Michael Young may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Michael Young (actor) Michael Meredith Young (born March 8, 1952) is an American actor and television host. An Emmy Award winner (recognized for ABC's '' Kids Are People Too!'', ESPN, ''Young Talent Time'' and CBS' Miss Teen USA) he was also part of the launch teams a ...

(born 1952), host of ''Diaries of a Xenophobe'' and ''How to Make Love to an Immigrant'' *

Michael Young (industrial designer) Michael Young (born 23 August 1966) is a British industrial designer and creative director based in Hong Kong. He works in the areas of product, furniture and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels. He is known for unconventional ...

(born 1966), British product and furniture designer * Mike Young (producer) (born 1945), TV producer and founder of

Mike Young Productions Splash Entertainment, LLC., formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc., MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC. and Taffy Entertainment, is an American animation studio that produces children's TV series. Splash also controls the streaming service Kab ...

* Mike Young (game designer), American * Mike Young (''Misfits'') * Mike Young (''Neighbours''), soap opera character

Politics

Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), was a British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy". He was an urbanist of different dimensions such as academic resear ...

(1915–2002), British life peer, sociologist and social activist * Mike Young (agriculture official), American * Michael Young (Canadian politician) (1934–2010), Canadian mayor of Victoria, British Columbia *

Mick Young Michael Jerome Young (9 October 19368 April 1996) was an Australian politician. He rose through the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to become its National Secretary, before serving as a Labor member of the House of Representatives from the 1974 ...

(1936–1996), Australian House of Representatives * R. Michael Young (born 1951), Indiana Senate

Sports

American football

* Mike Young (American football) (born 1962), American football wide receiver * Michael Young Jr. (born 1999), American football wide receiver

Baseball

Mike Young (cricket) Mike Young (born December 21, 1955) is a former Australian cricket team fielding coach, as well as a former US minor league and Australian baseball manager, player and coach. Playing career Young attended the University of Wisconsin-River Fall ...

(born 1955), Australian cricket coach and baseball manager * Mike Young (baseball) (born 1960), American baseball player *

Michael Young (baseball) Michael Brian Young (born October 19, 1976) is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since 2014, Young ...

(born 1976), American baseball player

Basketball

Michael Young (basketball, born 1961) Michael Wayne Young (born January 2, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player. He had a 15-year playing career spent in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and overseas. He was most recently the director of basketball ...

, American basketball player * Michael Young (basketball, born 1994), American basketball player *

Mike Young (basketball) Michael Kent Young (born May 1, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and currently the head men's basketball coach at Virginia Tech. He was hired on April 7, 2019, after a 17-year stint where he went 299–244 () as the head coach at W ...

(born 1963), American basketball coach

Rugby

* Michael Young (rugby league) (born 1984), Australian rugby league player *

Micky Young Michael Young (born 31 December 1988) is a Scrum half for Rugby Union team Newcastle Falcons in the Aviva Premiership. He is a product of West Hartlepool Rugby Club junior academy. Club career He played for the Newcastle Falcons Middlesex S ...

(born 1988), English rugby union player

Other sports

Michael Young (bobsleigh) Michael Young (born August 15, 1944) is a Canadian former bobsledder who competed in the 1960s. He won two medals at the 1965 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz with a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event. In 1966, he ...

(born 1944), Canadian bobsledder *

(born 1955), Australian cricket coach and baseball manager *

Michael Young (Australian rules footballer) Michael Young (16 December 1958 – 16 September 2018) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was also listed at the Essendon Football ...

(1958–2018), Australian rules footballer *

Michael Young (judoka) Michael Young (born 26 March 1958) is an Australian judoka. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were ...

(born 1958), Australian judoka

Other

Michael Young (businessman) Michael Alan Young is a businessman with a political background. He secretly organised the meetings between the South African government and the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC). Career After graduating from the University of Yo ...

, executive who facilitated the political process which led to the end of apartheid in South Africa * Michael K. Young (born 1949), former president of

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M Unive ...

Michael W. Young Michael Warren Young (born March 28, 1949) is an American biologist and geneticist. He has dedicated over three decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within ''Drosophila melanogaster''. At Rock ...

(born 1949), American geneticist and chronobiologist *

Michael Young-Suk Oh Michael Young-Suk Oh (born 19 April 1971) is a Korean American evangelical and the Global Executive Director/CEO of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. Education Oh received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, ...

(born 1971), Korean American evangelical *

Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens Michael Henry Colin Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens, MC (28 October 1912 – 27 December 1980) was a British army officer and politician. He served as a Government whip for nine years; after being defeated, he was given an hereditary peerage ...

(1912–1980), British army officer and politician * Mike Young (economist), Australian economist * Mike Young (Royal Navy officer) (born 1967), British consultant and academic {{hndis, Young, Michael