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Michele Ferrero
Michele Ferrero (1925–2015) was the Italian owner-manager who built the family firm Ferrero SpA into one of the world's largest confectionery groups, creating Nutella, Kinder Surprise, Tic Tac, and Ferrero Rocher.
Michèle Flournoy
Michèle Flournoy, American defense official, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 2009-2012, CNAS and WestExec Advisors co-founder, twice front-runner for US Secretary of Defense but never nominated.
Michele Frangilli
Michele Frangilli, Italian recurve archer born 1976 in Gallarate, Olympic team gold at London 2012, silver 2000, bronze 1996; only recurve archer world champion in indoor, outdoor, and field archery.
Michele Granger
Michele Granger, American left-handed softball pitcher (born 1970, Placentia, California), Cal 1990-93, then-NCAA record 1,640 strikeouts, 25 no-hitters, 94 shutouts; 1996 Olympic gold medalist who threw the first pitch in Olympic softball history.
Michele Grim
Michele Grim is an American politician and Democrat in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 43rd district since 2023 after serving on Toledo City Council.
Michele Gumabao
Michele Theresa Gumabao (born 1992, San Mateo, California), Filipino volleyball opposite spiker; DLSU three-peat UAAP champion, Pocari Sweat captain, Creamline star, 2024 PVL Invitational MVP and first PVL Grand Slam; also Binibining Pilipinas Globe 2018.
Michele Heisler
Michele Heisler is an American physician-investigator at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for research on health, human rights, and health equity.
Michele Hoitenga
Michele Hoitenga is an American Republican politician who has represented Michigan's 36th Senate district since 2022, after serving in the state House from 2016 to 2022 and as mayor of Manton.
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand is a cross-cultural and organizational psychologist at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for tightness–looseness theory of how strongly societies enforce social norms.
Michele Jamiolkowski
Michele Jamiolkowski (1932–2023) was a Polish-born Italian geotechnical engineer who founded the Politecnico di Torino's geotechnical school and led the effort to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Michele Kang
Michele Kang is a South Korea-born American businesswoman who founded health IT firm Cognosante and owns the Washington Spirit, OL Lyonnes, and London City Lionesses.
Michele Lamberti
Michele Lamberti is an Italian competitive swimmer born in 2000 in Brescia who specializes in backstroke, holds Italian records, and debuted at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont (born 1957) is a Canadian sociologist at Harvard who studies symbolic boundaries and inequality, wrote Money, Morals, and Manners, and led the American Sociological Association in 2016-17.
Michèle Lamy
Michèle Lamy (born 1944, Jura, France) is a French cultural entrepreneur, former criminal defense lawyer, restaurateur, and artist; wife and business partner of Rick Owens, co-founder of Owenscorp, creator of Lamyland, HUNROD jewelry, and the band LAVASCAR.
Michèle Léduc
Michèle Léduc is a French CNRS physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris who co-led the group that produced one of the first two Bose–Einstein condensates of metastable helium in 2001.
Michele Lee
Michele Lee (Michelle Lee Dusick), American actress born 1942 in Los Angeles; Karen Fairgate MacKenzie in all 344 episodes of Knots Landing (1979–1993), Emmy-nominated 1982; Broadway Rosemary in How to Succeed, Tony nominee for Seesaw and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife.
Michele Maffei
Michele Maffei, born 1946 in Rome, Italian sabre fencer; Olympic team sabre gold 1972 and silver 1968, 1976, 1980; individual world champion 1971 Vienna; C.S. Carabinieri athlete.
Michele Malfatti
Michele Malfatti (born 1994, Trento) is an Italian long-track speed skater, GS Fiamme Gialle police athlete, Olympic team pursuit champion at Milano Cortina 2026, world champion Calgary 2024, and European champion 2026.
Michele Mastromarino
Michele Mastromarino (1894–1986), Italian artistic gymnast from Cagliari, gold medalist in the men's team all-around at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics with Italy (359.855 points); sources conflict on his death date and a claimed 1912 gold.
Michele Mombet
Michele (Michèle) Mombet, French sprinter born 1949, first-leg runner on France's 3:34.2 women's 4x400 m relay world record set at Colombes on 6 July 1969 with Jacq, Duclos, and Besson; her only world record, broken in September 1969.
Michele Morrone
Michele Morrone (born 1990) is an Italian actor, singer, and model, star of 365 Days (2020) and its sequels, later in Subservience and Another Simple Favor; albums Dark Room and Double; Guess and Dolce & Gabbana campaigns.
Michèle Mouton
Michèle Mouton (born 1951, Grasse, France), French rally driver, first and only woman to win a WRC round (1981 Sanremo, Audi quattro) and 1982 world vice-champion behind Walter Röhrl; later FIA WRC Manager and Race of Champions co-founder.
Michele Pagano (Italian biologist)
Michele Pagano, born in Naples, Italy, is an Italian cancer biologist who chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2008.
Michele Parrinello
Michele Parrinello, born 1945 in Messina, Italy, is an Italian and Swiss physicist known for the Car–Parrinello method, the Parrinello–Rahman barostat, and metadynamics, with over 150,000 citations.
Michele Pedrocchi
Michele Pedrocchi is a Swiss diagnostics executive, resident in Cheshire, England, who spent 27 years at Roche Diagnostics and since 2025 has chaired the precision-oncology diagnostics company Kinomica.
Michele Peña
Michele Peña is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 23rd district, elected in 2022 and running for reelection in 2026.
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson, born in 1948 in Antananarivo, is a Malagasy novelist and journalist who writes in French and Malagasy and went into political exile in France in 1983.
Michele Rayner
Michele Rayner is an American Democratic politician in the Florida House of Representatives, representing District 62 and first elected in 2020 as an openly queer Black woman.
Michele Reynolds
Michele Reynolds is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio Senate from the 3rd district, first elected as a Madison Township Trustee in 2019.
Michele Romanow
Michele Romanow is a Canadian serial entrepreneur who started six companies, including Clearco, and has invested as a "Dragon" on CBC's Dragons' Den since 2015.