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Michael Gerson

Michael Gerson (1964–2022), American speechwriter and columnist; chief speechwriter to George W. Bush, credited with "axis of evil" and key role in PEPFAR; Washington Post twice-weekly columnist 2007–2022, author of Heroic Conservatism.

Michael Ghil

Michael Ghil is a climate scientist and applied mathematician, emeritus professor at UCLA and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, known as a founder of theoretical climate dynamics.

Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an Oscar-winning American composer for film, TV, and video games, known for Up, Lost, The Incredibles, Star Trek, Rogue One, and The Batman, and director of Werewolf by Night.

Michael Gier

Michael Gier (born 1967, Goldach, Switzerland) is a Swiss rower who with his brother Markus won gold in the men's lightweight double sculls at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and finished fifth at Sydney 2000.

Michaël Gillon

Michaël Gillon (born 1974 in Liège) is a Belgian astrophysicist at the University of Liège, best known for leading the discovery of the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system.

Michael Gilman

Michael Z. Gilman is a molecular biologist who studied signal transduction to the c-fos gene at Cold Spring Harbor, then led research at ARIAD and Biogen.

Michael Gilmore (microbiologist)

Michael S. Gilmore is an American microbiologist and Sir William Osler Professor at Harvard Medical School who studies how enterococci evolved into leading causes of drug-resistant hospital infection.

Michael Gira

Michael Gira (born 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and artist, founder and main songwriter of experimental rock band Swans (early 1980s New York no wave), also of Angels of Light, Body Lovers, and Young God Records.

Michael Gladis

Michael Gladis (Michael James Gladis), American actor born 1977 in Houston, Texas; best known as Paul Kinsey on Mad Men, with recurring roles in Eagleheart, Reckless, Feed the Beast, and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels; married to Beth Behrs.

Michael Glatze

Michael Glatze, American former gay-rights activist and founding editor of Young Gay America magazine, who renounced homosexuality in 2007, became an evangelical pastor in Wyoming, married Rebekah, and was portrayed by James Franco in I Am Michael (2015).

Michael Glotzer

Michael Glotzer is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Chicago since 2005, known for discovering centralspindlin and developing light-controlled TULIP protein tags.

Michael Gnant

Michael Gnant is an Austrian breast-cancer surgeon and clinical researcher, professor of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna and president of the Austrian Breast and Colorectal Cancer Study Group.

Michael Goggins

Michael G. Goggins is an Irish-trained physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins, where he directs the Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection Laboratory and leads the CAPS pancreatic cancer screening study.

Michael Goldade

Michael Goldade is an American bishop of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X, consecrated at Écône, Switzerland, in 2026 and automatically excommunicated for acting without a papal mandate.

Michael Goldman

Michael Goldman, born in Paris in 1979, is a French music producer and entrepreneur, son of singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, who co-founded My Major Company and directed Star Academy from 2022 to 2026.

Michael Goldstein

Michael Goldstein is an American doctor, attorney, and Republican politician who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Connecticut's 4th district, his third campaign for the seat.

Michael Gordon (film director)

Michael Gordon (Irving Kunin Gordon, 1909–1993), American film director of Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and Pillow Talk (1959); blacklisted in the 1950s, he returned to direct Doris Day–Rock Hudson comedies.

Michael Gough

Michael Gough (Francis Michael Gough, 1916-1917 to 2011), English character actor; Alfred Pennyworth in four Batman films, Hammer horror villain, 1979 Tony winner for Bedroom Farce.

Michael Gove

Michael Gove (born 1967, Edinburgh) is a British Conservative politician, MP for Surrey Heath 2005–2024 and now Lord Gove, whose Education Secretary academies and free-school reforms (2010–14) and multiple Cabinet posts made him one of his generation's most consequential ministers.

Michael Gow

Michael Gow is an Australian playwright and director whose 1986 play Away became one of the most frequently staged and widely studied works in Australian theater.

Michael Grady

Michael Grady (born 1996, Pittsburgh) is an American rower who won gold in the men's coxless four at the Paris 2024 Olympics, the first US win in the event since 1960, after finishing fifth at Tokyo 2020; now a University of Washington assistant coach.

Michael Graham (singer)

Mikey Graham (Michael Christopher Charles Graham, born 1972, Dublin) is an Irish singer, member of Boyzone, formed by Louis Walsh in 1993. Not the American actor, Texas Americana, or Canadian country singers of the same name.

Michael Grätzel

Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist and professor at EPFL who directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and co-invented the dye-sensitized solar cell, the Grätzel cell.

Michael Graziadei

Michael Graziadei (born 1979, Germany) is an American actor, also credited as Michael A. Graziadei, known for Daniel Romalotti Jr. on The Young and the Restless (2004–2013, 2022–) and roles in True Detective, American Horror Story, and The Lincoln Lawyer; four-time Daytime Emmy nominee.

Michael Green (British theoretical physicist)

Michael Green, full name Michael Boris Green, is a British theoretical physicist who, with John Schwarz, proved in 1984 that superstring theories are anomaly-free, launching the first superstring revolution.

Michael Green (molecular biologist)

Michael Green (1954–2023) was an American molecular biologist who co-discovered the RNA lariat and the splicing factor U2AF, and was Professor and Chair at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

Michael Green (writer)

Michael Green (writer), born 1973 in Mamaroneck, New York, is an American screenwriter and producer of Logan, Blade Runner 2049, Jungle Cruise, and co-creator of Blue Eye Samurai and American Gods.

Michael Greenstone

Michael Greenstone is an American environmental economist at the University of Chicago who helped develop the US social cost of carbon, directs EPIC, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Michael Greer

Michael Stephen Greer is a technology executive and co-founder of Pagaleve, the Brazilian fintech that lets consumers pay in installments over Pix, where he is chief technology officer.

Michael Greger

Michael Greger is an American physician and nutrition advocate who founded the nonprofit NutritionFacts.org and wrote How Not to Die, which sold over a million copies.