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Michael Hage

Michael Hage (born 2006) is a Canadian center from Mississauga, Ontario, drafted 21st overall in 2024 by the Montreal Canadiens, who plays college hockey at Michigan after starring for the USHL's Chicago Steel.

Michael Hallek

Michael Hallek (born 1959) is a German hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Cologne who specializes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and founded the German CLL Study Group.

Michael Halliday

M.A.K. Halliday (1925–2018), British-Australian linguist born in Leeds, founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics; PhD Cambridge 1955 under J.R. Firth; professor at Sydney 1976–1987; author of Introduction to Functional Grammar.

Michael Hampsey

Michael Hampsey is a molecular biologist who works on the genetics of transcription by RNA polymerase II in baker's yeast, known for SUA7, Ssu72, and gene loops.

Michael Hancock (Colorado politician)

Michael B. Hancock, Denver Democrat and 45th mayor (2011-2023), served three term-limited terms, launched Peak Performance, backed the 2012 camping ban and housing fund, and left amid policing and homelessness controversies.

Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke (born 1942, Munich) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter of austere European art cinema, director of Funny Games, Caché, The White Ribbon, and Amour, twice winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or.

Michael Harney

Michael Harney (Michael J. Harney) is an American character actor from the Bronx, trained in the Meisner tradition, known for Sam Healy in Orange Is the New Black, Detective Mike Roberts in NYPD Blue, Deadwood, and Project Blue Book. Distinct from the Harney & Sons tea master Michael D. Harney.

Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington (1928-1989), American democratic socialist writer from St. Louis, author of The Other America (1962), founder of DSOC and the Democratic Socialists of America in 1982.

Michael Harris (mathematician)

Michael Harris is an American number theorist and Columbia University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, known for work on the Langlands program.

Michael Harris (music executive)

Michael "Harry-O" Harris is an American music executive who co-founded Death Row Records through Godfather Entertainment from prison, served 33 years for drug trafficking and attempted murder, received Trump clemency in 2021, and now leads the re-formed label; distinct from UMG Nashville's Mike Harris.

Michael Hastings (journalist)

Michael Hastings, also known as Michael Mahon Hastings, was an American journalist and war correspondent whose 2010 Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal ended the general's Afghanistan command.

Michael Hatzakis

Michael Hatzakis (1927/28–February 3, 2023) was a Greek-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow who pioneered electron-beam lithography, introduced PMMA resist, and later directed the Institute of Microelectronics in Athens.

Michael Häusser

Michael Häusser is a neuroscientist who studies how single neurons and their dendrites perform computations, and has been Professor of Neuroscience at University College London since 2001.

Michael Hawkins Jr.

Michael Hawkins Jr., Dallas, Texas quarterback; Oklahoma 2024-25, first OU true freshman QB to win road debut (Auburn 2024); transferred to West Virginia January 2026 with brother Maliek; dual-threat starter in 2026.

Michael Hayden (general)

Michael Hayden (born 1945) is a retired U.S. Air Force four-star general who directed the NSA (1999-2005), was the first Principal Deputy DNI, and led the CIA (2006-2009) under Bush and Obama.

Michael Hayes (wrestler)

Michael Hayes (Michael Seitz, born 1959) is an American retired wrestler, founder of the Fabulous Freebirds, creator of the Freebird Rule, NWA US Champion, Dok Hendrix, and longtime WWE producer.

Michael Hector

Michael Hector (born 1992, Newham, England) is a Jamaican defender; Reading and Chelsea player with 15 loans, later Fulham; 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup finalist with Jamaica.

Michael Heidelberger

Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991) was an American immunologist and organic chemist, often called the father of modern immunology, who showed with Oswald Avery in 1923 that pneumococcal antigens are polysaccharides.

Michael Helding

Michael Helding, known as Sidonius, was a German Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop of Mainz, and last Catholic bishop of Merseburg who co-drafted the Augsburg Interim.

Michael Hendryx

Michael Hendryx is an American environmental health researcher and Indiana University professor emeritus whose studies since 2006 link mountaintop removal coal mining to disease and death in Appalachian communities.

Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine, Baron Heseltine of Thenford, is a British Conservative politician and publisher who resigned as Defence Secretary in 1986 and served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1997.

Michael Hilgers

Michael Hilgers (born 1966, Mönchengladbach) is a German field hockey forward, 162-time international, Olympic silver 1988 with West Germany and gold 1992 with Germany, scoring both goals in the 2-1 final over Australia; later Hockeypark CEO and concert promoter.

Michael Hill (activist)

Michael Hill (J. Michael Hill, born 1951) is an American white nationalist, co-founder and president of the League of the South (founded 1994 as the Southern League), a former Stillman College history professor found liable in the Sines v. Kessler Charlottesville conspiracy case.

Michael Hiller

Michael Hiller is a German computational biologist who has been Professor of Comparative Genomics at Senckenberg and Goethe University Frankfurt since 2020, known for forward genomics.

Michael Hintze

Michael Hintze is a British financier, born in China and raised in Australia, who founded the London credit hedge fund CQS in 1999 and now runs Deltroit Asset Management.

Michael Hirst (writer)

Michael Hirst (born 1952, Bradford, England) is an English screenwriter and producer of Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Tudors, and Vikings, which he wrote entirely alone without a writers' room.

Michael Hitchcock

Michael Hitchcock (born 1958, Defiance, Ohio) is an American comedic actor, writer, and producer: Groundlings alumnus, Hamilton Swan in Best in Show, MADtv and Glee writer-producer, now in The Lowdown and Nobody Wants This. Not the film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Michael Hofreiter

Michael Hofreiter is a German evolutionary geneticist, professor of Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics at the University of Potsdam, known for ancient DNA work on mammoths, Neanderthals, and extinct elephants.

Michael Hogan (Canadian actor)

Michael Hogan (born 1949, Kirkland Lake, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, Genie Award winner, and husband of actress Susan Hogan, known as Colonel Saul Tigh in Battlestar Galactica and as the voice of General Tullius in Skyrim and Doc Mitchell in Fallout: New Vegas; he suffered a serious brain injury in a 2020 fall.

Michael Holding

Michael Holding (born 1954), "Whispering Death," Jamaican West Indies fast bowler 1975-1987; 249 Test wickets at 23.68, record 14/149 at The Oval 1976, 1979 World Cup winner, later ESPNcricinfo commentator.