Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou

male, 72 years old
Alain Badiou is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS).
Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron

male, deceased (1983)
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. He was known for...
Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

male, deceased (1990)
Louis Pierre Althusser (October 16, 1918 – October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious Éc...
Henri Cartan

Henri Cartan

male, 105 years old
Henri Cartan is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician. Cartan studied at the L...
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

male, 76 years old
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Cohen-Tannoudji was born in Constantine to Al...
Julien Gracq

Julien Gracq

male, 99 years old
Julien Gracq is the pen name of Louis Poirier, a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play and some poetry. His work, influenced by...

Jean Hyppolite

male, deceased (1968)
Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most...
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

male, deceased (2007)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris - May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991.
Nicolas Bourbaki

Nicolas Bourbaki

male
Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting...

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

male, 49 years old
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a popular contemporary French writer, his plays are translated and staged in more than 30 countries all over the world. H...