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Michael Watson (Mississippi politician)
Michael Watson is an American Republican politician who has served as Mississippi's 36th secretary of state since 2020, after three terms in the state senate.
Michael Way (Arizona politician)
Michael Way is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, first elected to District 15 in 2024 after running business development for Charter One, his family's charter school services company.
Michael Way (cell biologist)
Michael Way is a cell biologist and virologist who leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute and is Professor of Virology at Imperial College London.
Michael Wayne
Michael Wayne (Michael A. Morrison, 1934-2003), eldest son of John Wayne, was an American film producer and president of Batjac Productions, producing McLintock!, Chisum, Big Jake, and The Green Berets, and managing his father's legacy.
Michael Weatherly
Michael Weatherly (Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr.), American actor born 1968 in New York City, known as Tony DiNozzo on NCIS (13 seasons), Logan on Dark Angel, and Dr. Jason Bull on Bull (2016–2022), now returning for NCIS season 24.
Michael Wegner
Michael Wegner is a German molecular biologist who directs the Institute of Biochemistry at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is known for showing that Sox10 regulates glial development.
Michael Welch (actor)
Michael Alan Welch (born 1987, Los Angeles) is an American actor known as Mike Newton in the Twilight Saga (2008–2011), Luke Girardi on Joan of Arcadia, and Mack Thompson on Z Nation; distinct from Michael G. Welch and other namesakes.
Michael Weller
Michael Weller is a German-born neuro-oncologist, professor and clinic director of neurology at University Hospital Zurich since 2008, known for phase III glioblastoma trials and EANO glioma guidelines.
Michael Weston
Michael Weston (Michael Rubinstein, born 1973, New York) is an American actor, son of John Rubinstein and Judi West, known for Lucas Douglas on House M.D., Jake on Six Feet Under, Garden State, and Pathology; distinct from Burn Notice's Michael Westen.
Michael Whatley
Michael David Whatley, former RNC chairman (2024) and North Carolina GOP chair (2019-2024), is the Republican 2026 Senate nominee in North Carolina facing Roy Cooper; never elected to office, Trump-endorsed, focused on election-integrity politics.
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan (born 1950) is an American imaginative realist painter, the science fiction and fantasy field's most honored cover artist, with 15 Hugo Awards, 3 World Fantasy Awards, and 2009 Science Fiction Hall of Fame induction; he retired from illustration in 2024.
Michael Whitaker
Michael Whitaker is a British physiologist and Emeritus Professor of Physiology at Newcastle University, known for work on calcium signaling in eggs, secretion, and the cell cycle.
Michael Whitehall
Michael Whitehall (born 12 April 1940, Exeter) is an English theatrical agent, TV producer, author and personality; founded Havahall Pictures and Whitehall Films, represented Judi Dench and Colin Firth, and is Jack Whitehall's father.
Michael Widenius
Michael (Monty) Widenius is a software engineer who co-created the MySQL database, co-founded MySQL AB, and later founded the MariaDB fork after leaving Sun Microsystems.
Michael Wigler
Michael Wigler is an American molecular biologist and geneticist who is a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for isolating human oncogenes and single-cell genomic technologies.
Michael Wilbon
Michael Wilbon (born 1958, Chicago) is an American sports journalist, former Washington Post columnist (1990-2010), and co-host with Tony Kornheiser of ESPN's Pardon the Interruption since 2001; also ABC/ESPN NBA analyst and Curt Gowdy Media Award (2020) honoree.
Michael Wildes
Michael Jay Wildes (born 1964) is an American immigration lawyer, managing partner of Wildes & Weinberg P.C. (founded by his father Leon in 1960), former EDNY federal prosecutor, author of Safe Haven in America, and fourth-term Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding (Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding, 1912–1979), English stage and film actor and 1940s British matinee idol, Anna Neagle co-star, Hitchcock's Under Capricorn and Stage Fright, and second husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1952–1957).
Michael Wincott
Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott (born 1958, Toronto) is a Canadian stage, film, and voice actor known for villains such as Top Dollar in The Crow and Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and for voicing Death in Darksiders II.
Michael Winner
Michael Winner (1935-2013), English film director, producer and screenwriter of Death Wish (1974) and its sequels with Charles Bronson; also the Sunday Times restaurant critic behind Winner's Dinners and the 'Calm down, dear' esure ads.
Michael Winslow
Michael Winslow, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects, is an American actor, comedian, and beatboxer born 1958 in Spokane, Washington, famous as Larvell Jones in all seven Police Academy films, the radar technician in Spaceballs, and the voice of Stripe in Gremlins.
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom (born 1961, Blackburn) is a prolific British film director of 24 Hour Party People, In This World and The Trip, known for genre-hopping, documentary-fiction hybrid filmmaking.
Michael Witney
Michael Witney (Whitney Michael Armstrong, 1931–1983) was an American film and television actor, Tyree in Star Trek's "A Private Little War" and Ike Clanton in Doc (1971), married to Twiggy from 1977 until his death.
Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann (1914–1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander famous for his Tiger attack on a British column at Villers-Bocage in Normandy in June 1944.
Michael Wolff (journalist)
Michael Wolff (born 1953) is an American journalist and author, columnist for New York and Vanity Fair, founder of Newser, and author of Fire and Fury, the Trump White House trilogy, and a Rupert Murdoch biography, known for access-driven reporting.
Michael Wolff (musician)
Michael Wolff (born 1952) is an American jazz pianist and composer, former musical director of The Arsenio Hall Show, Cal Tjader and Cannonball Adderley sideman, husband of Polly Draper, father of Nat and Alex Wolff of The Naked Brothers Band.
Michael Wolfgramm
Michael Wolfgramm, East German rower (born 1953, Schwerin), SC Dynamo Berlin; last-minute replacement for the ill Martin Winter, won 1976 Montréal Olympic gold in the men's quadruple sculls.
Michael Wood (historian)
Michael Wood is a British historian and broadcaster, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester since 2013, known for the documentary series In Search of the Trojan War, The Story of India, Story of England, and The Great British Story.
Michael Woodford (economist)
Michael Woodford (born 1955) is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist, the John Bates Clark Professor at Columbia University and winner of the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Michael Wooldridge
Michael Wooldridge is a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, recognized as one of the founders of multi-agent systems research, who gave the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.