All articles starting with M

Michał Kosieradzki

Michał Kosieradzki is a Polish video game developer who co-founded the Warsaw shooter studio People Can Fly in 2002, staying through Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and the founders' 2012 exit.

Michal Linial is an Israeli computational biologist, a professor of biological chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for ProteinBERT and the PWAS method linking genetic variation to disease.

Sep 20, 2026

Michal Lipson

Michal Lipson is a physicist and pioneer of silicon photonics, the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University, known for slot waveguides and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Oct 21, 2026

Michal Martikan

Michal Martikán, Slovak canoe slalom C1 paddler born 1979 in Liptovský Mikuláš; five Olympic medals (gold 1996, 2008), first Olympic champion of independent Slovakia, still competing in 2025.

Oct 10, 2026

Michał Misiurewicz

Michał Misiurewicz is a Polish mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Indianapolis, whose work in dynamical systems gave his name to Misiurewicz maps and Misiurewicz points.

Michał Oleksiejczuk

Michał Oleksiejczuk ("Hussar"), Polish UFC middleweight born 1995 in Włodawa; pro record 22-10-0 (1 NC), 16 KO wins, 13 first-round finishes; brother Cezary also fights in the UFC.

Oct 22, 2026

Michał Rola-Żymierski

Michał Rola-Żymierski, born Michał Łyżwiński, was a Polish military officer and communist activist who served as Marshal of Poland from 1945 and as defense minister from 1944 to 1949.

Sep 20, 2026

Michal Schwartz

Michal Schwartz (מיכל שוורץ), born 1950, is an Israeli neuroimmunologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for showing immune cells support brain repair and for Alzheimer's immunotherapy.

Oct 22, 2026

Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki

Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki (1680–1744) was a Lithuanian magnate, hetman, and chancellor who led the anti-Sapieha coalition in the civil war of 1697–1702, the last male of the Wiśniowiecki line.

Michał Sikorski

Michał Sikorski (b. 5 September 1995, Wadowice) is a Polish actor of Teatr Polski w Poznaniu, known as Father Jakub in Netflix's 1670 and for the Gdynia debut award for Sonata; distinct from other namesakes.

Michal Šimečka

Michal Šimečka (born 1984, Bratislava) is a Slovak liberal politician, DPhil (Oxford), leader of Progressive Slovakia, MEP 2019-2023, first Slovak EP vice-president, target of the 2023 Slovak election audio deepfake, and now opposition MP against Fico's government.

Michał Sołowow

Michał Sołowow is a Polish industrialist and investor, born 1962 in Kielce, who owns the chemical company Synthos, the ceramics producer Cersanit, and the flooring maker Barlinek.

Michal Strnad

Michal Strnad, born in 1992, is a Czech billionaire who owns and leads Czechoslovak Group, a Prague-based defense group that became the largest producer of small-caliber ammunition in the Western world.

Michal Szostak

Michal Szostak is an organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University–Newark, known for developing acyclic twisted amide bond activation and metal-free amide conversion methods.

Sep 27, 2026

Michał Sztybel

Michał Sztybel (born 1985) is a Polish politician of the KO party serving as Voivode of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, after earlier serving on the Bydgoszcz City Council and as Deputy Mayor of Bydgoszcz.

Michala Banas

Michala Banas (Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas), New Zealand-born actress and singer based in Australia; Kate Manfredi in McLeod's Daughters (2004-2008), Marissa Taylor in Always Greener, Amber Wheeler in Upper Middle Bogan, 2010 Helpmann Award winner, and intimacy coordinator.

Michale Graves

Michale Graves, stage name of Michael Emanuel (b. 1975), American punk singer; lead vocalist of the reformed Misfits 1995-2000 (American Psycho, Famous Monsters), later solo artist, Gotham Road frontman, and faith-based songwriter.

Michale S. Fee

Michale S. Fee is a neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors using songbirds; he heads MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Michalis Averof

Michalis Averof is a comparative developmental biologist, a CNRS research director at the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, known for Hox gene work and limb regeneration research.

Michalis Violaris

Michalis Violaris (Μιχάλης Βιολάρης), born Michalis Kyriakou in 1944 near Nicosia, is a Cypriot-born Greek singer and songwriter, a leading New Wave voice known for "Ta Rialia".

Michaux Stone

The Michaux Stone (Caillou Michaux) is a Babylonian kudurru, or land-grant stone, engraved under King Marduk-nadin-ahhe around 1099–1082 BC and recording a father's gift of a field to his daughter.

Oct 15, 2026

Miche (robot)

Miche is a modular robot system developed at MIT's CSAIL that forms three-dimensional shapes by self-disassembly, described by Kyle Gilpin, Daniela Rus, and colleagues in 2008.

Micheál Martin

Micheál Martin is an Irish politician and Fianna Fáil leader who has served twice as Taoiseach, from 2020 to 2022 and again since January 2025.

Micheal Ward

Micheal Ward (born 1997, Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-British actor known as Jamie in Netflix's Top Boy, winner of the 2020 EE BAFTA Rising Star Award, and star of Blue Story, Small Axe: Lovers Rock, Empire of Light, and Eddington; acquitted of all charges in July 2026.

Míchel (footballer, born 1975)

Míchel (Miguel Ángel Sánchez Muñoz, born 1975), Spanish manager, led Girona from Segunda to third in La Liga 2023/24 (81 points) and Champions League qualification; left in May 2026 after relegation, then joined Ajax. Distinct from the 1963-born Real Madrid midfielder Míchel.