All articles starting with M

Michel Eugène Chevreul

Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist who isolated fatty acids, discovered cholesterol, and formulated the law of simultaneous contrast of colors at the Gobelins.

Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher and historian of the Collège de France's History of Systems of Thought chair; author of History of Madness, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, and History of Sexuality; theorist of power/knowledge, biopower, and governmentality.

Michel Fourniret

Michel Fourniret, the 'Ogre of the Ardennes' (l'Ogre des Ardennes), French serial killer (1942–2021) who with wife Monique Olivier kidnapped, raped and murdered girls in France and Belgium 1987–2003; life sentences in 2008 and 2018.

Michel Gaudin (mathematical physicist)

Michel Gaudin (1931–2023) was a French mathematical physicist at the CEA in Saclay, a founder of random matrix theory and the Bethe-ansatz solution of quantum many-body models.

Sep 20, 2026

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Michel Goemans

Michel Goemans, also Michel Xavier Goemans, is a Belgian mathematician at MIT, head of its mathematics department, known for the Goemans–Williamson MAX CUT algorithm using semidefinite programming.

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry, born 1963 in Versailles, French film director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, formerly an acclaimed music video director for Björk, Daft Punk, and the White Stripes.

Michel H. Devoret

Michel H. Devoret, born in Paris in 1953, is a French quantum physicist who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electric circuit.

Michel Haïssaguerre

Michel Haïssaguerre, French cardiologist born 1955 in Bayonne; Bordeaux electrophysiologist who discovered pulmonary vein triggers of atrial fibrillation, pioneered pulmonary vein isolation, and identified Purkinje triggers of ventricular fibrillation.

Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius (born 1967, Paris) is a French director, screenwriter, and editor of OSS 117 spoofs and The Artist, which won him the 2012 Oscar for Best Director. Also directed The Search, Redoubtable, and the animated The Most Precious of Cargoes.

Michel Hénon

Michel Hénon (1931–2013) was a French mathematician and astronomer at the Observatoire de Nice, known for the Hénon map and its strange attractor and the Hénon–Heiles model of chaos.

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (Michel Thomas), French novelist and poet born 1956 on Réunion; author of Les Particules élémentaires, Plateforme, Soumission, and Goncourt winner La Carte et le territoire; known for succès de scandale reception and prizes.

Michel Hug

Michel Hug (1930–2019) was a French hydraulic engineer and professor who led the planning, engineering, and construction of France's nuclear power program at Électricité de France from 1972 to 1982.

Michel Issa (ميشال عيسى)

Michel Issa (ميشال عيسى), Lebanese-American businessman and US Ambassador to Lebanon since November 2025; former banker, car dealer, and Newton Investment Group CEO; Trump appointee and negotiator in Israel-Lebanon talks.

Oct 21, 2026

Michel Jazy

Michel Jazy (1936–2024), French middle-distance runner, 1960 Olympic 1,500 m silver medallist, double European champion (1962, 1966), and holder of nine world records including the 1965 mile record of 3:53.6.

Sep 23, 2026

Michel Joachim Marie Raymond

Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, known locally as Moosaram or Musa Ram, was a French general serving Nizam Ali Khan of Hyderabad from 1755 to 1798.

Michel Julliere

Michel Julliere is a French physicist at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes credited with the first report of tunneling magnetoresistance in a 1975 paper.

Sep 20, 2026

Michel Lazdunski

Michel Lazdunski (born 1938) is a French biochemist and molecular pharmacologist, a CNRS researcher and member of the Académie des sciences known for his work on ion channels.

Michel Le Quien

Michel Le Quien (1661–1733) was a French Dominican theologian, orientalist, and church historian whose posthumous Oriens christianus (1740) cataloged the bishops and sees of the four eastern patriarchates.

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (1932-2019), French composer, jazz pianist, and conductor; wrote 200+ film scores, won three Oscars for The Windmills of Your Mind, Summer of '42, and Yentl, and with Jacques Demy created The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Michel Loève

Michel Loève (1907–1979) was a probabilist and measure theorist who joined UC Berkeley in 1948, wrote the influential textbook Probability Theory, and helped establish the Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem.

Michel Loreau

Michel Loreau, born 1954 in Uccle, Belgium, is a Belgian theoretical ecologist who founded biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research, works at CNRS in France, and has written over 400 publications.

Michel Lotito

Michel Lotito, known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat All"), was a French entertainer from Grenoble who ate metal and glass, including a whole Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980.

Michel M Dugon

Michel M Dugon is an Irish-based zoologist and venom researcher who founded and heads the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway, studying venomous animals.

Michel Martelly

Michel Joseph Martelly, aka Sweet Micky, Haitian compas musician and President of Haiti 2011-2016, founder of PHTK; sanctioned by Canada (2022), the US (2024), and the EU (2025) over drug trafficking and gang financing.

Michel Mayor

Michel Mayor is a Swiss astronomer who codiscovered 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet around a sunlike star, and won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Oct 21, 2026

Michel Mulder

Michel Mulder is a retired Dutch speed skater, born 1986 in Zwolle, who won Olympic 500-meter gold and 1,000-meter bronze at Sochi 2014 and twice won the world sprint title.

Michel Ney

Michel Ney (1769-1815), duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moskowa, Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon, famed as 'the bravest of the brave' for the 1812 Russian rearguard; executed for treason in 1815, the only marshal shot after the Hundred Days.