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] Famous alumni

• Michel Aflaq, (1910-1989), the ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism.
• Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), chess master
• Pope Alexander V 1339– 1410, Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
• Theo Angelopoulos (b. 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
• Joaquín Balaguer (1906-2002), President of the Dominican Republic
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
• Pope Benedict XVI1927-, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger.
• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), French poet and critic
• Habib Bourguiba (1903?-2000), first President of Tunisia (1957-1987)
• John Calvin (1509-1564), founder of Calvinism
• Roch Carrier (b. 1937), Canadian novelist
• Adrienne Clarkson1939-, 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 Neo-marxist philosopher
• Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), French sculptor
• 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 (b. 1919), poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house
• Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), film director
• Victor Hugo- 1802-1885- Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
• Abimael Guzmán (b. 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)
• Vilayat Inayat Khan (b. 1916), Sufic leader and writer
• Irène Joliot-Curie, (1897-1956), French scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
• Diego Laynez (1512-1565), Roman Catholic theolgian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
• Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908), anthropologist who developed the structuralism.
• St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), Founder of the society of Jesus
• Peter Lombard (ca. 1100-1160/64), Roman Catholic theolgian
• Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American writer
• John Mair (also known as John Major), (1467-1550), Scottish philosopher
• Cecilia Malmström (b.1968), Swedish Minster for European Affairs
• Benoît Mandelbrot (b. 1923), mathematician
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Seventh Lubavitch Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidei Dynasty and World Jewish Outreach Organisation.
• Marsilius of Padua (1270-1342), Italian scholar. Rector of the university 1313
• Silvio Michelotto (born 1968), Italian security contractor, former diplomat
• André Morellet (1727-1819), French economist and writer
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801-1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
• Denis Petau1583–1652, French Jesuit theologian.
• Peter of Blois1135-1203, French poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin
• Pol Pot (1925-1998), leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia 1976-1979
• Pauline Réage (1907-1998), French author.
• 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 (b. 1926), mathematician
• Ali Shariati 1933–1977), Iranian sociologist,
• Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès1748- 1748–1836, French Statesmen, Revolutionary leader, instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power.
• Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American writer and activist.
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and a philosopher.
• Dale C. Thomson DFC (1923-1999), Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
• Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000), Former Canadian Prime Minister
• Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) Russian poet and writer.
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune 1727-1781), French statesman and economist.
• John Napier Turner 1929- current, Former Canadian Prime Minister
• Jacques Verges 1925- Current, French lawyer
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello1948-2003) Brazilian United Nations diplomat
• Sam Waterston 1940- Current, American Actor
• Walter of Chatillon 12th century French writer and theologian
• St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus

Many others 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
• St. Bonaventure 1221 –1274), a Franciscan theologian.
• 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, 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.
• Nicolas Eugène Géruzez 1799-1865, French critic.
• 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, French scientist
• 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-Francois Villemain (1790-1870), French politician and writer.
• Boetius of Dacia13th-century Swedish philosopher.