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Michael Norton (behavioral scientist)
Michael Norton is a behavioral scientist and professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who studies how people can spend money to increase happiness.
Michael Nouri
Michael Nouri (born 1945, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor of Irish-Iraqi descent, known as Nick Hurley in Flashdance (1983), Tom Beck in The Hidden, Eli David on NCIS, and Broadway roles in Victor/Victoria and South Pacific.
Michael Novogratz
Michael "Mike" Novogratz is an American investor who spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs before founding Galaxy Digital, a Nasdaq-listed digital-assets and data-center infrastructure company.
Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman, English minimalist composer born 1944 in London, coined 'minimal music' in 1968, led the Michael Nyman Band, scored Greenaway films and The Piano, and wrote Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond.
Michael Nyqvist
Michael Nyqvist (Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist), Swedish actor and author (1960–2017); played Mikael Blomkvist in the original Millennium films and villains in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and John Wick; two Guldbagge awards.
Michael O. Hengartner
Michael O. Hengartner is a Swiss molecular biologist known for research on programmed cell death in C. elegans, and rector of the University of Zurich from 2014 to 2020.
Michael O. Hottiger
Michael O. Hottiger is a Swiss biochemist who heads the Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Zurich, studying ADP-ribosylation and inflammation.
Michael O. Rabin (מיכאל אוסר רבין)
Michael O. Rabin (מיכאל אוסר רבין), born 1931, was an Israeli computer scientist at Hebrew University and Harvard who won the 1976 Turing Award for automata theory and pioneered randomized algorithms and cryptography.
Michael O. Thorner
Michael O. Thorner is a British-trained neuroendocrinologist who joined the University of Virginia in 1977, known for growth hormone research, GHRH discovery work, and pegvisomant studies.
Michael O'Donnell (biochemist)
Michael O'Donnell is an American biochemist who heads the Laboratory of DNA Replication at The Rockefeller University and is known for discovering the DNA sliding clamp.
Michael O'Donoghue
Michael O'Donoghue was an American comedy writer and performer known as Mr. Mike who co-founded National Lampoon and served as the first head writer of Saturday Night Live.
Michael O‘Donovan
Michael O'Donovan is a psychiatric geneticist and Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University who co-led landmark GWAS identifying 108 and then 287 genetic regions linked to schizophrenia.
Michael O'Dwyer
Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer was an Irish administrator in the British colonial service, Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab from 1913 to 1919, assassinated in London by Udham Singh in 1940.
Michael O'Hare
Michael O'Hare (Robert Michael O'Hare, Jr., 1952-2012), American actor; originated Commander Jeffrey Sinclair on Babylon 5 and played Colonel Jessep on Broadway in A Few Good Men; left the series after season one due to schizophrenia, revealed posthumously.
Michael O'Hare (chef)
Michael O'Hare, Leeds chef from Redcar whose The Man Behind The Curtain won a Michelin star in 2015; after Psycho Sandbar closed and the company entered insolvency, he opened In Lamentation in Boston Spa in 2026.
Michael O'Keefe
Michael O'Keefe (born 1955), American actor known as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack and Oscar-nominated for The Great Santini; also Fred on Roseanne, Zen priest, and lyricist for Bonnie Raitt.
Michael O'Leary (businessman)
Michael O'Leary, born in 1961, is an Irish businessman who has led Ryanair since 1994, first as chief executive and since 2023 as Group CEO, building it into Europe's largest airline.
Michael O'Nan
Michael Ernest O'Nan (1943–2017) was an American mathematician and Rutgers professor who discovered the O'Nan sporadic simple group in 1975 and proved the O'Nan–Scott theorem on maximal subgroups.
Michael O'Neill (actor)
Michael O'Neill (born 1951, Montgomery, Alabama) is an American character actor of film and television, distinct from the Irish football manager of the same name. Known for Ron Butterfield on The West Wing, Gary Clark on Grey's Anatomy, and films Traffic, Seabiscuit, Transformers, and Dallas Buyers Club.
Michael O'Neill (footballer)
Michael Andrew Martin O'Neill (born 1969, Portadown) is a Northern Irish manager and former midfielder, twice Northern Ireland national manager, guiding them to Euro 2016, and former Stoke City and Blackburn Rovers manager.
Michael Oakeshott
Michael Joseph Oakeshott (1901–1990), British philosopher and political theorist, LSE Professor of Political Science from 1951; author of Experience and Its Modes, Rationalism in Politics, and On Human Conduct; known for civil versus enterprise association and the critique of rationalism.
Michael Obafemi
Michael Obafemi (Michael Oluwadurotimi Obafemi), Irish forward born 2000 in Dublin; Southampton academy product, Swansea and Burnley striker, Republic of Ireland international since 2018, currently on loan from Burnley at Blackpool.
Michael Obst
Michael Obst (born 1944, Leipzig) is a German rower, cox of the RC Germania Düsseldorf coxed four that won gold for the Unified Team of Germany at the 1960 Rome Olympics; twice Silver Bay Leaf recipient, later emigrated to Chile.
Michael of Cesena
Michael of Cesena, born Michael Foschi around 1270, was a Franciscan theologian and Minister General who led resistance to Pope John XXII over the poverty of Christ.
Michael of Chernigov
Michael of Chernigov (Mikhail Vsevolodovich) was prince of Chernigov from 1223 and grand prince of Kiev; the Mongols executed him in 1246, and he was later canonized.
Michael of Russia (Михаил Фёдорович Романов)
Michael of Russia (Михаил Фёдорович Романов, 1596–1645), first Romanov tsar, elected 21 February 1613 by the Zemsky Sobor to end the Time of Troubles; ruled under Filaret's guidance until 1633.
Michael Oher
Michael Oher (born 1986, Memphis) is a retired NFL offensive tackle, 23rd pick in 2009, Super Bowl XLVII winner with the Ravens, subject of The Blind Side; his 2023 lawsuit ended the Tuohy conservatorship and settled in 2026.
Michael Ohh
Michael Ohh is a Canadian cancer biologist and professor at the University of Toronto whose laboratory studies the VHL tumor suppressor protein, RAS, and oxygen sensing in tumors.
Michael Oku
Michael Oku (The OJMO), born 1993 in London, is an English technical wrestler and three-time RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion, famed for his half-crab and his 6-star matches with Will Ospreay.
Michael Olise
Michael Akpovie Olise (born 2001, London) is a French winger for Bayern Munich and France. Chelsea and Reading youth product, Crystal Palace 2021-24, Bundesliga Player of the Season 2025/26, seven assists at the 2026 World Cup breaking Pelé's record.