List of University of Paris people
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This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with the University of Paris (often called La Sorbonne).
[edit] Notable alumni
- Michel Aflaq (1910–1989), ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism
- Patrick Alain (1981- ), leadership writer and executive coach
- Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), chess master
- Pope Alexander V (1339–1410), Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
- Nathan Alterman (1910-70), Israeli poet and playwright
- Theo Angelopoulos (born 1936), Greek film director
- Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), French writer
- Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002), President of the Dominican Republic
- José Francisco Peña Gómez (1937–1998), leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD)
- Roland Barthes (1915–1980, literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician
- Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), Cultural theorist and philosopher
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist
- Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
- Habib Bourguiba (c. 1903–2000), first President of Tunisia (1957–1987)
- John Calvin (1509–1564), founder of Calvinism
- Roch Carrier (born 1937), Canadian novelist
- Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Governor General of Canada
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), physicist, Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911
- Pierre Curie (1859–1906), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with his wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
- Hasan Dosti (1895–1991), Albanian jurist and politician
- St. Maurice Duault (1117–1191), French abbot and saint
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), French sculptor
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469–1536), Dutch humanist and theologian
- Peter Faber (1506–1546), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
- Moshe Feldenkrais (1904–1984), founder of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house
- David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Rabbi and historian
- Jean-Luc Godard (born 1930), film director
- Haim Gouri (born 1923), Israei poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
- Abimael Guzmán (born 1934), leader of the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso in Peru
- Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), English surgeon, best known as an etcher
- Mahmoud Hessaby (1903–1992), Iranian scientist and politician
- Enver Hoxha (1908–1985), Albanian communist dictator (1946–1985)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
- Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916), Sufic leader and writer
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), father of modern chemistry, developed the law of conservation of mass
- Diego Laynez (1512–1565), Roman Catholic theolgian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
- Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), Marxist sociologist and philosopher
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), anthropologist who developed structuralism
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), philosopher and literary theorist
- St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus
- Luce Irigaray (born 1930), French feminist, psychoanalytic and cultural theorist
- Peter Lombard (c. 1100–1160/64), Roman Catholic theologian
- Hilda Madsen (1910–1981), British-American artist and dog breeder
- Norman Mailer (1923–2007), American writer
- John Mair (also known as John Major) (1467–1550), Scottish philosopher
- Cecilia Malmström (born 1968), Swedish Minster for European Affairs
- Benoît Mandelbrot (born 1923), mathematician
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Seventh Lubavitch Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidei Dynasty and World Jewish Outreach Organization
- Nawaf Salam, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations [1]
- Hasan Tahsini (1811-1881), Albanian scholar
- Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), Italian scholar; Rector of the university 1313
- Bernard Miège (born 1941), French media theorist
- André Morellet (1727–1819), French economist and writer
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- Denis Petau (1583–1652), French Jesuit theologian
- Peter of Blois (1135–1203), French poet and diplomat
- Pauline Réage (1907–1998), French author
- Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), philosopher
- Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE)
- Ibrahim Rugova (1944–2006), first President of Kosovo
- Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher
- Alfonso Salmeron (1511–1590), theolgian, and one of the original members of the Society of Jesus
- Jean-Pierre Serre (born 1926), mathematician
- Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), French statesmen, revolutionary leader, instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power
- Joshua Sobol (born 1939), Israeli playwright, writer, and director
- Jean Stein, American author and editor
- Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer and activist
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and philosopher
- Dale C. Thomson DFC (1923–1999), Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781), French statesman and economist
- John Napier Turner (born 1929), former Canadian Prime Minister
- Jacques Verges (born 1925), French lawyer
- Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), Belgian physician and anatomist
- Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948–2003), Brazilian United Nations diplomat
- Paul Virilio (born 1932), cultural theorist and urbanist
- Sam Waterston (born 1940), American actor
- Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Romanian Holocaust survivor, novelist and political activist
- Walter of Châtillon 12th century French writer and theologian
- St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
- Modjtaba Sadria (1949-), Philosopher, Honorary Professor of Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society in Monash University, Australia
Many other important world scientists and humanists.
[edit] Past and present faculty professors
- St. Albert the Great between 1193 and 1206–1280, Doctor of the Church, Dominican friar, German philosopher and theologian
- François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut (1720–1794), French teacher, writer and translator.
- St. Bonaventure 1221–1274), a Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church.
- Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French historian of the Revolution and Napoleon.
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Doctor of the Church, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
- Victor Cousin (1792–1867), French philosopher.
- Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and the first two-time Nobel laureate
- Jean Philibert Damiron (1794–1862), French philosopher.
- Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent.
- Claude Charles Fauriel (1772–1844), French historian, philologist and critic.
- François Géré (1950-), research director, specializing in geostrategic issues.
- Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (1799–1865), French critic.
- Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher and historian of philosophy
- François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, orator and statesman.
- Paul Janet (1823–1899), French philosopher and writer.
- Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel laureate.
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), Nobel-prize winning French scientist, and daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.
- Ngô Ðình Thuc Pierre Martin 1897–1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam
- Frédéric Antoine Ozanam (1813–1853), French-Catholic scholar
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845),French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group
- Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician, and theoretical physicistist, and a philosopher of science.
- Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher.
- Étienne Vacherot (1809–1897), French philosophical writer.
- Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), French politician and writer.
- Boetius of Dacia 13th-century Swedish philosopher.