Michael Hill (stabbing survivor)

See disambiguation page for other people named Michael Hill.

Michael Hill is notable for having survived an attack on April 25, 1998, when an anonymous person brutally stabbed him in the skull. Hill survived and within 7 days regained consciousness and all functions, although he experiences occasional headaches and memory problems. The knife was a 20 cm (8 in) survival knife, which was the largest object ever removed from a human skull. It had plunged very deep into his skull, near the brain stem.

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See also

• Intracranial hemorrhage
• Intracranial pressure
• Traumatic brain injury
• Head injury
• Skull fracture

Other neurological trauma/damage cases:

• Phineas Gage
• Clive Wearing
• Ahad Israfil