List of Famous people named Michel

Michel Rostain (born 28 September 1942, Mende, Lozère, is a French lyric and musical theater director as well as a writer.

Michel Miyazawa is a former Japanese football player. Seira Miyazawa, his daughter, is a former member of female idol group Nogizaka46.

Michel Soro is a French professional boxer. He challenged for the WBO and IBO light middleweight titles in 2012, and the WBA interim super welterweight title in 2017. At regional level, he held the EBU European middleweight title, the WBO European junior middleweight title twice, and the WBA International super welterweight title. As of November 2020, Soro is ranked is the world’s eighth best active light middleweight by The Ring magazine and seventh best by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.

Michel Pavon is a French former professional footballer, and is a coach.

Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter, and producer noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film he also directed.

Michel Ocelot is a French writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb.

Orso Paolo Bertolucci is a French singer-songwriter. Known professionally as Michel Orso, he is best known in for his 1966 French hit song "Angélique".

Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.

Michel Girouard was a Quebec journalist.

Michel Subor (French pronunciation: ​[miʃɛl sybɔʁ], born Mischa Subotzki, is a French actor who gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, Le Petit Soldat, but the French government banned it until 1963 because of its political content, touching on terrorism during the undeclared Algerian War. He acted in a couple of American films in the late 1960s like as Claude Jade's husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz. In 1999, he once again played Forestier in Beau Travail, a highly praised variation of Billy Budd, directed by Claire Denis. He continued to work with her.