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Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen (1957-2025) was an American actor with 300+ credits, famous as Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs and Budd in Kill Bill, a Tarantino regular also known for Free Willy and Donnie Brasco.
Michael Magranet
Michael Magranet is an American semiconductor engineer and Fairchild veteran who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its first director of marketing, and retired in 1989.
Michael Malarkey
Michael Malarkey, also known as Enzo St. John in The Vampire Diaries, is a British-American actor and singer-songwriter born 1983 in Beirut, raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio; starred in Project Blue Book and joined Tracker in 2026 as Adam Shevlin.
Michael Malice
Michael Malice, Ukrainian-born American anarchist author and podcaster; wrote Dear Reader (Kim Jong Il) and The New Right, compiled The Anarchist Handbook, hosts YOUR WELCOME, founded Overheard in New York.
Michael Malloy
Michael Malloy, Mike the Durable or Durable Mike, was a homeless Irish alcoholic in Prohibition-era New York whom five acquaintances, the Murder Trust, repeatedly tried to kill for life insurance money before killing him with coal gas in February 1933.
Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney (born 1957, Bury St Edmunds) is an English actor of screen, stage and radio, an RSC and National Theatre leading man (Romeo, Prince Hal, Hamlet, Edgar) known for Shakespeare film roles in Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet, and recent TV including The Crown and Magpie Murders.
Michael Mancuso
Michael "the Nose" Mancuso, Bonanno crime family acting boss from November 2004; convicted of ordering the 2004 Randolph Pizzolo murder, sentenced to 15 years in 2008, released 2019, and resentenced to 11 months in 2023 for supervised-release violations.
Michael Mando
Michael Mando (born 1981, Quebec City) is a Canadian actor known as Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul, Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry 3, Vic Schmidt in Orphan Black, and Scorpion in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Michael Manga
Michael Manga is a Canadian-born geophysicist and volcanologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for applying fluid dynamics to volcanoes, earthquakes, groundwater, and water inside Mars.
Michael Manley
Michael Norman Manley (1924-1997), Jamaican trade unionist, author, and fourth prime minister (1972-1980, 1989-1992), led the PNP's democratic socialist reforms including the 1974 Bauxite Levy, then returned on a moderate, pro-market platform.
Michael Mann
Michael Mann: American film director and Chicago native; creator of Thief, Manhunter, Miami Vice, and Heat (1995); Emmy and DGA winner; pioneered HD digital cinematography; directed Ferrari at 80.
Michael Mantenuto
Michael Mantenuto (1981–2017) was an American actor, University of Maine hockey player, and Army Special Forces sergeant, best known as Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney film Miracle; he later served with the 1st Special Forces Group and died by suicide in 2017.
Michael Marcagi
Michael Marcagi, American folk-rock singer-songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio, ex-frontman of The Heavy Hours; viral hit "Scared to Start" (2x Platinum), Warner Records artist, EPs American Romance and Midwest Kid, debut album Under the Streetlights (2026).
Michael Marin
Michael Marin was an American former Wall Street trader and Yale Law graduate who died by cyanide in a Phoenix courtroom in 2012, minutes after an arson conviction.
Michael Marks
Michael Marks (born 1950) is an American businessman who was chief executive of Flextronics International from 1994 to 2006, building it into a $14.5 billion electronics manufacturer.
Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Marmot, born 1945, is a British epidemiologist at University College London known for the Whitehall studies, the social gradient, and the 2010 Marmot Review.
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey (born 1945, Dallas, Texas), also credited as Michael Murphey, is a country and cowboy-music singer-songwriter whose 1975 hit "Wildfire" reached number 3 on the pop chart; he led the 1990s Western music revival with Cowboy Songs and Warner Western.
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn (1945-2018), Labour MP for Glasgow Springburn and Speaker of the House of Commons 2000-2009; first Catholic Speaker since the Reformation and first Speaker forced from office since 1695, over the 2009 expenses scandal.
Michael Masi
Michael Masi, Australian motorsport official, FIA Formula 1 Race Director and Safety Delegate 2019-2021 after Charlie Whiting's death; removed after the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix safety car controversy, later SRO Motorsports Australia Head of Sporting.
Michael Massee
Michael Massee (1952–2016) was an American character actor who accidentally shot Brandon Lee on The Crow set in 1993, then played villains in Se7en, Lost Highway, 24, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Michael Mastalerz
Michael Mastalerz is a German organic chemist who has been professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2013, known for porous organic cage compounds and giant interlocking cages.
Michael Masuda
Michael Masuda is an American politician and electrical engineer running as the 2026 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in California's 5th district, challenging Republican incumbent Tom McClintock.
Michael Matt
Michael Matt (born 1993) is an Austrian slalom skier from Flirsch, Tirol, brother of Mario and Andreas Matt; three Olympic medals including 2022 team gold, 2018 slalom bronze, one World Cup win (Kranjska Gora 2017).
Michael Mayer
Michael Mayer is a German DJ and electronic music producer, born in the Black Forest in 1971, who co-founded and co-runs the Cologne techno label Kompakt.
Michael McAlpine
Michael C. McAlpine is the Kuhrmeyer Family Chair Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, known for 3D-printed bionic devices including a bionic ear and bionic eyes.
Michael McCarthy (spectroscopist)
Michael C. McCarthy is an American spectroscopist and laboratory astrophysicist, Deputy Director and Senior Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics, whose laboratory spectroscopy enabled discoveries of molecules, including benzonitrile, in space.
Michael McCary
Michael Sean McCary (born 1971, Philadelphia) is the former bass singer of R&B group Boyz II Men, who joined via a school bathroom encounter, sang on Cooleyhighharmony and II, and left in 2003 due to back problems later diagnosed as multiple sclerosis.
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul, Republican U.S. representative for Texas's 10th district (2005–present), former chair of House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees, Ukraine hawk and childhood cancer legislator, retiring in 2026.
Michael McClelland
Michael McClelland is a microbiologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for inventing arbitrarily primed PCR genome fingerprinting and sequencing the Salmonella Typhimurium genome.
Michael McClure
Michael McClure (1932–2020) was an American poet, playwright, and songwriter associated with the Beat Generation, known for reading at the 1955 Six Gallery event where Allen Ginsberg first read "Howl."