Michel (Name)

Michel is a masculine first name and family name.

Origin and Meaning

The name is a form of Michael. The name is - albeit with different pronunciation - spread both in German and in French -speaking countries.

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

• Michel Abt ( * 1990), German handball player
• Michel Arcand ( b. 1949 ), Canadian Cutter
• Michel Birbaek (born 1962 ), Danish writer
• Michel Brault (1928-2013), Canadian cinematographer and director
• Michel Caillaud ( b. 1957 ), French composer of chess
• Michel Côté ( born 1950 ), Canadian actor
• Michel Cusson ( born 1957 ), Canadian composer
• Michel Debré (1912-1996), French politician
• Michel Fabrizio ( born 1984 ), Italian motorcycle racer
• Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher and Sociology
• Michel Friedman ( born 1956 ), German lawyer, politician and television presenter
• Michel Houellebecq (born 1958 ), French author
• Michel Gueu, Ivorian military
• Michel Martelly ( born 1961 ), Haitian President
• Michel Muller (born 1966 ), French actor
• Michel Piccoli ( born 1925 ), French actor
• Michel Platini ( b. 1955 ), French football player, coach and functionary
• Michél Puljic (* 1989), German rapper
• Michel Rocard ( born 1960 ), French politician, Prime Minister
• Michel Scheuer ( * 1927), German Olympic champion in kayaking
• Michel Teló ( born 1981 ), Brazilian Latin pop singer

Family name

A

• Achim Georg Michel oven ( * 1958 ), German physician and medical computer
• Adolphe Frédéric Michel (c. 1839 to 1841, † 1891), French publicist
• Alain Michel ( b. 1953 ), French motorcycle racer
• Alfonso Michel Martínez (1906-1957), Mexican artist
• Anais Michel ( * 1988), French weightlifter
• Andreas Michel ( physician) ( 1861-1921 ), German dentists
• Andreas Michel, real name Andino ( magician ) ( born 1961 ), German magician, teacher and author
• Andreas Michel ( theologian ) ( born 1963 ), German Roman Catholic theologian
• Anneliese Michel (1952-1976), German exorcism victim
• Annett Wagner -Michel ( born 1955 ), German chess player

B

• Babette Michel ( b. 1965 ), German journalist
• Bernard Toublanc -Michel ( * 1927), French film director
• Bernd Michel ( b. 1947 ), German football player
• Bjorn Michel ( b. 1975 ), German hockey player
• Brigitta Michel Schwartze (* 1947), German high school teacher of social pedagogy and social work science

C

• Carl Michel (painter), German painter
• Carl Michel (musician ), American guitarist and composer
• Charles Michel ( b. 1975 ), Belgian politician
• Christiane Michel Ostertun (* 1964), German organist
• Claudia Lucking -Michel (born 1962 ), German theologian
• Ciara Michel ( born 1985 ), British volleyball player
• Claude Michel ( b. 1971 ), French footballer
• Claude -Etienne Michel ( * 1772), French general

D

• David Michel ( b. 1975 ), French television and film producer
• Detlef Michel ( author) ( born 1944 ), German writer
• Detlef Michel ( athlete ) ( born 1955 ), German javelin thrower

E

• Ella Bergmann -Michel (1895-1971), German photographer and filmmaker
• Elmar Michel (1897-1977), German civil servant and industrialist
• Elvezia Michel - Baldini (1887-1963), Swiss painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and Kunstweberin
• Emil Michel (1891-1972), German politician ( SPD), North Rhine-Westphalian Landtag
• Ephraim Mikhael (pseudonym of Ephraim Georges Michel; 1866-1890), French Symbolist
• Eric Michel (born 1962 ), French artist
• Ernst Michel (1889-1964), a Catholic social and cultural philosopher and psychotherapist

F

• Felix Michel ( born 1984 ), German canoe slalom
• Francisque Michel (1809-1887), French Romance
• Franz Ludwig Michel ( 1675 to 1717), Swiss explorer and colonialist
• Freek Michel ( * 1987), Dutch volleyball player
• Fritz Michel (1877-1966), German physician, politician, historian and art historian

G

• George I. Michel Supersaxo ( 1550-1625/26 ), among others, 1593-1595 Valais Governor
• George II Michel Supersaxo (1601-1676), among others, 1664-1670 Valais Governor
• Georges Michel (1763-1843), French landscape painter
• Gerhard Michel ( b. 1960 ), German lawyer and judge at the Federal

B

• Hans Michel ( politician ) ( 1889-1958 ), German craftsmen and politician ( FDP)
• Hans Michel ( graphic artist ) ( 1920-1996 ), German graphic artist
• Hartmut Michel ( b. 1948 ), German biochemist, Nobel laureate
• Henri Michel ( historian ) ( 1907-1986 ), French historian
• Henri Michel ( footballer ) ( born 1947 ), French football player and coach
• Hermann Michel ( mineralogist ) ( 1888-1965 ), Austrian mineralogist
• Hermann Michel ( footballer ) ( born 1935 ), German football player
• Horst Michel (1904-1989), German industrial designer and professor at the Bauhaus- University Weimar
• Hugo Michel (1872-1944), German collectors, stamp dealers, publisher of MICHEL stamp catalog

J

• James Alix Michel ( born 1944 ), since 2004 President of the Republic of Seychelles
• January Michel ( footballer ) (born 1964 ), German football player
• Jean Michel ( Bishop ) ( † 1468 ), Bishop of Mondovi and Lausanne
• Jean Michel ( playwright ) ( ~ 1435-1501 ), French dramatist
• Jean Michel (entrepreneur) ( 1929-2009 ), French businessman and politician (UDF -RPR )
• Jean Michel ( politician ) ( b. 1949 ), French politician (PS )
• Jean-Christian Michel, French composer and clarinetist
• Jean Michel François (1697-1772), Flemish writer
• Jean -Louis Michel ( fencer ) ( 1785-1865 ), French fencer
• Jean -Louis Michel ( photographer) ( born 1926 ), French photographer
• Jean -Louis Michel ( engineer), French engineer
• Jens Michel ( born 1967), German politician ( CDU), Member of Parliament in Saxony
• Johannes Matthias Michel ( b. 1962 ), German composer, church musician and organist
• John Michel ( * 1863), notary and Member of Parliament
• Josef Michel (1928-2002), German church musician and composer
• Joseph Michel ( born 1925 ), Belgian writer and politician
• Joseph Michel ( composer ) ( 1679-1736 ), French organist and composer
• Julius von Michel (1843-1911), German ophthalmologist

K

• Charles Michel ( brewer ) ( 1836-1922 ), German brewers
• Charles Michel ( actor) ( 1843-1930 ), German physician, actor and writer
• Charles Michel ( painter) ( 1885-1966 ), German painter, graphic artist and woodcutter
• Charles Michel (officer ) ( 1904-1945 ), German officer
• Charles Michel ( corporate lawyer ) ( 1909-1980 ), German jurist, author and officer
• Karl -Heinz Michel (1946-2006), German theologian
• Karl Markus Michel (1929-2000), German writer
• Karl- Wilhelm Michel ( * 1950), German politician ( CDU)
• Kaspar Michel (born 1970 ), Swiss politician (FDP) in the canton of Schwyz
• Catherine Michel ( * 1988), Swiss pop singer

L

• Louis Michel ( physicist ) ( 1923-1999 ), French physicist
• Louis Michel ( politician ) ( b. 1947 ), Belgian politician
• Louise Michel (1830-1905), French author
• Ľuboš Micheľ ( b. 1968 ), Slovak football referee, teachers and managers
• Luis Ernesto Michel ( born 1979 ), Mexican soccer goalie
• Luzi Michel (1841-1876), Swiss Reformed clergyman

M

• Manfred Michel ( * 1953 ), German politician
• Manfred Michel ( scientist ), professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin
• Maria -Elisabeth Michel - Beyerle (* 1935), German chemist Physical
• Matthias Michel ( b. 1963 ), Swiss politician
• Matthieu Michel ( b. 1963 ), Swiss jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• Max Michel, a Swiss film actor and director

O

• Ossi Michel ( * 1927), German table tennis players
• Otto Michel (1903-1993), German theologian

P

• Paul Michel (architect ) ( 1877-1938 ), German architect
• Paul Michel ( chess player ) ( 1905-1977 ), German chess player
• Paul Michel ( German scholar ) ( born 1947 ), Swiss German literature
• Peggy Michel ( b. 1949 ), American tennis player
• Peter Michel, pseudonym of Hans Raithel (1864-1939), German folk poet and writer
• Peter Michel ( writer ) ( born 1953 ), German writer and publisher
• Peter Michel ( actor) (born 1970 ), Belgian actor
• Phillipe Michel ( b. 1965 ), French boxer
• Pierre Michel ( b. 1942 ), French professor of literature
• Pras Michel (born 1972 ), American rapper and songwriter
• Primo Villa Michel (1893-1970), Mexican ambassador

R

• Robert Michel ( writer ) ( 1876-1957 ), Austrian writer
• Robert Michel ( artist) ( 1897-1983 ), German artist and architect
• Robert Michel, known as Rob Vegas (* 1984), German Internet Showmaster
• Robert H. Michel ( b. 1923 ), American politician
• Rolf Michel ( b. 1945 ), German physicist
• Rudi Michel (1921-2008), German sports journalist

S

• Simone Michel ( b. 1965 ), German classical archaeologist
• Simone Michel - Lévy (1906-1945), French resistance fighter
• Stefan Karl Michel (1839-1906), German merchant and politician
• Steffen Michel (born 1972 ), German ice hockey player
• Stenia Michel ( * 1987), Swiss football player
• Susanne Michel ( b. 1965 ), Austrian actress
• Sven Michel ( curler ) (* 1988), Swiss curler
• Sven Michel ( footballer ) (* 1990), German football player
• Sylvia Michel ( pastor ) ( born 1935 ), Swiss pastor
• Sylvia Michel ( soccer player ) (born 1972 ), German football player
• Sylvia Michel ( presenter ) (born 1972 ), Swiss moderator

V

• Volker Michel (born 1973 ), German handball player

W

• William Michel (1877-1942), German writer
• Willy Michel ( politician ) ( 1885-1951 ), German politician ( SPD)
• Willy Michel (entrepreneur) ( born 1947 ), Swiss entrepreneur
• Winfried Michel ( b. 1948 ), German recorder player and composer
• Wolfgang Michel ( Japanese studies ) (* 1946), German language and cultural scientists
• Wolfgang Michel (musician ) ( born 1960 ), German conductor

Fictional people

• German Michel, one resulting in the early modern national personification of the German, now almost only found in the cartoon use
• Dutch Michael, the black forest forest ghost in Wilhelm Hauff's Tales Fairy Tales The Cold Heart
• Emil of Maple Hills, figure of Astrid Lindgren
• Michel Vaillant comic figure of Jean Graton