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Michael McDonald (comedian)
Michael McDonald (Michael James McDonald, born 1964, Fullerton, California) is an American comedian, actor, and TV director, longest-running MADtv cast member (seasons 4-13), creator of Stuart Larkin, later director of Scrubs, Cougar Town, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and showrunner of Nobodies; distinct from the singer Michael McDonald.
Michael McDonald (musician)
Michael McDonald (born 1952, St. Louis) is an American blue-eyed soul and yacht rock singer-keyboardist of Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, known for "What a Fool Believes" and solo hits like "I Keep Forgettin'."
Michael McDowell (author)
Michael McDowell, or Michael McEachern McDowell, was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter of Southern Gothic horror, known for works like The Amulet and Beetlejuice.
Michael McElhatton
Michael McElhatton (born 1963, Terenure, Dublin) is an Irish actor, writer, and RADA graduate, best known as Roose Bolton in Game of Thrones, with roles in Chernobyl, Jack Ryan, The Wheel of Time, and House of Guinness. Distinct from the footballers of the same name.
Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul, also known as Mike McFaul, is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.
Michael McGuire (New Jersey politician)
Michael McGuire is an American Republican politician and attorney who won the 2026 primary for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district, facing Democratic incumbent Herb Conaway.
Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre (born 1976) is an English stand-up comedian and BBC One host of Comedy Roadshow, Big Show, and The Wheel, known for observational middle-class comedy and record O2 ticket sales.
Michael McKean
Michael McKean (born 1947, New York) is an American actor, writer, and musician: Lenny on Laverne & Shirley, David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap, Chuck McGill in Better Call Saul, and a Tony-era Broadway character actor.
Michael McLeod (ice hockey)
Michael McLeod (Mikey McLeod), born 1998 in Mississauga, Canadian center drafted 12th overall by New Jersey in 2016; face-off specialist, 2018 world junior gold medalist, acquitted in the Hockey Canada case, now with KHL Avangard Omsk.
Michael McNeilly
Michael A. McNeilly, known as Mike McNeilly, was an American chemical engineer who founded semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials in Mountain View, California, in 1967.
Michael Mebruer
Michael Mebruer is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Louisiana's 6th Congressional District in the 2026 election, running a self-funded campaign focused on federal spending.
Michael Meeropol
Michael Meeropol, born Michael Rosenberg in 1943, is an American economist and emeritus professor at Western New England University, eldest son of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Michael Meisterernst
Michael Meisterernst is a German biochemist and professor who has held the chair of the Institute of Molecular Tumor Biology at the University of Münster since January 2008.
Michael Menaker
Michael Menaker (1934–2021) was an Austrian-born American circadian biologist and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia who showed circadian clocks exist throughout mammalian tissues.
Michael Merrifield
Michael Merrifield is a British astronomer specializing in the kinematics and evolution of nearby galaxies, Professor of Astronomy at Nottingham from 1999 to 2024 and a founding Sixty Symbols contributor.
Michael Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich, born 1942 in Lebanon, Oregon, is an American neuroscientist and UCSF professor emeritus known for brain plasticity research, cochlear implant development, and the 2016 Kavli Prize.
Michael Metz
Michael Metz, born 1964 in Mannheim, German field hockey player; 141 caps 1985-93, Olympic silver with West Germany at Seoul 1988 and gold with unified Germany at Barcelona 1992.
Michael Michele
Michael Michele (Michael Michele Williams), American actress born 1966 in Evansville, Indiana; known for Det. Rene Sheppard on Homicide: Life on the Street, Dr. Cleo Finch on ER, and films New Jack City, Ali, Dark Blue, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
Michael Middleton
Michael Francis Middleton is a British former British Airways flight dispatcher who was a director of the party-supplies firm Party Pieces and father of Catherine, Princess of Wales.
Michael Miebach
Michael Miebach is a payments executive who has served as chief executive officer of Mastercard since January 1, 2021, after roles as president and chief product officer.
Michael Milken
Michael Milken, known as Mike Milken or the Junk Bond King, is an American financier who led Drexel Burnham's junk bond operation, pled guilty to securities felonies in 1990, and became a philanthropist.
Michael Misick
Michael Eugene Misick (born 1966), former Chief Minister and Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2003-2009, PNP leader; resigned amid a corruption inquiry, later convicted of bribery and sentenced to four years and 26 days.
Michael Miu (苗侨伟)
Michael Miu (苗僑偉, born 1958, Zhoushan, Zhejiang) is a Hong Kong TVB actor and businessman, one of the 1980s "Five Tigers", famous as Yang Kang in the 1983 Legend of the Condor Heroes; founder of Art Vision Optical, returned in The Academy (2005) and Line Walker.
Michael Mohan
Michael Mohan (born 1986, Boston) is an American director and screenwriter of One Too Many Mornings, Save the Date, Everything Sucks!, The Voyeurs, and Immaculate, moving from Sundance indies to erotic thrillers and horror.
Michael Monroe
Michael Monroe (Matti Fagerholm), Finnish rock singer, saxophonist and harmonica player, frontman of glam-punk band Hanoi Rocks (1979–1985, reunion 2001–2009) and solo artist behind Not Fakin' It (1989) and the 2026 album Outerstellar; distinct from a Minnesota acoustic musician of the same name.
Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock, born 1939, is an English science fiction and fantasy writer best known for his Elric of Melniboné novels and for editing the magazine New Worlds.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore (Michael Francis Moore), born 1954, is an American documentary filmmaker from Flint, Michigan, known for Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest-grossing documentary.
Michael Moorer
Michael Moorer (born 1967), nicknamed Double M, American southpaw boxer; first left-handed world heavyweight champion, WBO light heavyweight and three-time heavyweight titleholder, 52-4-1 with 40 KOs, IBHOF 2024.
Michael Morales (fighter)
Michael Morales (born 1999, Pasaje, Ecuador) is an undefeated UFC welterweight, 19-0 with 14 knockouts, the first Ecuadorian welterweight in the UFC, ranked No. 3 and backup for UFC 330.
Michael Moran (Massachusetts politician)
Michael Moran is an American Democratic politician representing Brighton in the Massachusetts House, named majority leader in 2023 after leading redistricting in 2010 and 2020.