List of Famous people named Michael

Michael Dahl (1659–1743) was a Swedish portrait painter who lived and worked in England most of his career and died there. He was one of the most internationally known Swedish painters of his time. He painted portraits of many aristocrats and some members of royal families, such as Queen Anne of Great Britain, Prince George of Denmark and the exiled Queen Christina of Sweden.

Michael Chandler is an American film editor of feature and documentary films, and a producer, director, and writer of documentary films. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the film Amadeus. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the same film, which he shared with Nena Danevic. He is a two-time winner of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award, for Best Edited Feature for Amadeus and for Best Edited Documentary for the ABC production Can’t It Be Anyone Else?

Michael Joseph was a British publisher and writer.

Michael Reed, BSC is a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films in the 1960s and 1970s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil. Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry as well as graduating to being the 2nd unit Director of Photography on the earlier James Bond films. After working on television series such as The Saint and a number of lavish looking Hammer horror films, Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Michael "Mike" Morhaime is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Dreamhaven, located in Irvine, California. Morhaime is best known as the co-founder and the former president of Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc., that was founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse. He served on the Vivendi Games executive committee since January 1999, when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. became a subsidiary of Vivendi Games.