25 Notable alumni of CentraleSupelec
Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees
CentraleSupelec is 1362st in the world, 1st in North America, and 52st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from CentraleSupelec sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with CentraleSupelec won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Édouard de Niéport
1875-1911 (aged 36)
military flight engineer
entrepreneur
sport cyclist
aircraft pilot
Édouard de Niéport, usually known as Édouard Nieuport was the co-founder with his brother Charles of the eponymous Nieuport aircraft manufacturing company, Société Anonyme Des Établissements Nieuport, formed in 1909 at Issy-les-Moulineaux. An engineer and sportsman, Édouard was also one of the pre-eminent aeroplane designers and pilots of the early aviation era (from the late 19th century to the outbreak...
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2. Jean-Marie Louvel
1900-1970 (aged 70)
minister
engineer
politician
Jean-Marie Louvel was a French engineer and politician. He was born in La Ferté-Macé and died in Caen.
3. Emil Grosswald
1912-1989 (aged 77)
mathematician
university teacher
Emil Grosswald was a mathematician who worked primarily in number theory.
4. Patrick Tabeling
1951-. (aged 75)
physicist
university teacher
Patrick Tabeling is a French physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, researcher at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris. He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 14000 times. He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for...
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5. Matila Ghyka
1881-1965 (aged 84)
historian
diplomat
philosopher
mathematician
poet
Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka, was a Romanian naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, academic and diplomat. He did not return to Romania after World War II, and was one of the most significant members of the Romanian diaspora. His first name is sometimes written as Matyla.
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6. Tadeusz Tański
1892-1941 (aged 49)
mechanical engineer
Tadeusz Tański was a Polish automobile engineer and the designer of, among others, the first Polish serially-built automobile, the CWS T-1.
7. Henri Fabre
1882-1984 (aged 102)
military flight engineer
businessperson
aircraft pilot
Henri Fabre was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion.
8. Anas Farouki
1878-1955 (aged 77)
industrialist
engineer
entrepreneur
Ernest Mercier was a French industrialist, director of the French Petroleum Company (CFP), the forerunner of the French petroleum conglomerate Total. His father, Jean Ernest Mercier, was a historian and the mayor of Constantine, Algeria (then a French colony), where Ernest was born.
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9. Michel Danino
1956-. (aged 70)
writer
Michel Danino is an author who currently serves as the chairperson of the National Council of Educational Research and Training's social science curriculum. A proponent of Hindutva, he has been criticised for engaging in historical negationism.
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10. Anatole Abragam
1914-2011 (aged 97)
theoretical physicist
professor
university teacher
nuclear physicist
engineer
Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Griva, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.
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11. Géo André
1889-1943 (aged 54)
middle-distance runner
military flight engineer
rugby union player
athletics competitor
engineer
Georges Yvan "Géo" André was a French track and field athlete and rugby union player.
12. Traian Lalescu
1882-1929 (aged 47)
mathematician
university teacher
Traian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics.
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13. René Barthélemy
1889-1954 (aged 65)
engineer
René Barthélemy was a French engineer and a pioneer in the development of television technologies.
14. Niat Njifenji Marcel
1934-. (aged 92)
minister
engineer
politician
Marcel Niat Njifenji is a Cameroonian politician who has been President of the Senate of Cameroon since 2013. A member of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), he previously served for years as Director-General of the National Electricity Company, and he was also a minister in the government during the early 1990s.
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15. Pierre Schaeffer
1910-1995 (aged 85)
music theorist
philosopher
record producer
musicologist
composer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him...
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16. Jean-Luc Lagardère
1928-2003 (aged 75)
engineer
businessperson
entrepreneur
Jean-Luc Lagardère was a French businessman, CEO of the Lagardère Group, one of the largest French conglomerates.
17. Patrick Achi
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Patrick Jérôme Achi is an Ivorian politician who served as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from March 2021 to October 2023 in President Alassane Ouattara's government. He is a member of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR). He studied at Supélec and Stanford University and specialises in engineering and infrastructure. He has also worked as the government spokesman for President...
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18. Christian Piquemal
1940-. (aged 86)
military officer
Christian Piquemal, is a retired army corps general of the French Army and Commandant of the Legion from 1994 to 1999.
19. Jean Pisani-Ferry
1951-. (aged 75)
engineer
economist
Jean Pisani-Ferry is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior professor in economics and public management at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and a professor at the European University Institute near Florence.
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20. Shlomo Aviner
1943-. (aged 83)
writer
rabbi
Shlomo Chaim Hacohen Aviner is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He is the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Ateret Yerushalayim (formerly Ateret Cohanim) and the former rabbi of Beit El, an Israeli settlement. He is considered one of the spiritual leaders of the Religious Zionist movement.
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21. Louis Leprince-Ringuet
1901-2000 (aged 99)
professor
nuclear physicist
essayist
engineer
physicist
Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.
22. Louis Charles Breguet
1880-1955 (aged 75)
military flight engineer
entrepreneur
aerospace engineer
aircraft pilot
Louis Charles Breguet was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers.
23. Mahmoud Hessabi
1903-1992 (aged 89)
nuclear physicist
academic
politician
Mahmoud Khan Mirza Hessabi was an Iranian nuclear physicist and senator. He was the minister of education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh from 1951 to 1952.
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24. Pierre Boulle
1912-1994 (aged 82)
screenwriter
novelist
writer
science fiction writer
engineer
Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.
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25. André Maréchal
1916-2007 (aged 91)
physicist
engineer
Robert Gaston André Maréchal was a French researcher and administrator in optics.