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Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927–2019) was a British physicist and crystallographer at the University of York whose MULTAN software solved many of the world's crystal structures.
Michael Workéyè
Michael Workéyè (Michael Workeye) is a British actor, born in London and trained at the Arts Educational Schools, known for This Is Going to Hurt, My Lady Jane, The Stolen Girl, Black Mirror, and upcoming 2026 roles in The Moment and Rogue Trooper.
Michael Worobey
Michael Worobey is a Canadian evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who uses viral genomes to pinpoint how HIV, the 1918 influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 emerged and spread.
Michael Wright (actor)
Michael Wright (1956–2026) was an American actor known for Eddie King Jr. in The Five Heartbeats, Elias Taylor in V, and Omar White on Oz; he also appeared in The Wanderers, Streamers, and Sugar Hill.
Michael Wright (Canadian Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Michael Charles Wright, CMM, MMV, MSM and Bar, CD, Canadian Army officer and Commander of the Canadian Army since 12 July 2024; former commander of CFINTCOM and Chief of Defence Intelligence; announced the 2026 Manoeuvre Division transformation plan.
Michael Wu
Michael Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Amber Group, a cryptocurrency financial services firm founded in Hong Kong in 2017 and later headquartered in Singapore.
Michael X
Michael X, born Michael de Freitas, was a Trinidad-born civil rights activist, the most publicized figure of Britain's Black Power movement, hanged in Trinidad in 1975 for murder.
Michael Y. Galperin
Michael Y. Galperin is a computational biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COG database of orthologous genes and for microbial genomics research.
Michael Y. Scudder, Jr.
Michael Yale Scudder, Jr. (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018.
Michael Yachnis
Michael Yachnis (1922–2012) was a Greek-born American civil engineer, chief engineer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Michael Yang
Michael Yang, also known as Yang Hong Ming, is a Korean American entrepreneur who co-founded the comparison-shopping site mySimon and sold it to CNET in 2000.
Michael Yartsev
Michael M. Yartsev is a neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator who is an associate professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley, studying how the brain supports natural behaviors using bats.
Michael Yarus
Michael Yarus is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for work on transfer RNA, catalytic RNA, and the genetic code's origin.
Michael Yeadon
Michael Yeadon, retired British pharmacologist, former Pfizer VP and chief scientific officer of allergy and respiratory research (left 2011), Ziarco founder, known for the 2020 Wodarg-Yeadon syncytin-1 vaccine-infertility petition and later COVID-19 denial claims, widely fact-checked.
Michael Yo
Michael Yo (Michael Yo Simmons, born 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host from Houston with Black and Korean roots, known for The Insider, Chelsea Lately, and the specials Blasian, I Never Thought, and Snack Daddy.
Michael York
Michael York (born 1942, birth name Michael Hugh Johnson) is an English stage and screen actor known for Tybalt in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, and Basil Exposition in Austin Powers.
Michaël Youn
Michaël Youn (Michaël Benayoun), French actor, comedian, director and TV host born 1973 in Suresnes; famous for M6's Morning Live (2000–2002), the Fatal Bazooka rap parody, La Beuze, and films he directed including Fatal, Vive la France, Divorce Club, and BDE.
Michael Young (baseball)
Michael Young (born 1976) is a former MLB infielder, 2005 AL batting champion and 2006 All-Star MVP, who spent 12 of 13 seasons with the Texas Rangers, holds their hits record, and had number 10 retired.
Michael Z. Lin
Michael Z. Lin is a Stanford professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering who engineers molecular tools for reading and controlling biology, including the ASAP voltage indicators and the RASER cancer-signaling system.
Michael Zasloff
Michael A. Zasloff is an American immunologist and biotechnology entrepreneur known for discovering magainin peptides in frog skin and squalamine, and is a professor at Georgetown University.
Michael Zegen
Michael Jonathan Zegen (born 1979, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Joel Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Benny Siegel in Boardwalk Empire, Alberto Falcone in The Penguin, and Broadway work in A View from the Bridge.
Michael Zheng (郑瑞)
Michael Zheng (郑瑞), born 2004, American tennis player; two-time NCAA singles champion (2024, 2025) for Columbia University, 2022 Wimbledon boys' finalist, and 2026 Grand Slam qualifier with wins over Korda and Norrie.
Michael Zimmermann
Michael Zimmermann is a Swiss microbiome researcher and group leader at EMBL Heidelberg since 2019, known for a 2019 Nature study showing gut bacteria metabolize most of 271 drugs tested.
Michael Zubkoff
Michael Zubkoff is an American health economist who spent his career at Dartmouth, co-founded the Medical Outcomes Study that produced the SF-36, and advised every U.S. president since Ford.
Michael Zuo
Michael Zuo, also known as Michael Lingye Zuo, is a Chinese venture capital investor and founding partner of MPCi, formerly Matrix Partners China, known for early investments in Cheetah Mobile, Anjuke, and Babytree.
Michael Α. Gatzoulis
Michael A. Gatzoulis (Μιχαήλ Α. Γατζούλης) is a Greek-born cardiologist and professor at Imperial College London, known for research on sudden-death risk in repaired tetralogy of Fallot.
Michael-Christopher Koji Fox
Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, often called Koji Fox, is an American video game translator and localization director at Square Enix, known for Final Fantasy XI, XIV, and XVI.
Michael-Leon Wooley
Michael-Leon Wooley (born 1971, Fairfax, Virginia) is an American actor and singer with a deep bass voice, known as Louis in The Princess and the Frog, Audrey II on Broadway, Dex DeShawn in Cyberpunk 2077, and Darkseid in Injustice 2.
Michaela Barnett
Michaela Barnett is an American engineer and small business owner who won the Democratic primary on August 6, 2026, for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 2nd congressional district.
Michaela Blyde
Michaela Blyde, now Michaela Brake, New Zealand rugby sevens wing born 1995 in New Plymouth; double Olympic gold medalist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), two-time World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year, and all-time leading women's Sevens Series try scorer.