Mischa

Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail.

## Men

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* Mischa Auer (1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky
* Mikhail Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conductor
* Mischa Berlinski (born 1973), American writer
* Mischa Boelens (born 1995), Curaçaoan footballer
* Mischa Cotlar (1913–2007), Ukrainian mathematician
* Mischa Daniels, Dutch music producer
* Mischa Dohler (born 1975), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts
* Mikhail Mischa Elman (1891–1967), Ukrainian-born Jewish-American violinist
* Mischa Hausserman (born 1941), Austrian-American actor
* Mischa Hiller (born 1962), British novelist
* Mischa Maisky, Soviet-born Israeli cellist
* Mischa Markow (1854–1934), pioneering Mormon missionary in Europe
* Mischa Mischakoff (1895–1981), Ukrainian-born American violinist and concertmaster
* Mischa Portnoff (1901–1979), German-born American composer and teacher
* Mischa Richter (1910–2001), American cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker
* Mischa Schwartz (born 1926), professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Columbia University
* Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985), Russian-born composer
* Markus Wolf (1923–2006), East German spymaster
* Mikhail Mischa Zverev (born 1987), German tennis player

## Women

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* Mischa Barton (born 1986), British-American actress and former child model
* Mischa Merz (born 1957), Australian boxer, painter and journalist

## Fictional characters

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* Mischa, a tomcat in the 1996 Japanese anime TV series The Story of Cinderella by Hiroshi Sasagawa
* Mischa Fox, in the 1956 novel The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch
* Mischa Lecter, in the novel Hannibal, sister of Hannibal Lecter
* Mischa Bachinski, in the Canadian musical Ride the Cyclone with music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell.

## See also

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* Misha (disambiguation)
* Measha Brueggergosman, (born 1977), a Canadian soprano

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