List of Famous people named Michael

Michael Wright was an American–Turkish professional basketball player. He also held Turkish citizenship. His Turkish name was Ali Karadeniz. He played professional basketball in Poland, Spain, Israel, South Korea, France, Germany, and Turkey. He was murdered in 2015.

Michael Stanley Regan is an American environmental regulator serving as the secretary of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality. He is a former air quality specialist in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). President Joe Biden has nominated Regan to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in his administration.

Michael Scott Hopkins is a United States Space Force colonel and NASA astronaut. Hopkins was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He made his first spaceflight as a Flight Engineer on Soyuz TMA-10M/Expedition 37/Expedition 38, from September 2013 until March 2014. He is the first member of his astronaut class to fly in space. Hopkins is the first astronaut to transfer to the U.S. Space Force, participating in a transfer ceremony on the International Space Station.

Michael Olunga Ogada is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Qatari club Al-Duhail and the Kenya national team.

Michael Chase Behenna is a former United States Army First Lieutenant who was convicted of the 2008 murder of Ali Mansur Mohamed during the occupation of Iraq. Behenna is colloquially associated with a group of U.S. military personnel convicted of war crimes known as the Leavenworth 10. He was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, which was later reduced to 15 years, and served his sentence in the United States Disciplinary Barracks on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. He was granted parole on March 14, 2014, after serving less than five years of his sentence. Since his release from prison he has worked as a farmhand. On May 6, 2019, Behenna received a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Michael T. Taussig is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin.

Michael Conner Humphreys is an American actor best known for playing young Forrest Gump in the 1994 film of the same name, a performance for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award.

Michael C. Stenger is an American law enforcement officer who served as the 41st Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate from April 16, 2018, until his resignation after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.

Michael John Knowles is an American conservative political commentator, podcaster, actor, and author.

Michael Anthony Taylor, often referred to as Michael A. Taylor, is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Taylor was drafted in the sixth round of the 2009 MLB draft by the Washington Nationals, and made his MLB debut with them in 2014.