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Michele Sensi-Contugi

Michele Sensi-Contugi Ycaza (1982-2026), Italian-Ecuadorian businessman and head of Ecuador's National Intelligence Center (CNI, formerly CIES) and briefly Minister of Government under Daniel Noboa; died 19 August 2026 in a Kenya helicopter crash.

Michele Singer Reiner

Michele Singer Reiner (Michele Singer), American photographer, producer, and LGBTQ+ and early-childhood activist; wife of Rob Reiner; shot The Art of the Deal cover (1987), inspired When Harry Met Sally's ending; killed December 14, 2025.

Michele Smith

Michele Mary Smith, American left-handed fastpitch softball pitcher, two-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000), three-time world champion, eight-time Japan league MVP, and ESPN's lead college softball color analyst since 1998; distinct from Irish swimmer Michelle Smith.

Michele Solimena

Michele Solimena is an Italian-born physician-scientist in diabetology, Professor of Molecular Diabetology at TU Dresden and Director of the Institute for Pancreatic Islet Research, known for discovering GAD autoantibodies in stiff-man syndrome.

Michele Tafoya

Michele Tafoya, born 1964 in Manhattan Beach, California, is a retired NFL sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football and four-time Sports Emmy winner, now the 2026 Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Minnesota facing Peggy Flanagan.

Michelin

Michelin (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a French tire manufacturer founded in Clermont-Ferrand in 1889 by the brothers André and Édouard Michelin, known for its tires and the MICHELIN Guide restaurant ratings.

Michelin Guide

The Michelin Guide (Guide Michelin) is Michelin's annual restaurant and hotel guide, launched free in 1900 to promote motoring; its anonymous inspectors award one to three stars, Bib Gourmands, Keys, and other distinctions worldwide.

Michelin Man

The Michelin Man, officially Bibendum, is Michelin's white tire-built mascot created in 1898 by André and Édouard Michelin with artist O'Galop, named from Horace's "Nunc est Bibendum."

Micheline (railcar)

The Micheline was a family of quiet, comfortable rubber-tyred railcars built by Michelin from 1929 onward, serving French main lines and colonies from the 1930s into the 1950s.

Micheline Lannoy

Micheline Lannoy (1925–2023), Belgian pair figure skater with Pierre Baugniet; 1948 St. Moritz Olympic pairs gold, Belgium's first Winter Olympic gold, plus World titles 1947 and 1948 and the 1947 European title; later a coach in Canada.

Micheline Ostermeyer

Micheline Ostermeyer (1922-2001), French shot putter, discus thrower, and concert pianist; double gold medallist and high jump bronze at London 1948, France's first female Olympic athletics medallist.

Michelinia

Michelinia (de Koninck, 1841) is an extinct tabulate coral genus of massive cerioid colonies with large prismatic corallites, tabulae, and weak septa, typical of Devonian and Mississippian (Carboniferous) faunas.

Michelle (song)

Michelle (song): Beatles love ballad on Rubber Soul (1965), mainly by Paul McCartney with Lennon's middle eight, partially in French; Grammy Song of the Year 1967, recorded 3 November 1965.

Michelle A. Williams

Michelle A. Williams is an American perinatal epidemiologist, a Harvard Chan School dean for seven years who moved to Stanford School of Medicine in 2025 and studies pregnancy complications.

Michelle Akers

Michelle Akers is an American soccer player born in 1966 who starred for the USWNT and won the 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cups, along with the 1996 Olympic gold.

Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights attorney, legal scholar, and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow, which argues mass incarceration is a new racial caste system; not the Canadian artist or other namesakes.

Michelle Ang

Michelle Ang (born 1983, Christchurch, New Zealand) is a Malaysian Chinese-Kiwi actor, director, and producer. Known as Tai-San in The Tribe, Lori Lee in Neighbours, Alex in Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 (2016 Emmy nomination), and the voice of Omega in Star Wars: The Bad Batch; won the 2011 New Zealand Film and Television Award for My Wedding and Other Secrets.

Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 1951) is a Chilean Socialist physician and politician, twice President of Chile (2006–2010, 2014–2018), first woman in the post, former Health and Defense Minister, first UN Women Executive Director, and UN human rights chief 2018–2022.

Michelle Barbieri

Michelle Barbieri is an American wildlife veterinarian who leads NOAA's Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and runs the world's only wild vaccination program for a marine mammal species.

Michelle Bartsch Hackley

Michelle Bartsch-Hackley (Michelle Elizabeth Bartsch-Hackley), American outside hitter born 1990 in Kansas City, Kansas; Illinois alum, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist (first U.S. women's indoor volleyball gold), 2018 and 2021 VNL MVP, now Ohio State assistant coach.

Michelle Bass

Michelle Bass (born 1981, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English former mortgage advisor and model who competed on Big Brother 5 UK in 2004, finishing sixth after the bedsit twist, and returned for Ultimate Big Brother in 2010.

Michelle Beadle

Michelle Denise Beadle, born 1975 in Italy and raised in Boerne, Texas, is an American sports broadcaster known for co-hosting ESPN's SportsNation and hosting NBA Countdown, now on FanDuel TV, SiriusXM, and Roku.

Michelle Bell

Michelle Bell is an environmental health scientist at Yale who studies how air pollution, weather, and climate affect health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Michelle Bolsonaro

Michelle Bolsonaro (born 1982, Ceilândia), wife of former president Jair Bolsonaro, was Brazil's First Lady 2019–2022, led PL Mulher 2023–2026, and was elected Federal District senator in 2026 with 938,496 votes.

Michelle Borkin

Michelle Borkin is an American data visualization researcher who combines astronomy and medical imaging, known for founding Harvard's Astronomical Medicine Project and leading Glue, used by the James Webb Telescope team.

Michelle Borth

Michelle Borth (born 1978) is an American actress known as Catherine Rollins on Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020), Jaime in HBO's Tell Me You Love Me, and Super Hero Mary in Shazam! (2019).

Michelle Branch

Michelle Branch (b. 1983) is an American singer-songwriter from Sedona, Arizona, whose 2001 debut The Spirit Room went 2x Platinum. Known for "Everywhere," the Santana duet "The Game of Love" (Grammy winner), the Wreckers, and the 2026 EP Everywhere and Back Again.

Michelle Buteau

Michelle Buteau, American stand-up comedian, actress, and host from New Jersey; Netflix specials Welcome to Buteaupia and A Buteau-ful Mind, host of The Circle, creator and star of Survival of the Thickest.

Michelle C. Chang

Michelle C. Y. Chang is an American chemical and synthetic biologist, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton since 2024, after 17 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.

Michelle Cameron

Michelle Cameron (Cameron-Coulter), born 1962 in Calgary, Canadian synchronized swimmer; won 1988 Seoul Olympic duet gold with Carolyn Waldo by 0.033 point, plus 1986 Commonwealth and World Championship titles; distinct from the triathlete of the same name.