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Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson, born 1958, is an American academic, Baptist minister, and author of more than twenty books on race and politics, known as the "Hip-Hop Intellectual."

Michael Essien

Michael Essien, Ghanaian midfielder born 1982 in Accra, 'The Bison': Lyon and Chelsea star, £24.4m 2005 transfer, 2012 Champions League winner, 59 Ghana caps, later coach at FC Nordsjælland.

Michael Ettenberg

Michael Ettenberg is an optoelectronics engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering for advances in practical, reliable semiconductor lasers, developed at RCA Laboratories and the Sarnoff Corporation.

Michael Evans Behling

Michael Evans Behling (born 1996) is an American actor from Columbus, Indiana, best known as Jordan Baker on The CW's All American (2018-2026, 127 episodes), with credits on Empire, Grey's Anatomy, and A Cinderella Story: Starstruck.

Michael Evenari

Michael Evenari, born Walter Schwarz (1904–1989), was an Israeli botanist who reconstructed ancient Nabataean runoff farms in the Negev Desert and won the 1988 Balzan Prize.

Michael F. Chiang

Michael F. Chiang is an American pediatric ophthalmologist and clinical informatician who has directed the National Eye Institute since 2020 and is known for telemedicine and deep learning diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity.

Michael F. Doherty

Michael F. Doherty is an American chemical engineer at UC Santa Barbara known for distillation design and crystal shape prediction, and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Michael F. Drummond

Michael F. Drummond is a health economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of York's Centre for Health Economics, known for economic evaluation of health care treatments.

Michael F. Fleming

Michael F. Fleming is an American physician-scientist in family medicine and addiction medicine, known for research on screening and brief intervention for unhealthy alcohol and opioid use in primary care.

Michael F. Good

Michael F. Good is an Australian immunologist known for malaria and Strep A vaccine research whose candidate vaccines have entered clinical trials, and Director of QIMR from 2000.

Michael F. Greene

Michael F. Greene is an American obstetrician and professor at Harvard Medical School who served as Chief of Obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and as a New England Journal of Medicine editor.

Michael F. Hammer

Michael F. Hammer is an American population geneticist at the University of Arizona whose lab used Y chromosome variation to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens.

Michael F. Hochella

Michael F. Hochella, also known as M. F. Hochella, is an American Earth scientist who helped establish nanogeoscience and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Michael F. Holick

Michael F. Holick is an American endocrinologist and vitamin D researcher, professor of medicine at Boston University who chaired the Endocrine Society's 2011 vitamin D guidelines.

Michael F. Lappert

Michael F. Lappert (1928–2014) was a British inorganic chemist, born in Brno, who fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and pioneered low-valent main-group chemistry at Sussex.

Michael F. Leitzmann

Michael F. Leitzmann is a German cancer epidemiologist who researched physical activity, body size, and diet in relation to cancer at the National Cancer Institute and the University of Regensburg.

Michael F. Rubner

Michael F. Rubner is a materials scientist and TDK Professor Emeritus at MIT known for layer-by-layer assembly of water-based polymer coatings, including anti-fogging and anti-reflection films.

Michael F. Summers

Michael F. Summers is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist at UMBC known for structural studies of retroviral RNA genome packaging and the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.

Michael F. Thomashow

Michael F. Thomashow is an American plant biologist at Michigan State University who discovered the CBF cold-response pathway, the first freezing-tolerance pathway described in plants.

Michael F. Toney

Michael F. Toney is an American electrochemist known for using synchrotron X-ray methods to study battery interfaces, and a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2020.

Michael F. Urbanski

Michael F. Urbanski is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Virginia, appointed by President Obama in 2011.

Michael Fabricant

Michael Fabricant (born 1950) is a British Conservative politician, MP for Mid Staffordshire 1992-1997 and Lichfield 1997-2024, a Government Whip, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, and Shadow Trade Minister, knighted in Johnson's resignation honors and defeated in 2024.

Michael Fallon

Sir Michael Fallon (born 1952) is a British Conservative politician, MP for Darlington 1983-92 and Sevenoaks 1997-2019, and UK Defence Secretary 2014-2017 under Cameron and May; he resigned in November 2017 during the Westminster harassment allegations.

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was an English physicist and chemist at the Royal Institution in London who discovered electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and benzene.

Michael Faraday Medal and Prize

The Michael Faraday Medal and Prize, formerly the Guthrie Medal and Prize, is a gold medal awarded by the Institute of Physics for contributions to experimental physics.

Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer

Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer, known as Lord Farmer, is a British metals trader nicknamed "Mr Copper" who co-founded Red Kite and sits in the House of Lords.

Michael Farzan

Michael Farzan is a virologist and immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital who identified ACE2 as the SARS coronavirus receptor and developed the HIV entry inhibitor eCD4-Ig.

Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor born 1977 in Heidelberg and raised in Killarney, Ireland; known as Bobby Sands in Hunger, Magneto in X-Men, and Steve Jobs; two Oscar nominations, Volpi Cup winner, married to Alicia Vikander.

Michael Fassbender filmography

Michael Fassbender filmography: the German-Irish actor's screen credits from 300 (2006) through Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, the X-Men Magneto role, and his 2020s return with The Killer, Black Bag, and Hope.

Michael Fekete

Michael Fekete, born Mihály Fekete (1886–1957), was a Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician who founded mathematical research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is known for Fekete points and the transfinite diameter.