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Michel is the French adaptation of the given name Michael. As a surname, it is of medieval period European Crusader origin.[2] People with the name Michel include:
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- Carlos Michel Lopes Vargas (b. 1982), Brazilian footballer
- Jean Michel Jarre (b. 1948), French composer, performer and music producer
- Jean-Michel Pilc (b. 1960), French-born jazz pianist
- Michel (hip hop producer), from Ticino, Switzerland
- Michel Adrian (b. 1997), from Toronto, Ontario
- Michel Aflaq (1910 - 1989, Syrian founder of the Ba'ath ideology
- Michel Bakhoum (1913 - 1981), Egyptian consulting civil engineer, university professor, and a researcher in concrete structures
- Michel Cadotte (1764 - 1837), Canadian Métis fur trader
- Michel Camilo (b. 1954), pianist and composer from Dominican Republic
- Michel Chiha (1891 - 1954), Lebanese thinker, banker, politician, writer and journalist
- Michel Corneille the Younger (1642 – 1708), French painter, etcher and engraver
- Michel Corrette (1707 – 1795) French organist, composer and author of musical method books
- Michel de Certeau (1925 - 1986), French Jesuit and scholar
- Michel Drucker (b. 1942), French journalist and TV host
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984), French philosopher, historian and sociologist.
- Michel Platini (b. 1955) is a French former football manager and midfielder, and current president of the Union of European Football Associations
- Michel Galabru (b. 1924), French actor
- Michel Godard (b. 1960), French tuba player and jazz musician
- Michel Gondry (b. 1963), French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director
- Michel Henry (1922 - 2002), French philosopher and novelist
- Michel Houellebecq (b. 1958), a French writer
- Michel Jackson (b.1982), a young woman, originally from Santa Barbara, California, now resides in Alexandria, Virginia. NOT the "King of Pop"
- Michel Joachim Marie Raymond (1755 - 1798), French General
- Michel Legrand (b. 1932), French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist
- Michel Ney (1769 – 1815), French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars
- Michel Petrucciani (1962 - 1999), French Jazz pianist
- Michel Polnareff (b. 1944), French singer
& Michel Platini (b. 1955), 1955) French former football manager and midfielder of Italian origins
- Michel Rocard (b. 1930), French politician
- Míchel Salgado (b. 1975), Spanish footballer currently playing for Real Madrid
- Michel Sikyea (1901 - 2002), Canadian, respected Dene elder from the Yellowknife area who fought for aboriginal rights,
- Michel Sulaiman (b. 1948), General, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces
- Michel Tapié (1909 - 1987), French critic, curator, and collector of art
- Michel Therrien (b. 1963), Canadian, head coach of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins, former head coach of the Montreal Canadiens
- Michel Tremblay (disambiguation), disambiguation page
- Michel Verne (1861 - 1925), French writer; son of Jules Verne
- Yechiel Michel Feinstein (1906 - 2003), Rabbi, Haredi rosh yeshiva in Israel
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- Alex Michel (b. 1970), American bachelor for reality television show The Bachelor
- Claude Michel (1738 – 1814), a French sculptor
- Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896 - 1971), German abstract artist
- Gaston Michel (1856-1921), French silent film actor
- Henri Michel (b. 1947, French football player and manager
- Jean Michel (d. 1501), French dramatic poet
- Louis Michel (b. 1947), Belgian politician
- Louis Michel (physicist) (1923 - 1999), French
- Louise Michel (1830 - 1905), French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker
- Ľuboš Micheľ (b. 1968), Slovak football referee.
- Luis Ernesto Michel (b. 1979, Mexican footballer
- Paul Redmond Michel (b. 1941), American federal judge
- Robert H. Michel (b. 1923(, American politician
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