Michael Holt Newlin (May 16, 1926 – August 9, 2021)[1][2] was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria.

A career Foreign Service officer, he was nominated by Ronald Reagan in August 1981,[3] and served from October 28, 1981, until July 21, 1985.

[4] Born in Greensboro, he lived there until the age of ten or eleven when the family moved to Sanford, North Carolina.

[3] Newlin was a civilian expert with the Department of the Air Force in 1951-52, leaving to enter the Foreign Service.

[3] After his term as United States Ambassador to Algeria, Newlin served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, where, before the Senate and opposed by Kurt Vonnegut, he defended provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 involving good moral character, including denial of visas to aliens prejudicial to the public interest.