Mischa

Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail.

Men

• 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

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

Fictional characters

• 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

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