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Michael Brandon
Michael Brandon (born Michael Feldman, 1945, Brooklyn) is an American actor known for Dempsey and Makepeace, Jerry Springer: The Opera (Olivier nomination), and narrating Thomas & Friends.
Michael Brantley
Michael Brantley (Michael Charles Brantley, born 1987) is a retired MLB outfielder and DH; five-time All-Star who hit .298 over 15 seasons with Cleveland (Dr. Smooth) and Houston (Uncle Mike), son of Mickey Brantley.
Michael Brecht
Michael Brecht (born 1967) is a German cellular and systems neuroscientist, professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2006, known for single-neuron recording in rats, hide-and-seek experiments, and elephant neurobiology.
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker (1949–2007), American jazz tenor saxophonist from Philadelphia; member of Dreams, Brecker Brothers, and Steps Ahead; pioneered the EWI; 15 Grammy wins from 28 nominations; over 700–900 session recordings; final album Pilgrimage (2007).
Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan is the name of two athletes: an American pro golfer born in 2002, a Wake Forest graduate with three PGA Tour wins including the 2026 Wyndham Championship, and an Australian field hockey midfielder born in 1975 who won Olympic bronze in 2000 and gold in 2004.
Michael Brennan (golfer)
Michael Brennan, American pro golfer from Leesburg, Virginia, Wake Forest graduate, won the 2025 Bank of Utah Championship, 2026 Wyndham Championship, and 2026 Baycurrent Classic on the PGA Tour.
Michael Bretthauer
Michael Bretthauer is a Norwegian gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at the University of Oslo, lead principal investigator of the NordICC trial, the first randomized trial of colonoscopy screening.
Michael Brooks (political commentator)
Michael Brooks (1983–2020), host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report with Sam Seder, was an American progressive commentator and author of Against the Web, a critique of the Intellectual Dark Web; he died suddenly in July 2020 at 37.
Michael Brownlee
Michael Brownlee is a diabetes researcher and Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for his 2001 Nature paper unifying how high blood sugar damages blood vessels.
Michael Brownstein
Michael J. Brownstein is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for research on neuropeptides and hormone receptors, for directing high-throughput gene-cloning programs at the NIH, and for co-founding Azevan Pharmaceuticals.
Michael Bruce (musician)
Michael Bruce (born 1948, Phoenix, Arizona) is the American rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and chief songwriter of the original Alice Cooper band, co-writer of "I'm Eighteen" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy", a 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and member of the 2025 reunion album The Revenge of Alice Cooper. Distinct from the Scottish composer Michael Bruce.
Michael Bruce Ross
Michael Bruce Ross (1959–2005) was an American serial killer convicted of raping and murdering four women in eastern Connecticut, executed in 2005 after waiving his appeals.
Michael Brunner
Michael Brunner is a professor at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center since 2000, known for work on the Neurospora crassa circadian clock and earlier on mitochondrial protein import.
Michael Bruno
Michael Bruno (1932–1996) was an Israeli economist who helped design Israel's 1985 Economic Stabilization Program, served as Governor of the Bank of Israel, and was Chief Economist of the World Bank.
Michael Bublé
Michael Bublé (born 1975, Burnaby, British Columbia) is a Canadian crooner of Great American Songbook standards and pop originals; 75 million albums, 5 Grammys, the 2011 Christmas album, and The Voice coach from 2024.
Michael Bublé (album)
Michael Bublé is the 2003 major-label debut studio album by Canadian singer Michael Bublé, produced by David Foster. Mixing swing standards with pop covers, it topped the Australian chart.
Michael Buffer
Michael Buffer (born 1944, Philadelphia) is an American boxing and pro wrestling ring announcer whose trademarked catchphrase "Let's get ready to rumble" (registered 1992) made him the voice of major fights; half-brother of UFC announcer Bruce Buffer.
Michael Burnham
Fictional Starfleet officer and central protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024), played by Sonequa Martin-Green; a human raised on Vulcan by Sarek, adoptive sister of Spock, who rises from Season 1 disgrace to captain.
Michael Burrows (computer scientist)
Michael Burrows is a computer scientist who co-authored the 1994 Burrows–Wheeler transform, helped create the AltaVista search engine, and designed Google's Chubby lock service as a Distinguished Engineer.
Michael Burry
Michael Burry is an American investor and founder of Scion Capital, known for shorting subprime mortgages from 2005 to 2007 with a reported 489 percent gain for investors.
Michael Buscemi
Michael Buscemi (born 1960, Brooklyn) is an American actor, writer, and director, younger brother of Steve Buscemi; known for Trees Lounge, BlacKkKlansman, Nurse Jackie as God, and Park Bench.
Michael Bustin
Michael Bustin (1937–2025) was a Romanian-born molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who pioneered antibody-based studies of chromatin structure and discovered new HMGN nucleosome-binding protein variants.
Michael Buszczak
Michael Buszczak is a molecular biologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies how stem cells keep their identity using fruit flies.
Michael Byrne (actor)
Michael Byrne (1943–2026), British character actor; played Colonel Ernst Vogel in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, elderly Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Peter Guillam in Smiley's People, and Ted Page in Coronation Street.
Michael ByungJu Kim
Michael ByungJu Kim (김병주) is a Korean-born American private equity investor who founded MBK Partners in 2005 after leading Carlyle Asia Partners, and is ranked second on Forbes' 2026 Korea rich list.
Michael C. Bassik
Michael C. Bassik is an American geneticist and Associate Professor of Genetics at Stanford University whose lab develops CRISPR and RNAi libraries for genome-wide screens.
Michael C. Coniglio
Michael C. Coniglio is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, who studies severe mesoscale convective systems and derechos.
Michael C. Crair
Michael C. Crair is an American developmental neuroscientist at Yale University, where he is William Ziegler III Professor of Neuroscience and Vice Provost for Research.
Michael C. Hall
Michael C. Hall (Michael Carlyle Hall), American actor born 1971 in Raleigh, North Carolina, known for Six Feet Under's David Fisher and Dexter Morgan, plus Broadway roles, Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, and 2010 Golden Globe and SAG wins.
Michael C. Heinrich
Michael C. Heinrich is an American medical oncologist and professor at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, known for identifying PDGFRA mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumor and leading trials of tyrosine kinase inhibitors.