- Marie Curie
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 - July 4 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate (and still today the only laureate in two different sciences), and the first female professor at the Sorbonne.
- William Smith
William Smith (born March 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, USA) is an American actor. He worked as a child actor, but is best known for his numerous roles in low-budget action films playing bikers, cowboys, tough-guys, and villains. He is possibly best-known for playing Falconetti on the TV mini-series "Rich Man, Poor Man".
- Jean Gerson
Jean Charlier de Gerson, French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance, was born at the village of Gerson, in the bishopric of Reims in Champagne. His parents, Arnulph Charlier and Elizabeth de la Chardeniêre, "a second Monica," were pious peasants, and seven of their twelve children, four daughters and three sons, …
- Robert de Sorbon
Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. Born into a poor family in Sorbon, in what is now the Ardennes "département", Robert de Sorbon entered the Church and was educated in Reims and Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronage of the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, known as Saint Louis.
- Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles.
- Siger Of Brabant
Siger de Brabant (also Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri or Sygerius), ("c." 1240-1280s), was a 13th century philosopher from the southern Low Countries. He was one of the inventors and major proponents of Averroism. He was considered a radical by the conservative members of the Roman Catholic Church, …
- Jean Bernard
Jean A. Bernard was a French physician and haematologist. He was professor of haematology and director of the Institute for Leukaemia at the University of Paris. After graduating in medicine in Paris in 1926 he commenced his laboratory training with the bacteriologist Gaston Ramon at the Pasteur Institute in 1929. In 1932 Bernard gave the first description of the use of high dosage radiotherapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.
- Marsilius Of Padua
Marsilius of Padua (Italian "Marsilio" or "Marsiglio da Padova"; 1290 - 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar. Born at Padua, Marsilius at first studied medicine in his own country. After practicing various professions, among others that of a soldier, he went to Paris about 1311. The reputation which he had gained in the physical sciences soon caused him to be raised to the position of rector of the university (for the first term of the year 1313).
- Raymond Aron
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. He was known for his skepticism of French leftist ideology.
- Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company.
- Pierre D'Ailly
Pierre d'Ailly (in Latin, Petrus Aliacensis, Petrus de Alliaco, was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Compiègne. He was chancellor of the University of Paris from 1385 to 1395.
- Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo de Guzmán Garcés (1170 - August 6, 1221) was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP), a Catholic religious order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers and the Dominican Republic.
- Jacques de Vitry
Jacques de Vitry (c. 1180-1240) was a theologian and historian. He was born near Paris and studied at the University of Paris, becoming a regular canon in 1210 at the church of Saint-Nicolas d'Oignies. In 1211-1213 he preached the Albigensian Crusade, touring France and Germany with William, archdeacon of Paris and recruiting many Crusaders. He participated in the siege of Toulouse in 1214. In 1216 he was named Bishop of Acre and was heavily involved in the Fifth Crusade, …
- John Dee
John Dee was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his time, he had lectured to crowded halls at the University of Paris when still in his early twenties.
- Gregory Of Rimini
Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300, Rimini - November 1358, Vienna), also called de Arimino or Ariminensis, was an Augustinian hermit born in Rimini around 1300 who studied theology at the University of Paris from 1323 to 1329. There, he became well-acquainted with the works of William of Ockham and the other Oxford scholars. He then went to teach at various schools in Italy, at Bologna, Padua, and Perugia.
- Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie, (12 September, 1897 - 17 March, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Irène was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies the family with most Nobel laureates to date. Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also esteemed scientists.
- Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin was a prominent French physicist who developed "Langevin dynamics" and the "Langevin equation". He was one of the founders of the "Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes", an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots. He was also president of the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1944 to 1946 (he had just recently joined the French Communist Party).
- Gustave Roussy
Gustave Roussy (November 24, 1874 - 1948was a Swiss-French neuropathologist. He earned his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1907 and spent most of his career in Paris. As an intern he worked under neurologists Pierre Marie and Joseph Jules Dejerine. Roussy was involved with all aspects of the nervous system, and was a prolific writer.
- John Moore
John Moore was an Irish statesman and rebel leader. From Ashbrook, near Straide, Co. Mayo, he was the son of prosperous merchant George Moore and was educated at the Catholic school of Douai, and at the University of Paris under the assumed name of "Bellew". On his return to Ireland he studied for the bar but seemed uninterested. At the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 a force of 1,000 French soldiers under General Humbert landed at Killala.
- Antoine Arnauld
Antoine Arnauld was a famous lawyer in the Parlement de Paris, and a Counsellor of State under Henry IV. A skilled orator, his most famous speech was in 1594 in favor of the University of Paris and against the Jesuits, decrying their lack of support for Henry IV, newly converted from Protestantism to Catholicism. He wrote a number of political pamphlets which were widely distributed.
- Erna Paris
Erna Paris was born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She lived in France during much of the turbulent 1960s and taught high school English before beginning a full-time writing career in 1971; first as a magazine journalist, book reviewer, and broadcaster (in French and English), then as a writer of literary non-fiction. Erna Paris is the winner of ten national and international writing awards.
- Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored "Reading Capital" (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.
- Beatus Rhenanus
Beatus Rhenanus, the "Rerum Germanicarum Libri III" (1531), and editions of Velleius Paterculus (1522), based on a manuscript he discovered. He also wrote works on Tacitus (1519), Livy (1522), and a nine-volume work on his friend Erasmus (1540-1541).
- Pierre Dubois
Pierre Dubois (c. 1250-c. 1312), French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views. He was known to Jean du Tillet in the 16th, and to Pierre Dupuy in the 17th century, but remained practically forgotten until the middle of the 19th century, when his history was reconstructed from his works. He was a Norman by birth, probably a native of Coutances, …
- Robert Kilwardby
Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215 - 11 September 1279) was an Archbishop of Canterbury in England and cardinal. He studied at the University of Paris, where he soon became famous as a teacher of grammar and logic. Afterwards joining the Dominican Order and turning his attention to theology, he was chosen provincial prior of his order in England in 1261, and in October 1272 Pope Gregory X terminated a dispute over the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury by appointing Kilwardby.
- Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia), and he received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault.
- Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (born December 25, 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by the surrealists, abstract expressionism and minimalism. Her work is deeply involved in the investigation of her own psyche and relation to objects through strong intuition. She constantly evaluates her past and creates work that is based out of this nostalgia and torture. She is one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century.
- Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Département Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antoinin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist. Educated at the University of Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some time law editor of the "Voltaire".
- John Peckham
John Peckham or Pecham (died December, 1292), was Archbishop of Canterbury in the years 1279-1292. Peckham, probably a native of Sussex, received his early education from the Cluniac monks of Lewes. About 1250, he joined the Franciscan order and studied in their Oxford convent. Shortly afterwards he proceeded to the University of Paris, where he took his degree under St Bonaventura and became regent in theology.
- Charles Rollin
Charles Rollin was a French historian and educationist. He was born at Paris. He was the son of a cutler, and at the age of twenty-two was made a master in the Collège du Plessis. In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris, rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek. He held that post for two years instead of one, and in 1699 was appointed principal of the Collège de Beauvais.
- Jan Standonck
Jan Standonck (or "Jan or Jean Standonk") was a Dutch priest and reformer. He was part of the great movement for reform in the XVth century French church. His approach was to reform the recruitment and education of the clergy, along very ascetic lines, heavily influenced by the hermit saint Francis of Paola. To this end he founded many colleges, all of them strictly controlled and dedicated to poor students with real vocations.
- Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, a writer and lecturer with a PhD in theoretical physics. He puts his many facets into not only teaching all around the world but also into publishing books, 12 successful books to date including one National Book Award.
- Walter Map
Walter Map (fl. 1160-1196, died c. 1208-1210) was a medieval writer. He claims Welsh origin and to be a man of the Welsh Marches ("marchio sum Walensibus"); details in his writings suggest that he came from Herefordshire. He studied at the University of Paris, apparently around 1160 when Gerard la Pucelle was teaching there. He had encountered Thomas Becket before 1162.
- Paul David
Paul David, CC, GOQ, MD (December 25, 1919 - April 5, 1999) was a Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute, and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Louis-Athanase David and Antonia Nantel, he received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1939 and his MD from the Université de Montréal in 1944.
- Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. Michel de Certeau was born in 1925 in Chambéry, France. Certeau's education was eclectic. After obtaining degrees in classics and philosophy at the universities of Grenoble, Lyon, and Paris, he undertook religious training at a seminary in Lyon, where he entered the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) in 1950 and was ordained in 1956.
- Roland Mousnier
Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations. Mousnier was born in Paris and received his education at the "Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes". Between 1932 and 1947, Mousnier worked as a school teacher in Rouen and Paris. During the Second World War, Mousnier was a member of the French Resistance.
- Marsilius Of Inghen
Marsilius of Inghen (between 1330 and 1340 - August 20, 1396) was a medieval Dutch Scholastic philosopher who studied with Albert of Saxony and Nicole Oresme under Jean Buridan. He was Magister at the University of Paris as well as at the University of Heidelberg from 1386 to 1396.
- Peter Of Auvergne
Peter of Auvergne was a French philosopher and theologian. He was a canon of Paris; some biographers have thought that he was Bishop of Clermont, because a Bull of Boniface VIII of the year 1296 names as canon of Paris a certain Peter of Croc (Cros), already canon of Clermont ; but it is more likely that they are distinct. Peter of Auvergne was in Paris in 1301, and, according to several accounts, was a pupil of Thomas Aquinas.
- Michel Camdessus
Michel Camdessus (born 1 May 1933) was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. Among the most important events of his tenure was the East Asian financial crisis. Previously, he was Deputy Governor and Governor of the Bank of France from November 1984 until his move to Washington DC. Born in Bayonne, France, Mr.