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Lee, Michele

actress, singerBirthplace: Los AngelesBorn: 6/24/42

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand was the French musician, singer and composer best known for his movie scores, including the Oscar-winning song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from the 1968 Steve McQueen movie The Thomas…

Michel Hazanavicius

Name at birth: Michel HazanaviciusMichel Hazanavicius is the French director who won an Oscar in 2012 for The Artist, his charming silent movie set in the early days of Hollywood. Michel…

Michel Foucault

Name at birth: Paul-Michel FoucaultFrench philosopher Michel Foucault came to prominence in the 1960s as a provocative voice whose academic studies of power and institutions included Madness and…

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who came to national attention during the presidential election of 2008, and was a candidate for U.S. president in 2012. Bachmann rose…

Lea Michele

Name at birth: Lea Michele SarfatiLea Michele played the tightly-wound super-student Rachel Berry in the TV series Glee. By the time that series started in 2009, Lea Michele was already a veteran of…

Brewer's: Michel

or Cousin Michael. A German. Michel means a dolt; thus the French call a fool who allows himself to be taken in by thimble-rigs and card tricks mikel. In Old French the word mice occurs,…

Michel Mirowski

Michel MirowskiBorn: 1924Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland Implantable defibrillator—Heilman, Langer, Mower, and Mirowski: This team of doctors developed the implantable defibrillator, an internal…

Michel, Bob

(Encyclopedia) Michel, Bob (Robert Henry Michel)Michel, Bobmīˈkəl [key], 1923–2017, U.S. congressman, b. Peoria, Ill. A decorated veteran, he served in the army during World War II before being…