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).
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Famous alumni
- 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.
- Habib Bourguiba (1903?-2000), first President of Tunisia (1957-1987)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Past and present faculty professors
- Jean-Jacques Ampère
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard
- Victor Cousin
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie
- Jean Philibert Damiron
- Jacques Derrida
- Claude Charles Fauriel
- Nicolas Eugène Géruzez
- François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Paul Janet
- Frédéric Joliot
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Peter Martin Ngo-Dinh-Thuc
- Frédéric Antoine Ozanam
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
- Henri Poincaré
- Émile Saisset
- Étienne Vacherot
- Abel-Francois Villemain
- Boëthius of Dacia
