Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail.

Men

Mischa Auer Mischa Auer (born Mikhail Semyonovich Unkovsky (Михаил Семёнович Унковский; 17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russians, Russian-born American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in fi ...

(1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky * Mikhail

Mischa Bakaleinikoff Mikhail Romanovich "Mischa" Bakaleinikov (also spelled Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff; russian: Михаил Романович Бакалейников; November 10, 1890 – August 10, 1960) was a noted musical director, film composer and ...

(1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conductor *

Mischa Berlinski Mischa Berlinski (born 1973 in New York, United States) is an American author. His first novel, '' Fieldwork'', was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. In 2008 Berlinski won a $50,000 Whiting Award, given to writers showing early prom ...

(born 1973), American writer * Mischa Boelens (born 1995), Curaçaoan footballer *

Mischa Cotlar 250px, Mischa Cotlar in 1964 Mischa Cotlar (1913, Sarny, Russian Empire – January 16, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a mathematician who started his scientific career in Uruguay and worked most of his life on it in Argentina and Venezuela. ...

(1913–2007), Ukraine mathematician *

Mischa Daniels Mischa Daniels is a Dutch music producer and DJ. He is also the founder and CEO of Fame record label geared towards dance and electro house music. His biggest success has been "That Girl" featuring U-Jean that charted on the German Singles Chart. H ...

, Dutch music producer * Mischa Dohler (born 1975), Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

and the

Royal Society of Arts The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

* Mikhail

Mischa Elman Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman (russian: Михаил Саулович Эльман; January 20, 1891April 5, 1967) was a Russian-born American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality. E ...

(1891–1967), Ukrainian-born Jewish-American violinist *

Mischa Hausserman Mischa Hausserman (October 31, 1941 – August 30, 2021) was an Austrian-born American film and television actor. Hausserman was born in Vienna, Austria on October 31, 1941. He moved to the United States in 1965, and studied acting at the Herbe ...

(born 1941), Austrian-American actor * Mischa Hiller (born 1962), British novelist * Mischa Keijser (born 1974), Dutch contemporary photographer *

Mischa Maisky Mischa Maisky ( lv, Miša Maiskis, he, מישה מייסקי, russian: Миша Майский; born 10 January 1948) is a Soviet-born Israeli cellist. Biography Mischa Maisky was born in 1948 in Riga and is the younger brother of organist, har ...

, Soviet-born Israeli cellist * Mischa Markow (1854–1934), pioneering Mormon missionary in Europe *

Mischa Mischakoff Mischa Mischakoff (April 16, 1895 – February 1, 1981) was an outstanding violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Mischakoff was born in Proskuriv (today Khlmelnytskyi), Ukraine a ...

(1895–1981), Ukrainian-born American violinist and concertmaster *

Mischa Portnoff Mischa Portnoff (August 29, 1901 – May 15, 1979) was a German-born American composer and teacher. Introduction German-born American composer and teacher Mischa Portnoff's distinctive gift as a musician was the breadth of his mastery. His cla ...

(1901–1979), German-born American composer and teacher *

Mischa Richter Mischa Richter (1910 – March 23, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known for his numerous cartoons published in ''The New Yorker'' over decades. Early life Richter was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire, where his father was the city's C ...

(1910–2001), American cartoonist best known for his work in ''The New Yorker'' * Mischa Schwartz (born 1926), professor emeritus of electrical engineering at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Mischa Spoliansky Mischa Spoliansky (28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985) was a Russian-born composer who made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s, before he was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hi ...

(1898–1985), Russian-born composer *

Markus Wolf Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (, abbreviated MfS, commonl ...

(1923–2006), East German spymaster * Mikhail

Mischa Zverev Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev (russian: Михаил "Миша" Александрович Зверев, , ; born 22 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player born in Russia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world ...

(born 1987), German tennis player

Women

Mischa Finch Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail. Men * Mischa Auer (1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky * Mikhail Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conduct ...

(born 1970), American born vocalist, actress, writer and human rights activist *

Mischa Barton Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's ''Slavs!'' and took the lead in James Lapine's '' Twelve Dreams'' at Ne ...

(born 1986), British-American actress and former child model *

Mischa Merz Mischa Merz (born 1964) is an Australian boxer, painter and journalist and the owner of Mischa's Boxing Central in Footscray where she has been head coach since 2013. She became part of a pioneering cohort of female boxers when she started compe ...

(born 1957), Australian boxer, painter and journalist

Fictional characters

* Mischa, a tomcat in the 1996 Japanese anime TV series ''

The Story of Cinderella is an Italian-Japanese 1996 anime television series based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm. It was produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Mondo TV. The series originally aired from April 4 to Octobe ...

'' by

Hiroshi Sasagawa is a Japanese creator of several anime and manga series. His name is romanized in some sources as ''Hiroshi Sasakawa''. Career Born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, he is well known as one of creators of ''Time Bokan'' series (with ...

* Mischa Fox, in the 1956 novel ''

The Flight from the Enchanter ''The Flight from the Enchanter'' is a 1956 novel by Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, se ...

'' by Iris Murdoch * Mischa Lecter, in the novel ''

Hannibal Hannibal (; xpu, 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, ''Ḥannibaʿl''; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Puni ...

'', sister of Hannibal Lecter * Mischa Bachinski, in the Canadian musical “

Ride the Cyclone ''Ride the Cyclone'' is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. It is the second installment in Richmond's "Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy," a collection of three theatrical works, one not yet written, that take ...

” with music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell.

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