Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician.

[1] Michael Fekete was born in Zenta, Austria-Hungary (today Senta, Serbia).

After completing his PhD he switched to University of Göttingen, which was considered a mathematics hub.

In 1928 Fekete immigrated to Mandate Palestine and was among the first instructors of the Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[4] In 1929 he was promoted to professor, and eventually headed the institute, succeeding Edmund Landau and Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.