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Michael Moran (music producer)
Mike Moran (born 1948), British keyboardist, composer, arranger, and record producer from Leeds; UK Eurovision 1977 entry Rock Bottom with Lynsey de Paul, co-writer and co-producer of Freddie Mercury's Barcelona album, film/TV composer for Time Bandits, Taggart, New Tricks, and RCM jazz piano professor.
Michael Morell
Michael J. Morell, American former CIA analyst, Deputy Director and twice Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; briefed President Bush on 9/11, host of Intelligence Matters podcast, drafter of the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter.
Michael Morhaime
Michael Morhaime, also Mike Morhaime, co-founded Blizzard Entertainment in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, led it as CEO through Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft until 2018, and founded Dreamhaven in 2020.
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor and jazz pianist born 1941 in Detroit, won a 1974 Tony for Find Your Way Home, Emmys for The Glass Menagerie, Holocaust, and James Dean, and played ADA Ben Stone on Law & Order 1990-1994.
Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born journalist turned venture capitalist who joined Sequoia Capital in 1986, becoming managing partner in 1996, and led early investments in Google, Yahoo, and PayPal.
Michael Mørkøv
Michael Mørkøv (born 1985), Danish track and road cyclist: Olympic Madison gold (Tokyo 2021), three Madison world titles, record lead-out man for Cavendish and Bennett, retired 2024, now Danish national coach.
Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo (born 1943, St Albans), English children's author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, Children's Laureate 2003–2005, knighted 2018, co-founder of Farms for City Children.
Michael Moseler
Michael Moseler is a German physicist and materials scientist who heads the Tribology Business Unit at Fraunhofer IWM and is a full professor at the University of Freiburg.
Michael Muhney
Michael Muhney (born 1975, Chicago) is an American actor known as Sheriff Don Lamb in Veronica Mars (2004–2007) and Adam Newman on The Young and the Restless (2009–2014), fired in 2013 amid groping allegations, later in Truth Be Told.
Michael Mukasey
Michael Mukasey (born 1941, Bronx) is an American lawyer, former SDNY federal judge, and 81st U.S. Attorney General (2007–2009) under George W. Bush, known for the Rahman and Padilla terrorism cases.
Michael Mulholland
Michael Mulholland is an American surgeon and scientist who chaired the University of Michigan Department of Surgery from 2002 and is known for pancreatic and biliary research.
Michael Mullen
Michael Glenn Mullen (born 1946), American Navy admiral; 28th Chief of Naval Operations 2005–2007 and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2007–2011; known for the 313-ship plan and Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal testimony.
Michael Müller-Wille
Michael Müller-Wille (1938–2019) was a German prehistorian of the Viking Age and early medieval Baltic, professor at Kiel and its Rektor from 1989 to 1991.
Michael Murphy (actor)
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938, Los Angeles) is an American character actor, a Robert Altman regular (M*A*S*H, Nashville), Yale in Manhattan, and ex-husband of Wendy Crewson; distinct from Navy SEAL Michael P. Murphy.
Michael Musto
Michael Musto (born 1955, Brooklyn) is an American gossip and nightlife columnist, author of La Dolce Musto in the Village Voice (1984–2013), later Out, Advocate, W42ST, and RAG MAG, and a film and TV personality.
Michael Myers (Halloween)
Michael Myers, also credited as The Shape, is the masked silent killer of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) franchise, who murdered his sister Judith in 1963 and stalks Haddonfield; his Shatner-derived mask and deliberate lack of characterization distinguish him from other slashers.
Michael N. Fardis
Michael N. Fardis is a Greek structural and earthquake engineer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Patras, who chaired the committee that drafted Eurocode 8.
Michael N. Hall
Michael N. Hall, born 1953 in Puerto Rico, is a Swiss biochemist at the University of Basel who discovered TOR in yeast in 1991, work recognized by the Lasker and Balzan prizes.
Michael N. Nitabach
Michael N. Nitabach is a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies the genetic and electrical control of sleep, circadian rhythms, and decision-making in fruit flies.
Michael N. Shadlen
Michael N. Shadlen is a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute and an HHMI Investigator, known for showing that parietal neurons accumulate noisy sensory evidence into decisions.
Michael Nader
Michael Nader (1945–2021), American actor, played Dex Dexter on Dynasty (1983–89) and Count Dimitri Marick on All My Children (1991–2001, 2013 return); also beach-party films, 2001 drug arrest, $32 million ABC lawsuit.
Michael Naguib
Michael Naguib is an Egyptian-born materials scientist known for discovering MXenes, a family of two-dimensional carbides and nitrides, as a PhD student at Drexel University.
Michael Nauck
Michael Nauck is a German physician and diabetes researcher at Ruhr University Bochum whose work on incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 shaped type 2 diabetes therapy.
Michael Needham (political advisor)
Michael Austin Needham (born 1981) is an American political advisor, former Heritage Action CEO and Rubio Senate chief of staff, now deputy national security adviser after serving as State Department counselor.
Michael Neidorff
Michael Neidorff was an American executive who led Centene Corporation from 1996 until his death in 2022, growing it into the largest Medicaid managed care company.
Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith (1942-2021), American musician and producer, Monkees lead guitarist, country-rock pioneer with the First National Band, creator of PopClips, and winner of the first Grammy for Video of the Year for Elephant Parts.
Michael Newman (actor)
Michael Newman (April 26, 1957 – October 20, 2024), also Mike "Newmie" Newman, American actor, real LA County lifeguard and firefighter; played a fictionalized self in 150 Baywatch episodes (1989–2000), the only cast member with real lifeguarding experience.
Michael Noack
Michael Scott Noack is an American truck driver from Bonfield, Illinois, who won the 2026 Republican primary for the U.S. House in Illinois's 2nd congressional district.
Michael Noonan (footballer)
Michael Noonan is an Irish professional footballer for Shamrock Rovers, who is confirmed to join Nottingham Forest in January 2027 and holds the UEFA Conference League scoring record.
Michael Norman (sprinter)
Michael Norman (born 1997) is an American sprinter, 400m PB 43.45, Tokyo 2020 4x400m relay gold medalist, 2022 world 400m champion, and one of three men under 10/20/44 seconds.