Famous People with Name Michael

Michael Zandberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Michael Zandberg: an Israeli football player.He played for Hapoel Petah Tikva until he was 22 years of age. Then he moved to Maccabi Haifa where he played 4 years in 2002-2006 season, and won 3 championships and also in champions league. zandberg is one of the best wingers in Israeli football and is a member of the Israeli national team. Recently Zandberg has received interest from teams in the Dutch Eredivisie, the English Premiership, and from the German Bundesliga.

Michael Roiz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Michael Roiz: is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he finished 2nd in the national championship under-10 category. In 1995 he moved to Israel, becoming an IM in 1999 at the age of 16, and a GM in 2003.

Michael Oser Rabin            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Michael Oser Rabin: is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as Breslau (it became Wroclaw, and part of Poland, after the Second World War). He received an M.Sc. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1953 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956.

Michael Burstein            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Michael Burstein: is an actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He is the son of the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. He is no relation to Ellen Burstyn (who was born Edna Rae Gilhooley and is of Irish descent).

Michael Eitan            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Michael Eitan: is an Israeli politician, Minister of Improvement of Government Services and member of the Knesset for Likud. He served as Minister of Science & Technology between July 1997 and July 1998. Alongside Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Eitan is the joint longest-serving MK, and as such was appointed temporary Knesset speaker following the Israeli legislative election, 2009.

Sami Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Sami Michael: is an Israeli author and the president of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He was born as Sallah Menasse in Baghdad, Iraq.In some books, Michael draws on the excitement of his own formative experiences. Sufa ben ha-D'kalim (meaning "Storm Among the Palms") is a book for young readers about the life of a young Jew in the alleys of Baghdad. It is a world of magic and hazard, of pranks, streetfights, gloomy love, and standing up to hooligans.