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Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks, American boxer, 1976 Olympic middleweight gold medalist, undisputed light heavyweight champion (WBA 1981, WBC 1983), and first light heavyweight champion to win a world heavyweight title, beating Larry Holmes in 1985; lost only to Mike Tyson in 1988.
Michael Spivak
Michael Spivak (1940–2020) was an American mathematician who wrote Calculus and Calculus on Manifolds, founded Publish or Perish, and won the 1985 Steele Prize for his five-volume differential geometry series.
Michael Stadler
Michael Stadler is an Austrian energy-systems scientist who received the 2013 PECASE award as lead developer of the microgrid tool DER-CAM at Berkeley Lab, then co-founded Xendee in San Diego.
Michael Stahl-David
Michael Stahl-David (born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor known for Rob Hawkins in Cloverfield (2008), Sean Donnelly in The Black Donnellys, Chris Feistl in Narcos, and Off-Broadway stage work.
Michael Staksrud
Michael Staksrud (1908–1940), Norwegian allround speed skater of the Hadeland trio with Ballangrud and Engnestangen; world champion 1930, 1935, 1937, European champion 1934 and 1937; drowned in Gjersjøen in 1940.
Michael Steele
Michael Steele (born 1958) is an American attorney and Republican politician, first African American lieutenant governor of Maryland (2003-2007) and first African American RNC chairman (2009-2011), now an MSNBC political analyst and co-host of The Weeknight.
Michael Steele (musician)
Michael Steele, born 1955 in Pasadena, California, also known as Micki Steele, is an American retired bassist, a founding member of the Runaways (1975) and the Bangles' classic-era bassist from 1983 until 2005.
Michael Steinbach
Michael Steinbach (born 1969 in Überlingen, Germany) is a German former rower who won Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls at Barcelona 1992, then retired.
Michael Steinmetz
Michael Steinmetz is an immunologist known for the molecular genetics of the mouse major histocompatibility complex and T-cell receptor genes, working at Caltech and later Roche in Basel.
Michael Stenclik
Michael Stenclik is a New York businessperson who co-founded Tend, a consumer dental studio company, in 2018 with Doug Hudson and Andy Grover inside the venture studio Juxtapose.
Michael Stevens (educator)
Michael David Stevens (born 1986) is the American educator who created Vsauce in 2010, a YouTube science and philosophy channel with 24 million subscribers, and now co-hosts The Rest Is Science podcast with Hannah Fry.
Michael Stewart (private equity investor)
Michael Stewart is an American private equity investor who co-founded Stellex Capital Management, a New York middle-market buyout firm, in 2014 and serves as its Managing Partner.
Michael Stewart Witherell
Michael Stewart Witherell is an American experimental particle physicist who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Michael Stich
Michael Stich (born 1968, Pinneberg, Germany) is a German former tennis player, 1991 Wimbledon champion over Boris Becker, world No. 2 in 1993, winner of 18 singles titles, 1992 Olympic doubles gold with Becker, and 2018 Hall of Fame inductee.
Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe, born 1960, Decatur, Georgia) is the American singer, songwriter, and photographer who led R.E.M. from 1980 to 2011; known for opaque early lyrics, hits like Losing My Religion, and a debut solo album due May 2027.
Michael Stivic
Michael "Mike" Stivic, nicknamed Meathead, is the fictional liberal Polish-American son-in-law of Archie Bunker on CBS's All in the Family (1971–1979), played by Rob Reiner in 185 episodes; Reiner won two Emmys for the role.
Michael Stolleis
Michael Stolleis (1941–2021) was a German legal historian and professor of public law in Frankfurt, known for his four-volume History of Public Law in Germany.
Michael Stone (criminal)
Michael Stone is an English man serving three life sentences for the 1996 hammer murders of Lin and Megan Russell near Chillenden, Kent, convictions he has always contested.
Michael Stone (loyalist)
Michael Stone (born 1955) is a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, UDA/UFF member, who killed three at Belfast's Milltown Cemetery in 1988 and attacked Stormont in 2006.
Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker is an American computer scientist who co-created the Ingres and Postgres database systems at Berkeley, founded a series of database companies, and won the 2014 Turing Award.
Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan (born 1971) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end who played 15 seasons for the New York Giants, set the 22.5-sack single-season record in 2001, won Super Bowl XLII, and became a Good Morning America co-anchor.
Michael Strand
Michael R. Strand is an American entomologist at the University of Georgia known for research on insect immunity and mosquito gut bacteria, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Michael Strank
Michael Strank, also known as Mike Strank, was a US Marine sergeant killed on Iwo Jima days after helping raise the flag on Mount Suribachi in 1945.
Michael Strano
Michael S. Strano is an American chemical engineer and Carbon P. Dubbs Professor at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for nanotechnology.
Michael Stratton
Sir Michael Rudolf Stratton, born 1957, is a British cancer geneticist who identified the BRCA2 breast cancer gene, developed mutational signatures, and directed the Wellcome Sanger Institute from 2010 to 2023.
Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stuhlbarg (born 1968) is an American actor known for A Serious Man, Boardwalk Empire's Arnold Rothstein, Call Me by Your Name, and Emmy-nominated roles in The Looming Tower and Dopesick.
Michael Stümvoll
Michael Stumvoll is a German endocrinologist who directs the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research in Leipzig and created widely used insulin sensitivity indices.
Michael Sugrue
Michael Joseph Sugrue (1957–January 16, 2024) was an American historian who taught at Chicago, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Ave Maria University, and whose Great Courses lectures, uploaded to YouTube by his daughter Genevieve in 2020, made him an internet phenomenon in philosophy education.
Michael Swango
Michael Swango, American former physician and serial killer nicknamed Dr Poison and Double-O Swango, convicted of four poisonings and suspected of up to 60, serving life at ADX Florence.
Michael Swash
Michael Swash (born 1939) is a British neurologist known for work on diagnosing ALS, or motor neuron disease, and for founding the neurophysiological study of the pelvic floor.