Michael Pollan

Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author and journalist, who is currently Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where in 2020 he cofounded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, in which he leads the public-education program. Pollan is best known for his books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food, such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma.

6 February 1955

Born on the same birth date (6 February 1955): Avram Grant • Bruno Stolorz • John Kuester

Born on the same birth day (6 February): Bill Lester • Bob Marley • Eduard Hitzig • Elise Ray • Gayle Hunnicutt • Jim McGirr • Joseph Schull • Leonid Gobyato • Willie Tee

Born in the same month (February 1955): Adrian Dantley • Avram Grant • Carol Kalish • Charles Shaughnessy • David Axelrod (political consultant) • Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1955) • Flip Saunders • Greg Norman • Jerry Beck • Jim Cramer • Jimmy Pursey • Lisa See • Miguel Ferrer • Mike Heath (baseball) • T. R. Dunn • Tim Young (ice hockey)