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Michael L. Steer
Michael L. Steer (1939–2019) was an American surgeon-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel who pioneered pancreatitis cell biology, establishing that acute pancreatitis begins within acinar cells.
Michael La Sasso
Michael La Sasso (born 2004) is an American golfer from Raleigh, N.C., the 2025 NCAA Division I individual champion for Ole Miss who joined LIV Golf's HyFlyers GC in 2026 and won LIV Golf Indianapolis.
Michael Laird King
Michael Laird King is an American chemical engineer and professor of practice at the University of Virginia known for vaccine manufacturing, after 32 years at Merck & Co.
Michael Landon
Michael Landon (Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936–1991), American actor, writer, director, producer; Little Joe on Bonanza (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie, Jonathan Smith on Highway to Heaven; died of pancreatic cancer at 54.
Michael Landon Jr.
Michael Landon Jr. (born 1964, Encino, California), American director-producer, son of actor Michael Landon; creator of Hallmark's When Calls the Heart and director of Love Comes Softly and The Last Sin Eater.
Michael Lang (producer)
Michael Scott Lang (1944–2022) was an American concert promoter and producer who co-created the 1969 Woodstock festival and later produced Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99.
Michael Lanzer
Michael Lanzer (born 1959 in Düsseldorf) is a German parasitologist who studies the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, heading Parasitology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 1999.
Michael Laposata
Michael Laposata is an American pathologist and laboratory medicine specialist in blood coagulation, chair of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since 2014.
Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup (born 1964, Frederiksberg) is a Danish former attacking midfielder, also called Michelino, who starred for Barcelona (1992 European Cup, four La Liga titles) and Real Madrid, earned 104 Denmark caps with 37 goals, and was ranked Scandinavia's greatest player.
Michael Lawrence Haider
Michael Lawrence Haider (1904–1986) was an American petroleum engineer who served as chairman and chief executive officer of Standard Oil (New Jersey) from 1965 to 1969.
Michael Lazzara
Michael Lazzara is an American Republican politician and Marine veteran representing North Carolina's 6th Senate district since 2021, after serving on the Jacksonville City Council.
Michael Le Vell
Michael Le Vell (born 1964) is the stage name of Michael Robert Turner, the English actor who has played mechanic Kevin Webster in ITV's Coronation Street since 1983; acquitted of all 12 child sex offence charges in 2013.
Michael Learned
Michael Learned (born 1939) is an American actress, Olivia Walton on CBS's The Waltons (1972–81), winner of four Primetime Emmys for lead actress in a drama, three for The Waltons and one for Nurse (1982).
Michael Learns to Rock
Michael Learns to Rock (MLTR) is a Danish pop rock band formed in Aarhus in 1988 by Jascha Richter, Mikkel Lentz, Kåre Wanscher, and Søren Madsen. Famous for Asian-market ballads like 'The Actor' and 'Take Me to Your Heart', it has sold 11 million albums.
Michael Lederer
Michael Lederer (born 1955) is a West German middle-distance runner, third leg on the 1977 4x1500 m world record relay (14:38.8, Cologne), still the European record; distinct from the Swiss poker player and the Princeton-born writer of the same name.
Michael Lee (speedway rider)
Michael Lee, "Mike the Bike" (born 1958, Cambridge), English speedway rider; 1980 World Champion at Ullevi, Gothenburg, 1981 World Long-track champion, British champion 1977–78; career with King's Lynn and Poole ended by a five-year ban, later reduced on appeal.
Michael Lee (The Wire)
Michael Lee is a fictional character on HBO's The Wire, played by Tristan Wilds; a season 4 schoolboy who becomes a Stanfield Organization enforcer, kills Snoop, and ends the series as the new Omar Little.
Michael Lee Boninger
Michael Lee Boninger is a physician-engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, a National Academy of Medicine member known for brain-computer interfaces restoring movement and touch.
Michael Lee Roukes
Michael Lee Roukes is an American physicist at Caltech who created the first nanoelectromechanical systems in 1990 and now develops single-molecule mass spectrometry to map every protein in a single cell.
Michael Lee-Chin
Michael Lee-Chin is a Jamaican-born Canadian investor, born in 1951, who built AIC Limited into Canada's largest privately held mutual fund company before selling it to Manulife in 2009.
Michael Leitch
Michael Leitch, also known as リーチ マイケル, is a Japan-born rugby forward who captained the Brave Blossoms in 2015 and 2019 and leads the Brave Lupus Tokyo.
Michael Lembeck
Michael Lembeck (born 1948), American TV and film director and actor, son of Harvey Lembeck; won a 1996 Emmy for Friends and directed The Santa Clause 2, distinct from the aerospace engineer of the same name.
Michael Lerner (actor)
Michael Lerner (1941-2023), American character actor from Brooklyn, Oscar-nominated as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991); also Eight Men Out, Godzilla, Elf, X-Men: Days of Future Past; distinct from rabbi Michael Lerner.
Michael Lerner (public health leader)
Michael Lerner (born 1943) is an American public health leader and political scientist, co-founder and president of Commonweal in Bolinas, California, and a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.
Michael Lesch
Michael Lesch (1939–2008) was an American cardiologist who co-described Lesch–Nyhan syndrome at Johns Hopkins in 1964 and later served as chief of internal medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Michael Levin (medical researcher)
Michael Levin is a pediatric infectious diseases consultant and Chair in Paediatrics and International Child Health at Imperial College London, known for research on meningococcal disease and childhood tuberculosis.
Michael Levin (molecular biologist)
Michael Levin is a developmental biologist at Tufts University who studies bioelectricity, how cells' electrical signals coordinate the construction and repair of the body, including regeneration and cancer reprogramming.
Michael Levine (developmental biologist)
Michael S. Levine is a developmental biologist and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, known for work on gene regulation and enhancers in the early Drosophila embryo.
Michael Levitt (biophysicist)
Michael Levitt, born 1947 in South Africa, is a computational biologist at Stanford University who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for multiscale models of complex chemical systems.
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, born 1960 in New Orleans, is an American author and former bond salesman whose bestselling books, including Liar's Poker and The Big Short, were adapted into films.