Namesakes
Michel de Nostredame
(m) 1503-1566 
Notable Writers
Michel de Montaigne
(m) 1533-1592
Notable Writers
Michel Blavet
(m) 1700-1768
Notable Musicians
Michel Adanson
(m) 1727-1806
Notable Scientists and Inventors
Jean-Michel Langevin
(m) 1731-1793
Saints
Michel Ney
(m) 1769-1815
Notable Military Figures
Pierre-Michel Noël
(m) ?-1794
Saints
Michel Garicoïts
(m) 1797-1863
Saints
Michel Domingue
(m) 1813-1877
Haitian Presidents 1874-1876 (president)
Cincinnatus Leconte
(middle name Michel) (m) 1854-1912
Haitian Presidents 1911-1912 (president)
Michel Oreste
(m) 1859-1918
Haitian Presidents 1913-1914 (president)
Michel Strogoff
(m)
Fictional Characters from Books 1876 Michel Strogoff
Michel Théato
(m) 1878-1919
Olympic Medalists 1900 marathon (gold)
André Michel Lwoff
(m) 1902-1994
Nobel Prize Winners 1965 (medicine)
Michel Debré
(m) 1912-1996
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1959-1962 (prime minister)
Michel Bonnevie
(m) 1921-2018
Olympic Medalists 1948 basketball (silver)
Michel Bouquet
(m) 1925-2022
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Michel Piccoli
(m) 1925-2020
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Michel Foucault
(m) 1926-1984
Notable Philosophers and Thinkers
Michel Serrault
(m) 1928-2007
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Michel Rocard
(m) 1930-2016
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 1988-1991 (prime minister)
Michael Lonsdale
(a.k.a. Michel) (m) 1931-2020
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Omar Sharif
(a.k.a. Michel) (m) 1932-2015
Notable Actors and Entertainers (actor)
Michel Lévêque
(m) 1933-
Other Leaders 1997-2000 Monaco (prime minister)
Michel Aoun
(m) 1933-
Other Leaders 2016-2022 Lebanon (president)
Michel Jazy
(m) 1936-
Olympic Medalists 1960 1500 m (silver)
Michel Temer
(m) 1940-
Brazilian Presidents 2016-2018
Michel Mayor
(m) 1942-
Nobel Prize Winners 2019 (physics)
Notable Scientists and Inventors
Jean-Michel Jarre
(m) 1948-
Notable Musicians
Michel Suleiman
(m) 1948-
Other Leaders 2008-2014 Lebanon (president)
Michel Roger
(m) 1949-
Other Leaders 2010-2015 Monaco (prime minister)
Michel Barnier
(m) 1951-
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 2024 (prime minister)
Michel Platini
(m) 1955-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Michel Houellebecq
(m) 1956-
Notable Writers
Michel van de Korput
(m) 1956-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Michel Goulet
(m) 1960-
Hall-of-Famers 1998 (ice hockey)
Notable Athletes (ice hockey)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
(m) 1960-1988
Notable Artists
Michel Martelly
(m) 1961-
Haitian Presidents 2011-2016 (president)
Michel Hazanavicius
(m) 1967-
Notable Filmmakers
Oscar Award Winners 2012 The Artist (director)
Laurent Sciarra
(middle name Michel) (m) 1973-
Olympic Medalists 2000 basketball (silver)
Emmanuel Macron
(middle name Michel) (m) 1977-
French Presidents and Prime Ministers 2017- (president)
Michel Enríquez
(m) 1979-
Olympic Medalists 2004; 2008 baseball (gold/silver)
Michel Vorm
(m) 1983-
Notable Athletes (soccer)
Michel Mulder
(m) 1986-
Olympic Medalists 2014 speed skating (bronze/gold)
Mathias Lessort
(middle name Michel) (m) 1995-
Olympic Medalists 2024 basketball (silver)
Michel Gerard
(m)
Fictional Characters from Television 2000 Gilmore Girls