List of Sorbonne University people

This is a list of alumni, former staff, and those otherwise associated with Sorbonne University (and the former autonomous universities Paris-IV Sorbonne and Paris-VI Pierre and Marie Curie). This list is incomplete.

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel Prize in Physics 1997)
Emmanuelle Charpentier (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize in Physics 2012)
Gérard Mourou (Nobel Prize in Physics 2018)

Arts and humanities

Donald Adamson (1939–2024), British historian
Shmuel Agmon (born 1922), Israeli mathematician
Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari (born 1948), Qatari diplomat
Sophia Antoniadis (1895–1972), classical scholar and first female professor at Leiden University
Philippe Barbarin (born 1950), French Catholic Archbishop of Lyon and cardinal
Charlotte Casiraghi (born 1986), Italian fashion journalist
Karl P. Cohen (1913–2012), American physical chemist
Ioan Petru Culianu (1950–1991), Romanian historian
Abiol Lual Deng (born 1983), South Sudanese-American political scientist
Mamadou Diouf, Senegalese professor of Western African history at Columbia University
Julia Ducournau, French director and screenwriter
Marie Drucker (born 1974), French journalist
Soudabeh Fazaeli (born 1947), Iranian seismologist, researcher, mythologist and writer
Luc Ferry (born 1951), French philosopher
Henri Guaino (born 1957) French politician
William Irigoyen (born 1970), French journalist
Besiana Kadare (born 1972), Albanian Ambassador to the UN
Samir Kassir (1960–2005), Lebanese-French professor of history at Saint-Joseph University
Jiddu Krishnamurti (born 1895), Indian philosopher
Thanh Hai Ngo (born 1947), Vietnamese-Canadian senator
Caterina Magni (born 1966) Italian-French archaeologist
Shahrzad Rafati (born 1980), Iranian-Canadian media entrepreneur
Bernard Romain (born 1944), French painter and sculptor
Christiane Taubira (born 1952), Minister of Justice of France
Habib Tawa (born 1945), Lebanese-French historian
Jean-Pierre Thiollet (born 1956), French writer
Shunichi Yamaguchi (born 1950), Japanese politician
Nureldin Satti, Sudanese diplomat and ambassador to the United States.^[1]
Jemima West (born 1987), Anglo-French actress
Baby Varghese Indian scholar and professor
Abdul Hafeez Mirza (born 1939), Pakistani Tourism worker, cultural activist and Professor of French. Studied International Tourism.
Zahia Ziouani (born 1978), French composer

Science, engineering and medicine

Claude Bartolone, French politician, former President of the National Assembly
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, politician and senior international civil servant
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate
Nicole Capitaine, French astronomer
Emmanuelle Charpentier, French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and Nobel laureate
Serge Haroche, French physicist, Nobel laureate
Gérard Mourou, French physicist, Nobel laureate
Georges Calas, French mineralogist
Vincent Calvez, French mathematician
Sébastien Candel, French physicist
Eudald Carbonell, Spanish archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist
Sophie Carenco, French chemist
Pierre Charneau, French virologist
Cécile Charrier, French neuroscience researcher
Daniel Choquet, French neuroscientist
Gérard Denis Cohen, French computer science professor
Dominique Costagliola, French epidemiologist
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, French biologist
Nicolas Courtois, French and British cryptographer
Jean Dalibard, French physicist
Olivier Danvy, French computer scientist
Bernard Debré, French urologist and politician (1944–2020)
Jean-Pierre Demailly, French mathematician (1957–2022)
Julie Diani, French academic in the field of mechanics of polymeric materials
Sindika Dokolo, Congolese art collector and businessman (1972–2020)
Maïmouna Doucouré, French filmmaker (born 1985)
Bérengère Dubrulle, French astrophysicist (born 1965)
Catherine Dulac, French–American biologist