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Michael Detmar
Michael Detmar (born 1957) is a German dermatologist, professor of pharmacogenomics at ETH Zurich since 2004, known for establishing tumor lymphangiogenesis as a mechanism of cancer spread.
Michael Dewayne Smith
Michael Dewayne Smith was an American man from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, convicted in 2003 of murdering Janet Moore and Sarath Pulluru and executed by Oklahoma on April 4, 2024.
Michael Diamond (immunologist)
Michael S. Diamond is an American virologist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for research on Zika, alphaviruses, and COVID-19 mouse models.
Michael Dickinson (biophysicist)
Michael Dickinson is the Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at Caltech, known for research on insect flight aerodynamics and neurobiology using fruit flies.
Michael Diller
Michael Diller was a German Augustinian prior who became evangelical preacher of Speyer and later court preacher in the Palatinate, co-authoring its 1556 church order before his death in 1570.
Michael Dine
Michael Dine is an American theoretical particle physicist at UC Santa Cruz, known for the invisible axion, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and work on string theory and cosmology.
Michael Disco
Michael Disco (born 1963) is an American film producer and executive, President of Film and Television at AGBO, formerly New Line Cinema EVP of Production and founder of The Disco Factory; credits include Game Night, San Andreas, and The Flash.
Michael Doebeli
Michael Doebeli is a Canadian-based mathematical evolutionary biologist, a professor of zoology and mathematics at the University of British Columbia, known for his work on sympatric speciation.
Michael Doherty (rheumatologist)
Michael Doherty is a British rheumatologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham, known for landmark osteoarthritis papers and a 2018 Lancet trial of nurse-led gout care.
Michael Dokes
Michael "Dynamite" Dokes (1958-2012), American heavyweight boxer from Akron, Ohio; WBA heavyweight champion 1982-1983, winning the title via a disputed 63-second TKO of Mike Weaver and losing it to Gerrie Coetzee.
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn (born 1952, Luling, Texas) is an American actor best known as the Klingon Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, four films, and Picard, plus voice roles like Battle Beast in Invincible.
Michael Dorrell
Michael Dorrell, also known as Mike Dorrell, is an Australian-born investor who co-founded Stonepeak, an infrastructure investment firm, in 2011 and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Michael Doudoroff
Michael Doudoroff (1911–1975) was a Russian-born American microbiologist and UC Berkeley professor who co-discovered the Entner–Doudoroff pathway, a major route of glucose degradation in bacteria.
Michael Dougherty
Michael Dougherty is the American filmmaker behind Trick 'r Treat, Krampus, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, creator of the Halloween character Sam, and co-writer of X-Men 2 and Superman Returns. Distinct from composer Michael Daugherty.
Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born 1944), American actor and producer, son of Kirk Douglas; Oscar-winning producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Best Actor winner as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Ideas Mirrour and the long chorographical poem Poly-Olbion.
Michael Duane Zack III
Michael Duane Zack III (born 1968) was a Florida death-row inmate convicted of the 1996 murders of Ravonne Smith and Laura Rosillo; executed by lethal injection October 3, 2023.
Michael Dudikoff
Michael Dudikoff, American actor born 1954 in Redondo Beach, California, star of Cannon Films' American Ninja (1985) as Joe Armstrong, also Bachelor Party, Platoon Leader, Cobra; no martial arts training before casting; now restores old homes.
Michael Duff (theoretical physicist)
Michael James Duff is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who coined the term p-brane and whose work on supergravity and duality helped lay the groundwork for M-theory.
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born 1933) is a Greek-American Democrat, three-term governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee defeated by George H. W. Bush; later a Northeastern professor and Boston Global Forum chairman.
Michael Dummett
Michael Dummett (1925–2011) was a British philosopher, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford from 1979 to 1992, known for his work on Frege and anti-realism.
Michael Dunlop
Michael Dunlop MBE (born 1989, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland) is a road racer and the most successful Isle of Man TT rider ever, with 36 wins, having passed uncle Joey Dunlop's record of 26 in 2024.
Michael Dunn (actor)
Michael Dunn (Gary Neil Miller, 1934–1973), American actor and singer with dwarfism (chondrodystrophy); Tony-nominated for Ballad of the Sad Café, Oscar-nominated for Ship of Fools, and Dr. Miguelito Loveless on The Wild Wild West.
Michael Durach
Michael Durach is a German family-business executive who has led Develey Senf & Feinkost, Germany's largest mustard supplier, since 1999, and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019.
Michael Durant
Michael J. Durant (born 1961), American Army Night Stalker pilot, MH-60 Super Six Four, shot down October 3, 1993 at Mogadishu, held 11 days by Aidid forces, later author and Pinnacle Solutions CEO.
Michael Durocher
Michael Alan Durocher (born 1960) was a Florida serial killer who murdered five people, 1983-1988, including his girlfriend Grace Reed and her two children; he waived appeals and was executed by electric chair on August 25, 1993.
Michael Dursch
Michael Dürsch (born 1957, Herrsching am Ammersee) is a West German rower, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold medalist in the men's quadruple sculls with Hedderich, Hörmann, and Wiedenmann, and 1983 world champion; later an insurance agent in Ingelheim.
Michael Durso
Michael Durso is an American Republican politician and member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 9th district in Nassau and Suffolk counties since 2020.
Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown, born 1965, is an American planetary astronomer at Caltech best known for discovering Eris and other large Kuiper belt objects, which led to Pluto's 2006 reclassification.
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew is an American health economist, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission since 2020, known for research on payment reform.