Michel Quint is a French writer from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Michel Quoist was a French Catholic priest, theologian and writer. He is best known for his book Prayers of Life, first published in French in 1954.

Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.

Michel Rio (born 1945) is a French writer and novelist.

Michel Schneider was a French writer, musicologist, énarque, senior official, and psychoanalyst. He was the father of journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider and of François Schneider, history teacher. He was also the maternal uncle of actress Maria Schneider.

Michel Schooyans was a Jesuit and university professor in theology and political philosophy in Catholic universities in Brazil from 1959 to 1969 and Belgium from 1965 to 1995.

Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose.

Michel Suffran was a French novelist(formerly a doctor). He won the Prix Durchon-Louvet from the Académie française for La nuit de Dieu in 1987.

Michel Tamarati, born Mikhail Tamarashvili, was a Georgian Roman Catholic priest and historian, known for his oft-cited French-language history of the Georgian Christianity L'Eglise géorgienne des origines jusqu' à nos jours published in Rome in 1910. He died while trying to rescue a drowning man in stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy.

Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit. He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.