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Michael Vick
Michael Vick (born 1980, Newport News, Virginia), NFL quarterback, first Black QB drafted No. 1 overall (2001 Falcons), 6,109 career rushing yards, 2007 dogfighting conviction, 2010 Comeback Player of the Year, now Norfolk State head coach.
Michael Victor Berry
Michael Victor Berry, born 1941, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol, best known for discovering the geometric phase, called the Berry phase.
Michael VIII Palaiologos (Μιχαήλ Η΄ Παλαιολόγος)
Michael VIII Palaiologos (Μιχαήλ Η΄ Παλαιολόγος), born c. 1225, died 1282, Byzantine emperor who usurped the Nicaean throne from John IV Laskaris in 1259, recaptured Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, founded the Palaiologan dynasty, and accepted church union at Lyons in 1274.
Michael Vivian Sefton
Michael Vivian Sefton is a Canadian biomedical engineer and University Professor at the University of Toronto, known as a founder of cell-polymer tissue engineering and cell microencapsulation.
Michael Voltaggio
Michael Voltaggio, also known with brother Bryan as the Voltaggio brothers, is an American chef from Frederick, Maryland who won Top Chef Season 6, earned a Michelin star at Dry Creek Kitchen, opened Ink in Los Angeles, and co-owns Voltaggio Brothers Steak House.
Michael W Martynowycz
Michael W Martynowycz is a structural biologist and physicist who develops MicroED methods for atomic-resolution protein structures, and is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo since 2025.
Michael W. Deininger
Michael W. Deininger is a German-trained hematologist whose research established how chronic myeloid leukemia resists tyrosine kinase inhibitors; he leads the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee.
Michael W. Fitzgerald
Michael W. Fitzgerald, also known as Michael Walter Fitzgerald, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2012.
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray (1943–2026) was a Canadian biochemist at Dalhousie University known for work on mitochondrial evolution and the discovery of RNA editing in plant mitochondria.
Michael W. Hunkapiller
Michael W. Hunkapiller is an American biochemist and sequencing-technology executive whose automated DNA sequencers at Applied Biosystems enabled the Human Genome Project; he later led Pacific Biosciences.
Michael W. Lieberman
Michael W. Lieberman is an American molecular biologist and pathologist known for research on how mammalian cells repair DNA damage from carcinogens and ultraviolet radiation.
Michael W. McBurney
Michael W. McBurney is a Canadian molecular biologist and Emeritus Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, known for the P19 embryonal carcinoma cell line and sirtuin research.
Michael W. Mosman
Michael W. Mosman, born 1956 in Eugene, Oregon, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Michael W. Salter
Michael W. Salter is a Canadian neuroscientist, a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and Professor at the University of Toronto, known for work on microglia and chronic pain.
Michael W. Schwartz
Michael W. Schwartz is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who studies how the brain regulates body weight and blood glucose, and led its diabetes institute.
Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith, born Michael Whitaker Smith in 1957 in Kenova, West Virginia, is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter whose hits include "Friends" and "Place in This World."
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams is a biochemist at the University of Georgia known for studying hyperthermophiles, microbes that grow near 100 °C, and their metalloenzymes.
Michael W. Weiner
Michael W. Weiner is a UCSF physician-scientist who leads the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the largest longitudinal biomarker study of Alzheimer's disease, launched in 2004.
Michael W. Young
Michael W. Young, born 1949 in Miami, is a geneticist at Rockefeller University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Michael Wagner (mechanical engineer)
Michael J. Wagner is an American mechanical engineer who won a PECASE award at NREL for concentrating solar power modeling and is now a professor at UW–Madison.
Michael Walker (British journalist)
Michael Walker (born around 1989/1990) is a British left-wing political journalist and presenter, contributing editor at Novara Media, host of Novara Live (formerly TyskySour) and the Crash Course podcast, distinct from other Michael Walkers.
Michael Wall
Michael Wall (Michael Allen "Mike" Wall, born 1946), American distance swimmer, Santa Clara SC and Stanford; 1964 and 1968 Olympic relay heat swimmer, 1965 Universiade 1500 m freestyle champion, and 4x200 m freestyle relay world record holder.
Michael Waltrip
Michael Waltrip (born 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky), brother of Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR driver, two-time Daytona 500 winner (2001, 2003), founder of Michael Waltrip Racing, and FOX Sports analyst.
Michael Waltz
Michael Waltz (born 1974) is a retired Army National Guard colonel, first Green Beret elected to Congress, former Florida 6th district representative, brief Trump national security adviser, and current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer (born 1935, Bronx) is an American political philosopher, IAS professor emeritus, and Dissent co-editor; author of Just and Unjust Wars (1977) and Spheres of Justice (1983), founder of traditionalist just war theory.
Michael Wang (hematologist-oncologist)
Michael (Luhua) Wang is a Chinese-American hematologist-oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who directs its Mantle Cell Lymphoma Program of Excellence and has published over 150 papers.
Michael Warren (actor)
Michael Warren (Lloyd Michael Warren, born 1946) is an American actor, producer, and former UCLA All-American basketball player, best known as Officer Bobby Hill on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987, Emmy-nominated 1982) and as creator of Family Matters.
Michael Warriner
Michael Henry Warriner (1908–1986), British rower and engineer; won 1928 Amsterdam Olympic gold in the men's coxless fours with Lander, Beesly, and Bevan; three-time Boat Race winner and CUBC president; MBE 1945.
Michael Waterman
Michael Waterman is an American mathematician and computational biologist at the University of Southern California, co-developer of the Smith–Waterman algorithm and Lander–Waterman model that underpinned the Human Genome Project.
Michael Watson
Michael Watson, MBE (born 1965), British boxer nicknamed "The Force"; 25-4-1 (21 KOs); beat Nigel Benn 1989; career ended by brain injury in 1991 Eubank rematch; won negligence case against British Boxing Board of Control.