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Michael Flatley

Dance impresario Michael Flatley was raised in Chicago by Irish parents and took up dancing in earnest at age 11. In 1994 he became principal choreographer and dancer for the musical revue Riverdance…

Michael Moore

Michael Moore's 1989 documentary Roger & Me made him rich and famous and put him in the spotlight as a champion of the common folk against corporate greed. Michael Moore was raised near Flint,…

Michael Kennedy

Michael Lemoyne Kennedy was the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, and nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Michael Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1980 and from the University of…

Michael Vick

Michael Vick is the NFL quarterback jailed in 2007 for his role in illegal dog fighting. An outstanding athlete, Vick began attracting scouts while playing high school football in Newport News,…

Lorne Michaels

Name at birth: Lorne LipowitzLorne Michaels is the creator of the TV comedy series Saturday Night Live, the long-running show that spawned the careers of several comedians, including John Belushi,…

George Michael

Name at birth: Georgios Kyriacos PanayiotouScruffy-sexy and sultry, George Michael was the bridge between 1970s glam rock and the sex-pop of the 1990s. He sold more than 100 million records in a…

Michael Gambon

Sir Michael Gambon was the Irish-British actor whose long career stretched from doing Shakespeare with Sir Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theater in the 1960s to playing the good-guy wizard…

Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith was one of the four founding members of The Monkees, a made-for-TV musical group that was a pop phenomenon in the late 1960s. Michael Nesmith was born in Houston, dropped out of high…

Michael Dorris

Michael Dorrisanthropologist, writerBorn: 1/30/1945Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky Noted as the founder (1972) of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth College, he was also known…

Michael Landon

Michael Landon(Eugene Maurice Orowitz)actor, producer-director, writerBorn: 10/31/1936Birthplace: Forest Hills, New York Talented actor who starred for 14 years in Bonanza (1959–73) then went…