Michael Meier is an Austrian Paralympic archer who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.Michael Johnson (b. 1973) is a New Zealander Paralympic shooter who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_LearnedAmerican actor Michael Learned has this name. She played Olivia Walton on "The Waltons", and for the first five seasons, they used a title in front of only her name in the opening credits to clarify that she really was a woman.Also, how has no one mentioned Welsh actor Michael Sheen yet?
Michael Michele Williams, known simply as Michael Michele, is an American fashion designer and actress. She is best known for her roles New Jack City, Ali, and the series ER. She was named after her mother’s best friend, a woman named Michael.
Michael Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and Democratic politician. He was the longest-serving Governor of Massachusetts, and he was the first person of Greek heritage to secure a major-party nomination in the 1988 presidential election race. He taught political science at several colleges, including UCLA.
American actor, Jonathan Banks, championed an incredible performance as Michael “Mike” Ehrmantraut on the award-winning series, “Breaking Bad” and its spinoff, “Better Call Saul”.
Michael Ho is a Hawaiian Chinese professional surfer who has won the Hawaiian Triple Crown, the Duke Classic, the World Cup, and the 1982 Pipe Masters. He is the brother of Derek Ho, another champion surfer. Michael is also the father of Women's World Tour surfer Coco Ho and surfer Mason Ho.
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Michael Curtis Waltrip is a retired NASCAR driver, and winner of two Daytona 500’s. He, for a time, also owned Michael Waltrip Racing before its closure in 2015.
Michael Kiske, a German singer who has done some solo work but is most well known for being one of the two vocalists in the power metal band Helloween.
Not a lot of people know this, but Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth name was Michael. His father changed it to Martin after visiting Germany in honor of Martin Luther.
Michael Burnham is a character on the television series "Star Trek: Discovery". In this case, the character is female.
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Michael Pearl was an extremely controversial author who has written the following works: "To Train Up a Child" (1994) (co-authored with his wife, Debi Pearl), "No Greater Joy" magazine (co-authored with his wife, Debi Pearl), "Training Children to be Strong in Spirit" (2011) and "Good and Evil" (2006) which won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2009 for the Drama/Graphic Novel category and was a Foreword Book Award finalist in the same year. He and his wife were known to encourage child abuse (To Train Up a Child) and the treatment of women as a subservient species.
Michael Duke of Strelsau (AKA Black Michael) is a character in the novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.
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Famous Bearer: Michael Vincent Jones (born July 24, 1987) is an American actor, voice actor, podcast host, and internet personality who is known for his work with Rooster Teeth's gameplay division Achievement Hunter. He also co-hosted a three-time winner of the Podcast Awards, Internet Box.
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Who is the most famous Michael? Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan.
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Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and graphic designer. He co-founded Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band's rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, keyboardist, producer, and lead vocalist, mostly providing the rap-style vocals. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He served as a producer for tracks and albums by Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and The X-Ecutioners.
Michael Ilitch Sr. Was an American entrepreneur, founder and owner of the international fast food franchise Little Caesars Pizza. He owned the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League and Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.
Michael Ryan Pritchard, known professionally as Mike Dirnt, is an American musician, songwriter and composer. He is best known as the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of American punk rock band Green Day. He has also played in several other bands, including The Frustrators. His stage name was originally a nickname that his friends from grade school had given him, as he would constantly play "air bass" and make a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, including boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky series' seven films from 1976 to 2015; soldier John Rambo from the four Rambo films, released between 1982 and 2008; and Barney Ross in the three The Expendables films from 2010 to 2014. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films.
Michael Gerard Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in two rounds, and added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987. This made Tyson the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them.
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. Douglas's career includes a diverse range of films in independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades, both competitive and honorary. These awards include the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment" and the AFI Life Achievement Award, which "honor[s] an individual whose career in motion pictures or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture".
Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of information technology infrastructure solutions. He is ranked as the 37th richest person in the world by Forbes, with a net worth of US $20.8 billion as of February 2017.
Michael Te-Pei Chang is an American former professional tennis player. He became the youngest male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 years and 4 months.
Michael Fassbender is a German-born Irish actor. His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 as a Spartan warrior; his earlier roles included various stage productions, as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex. He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger, for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include in the independent film Fish Tank, as a Royal Marines lieutenant in Inglourious Basterds, as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre, as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, as a sentient android in Prometheus, and in the musical comedy-drama Frank as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, including boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky series' seven films from 1976 to 2015; soldier John Rambo from the four Rambo films, released between 1982 and 2008; and Barney Ross in the three The Expendables films from 2010 to 2014. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films.
Michael William "Mike" Comrie is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey center. During his 13-year National Hockey League career he played with the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He retired in early 2012 after undergoing hip surgery for the third time. He married actress and singer Hilary Duff in 2010 and they have one child together. In February 2015, Duff filed for divorce from Comrie, citing irreconcilable differences, and requesting primary physical and legal joint custody of their son.
Michael Floyd is an American football wide receiver for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame. With the Patriots, he won Super Bowl LI over the Atlanta Falcons.
Michael Herck is a retired Belgian-Romanian racing driver. Herck was adopted at the age of one and a half years by millionaire André Herck, a Belgian citizen born in Bucharest. Herck grew up in Monaco, and began his racing career in Karting in France.
Michael Schumacher is a German retired racing driver. He is a seven-time Formula One World Champion and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. He was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year twice. He won two titles with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 before moving to Ferrari where he drove for eleven years. His time with Ferrari yielded five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004.
Michael Elecks James is a famous apostle and preacher of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus, who had served many churches and now presides over LIFERS WORSHIP CENTER.
Michael Glass is a character in The Morganville Vampires, a book series by Rachel Caine.
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I can't believe that no one has mentioned Michael Hutchence (b.1960, d. 1997). He was an Australian musician and actor most known for being the lead singer of INXS.
A famous bearer was German fantasy and children's book author Michael Ende (1929–1995), who wrote The Neverending Story, Momo and the Jim Button books.
A famous bearer is American stage actor Michael Arden (born October 6, 1982). He made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in the 2003 revival of "Big River". His additional stage credits include "bare: a pop opera" and the revue "Sondheim on Sondheim". In television, he was a cast member of the quickly-cancelled "The Return of Jezebel James".
Michael C. Hall is an American television and stage actor, best known for the titular role on Showtimes' 'Dexter' and for his lead role on HBO's 'Six Feet Under.' He has been nominated for numerous Emmy awards for both roles, but has yet to win. He also has an amazing singing voice, and has appeared in a number of on-stage musicals in the past.
Princess Michael of Kent is a member of the British Royal Family. She is married to Prince Michael of Kent, who is the grandson of King George V. She has written several books on the royal families of Europe. Princess Michael of Kent (1945 - ).
Singer Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe have a son Michael Joseph, born 13 February 1997 in Los Angeles. Michael Jackson has second son Prince Michael, yet. He was born in February, 2002, USA.
This name is borne by American-Canadian actor Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941). He has won 3 Emmy Awards for his television roles, which notably include Ben Stone, the original Executive Assistant District Attorney on the long-running TV series "Law & Order", from 1990 to 1994, receiving Emmy nominations (but no wins) for each year. He has appeared on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for "Find Your Way Home" in 1974, and is also an accomplished jazz musician.
A famous bearer is American author Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952). He is best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was turned into an Academy Award-winning 2002 film. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Evening" (2007).
Michael "Mike" Symon recently won the Food Network's "The Next Iron Chef." He now is one of the four Iron Chefs of America.Symon also owns two acclaimed restaurants (Lola and Lolita) and has won quite a few cooking related awards.
Michael Voss, former Lions captain and 'Ten' commentator is a famous bearer of this name. He was one of the most successful players in Brisbane Lion history and made the All Australian team several times.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Michael Landon yet. Born Eugene Orowitz, he changed his name when going into acting (to get a name that suited his career better), and was well known on such TV shoes as 'Bonanza' as Little Joe Cartwright, 'Highway to Heaven' as Jonathan Smith, and, most notably, Charles 'Pa' Ingalls, on Little House on the Prairie, for a decade. Little House was his "baby" as often said, as he also produced the show. He was very close with his "Television Family". He was married 3 times, adopted 3 children, and had 6 biological children.Michael was born on October 31, 1936 and died in July 1991 from inoperable pancreatic cancer.
Famous bearer: Michael 'Mikey' Walsh, the character played by Sean Astin in Richard Donner's 1985 film 'The Goonies'. In the film, Mikey leads the gang in their plan to find the treasure of the pirate One-Eyed Willie in order to prevent the Goon Docks from becoming a golf course.
Some famous Michaels: Michael Douglas, Michael Caine, Michael Moore, Michael "Mike" Meyers, Michael Savage, Chad Michael Murray, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Keaton, and Michael Gambon. All are actors except Michael Moore, who is a movie director, and Michael Savage, who is an author and talk radio host.
Michael Learned (a woman) played Olivia Walton on the show The Waltons from 1972-1979.
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A famous bearer of this name is the German World Champion F1 racing driver Michael Schumacher, who is the most successful motor racing driver of all time.
Michael Johnson (b. 1973) is a New Zealander Paralympic shooter who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.