- U.S. ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet company director.
- U.S. labor leader.
- U.S. novelist.
- U.S. astronomer.
- British biochemist: Nobel Prize 1978.
- U.S. physician and novelist.
- U.S. general: pioneer in the field of aviation.
- a mountain in western North Carolina: highest peak in the eastern United States, 6,684 feet (2,037 meters).
- a city in southeastern South Dakota.
- a male given name, form of Michael.
- Joni, original name Roberta Joan Anderson. born 1943, Canadian folk-rock singer and songwriter. Her albums include Blue (1971), Court and Spark (1974), Mingus (1979), Turbulent Indigo (1994), and Shine (2007)
- Margaret. 1900–49, US novelist; author of Gone with the Wind (1936)
- Reginald Joseph. 1895–1937, British aeronautical engineer; designer of the Spitfire fighter
- Sir Thomas Livingstone, known as Major Mitchell. 1792–1855, Australian explorer born in Scotland
