Michelson (surname)
Michelson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Michel". The prefix Michel-, a variant of Michael, comes from the, meaning "Who is like God?". A common English language surname, there are other English and Scandinavian spellings. It is rare as a given name. People with the name Michelson include:
- Albert Abraham Michelson, American physicist, first U.S. citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science
- Frida Michelson, Latvian jew, Holocaust survivor, writer
- Gary K. Michelson, American orthopedic spinal surgeon and inventor
- Harold Michelson, American illustrator
- Ivan Ivanovich Michelson Baltic-German military commander, general in the Russian Imperial Army
- Leo Michelson, Latvian-American artist
- Lisa Michelson, American actress
- Peter Michelson, American physicist
- Richard Michelson, American writer and poet
- Robert C. Michelson, American researcher, progenitor of the field of aerial robotics
- Truman Michelson, American Indo-Europeanist