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Mikhail Tomsky
Mikhail Tomsky (Михаил Павлович Томский) was a Soviet trade-union leader who chaired the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and died by suicide in 1936.
Mikhail Tsetlin
Mikhail Lvovich Tsetlin (Михаил Львович Цетлин; 1924–1966) was a Russian mathematician and physicist known for the Tsetlin automaton, the Tsetlin library, and the Gelfand–Tsetlin basis.
Mikhail Tsvet
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (Михаил Цвет) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography in 1901, first separating chlorophyll a and b; the method was revived in 1931.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский), Soviet marshal (1935) and deep-operations theorist; Red Army Civil War front commander, executed 11 June 1937 in Stalin's fabricated 'military-fascist conspiracy' case, rehabilitated 1957.
Mikhail Vasilyev (olympedia 98583)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vasilyev (Михаил Александрович Васильев), Soviet ice hockey forward, 1984 Sarajevo Olympic champion with CSKA Moskva; later played and coached in Italy; distinct from the 1988 handball Olympic champion of the same name.
Mikhail Voronin
Mikhail Yakovlevich Voronin (Михаил Яковлевич Воронин), Soviet artistic gymnast, 1945-2004; nine Olympic medals including 1968 golds on vault and horizontal bar, 1966 world all-around champion.
Mikhail Vorontsov (Russian Empire chancellor)
Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (Михаил Илларионович Воронцов, 1714 to 1767) was a Russian statesman who served as chancellor of the Russian Empire from 1758, directing foreign policy under Empress Elizabeth.
Mikhail Vorontsov (Russian governor-general of Novorossiya)
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (Михаил Семёнович Воронцов) was a Russian statesman and field marshal who governed Novorossiya from 1823 to 1844 and the Caucasus from 1844 to 1854.
Mikhail Vorotynsky
Mikhail Vorotynsky (Михаил Иванович Воротынский) was a Russian prince and commander under Ivan the Terrible who wrote Russia's first border-service statute in 1571 and defeated the Crimean khan at Molodi in 1572.
Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel was a Russian painter, graphic artist, ceramicist, and stage designer born in Omsk in 1856, a leading Symbolist known for his Demon series.
Mikhail Yakimovich
Mikhail Yakimovich (Михаил Иванович Якимович), Belarusian handball back born 1967 in Slutsk; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team and five European Champions Cups with SKA Minsk and Spanish clubs; famed for a 125 km/h shot.
Mikhail Zamkov
Mikhail Zamkov is a materials chemist and physics professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, known for developing colloidal quantum shells for solar energy.
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Mikhail Zoshchenko (Михаил Зощенко) was a Soviet satirist and prose writer whose short comic stories made him one of the most widely read authors of the 1920s and 1930s.
Mikhail Zygar (Михаил Викторович Зыгарь)
Mikhail Zygar (Михаил Викторович Зыгарь), born 1981, is a Russian journalist and author, founding editor-in-chief of TV Rain (Dozhd) and writer of All the Kremlin's Men, The Empire Must Die, and War and Punishment; now exiled, a declared foreign agent, and adjunct professor at Columbia's Harriman Institute.
Mikhas Charot
Mikhas Charot (Міхась Чарот), pen name of Mikhail Kudzelka, was a Belarusian poet, playwright, and editor who led the literary organization Maladniak and was shot in Minsk in 1937.
Mikhas Lynkov
Mikhas Lynkov (Belarusian: Міхась Лынькоў) was a Belarusian Soviet prose and children's writer who wrote Mikolka-paravoz and the epic Memorable Days, named People's Writer of the Byelorussian SSR in 1962.
Mikhas Zaretski
Mikhas Zaretski (Міхась Зарэцкі; pen name of Mikhail Yavkhimavich Kasyankou, 1901–1937) was a Belarusian prose writer, playwright, translator, and critic, a leading romantic figure in Soviet Belarusian prose who was executed in 1937 and rehabilitated posthumously.
Mikhaylov Island
Mikhaylov Island, a small Antarctic island in East Antarctica plotted near 66°48'S 85°30'E, with an ice cap climate from -34 to -8°C; named for Pavel Mikhaylov, artist of the Bellingshausen expedition, and distinct from Mikhaylov Point and Cape Mikhaylov.
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Mikheil Javakhishvili (მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი), real surname Adamashvili, was a Georgian writer, born in 1880, who founded the twentieth-century Georgian realist novel and was shot in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
Mikheil Kavelashvili
Mikheil Kavelashvili is a Georgian politician and former People's Power party member who has served as President of Georgia, the largely ceremonial head of state, since December 2024.
Mikheil Korkia
Mikheil Korkia (Mikhail Korkiya, მიხეილ ქორქია), Georgian basketball forward for Dynamo Tbilisi and the USSR; Olympic gold 1972 Munich and bronze 1976 Montreal, European champion 1971, nephew of Otar Korkia.
Mikheil Lomtadze (მიხეილ ლომთაძე)
Mikheil Lomtadze (მიხეილ ლომთაძე) is a Georgian businessman who co-founded Kaspi.kz, Kazakhstan's leading payments and e-commerce platform, and has led it as CEO since 2007.
Mikheil Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი)
Mikheil Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) led Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution and served as president 2004–2013, driving anti-corruption reforms, losing the 2008 war with Russia, and now serving a 12½-year prison term.
Mikheil Sarjveladze
Mikheil Sarjveladze is a Georgian lawyer and politician, a member of parliament from 2020 to 2024, serving since 2024 as Georgia's Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs.
Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect
The Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect (MSW effect) is the conversion of neutrinos between flavors as they pass through matter of varying density, proposed by Wolfenstein in 1978 and Mikheyev and Smirnov in 1985.
Miki Berenyi
Miki Berenyi (born 1967, London) is a British singer-guitarist, co-frontwoman of shoegaze band Lush, later Piroshka and Miki Berenyi Trio, and author of the 2022 memoir Fingers Crossed.
Miki Fujimoto
Miki Fujimoto (藤本美貴), born 1985 in Hokkaido, is a Japanese singer who debuted solo in 2002, joined Morning Musume in 2003, and led it for 25 days in 2007.
Miki Howard
Miki Howard, born Alicia Michelle Howard in Chicago, is an American R&B singer and actress, ex-Side Effect member, with R&B number ones "Ain't Nuthin' in the World" and "Ain't Nobody Like You," a 2002 Grammy nomination for Three Wishes, and the Billie Holiday role in Malcolm X.
Miki Imai
Miki Imai (今井美樹), born in 1963 in Miyazaki Prefecture, is a Japanese pop singer and actress whose million-selling hits include "PIECE OF MY WISH" and "PRIDE".
Miki Kuusi
Miki Kuusi is a Finnish entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the Helsinki delivery platform Wolt, co-founder of the Slush startup conference, and CEO of Deliveroo since 2025.