List of University of Paris people

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

Famous alumni

Entrance to the Sorbonne

Michel Aflaq, (1910–1989), the ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism.
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), chess master
Theo Angelopoulos (b. 1936), Greek film director.
Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer.
Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002), President of the Dominican Republic
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
John Calvin (1509–1564), founder of Calvinism
Roch Carrier (b. 1937), French-Canadian novelist
Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada
Maria 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 Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), French sculptor
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
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
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
Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American writer
Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), Italian scholar. Rector of the university 1313
Pol Pot (1925–1998), leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia 1976–1979
André Morellet (1727–1819), French economist and writer
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
Peter of Blois (1135 (?) – 1203 (?)), French poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin
Pope Alexander V
Pauline Réage
Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE)
Ibrahim Rugova
Émile Saisset
Jean-Pierre Serre
Ali Shariati
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Trudeau
Marina Tsvetaeva
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
John Napier Turner
Jacques Verges
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Sam Waterston
Walter of Chatillon
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Susan Sontag

Past and present faculty professors

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