Mikael
Mikael is a masculine given name, a variant of the Hebrew name Michael, which means "Who is like God". It is used predominantly throughout Scandinavia and Finland. Mikaela is the feminine form of the name. In France, the name is written Mikaël, a tréma on the letter e, and is of Breton origin.
Notable people with the name Mikael or Mikaël include:
Entertainment
- Mikael Birkkjær, Danish actor
- Mikael Håfström, Swedish director and screenwriter
- Mikael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
- Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
- Mikael Salomon, Danish cinematographer, director and producer
Music
- Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician
- Mikael Gabriel, Finnish rapper
- Mikael Jorgensen, American musician
- Mikael Stanne, Swedish musician
- Mikael Temrowski, American Musician
Politics
- Mikael Cederbratt, Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
- Mikael Eskilandersson, Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats
- Mikael Jansson, Swedish politician of Alternative for Sweden
- Mikael Jungner, Finnish politician of the Social Democratic Party
- Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
- Mikael Oscarsson, Swedish politician for the Christian Democrats
- Mikael Strandman, Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats
Sports
- Mikael Anderson, Icelandic footballer
- Mikael Appelgren, Swedish table tennis player
- Mikael Egill Ellertsson, Icelandic footballer
- Mikael Filipe Viana de Sousa, Brazilian footballer
- Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
- Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey player
- Mikaël Grenier, Canadian racing driver
- Mikael Hellström, Swedish footballer
- Mikael Jantunen, Finnish basketball player
- Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian freestyle skier
- Mikael Laihonen, Finnish basketball player
- Mikael Lustig, Swedish footballer
- Mikael Örn, Swedish swimmer
- Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer
- Mikael Soisalo, Finnish footballer
- Mikael Tillström, Swedish tennis player
- Mikael Wikstrand, Swedish ice hockey player
Fictional characters
- Mikael Blomkvist, from the Millennium series of Swedish crime novels, created by journalist Stieg Larsson
- Mikael, from ''The Originals''