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Michael Holm

Michael Holm, born Lothar Bernhard Walter in 1943, is a German Schlager singer, composer, and producer whose "Tränen lügen nicht" topped the German charts in 1974.

Michael Hooper (rugby union)

Michael Hooper (born 1991) is an Australian rugby union openside flanker, Wallaby number 859 and record 69-time captain, a four-time John Eales Medal winner who later played for Toyota Verblitz in Japan Rugby League One.

Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), English stage, film, television and radio actor; famed for King Lear, Prospero, Jacob Marley in Scrooge, narrating Barry Lyndon and voicing Paddington Bear; CBE 1972, knighted 1983.

Michael Horne (American physicist)

Michael Horne (1943–2019) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1969 CHSH inequality, which made quantum entanglement testable in the laboratory, and the GHZ state, while teaching at Stonehill College.

Michael Horse

Michael Horse, American actor born 1949 or 1951, played Deputy Hawk in Twin Peaks (1990-91, 2017), Tonto in The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and is an award-winning Yaqui jeweler and ledger artist.

Michael Houghton

Michael Houghton (born 1949) is a British virologist who led the discovery of the hepatitis C virus and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Michael Houser

Michael "Mikey" Houser (1962–2002), American guitarist, singer, and co-founder of Widespread Panic in Athens, Georgia; namesake of the band via his "Panic" nickname; died of pancreatic cancer after final show July 2, 2002; solo albums Door Harp and Sandbox.

Michael Howard

Michael Howard, born Michael Hecht and now Lord Howard of Lympne, is a British Conservative politician who served as Home Secretary from 1993 to 1997 and led the party from 2003 to 2005.

Michael Howe (North Dakota politician)

Michael Howe is an American Republican politician who has served as North Dakota's 15th Secretary of State since 2023, after six years as a state representative from District 22.

Michael Huffington

Michael Huffington (born 1947, Dallas) is a Republican former U.S. representative from California (1993-1995) and Texas oil heir who spent a record $27.5 million of his own money losing the 1994 Senate race to Dianne Feinstein.

Michael Hunter (American boxer)

Michael Hunter Jr. (born 1988) is an American professional heavyweight boxer from Las Vegas, nicknamed "The Bounty", who boxed for the United States at the 2012 London Olympics.

Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey, known as Mike Hussey or "Mr Cricket", is a former Australian cricketer who played 79 Tests as a left-handed batter from 2004 to 2013.

Michael Hutchence

Michael Hutchence (1960–1997), Australian singer, songwriter, and actor, lead singer and lyricist of rock band INXS from 1977; Kick (1987) sold millions; died in Sydney in November 1997; posthumous solo album 1999.

Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt (Charlene Hyatt), British-born Jamaican-descent actress (born 1970, Birmingham), known as Brianna Barksdale on The Wire, Cissy Saint on Snowfall (2017-2023), and Dr. Akopian on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; Howard University and NYU Tisch trained, daughter of actor Charles Hyatt.

Michael I Apafi

Michael I Apafi (Apafi Mihály, 1632–1690) was Prince of Transylvania from 1661 until his death, the principality's longest-reigning prince, ruling nearly three decades as an Ottoman vassal.

Michael I Kiroularios

Michael I Kiroularios, also Michael Cerularius (Greek: Μιχαήλ Κηρουλάριος), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1043 to 1058, a central figure in the 1054 rupture with Rome.

Michael I of Romania

Michael I (Mihai I, 1921-2017), last king of Romania, reigned 1927-1930 under a regency and 1940-1947; led the 23 August 1944 coup against Antonescu, was forced to abdicate by communists on 30 December 1947, lived in exile, and returned to Romania in 1997.

Michael I. Bird

Michael I. Bird, also published as Michael Bird, is an isotope geochemist and Distinguished Professor at James Cook University's Cairns campus, known for the pyrogenic carbon cycle.

Michael I. Coates

Michael I. Coates is a vertebrate paleontologist who chairs Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and is known for describing Acanthostega gunnari.

Michael I. Cohen

Michael I. Cohen is an American-born, British-dual-citizen former hedge fund executive who headed European investing at Och-Ziff Capital Management and was charged by the SEC in 2017.

Michael I. Jordan

Michael I. Jordan, born in 1956, is an American machine learning and statistics researcher, a longtime UC Berkeley professor now working at Inria in Paris.

Michael I. Posner

Michael I. Posner, also known as Michael Posner, is an American cognitive neuroscientist and University of Oregon professor emeritus known for the attention network model and the Posner cueing paradigm.

Michael Ian Black

Michael Ian Black (born 1971), American actor, comedian, and writer; co-founder of MTV's The State, member of Stella, star of Ed and Wet Hot American Summer, author of 11 books and several podcasts.

Michael Ibba

Michael Ibba is a molecular microbiologist known for his work on transfer RNA biology and translational quality control, and the provost of Chapman University since 2025.

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Grant Ignatieff (born 1947, Toronto) is a Canadian historian, writer, and former politician who led the Liberal Party of Canada and the Official Opposition 2008–2011, lost the 2011 election, and later led Central European University.

Michael II the Kourkouas

Michael II the Kourkouas, also known as Michael Oxeites, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1143 to 1146, resigning voluntarily to return to monastic life.

Michael III of Anchialos

Michael III of Anchialos (Μιχαήλ ὁ τοῦ Ἀγχιάλου) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1170 to 1178, a Byzantine theologian who led the church under Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Michael Imperioli

Michael Imperioli (James Michael Imperioli), American actor born 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York; Emmy-winning Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, Spider in Goodfellas, Dominic in The White Lotus, also writer, director, and Zopa frontman.

Michael Ingravallo

Michael Ingravallo was an American restaurateur who opened Mike's Giant Size Submarine Shop in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, in 1956, the origin of Jersey Mike's Subs.

Michael Inouye

Michael Inouye is a computational geneticist known for polygenic scores and the Polygenic Score Catalog; he is Munz Chair at the Baker Institute in Melbourne and a professor at Cambridge.