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Miguel Gellert Krigsner
Miguel Gellert Krigsner, born 1950 in La Paz, Bolivia, is a Brazilian pharmacist-entrepreneur who founded the cosmetics company O Boticário in Curitiba in 1977 and built it into a global beauty franchise network.
Miguel Gómez Martínez
Miguel Gómez Martínez is a Colombian economist and politician who has served as Minister of Finance and Public Credit since August 2026, under President Abelardo de la Espriella.
Miguel Grau Seminario
Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879) was a Peruvian admiral, known as the Caballero de los Mares, who commanded the monitor Huáscar in the War of the Pacific.
Miguel Herrera
Miguel Herrera (El Piojo), Mexican football manager born 1968; two Liga MX titles with Club América, coached Mexico at the 2014 World Cup and Costa Rica in 2025, now Atlante head coach.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, known as Father Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic priest who issued the Grito de Dolores in 1810, beginning the Mexican War of Independence.
Miguel Induráin
Miguel Induráin (Miguelón, Big Mig), Spanish cyclist born 1964 in Villava, Navarre; won five consecutive Tours de France 1991-95, the Giro 1992-93, the 1994 Hour Record (53.040 km), 1995 ITT world title, and 1996 Olympic time-trial gold.
Miguel Layún
Miguel Layún (Miguel Arturo Layún Prado), Mexican full back born 1988 in Córdoba, Veracruz; two-time Liga MX champion with América, Primeira Liga winner with Porto, 2014 and 2018 World Cup player; retired December 2023.
Miguel León Portilla
Miguel León Portilla (1926–2019) was a Mexican historian and philosopher who spent his career at UNAM reconstructing Nahuatl thought, arguing the Aztecs had produced a philosophy of their own.
Miguel López (Spanish physiologist)
Miguel López is a Spanish physiologist and neuroendocrinology researcher, Full Professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela since 2023, known for work on hypothalamic AMPK and energy balance.
Miguel López de Legazpi
Miguel López de Legazpi (c. 1502/1510–1572), Basque-Spanish conquistador from Zumárraga, Gipuzkoa; first governor-general of the Philippines. Led the 1564 expedition from Navidad, founded Cebu's Villa de San Miguel (1565) and Manila (1571), starting 327 years of Spanish rule.
Miguel Martín (oncologist)
Miguel Martín Jiménez is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, head of medical oncology at the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid since 2009.
Miguel Martinez
Miguel Martinez, French cross-country mountain biker born 1976 in Fourchambault; bronze at Atlanta 1996, Olympic gold and world title in 2000, later road pro with Mapei and Phonak; son of 1978 polka dot jersey winner Mariano Martinez, father of Lenny Martinez.
Miguel McKelvey
Miguel McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and trained architect who co-founded WeWork with Adam Neumann in 2010 and served as its chief culture officer until 2020.
Miguel Miramón
Miguel Miramón was a Mexican conservative general and president during the War of the Reform, the youngest in Mexican history at 27, executed at Querétaro in 1867.
Miguel Molina (footballer)
Miguel Molina, full name José Francisco Molina Giménez, is a Spanish goalkeeper and coach who won the 1996 double with Atlético Madrid and manages Honduras.
Miguel Morales
Miguel Morales, also known as Miguel Morales-Silva, is a Puerto Rican computational condensed-matter physicist who won a 2013 PECASE at Lawrence Livermore for high-pressure hydrogen studies.
Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Nicolelis (Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis) is a Brazilian neuroscientist known for brain-machine interfaces, including the brain-controlled exoskeleton used at the 2014 World Cup opening ceremony.
Miguel Noguer
Miguel Noguer (Miquel Noguer i Castellví), Spanish sailor born 1956 in Barcelona; won Flying Dutchman gold with Alejandro Abascal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Tallinn, Spain's first gold since 1928; later a Barcelona dentist.
Miguel Ondetti
Miguel Angel Ondetti (1930–2004) was an Argentine-born chemist at Squibb who, with David Cushman, discovered captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor, sharing the 1999 Lasker Award.
Miguel Oscar Menassa
Miguel Oscar Menassa (1940–2024) was an Argentine poet, psychoanalyst, novelist, and painter who founded Grupo Cero, joining poetry and psychoanalysis, and lived in Spain from the mid-1970s.
Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) was a Venezuelan novelist, journalist, and politician and a leading exponent of social literature, known for Casas muertas and co-founding the daily El Nacional.
Miguel Pinto Luz
Miguel Pinto Luz is a Portuguese politician of the PSD (Partido Social Democrata) who serves as Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, overseeing the Construir Portugal program and licensing reform.
Miguel Poiares Maduro
Miguel Poiares Maduro (Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro), Portuguese EU law scholar born 1967 in Coimbra; Advocate General at the CJEU 2003–2009 (Kadi opinion), Portugal's Minister for Regional Development 2013–2015, and theorist of constitutional pluralism.
Miguel Ponce
Miguel Ponce (Miguel Ángel Ponce Briseño, born 1989) is a Mexican left back, London 2012 Olympic gold medalist and longtime CD Guadalajara player, later with the Empire Strykers in indoor soccer; distinct from Chilean footballer Miguel Ponce.
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera, full name Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, was a Spanish general who seized power in a bloodless 1923 coup and ruled Spain as dictator until his resignation in 1930.
Miguel Rio Branco
Miguel Rio Branco, born 1946 in Las Palmas, Spain, is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker known for saturated color images of urban life, including the Maciel series.
Miguel Ríos
Miguel Ríos is a Spanish rock singer, born in Granada in 1944, known for the 1969 hit "Himno a la alegría" and the 1982 live album Rock & Ríos.
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian co-leader of the Cali Cartel with brother Gilberto; extradited to the US in 2005, pleaded guilty in 2006 to cocaine importation, sentenced to 30 years and $2.1 billion forfeiture, imprisoned at Big Spring, Texas.
Miguel Rojas (baseball)
Miguel Rojas (Miguel Elias Rojas Naidenoff), Venezuelan MLB infielder (2014-2026) for the Dodgers and Marlins; defensive shortstop, two World Series titles, 2025 Game 7 game-tying homer, retired October 2026.
Miguel Román (footballer)
Miguel Román González (born 2002) is a Spanish central midfielder for Celta de Vigo in LaLiga, formerly of Pontevedra and Celta Fortuna; contract to 2028, broke out in 2025/26, fifth-metatarsal injury March 2026.