Here is another piece in the series “First Names First” - all for pure entertainment! We present a chronological list of persons with their first name here, and your task is to pick one. Then follow the Wikipedia link to read about that person, and to see what if anything he or she could contribute your life with. Inspiration, passion, encouragement, empathy, etc. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived have all something worthwhile to tell us - let them!

This time it is all about Michael/Mikael/Mikhail! No shortage of them! Michael Faraday* scientist – Newington Butts, England (1791-1867) Michael Bond* author (Paddington Bear) - Newbury, Berkshire, England (1926-2017) Mikhail Gorbachev* politician/P – Stavropol, Russia, Soviet Union (1931) Michael Caine* actor/producer - Rotherhithe, London, England (1933) Michael Landon* actor/director/producer - Queens, NY USA (1936-1991) Michael Murphy* actor – Los Angeles, California USA (1938) Michael Rockefeller* explorer – USA (1938, disappeared in 1961) Michael Moriarty* actor – Detroit, Michigan USA (1941) Michael Lerner* actor – Brooklyn, NY USA (1941) Michael Erlewine* astrologer/ musician/entrepreneur – Lancaster, PA USA (1941) Michael Bloomberg* businessman/ engineer/mayor - Boston, MA USA (1942) Michael Crichton* author/screenwriter/producer - Chicago, IL USA (1942-2008) Michael Mann* film director/writer/ producer – Chicago, IL USA (1943) Michael Douglas* actor - New Brunswick, NJ USA (1944) Michael Nouri* actor – Washington, D.C. USA (1945) Michael Gross* actor – Chicago, Illinois USA (1947) Mikhail Baryshnikov* dancer – Riga, Latvia, Soviet Union (1948) Mikael Rickfors* singer/guitarist – Stockholm, Sweden (1948) Michael Ironside* actor – Toronto, Ontario CAN (1950) Michael Keaton* actor - Coraopolis, PA USA (1951) Michael Bolton* singer/songwriter -  New Haven, CT USA (1953) Michael Moore* documentary filmmaker - Davison, Michigan USA (1954) Michael Emerson* actor - Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA (1954) Michael Rooker* actor – Jasper, Alabama USA (1955) Michael Spinks* boxer – St.Louis, Missouri USA (1956) Michael Madsen* actor/producer/ writer - Chicago, IL USA  (1957) Michael Clarke Duncan* actor – Chicago, IL USA (1957-2012) Michael Wincott* actor - Toronto, ON Canada (1958) Michael Jackson* singer - Gary, Indiana USA (1958-2009) Michael J. Fox* actor - Edmonton, AB Canada (1961) Michael Jordan* basketball player - Brooklyn, NY USA (1963) Michael Chiklis* actor/television producer - Lowell, MA USA (1963) Michael Greyeyes* Plains Cree actor/choreographer/ director - The Qu’Appelle Valley, SK Canada (1967) Michael B. Silver* actor – New York, NY USA (1967) Michael Johnson* athlete/sprinter – Dallas, TX USA (1967) Michael Stuhlbarg* actor – Long Beach, CA USA (1968) Michael Schumacher* racing driver - Hürth, West Germany (1969) Michael Rapaport* actor – New York, NY USA (1970) Michael C. Hall* actor - Raleigh, NC USA (1971) Michael Shannon* actor/musician – Lexington, Kentucky USA (1974) Michael Bublé* singer/songwriter/record producer – Burnaby, BC Canada (1975) Michael McIntyre* stand-up comedian/TV presenter – London, England  (1976) Michael Fassbender* actor - Heidelberg, West Germany (1977) Michael Bisping* Brittish mixed martial artist – Nicosia, Cyprus (1979) Michael Phelps* swimmer - Baltimore, MD USA (1985) Michael Johnson* mixed martial artist - St. Louis, MO USA (1986) Michael B. Jordan* actor - Santa Ana, CA USA (1987) Michael Hutchinson* hockey goalie – Barrie, ON Canada (1990) Mikael Granlund* hockey player – Oulu, Finland (1992) Updated 6.12.2019 PS. Know any Michael that you would like to add here?