Michael Butler Yeats (22 August 1921 – 3 January 2007) was an Irish barrister and Fianna Fáil politician.

His was the son of W. B. Yeats, a poet and Nobel Laureate who had served in the Seanad of the Irish Free State, and Georgie Hyde-Lees.

[4] Following the 1951 election, Yeats was nominated to the 7th Seanad by the Taoiseach Éamon de Valera.

[4] He resigned from the Seanad on 12 March 1980,[7] taking up office in April 1980 as Director General of the EEC Council of Ministers in Brussels in the 1980s.

[3][8] He was married to Gráinne Ní Éigeartaigh, a singer and Irish harpist.