List of Famous people named Michael

Michael Søren Madsen is an American actor, producer, director, writer, poet and photographer. His first major film role was in Thelma & Louise (1991), and he is best known for working with director Quentin Tarantino in the role of Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs (1992), as Budd in both segments of Kill Bill, and appearing in The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Known for playing "charming, careless, terrifying bastards", Madsen has also starred in many feature films and television series, and has done voice work for video games.

Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a British–Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and is the 95th richest person in the UK, as ranked by the Sunday Times Rich List 2017, with an estimated fortune of £1.35 billion.

Michael Andrew Caines is an English chef born in Exeter, Devon.

Joseph Michael Swango, also known under the aliases David J. Adams, Michael Kirk, Jack Kirk, and Michael Swan, as well as the press nickname Dr. Death, is an American former physician and an admitted serial killer. Swango is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing four deaths. He was sentenced in 2000 to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, and is serving that sentence at the ADX Florence supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.

Michaël Bruno Dominique Cuisance is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille, on loan from Bayern Munich. He has also represented France up to France U20's level.

Michael Goolaerts was a Belgian cyclist who rode for Vérandas Willems–Crelan. During the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Goolaerts suffered cardiac arrest. He was airlifted to a hospital in Lille, where he died hours later.

Michael Hinz was a German actor.

Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until his assassination in August 1922.

Michael Mantenuto was an American film actor, college ice hockey player, and Army non-commissioned officer, best known for his performance as Olympic ice hockey star Jack O'Callahan in the 2004 Disney biopic Miracle.

Michael G. Rubin is an American businessman. He is the executive chairman of Fanatics, the world's leading provider of licensed sports merchandise; and Rue Gilt Groupe, the premier off-price e-commerce portfolio company, which includes RueLaLa.com, Gilt.com, and ShopPremiumOutlets.com. He previously founded GSI Commerce in 1998, selling it to eBay in 2011 for $2.4 billion.