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

* Michel Aflaq (1910–1989), the ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism.
* Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), chess master
* Pope Alexander V 1339– 1410, Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
* Theo Angelopoulos (born 1936), Greek film director.
* Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer
* St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
* Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French writer
* Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002), President of the Dominican Republic
* 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), French author, philosopher, and feminist
* Pope Benedict XVI (born 1927), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic
* Habib Bourguiba (c. 1903 – 2000), first President of Tunisia (1957–1987)
* John Calvin (1509–1564), founder of Calvinism
* Roch Carrier (born 1937), Canadian novelist
* Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Governor General of Canada
* 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), French Neo-marxist philosopher
* Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), French sculptor
* Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469–1536), Dutch humanist and theologian
* Peter Faber (1506–1546), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
* Moshe 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) Rabbin et historien
* Jean-Luc Godard (born 1930), film director
* 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
* Mahmoud Hessaby (1903–1992), Iranian scientist and politician
* Enver Hoxha (1908–1985), Albanian Communist dictator (1946–1985)
* Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
* Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916), Sufic leader and writer
* Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
* Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), father of modern chemistry, developed the law of conservation of mass
* Diego Laynez (1512–1565), Roman Catholic theolgian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
* Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), Marxist sociologist and philosopher
* Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908), anthropologist who developed the structuralism
* Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), philosopher and literary theorist
* St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), Founder of the society of Jesus
* Luce Irigaray (born 1930), French feminist, psychoanalytic and cultural theorist
* Peter Lombard (c. 1100 – 1160/64), Roman Catholic theologian
* Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American writer
* John Mair (also known as John Major), (1467–1550), Scottish philosopher
* Cecilia Malmström (born 1968), Swedish Minster for European Affairs
* Benoît Mandelbrot (born 1923), mathematician
* Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Seventh Lubavitch Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidei Dynasty and World Jewish Outreach Organisation.
* Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), Italian scholar. Rector of the university 1313
* Silvio Michelotto (born 1968), Italian security contractor, former diplomat
* André Morellet (1727–1819), French economist and writer
* Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
* Denis Petau (1583–1652), French Jesuit theologian.
* Peter of Blois (1135–1203), French poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin
* Pauline Réage (1907–1998), French author.
* Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), philosopher
* Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE)
* Ibrahim Rugova- 1944–2006, First President of Kosovo
* Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher.
* Alfonso Salmeron (1511–1590), theolgian, and one of the original members of the Society of Jesus
* Jean-Pierre Serre (born 1926), mathematician
* Ali Shariati 1933–1977), Iranian sociologist,
* Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès1748- 1748–1836, French Statesmen, Revolutionary leader, instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power.
* Jean Stein, American best-selling author, editor, and daughter of Jules Stein- founder of MCA
* Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer and activist.
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and a philosopher.
* Dale C. Thomson DFC (1923–1999), Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
* Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer.
* Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781), French statesman and economist.
* John Napier Turner (born 1929), Former Canadian Prime Minister
* Jacques Verges (born 1925), French 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
* Sam Waterston (born 1940), American Actor
* Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Romenian Holocaust survivor, novelist and political activist
* Walter of Chatillon 12th century French writer and theologian
* St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus

Many others important world scientists and humanists

Past and present faculty professors

* St. Albert the Great between 1193 and 1206–1280, Doctor of the Church, Dominican friar, German philosopher and theologian
* St. Bonaventure 1221 –1274), a Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church.
* Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist
* François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French historian of the Revolution and Napoleon.
* St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Doctor of the Church, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
* 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.
* Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (1799–1865), French critic.
* Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher and historian of philosophy
* François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, orator and statesman.
* Paul Janet (1823–1899), French philosopher and writer.
* Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel laureate.
* Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French scientist
* Ngô Ðình Thuc Pierre Martin 1897–1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam
* Frédéric Antoine Ozanam (1813–1853), French-Catholic scholar
* Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845),French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group
* Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician, and theoretical physicistist, and a philosopher of science.
* Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher.
* Étienne Vacherot (1809–1897), French philosophical writer.
* Abel-Francois Villemain (1790–1870), French politician and writer.
* Boetius of Dacia 13th-century Swedish philosopher.