Michel Barnier (born 9 January 1951) is a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), currently the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.

Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère département of the Rhône-Alpes région, in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. Member of the staff of some Gaullist ministers in the 1970s, he was elected to the French National Assembly at 27 as a deputy for the Savoie département in 1978, under the banner of the Neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) and served in this function until 1993.

Together with Jean-Claude Killy he organised the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville as co-president of the COJO (Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques).