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 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.