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Michael Oliver (referee)

Michael Oliver (born 1985, Ashington) is an English football referee, youngest ever Premier League referee (2010), FIFA-listed since 2012; FA Cup finals 2018/2021, 2022 UEFA Super Cup, Euro 2020/2024, World Cups 2022 and 2026.

Michael Ollis

Staff Sgt. Michael Harold Ollis (1988-2013) was a U.S. Army soldier of the 10th Mountain Division awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor in 2026 for shielding Polish Lt. Karol Cierpica from a suicide bomber at FOB Ghazni, Afghanistan, August 28, 2013.

Michael Olowokandi

Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-British 7-foot center, first overall pick of the 1998 NBA draft by the Clippers; career 8.3 ppg, 6.8 rpg over 500 games, widely ranked among the biggest NBA draft busts.

Michael Olunga

Michael Olunga Ogada (born 1994, Nairobi) is a Kenyan striker for Al-Arabi and captain of Harambee Stars; 2020 J1 League MVP and top scorer, first Kenyan to score in La Liga.

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje (Philip Michael Ondaatje), Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist and editor; author of The English Patient (Booker 1992, Golden Booker 2018), Anil's Ghost, Running in the Family; five Governor General's Awards; Companion of the Order of Canada; lives in Toronto.

Michael Ontkean

Michael Ontkean (born 1946) is a Canadian retired actor, Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks and Ned Braden in Slap Shot; also starred in The Rookies and Making Love, retired after The Descendants (2011), living in Hawaii.

Michael Osterholm

Michael Osterholm, American infectious disease epidemiologist, Regents Professor and director of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota; former Minnesota state epidemiologist (1984–1999), Biden COVID-19 transition adviser, and author of Deadliest Enemy and The Big One.

Michael Otto (German entrepreneur)

Michael Otto (born 1943) is a German retail entrepreneur who led the Hamburg-based Otto Group as chief executive from 1981 to 2007, building it into a leading online retailer.

Michael Overduin

Michael Overduin is a structural biologist and biochemist who has been a professor at the University of Alberta since 2015, directing NANUC, Canada's national biomolecular NMR facility in Edmonton.

Michael Ovitz

Michael Ovitz (born 1946, Chicago) is an American talent agent who co-founded and led Creative Artists Agency (CAA) 1975–1995, pioneered film packaging, briefly served as Walt Disney Company president, and later became a Silicon Valley investor and adviser.

Michael Owen

Michael Owen, English striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United, and Stoke; 40 goals in 89 England caps, 2001 Ballon d'Or winner, retired 2013, now a TV pundit.

Michael Owen (Florida politician)

Michael Owen is an American Republican politician and member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 70, elected in 2024 after serving as a Hillsborough County Commissioner.

Michael P Keane

Michael P Keane, born 1961, is an economist at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School known for the GHK simulation estimator and Keane-Wolpin dynamic discrete choice.

Michael P. Anderson

Michael P. Anderson, also known as Michael Phillip Anderson, was an American astronaut who was payload commander of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2003.

Michael P. Brenner

Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist, Catalyst Professor at Harvard SEAS since 2001, known for sonoluminescence theory, droplet breakup, and machine learning for science.

Michael P. Busch

Michael P. Busch is an American transfusion-medicine researcher known for developing nucleic acid testing of the blood supply for HIV, hepatitis C, and West Nile virus.

Michael P. Czech

Michael P. Czech is an American molecular biologist and biochemist at UMass Chan Medical School known for work on insulin signaling and RNAi and CRISPR therapies for diabetes.

Michael P. Doyle

Michael P. Doyle is an American food microbiologist, Regents Professor at the University of Georgia, and founding director of its Center for Food Safety, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Michael P. H. Stumpf

Michael P. H. Stumpf is a German-born Australian theoretical systems biologist, professor at the University of Melbourne since 2018 and a 2025 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Michael P. Lamb

Michael P. Lamb is a geomorphologist and professor of geology at the California Institute of Technology, where he has led the Earth Surface Dynamics Laboratory since 2009.

Michael P. Link

Michael P. Link is an American pediatric oncologist at Stanford University whose 1986 osteosarcoma and lymphoma trials transformed childhood cancer treatment; he was ASCO's first pediatric oncologist president.

Michael P. Lisanti

Michael P. Lisanti, also known as Michael Lisanti, is a cell biologist and cancer researcher known for work on caveolae, caveolin proteins, and the Reverse Warburg Effect in tumor metabolism.

Michael P. Madaio

Michael P. Madaio is an American nephrologist and autoimmunity researcher, emeritus at Augusta University, whose laboratory showed how anti-DNA antibodies enter living cells and drive lupus nephritis.

Michael P. Manns

Michael P. Manns was a German hepatologist who directed hepatology at Medizinische Hochschule Hannover from 1991 to 2020 and set treatment standards for viral hepatitis B, C, and D.

Michael P. Milham

Michael P. Milham is an American neuroscientist and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York, known for advancing resting-state fMRI and open neuroimaging data-sharing.

Michael P. Mills

Michael P. Mills, born 1956, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Mississippi, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.

Michael P. Murphy

Michael P. Murphy (1976–2005), U.S. Navy SEAL lieutenant, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient for Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan; first Navy recipient since Vietnam; namesake of USS Michael Murphy and the Murph workout.

Michael P. Ramage

Michael P. Ramage is an American chemical engineer who trained at Purdue, became president of Mobil Technology Company, and retired as an executive vice president of ExxonMobil Research and Engineering.

Michael P. Rout

Michael P. Rout is a molecular biologist who heads the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology at Rockefeller University, known for mapping the nuclear pore complex.

Michael P. Shea

Michael P. Shea (born 1967) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Connecticut since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.