List of Famous people named Michael
Michael Moritz
Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz is a Welsh billionaire venture capitalist and former journalist. Moritz works for Sequoia Capital and is a philanthropist and author of the first history of Apple Inc., The Little Kingdom, and of Going for Broke: Lee Iacocca's Battle to Save Chrysler. Previously, Moritz was a staff writer at Time magazine and a member of the board of directors of Google. He studied at the University of Oxford and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and went on to found Technologic Partners before becoming a venture capitalist in the 1980s. Moritz was named as the No. 1 venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2006 and 2007.
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988.
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
Michael Zinberg
Michael Allan Zinberg, is an American television director, producer and writer.
Michael Carlyle, 4th Lord Carlyle of Torthorwald
Michael Wolgemut
Michael Wolgemut was a German painter and printmaker, who ran a workshop in Nuremberg. He is best known as having taught the young Albrecht Dürer.
Michael Matheson
Michael Stephen Matheson is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity since 26 June 2018, having previously served as the Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2014 to 2018. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first representing Central Scotland and, since 2007, the Falkirk West constituency.
Michael Elmgreen
Michael Abel Smith
Michael Silvius von Hohenhausen