Michel Charleux

Michel Charleux (6 September 1945 — 14 October 2018) was a French archaeologist who did much of his work in French Polynesia and did important work on Tapa cloth.

Charleux was born in Paris, but spent much of his childhood in Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Niger. After high school at Lycée Louis-le-Grand he studied geology at the Sorbonne, then became a teacher. In 2017 he edited a book on Tapa cloth, Tapa: From Tree Bark to Cloth: An Ancient Art of Oceania, from Southeast Asia to Eastern Polynesia.

In July 2018 he was made a knight of the Order of Tahiti Nui.