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Michaela-Batya Bisi Abam (born 12 June 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in the United States, she plays for the Cameroon national team. She previously played for Houston Dash and Sky Blue FC in the American National…
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Michaela Mabinty DePrince (born Mabinty Bangura; January 6, 1995 – September 10, 2024) was a Sierra Leonean–American ballet dancer who danced with the Boston Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Dutch National Ballet. DePrince rose to fame after…
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Michaela Franklin (born September 28, 1982) is an American collegiate volleyball coach and former player. Most recently, Franklin served as the head coach at Clemson University from 2017 to 2021. Prior to her tenure at Clemson, Franklin was associate head…
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Michaela Antonia Jaé Rodriguez (born January 7, 1991), formerly known as Mj Rodriguez, is an American actress and singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Rodriguez attended several performing arts schools in her youth before being cast in a theater production…
1956–
Michaele Pride-Wells (born 1956) is an American architect and educator. She is a professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico. She was the first woman-owned and operated architecture firm in the state of California. Pride-Wells was the founder…
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Michael Ray Richardson (April 11, 1955 – November 11, 2025), known by the nickname "Sugar", was an American professional basketball player and head coach. He played college basketball for the Montana Grizzlies. The fourth overall pick in the 1978 NBA…
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Michèle Crider (born 1959 in Quincy, Illinois) is an American lirico spinto operatic soprano. She has appeared in many of the great opera house in the world including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco…
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Michèle Gates Moresi is an American museum curator. Moresi has been a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC since 2006.
1970–
Michele Bratcher Goodwin (born July 29, 1970) is an American legal scholar whose expertise is in the fields of bioethics and health law. She was the Chancellor's Professor of Law and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the…
1956–
Michele Moody-Adams (born 1956) is an American philosopher and academic administrator. Between July 1, 2009, and September 2011, she served as Dean of Columbia College and Vice President for Undergraduate Education at Columbia University. She was the first…
1952–
Michele Faith Wallace (born January 4, 1952) is an American Black feminist author, cultural critic, and daughter of artist Faith Ringgold. She is best known for her 1979 book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. Wallace's writings on literature,…
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Michelle Asha Albert is an American cardiologist who is the Walter A. Haas Lucie-Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Albert is a past president of the American Heart Association, the…
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Michelle Alexander (born October 7, 1967) is an American writer, attorney, and civil rights activist. She is best known for her 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Since 2018, she has been an opinion columnist for…
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Michelle Ivory Cooper (born December 4, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for the Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She played two years of college…
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Michelle Duster is an American author and public historian. She is known for her work to preserve the legacy of her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells.
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Michelle Evelyn Morse is an American internist. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founded EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium. She was the interim Commissioner of Health for the City of New…
1965–
Michelle Bonae Finn-Burrell (born May 8, 1965, in Orlando, Florida) is an American former sprint athlete from Orlando, Florida. She graduated from Oak Ridge High School in Orlando. She set the Florida State University record for the 100 meters which has…
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Michelle Gray is an American neuroscientist and professor of neurology and neurobiology at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Gray is a researcher in the study of the biological basis of Huntington's disease (HD). In her postdoctoral work, she developed…
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Michelle Holder is an American economist who is a Professor of Economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York. Her research focuses on the position of Black workers and women of color in the American labor market,…
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Michelle Johnson is an American journalist and educator. She worked in various roles at The Boston Globe and Boston.com and co-founded the New England chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Johnson was an associate professor of…
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Michelle King (March 9, 1961 – February 2, 2019) was an American educator. She was the first black woman to serve as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the United States. She was…
1982–
Michelle L. J. Lollie (born 1982) is an American quantum optics and laser systems physicist. She was the first African American woman to graduate with PhD in physics from the Louisiana State University in 2016. Her thesis focused on investigating classical…
1954–2022
Michelle Angelina Materre (May 12, 1954 – March 11, 2022) was an American educator and film distributor. She was an early proponent of independent films by Black female directors. Materre was appointed associate professor at The New School in 2000 and ran…
1964–
Obama championed education, healthy living and military families as First Lady and became one of the most popular public figures of her era.
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