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Michael Knowles (political commentator)

Michael Knowles (born 1990) is an American conservative political commentator, author, and media host at the Daily Wire and PragerU, formerly co-host of Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Michael Köhl

Michael Köhl, born in 1975, is a physicist at the University of Bonn known for experiments on ultracold Fermi gases, including the first observed pairing pseudogap in a two-dimensional Fermi gas.

Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas is an 1810 novella by Heinrich von Kleist, loosely based on a sixteenth-century Saxon horse dealer's case, considered a masterwork of German literature and widely adapted.

Michael Koman

Michael Koman (born 1977, San Diego) is an American TV writer and producer, Emmy winner for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, co-creator of Nathan for You with Nathan Fielder, creator of Eagleheart and The Paper, and husband of Ellie Kemper.

Michael Kopech

Michael Talbert Kopech, born 1996, is an MLB right-handed pitcher, ex-White Sox top prospect, 2024 Dodgers World Series reliever; fastball peaks 102 mph, Tommy John 2018, free agent after 2025.

Michael Kors

Michael Kors, born Karl Anderson Jr. in 1959, is the American designer of the namesake luxury brand founded in 1981, a former Celine creative director, Project Runway judge, and CFDA award winner, now owned by Capri Holdings.

Michael Koulianos

Michael Koulianos is an American charismatic evangelist and author who, with his wife Jessica, leads Jesus Image, Jesus School, and Jesus Image Church in Orlando, Florida.

Michael Kovach

Michael James Kovach (kovox), American voice actor born 1995 in Youngstown, Ohio, based in Seattle; voices Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel pilot), N (Murder Drones), Jax (The Amazing Digital Circus), and Rocky (Lackadaisy), plus Poppy Playtime game roles.

Michael Krause

Michael Krause (1946-2024), German field hockey player; scored the winning goal in West Germany's 1-0 gold-medal final win over Pakistan at Munich 1972; later DHB president 1993-99 and Olympic Order recipient.

Michael Kremer

Michael Kremer, American development economist (born 1964), co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Banerjee and Duflo for randomized controlled trials against global poverty; Kenya deworming trials, advance market commitments, University of Chicago, World Bank Chief Economist 2026.

Michael Kretschmer

Michael Kretschmer, born 1975 in Görlitz, is a German CDU politician and Minister-President of Saxony since 2017, after serving in the Bundestag from 2002 to 2017.

Michael Krupka

Michael Krupka (Michael Alan Krupka) is an American venture capital investor who joined Bain Capital in 1991 and helped found its venture arm, Bain Capital Ventures, in Boston.

Michael Kurilla

Michael "Erik" Kurilla, U.S. Army general from Elk River, Minnesota, 15th commander of U.S. Central Command (April 2022 to August 2025), West Point 1988, former 75th Ranger Regiment commander, oversaw 2025 Iran strikes.

Michael L Dustin

Michael L Dustin is an American immunologist at the University of Oxford known for defining the immunological synapse, the junction between a T cell and an antigen-presenting cell.

Michael L Middlebrooks

Michael L Middlebrooks is an American invertebrate zoologist and associate professor at the University of Tampa who studies photosynthetic sea slugs, kleptoplasty, and Tampa Bay seagrass restoration.

Michael L. Barnett

Michael L. Barnett is an American physician and health services researcher who studies opioid prescribing, payment reform, and post-acute care, and is a professor at Brown University.

Michael L. Bender

Michael L. Bender is an American geochemist known for pioneering ice core gas-isotope geochemistry, a National Academy of Sciences member who taught at Princeton from 1997 to 2015.

Michael L. Bennish

Michael L. Bennish is an infectious disease researcher whose cholera and shigellosis research spans Bangladesh and South Africa; he led the 2006 New England Journal of Medicine trial establishing single-dose azithromycin for adult cholera.

Michael L. Brown

Michael L. Brown, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2018, nominated by President Trump.

Michael L. Callaham

Michael L. Callaham is an American emergency physician at UCSF, founding chair of its emergency medicine department and longtime editor-in-chief of Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Michael L. Cleary

Michael L. Cleary is a Stanford University School of Medicine pathologist known for discovering genes damaged by chromosomal translocations in human leukemias, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Michael L. Corradini

Michael L. Corradini is an American nuclear engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for reactor safety research.

Michael L. Hackworth

Michael L. Hackworth (1941–2012) was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Cirrus Logic, growing it past $1 billion in revenue as a fabless chip pioneer.

Michael L. Klein

Michael L. Klein is a British-born theoretical and computational chemist, Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, known for molecular simulation and the TIP4P water model.

Michael L. LeFevre

Michael L. LeFevre is an American family physician at the University of Missouri School of Medicine who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force from 2014.

Michael L. Littman

Michael L. Littman is a computer scientist at Brown University known for reinforcement learning, the minimax-Q algorithm, and service as Brown's first Associate Provost for AI since 2025.

Michael L. Looper

Michael L. Looper is an American animal scientist who won the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award and heads the animal science department at the University of Arkansas.

Michael L. Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award is an annual prize given by YALSA, a division of the American Library Association, to the young adult book that best exemplifies literary excellence.

Michael L. Shelanski

Michael L. Shelanski is a physician-scientist at Columbia University, Henry Taub Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, whose research moved from the neuronal cytoskeleton to how amyloid-beta disrupts synapses in Alzheimer's disease.

Michael L. Shuler

Michael L. Shuler is an American biochemical engineer at Cornell University, best known for creating the first chemically accurate mathematical model of a living cell and pioneering body-on-a-chip drug testing.