Top Celebrity Names Starting With Mikhail

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   Mikhail Baryshnikov

   Age 64 Male
   

   Ballet Dancer

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   Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov, nicknamed "Misha" is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance.… read more

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   Mikhail Gorbachev

   1931 - 4712 BC Male
   

   Leader of the Soviet Union

   
   

   Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule.… read more

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   Mikhail Prokhorov

   Age 47 Male
   

   Billionaire Entrepreneur

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   Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov is a Russian billionaire and owner of the American basketball team, the New Jersey Nets. After graduating from the Moscow Finance Institute he made his name in the financial sector and went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists in the precious metals sector. While he was running Norilsk Nickel, the company became the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium.… read more

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   Mikhail Khodorkovsky

   Age 48 Male
   

   Politician, Businessman, President

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   Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a former businessman imprisoned in Russia since 2003 on charges that his supporters - such as Amnesty International - consider politically motivated.

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   Mikhail Youzhny

   Age 29 Male
   

   Tennis Player

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   Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982, in Moscow, USSR, is a professional Russian tennis player, noted for his consistency and all-court play style. He has been coached by Boris Sobkin for 17 years. The highest singles world ranking of his career was number eight, achieved 28 January 2008 and again on 18 October 2010.… read more

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   Mikhail Botvinnik

   1911 - 1995 Male
   

   Chess Champion

   
   

   Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while playing top-class competitive chess.… read more

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   Mikhail Bakunin

   1814 - 1876 Male
   

   Revolutionary

   
   

   Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists, leading to enthusiasm for the philosophy of Fichte.… read more

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   Mikhail Vartanov

   1937 - 2009 Male
   

   Cameraman, Scriptwriter, Essayist

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   Mikhail Vartanov. Film director, cinematographer, documentarian, essayist, photographer and artist who developed a style of documentary filmmaking termed the “direction of undirected action.

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   Mikhail Miloradovich

   1770 - 2015 Male
   

   General, Military Person

   
   

   Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich, spelled Miloradovitch in contemporary English sources was a Russian general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. He entered military service on the eve of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 and his career advanced rapidly during the reign of Paul I. He served under Alexander Suvorov during Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799.… read more

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    Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

    1826 - 1889 Male
    

    Writer, Satirist, Poet

    
    

    Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, better known by his pseudonym Shchedrin, was a major Russian satirist of the 19th century. At one time, after the death of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov, he acted as editor of the well-known Russian magazine, the Otechestvenniye Zapiski, until it was banned by the government in 1884. His best known work is the novel The Golovlyov Family (1876).… read more

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    Mikhail Bakhtin

    1895 - 1975 Male
    

    Philosopher, Scholar

    
    

    Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, anthropology and psychology.… read more

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    Mikhail Suslov

    1902 - 1982 Male
    

    Politician, Statesman, Second

    
    

    Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and the separation of power within the Communist Party. His conservative attitude toward change made him one of the foremost anti-reformist Soviet leaders.… read more

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    Mikhail Tal

    1936 - 1992 Male
    

    Grandmaster, Champion, Chess Player

    
    

    Mikhail Tal was a Soviet-Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played in a daring, combinational style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Every game, he once said, was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem.… read more

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    Mikhail Bulgakov

    1891 - 1940 Male
    

    Writer

    
    
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    Mikhail Kasyanov

    1957 - 4712 BC Male
    

    Politician, Prime Minister of Russia

    
    

    Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov - was the Prime Minister of Russia from May 2000 to February 2004. He is the leader of the People's Democratic Union and an ex-member of the opposition coalition "The Other Russia".… read more

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    Mikhail Tukhachevsky

    1893 - 1937 Male
    

    Marshal, Commander In Chief, Writer

    
    

    Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army, and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

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    Mikhail Fridman

    Age 48 Male
    

    Businessman, Politician, President

    
    

    Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Jewish Russian businessman. Mr. Fridman graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986. In the 1980s, as a student, Fridman scalped theater tickets on a large scale. In 1988 Fridman started his career in trading and financial services before founding Alfa Group Consortium in 1989. Fridman sits as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Consortium, which is now one of the Russia's largest privately owned investment groups.… read more

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    Mikhail Fradkov

    1950 - 4712 BC Male
    

    Prime Minister of Russia

    
    

    Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov is a Russian politician and statesman who was the Prime Minister of Russia from March 2004 to September 2007. Fradkov has been the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service since 2007.… read more

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    Mikhail Savoyarov

    1876 - 1941 Male
    

    Composer, Poet, Comedian

    
    

    Mikhail Savoyarov is a Russian chansonnier, composer, poet, comic actor and mime. In the first quarter of 20th century he was a famous satirical singer-songwriter. His popularity peak was in the years of war (1914–1917) when he began to be called the King of eccentrics. It was also the time when he became friends with Aleksandr Blok.… read more

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    Mikhail Lomonosov

    1711 - 1765 Male
    

    Scientist, Writer

    
    

    Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet, who created the basis of the modern Russian literary language.… read more

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    Mikhail Kutuzov

    1813 Male
    

    Field Marshal, Diplomat, Czar

    
    

    Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as one of the finest military officers and diplomats of Russia under the reign of three Romanov Tsars: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. His military career was closely associated with the rising period of Russia from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.… read more

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    Mikhail Lermontov

    1814 - 1841 Male
    

    Poet, Romantic Writer

    
    

    Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism.… read more