Michel Ange-Charles Tognini (born 30 September 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency.

In 1985, France opened a recruitment program to expand its astronaut corps, and Tognini was one of seven candidates selected by CNES.

Although Tognini remained a French Air Force officer, he was placed on detachment to CNES for his space flight activities from September 1986 onwards.

In 1991 he returned to Star City, Russia, to start prime crew training for the third Soviet-French ANTARES mission.

During 1993–94, he attended a training cycle of the French Institute for High Studies of National Defense (IHEDN).

During the five-day mission his primary task was to assist in the deployment of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and to conduct a spacewalk if needed.

Now he is in France working for Human Space Exploration with University and performing speeches for general public.