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Miki Matsubara (松原みき)

Miki Matsubara (松原みき), 1959–2004, Japanese city pop singer from Sakai, Osaka; 1979 debut "Mayonaka no Door – Stay with Me" sold 300,000+ copies, topped Spotify's viral chart 18 days in 2020, and passed 500 million streams.

Miki Núñez

Miki Núñez (Miguel Núñez Pozo, born 1996 in Terrassa, Spain) is a Spanish pop singer who rose to fame on Operación Triunfo 2018 and represented Spain at Eurovision 2019.

Miki Oca

Miki Oca (Miguel Ángel Oca Gaia, born 1970), Spanish water polo player and coach; Olympic silver Barcelona 1992 and gold Atlanta 1996 as a player, and coach of Spain's women to Paris 2024 Olympic gold, now China's women's head coach.

Miki Torres

Miki Torres (Miguel Ángel Torres Morales, born 1980, Lima) is a Peruvian Fuerza Popular lawyer-politician, son of Carlos Torres y Torres Lara; congressman 2016–2020, most-voted senator 2026, president of the Senate and second vice president of Peru since July 2026.

Mikie Sherrill

Mikie Sherrill, Democratic 57th Governor of New Jersey (since January 20, 2026), former Navy Sea King helicopter pilot, federal prosecutor, and NJ-11 congresswoman (2019-2025), won the 2025 governor's race over Jack Ciattarelli by 13 points.

Mikiko C. Siomi

Mikiko C. Siomi (塩見 美喜子) is a Japanese RNA biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for her work on piRNAs, small RNAs that silence transposons.

Mikiko Sodeoka

Mikiko Sodeoka is a Japanese organic chemist and chemical biologist known for asymmetric catalysis with palladium and nickel, fluorination methods, and alkyne-tag Raman imaging; she directs RIKEN CSRS since 2025.

Mikimoto Pearl Island

Mikimoto Pearl Island (ミキモト真珠島) is a museum island in Toba, Mie, Japan, where Kokichi Mikimoto first cultured pearls in 1893; it features the Pearl Museum, Memorial Hall, and daily ama diver demonstrations.

Mikio Kozuma

Mikio Kozuma (上妻幹旺) is a Japanese atomic physicist who, in 1999 at the University of Tokyo, demonstrated phase-coherent amplification of matter waves simultaneously with MIT's group.

Mikio Oda

Mikio Oda (織田幹雄, 1905-1998), Japanese triple jumper, Waseda University and Asahi Shimbun athlete; 1928 Amsterdam Olympic champion at 15.21 m, Japan's first Olympic gold, and 1931 world record holder at 15.58 m.

Mikio Sato

Mikio Sato (佐藤幹夫, 1928–2023) was a Japanese mathematician who created the theory of hyperfunctions, founded algebraic analysis, and led RIMS at Kyoto University, winning the Wolf Prize.

Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis (Μίκης Θεοδωράκης, 1925–2021), Greek composer of Zorba the Greek, Z, and Serpico scores, resistance fighter, MP and minister; founder of entechno art-song and "music for the masses."

Mikkel Bro Hansen

Mikkel Bro Hansen, Danish forward born 2009 in Lystrup; AGF youth, FK Bodø/Glimt 2025-2026 (15 matches, 8 goals), PSV Eindhoven from September 2026; Denmark U17 captain with 13 goals in 16 matches.

Mikkel Damsgaard

Mikkel Krogh Damsgaard, Danish midfielder born 2000, plays for Brentford and Denmark. Euro 2020 free-kick scorer vs England; 10 Premier League assists in 2024/25; joined Brentford from Sampdoria in 2022.

Mikkel Kessler

Mikkel Kessler, the "Viking Warrior", Danish super-middleweight boxer born 1979; five-time world champion (WBA three times, WBC twice), record 46-3 with 35 KOs, losses only to Calzaghe, Ward, and Froch.

Mikkel Ladefoged

Mikkel Riis Ladefoged (born 2003, Næsby, Denmark) is a 201 cm Danish forward for Lincoln City. Ex-Næsby, SønderjyskE, Næstved and Esbjerg loans; 19 goals in 29 league games for Västerås SK before a record ~37M DKK sale in August 2026.

Mikkel Oil and Gas Field

Mikkel is a gas and condensate field in the eastern Norwegian Sea, discovered in 1987 and producing since 2003, operated by Equinor as a subsea tie-back to the Åsgard B platform.

Mikkel Remsøy

Mikkel Remsøy (Mikkel Maximilian Remsøy), Norwegian alpine skier born 2002, Bærum Skiklubb; shared Youth Olympic combined gold at Lausanne 2020 with Auguste Aulnette; World Cup debut Kitzbühel 2023.

Mikkelsen Bay

Mikkelsen Bay, Antarctica; also Zaliv Mikkel'sen, Bahía Mikkelsen. A bay 15 mi wide between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux, Fallières Coast, Graham Land, named for Danish Arctic explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen, distinct from Mikkelsen Harbour.

Mikkey Dee

Mikkey Dee, born Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou (1963, Gothenburg), is a Swedish drummer of Greek descent who played in King Diamond and Motörhead from 1992 to 2015 and has drummed for Scorpions since 2016, surviving a 2024 sepsis crisis.

Mikko Hietanen

Mikko Hietanen (1911–1999), Finnish marathon runner, Vihtavuoren Pamaus club; 1946 European marathon champion in Oslo (2:24:55), 1948 Olympic DNF, 1952 17th, Boston 1947 runner-up in 2:29:39.

Mikko Kodisoja

Mikko Kodisoja, born 1976 in Turku, Finland, is a Finnish entrepreneur who co-founded the mobile game studio Supercell in 2010 and led its creative direction until 2020.

Mikko Kolehmainen

Mikko Kolehmainen (Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen, born 1964, Mikkeli) is a Finnish sprint canoeist, Olympic K1 500 m champion at Barcelona 1992 (1:40.34) and 1993 Copenhagen world champion; not the University of Eastern Finland professor of the same name.

Mikko Kurimo

Mikko Kurimo (born 1967) is a Finnish computer scientist, professor of speech and language processing at Aalto University in Espoo, known for unsupervised morph-based speech recognition for Finnish.

Mikko Lehtonen

Mikko Lehtonen (Mikko Kasper Lehtonen), Finnish defenseman born 1994 in Turku; 2022 Olympic gold medalist, 2026 bronze medalist and flagbearer, 26 NHL games with Toronto and Columbus, now ZSC Lions defenseman.

Mikko Rantanen

Mikko Rantanen, Finnish NHL right wing for the Dallas Stars; drafted 10th overall in 2015 by Colorado, 2022 Stanley Cup champion, traded via Carolina to Dallas in 2025 on an eight-year, $96 million deal.

Mikko Taipale

Mikko Taipale is a molecular biology professor at the University of Toronto who studies how proteins fold and localize in cells, including a 2024 map of disease mutations that misplace proteins.

Miklós Ajtai

Miklós Ajtai is a Hungarian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who worked at IBM Almaden, known for optimal sorting networks and for founding lattice-based cryptography, the basis of quantum-safe encryption.

Miklos Ambrus

Miklós Ambrus (Copák), 1933-2019, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper; 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and 1962 European champion with Ferencváros; 55 caps, five Hungarian titles; briefly emigrated to Australia after 1956.

Miklós Bercsényi

Miklós Bercsényi (Bercsényi Miklós, 1665–1725) was a Hungarian aristocrat, soldier, and statesman who served as chief general of the kuruc army and governor under Prince Ferenc II Rákóczi.