Fraifeld (Freifeld) Mikhail (Michail) (11 March 1927, Vitebsk — 12 February 1998, Riga) - athlete and coach.

In 1944 Mikhail Fraifeld volunteered for the front during the Second World War. From 1946 he lived and worked in Latvia, and in 1948 became a member of the Latvian national weightlifting team. He was associated with the sports society Dynamo Sports Society, where he built his coaching career.

Fraifeld was awarded the titles of Honored Coach of Latvia and Honored Coach of the Soviet Union. For 22 years he served as the постоянный senior coach of the Latvian national weightlifting team and is regarded as the founder of the postwar Riga school of weightlifting. Under his guidance, his students set 21 world records, 23 European records, 27 USSR records, and numerous Latvian records. Among his most prominent athletes were Vasily Stepanov, who won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and Gennady Ivanchenko, a multiple world champion with four gold and one silver medal. His trainees also won numerous European and USSR championship titles.

He was awarded a medal by the International Weightlifting Federation for his contribution to the development of weightlifting worldwide. For several years he also worked as head of the ice hockey team Dinamo Riga together with Viktor Tikhonov and Evalds Grabovskis.