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Michael E. Farbiarz

Michael E. Farbiarz, also known as Michael Etan Farbiarz, is an American district judge for the District of New Jersey, nominated by President Biden and confirmed in 2023.

Michael E. Farkouh

Michael E. Farkouh is a cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and led the FREEDOM trial showing bypass surgery beats stenting for diabetic patients with multivessel disease.

Michael E. Fisher

Michael E. Fisher (1931–2021) was a British theoretical physicist best known for his work on critical phenomena and phase transitions, including the epsilon expansion and finite-size scaling theory.

Michael E. Goldberg

Michael E. Goldberg is an American neurologist and systems neuroscientist at Columbia University, known for showing how parietal cortex keeps the visual world stable during eye movements.

Michael E. Greenberg

Michael E. Greenberg is a neurobiologist, the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, known for defining how neuronal activity turns genes on to shape learning and brain development.

Michael E. Hasselmo

Michael E. Hasselmo is an American cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University, a professor there since 1998, known for combining computational models with experiments on episodic memory, acetylcholine, and grid cells.

Michael E. Mann

Michael E. Mann is an American climate scientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2022, known for the 1999 "hockey stick" temperature reconstruction showing human-caused warming.

Michael E. Matheny

Michael E. Matheny is an American physician and biomedical informatics researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Michael E. Mendelsohn

Michael E. Mendelsohn, also published as Michael Mendelsohn, is an American physician-scientist in vascular biology and cardiology known for research on estrogen and nitric oxide signaling in blood vessels.

Michael E. Phelps

Michael E. Phelps, born in 1939, is an American scientist credited with inventing the PET scanner in 1973, developing four generations of scanners, and founding CTI Molecular Imaging.

Michael E. Wechsler

Michael E. Wechsler is an American pulmonologist who directs the Cohen Family Asthma Institute and researches severe asthma and EGPA at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Michael E. Weinblatt

Michael E. Weinblatt, also known as Michael Weinblatt, is an American rheumatologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for rheumatoid arthritis drug trials.

Michael Ealy

Michael Ealy (Michael Brown, born 1973, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American actor and producer known for Barbershop, Sleeper Cell, Think Like a Man, Reasonable Doubt, and playing Malcolm X in The Greatest.

Michael Easton

Michael Easton (born 1967) is an Irish-American actor, writer, and filmmaker. Not the composer or other namesakes: played Tanner Scofield, Caleb Morley, John McBain, Silas Clay, and Hamilton Finn across Days of Our Lives, Port Charles, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.

Michael Eavis

Michael Eavis (Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis, born 1935), English Somerset dairy farmer who founded the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, in 1970; first event lost £1,500, grew to over 200,000 attendees, co-run with daughter Emily.

Michael Echols

Michael Echols is an American Republican politician who represents District 14 in the Louisiana House of Representatives and was elected House Majority Leader by the Republican Caucus in December 2025.

Michael Eddleston

Michael Eddleston is a British clinical toxicologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose research on pesticide self-poisoning in Sri Lanka led to pesticide bans and WHO recommendations.

Michael Edwards (football executive)

Michael Edwards, English football executive; Liverpool sporting director 2015-2022, then FSG CEO of Football from 2024; architect of data-led recruitment behind seven major trophies, later reported departing FSG.

Michael Ehlers

Michael D. Ehlers is an American neuroscientist and pharmaceutical executive known for work on receptor trafficking at synapses, a Duke professorship, and senior research roles at Pfizer and Biogen.

Michael Eifert

Michael Eifert is a German professional light heavyweight boxer, born in 1997 in Bautzen, best known for beating Jean Pascal in 2023 and challenging Dmitry Bivol for the world title in May 2026.

Michael Eisner

Michael Dammann Eisner (born 1942) is an American entertainment executive: ABC programmer under Barry Diller, Paramount president 1976-84, Disney chairman and CEO 1984-2005, then founder of Tornante and the intergenerational Eisner Foundation.

Michael Eklund

Michael Eklund is a Canadian film and television actor, born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, known for playing dark, often villainous roles, including the killer in The Call (2013).

Michael Elgin

Michael Elgin (Aaron Frobel), Canadian professional wrestler from Oshawa, Ontario; ROH World and IWGP Intercontinental Champion known for the Elgin Bomb powerbomb; career damaged by 2020 Speaking Out sexual assault allegations and later lawsuits and arrests.

Michael Elliott (chemist)

Michael Elliott (1924–2007) was a British chemist at Rothamsted Experimental Station who led the team that invented the major synthetic pyrethroid insecticides, including permethrin, cypermethrin, and deltamethrin.

Michael Elowitz

Michael B. Elowitz is a synthetic and systems biologist at Caltech and an HHMI Investigator, known for building the repressilator, the first synthetic biological oscillator.

Michael Elphick

Michael Elphick (Michael John Elphick, 1946–2002) was an English actor known for the ITV series Boon, EastEnders' Harry Slater, and films including The Elephant Man, Withnail and I, and The Element of Crime.

Michael Emerman

Michael Emerman is a virologist whose laboratory at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle made fundamental discoveries about how HIV interacts with the cells it infects.

Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson (born 1954, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American actor and two-time Emmy winner, known as Ben Linus on Lost, Harold Finch on Person of Interest, and Leland Townsend on Evil; a stage-trained character actor married to actress Carrie Preston.

Michael Ende

Michael Ende (Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende, 1929–1995), German fantasy and children's author of Jim Knopf, Momo and The Neverending Story; 54+ languages, 40+ million copies, son of painter Edgar Ende.

Michael Epp

Michael Epp (born 1983, Konstanz) is a German-British actor trained at HB Studio New York, known for The Beekeeper, The Brutalist, Secret Invasion, Jack Ryan, and as Hauptkommissar David Acosta in ARD's Galicien-Krimi.