Famous People with Name Michael

Michael Edwardes            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Edwardes: is a business executive.In 1977 he was appointed as chief executive of the United Kingdom's ailing motor giant, British Leyland. In 1980 he attracted criticism for a speech to the CBI Conference in which he said, "If the Cabinet do not have the wit and imagination to reconcile our industrial needs with the fact of North Sea oil, they would do better to leave the bloody stuff in the ground."[1] His tenure with British Leyland lasted until 1982, when he was replaced by Harold Musgrove.

Michael Levinsohn            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Levinsohn: is a South African entrepreneur who has successfully established a number of businesses and financed the production of some albums by notable musicians.

Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill: is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and

Michaël Basser Chrétien            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michaël Basser Chrétien: is a French-Moroccan professional football player. Born to a Moroccan father and a French mother, he is a right-sided fullback who plays for Ligue 1 side AS Nancy.Chrétien has only ever played for his local club, having been linked with AS Nancy since the age of five. After leaving for two years to attend the Medina academy in Meuse, FC Metz and AJ Auxerre showed an interest in signing him, but he chose to remain loyal to Nancy.

Michael Allan Lapsley            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Michael Allan Lapsley: is a South African Anglican priest and social activist. He was born in New Zealand and in the early 1970s trained as an Anglican priest in Australia before coming to South Africa in 1973. Lapsley's visa was not renewed in 1976 due to his affiliations with the banned African National Congress and he went to Lesotho on the 30 September of that same year. He later moved to Harare in Zimbabwe. On 28 April 1990, Lapsley was the victim of a letter bomb sent to him by an operative of the Civil Cooperation Bureau which resulted in the loss of both hands and an eye. He had just returned from a speaking tour of Canada and a visit to Cuba. He started the association Friends of Cuba shortly after the bombing.