Michaelis or Michelis is a

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. Notable people and characters with the surname include: * Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar * Alice Michaelis, German painter * Anthony R. Michaelis, German science writer * Christian Friedrich Michaelis, German doctor * Christian Friedrich Michaelis (philosopher), German essayist and philosopher * Edward Michelis, German theologian *

Georg Michaelis Georg Michaelis (pronunciation, gee-ORG MEH-kay-liss; 8 September 1857 – 24 July 1936) was the imperial chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917. He was the first (and, in the German Empire, the only) commoner to hold the pos ...

, German politician * Gustav Adolf Michaelis, German obstetrician and namesake of the rhombus of Michaelis * Hans-Thorald Michaelis, German historian * Johann David Michaelis, German biblical scholar * John H. Michaelis, American four-star general * Laura Michaelis, American linguist * Leo Michelis, Greek-Canadian economist *

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

, German scientist known for

Michaelis–Menten kinetics In biochemistry, Michaelis–Menten kinetics, named after Leonor Michaelis and Maud Menten, is the simplest case of enzyme kinetics, applied to enzyme-catalysed reactions involving the transformation of one substrate into one product. It takes th ...

* Max Michaelis, 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 New York City, raised in New Jersey on a Scotch Plains farm, went to high School in Scotch Plain, First worked in Bell Labs, ...

, American scientist * Peter Michaelis, German botanist * Robert Michaelis (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, German linguist

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