Mike
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Given name

  • Mike Barnard
    Mike Barnard
    Henry Michael Barnard is an English former cricketer and professional footballer.-Biography:As a cricketer, he played for Hampshire as a right-handed batsman and a medium pace bowler...

    , English cricketer
  • Mike Brown (ice hockey b. June 1985), American ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs
    Toronto Maple Leafs
    The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

    )
  • Mike Brown (ice hockey b. March 1985), Ice hockey player goaltender
  • Mike Bryan
    Mike Bryan
    Michael Carl "Mike" Bryan is an American professional tennis player. He stands tall, weighs 192 lbs and plays right-handed. He turned professional in 1998. With his twin brother Bob, he has been World No...

    , American professional tennis player
  • Mike Butikofer, guitarist for rock metal band Back From Ashes
    Back from Ashes
    Back From Ashes is a rock metal band from Phoenix, Arizona. The band began in 2003 with Jason Hobel as the lead vocalist, Mike Butikofer/Matt Manion on guitars, Lane Lariviere on bass and Steve Belcastro on drums. Prior to 2007, Anthony De Jesus took over Manion on guitar while David Digilio took...

  • Mike Cameron
    Mike Cameron
    Michael Terrance Cameron is an American professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He has previously played for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, and Florida Marlins.Cameron has won 3...

    , American baseball player
  • Mike Dierickx
    Mike Dierickx
    Mike Dierickx , formerly known as Dirk Dierickx, and most commonly recognized under the aliases M.I.K.E., Push or Plastic Boy, is a Belgian DJ. Best known for the song "Universal Nation", he has also released other singles including "The Legacy" and "Strange World"...

    , aka M.I.K.E., Belgian progressive trance DJ/Producer
  • Mike Epstein
    Mike Epstein
    Michael Peter Epstein , nicknamed SuperJew, is a former Major League Baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, and California Angels from –....

    , American major league baseball first baseman
  • Mike Franks (tennis), American tennis player
  • Mike George
    Mike George
    Mike George is a British radio presenter. He was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1945, a premature baby, as a result of the VE Celebrations. He attended Watford Central Primary and Bushey Grammar School...

    , British radio presenter
  • Mike Hartman
    Mike Hartman
    Michael J. Hartman is a retired professional ice hockey player. Hartman was drafted in the seventh round, 131st overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft....

    , American NHL ice hockey player
  • Mike Lieberthal
    Mike Lieberthal
    Michael Scott "Mike" Lieberthal , nicknamed Lieby, is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He batted and threw right-handed....

    , American major league baseball All Star catcher
  • Mike Pegg
    Mike Pegg
    Mike Pegg is a British writer and mentor who has helped to pioneer the strengths approach to working with people. He has written many books on the topic. These include The Art of Mentoring, The Super Teams Book and Strengths Coaching In 90 Minutes...

    , British author
  • Mike Rosenthal
    Mike Rosenthal
    Mike Rosenthal is an American football offensive tackle who is currently retired.He was originally drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame. Rosenthal is now a high school football coach at Austin High School in Austin, Texas...

    , American football player
  • Mike Rossman
    Mike Rossman
    Mike Rossman is an American former world champion boxer. He is of Jewish/Italian origin, which led to his monikers "The Kosher Butcher" and "The Jewish Bomber." He finished his professional boxing career in 1983 with a record of 44–7–3, with 27 knockouts.-Life and career:Rossman was born in...

     (Michael Albert DiPiano; "The Jewish Bomber"), American world champion light heavyweight boxer
  • Mike Rutherford
    Mike Rutherford
    Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead guitarist. He is one of only two constant members in Genesis . He also fronts Mike + The...

    , British progressive rock
    Progressive rock
    Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

     guitarist
  • Mike Seidman (American football), American football player (Indianapolis Colts
    Indianapolis Colts
    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....

    )
  • Mike Tyson
    Mike Tyson
    Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

    , American world champion heavyweight boxer
  • Mike Veisor
    Mike Veisor
    Michael David "Worm" Veisor, Sr. is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender.Veisor started his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1973. He also played for the Hartford Whalers and Winnipeg Jets. He retired after the 1984 season.He was the second Jewish goalie in NHL...

    , Canadian NHL ice hockey player
  • Mike Wallace (journalist)
    Mike Wallace (journalist)
    Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace is an American journalist, former game show host, actor and media personality. During his 60+ year career, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers....

    , American journalist, game show host, and media personality
  • Mike Shinoda
    Mike Shinoda
    Michael "Mike" Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, along with his co-frontman and lead singer Chester Bennington, and as a solo rapper in...

    , the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the band Linkin Park
    Linkin Park
    Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...

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  • Mike Kennerty, A Guitarist of the band The All-American Rejects
    The All-American Rejects
    The All-American Rejects are an American rock band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1999. The band consists of lead vocalist and bass guitarist Tyson Ritter, lead guitarist, Nick Wheeler, rhythm guitarist, Mike Kennerty, and drummer Chris Gaylor....

    .

Other

  • Mike (cat)
    Mike (cat)
    Mike was a famous cat who guarded the gates of the British Museum and whose fame was such that Time Magazine devoted two articles to him on his death. E. A...

    , guardian of the British Museum
  • Mike (cellular network)
    Mike (cellular network)
    Mike is a Canadian mobile phone and push-to-talk network, launched in 1996 using the proprietary iDEN platform from Motorola. The network was initially launched by Clearnet in the Windsor to Québec corridor, while its roll-out in western Canada followed in 1997...

    , a Canadian cellular network
  • Mike (film)
    Mike (film)
    Mike is a 1926 film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film is a modest production, featuring Sally O'Neil and William Haines.-Plot:Mike is a girl of the railroads, living with her Father in a converted freight car, in love with telegraphist Harlan .-Cast:* Sally O'Neil - Mike * William Haines -...

    , a 1926 American film
  • Mike (novel)
    Mike (novel)
    Mike is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 15 September 1909 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story first appeared in the magazine The Captain, in two separate parts, collected together in the original version of the book; the first part, originally called Jackson Junior, was...

    , a 1909 novel by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mike the Headless Chicken
    Mike the Headless Chicken
    Mike the Headless Chicken , also known as Miracle Mike, was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off...

  • MIKE
    Mike
    -Given name:* Mike Barnard, English cricketer* Mike Brown , American ice hockey player * Mike Brown -Given name:* Mike Barnard, English cricketer* Mike Brown (ice hockey b. June 1985), American ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs)* Mike Brown -Given name:* Mike Barnard, English cricketer* Mike...

    , a character from Twin Peaks
  • Ivy Mike
    Ivy Mike
    Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first United States test of a thermonuclear weapon, in which a major part of the explosive yield came from nuclear fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy...

    , first nuclear test of a fusion device
  • abbreviation of microphone
    Microphone
    A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

    , often spelled as "mic"
  • abbreviation of micrometre
    Micrometre
    A micrometer , is by definition 1×10-6 of a meter .In plain English, it means one-millionth of a meter . Its unit symbol in the International System of Units is μm...

  • abbreviation of Michael
    Michael
    Michael is a given name that comes from the , derived from the Hebrew question מי כמו אלוהים? meaning "Who is like God?" In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, or, especially in Ireland, Mick...

  • abbreviation of Michaela
    Michaela
    Michaela is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the Hebrew name Michael , which means "Who is like God."It was rare in any country until it became fashionable in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the 1950s to 1970s...

  • the middle linebacker
    Linebacker
    A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...

     in American football
  • the letter "M" in the ICAO spelling alphabet
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