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Michelle Petri

Michelle Petri is an American rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she directs the Hopkins Lupus Center and a cohort of more than 2,000 lupus patients.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer (Michelle Marie Pfeiffer) is an American actress and producer whose career runs from Grease 2 and Scarface to three Oscar nominations and Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992).

Michelle Phan

Michelle Phan (born 1987) is a Vietnamese-American beauty vlogger who began YouTube makeup tutorials in 2007, signed with Lancôme in 2010, launched Em Cosmetics with L'Oréal, and co-founded Ipsy, valued over $500 million in 2015.

Michelle Phillips

Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam, born 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, a founding member of the Mamas and the Papas and co-writer of "California Dreamin'", later an actress on Knots Landing and a 1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Not the beauty expert of the same name.

Michelle Randolph

Michelle Randolph (born 1997, Napa Valley, California) is an American actress and Wilhelmina model, sister of Cassie Randolph, known for Elizabeth Strafford in 1923, Ainsley Norris in Landman, and Madison in Scream 7 (2026).

Michelle Reis

Michelle Reis (李嘉欣, Michele Monique Reis), born 1970 in Macau, is a Macanese Hong Kong actress and model who won Miss Hong Kong 1988 and Miss Chinese International 1988, starred in 1990s Hong Kong films including Fallen Angels and Flowers of Shanghai, and married Julian Hui in 2008.

Michelle Remembers

Michelle Remembers is a 1980 book by Michelle Smith and her psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder, presenting her recovered memories of Satanic cult abuse in 1955 Victoria, British Columbia.

Michelle Rhee

Michelle Rhee, DC Public Schools chancellor 2007–2010 under Mayor Adrian Fenty, founder of The New Teacher Project and creator of the IMPACT teacher-evaluation system; her tenure produced large teacher turnover, measured achievement gains, and persistent criticism over disparities and racial bias in evaluations.

Michelle Rodriguez

Michelle Rodriguez (Mayte Michelle Rodriguez, born 1978, Bexar County, Texas) is an American actress who debuted in Girlfight (2000), plays Letty Ortiz in the Fast & Furious films, and starred in Lost, Avatar, and Widows.

Michelle Rodriguez (California politician)

Michelle Rodriguez is an American Democratic politician representing California's 53rd Assembly district, where she serves as Assistant Majority Whip and focuses on public safety and insurance.

Michelle Romero

Michelle Romero is an American politician and lifelong Henderson, Nevada resident serving as the city's mayor since 2023, after serving on the Henderson City Council from 2019.

Michelle Ruff

Michelle Ruff (born 1967, Detroit) is an American voice actress, English voice of Rukia Kuchiki in Bleach, Fujiko Mine in Lupin the Third, Luna in the Viz Sailor Moon dub, Sinon in Sword Art Online, and Cream the Rabbit in Sonic.

Michelle Ryan

Michelle Ryan (born 1984, Enfield, England) is a British actress known as Zoe Slater in EastEnders (2000-2005, returned 2025) and as Jaime Sommers in NBC's 2007 Bionic Woman remake; also Jekyll, Doctor Who, Cabaret.

Michelle Salzman

Michelle Salzman is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 1st district, a U.S. Army veteran and small-business owner who has sponsored legislation on foster care.

Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith (Michelle Smith-de Bruin), Irish swimmer born 1969 in Rathcoole, Dublin; won three golds and a bronze at Atlanta 1996, Ireland's most successful Olympian, banned four years by FINA in 1998 for a tampered sample.

Michelle Stafford

Michelle Stafford (born 1965) is an American actress who originated Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless in 1994, played Nina Reeves on General Hospital 2014-2019, and won three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Michelle Steel

Michelle Steel (born 1955, Seoul) is a Korean-American Republican politician, former U.S. Representative for California's 48th and 45th Districts (2021-2025), former Board of Equalization member and Orange County supervisor, defeated by Derek Tran in 2024, and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea since 2026.

Michelle Strinden

Michelle Strinden, née Strecker, is an American Republican politician who has served as the 40th lieutenant governor of North Dakota since 2024, after representing Fargo's District 41 in the state House from 2018 to 2024.

Michelle T Juarez

Michelle T. Juarez is an American geneticist known for discovering how fruit flies sense and repair skin wounds, and earlier for microRNAs that specify maize leaf polarity.

Michelle T. Friedland

Michelle T. Friedland is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Michelle Tanner

Michelle Tanner (Michelle Elizabeth Tanner) is the youngest Tanner daughter on the sitcom Full House (1987-1995), played jointly by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen under child labor laws; she is the only main character absent from Fuller House.

Michelle Teska

Michelle Teska is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 55th district, which encompasses most of Warren County.

Michelle Thomas

Michelle Doris Thomas (1968-1998), American actress, daughter of Kool & the Gang's Dennis Thomas; played Justine on The Cosby Show, Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters, and Callie Rogers on The Young and the Restless; died at 30 of stomach cancer.

Michelle Thompson (planetary scientist)

Michelle Thompson is a planetary scientist at Purdue University who studies space weathering on the Moon and asteroids, serving on the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg (1985-2025), American actress: Harriet the Spy, Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl; died in New York at 39 from diabetes mellitus complications.

Michelle Triola Marvin

Michelle Triola Marvin (1932 or 1933-2009), American actress and singer, plaintiff in Marvin v. Marvin (1976), the California case establishing "palimony" rights for unmarried partners; she won $104,000 at trial, later overturned, and received nothing.

Michelle Venturella

Michelle Venturella (born 1973, Gary, Indiana) is an American softball catcher who won gold with the United States at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was a 1996 alternate, won the 1998 World Championship, starred at Indiana University, and later head-coached UIC and Washington University in St. Louis.

Michelle Visage

Michelle Visage, born Michelle Lynn Shupack in 1968, is an American singer and television personality best known as a longtime judge on RuPaul's Drag Race and its spin-offs.

Michelle W. Court

Michelle W. Court, also known as Michelle Williams Court, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2024.

Michelle Wang

Michelle Wang is a biophysicist at Cornell University and an HHMI Investigator who studies DNA mechanics and topology at the single-molecule level, inventing the angular optical trap.