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Michael Shea (diplomat)
Michael Sinclair MacAuslan Shea (1938–2009), British Foreign Office diplomat and press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, 1978–1987; left after the 1986 Sunday Times Thatcher leak; later Hanson Group executive and author of over 20 books.
Michael Sheen
Michael Christopher Sheen (born 1969) is a Welsh actor from Port Talbot known for playing Tony Blair, David Frost, Brian Clough, and Aziraphale in Good Omens, and for his not-for-profit activism and Welsh National Theatre.
Michael Sheetz
Michael Patrick Sheetz (1946–2025) was an American cell biologist who co-discovered the motor protein kinesin, pioneered mechanobiology, founded Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute, and won the Lasker, Wiley, and Massry Prizes.
Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger is an American author, environmental policy writer, and investigative journalist, known for co-founding the Breakthrough Institute, for the best-selling Apocalypse Never (2020), and for the Twitter Files.
Michael Shelley (applied mathematician)
Michael J. Shelley is an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute who studies complex and active fluids, biophysics, and the fluid mechanics of living cells.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer (born 1954), also known as Michael Brant Shermer, is an American science writer and skeptic, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, co-founder of the Skeptics Society, former Scientific American columnist, and author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain.
Michael Shishman of Bulgaria
Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман) was tsar of Bulgaria from 1323 to 1330, the founder of the Shishman dynasty, and died at the Battle of Velbazhd against Serbia in 1330.
Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter (born 1970) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director, founding member of The State and Stella, co-writer of Wet Hot American Summer, and director of The Big Sick, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and The Idea of You.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve (born 1949) is an American drummer, original drummer of Santana (1969-1974) famous for his Woodstock "Soul Sacrifice" solo, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and pioneer of electronic percussion.
Michael Shub
Michael Shub is an American mathematician who trained in Stephen Smale's school at Berkeley, introduced expanding maps, formulated the entropy conjecture, and with Lenore Blum and Smale founded the Blum–Shub–Smale model of computation over the reals.
Michael Shuman
Michael Shuman (Mikey Shoes), born 1985 in Los Angeles, is the bassist of Queens of the Stone Age since 2007, co-founder of psych-pop trio Mini Mansions, and since 2022 records hip-hop-influenced solo material as GLU.
Michael Simon Avidan
Michael Simon Avidan is a South African-born anesthesiologist and perioperative outcomes researcher who leads anesthesiology at Washington University and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Michael Simons
Michael Simons is a cardiologist and the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, known for leading the first US trials of therapeutic angiogenesis.
Michael Sittow
Michael Sittow, also spelled Michel Sittow (c. 1468/9–1525), was an Estonian painter from Reval, now Tallinn, who worked as a court portraitist for Isabella of Castile.
Michael Sixt
Michael Sixt is an Austrian-based cell biologist and immunologist who studies how immune cells migrate through living tissue, and a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2013.
Michael Skinnider
Michael Skinnider (Michael A. Skinnider) is a Canadian computational biologist and physician-scientist, an assistant professor at Princeton University since 2023, known for using machine learning to identify designer drugs and unknown metabolites.
Michael Skupin
Michael Skupin, American software publisher and two-time Survivor contestant (The Australian Outback 2001, Philippines 2012), first player medically evacuated after a campfire burn; later convicted in 2016 of child pornography possession.
Michael Slater
Michael Slater (born 1970, Wagga Wagga), nicknamed Slats, Australian Test opening batsman 1993–2001, 74 Tests, 5,312 runs at 42.83, 14 centuries; retired 2004 with arthritis, then a commentator, later convicted of domestic violence.
Michael Sloan (television writer)
Michael Sloan (1946–2025), also credited as Michael Sloane, American television writer and producer; co-creator of The Equalizer (1985) with Richard Lindheim, producer of the Denzel Washington films and Queen Latifah reboot, Emmy nominee for Quincy.
Michael Smerconish
Michael Andrew Smerconish (born 1962), American talk-radio and CNN host, former lawyer and G.H.W. Bush HUD regional administrator; hosts CNN's Saturday 'Smerconish' and SiriusXM POTUS 124; left the GOP in 2010.
Michael Smiley
Michael Smiley (born 1963, Belfast) is a Northern Irish comedian and actor, known as Tyres in Spaced, for Ben Wheatley collaborations including Kill List (BIFA Best Supporting Actor), Free Fire, The Lobster, Rogue One, Luther, and Black Mirror.
Michael Smith (biochemist)
Michael Smith (1932–2000) was a British-born Canadian biochemist at the University of British Columbia who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing site-directed mutagenesis.
Michael Smith (darts player)
Michael Smith, nicknamed Bullyboy, is an English PDC darts player from St Helens who won the 2023 World Championship against Michael van Gerwen with a famous nine-darter, becoming world number one, before a ranking decline.
Michael Smith (sports reporter)
Michael Smith (Michael Anthony Smith), New Orleans-born sports journalist: Loyola graduate, Boston Globe Patriots beat writer 2001-04, ESPN 2004-2019 (Numbers Never Lie, His & Hers, SC6 with Jemele Hill), later Peacock's Brother From Another and Amazon TNF analyst.
Michael Smurfit
Dr Michael Smurfit, born 1936, is an Irish-British packaging industrialist who ran Jefferson Smurfit Group from 1977 to 2002, took it private in a €3.7 billion buyout, and formed Smurfit Kappa.
Michael Socha
Michael Socha (born 1987, Derby, England) is an English actor known as Tom the werewolf in Being Human, Harvey in This Is England, and the Knave of Hearts in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, trained at Nottingham's Television Workshop.
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב)
Michael Solomonov (מיכאל סולומונוב, born 1978) is an Israeli-born American chef and restaurateur in Philadelphia; co-owner with Steven Cook of CookNSolo and Zahav, a James Beard Outstanding Restaurant winner, and a leading popularizer of modern Israeli cuisine in the United States.
Michael Somos
Michael Somos is an American mathematician who discovered the Somos-k integer sequences in the 1980s while studying elliptic functions, and has authored over 2000 sequences in the OEIS.
Michael Sorrentino
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, American reality TV star of MTV's Jersey Shore (2009-2012) and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation; sentenced in 2018 to eight months in federal prison for tax evasion on about $8.9 million in income; now sober and running Archangel Centers addiction clinics.
Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer is a British financial entrepreneur who founded the inter-dealer broker ICAP in 1986 and later led NEX Group, sold to CME Group in 2018.