of Tibetan studies at Oxford.

Michael Armand Hammer

Michael Armand Hammer was an American businessman, grandson of Armand Hammer, who managed his estate and foundations and was the father of actor Armie Hammer.

Michael Armbrust

Michael Armbrust: American computer scientist, Databricks Distinguished Software Engineer, UC Berkeley PhD 2013. Lead developer of Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, and original creator of Delta Lake.

Michael Armitage

Michael Armitage (born 1984, Nairobi) is a Kenyan British painter known for oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth that combine East African subjects with European art history.

Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt (born 1965), also credited as Michael deBruyn or Rick Kerb, is an American screenwriter who won the 2007 Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, wrote Toy Story 3, and drafted The Force Awakens and Hunger Games films.

Michael Arougheti

Michael Arougheti is an American investment executive and CEO of Ares Management, which he joined in 2004 to build its private credit business, now managing over $671 billion.