Michael Tositsas was a national benefactor from Ottoman Greece. He was an Aromanian. He was born in Metsovo in about 1787, and in 1806 he took over his father's fur shop in Thessaloniki, together with his brothers. After developing his business significantly, he sent his brothers to Egypt to open a branch there while he opened branches in Livorno and Malta. He married Eleni Tositsa in 1818.