Michelle Justine Lang (31 January 1975 – 30 December 2009) was a Canadian journalist.

Lang was a Calgary Herald reporter and the first Canadian journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan.

[1] Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lang was an alumnus of Magee Secondary School and Simon Fraser University.

Her first job as a reporter was at the Prince George Free Press.

[3] Lang was on a six-week assignment to Afghanistan for the Herald and Canwest News Service[4] when the armoured military vehicle she was riding in struck a roadside bomb.