Michaelis or Michelis is a surname. Notable people and characters with the surname include: *

Adolf Michaelis Adolf Michaelis (22 June 1835 – 12 August 1910) was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their ...

, German classical scholar *

Anthony R. Michaelis Anthony R. Michaelis (22 August 1916 – 18 October 2007) was a science journalist and publisher. He was born Kurt Otto Adolf Michaelis, a doctor's son, in Berlin on August 22, 1916, and educated at the Falk Real Gymnasium. Although baptised a Lut ...

, German science writer *

Edward Michelis Edward Michelis (born in Münster, St. Mauritz, 6 February 1813; died in Luxembourg, 8 June 1855) was a German Roman Catholic theologian. Life After his ordination, in 1836, he was appointed private secretary to Clemens August von Droste-Vischer ...

, German theologian *

Georg Michaelis Georg Michaelis (8 September 1857 – 24 July 1936) was the chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917. He was the first (and the only one of the German Empire) chancellor not of noble birth to hold the office. With an economic ba ...

, German politician *

Gustav Adolf Michaelis Gustav Adolf Michaelis (9 July 1798 – 8 August 1848) was a German obstetrician who was a native of Kiel. He was the founder and establisher of the Michaelis’ Rhomboid. Biography Education and Career Gustav Adolf Michaelis was born on the 9 ...

, German obstetrician and namesake of the

rhombus of Michaelis The rhombus of Michaelis, also known as the Michaelis-Raute or the quadrilateral of Michaelis, is a rhombus-shaped contour (also referred to as kite-shaped or diamond shaped) that is sometimes visible on the lower human back. The rhombus is define ...

* Hans-Thorald Michaelis, German historian *

Johann David Michaelis Johann David Michaelis (27 February 1717 – 22 August 1791) was a Prussian biblical scholar and teacher. He was member of a family that was committed to solid discipline in Hebrew and the cognate languages, which distinguished the University ...

, German biblical scholar * John H. Michaelis, American four-star general * Laura Michaelis, American linguist *

Leo Michelis Leo Michelis is a Greek-Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at Toronto Metropolitan University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Queen's University and his B.A. and M.A. degrees from York University. His areas of research i ...

, Greek-Canadian economist *

Leonor Michaelis Leonor Michaelis (16 January 1875 – 8 October 1949) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones. Ea ...

, German scientist known for

Michaelis–Menten kinetics In biochemistry, Michaelis–Menten kinetics is one of the best-known models of enzyme kinetics. It is named after German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and Canadian physician Maud Menten. The model takes the form of an equation describing the ra ...

Max Michaelis Sir Maximillian Michaelis, (11 May 1852 Eisfeld, Germany – 26 January 1932, Zurich) was a South African financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts. Early life and education Michaelis received his early schooling in ...

, South African financier * Margaret Michaelis-Sachs, Austrian-Australian photographer *

Paul Charles Michaelis Paul Charles Michaelis was a Bell Labs researcher in magnetic bubble memory. Education Michaelis was born June 18, 1935 in NYC, raised in New Jersey on a Scotch Plains farm, went to high School in Scotch Plain, First worked in Bell Labs, Murray Hil ...

, American scientist * Peter Michaelis, German botanist *

Robert Michaelis Robert Armand René Michaelis (22 December 1878 – 29 August 1965) was a French-born actor and singer who worked in musical theatre, mainly in England, but he also made appearances on Broadway. By 1901, Michaelis and his parents had settled i ...

(1878–1965), French-born actor and singer who settled in England * Sebastian Michaelis, the demon butler from Kuroshitsuji * Sebastien Michaelis, French inquisitor and writer of Michaelis' classification of demons *

Susanne Maria Michaelis Susanne Maria Michaelis (born March 30, 1962 in Aachen) is a specialist in creole linguistics who is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. She was previously at Leipzig University and at the Max Planck ...

, German linguist

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