39 Notable alumni of National Advanced School of Engineering

Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees

National Advanced School of Engineering is 1341st in the world, 1st in North America, and 51st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from National Advanced School of Engineering sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with National Advanced School of Engineering won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jacques-Eugène Armengaud

1. Jacques-Eugène Armengaud

1810-1891 (aged 81)
engineer technician
Jacques-Eugène Armengaud was a French industrial engineer, and professor of machine drawing at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), particularly known as the original author of The practical draughtsman's book of industrial design, 1851.
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Joseph Meifred

2. Joseph Meifred

1791-1867 (aged 76)
horn player
Joseph Meifred was a hornist, pedagogue, and French horn designer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Louis-François Dauprat and won the first prize in horn performance in 1818. He later became a professor at the conservatory and taught until his retirement in 1864.
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Henri Gambey

3. Henri Gambey

1787-1847 (aged 60)
inventor
Henri-Prudence Gambey was a French mechanic and scientific instrument maker. His precision instruments made mainly for survey, geomagnetism, and astronomy were used around the world in the early 19th century.
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Frank Verpillat

4. Frank Verpillat

1946-2010 (aged 64)
film director film producer
Frank Verpillat was a French director, inventor and artist. In 1981 he conceived the prototype for the first operational virtual film editing machine in the world and conducted extensive research leading and development in the fabrication and manipulation of 3D images.
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Michel Alberganti

5. Michel Alberganti

1955-2021 (aged 66)
radio producer radio personality journalist
Michel Alberganti was a French radio producer, writer, and journalist.
Lucien Chauvière

6. Lucien Chauvière

1876-1966 (aged 90)
engineer military flight engineer
Lucien Chauvière was a French aeronautical engineer. He is best known for his Integrale propellers, which were the first aerodynamically advanced propellers manufactured in Europe.
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Francis Saint-Léger

7. Francis Saint-Léger

1957-. (aged 69)
politician anciens cadres
Francis Saint-Léger was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Lozère's 1st constituency as is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement until the 2012 election, when the two Lozère constituencies were combined into one.
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Lucien Arbel

8. Lucien Arbel

1826-1892 (aged 66)
industrialist politician
Lucien Arbel was a French draftsman who became a machinist and then an engineer. He started his own metalworking business and became a major industrialist. He was also a deputy and then a senator of France. His business was passed down to his sons and later evolved into Arbel Fauvet Rail.
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Camille Cavallier

9. Camille Cavallier

1854-1926 (aged 72)
businessperson business executive
Camille Cavallier was a French industrialist who directed the Pont-à-Mousson iron works in Lorraine in the first quarter of the 20th century, specializing in making cast iron pipes. He came from a poor family but obtained a good technical education and joined the iron maker as an employee in 1874. He rose rapidly through the ranks, and started to acquire...
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Henri Guinier

10. Henri Guinier

1867-1927 (aged 60)
painter
Henri Guinier was a French portrait and landscape painter.
André Perchicot

11. André Perchicot

1888-1950 (aged 62)
singer track cyclist
André Perchicot was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.
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Roger Sommer

12. Roger Sommer

1877-1965 (aged 88)
aircraft pilot industrialist
Roger Sommer was a French aviator. Born to Alfred Sommer, a Belgian industrialist, Roger Sommer became involved with aviation from an early age. He broke the record for flight duration in 1909.
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Alexandru Gagea Golescu

13. Alexandru Gagea Golescu

1819-1881 (aged 62)
diplomat politician
Alexandru G. Golescu was a Romanian politician who served as a prime minister of Romania in 1870.
Adrien Dauzats

14. Adrien Dauzats

1804-1868 (aged 64)
painter lithographer graphic artist
Adrien Dauzats was a French landscape, genre painter and painter of Oriental subject matter. He travelled extensively throughout the Ottoman Empire and illustrated a number of books for the travel writer, Baron Taylor.
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Louis Coatalen

15. Louis Coatalen

1879-1962 (aged 83)
engineer car designer
Louis Hervé Coatalen was an automobile engineer and racing driver born in Brittany who spent much of his adult life in Britain and took British nationality. He was a pioneer of the design and development of internal combustion engines for cars and aircraft.
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Eric Benhamou

16. Eric Benhamou

1955-. (aged 71)
computer scientist engineer businessperson
Éric Benhamou was the former CEO of 3Com and Palm.
Léon Lemartin

17. Léon Lemartin

1883-1911 (aged 28)
military flight engineer engineer aircraft pilot
Théodore Clovis Edmond Lemartin, known as Léon Lemartin, was a French pioneer aviator and test pilot who set a world record on 3 February 1911 at Pau, France when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus. He then took eight, eleven and thirteen passengers aloft the following month. He is also known as the world's first professional test...
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Jean Pinet

18. Jean Pinet

1929-. (aged 97)
test pilot fighter pilot aircraft pilot engineer administrateur civil (France)
Jean Pinet is a French aviator and aeronautical engineer; as a former Concorde test pilot, he was the first person to take Concorde supersonic, in early October 1969.
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Alfred Mongy

19. Alfred Mongy

1840-1914 (aged 74)
engineer
Alfred Mongy was a French engineer. He was born on March 21, 1840, in Lille, and died June 30, 1914. He was actively involved in the development of Lille, particularly in the field of urban transport.
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Fernand Picard

20. Fernand Picard

1906-1993 (aged 87)
engineer
Fernand Picard was a French automotive engineer who served as a design and research director at Renault. He is best known for leading the design of the post-World War II Renault 4CV and its successor, the Renault Dauphine, both hugely successful cars that helped mobilize France in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Vazken Andréassian

21. Vazken Andréassian

1903-1995 (aged 92)
military flight engineer engineer writer
Vazken Andréassian was a French engineer and author of Armenian descent.
Louis Delâge

22. Louis Delâge

1874-1947 (aged 73)
businessperson engineer
Louis Delâge was a French pioneer automotive engineer and manufacturer.
Émile Delahaye

23. Émile Delahaye

1843-1905 (aged 62)
industrialist businessperson entrepreneur
Émile Delahaye was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles.
Hippolyte Fontaine

24. Hippolyte Fontaine

1833-1910 (aged 77)
engineer businessperson inventor
Hippolyte Fontaine was a French electrical engineer who worked with Zénobe Gramme on the development of the Gramme machine (the first industrially viable electrical generator), and whose contributions were essential to the creation of the dynamo. He was the first to transmit electricity via electrical wires.
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Jacques Rougerie

25. Jacques Rougerie

1945-. (aged 81)
architect oceanographer
Jacques Rougerie, is a French architect and oceanographer known for his expertise in underwater habitats. MAD Architects has unveiled its design proposal for the Aquatic Centre for the Paris 2024 Olympics. This sports facility is envisioned as an urban public artwork, showcasing Paris's beauty and aspirations. The proposal is a collaboration between MAD Architects and three French architectural studios: Jacques...
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Michel Destot

26. Michel Destot

1946-. (aged 80)
physicist politician
Michel Destot is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Isère department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He was the mayor of Grenoble between 1995 and 2014, when his chosen successor was defeated by Éric Piolle.
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Eugene Houdry

27. Eugene Houdry

1892-1962 (aged 70)
engineer businessperson inventor
Eugène Jules Houdry was a mechanical engineer who graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in 1911.
François Castaing

28. François Castaing

1945-2023 (aged 78)
engineer car designer
François Jean Castaing was a French automotive executive with Renault, American Motors, and Chrysler. He was an engineering graduate from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers in Paris, and worked in Europe for Gordini and Renault before being named vice president for Product Engineering and Development at American Motors Corporation (AMC).
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Émile Prisse d'Avennes

29. Émile Prisse d'Avennes

1807-1879 (aged 72)
egyptologist journalist archaeologist architect
Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d'Avennes was a French archaeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer.
Arthur Groussier

30. Arthur Groussier

1863-1957 (aged 94)
politician engineer trade unionist
Arthur Groussier was a French politician. At first he joined the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France (FTSF). In 1890 he joined the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR). In 1896 he joined the Revolutionary Communist Alliance (ACR), which in 1902 merged into the Socialist Party of France (PSdF), which in turn merged into the French Section of the Workers'...
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Alain Barrière

31. Alain Barrière

1935-2019 (aged 84)
singer-songwriter singer
Alain Barrière was a French singer, who was active from the 1950s until his death and was known for participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963.
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Henri Verneuil

32. Henri Verneuil

1920-2002 (aged 82)
film producer film director engineer director screenwriter
Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards.
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Thomas Couture

33. Thomas Couture

1815-1879 (aged 64)
teacher painter
Thomas Couture was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre.
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Gustave Trouvé

34. Gustave Trouvé

1839-1902 (aged 63)
physicist inventor
Gustave Pierre Trouvé was a French electrical engineer and inventor in the 19th century. A polymath, he was highly respected for his innovative skill in miniaturization.
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René Couzinet

35. René Couzinet

1904-1956 (aged 52)
military flight engineer engineer aircraft pilot
René Couzinet was a French aeronautics engineer and aircraft manufacturer, inventor with 91 patented registered inventions. The Société des Avions René Couzinet manufactured a range of Couzinet aircraft during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Laurent Lantieri

36. Laurent Lantieri

1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher plastic surgeon
Laurent Lantieri is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first second and third full face transplants. He was the first person to do a second face transplant on the same patient in 2018.
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Louis-Guillaume Perreaux

37. Louis-Guillaume Perreaux

1816-1889 (aged 73)
inventor engineer
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869.
Catherine Plaisant

38. Catherine Plaisant

1957-. (aged 69)
computer scientist author university teacher researcher
Catherine Plaisant is a French/American Research Scientist Emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and assistant director of research of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab.
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Frédéric Barlat

39. Frédéric Barlat

1957-. (aged 69)
metallurgist physicist scientist university teacher
Professor Frédéric Barlat is a French/American scientist in the field of plasticity, damage and metal forming. He is currently the director of A&S Center at Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Professor Barlat's contribution in the field of plasticity, particularly his models on anisotropic plasticity of metallic materials, has been recognized...
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