| Michèle Raynaud | |
| Birth Name: | Michèle Chaumartin |
| Birth Date: | 9 January 1938 |
| Birth Place: | France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Alma Mater: | Paris Diderot University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Alexander Grothendieck |
Michèle Raynaud (born Michèle Chaumartin;[1] 9 January 1938[2] [3]) is a French mathematician, who works on algebraic geometry and who worked with Alexandre Grothendieck in Paris in the 1960s at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS).
Raynaud was a member of the séminaire de géométrie algébrique du Bois Marie (SGA) 1 and 2 and obtained her doctorate in 1972, supervised by Grothendieck at Paris Diderot University. Her thesis was entitled Théorèmes de Lefschetz en cohomologie cohérente et en cohomologie étale. Grothendieck wrote about her doctoral thesis in Récoltes et Semailles (p.168 Chapitre 8.1.) describing it as original, entirely independent, and a major work.
Michèle Raynaud was married to the mathematician Michel Raynaud[4] who was also a member of the Grothendieck school.