Prompt 5 of 7
Name a famous person named Michael
126 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Archangel Michael— His name is Hebrew for 'who is like God?'
85 ptsDeep Cut82 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Michael Afton
- Michael Andretti
- Michael Ball
- Michael Ballack
- Michael Bisping
- Michael Bluth
- Michael Buffer— Trademarked 'Let's get ready to rumble' and earned millions licensing it.
- Michael Burry
- Michael C. Hall
- Michael Carrick
- Michael Chandler
- Michael Chang— Youngest men's Grand Slam singles champion, French Open 1989.
- Michael Chiklis
- Michael Cimino
- Michael Clarke
- Michael Cohen
- Michael Collins— One name, two legends: the Apollo pilot and the Irish revolutionary.
- Michael Connelly
- Michael Crawford
- Michael D. Higgins
- Michael De Santa
- Michael Dorn
- Michael Dukakis
- Michael Ealy
- Michael Eisner
- Michael Emerson
- Michael Essien
- Michael Flynn
- Michael Foot
- Michael Gove
- Michael Heseltine
- Michael Holding
- Michael Hutchence
- Michael Imperioli
- Michael Ironside
- Michael Jai White
- Michael Knight
- Michael Laudrup
- Michael Learned— Three Emmys as Olivia Walton, first name genuinely Michael.
- Michael Lewis
- Michael Madsen
- Michael Mann
- Michael McIntyre
- Michael Morpurgo
- Michael Nesmith
- Michael Oher
- Michael Olise
- Michael Palin
- Michael Parkinson
- Michael Peña
- Michael Penix Jr.
- Michael Pollan
- Michael Porter Jr.
- Michael Portillo
- Michael Rapaport
- Michael Richards
- Michael Rooker
- Michael Rosen
- Michael Scofield
- Michael Shannon
- Michael Spinks
- Michael Stipe
- Michael Thomas
- Michael van Gerwen
- Michael Vaughan
- Michael W. Smith
- Michael Waltrip
- Michael Weatherly
- Michael York
- Mike Ditka
- Mike Ehrmantraut
- Mike Epps
- Mike Huckabee
- Mike Judge
- Mike Krzyzewski
- Mike Love
- Mike Piazza
- Mike Pompeo
- Mike Rowe
- Mike Shinoda
- Mikhail Baryshnikov— Same Mikhail ruling as Gorbachev, applied to ballet.
- Mikhail Gorbachev— Russian form of Michael; last leader of the Soviet Union.
60 ptsRare23 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Michael Cera
- Michael Che
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Michael Corleone
- Michael Crichton
- Michael Dell
- Michael Faraday
- Michael Fassbender
- Michael Flatley
- Michael Gambon— Played Dumbledore in six Harry Potter films starting in 2004.
- Michael Irvin
- Michael Johnson
- Michael Kors
- Michael Landon
- Michael McDonald
- Michael Owen— Won the 2001 Ballon d'Or while playing for Liverpool.
- Michael Schumacher
- Michael Sheen
- Michael Strahan
- Mick Jagger— Legally Michael Philip Jagger since 1943.
- Mike Pence
- Mike Trout
- Mike Wazowski
30 ptsSchooler13 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- George Michael— Surname ruling; he was born Georgios Panayiotou.
- Michael B. Jordan
- Michael Bay
- Michael Bloomberg
- Michael Bolton
- Michael Bublé
- Michael Caine
- Michael Douglas
- Michael J. Fox
- Michael Keaton— Born Michael Douglas; the actors' guild already had one.
- Michael Moore
- Michael Vick
- Mike Myers
15 ptsToo Clever3 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Michael Myers— Halloween's masked slasher, stalking Haddonfield on-screen since 1978.
- Michael Scott— Fictional regional manager of Dunder Mifflin on The Office.
- Michelangelo— Full name translates, literally, to Michael Angel.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Michael Jackson
- Michael Jordan
- Michael Phelps
- Mike Tyson— Michael Gerard Tyson on the birth certificate.