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Michael Sattler
Michael Sattler (born 1965) is a German structural biologist who develops biomolecular NMR spectroscopy and integrative structural biology to study protein–RNA complexes in gene regulation.
Michael Savage
Michael Savage, born Michael Alan Weiner (1942), is an American talk radio host and author; The Savage Nation (KGO, KSFO, Talk Radio Network, Cumulus) peaked third behind Limbaugh and Hannity with about eight million weekly listeners.
Michael Savageau
Michael Savageau is a systems biologist and National Academy member at UC Davis who founded biochemical systems theory and the demand theory of gene regulation.
Michael Schäfer
Michael Schäfer (born 1961) is a German politician who has served as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs since 2025.
Michael Schätz
Michael Schätz is an American allergist-immunologist at Kaiser Permanente San Diego, chief of its Allergy Department from 2000 to 2011, who helped develop the Asthma Control Test.
Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker, German hard rock guitarist from Sarstedt, lead guitarist of Scorpions and UFO and founder of the Michael Schenker Group; famed for Flying V tone, 13 MSG albums including Don't Sell Your Soul (2025), and influence on Hammett, Slash, and Rhoads.
Michael Schenker Group
Michael Schenker Group (MSG), hard rock band formed 1979 in London by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker; albums include The Michael Schenker Group (1980), Assault Attack (1982), and Don't Sell Your Soul (2025).
Michael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer, former CIA analyst and chief of the bin Laden unit Alec Station (1995/1996-1999), author of Imperial Hubris (2004) under the pseudonym Anonymous, resigned from the CIA in November 2004 to criticize U.S. counterterrorism policy.
Michael Schlessinger
Michael Schlessinger was an American algebraic geometer at UNC Chapel Hill, Princeton, and Berkeley, known for Schlessinger's theorem and the Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors; he died in 2025 at 88.
Michael Schmittel
Michael Schmittel (born 1956) is a German organic chemist who works on molecular nanoswitches, nanomachines, and metallosupramolecular self-sorting, and was a professor at the University of Siegen.
Michael Schneider (cardiac molecular biologist)
Michael D. Schneider is a cardiac molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor in Cardiology at Imperial College London, known for research on cardiac hypertrophy and regenerating the adult mammalian heart.
Michael Schoettle
Michael Beaver Schoettle (born 7 September 1936, Philadelphia) is an American sailor, 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold medalist in the 5.5 metre class aboard Complex II, youngest US male gold medalist at 15 years 325 days, and 1992 US sailing team leader; his medal was awarded only in 2024.
Michael Schrodi
Michael Schrodi, born 1977 in Munich, is a German SPD politician who has been a Bundestag member since 2017 and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance since 2025.
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher, German Formula 1 driver born 1969, seven-time world champion (1994-95 Benetton, 2000-04 Ferrari), 91 wins, Mercedes comeback 2010-12, severely injured skiing in 2013.
Michael Schur
Michael Schur (Mike Schur) is an American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer: SNL writer (1998-2004), The Office writer/EP, co-creator of Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, creator of The Good Place, author of How to Be Perfect.
Michael Schwerner
Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner, New York CORE organizer and project director for Mississippi's 4th District, murdered with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman by Klansmen on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; led to the 1967 Price convictions and Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Michael Scofield
Michael Scofield is the fictional protagonist of Prison Break, played by Wentworth Miller: a structural engineer who stages a bank robbery to enter Fox River and free his brother Lincoln, with the prison blueprint hidden in his tattoo.
Michael Scot
Michael Scot, also known as Michael the Scot, was a Scottish translator and astrologer who served Emperor Frederick II and translated Aristotle from Arabic into Latin.
Michael Scott (The Office)
Michael Scott is the fictional regional manager of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch on NBC's The Office (2005–2013), played by Steve Carell as the American counterpart of David Brent; well-meaning but incompetent, best salesman, left in season 7.
Michael Scott Paper Company
Michael Scott Paper Company: fictional startup and season 5 (2009) story arc of The Office (US). Michael Scott, Pam Beesly, and Ryan Howard quit Dunder Mifflin over new VP Charles Miner, launch a rival paper firm, then negotiate a buyout rehiring all three in "Broke".
Michael Seater
Michael Seater, Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer from Toronto; Derek Venturi in Life with Derek, James Gillies in Murdoch Mysteries, and director of People Hold On, Sadie's Last Days on Earth, and Walmart's Upstairs Amy.
Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel is an American entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded Twitch, sold Socialcam to Autodesk for $60 million, and led Y Combinator from 2016 to 2024.
Michael Sela
Michael Sela (מיכאל סלע) was an Israeli chemical immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, its sixth president from 1975 to 1985, and co-developer of Copaxone, a multiple sclerosis drug.
Michael Sembello
Michael Sembello, American singer-songwriter and guitarist born 1954 in Philadelphia, known for the 1983 number-one hit "Maniac" from Flashdance, ex-Stevie Wonder guitarist, and producer for Diana Ross, Donna Summer, and Latin pop artists.
Michael Sendtner
Michael Sendtner is a German cellular and molecular neuroscientist and physician who heads the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, studying neurotrophic factors in ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus, also known as Miguel Serveto, was a Spanish theologian and physician who described the pulmonary circulation of the blood and was burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva in 1553.
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born 1970, Vancouver) is a Canadian actor known as Dr. Daniel Jackson in 196 episodes of Stargate SG-1 and as Dr. Charlie Harris on Saving Hope; also writer, director, Leo Award winner.
Michael Shanks (filmmaker)
Australian Melbourne-based writer-director Michael Shanks, creator of Timtimfed and The Wizards of Aus; debut body-horror film Together (2025, Sundance, $17M Neon sale); second feature Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel with Daniel Kaluuya.
Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born 1974, Lexington, Kentucky) is an American actor, co-founder of Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, twice Oscar-nominated for Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, known for Take Shelter, Boardwalk Empire, and The Shape of Water, and director of Eric LaRue.
Michael Sharpe (liaison psychiatrist)
Michael Sharpe is a British liaison psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine at Oxford, known for research on functional somatic symptoms and chronic fatigue syndrome.