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Michael Polansky
Michael Woods Polansky is an American investor and executive, CEO of Sean Parker's Parker Group, executive director of the Parker Foundation, and fiancé of Lady Gaga.
Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi (Polányi Mihály; 1891–1976) was a Hungarian-born British physical chemist who pioneered potential-energy surfaces and transition-state theory, then turned philosopher of science known for tacit knowing.
Michaël Pollak
Michaël Pollak, also published as Michael N. Pollak, is a medical oncologist and cancer researcher at McGill University in Montreal, known for work on insulin, IGF signaling, and metformin in cancer.
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, American author and UC Berkeley journalism professor, wrote The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, How to Change Your Mind, and the 2026 consciousness book A World Appears.
Michael Porter
Michael Porter is a Harvard Business School scholar and the most cited in economics and business, known for the five forces framework, generic strategies, value chain, and value-based health care.
Michael Porter Jr.
Michael Porter Jr. (born 1998) is an NBA forward, 14th pick in 2018, 2023 champion with Denver, traded to Brooklyn in July 2025 for Cam Johnson plus a 2032 first-round pick, known for 40.6% career 3-point shooting and three back surgeries.
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo, British broadcaster and former Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and Kensington & Chelsea, defence secretary under John Major; famous for his 1997 'Portillo moment' defeat and later the Great British Railway Journeys TV series.
Michael Potter
Michael Potter (1924–2013) was an American immunologist and physician at the National Cancer Institute whose mineral-oil-induced mouse tumors enabled hybridoma technology; he won the 1984 Lasker Award.
Michael Poulsen
Michael Schøn Poulsen (born 1975, Ringsted, Denmark) is the vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of Volbeat, founded 2001 after his death metal band Dominus; ten Billboard Mainstream Rock number-ones, a Grammy nomination, and the 2025 album God of Angels Trust.
Michael Powell
Michael Powell (1905–1990), English film director born near Canterbury, partnered with Emeric Pressburger as The Archers. Known for The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, and the 1960 Peeping Tom; reputation revived by Scorsese and the BFI.
Michael Powell (lobbyist)
Michael Kevin Powell is an American communications lawyer who chaired the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2005 and led the cable industry's NCTA trade association.
Michael Praed
Michael Praed (born Michael David Prince, 1960) is an English actor known as Robin of Loxley in Robin of Sherwood (1984–86) and Prince Michael of Moldavia on Dynasty, later a musical theatre and Emmerdale regular.
Michael Prats
Michael Prats is an American petroleum reservoir engineer who spent forty years with Shell Oil Company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
Michael Psellos
Michael Psellos (Μιχαήλ Ψελλός) was a Byzantine philosopher, historian, and courtier born in Constantinople in 1018 who wrote the Chronographia and led a renewal of classical learning that influenced the Italian Renaissance.
Michael Punke
Michael Punke (born 1964) is an American writer, attorney, and former diplomat; Deputy USTR and U.S. Ambassador to the WTO 2010-2017, led the 2013 Trade Facilitation Agreement and 2015 ITA, and authored The Revenant.
Michael R. Barrett
Michael R. Barrett, also known as Michael Ryan Barrett, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio since 2019.
Michael R. Blatt
Michael R. Blatt is a plant cell electrophysiologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, known for research on stomatal guard cells.
Michael R. Botchan
Michael R. Botchan is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who studies eukaryotic DNA replication, discovered the CMG helicase, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Michael R. Bristow
Michael R. Bristow (1946–c. 2026) was an American cardiologist at the University of Colorado Denver whose work on beta-adrenergic receptors established beta-blocker therapy for heart failure.
Michael R. Bruchas
Michael R. Bruchas is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies brain circuits underlying addiction, stress, and pain, and builds wireless brain implants.
Michael R. Buchmeiser
Michael R. Buchmeiser (born 1967) is an Austrian polymer chemist, professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2009, working on metathesis catalysis, carbon fibers, and battery cathodes.
Michael R. DeBaun
Michael R. DeBaun is an American pediatric hematologist at Vanderbilt University whose research on silent strokes changed sickle cell disease treatment, and who helped write the 2004 Sickle Cell Treatment Act.
Michael R. Haverty
Michael R. Haverty is an American railroad executive who served as president and CEO of Kansas City Southern from 1995, building the north-south "NAFTA Railway" linking the U.S. heartland with Mexico.
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden, born 1951 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a physician-scientist at the University of British Columbia known for Huntington disease genetics and co-founding five biotechnology companies.
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann is an environmental chemist at Caltech, known for identifying hyperacidic urban fogs and for applying semiconductor photocatalysis and electrochemistry to water treatment.
Michael R. Johnson
Michael R. Johnson is an American civil engineer and retired Navy rear admiral who led NAVFAC and spent 17 years overseeing facilities at the University of Arkansas.
Michael R. Krames
Michael R. Krames is an American electrical engineer in LED semiconductors who led LED work at Hewlett Packard, Philips Lumileds, and Soraa before founding Arkesso LLC in 2015.
Michael R. Ladisch
Michael R. Ladisch is an American chemical engineer at Purdue University, known for bioseparations and biomass conversion research and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Michael R. Lassen
Michael R. Lassen, also known as Michael Rud Lassen, is a Danish physician and thrombosis researcher at Hørsholm Hospital who led the international ADVANCE trials of apixaban after hip and knee replacement.
Michael R. Lieber
Michael R. Lieber is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist, professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC since 1997, known for work on V(D)J recombination and DNA repair.