List of Famous people named Michel

Michel Mercier is a French politician and who served as Minister of Justice from 2010 until 2012.

Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist.

Michel Broué is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris Diderot University. Broué has made contributions to algebraic geometry and representation theory.

Michel Courtemanche is a Canadian comedian and actor from Quebec, performing in Quebec, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Michel Combes is a French businessman. He was Chief Executive Officer at Sprint, and has held CEO roles at Vodafone Europe, Alcatel-Lucent and Altice.

Michel Qissi is a Moroccan-Belgian actor, best known for his role as Tong Po in the 1989 martial arts film Kickboxer.

Michel Noir is a French politician.

Michel Collon is a Belgian writer, and journalist for the journal of the Marxist Workers' Party of Belgium and for his website Investig’Action. He is well known for exposing propaganda in the media, Zionism, the Western world and the United States.

Michel Desjoyeaux is a French sailor, known for competing successfully in several long-distance single-handed races. He won the Vendée Globe race in 2000-01 and 2008–09, making him the only person to win that race more than once. In 2014-15, he was watch captain, on leg 1 on Mapfre in the Volvo Ocean Race.

Michel Wieviorka is a French sociologist, noted for his work on violence, terrorism, racism, social movements and the theory of social change.