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
- Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian of the Revolution and Napoleon
- Edvard Beneš President and co-founder of Czechoslovakia
- François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut, French teacher, writer and translator
- Boetius of Dacia, 13th-century Swedish philosopher
- St. Bonaventure 1221–1274), a Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church
- Victor Cousin, French philosopher
- Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and the first two-time Nobel laureate
- Jean Philibert Damiron, French philosopher
- Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent
- Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian, philologist and critic
- François Géré, research director, specializing in geostrategic issues
- Nicolas Eugène Géruzez, French critic
- Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian of philosophy
- François Guizot, French historian, orator and statesman
- Paul Janet, French philosopher and writer
- Frédéric Joliot, French physicist and Nobel laureate
- Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prize–winning French scientist; daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
- Albertus Magnus, Doctor of the Church, Dominican friar, German philosopher and theologian
- Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam
- Frédéric Ozanam, French-Catholic scholar
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group
- Henri Poincaré, mathematician, theoretical physicist, philosopher of science
- Émile Saisset, French philosopher
- Étienne Vacherot, French philosophical writer
- Abel-François Villemain, French politician and writer
Notable alumni
- Michel Aflaq, ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism
- Milos Alcalay, Venezuelan diplomat
- Alexander Alekhine, World Chess Champion
- Pope Alexander V, Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
- Nathan Alterman, Israeli poet and playwright
- Luis López Álvarez, Spanish poet
- Mirza Javad Khan Ameri, Iranian politician
- Reginald Fraser Amonoo, ghanaian academic
- Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
- Antoine Arnauld, Roman Catholic theologian and writer
- Robert Badinter, Professor of Law
- Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic
- Honoré de Balzac, French writer
- Roland Barthes, Cultural theorist and philosopher
- Simone de Beauvoir, French author, philosopher, and feminist
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Litvak lexicographer of Hebrew and newspaper editor
- Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
- Ernst Boepple, German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic
- Habib Bourguiba, first President of Tunisia
- Paschase Broët French Jesuit and early companion of Ignatius of Loyola.
- John Calvin, Protestant Reformer and proponent of Calvinism
- Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
- Constantin-François Chassebœuf, French philosopher and count
- Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada
- Conrad of Megenberg, German historian
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911
- Pierre Curie, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with his wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher
- Hasan Dosti, Albanian jurist and politician
- St. Maurice Duault, French abbot and saint
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French sculptor
- Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian
- Peter Faber, Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
- Moshé Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house
- David Feuerwerker, rabbi and historian
- Jean-Luc Godard, film director
- Haim Gouri, Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
- Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso in Peru
- Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon, best known as an etcher
- Pavel Hak, playwright and author
- Mahmoud Hessaby, Iranian scientist and politician
- Ivica Hiršl, Croatian communist and Mayor of Koprivnica
- Enver Hoxha, Albanian communist dictator
- Victor Hugo, Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
- St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus
- Luce Irigaray, French feminist, psychoanalytic and cultural theorist
- Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
- Vilayat Inayat Khan, Sufic leader and writer
- Dimitri Kitsikis, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Arvid Kurck, Finnish bishop
- Ronald Lauder, American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, developed the law of conservation of mass
- Theodore K. Lawless, American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
- Diego Laynez, Roman Catholic theologian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
- Henri Lefebvre, Marxist sociologist and philosopher
- Bernard Lewis, British American historian specializing in oriental studies
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist who developed structuralism
- Mélanie Lipinska, Historian of Female Scientists
- Peter Lombard, Roman Catholic theologian
- Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher and literary theorist
- Hilda Madsen, British-American artist and dog breeder
- Norman Mailer, American writer
- John Mair , Scottish philosopher
- Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician
- Fabrizio Marrella, Italian scholar; Full Professor of International Law & International Business Law; former European Director of the Master in Human Rights
- Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar; Rector of the university 1313
- Bernard Miège, French 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, French economist and writer
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of US President John F. Kennedy and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; US First Lady 1961-1963
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- José Francisco Peña Gómez, leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party
- Denis Pétau, French Jesuit theologian
- Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat
- Paul H. Raihle, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Pauline Réage, French author
- Paul Ricœur, philosopher
- Vera Maria Rosenberg
- Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo
- Modjtaba Sadria, philosopher, Honorary Professor of Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society in Monash University, Australia
- Émile Saisset, French philosopher
- Nawaf Salam, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
- Alfonso Salmeron, 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, mathematician
- Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist
- Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French statesman; revolutionary leader; instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power
- Joshua Sobol, Israeli playwright, writer, and director
- Susan Sontag, American writer and activist
- Jean Stein, American author and editor
- Hasan Tahsini, Albanian scholar
- Andrea Tantaros,, American political commentator
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and philosopher
- Dale C. Thomson DFC, Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
- Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and writer
- Seka Severin de Tudja, Yugoslavian-born Venezuelan ceramist
- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French statesman and economist
- John Turner, former Canadian Prime Minister
- Maria Ubach i Font, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra
- Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, Minister of Health, President of the European Parliament, and member of the Constitutional Council of France
- Jacques Vergès, French lawyer
- Andreas Vesalius, Belgian physician and anatomist
- Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian United Nations diplomat
- Paul Virilio, cultural theorist and urbanist
- Walter of Châtillon, 12th-century French writer and theologian
- Sam Waterston, American actor
- Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate. novelist and political activist
- St. Francis Xavier, Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
- Konstanin "Koča" Popović, Spanish Civil War volunteer, Yugoslav Partisans division commander and Yugoslav statesman
- Nasser Yeganeh: PhD in public law, former President of the Supreme Court of Iran