Caroline Jayne Michel, Baroness Evans of Temple Guiting DBE FRSA (born 4 April 1959), known professionally as Caroline Michel, is a British literary agent, who since 2015 serves as Chairwoman of the Hay Festival.

[4] Having started her career with Chatto & Windus in 1982, Michel was appointed managing director of literary magazine Granta in 1990, before joining publishers Random House (Vintage) in 1992, then HarperPress in 2001.

After William Morris Agency poached her in 2005, Michel serves since 2007 as CEO of Peters Fraser & Dunlop.

[5] A committee member of the Booker Prize Foundation (1994–2001), the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award Panel (2011–19) and of Arts and Media Honours Committee (2017 - 2023) HMG Advisory Panel on public library service in England (2014–15), she was appointed Chair of Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, Chairwoman of the British Film Institute Trust in 2011.

Michel was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to publishing and literature.