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Michel Orrit
Michel Orrit (born 1956) is a French physicist, professor emeritus at Leiden University, who in 1990 first detected a single molecule by fluorescence, founding single-molecule optical spectroscopy.
Michel P. Coleman
Michel P. Coleman is a British cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1995.
Michel Pereira
Michel Pereira, "Demolidor", Brazilian MMA middleweight from Marabá born 1993; 32-15 pro, 10-6 UFC across two divisions; acrobatic showman style; released by UFC July 2026 after Shara Magomedov loss at UFC Baku.
Michel Périn
Michel Périn (born 1957, Saint-Mihiel) is a French rally co-driver, four-time Dakar car winner: 1994-1996 with Pierre Lartigue (Citroën ZX) and 2014 with Nani Roma (MINI), plus four FIA Cross Country World Cup titles.
Michel Plancherel
Michel Plancherel (1885–1967) was a Swiss mathematician at ETH Zurich, where he served as Rektor from 1931 to 1935, best known for the 1910 Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis.
Michel Platini
Michel Platini (born 1955), French midfielder, Euro 1984 winner with 9 goals, three consecutive Ballons d'Or with Juventus, 72 caps and 41 goals for France, later UEFA president 2007-2015.
Michel Qissi
Michel Qissi (Mohammed Qissi, ميشيل قيسي), born 1962 in Oujda, Morocco, is a Moroccan-Belgian actor, martial artist, and director, famous as villain Tong Po in Kickboxer (1989) and Kickboxer 2, and a longtime Jean-Claude Van Damme collaborator from Bloodsport to Lionheart.
Michel R. Gagné
Michel R. Gagné is an organic chemist and Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, known for silylium-ion late-stage functionalization of natural products.
Michel Raynaud
Michel Raynaud (1938–2018) was a French mathematician at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay who worked in algebraic geometry and proved the Manin–Mumford and Abhyankar conjectures.
Michel Revel
Michel Revel, born 1938 in Strasbourg, is a molecular biologist and physician, emeritus professor at Israel's Weizmann Institute, known for cloning interferon-beta and interleukin-6 and developing the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif.
Michel Rousseau
Michel Rousseau (1936-2016), French track sprint cyclist, "Le taureau de Vaugirard"; Olympic 1000 m sprint gold at Melbourne 1956, world amateur champion 1956-57, professional world champion 1958, grandfather of diver Cassiel Rousseau.
Michel Roux
Michel Roux (1941–2020), French chef and restaurateur, brother of Albert Roux; co-founded Le Gavroche (1967) and founded the Waterside Inn, Bray (1972), which holds three Michelin stars since 1985.
Michel Sadelain
Michel Sadelain, born in Paris in 1960, is a French-Canadian immunologist who developed CAR T cell therapy for cancer and won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
Michel Salesse
Michel Jean Frédéric Salesse (born 1955, Algiers) is a French left-handed épée fencer; Olympic team gold 1980 Moscow, silver 1984 Los Angeles, world team champion 1982 and 1983, later French women's épée coach.
Míchel Salgado
Míchel Salgado (Miguel Ángel Salgado Fernández, born 1975, As Neves, Spain) is a former right back, Real Madrid 1999–2009 with 4 La Liga and 2 Champions League titles, 53 Spain caps, later Blackburn Rovers player and coach.
Michel Sardou
Michel Sardou is a French singer, lyricist, composer, and actor born in Paris in 1947, one of the best-selling French-language artists ever, known for hits like "La Maladie d'amour" and "Les Lacs du Connemara".
Michel Scheuer
Michel Scheuer (1927–2015), German canoeist, Olympic gold in K2 1000 m at Melbourne 1956 with Meinrad Miltenberger, first German postwar Olympic gold; also two Olympic bronzes in K1 10,000 m and two world titles.
Michel Serres
Michel Serres (1930–2019), French philosopher and historian of science, Académie française member (seat 18, 1990), Stanford professor, author of the Hermès series, Le Parasite, and Le Contrat naturel, pioneer of ecological philosophy.
Michel Strubin
Michel Strubin is a Swiss molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Geneva, known for showing in 2016 that the SMC5/6 complex acts as a cell sentinel against hepatitis B virus.
Michel T. Halbouty
Michel T. Halbouty (1909–2004) was an American geologist and petroleum engineer, an independent wildcatter credited with discovering more than fifty oil and gas fields while drilling in at least twenty-six states.
Michel Talagrand
Michel Talagrand, born 1952 in Béziers, France, is a French mathematician who spent his career at the CNRS and won the 2024 Abel Prize for probability theory.
Michel Temer
Michel Temer, born Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as president of Brazil from 2016 to 2018 after Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.
Michel Ter-Pogossian
Michel Ter-Pogossian was a Berlin-born, French-American nuclear physicist of Armenian descent at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who led the team that developed PET.
Michel Théato
Michel Théato (1878-1923), Luxembourg-born runner for French club Saint-Mandé, won the 1900 Paris Olympic marathon in 2:59:45; France's first athletics gold, credited to France despite his Luxembourg nationality.
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 1942) is a Québécois playwright and novelist from Montreal whose joual play Les Belles-soeurs (1968) founded new Québécois dramaturgy; his tragicomic works about working-class Montreal have been translated into some 30 languages.
Michel Trudeau
Michel Charles-Émile Trudeau (1975–1998), youngest son of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, died in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, British Columbia.
Michel Vaillant
Michel Vaillant is a long-running French motor-racing comic series created by Jean Graton in 1957 for Tintin, chronicling champion driver Michel Vaillant and the family Vaillante firm; rebooted in 2012 under Philippe Graton.
Michel Vermeulin
Michel Vermeulin (Michel Hervé Vermeulin), born 6 September 1934 in Montreuil, France, is a former road and track cyclist, 1956 Olympic team road race gold medalist and team pursuit silver medalist, distinct from Austrian skier Mika Vermeulen.
Michel Virlogeux
Michel Virlogeux Consultant SARL is the consulting practice of French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, who left public service in 1995 and designed the Pont de Normandie and Millau Viaduct.
Michel Vorm
Michel Vorm (born 1983), Dutch goalkeeper for FC Utrecht, Swansea City and Tottenham Hotspur, 15 Netherlands caps, 304 top-level appearances, retired October 2020, later goalkeeper coach and barbershop owner.