List of University of Paris people

This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with the University of Paris (often called La Sorbonne).

Notable alumni

Entrance to the Sorbonne

• 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.

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.