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Michelle Wie West
Michelle Wie West (born 1989, Honolulu) is an American golfer, teenage prodigy, and 2014 U.S. Women's Open champion with five LPGA wins; retired 2023, returned for the 2026 U.S. Women's Open and WTGL.
Michelle Williams (actress)
Michelle Williams (born 1980, Kalispell, Montana) is the American actress, not the Destiny's Child singer, known for Dawson's Creek, five Oscar nominations, and Golden Globe wins for My Week with Marilyn, Fosse/Verdon, and Dying for Sex.
Michelle Williams (singer)
Michelle Williams (Tenitra Michelle Williams, born 1980) is the Rockford, Illinois-born singer who joined Destiny's Child in 2000, won a 2002 Grammy for Survivor, and released the best-selling gospel album of 2002, Heart to Yours, later moving through R&B, Broadway, and mental-health advocacy.
Michelle Williams on screen and stage
Michelle Williams (filmography), also known as Michelle Williams on screen and stage, surveys the American actress known for Dawson's Creek, five Oscar nominations, and independent films.
Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf (born 1985, Hershey, Pennsylvania) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and host of The Break and the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner, with four specials on HBO and Netflix.
Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu (吳弭), born 1985 in Chicago, is the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2021, the first woman and first Asian American in the role; former at-large city councilor and council president, re-elected 2025 over Josh Kraft.
Michelle Yeoh (杨紫琼)
Michelle Yeoh (杨紫琼, born 1962, Ipoh, Malaysia) is a Malaysian actress and producer, a Hong Kong action star under the name Michelle Khan, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and as the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Oscar, for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Michelle Zauner
Michelle Zauner (born 1989, Seoul) is a Korean American musician and writer, frontwoman of the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast and author of the 2021 New York Times bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart about her mother Chongmi; her second memoir, Thank You for Your Suffering, is due 2027.
Michelle Zhou
Michelle Zhou, also known as Yutong Zhou, is a partner at GSR Ventures in Shanghai who invests in early-stage artificial intelligence and consumer startups, after roles at Uber Eats and McKinsey.
Michelson (lunar crater)
Michelson is a 123.14 km impact crater on the lunar far side at 6.72°N, 121.55°W, on the northeast outer rim of Hertzsprung; IAU-named 1970 for physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, with associated Catena Michelson.
Michelson interferometer
The Michelson interferometer, or Michelson-Morley interferometer, is a precision optical instrument invented by Albert Michelson in Berlin that splits a light beam into two perpendicular arms and recombines them to produce interference fringes.
Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment
The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment, a 1925 optical interferometry measurement at Clearing, Illinois, detected light's retardation by the Earth's rotation, confirming the Sagnac effect on a terrestrial scale.
Michelson–Morley experiment
The Michelson–Morley experiment, by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, was an 1887 Cleveland interferometry test that detected no motion of Earth through the luminiferous ether.
Micheon of Goguryeo
Micheon of Goguryeo (미천왕, personal name Eulbul) was the 15th king of Goguryeo, reigning 300 to 331, best known for destroying the Lelang and Daifang commanderies in 313 and 314.
Michiaki Kubo
Michiaki Kubo (久保 充明) is a Japanese human geneticist and deputy center director of the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, known for genome-wide association studies in Japanese populations.
Michiel Bartman
Michiel Bartman (born 1967, Haarlemmermeer) is a Dutch rower and coach: Olympic gold in the 1996 men's eight, silvers in the 2000 quad and 2004 eight, later head coach at Vesper, Harvard, Jefferson, and Saint Joseph's.
Michiel Blanchart
Michiel Blanchart (born 1993, Louvain) is a Belgian director and screenwriter, IAD-trained, whose shorts include T'es morte Hélène; his debut feature La Nuit se traîne (2024) won a record ten Magritte Awards.
Michiel de Haan
Michiel de Haan (1947–2023) was a Dutch venture capitalist who founded Atlas Venture, later served as General Partner of Aescap Venture, and co-founded the European Venture Philanthropy Association.
Michiel de Ruyter
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607–1676), Dutch admiral from Vlissingen, commander-in-chief in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, victor of Kijkduin 1673, Lieutenant-Admiral-General, died off Sicily.
Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huisman (born 1981, Amstelveen) is a Dutch actor and musician known for Sonny in Treme, Daario Naharis in Game of Thrones, and lead roles in The Age of Adaline and Rebel Moon.
Michiel L. Bots
Michiel L. Bots is a Dutch physician-scientist and clinical epidemiologist at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for carotid intima-media thickness ultrasound as a trial endpoint and co-leading the CONVINCE trial.
Michiel le Roux
Michiel le Roux, born 1949, is a South African banker who co-founded Capitec Bank in 2001, led it as first chief executive officer, and became a billionaire through his shareholding.
Michiel S. van der Heijden
Michiel S. van der Heijden is a Dutch medical oncologist and research group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for immunotherapy trials in bladder cancer.
Michiel Vermeulen
Michiel Vermeulen is a Dutch molecular biologist who holds the chair of Proteomics and Chromatin Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for applying quantitative mass spectrometry to chromatin biology.
Michif oral literature
Michif oral literature is the body of stories, teachings, and historical accounts the Métis people transmitted by spoken word, traditionally through Elders called the "Old People."
Michigan
Michigan, a two-peninsula Midwestern state admitted as the 26th state in 1837, had 10,127,884 residents in 2025, a median household income of $72,389, and four straight years of population growth.
Michigan (musician)
Michigan, also known as Papa Michigan and born Anthony Fairclough, is a Jamaican deejay whose duo Michigan & Smiley helped launch rub-a-dub dancehall with 1979's "Rub A Dub Style".
Michigan Arsenal
Michigan Arsenal, professional arena football team based in Saginaw, Michigan, playing at the Dow Event Center in Arena Football One (AF1); founded 2025, inaugural 2026 season, 6-6 record, first playoff win 70-36 over Kentucky Barrels.
Michigan Central Station
Michigan Central Station, also known as Michigan Central Depot, is a former passenger rail depot in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood that served as the city's main station from 1913 to 1988.
Michigan Democratic Party
The Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) organizes Democratic candidates, volunteers, and campaign activity across Michigan, and dominated state politics from the 1830s until the Republican rise in the 1850s.