# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-tognini
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:32.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-tognini"
name: "Michel Tognini"
slug: "michel-tognini"
description: "Michel Ange-Charles Tognini 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. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian."
tagline: "French astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Tognini.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1949-09-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.843884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Мишел Тонини"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میشل تونینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Tognini"
    title: "Michel Tognini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Тонини, Мишель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump