Famous People with Name Misha

Misha Dichter            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Misha Dichter: a classical pianist who was born in Shanghai to Polish-Jewish parents who had fled the Holocaust in Europe.When he was two years old, his family moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began studying piano at the age of five. While studying at the Juilliard School in New York, Dichter won the Silver medal at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, an accomplishment which helped launch his musical career.

Misha Jonas Emanuel Latuhihin            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Misha Jonas Emanuel Latuhihin: is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia under the guidance of coach Joop Alberda.

Misha Mengelberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Misha Mengelberg: is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.Mengelberg was born in Kiev in Ukraine, the son of the conductor Karel Mengelberg, who was himself the nephew of the conductor Willem Mengelberg. He briefly studied architecture before entering the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied music from 1958 to 1964. While there he won the first prize at a jazz festival in Loosdrecht and became associated with Fluxus. His early influences included Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and John Cage, whom he heard lecture at Darmstadt.

Moshe Mishaelof            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Moshe Mishaelof: an Israeli professional football (soccer) player currently with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Formerly a captain of the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth team and the Israel national under-21 football team, Mishaelof has been a part of the Maccabi system for years, having helped the club achieve some of its most historic moments, including a birth into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

Valentina Grigoryevna Mishak            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Valentina Grigoryevna Mishak: is an former Soviet competitive volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist.

Yevgeni Mishakov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yevgeni Mishakov: is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow.

Victor Mishalow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victor Mishalow: is a Canadian composer, conductor, bandurist, kobzar, recording artist and ethomusicologist. He was born April 4, 1960, in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He graduated from the Sydney University (1984), continuing post-graduate studies at the Sydney College of Ad

Alexander Sergeevich Misharin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Sergeevich Misharin: is the current governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, a region in Russia. He took office in 2009 after resignation of the previous governor, Eduard Rossel.During the 2000s, he served at Transport Ministry in several ranks including Deputy Minister.