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Michael Kahn (film editor)

Michael Kahn is an American film editor who has edited Steven Spielberg's films since Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), winning three Oscars for Best Film Editing.

Michael Kaliner

Michael Kaliner is an American allergist who directed the Allergic Diseases Section at NIH and founded the Institute for Asthma & Allergy in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Michael Kamen

Michael Kamen (1948–2003), American composer and Juilliard-trained oboist, scored Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Robin Hood, and Band of Brothers, co-wrote Bryan Adams hits, and founded the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation.

Michael Kane (actor)

Michael Kane (1922–2007), born Michael Edward Desmond Keane in Montreal, was a Canadian actor in Lonely Are the Brave, The Bedford Incident, Three Days of the Condor, and The Collaborators; distinct from the American screenwriter Michael Kane (1922–2020).

Michael Karas

Michael Karas (born 1952) is a German physical chemist at Goethe University Frankfurt who, as a postdoc with Franz Hillenkamp, co-discovered MALDI, making mass spectrometry of proteins routine.

Michael Karin

Michael Karin is a molecular biologist who discovered the IKK-NF-κB and JNK-AP-1 signaling pathways, spent nearly 40 years at UC San Diego, and joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2025.

Michael Karoli

Michael "Miki" Karoli (1948-2001) was a German guitarist and violinist, founding member of the krautrock band Can; later built Outer Space Studio in France and recorded Deluge with Polly Eltes.

Michael Kasha

Michael Kasha (1920–2013) was a Ukrainian-American chemical physicist and photochemist at Florida State University, best known for the Kasha rule in molecular photophysics and the triplet-state origin of phosphorescence.

Michael Kasprowicz

Michael Kasprowicz (born 1972, South Brisbane) is a former Australian fast bowler, 38 Tests and 113 wickets at 32.88, Queensland's all-time leading wicket-taker, famous for the Edgbaston 2005 dismissal, later Queensland Cricket interim CEO.

Michael Katz (American pediatrician)

Michael Katz is an American pediatrician and public-health physician who chaired Columbia University's Department of Pediatrics for 16 years and later served the March of Dimes Foundation.

Michael Katz (Delaware politician)

Michael Katz is an American physician and Republican politician who won Delaware's 2026 GOP primary for U.S. Senate on September 15 and will face Senator Chris Coons in November.

Michael Kay (sports broadcaster)

Michael Kay (born 1961) is the Emmy-winning lead TV play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees on YES Network since 2002, after ten years on WABC radio with John Sterling, and host of ESPN New York's Michael Kay Show and the KayRod Cast.

Michael Keane (footballer, born 1993)

Michael Vincent Keane (born 1993, Stockport) is an English centre-back for Everton, ex-Manchester United academy and Burnley, 12 England caps, £30m 2017 transfer, twin brother of Will Keane.

Michael Kearney

Michael Kevin Kearney is an American game show winner and child prodigy who completed a bachelor's degree at 10 and became a millionaire at 22 from game show prize money.

Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton, born Michael John Douglas in 1951, is an American actor of Mr. Mom, Beetlejuice, and Batman fame who won a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Birdman and later acclaim for Dopesick.

Michael Kelly (Illinois politician)

Michael Kelly (born 1975) is an American Democratic politician who serves in the Illinois House of Representatives from the 15th district and worked as a Chicago firefighter.

Michael Kelly (New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist)

Michael Kelly is a New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist, inaugural Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge from 2002 to 2016, known for research on nanoscale device manufacturability.

Michael Kelso

Michael Christopher Kelso is the dim-witted, handsome character played by Ashton Kutcher on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006), Jackie Burkhart's on-and-off boyfriend and later a father who leaves Point Place in season 8 for Chicago, returning in That '90s Show.

Michael Kessel

Michael Kessel is a molecular biologist known for transgenic mouse experiments showing that the homeobox gene Hox-1.1 can reshape vertebrae and the face when expressed in the wrong places.

Michael Kharitonov

Michael Kharitonov (Михаил Харитонов) is a computer scientist and quantitative investor who co-founded The Voleon Group, a Berkeley, California hedge fund that trades using machine learning.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (MKG, formerly Michael Gilchrist), American forward born 1993, Kentucky's 2012 NCAA champion, drafted 2nd overall by Charlotte, 8 NBA seasons, defensive specialist with 27.2% career three-point shooting, later stuttering-coverage advocate.

Michael Kimmel

Michael Kimmel (born 1951) is an American sociologist of men and masculinities, a SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University and author of Guyland and Angry White Men.

Michael Kirby (judge)

Michael Donald Kirby AC CMG (born 1939) is an Australian jurist, High Court of Australia justice 1996-2009, known as "the great dissenter" with a roughly one-third dissent rate, former NSW Court of Appeal president, ALRC chairman, and UN human rights investigator including the DPRK commission.

Michael Kirkbride

Michael Kirkbride (born 1972) is an American game writer, artist, and designer, ex-Bethesda Elder Scrolls loremaster behind Morrowind's 36 Lessons of Vivec and the Dragon Break, later lead writer on Telltale's Walking Dead and Immortals of Aveum.

Michael Kitchen

Michael Kitchen (born 1948, Leicester) is a British actor known for Christopher Foyle in Foyle's War (2002–2015) and film roles in Out of Africa, GoldenEye, and The World Is Not Enough.

Michael Kiwanuka

Michael Kiwanuka (born 1987) is a British soul singer-songwriter from Muswell Hill, London, of Ugandan descent; albums Home Again, Love & Hate, Mercury Prize-winning Kiwanuka, Small Changes, and Fudge.

Michael Klagsbrun

Michael Klagsbrun was a Harvard Medical School professor and tumor angiogenesis researcher at Boston Children's Hospital who purified the first angiogenesis stimulator, basic fibroblast growth factor.

Michael Klim

Michael Klim (born 1977, Gdynia, Poland) is an Australian sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer, 21-time world record holder, six-time Olympic medalist, and 2022 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee.

Michael Klompas

Michael Klompas is a Canadian-trained infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard whose EHR-based sepsis surveillance shaped CDC definitions.

Michael Knauth

Michael Knauth, born 1965 in Wolfsburg, is a German field hockey goalkeeper and 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist; also 1991 European and Champions Trophy winner with 72 caps.