Famous People with Name Michael

Michael Levinsohn            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Levinsohn: is a South African entrepreneur who has successfully established a number of businesses and financed the production of some albums by notable musicians.

Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill: is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and

Michaël Basser Chrétien            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michaël Basser Chrétien: is a French-Moroccan professional football player. Born to a Moroccan father and a French mother, he is a right-sided fullback who plays for Ligue 1 side AS Nancy.Chrétien has only ever played for his local club, having been linked with AS Nancy since the age of five. After leaving for two years to attend the Medina academy in Meuse, FC Metz and AJ Auxerre showed an interest in signing him, but he chose to remain loyal to Nancy.

Michael Allan Lapsley            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Allan Lapsley: is a South African Anglican priest and social activist. He was born in New Zealand and in the early 1970s trained as an Anglican priest in Australia before coming to South Africa in 1973. Lapsley's visa was not renewed in 1976 due to his affiliations with the banned African National Congress and he went to Lesotho on the 30 September of that same year. He later moved to Harare in Zimbabwe. On 28 April 1990, Lapsley was the victim of a letter bomb sent to him by an operative of the Civil Cooperation Bureau which resulted in the loss of both hands and an eye. He had just returned from a speaking tour of Canada and a visit to Cuba. He started the association Friends of Cuba shortly after the bombing.

Michael Skapinker            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Skapinker: journalist and an Associate Editor of the Financial Times and a columnist.Skapinker began his career as a Foreign Correspondent in Athens for CBS Radio News and Independent radio News, moving to the London Bureau of McGraw-Hill World News, then on the International Management Magazine as senior editor before joining the Financial Times in 1986 as a management writer. He held several positions at the Financial Times, including aerospace correspondent, leisure industry correspondent and electronics writer. In July 2005 Skapinker was appointed editor of the FT’s weekend edition.

Michael Mike Phelps            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Mike Phelps: is a retired American professional basketball player. He attended Alcorn State University and was selected in the 7th round of the 1985 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. As well as with the Sonics, Phelps also played with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Sarbel Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sarbel Michael: is a British-Greek pop singer of half Greek Cypriot and half Lebanese ancestry. He is well-known in Cyprus and Greece for his debut single, Se Pira Sovara, with guest appearance by Irini Merkouri which rose him to fame, and his following albums Paraxeno Synesthima, Sahara and Kati San Esena

Gertrude Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gertrude Michael: was an American film, stage and television actress.she reportedly graduated from high school at the age of 14. She became a radio singer on the radio. She attended the University of Alabama and Converse College, Cincinnati.In 1929 in Cincinnati she made h

James Lionel Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

James Lionel Michael: was an Anglo-Australian solicitor and poet.Michael was born in London, the second son[1] of James Walter Michael, solicitor, and his wife, Rose Lemon née Hart. Michael told his friend Joseph Sheridan Moore, that the passage on page 12 of John Cumberland, beginning "My earliest memory", gives an exact picture of his childhood. After visiting Europe, Michael was articled to his father and began to mix in artistic and literary society. Sheridan Moore states that Michael became friendly with Millais and Ruskin, and published a pamphlet which made some stir at the time, vindicating the position of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Moore also says that though "always temperate and abstemious in his habits he had a talent for frittering away his money". This could have been one of the reasons for his migration to Australia.[2]

Chrysis Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Chrysis Michael: is a Cypriot football midfielder who currently plays for APOEL and national team of Cyprus. He started his career at AEL FC.