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| Office1: | Member of the Advisory Council |
| Term1: | 1969–1975 |
| Constituency1: | Aoba, Banks and Torres Islands |
| Term2: | 1964–1969 |
| Constituency2: | Northern |
| Birth Date: | 30 March 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Ambae, New Hebrides |
| Death Place: | Ambae, Vanuatu |
Michael Ala (30 March 1923 – 4 January 1985) was a Vanuatuan medical practitioner, clergyman and politician. He served as a member of the Advisory Council from 1964 to 1975.
Ala was born in Saranambuga in Ambae in 1923.[1] He was educated at the Melanesian Mission School at Pawa in the Solomon Islands and Queen Victoria School in Fiji.[1] He qualified as a medical practitioner at the Central Medical School in Suva and returned to the New Hebrides to work in Port Vila as part of the British National Medical Service.[2] [1] He married May Banivagahao in 1950; the couple had six children.[1] After working at the Paton Memorial Hospital as an assistant medical practitioner, in 1954 he was posted to Ambae to set up a local clinic.[3] He later became an Anglican priest.[4]
In 1962 he became the first chairman of Ambae local council,[1] a position he held for 13 years. In 1964 he was elected to the Advisory Council by Northern District Council.[5] He was re-elected in direct elections in 1969, representing the constituency of Ambae, Banks and Torres Islands.[6] He was awarded an MBE in the 1971 Birthday Honours.[7] He contested the Ambae–Maevo constituency in the 1975 elections as an independent, but failed to be elected.[8] He later joined the Vanua'aku Pati.[4]
In 1979 he served as a member of the commission of enquiry into violence on Tanna.[9] He died on Ambae in January 1985 at the age of 62.[10]