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Michael Arthur Moore

Michael Arthur Moore is a British theoretical physicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, a Royal Society Fellow known for the droplet scaling theory of spin glasses.

Michael Artiaga

Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga (born 2007) is an American classic Tetris player, three-time CTWC champion (2020, 2021, 2026), youngest Tetris world champion at 13, and first player to reach NES Tetris's level-255 rebirth.

Michael Artin

Michael Artin, born in 1934, is an American mathematician at MIT who helped found modern algebraic geometry with Grothendieck and won the National Medal of Science.

Michael Aschbacher

Michael George Aschbacher, born 1944 in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American mathematician at Caltech whose work was central to the classification of finite simple groups.

Michael Ashburner

Michael Ashburner (1942–2023) was a British geneticist and bioinformatician at the University of Cambridge who studied gene regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila and built FlyBase, helped found the EMBL-EBI, and created the Gene Ontology.

Michael Ashcroft

Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a Belize-based financier and life peer who built his fortune on the security group ADT and became a major Conservative Party donor.

Michael Aspel

Michael Aspel (Michael Terence Aspel) is an English retired television presenter and newsreader, born in London in 1933, whose programs included This Is Your Life and Antiques Roadshow.

Michael Athans

Michael Athans, born Michael Athanassiades, was a Greek-born control engineer and longtime MIT professor who helped shape modern control theory, multivariable control system design, and robust control.

Michael Atherton

Michael Atherton, also known as Mike Atherton, is an English former cricketer who opened the batting for Lancashire and England and captained England in 54 Tests from 1993 to 1998.

Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British mathematician known for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and topological K-theory, who won the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

Michael Attaleiates

Michael Attaleiates (Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης) was an 11th-century Byzantine judge, senator, and historian in Constantinople, whose History covering 1034 to 1079/80 is a major source for the eleventh-century crisis.

Michael Attenborough

Michael Attenborough (born 1950), English theatre director, son of Richard Attenborough; Principal Associate Director of the RSC (1990-2002) and Artistic Director of London's Almeida Theatre (2002-2013), CBE 2013.

Michael Augustine Corrigan

Michael Augustine Corrigan (1839–1902) was an American Catholic prelate, the third archbishop of New York from 1885 to 1902, who built parochial schools and opposed the liberal Americanist party.

Michael Avenatti

Michael Avenatti, American lawyer famous as Stormy Daniels' attorney against Trump, later convicted of Nike extortion, wire fraud, and client theft; disbarred in California, imprisoned with scheduled release September 8, 2028.

Michael B Reiser

Michael B Reiser is a systems neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, where since 2007 his lab has studied visual motion and color processing in fruit flies.

Michael B. A. Oldstone

Michael B. A. Oldstone (1932–2023) was an American virologist and immunologist who spent his career at Scripps Research, pioneering viral pathogenesis through LCMV studies and molecular mimicry.

Michael B. Atkins

Michael B. Atkins is an American medical oncologist treating melanoma and kidney cancer, deputy director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and a leader in cancer immunotherapy.

Michael B. Brennan

Michael Brian Brennan, born in 1963 in Milwaukee, is a U.S. circuit judge on the Seventh Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Trump and serving as chief judge since 2025.

Michael B. Brenner

Michael B. Brenner is an immunologist and rheumatologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for discovering γδ T cells and the CD1 antigen presentation system.

Michael B. Devereux

Michael B. Devereux is an economist and professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, known for work on exchange rates and optimal monetary policy.

Michael B. Hall

Michael B. Hall is an American theoretical and computational inorganic chemist who joined Texas A&M University in 1975 and is known for the Fenske-Hall molecular orbital method.

Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan (Michael Bakari Jordan), American actor, producer, and director born 1987 in Santa Ana, California; known for The Wire, Fruitvale Station, the Creed series, Black Panther, and his 2026 Best Actor Oscar for Sinners.

Michael B. Kastan

Michael B. Kastan is an American cancer biologist who defined the DNA damage response pathway and its p53 and ATM signaling, and led the Duke Cancer Institute.

Michael B. Mathews

Michael B. Mathews is an American molecular biologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School known for discovering adenovirus VA RNAs and for work on translational control.

Michael B. McElroy

Michael B. McElroy (1939–2026) was an Irish-born American atmospheric scientist at Harvard who explained the Antarctic ozone hole, founded the Harvard-China Project in 1993, and studied China's path to carbon neutrality.

Michael B. Miller

Michael B. Miller is an American cognitive neuroscientist and professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for split-brain research showing a small intact section of the corpus callosum can unify consciousness.

Michael B. O’Connor

Michael B. O'Connor is a developmental geneticist at the University of Minnesota known for his work on TGFβ and BMP signaling and steroid hormone biology in Drosophila.

Michael B. Sporn

Michael B. Sporn (1933–2022) was an American cancer pharmacologist who coined "chemoprevention" in 1976, led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Chemoprevention, and developed synthetic triterpenoid drugs at Dartmouth.

Michael B. Yaffe

Michael B. Yaffe is a physician-scientist at MIT, a professor since 2000, known for work on phospho-motif signaling and the DNA damage response in cancer cells.

Michael Baden

Michael Baden (born 1934) is an American forensic pathologist, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, chairman of the JFK assassinations Forensic Pathology Panel, HBO Autopsy host, and expert in cases including Simpson, Brown, and Epstein.