List of University of Paris people

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

Faculty professors

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

Notable alumni

Entrance to the Sorbonne

• 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 (1932–2024), mathematician
• Constantin-François Chassebœuf, philosopher and count
• Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Governor General of Canada
• Conrad of Megenberg (born 1309), German historian
• 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