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Michael D. Ratner

Michael D. Ratner is an American entrepreneur and filmmaker, founder and CEO of OBB Media (founded 2016), co-founder of rhode with Hailey Bieber, and CEO of the Fanatics Studios joint venture launched January 2026.

Michael D. Rosenblum

Michael D. Rosenblum is an American dermatologist and immunologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on how regulatory T cells control immune responses in skin.

Michael D. Steele

Michael Dane Steele is a retired US Army colonel, 101st Airborne Rakkasan brigade commander in Iraq 2005-2006 and Ranger company commander at Mogadishu 1993, reprimanded in 2006 over Iraqi civilian deaths; not the 82nd Airborne major general.

Michael D. Taylor

Michael D. Taylor is a Canadian pediatric neurosurgeon who spent 18 years at Toronto's SickKids before moving in 2023 to Baylor College of Medicine, known for showing medulloblastoma is four distinct diseases.

Michael D. Topal

Michael D. Topal is an American researcher in mutagenesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his 1976 Nature paper on substitution mutations.

Michael D. Ward

Michael D. Ward is an American materials chemist and crystal engineer known for the electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, imaging crystal growth with atomic force microscopy, and molecular imposter inhibitors of cystine kidney stones.

Michael D. Waterfield

Michael D. Waterfield (1941–2023) was a British biochemist and cancer researcher whose 1983 Nature paper showed that retroviral oncogenes are corrupted versions of normal growth-regulatory proteins.

Michael Dabrowski

Michael Dabrowski is a computer engineer and former SpaceX software developer who co-founded Synthego, a CRISPR genome-engineering tools company, with his brother Paul in Redwood City in 2012.

Michael Damaskinos

Michael Damaskinos (Μιχαήλ Δαμασκηνός, c. 1530/35–1592/93) was a Greek painter of the Cretan School, born in Candia on Venetian-ruled Crete, who fused Byzantine icon painting with Venetian Renaissance art.

Michael Damgaard Nielsen

Michael Damgaard Nielsen, known as Michael Damgaard, is a Danish handball left back who won 2016 Olympic gold, the 2023 world title, and two Champions League titles with SC Magdeburg.

Michael Dansby (cornerback)

Michael Dansby, born 2001, Oakland CA, is an NFL cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, drafted 255th overall in 2026 after playing at San Jose State and Arizona; known as a slot corner and gunner who never officially tested.

Michael Dante

Michael Dante (born Ralph Viti, 1931) is an American actor, author, and former baseball player known for Westbound, The Naked Kiss, the title role in Winterhawk, Crazy Horse on Custer, and Maab in Star Trek's Friday's Child.

Michael Dante DiMartino

Michael Dante DiMartino, also credited as Michael DiMartino, is an American animator and writer who co-created Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra with Bryan Konietzko, later co-leading Avatar Studios and writing the Korra graphic novels.

Michael Dapaah

Michael Dapaah (born 1991) is a British comedian, actor, and creator of Big Shaq, whose 2017 parody grime freestyle "Man's Not Hot" peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.

Michael David (molecular biologist)

Michael David is an Austrian-trained molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego whose research centers on interferons and the JAK/STAT pathway.

Michael David Bordo

Michael David Bordo is a monetary historian and economist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University, known for bridging monetary history with modern econometric analysis.

Michael Davis (biomedical engineer)

Michael E. Davis is an American biomedical engineer, professor at Georgia Tech and Emory, who directs the HeRO Center and works on cardiac regeneration with biomaterials and stem cells.

Michael Dawson (footballer)

Michael Dawson (born 1983), "Daws", English centre-back for Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, and Hull City; 324 Spurs appearances, League Cup 2008, four England caps, 2010 World Cup squad, later Spurs ambassador and Sky Sports pundit.

Michael Dawson (Lost)

Michael Dawson is a fictional character on ABC's Lost, played by Harold Perrineau; a Flight 815 survivor and father of Walt who betrays the castaways, kills Ana Lucia and Libby, and dies on the freighter Kahana.

Michael De Luca

Michael De Luca (born 1965, Brooklyn) is an American film producer and studio executive, ex-New Line, DreamWorks, Sony, MGM, and Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chair (2022–2026), three-time Best Picture Oscar nominee.

Michael De Volder

Michaël De Volder is a Belgian materials engineer, professor at the University of Cambridge since 2013, known for carbon nanotube manufacturing and lithium-ion battery materials, and co-founder of Echion Technologies.

Michael Dean (molecular biologist)

Michael Dean is an American molecular biologist and human geneticist at the National Cancer Institute known for work on the cystic fibrosis gene and HIV resistance.

Michael Dearing

Michael Dearing is a venture capitalist who founded the seed-stage firm Harrison Metal in Palo Alto in 2008, known for early investments in PagerDuty and Grand Rounds Health.

Michael DeBakey

Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), born Michel Dabaghi, American cardiovascular surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine; invented the roller pump for heart-lung machines, pioneered bypass and aneurysm surgery, Dacron grafts, and MASH units, and won the Lasker Award, Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal.

Michael DeCillis

Michael DeCillis is an American politician and former NYPD officer and 9/11 first responder, who won the 2026 Democratic primary for New York's 11th Congressional District.

Michael Dell

Michael S. Dell is an American entrepreneur who founded Dell Computer in 1984 with $1,000 while a college freshman, later taking it private and buying EMC.

Michael DeLorenzo

Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959, Bronx) is an American actor, director, and musician known as Detective Eddie Torres on New York Undercover and Carlos Santiago on Resurrection Blvd., formerly a professional ballet dancer and Fame film principal dancer.

Michael Demiurgos

Michael Demiurgos is the DC Comics archangel son of The Presence, brother of Lucifer Morningstar, holder of the Dunamis Demiurgos (God's creative power); with Lucifer he formed creation, and his death in Carey's Lucifer run seeded a new universe.

Michael Denis Gale

Michael Denis Gale (1943–2009) was a British crop geneticist who defined the genetic basis of wheat dwarfism behind the green revolution and pioneered cereal genome mapping.

Michael Des Barres

Michael Des Barres (born 1948) is an English actor and glam rock singer: Silverhead and Detective frontman, Power Station touring vocalist in 1985, co-writer of Animotion's "Obsession", and Murdoc on MacGyver.