École normale supérieure

Dünya çapında en başarılı öğrencilerin son derece ağır sınavlardan geçerek alındıkları okulda Fransa'nın en önemli bilim insanları ve filozofları ders verir. Türkiye'den çok az sayıda üstün yetenekli öğrenciler üniversiteye kabul edilmiştir. Bu kişilerden en çok tanınan ise Cahit Arf'dır. Okulun İngiltere'de değişim için anlaşmalı olduğu sadece üç yükseköğrenim kurumu vardır; Cambridge, Oxford ve Londra Ekonomi Okulu'dur. Fransa'da dört adet École Normale Supérieure vardır.

École Normale Supérieure öğrencileri arasında 1983 yılında Nobel Ekonomi Ödülü'nü almış Gérard Debreu, Cahit Arf, Albert Camus gibi ünlü isimler yer alır.

Fizik: Gabriel Lippmann (1908), Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1926), Alfred Kastler (1966), Louis Néel (1970), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1997), Albert Fert (2007), Serge Haroche (2012).

Édouard Branly (1865), Marcel Brillouin (1878), Léon Brillouin, Hubert Curien (1945), Thomas Fink, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Paul Langevin (1894), Yves Rocard, Georges Sagnac (1889), Roger Apéry (1936), Paul Emile Appell (1872), Cahit Arf (1932), René-Louis Baire (1892), Arnaud Beauville (1966), Pierre Berthelot (1962), Émile Borel (1889), Louis Boutet de Monvel (1960), Marcel Brillouin (1874), François Bruhat (1948), Élie Cartan (1888), Henri Cartan (1923), cofounder of Bourbaki, Pierre Cartier (1950), Claude Chevalley (1926), Gustave Choquet (1934), Henri Cohen (1966), Yves Colin de Verdière (1964), Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (1966), Pierre Colmez (1981), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1821), Louis Couturat (1887), Jean Gaston Darboux (1891), Georges Darmois (1906), Patrick Dehornoy (1971), Jean Delsarte (1922), cofounder of Bourbaki, Michel Demazure (1955), Arnaud Denjoy (1902), Jean Dieudonné (1924), cofounder of Bourbaki, Jacques Dixmier (1942), Pierre Dolbeault (1944), Adrien Douady (1954), Paul Dubreil (1923), Charles Ehresmann (1927), cofounder of Bourbaki, Ivar Ekeland (1963), Hélène Esnault (1973), Pierre Fatou (1898), Maurice René Fréchet (1900), Évariste Galois (1829), originated Galois theory, René Gâteaux (1907), Roger Godement (1940), Édouard Goursat (1876), Jacques Hadamard (1884), Guy Henniart (1973), Jacques Herbrand (1925), Luc Illusie (1959), Marie-Louise Jacotin (1926), Hervé Jacquet (1959), Gaston Julia (1911), François Labourie (1980), Jean-Louis Koszul (1940), Vincent Lafforgue (1992), Gérard Laumon (1972), Henri Lebesgue (1894), Jean-François Le Gall (1978), Pierre Lelong (1931), Jean Leray (1926), André Lichnerowicz (1933), Jacques-Louis Lions (1950), François Loeser (1978), Édouard Lucas (1861), Bernard Malgrange (1947), Szolem Mandelbrojt (?), Loïc Merel (1986), Paul-André Meyer (1954), Yves Meyer (1957), Paul Montel (1894), André Néron (1943), Joseph Oesterlé (1973), Henri Padé (1883), Paul Painlevé (1883), Mihailo Petrović (1890), Charles Émile Picard (1874), Charles Pisot (1929), Georges Poitou (1945), René de Possel (1923), Victor Puiseux (1837), Michel Raynaud (1958), Pierre Samuel (1940), Sylvia Serfaty (1994), Christophe Soulé (1970), Jean-Marie Souriau (1942), Gheorghe Tzitzeica (1896), Jean-Louis Verdier (1955), Ernest Vessiot (1884), Claire Voisin (1981), Jean-Loup Waldspurger (1972), André Weil (1922), Jean-Pierre Wintenberger (1973).

Louis Althusser (1939), Raymond Aron (1924), Étienne Balibar (1960), Georges Canguilhem (1924), Emile Auguste Chartier "Alain" (1889), André Comte-Sponville (1972), Jean Cavaillès (1923), Jacques Derrida (1952), Michel Foucault (1946), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1926), Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Rancière (1960), Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1975), Hippolyte Taine (1893), Simone Weil (1928), Quentin Meillassoux, Paul Vidal de la Blache (1863).

Paul Bénichou (1927), Robert Brasillach, Aimé Césaire (1935), Assia Djebar (1955), Jean Giraudoux (1903), Julien Gracq (1930), Sabiha Al Khemir (1982), Paul Nizan (1924), Charles Péguy (1894), Jules Romains (1906), Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1980), Jean-Pierre Richard (1941), Gérard Genette (1951).

Marc Bloch (1904), Jacqueline de Romilly (1933), Georges Dumézil (1916), Lucien Febvre (1899), Marcel Granet (1904), Pierre Grimal (1933), Henri Hauser (1885), Jacques Le Goff (1945), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1949), Paul Mantoux (1894), Neil MacGregor, Jacques Soustelle (1929).

Pierre Brossolette (1922), Laurent Fabius (1966), Fransız başbakan (1984-1986), Édouard Herriot (1891), Jean Jaurès (1878), Alain Juppé (1964), Fransız başbakan (1995-1997), Paul Painlevé (1883), Georges Pompidou (1931), Fransa başbakanı (1962-1968) sonra cumhurbaşkanı (1969-1974), Michel Sapin, Laurent Wauquiez (1994).

École Normale Supérieure (ENS Cachan): Okul Grande Couronne Parisienne'de, Paris'in yakın banliyösü Cachan da yer alan fen disiplini, işletme, ekonomi ve endüstriyel tasarım konularında eğitim vermektedir.