This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with the University of Paris , often called "La Sorbonne".
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Marie Curie
Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Doctor of the Church, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French historian of the Revolution and Napoleon
Edvard Beneš (1884 - 1948) President and co-founder of Czechoslovakia
François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut (1720–1794), French teacher, writer and translator
Boetius of Dacia , 13th-century Swedish philosopher
St. Bonaventure (1221–1274), a Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church
George Buchanan (1506–1582), Scottish historian
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
St. Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174–1240), English Saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
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 Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, orator and statesman
Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963), French mathematician
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; daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
Albertus Magnus (between 1193 and 1206–1280), Doctor of the Church, Dominican friar, German philosopher and theologian
Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam
Frédéric Ozanam (1813–1853), French-Catholic scholar
John Peckham (c. 1230–1292), English Archbishop of Canterbury
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician, theoretical physicist, philosopher of science
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845), French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group
Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher
Étienne Vacherot (1809–1897), French philosophical writer
Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), French politician and writer
Robert Winchelsey (c. 1245–1313), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
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Michel Aflaq (1910–1989), ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism
Milos Alcalay (born 1945), Venezuelan diplomat
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), World Chess Champion
Pope Alexander V (1339–1410), Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
Nathan Alterman (1910–70), Israeli poet and playwright
Luis López Álvarez (born 1930), Spanish poet
Mirza Javad Khan Ameri (1891–1980), Iranian politician
Reginald Fraser Amonoo (born 1932), ghanaian academic
Theo Angelopoulos (born 1936), Greek film director
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer
Robert Badinter , Professor of Law
Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002), President of the Dominican Republic
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), writer
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), author, philosopher, and feminist
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), Litvak lexicographer of Hebrew and newspaper editor
Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880-1968), Russian and Soviet mathematician
Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), poet and critic
Habib Bourguiba (c. 1903–2000), first President of Tunisia (1957–1987)
Paschase Broët French Jesuit and early companion of Ignatius of Loyola
George Buchanan (1506–1582), Scottish historian
Gerald M. Moser (1915–2005), German-American academic and author
John Calvin (1509–1564), Protestant Reformer and proponent of Calvinism
Roch Carrier (born 1937), Canadian novelist
Pierre Cartier (born 1932), mathematician
Constantin-François Chassebœuf , philosopher and count
Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Governor General of Canada
Conrad of Megenberg (born 1309), German historian[1]
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), philosopher
Hasan Dosti (1895–1991), Albanian jurist and politician
St. Maurice Duault (1117–1191), French abbot and saint
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), sculptor
St. Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174–1240), English Saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469–1536), Dutch humanist and theologian
Peter Faber (1506–1546), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
Moshé 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), Israeli 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
Pavel Hak (born 1962), playwright and author
Mahmoud Hessaby (1903–1992), Iranian scientist and politician
Ivica Hiršl (1905–1941), Croatian communist and Mayor of Koprivnica
Enver Hoxha (1908–1985), Albanian communist dictator (1946–1985)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus
Luce Irigaray (born 1930), French feminist , psychoanalytic and cultural theorist
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
Max Karoubi (born 1938), mathematician
Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916), Sufic leader and writer
Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
Dimitri Kitsikis (born 1935), Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Jean-Louis Koszul (1921-2018), mathematician
Arvid Kurck (1464–1522), Finnish bishop
Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
Ronald Lauder (born 1944), American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), father of modern chemistry , developed the law of conservation of mass
Theodore K. Lawless (1892-1971), American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
Diego Laynez (1512–1565), Roman Catholic theologian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), Marxist sociologist and philosopher
Bernard Lewis (born 1916), British American historian specializing in oriental studies
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), anthropologist who developed structuralism
Mélanie Lipinska (1900s), Historian of Female Scientists
Peter Lombard (c. 1100–1160/64), Roman Catholic theologian
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), philosopher and literary theorist
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
Benoît Mandelbrot (1923-2010), mathematician
Sigmund Mannheimer (1835–1909), German-American educator
Fabrizio Marrella (born 1966), Italian scholar; Full Professor of International Law & International Business Law; former European Director of the Master in Human Rights
Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), Italian scholar; Rector of the university 1313
Bernard Miège (born 1941), media theorist
Sherman Minton , Democratic United States Senator from Indiana ; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
François Mitterrand , former President of France
André Morellet (1727–1819), economist and writer
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1930-1994), wife of US President John F. Kennedy and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; US First Lady 1961-1963
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
John Peckham (c. 1230–1292), English Archbishop of Canterbury
José Francisco Peña Gómez (1937–1998), leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975), discovered Francium and was the first woman member of the French Academy of Science
Denis Pétau (1583–1652), Jesuit theologian
Konstanin "Koča" Popović (1908-1992), Spanish Civil War volunteer, Yugoslav Partisans division commander and Yugoslav statesman
Peter of Blois (1135–1203), poet and diplomat
Paul H. Raihle (born 1893), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Pauline Réage (1907–1998), author
Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), philosopher
Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE )
Ibrahim Rugova (1944–2006), first President of Kosovo
Modjtaba Sadria (1949-), philosopher, Honorary Professor of Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society in Monash University, Australia
Émile Saisset (1814–1863), philosopher
Nawaf Salam , Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
Alfonso Salmeron (1511–1590), theologian, and one of the original members of the Society of Jesus
Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the seventh Lubavitch Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidei Dynasty and World Jewish Outreach Organization
Jean-Pierre Serre (born 1926), mathematician
Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), French statesman; 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
Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer and activist
Jean Stein , American author and editor
Hasan Tahsini (1811-1881), Albanian scholar
Andrea Tantaros , (born 1978), American political commentator
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and philosopher
René Thom (1923-2002), mathematician
Dale C. Thomson DFC (1923–1999), Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer
Seka Severin de Tudja (1923–2007), Yugoslavian-born Venezuelan ceramist
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781), French statesman and economist
John Turner (born 1929), former Canadian Prime Minister
Maria Ubach i Font (born 1973), current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra
Simone Veil (1927-2017), lawyer and politician, Minister of Health, President of the European Parliament, and member of the Constitutional Council of France
Jacques Vergès (born 1925), 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
Walter of Châtillon , 12th-century writer and theologian
Sam Waterston (born 1940), American actor
André Weil (1906-1998), mathematician
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate. novelist and political activist
Robert Winchelsey (c. 1245–1313), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
Nasser Yeganeh , PhD in public law, former President of the Supreme Court of Iran