| Office: | Senator |
| Term Start: | 17 February 1993 |
| Term End: | 17 September 1997 |
| Constituency: | Agricultural Panel |
| Birth Place: | County Cork, Ireland |
| Party: | Labour Party |
| Alma Mater: | University College Cork |
Michael Calnan is an Irish former Labour Party politician from County Cork. He was a senator from 1993 to 1997.[1]
A teacher and former vice principal of the Maria Immaculata Secondary school in Dunmanway, he attended University College Cork where he obtained a B.A, H.dip Ed, and a master's degree.. He was a long-serving member of Cork County Council for the Skibbereen electoral area.[2] He was chairman of the council from 1988 to 1989 and 1992 to 1993,[3] and stepped down at the 1999 local elections.
Calnan stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for Dáil Éireann in the Cork South-West constituency on three occasions, at the February 1982, 1992, and 1997 general elections. After his 1992 defeat, he stood in the 1993 elections to the 20th Seanad, winning a seat on the Agricultural Panel.[4] He did not contest the 1997 Seanad elections.[5]