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Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)
Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 14-minute 1983 American horror-musical short film directed by John Landis, starring Michael Jackson and Ola Ray as a couple menaced by dancing zombies.
Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White, American actor, director, and martial artist; star of Spawn (1997) and Black Dynamite (2009); first African American to play a major comic book superhero on film; black belts in seven karate styles.
Michael Jakosits
Michael Jakosits (Michael Georg Jakosits), German running-target sports shooter born 1970; Olympic gold 1992 Barcelona (673 pts), fifth 2004; world team gold 2002; son of Olympian Tibor Jakosits.
Michael James (quilt artist)
Michael James (born 1949, New Bedford, Massachusetts), also Michael F. James, is an American studio quilt artist and author of The Quiltmaker's Handbook who helped establish the art quilt movement, taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and returned to painting in 2024.
Michael James (technology executive)
Michael James is a semiconductor engineer who co-founded Cerebras Systems in 2015 and serves as Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies, after earlier co-founding SeaMicro, sold to AMD in 2012.
Michael James Denham White
Michael James Denham White (1910–1983) was a British-born zoologist and geneticist, a leading figure in animal cytogenetics and foundation professor of genetics at the University of Melbourne.
Michael James Manfra
Michael James Manfra is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Purdue University known for the 2020 observation of anyonic braiding statistics and ultra-clean gallium arsenide devices.
Michael James Mankosa
Michael James Mankosa is a minerals-processing engineer and Executive Vice President of Global Technology at Eriez, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for advanced separation technologies.
Michael Jayston
Michael Jayston (born Michael James, 1935–2024) was an English stage and screen actor, known as Tsar Nicholas II in Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter Guillam in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and the Valeyard in Doctor Who.
Michael Jenkins (trader)
Michael Jenkins is an American trader who co-founded Jane Street, the New York quantitative trading firm, in 2000, and is known for large donations to Bronx politics.
Michael Jeremy Todd
Michael Jeremy Todd is a Cornell operations researcher known for algorithms in linear and convex programming, including interior-point methods; he shared the 2003 John von Neumann Theory Prize.
Michael Jerome Yaszemski
Michael Jerome Yaszemski is an American orthopedic spine surgeon and biomedical engineer at the Mayo Clinic who directs its Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory and is a retired Air Force brigadier general.
Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter (1952–2003) was an American character actor from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, who won a 1990 Tony for Grand Hotel and a 1992 Emmy for Evening Shade, and played Mr. Noodle's brother on Sesame Street.
Michael Jewett
Michael C. Jewett is an American synthetic biologist and Stanford bioengineering professor known for cell-free synthetic biology, after leading Northwestern's Center for Synthetic Biology from 2015 to 2022.
Michael John Bevan
Michael John Bevan, born in 1945, is a cellular immunologist known for discovering positive selection of T cells in the thymus and cross-priming, and a University of Washington professor.
Michael Johnson (astrophysicist)
Michael Johnson is a Smithsonian astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics who co-led the Event Horizon Telescope imaging of black holes and won the 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Michael Johnson (fighter)
Michael 'The Menace' Johnson (born 1986, St. Louis) is an American UFC lightweight, TUF 12 Team GSP finalist, pro record 24-20-0, known for KO of Poirier and losses to Khabib and Gaethje.
Michael Johnson (South Carolina politician)
Michael Johnson is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from District 16, earlier elected to the York County Council in 2012.
Michael Johnson (sprinter)
Michael Johnson (born 1967, Dallas) is an American sprinter, the first man to win the Olympic 200m and 400m at one Games (Atlanta 1996, 19.32 WR), four-time Olympic and eight-time World champion, later BBC pundit and Grand Slam Track founder.
Michael Jones (actor)
Michael Vincent Jones (born 1987) is an American actor and internet personality, fourth main host of Rooster Teeth's Achievement Hunter, creator of Rage Quit, voice of Sun Wukong in RWBY, Max in Camp Camp, and Zach in Lazer Team.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan (born 1963), American basketball legend, six NBA titles and Finals MVPs with the Chicago Bulls, highest career scoring average (30.1 ppg), later Hornets owner and 23XI Racing co-owner.
Michael Julian Black
Michael Julian Black is a computer vision scientist known for optical flow and the SMPL 3D human body model, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Michael Jung
Michael Jung (born 1982, Bad Soden am Taunus), German eventing rider nicknamed Michi or The Terminator; only rider with three individual Olympic eventing golds (2012, 2016, 2024), five individual world titles, and European championships on Sam FBW and fischerChipmunk FRH.
Michael K. Gilson
Michael K. Gilson is a computational chemist, Professor and Chair in Computer-Aided Drug Design at UC San Diego since 2010, known for creating BindingDB and the Mining Minima method.
Michael K. Gould
Michael K. Gould is an American pulmonologist and health services researcher at Kaiser Permanente in California, known for his 2014 New England Journal of Medicine review of low-dose CT lung-cancer screening.
Michael K. Loose
Michael K. Loose, known as Mike Loose, is a retired US Navy vice admiral and civil engineer who commanded NAVFAC and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
Michael K. Mansour
Michael K. Mansour is an infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on how the immune system recognizes fungal pathogens and for a 2020 tocilizumab Covid-19 trial.
Michael K. Schwartz
Michael K. Schwartz is an American conservation geneticist who directs the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation at the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana.
Michael K. Sinnett
Michael K. Sinnett is an American aerospace engineer and Boeing executive who served as vice president and chief project engineer of the 787 Dreamliner and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Michael K. Williams
Michael K. Williams (Michael Kenneth Williams, 1966–2021) was an American actor from Brooklyn, famed as Omar Little on The Wire and Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, a five-time Emmy nominee and ACLU activist who died of an accidental fentanyl-laced heroin overdose in 2021.