Michael Morris 3rd Baron Killanin MBE TD (30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999) was an Irish journalist author sports official and the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He succeeded his uncle as Baron Killanin in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1927 which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster as Lord Killanin upon turning 21.