Notable Michaels.

I Register

37 entries · sorted by surname · current as of the second quarter of fiscal 2026

1. Michael Bay

   b. 1965 · Cinema

   Sustained inquiry into the kinetic possibilities of vehicular ordnance.

2. Michael Bloomberg

   b. 1942 · Civic Administration

   Municipal governance; financial data infrastructure.

3. Michael Bublé

   b. 1975 · Vocal Performance

   Continuity in the standards repertoire.

4. Michael Caine

   b. 1933 · Stage and Screen

   Two recipients of the Oscar; eight decades on the boards.

5. Michael Cera

   b. 1988 · Comedic Performance

   Refined the diffident-protagonist tradition.

6. Michael Chabon

   b. 1963 · Letters

   Pulitzer laureate; long-form American fiction.

7. Michael Crichton

   1942–2008 · Letters and Cinema

   Speculative narrative; the cautionary technological idiom.

8. Michael Cunningham

   b. 1952 · Letters

   Pulitzer laureate (1999); Woolf-adjacent narrative form.

9. Michael Dell

   b. 1965 · Computing

   Direct-to-consumer logistics; assembled computation.

10. Michael Douglas

    b. 1944 · Stage and Screen

    Two recipients of the Oscar; American leading-man tradition.

11. Michael Eisner

    b. 1942 · Cultural Industries

    Studio stewardship across two decades.

12. Michael Faraday

    1791–1867 · Natural Philosophy

    Electromagnetic induction; the Faraday cage.

13. Michael Fassbender

    b. 1977 · Stage and Screen

    Continental tradition in anglophone cinema.

14. Michael J. Fox

    b. 1961 · Stage and Screen

    Comedic timing; advocacy in neurology research.

15. Michael Haydn

    1737–1806 · Composition

    Younger brother of Joseph; sacred-music tradition.

16. Michael Imperioli

    b. 1966 · Stage and Screen

    Long-form ensemble television.

17. Michael Jackson

    1958–2009 · Music

    The recorded album as cultural object.

18. Michael B. Jordan

    b. 1987 · Stage and Screen

    Lead and director; expansion of the leading-man register.

19. Michael Jordan

    b. 1963 · Sport

    Six championships; the modern athlete-as-brand template.

20. Michael Keaton

    b. 1951 · Stage and Screen

    Comedic and dramatic range across four decades.

21. Michael Kors

    b. 1959 · Apparel

    Ready-to-wear sportswear in the American idiom.

22. Michael Lewis

    b. 1960 · Letters

    Long-form narrative non-fiction; financial systems.

23. Michael Mann

    b. 1943 · Cinema

    Procedural realism; the long lens at night.

24. Michael Moore

    b. 1954 · Documentary Cinema

    First-person essayistic reportage.

25. Michael Nyman

    b. 1944 · Composition

    Minimalist-derived score for cinema.

26. Michael Ondaatje

    b. 1943 · Letters

    Booker laureate; lyric historical fiction.

27. Michael Phelps

    b. 1985 · Sport

    Twenty-three Olympic gold medals.

28. Michael Pollan

    b. 1955 · Letters

    The agricultural and culinary essay tradition.

29. Michael Praetorius

    1571–1621 · Composition

    Foundational treatises on Renaissance practice.

30. Michael Schur

    b. 1975 · Television

    Sustained ensemble comedy.

31. Michael Shannon

    b. 1974 · Stage and Screen

    Character work in supporting registers.

32. Michael Sheen

    b. 1969 · Stage and Screen

    Biographical impersonation in long-form drama.

33. Michael Stipe

    b. 1960 · Music

    Lyrical economy in the alternative idiom.

34. Michael Strahan

    b. 1971 · Sport and Broadcast

    Defensive line; subsequent broadcast career.

35. Michael Stuhlbarg

    b. 1968 · Stage and Screen

    Theatrical and cinematic supporting work.

36. Michael Tippett

    1905–1998 · Composition

    Late-modernist British symphonic tradition.

37. Michael Vick

    b. 1980 · Sport

    Mobile quarterbacking in the modern era.