Michael John ("Mick") Collins (Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October, 1890 - 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army.

He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War. Although most Irish political parties recognise his contribution to the foundation of the modern Irish state, members and supporters of the Fine Gael political party hold his memory in particular esteem, regarding him as their movement's founding father (even though his link to them was through their precursor Cumann na nGaedhael, a name adopted in 1923 by the pro-Treaty wing of Sinn Fein).

Major General Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, when he and command pilot John W. Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was Apollo 11 where he served as the command module pilot. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin performed the first manned landing on the lunar surface.

Prior to becoming an astronaut, he had attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France. He was accepted to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He unsuccessfully applied for the second astronaut group but was accepted for the third group.

After retiring from NASA in 1970 he took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. A year later he became the first director of the National Air and Space Museum. He held this position until 1978 when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980 he took the job as Vice President of LTV Aerospace. He resigned in 1985 to start his own business.

He is married to Patricia, and they have three children: Kate, Ann and Michael, Jr. Kate is an actress, and is best-known for her role as Natalie Marlowe Dillon in the long-running daytime television drama All My Children.

Michael Collins is the most well-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (January 15, 1924 - August 19, 2005), an American author who primarily wrote mystery fiction.

Over four decades Lynds published some 80 novels and 200 short stories, in both mystery and literary themes. He was a recipient of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America and the Marlowe Lifetime Achievement Award from MWA, Southern California Chapter.

Michael J. Collins (born November 1 1940) was a Fianna Fáil and Independent Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick West from 1997 to 2007.

Michael Collins was born in Abbeyfeale, County Limerick in 1940. He is the son of James Collins and a brother of Gerard Collins, both Fianna Fáil members of Dáil Éireann. Collins was involved in local politics for many years, serving as a councillor and chairman of the Limerick County Council. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election as a Fianna Fáil TD and held his seat until retiring at the 2007 general election citing health reasons. His nephew, Niall Collins was elected to succeed him, maintaining the familiers continuous occupation of a seat in that constituency since the 1948 general election.

Michael Collins (born April 30, 1986 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England) is a professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One.

Having come through Town's academy, Collins made his first team debut in 2004, but has found it hard to cement a place in the side, with a lot of competition from captain Jon Worthington, Mark Hudson and Adnan Ahmed amongst others, but he had already produced several superb displays in the early part of the 2006-07 season.

His most notable contribution was against the Premiership champions Chelsea, when he came off the bench in the FA Cup 3rd Round tie in January 2006 and provided the set-up for Gary Taylor-Fletcher's equaliser. The British press took note of this as he was only earning £240 per week, compared with Chelsea's multi-millionaires.

Qualifying through to the controversial parentage rule Michael made his international debut in an U18 game in April 2003. He was the captain of the Irish under-19 squad and on March 14, 2007, he got his first call-up to the Irish Under-21 squad for a match against Netherlands Under-21's, but he was forced to withdraw from the squad after picking up a shoulder injury in a league game against Brighton & Hove Albion. On May 5, he scored on his return from suspension (after his red card against Millwall) against Leyton Orient where Town won 3-1.

He made his Ireland under-21 debut against Germany's under-21's in a friendly match at the Playmobil-Stadion in Fürth on August 21, 2007. His home debut came against Portugal's under-21's at the Turners Cross Stadium in Cork on September 7, 2007.

He scored his first league goal of the 2007-08 season in Town's 2-0 win over Yeovil Town at Huish Park on February 2, 2008.

During the 2007-08 season, Town manager Andy Ritchie has tended to use Collins as cover in right-back and right-midfield positions, but he mainly tends to use Collins in tandem with Andy Holdsworth in Town's central midfield.

On Saturday February 16, 2008 Michael scored the goal he will remember for the rest of his life after he equalised Frank Lampard's goal on the stroke of half-time in the FA Cup 5th round at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. It is only the second goal of the season for Michael.

Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish novelist and also an international ultra-distance runner. He is a current member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance (62.2 miles).

Collins grew up in Limerick, Ireland and attended St Munchin's Boarding School in Limerick. He is a distant relative of the Irish patriot Michael Collins. In 1983 he was awarded an athletic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a Masters of Fine Arts. He then earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago 1997.

Collins is the author of eight books, including novels and short stories which have been translated into twenty languages. His work has garnered numerous awards, including Irish Novel of the Year, along with being shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and Impac Prize, and his work has been twice selected for inclusion in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

Current adapations of his novels include The Resurrectionists to be directed by John Madden.

Lost Souls is currently being adapted by A Film Monkey Production.

A screenplay Collins adapted for director, Erick Zonka, titled, Julia is in post-production and stars Tilda Swinton.

In recognition of the help he received during his early years, Collins sponsors numourous writing prizes. This year he sponsored The Dowagaic Writing Prize, awarding high-schoolers in three categories, fiction, poetry and photography. He also sponsored The Brisbane Writers' High-School Prize, again awarding prizes for fiction, poetry and photography. The emphasis, or theme for these prizes focuses on "home" or "place".

Michael J. Collins (born March 4, 1971) is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics. His research interests are in natural language processing, and machine learning http://people.csail.mit.edu/mcollins/. He has made several important contributions in statistical parsing (including a state-of-the-art parser of the Wall Street Journal corpus) and in statistical machine learning.

Michael Collins (born in Hicksville, New York) is a former U.S. soccer midfielder. Collins played for at least twelve teams in nearly half a dozen leagues over his seventeen year professional career. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1988.