Michael Powell

Michael Powell or Mike Powell may refer to:

  • Michael Powell (director) (1905–1990), British film director
  • Mike Powell (rugby union) (born 1978), rugby union player for the Ospreys
  • Mike Powell (journalist), early UK advocate of radio automation
  • Mike Powell (athlete) (born 1963), U.S. world record holder in the long jump
  • Michael Powell (politician) (born 1963), former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission
  • Michael Powell (bookseller), owner of a well-known U.S. bookstore
  • Michael Powell (lacrosse) (born 1982), U.S. professional lacrosse player
  • Mike Powell (cricketer, born 1975), English cricketer
  • Mike Powell (cricketer, born 1977), Welsh cricketer
  • Michael J. Powell, American R&B musician
  • Michael J. D. Powell (born 1936), retired mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge and member of the US National Academy of Sciences
  • Michael Lloyd Powell (died 2003), British man who died in police custody

Famous quotes containing the words michael and/or powell:

    “While Michael Angelo’s Sistine roof,
    His “Morning” and his “Night” disclose
    How sinew that has been pulled tight,
    Or it may be loosened in repose,
    Can rule by supernatural right
    Yet be but sinew.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from preconising [proclaiming] its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.”
    —J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)