国际奥委会第六任主席：基拉宁 Michael Morris Killanin
国际奥委会第六任主席迈克尔·莫里斯·基拉宁（Michael Morris Killanin, 1914—1999、爱尔兰)。 国际奥委会第六任主席（1972 －1980）是爱尔兰记者、体育活动家。曾在英国《每日快报》、《每日邮报》等报刊任职。1937－1938年以军事通讯记者身份到中国及亚洲其它国家做战地采访。第二次世界大战后，从事文艺创作和电影导演，出过不少优秀作品。后投身体育事业，1950 年任爱尔兰奥委会主席。
1952年被选为国际奥委会委员，1967年起任执行委员，1968年起任副主席，1972－1980年任主席，离任后任名誉主席。
基拉宁为恢复中国在国际奥委会的合法席位做了许多有益的工作。
President of the IOC from 1972 to 1980: Lord Killanin
Lord Killanin was born in London, England, on 30 July 1914. During his youth at Eton and later at Magdalene College (Cambridge), he was an accomplished sportsman, taking part in competitions particularly as a boxer, oarsman and rider.
A famous journalist on Fleet Street, where he wrote for renowned daily newspapers and magazines, from the age of 22 he experienced enormous success, especially as a war correspondent in China. Enlisted as a volunteer in the British Army for the length of the Second World War, he took part in the Allied landing in Normandy.
When he became an IOC member in 1952, he had already headed the Olympic Council of Ireland for two years. Without benefiting from a personal fortune and without ever sacrificing his ideas, passions and major tasks as a leader, he succeeded over the years in forging a comfortable family life as a director or board member of several large companies. At the same time, he became not only the producer but also the chief adviser of many successful films, including "The Quiet Man", on which he worked with his long-standing friend, John Ford.
For eight years, he acted as President of the International Olympic Committee during an extremely difficult period, and was later unanimously elected Honorary Life President. Lord Killanin died in April 1999.
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