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Mika Mendes
Mika Mendes, born Mickael Mendes in 1982 in Nice, is a French singer of Cape Verdean descent, son of morna singer Boy Gê Mendes, known for zouk and kizomba.
Mika Myllyla
Mika Myllylä (1969–2011), Finnish cross-country skier, nicknamed Karpasi; Olympic 30 km gold at Nagano 1998, three golds at Ramsau 1999, six Olympic and nine World Championship medals; career ended by the 2001 Lahti HES doping scandal; admitted career-long EPO use; died in Kokkola in 2011.
Mika Pikazo (ミカ ピカゾ)
Mika Pikazo (ミカ ピカゾ), Japanese illustrator born in Tokyo in 1993, also known for Kaguya Luna and Fire Emblem Engage character designs; Brazil-educated, vivid color style, MikaPikaZo art book, 2026 Landscape of Emotion exhibition.
Mika Poutala
Mika Poutala is a Finnish politician of the Christian Democrats who serves as Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity and entered Parliament in 2023.
Mika Salamanca
Mika Salamanca (Anne Michaella Salamanca, born 2000, Manila) is a Filipina YouTuber, singer, and actress, PBB Celebrity Collab Big Winner Duo with Brent Manalo, donor of her P1M prize, and author of the children's book Lipad.
Mika Singh (ਮਿਕਾ ਸਿੰਘ)
Mika Singh (ਮਿਕਾ ਸਿੰਘ), born Amrik Singh in 1977, is an Indian playback singer, composer, and performer, brother of Daler Mehndi, known for the 1998 album Saawan Mein Lag Gayee Aag and Bollywood hits like Mauja Hi Mauja and Aankh Marey.
Mika Someya
Mika Someya (染谷美佳), born 1983 in Atibaia, Brazil, is a Japanese softball pitcher for Denso who won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games, and was 2010 World Championship runner-up.
Mika Stojsavljevic
Mika Stojsavljevic (born 2008, London) is a British tennis player, 2024 US Open junior girls' champion, first British girls' Grand Slam winner since 2009; turned pro 2025, career-high WTA No. 261.
Mika Suansing
Mika Suansing (Mikaela Angela Bito-onon Suansing), Filipina congresswoman representing Nueva Ecija's 1st District; daughter of Estrellita and Horacio Suansing Jr.; chairs the House Appropriations Committee since 2025, steering the P6.793-trillion 2026 and P7.2-trillion 2027 budgets.
Mika Waltari
Mika Waltari (1908–1979) was a Finnish author whose historical novel The Egyptian (1945), set in ancient Egypt, became the highest-selling Finnish novel worldwide and was filmed in 1954.
Mika Zibanejad
Mika Zibanejad, Swedish NHL center/right wing for the New York Rangers; drafted 6th overall by Ottawa in 2011, traded to New York in 2016 for Derick Brassard; Rangers franchise record for power-play goals and $8.5M AAV through 2029-30.
Mika'el I (Habib)
Mika'el I (Mkha'il), christened Habib al-Atfihi, was a twelfth-century metropolitan (Abuna) of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, a Coptic monk of Saint Antony's monastery elevated by Patriarch Macarius II of Alexandria.
Mika'el II of Fua
Mika'el II of Fua, born Kil ibn al-Mulabbas, was Metropolitan of Ethiopia, the Abuna of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, from about 1205 until his deposition on 7 March 1210.
Mikaal Zulfiqar
Mikaal Zulfiqar (مکال ذوالفقار), British-Pakistani actor and former model born in London, known for Diyar-e-Dil, Cake, Sherdil, and Baby, who prioritized Pakistani television and film after 2008.
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt), born 1974 in Huddinge, Stockholm, is a Swedish singer, guitarist, and songwriter who leads the progressive metal band Opeth, which he joined in 1990.
Mikael Blomkvist
Mikael Blomkvist is the fictional Swedish investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine in Stieg Larsson's Millennium novels, an alter ego of Larsson nicknamed Kalle Blomkvist, played by Michael Nyqvist and Daniel Craig on film.
Mikael C. Rechtsman
Mikael C. Rechtsman is a Canadian-born physicist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for the 2013 photonic Floquet topological insulator experiment and four-dimensional quantum Hall physics.
Mikaël J. Pittet
Mikaël J. Pittet, also published as Mikael Pittet, is an onco-immunologist at the University of Geneva who studies how myeloid immune cells control tumor growth.
Mikael Käll
Mikael Käll is a full professor of physics at Chalmers University of Technology who leads a bionanophotonics group studying plasmonic nanoantennas, metasurfaces, biosensing, and thermoplasmonics.
Mikael Kingsbury
Mikaël Kingsbury, 'The King of Moguls', Canadian freestyle skier born 1992 in Quebec. Five Olympic medals (gold 2018 moguls, gold 2026 dual moguls, three silvers), 100 World Cup wins, 29 Crystal Globes, nine world titles; retired 2026.
Mikael Knip
Mikael Knip, born 1950 in Kvevlax, Finland, is a Finnish pediatric researcher and emeritus professor at the University of Helsinki known for type 1 diabetes prediction, prevention, and infant-diet trials.
Mikael Lindnord
Mikael Lindnord, Swedish adventure racer and captain of Team Peak Performance, met the stray dog Arthur at the 2014 Adventure Racing World Championship in Ecuador, adopted him, and inspired the film Arthur the King.
Mikael Ljungberg
Mikael Ljungberg (Bo Urban Mikael Ljungberg), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, 1970-2004; Olympic heavyweight gold Sydney 2000, two world and two European titles; died by suicide in Mölndal.
Mikael Mård
Mikael Mård is a Swedish games developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, created the Goat Simulator goat, and resigned in 2018.
Mikael Nalbandian
Mikael Nalbandian (Միքայել Նալբանդյան) was an Armenian writer, publicist, and philosopher, born in 1829, who wrote the lyrics of Armenia's national anthem, "Mer Hayrenik".
Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi (born 1959) is a Swedish author from Pajala in Norrbotten whose comic and crime novels draw on the Tornedalian region, best known for Popular Music from Vittula.
Mikael Persbrandt
Mikael Persbrandt (Mikael Åke Persbrandt), Swedish actor born 1963 in Jakobsberg, famous as Gunvald Larsson in Beck, star of In a Better World and The Hobbit's Beorn, twice Guldbagge Best Actor winner.
Mikael Samuelsson
Mikael Samuelsson (Karl Mikael Samuelsson), Swedish ice hockey right wing born 1976 in Mariefred; 699 NHL games, 346 points; 2006 Olympic and World gold, 2008 Stanley Cup with Detroit, Triple Gold Club member #22, Swedish Hall of Fame 2024.
Mikael Sehul
Mikael Sehul (ሚካኤል ስሁል) was an 18th-century Tigrayan warlord who became the power behind the Ethiopian throne at Gondar, killing Emperor Iyoas in 1769 and opening the warlord era known as the Zemene Mesafint (1769–1855).
Mikaël Silvestre
Mikaël Silvestre (born 1977) is a French former defender; 361 games and five league titles plus the 2008 Champions League with Manchester United, later Arsenal, Werder Bremen, and 40 France caps.