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:

    “Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don’t come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.”
    —John Michael Hayes (b.1919)

    “I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.”
    —J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)