# 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.
* 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