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:
“Being a parent is a form of leadership. . . . Parents make a mistake, along with leaders of organizations, when they are unwilling to recognize the power inherent in the positions they occupy and when they are unwilling to use this power. . . . I do not mean a figure who is irrational, autocratic, or sadistic. I mean leaders who have the strength of character to stand up for what they believe.”
—Abraham Zaleznik. In Support of Families, ed. Michael W. Yogman and T. Berry Brazelton, ch. 8 (1986)
“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)