86 Notable alumni of Paris-Sud University

Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

Paris-Sud University is ranked #397 in the world and #9 in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 86 notable alumni from Paris-Sud University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Paris-Sud University won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jean-Daniel Fekete

1. Jean-Daniel Fekete

computer scientist engineer
Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist.
Jean-Louis Viovy

2. Jean-Louis Viovy

1952-. (aged 74)
physicist chemist
Jean Louis Viovy is a French physicist and polymer scientist and currently a researcher at CNRS. Since 1999, he leads within the Curie Institute (Paris) the MMBM team (Macromolecules and Microsystems in Biology and Medicine) dedicated to research on lab-on-chips, bioanalytical methods and translational medicine. He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS (1983), the Polymer Prize of the...
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Philippe Sautet

3. Philippe Sautet

university teacher researcher chemist
Philippe Sautet is a French chemist. He was elected to the French Academy of sciences on 30 November 2010. He was a research director at the CNRS and works in the chemistry laboratory of the École normale supérieure de Lyon where he devoted a large part of his scientific activity to molecular modelling. Now he is a professor at the...
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Majed Chergui

4. Majed Chergui

1956-. (aged 70)
physicist chemist
Majed Chergui is a Swiss and French physicist specialized in ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes. He is a Honorary professor of the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the Université de Lausanne. He was founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the EPFL between 2016 and 2021.
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Habib Tawa

5. Habib Tawa

1945-. (aged 81)
historian mathematician journalist
Habib Tawa in Tripoli, Lebanon is a French historian, journalist and mathematician.
Cornelia Druțu

6. Cornelia Druțu

mathematician
Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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Éric Brian

7. Éric Brian

1958-2025 (aged 67)
historian of science sociologist
Éric Brian was a historian of science and a sociologist. He studied the uncertainty and regularity of social phenomena, and in particular, how scientists have caught and conceived them as objects of mathematics or social and economic sciences.
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Azra Quraishi

8. Azra Quraishi

1945-2002 (aged 57)
physicist botanist
Azra Quraishi was a leading botanist from Pakistan. She worked on the improvement of potato production in Pakistan and became known for her work on tissue culture. She was given the Borlaug Award in 1997 and the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2002. She is credited with raising potato production in Pakistan by 5%.
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Eric Urban

9. Eric Urban

mathematician university teacher
Eric Jean-Paul Urban is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University working in number theory and automorphic forms, particularly Iwasawa theory.
Marileen Dogterom

10. Marileen Dogterom

1967-. (aged 59)
university teacher biophysicist physicist
Marileen Dogterom is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. She is notable for her research of the cell cytoskeleton. For this research, she was awarded the 2018 Spinoza Prize.
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Xiaonan Ma

11. Xiaonan Ma

1972-. (aged 54)
mathematician university teacher
Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.
Mathilda Twomey

12. Mathilda Twomey

1963-. (aged 63)
lawyer
Mathilda Twomey is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles.
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Samir Zard

13. Samir Zard

1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher researcher organic chemist
Samir Zard is a Lebanese-French chemist and the president of the department of chemistry at the École polytechnique, Paris, where he also directs the department of organic chemistry and synthesis.
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Tan Lei

14. Tan Lei

1963-2016 (aged 53)
mathematician
Tan Lei was a mathematician specialising in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
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Elisabeth Bouchaud

15. Elisabeth Bouchaud

1961-. (aged 65)
stage actor physicist writer playwright theatre manager
Elisabeth Bouchaud is a French physicist, playwright and actress born 1 March 1961. She is a former member of Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and of Ecole Superieure de Chimie et Physique de la Ville de Paris. Since 2014, she is also the Director of the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris. In 2019, she opened a theatre in...
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Yves Laszlo

16. Yves Laszlo

1964-. (aged 62)
mathematician
Yves Laszlo is a French mathematician working in the University of Paris-Sud. He specializes in algebraic geometry.
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

17. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

1947-. (aged 79)
mathematician university teacher
Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène is a French mathematician. He is a Directeur de Recherches at CNRS at the Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay. He studies mainly number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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Rama Cont

18. Rama Cont

1972-. (aged 54)
author research fellow university teacher mathematician editor-in-chief
Rama Cont is the Statutory Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Oxford. He is known for contributions to probability theory, stochastic analysis and mathematical modelling in finance, in particular for his work on pathwise methods in stochastic analysis and mathematical models of systemic risk. He was awarded the Louis Bachelier Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in...
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Fanny Kassel

19. Fanny Kassel

1983-. (aged 43)
mathematician researcher
Fanny Kassel is a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of Lie groups.
Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis

20. Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis

1949-. (aged 77)
biologist ecologist
Bernard Chevassus-au-Louis is a French biologist and ecologist, who served as the president of the National Museum of Natural History, France from 2002 to 2006. He was knighted with the Ordre national du Mérite in 2001.
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Lenka Zdeborová

21. Lenka Zdeborová

1980-. (aged 46)
computer scientist researcher physicist scientist
Lenka Zdeborová is a Czech physicist and computer scientist who applies methods from statistical physics to machine learning and constraint satisfaction problems. She is a professor of physics and computer science and communication systems at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
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Bernard Meunier

22. Bernard Meunier

1947-. (aged 79)
bioinorganic chemist research fellow chemist university teacher
Bernard Meunier is a French chemist and academic. He has been a member of the Académie des sciences since 1999.
Pablo Artal Soriano

23. Pablo Artal Soriano

1961-. (aged 65)
physicist university teacher
Pablo Artal is a Spanish physicist and full professor specialized in optics at the University of Murcia, as well as in the development and application of new techniques in human vision research. He is the founder and director of the Optics Lab at Murcia University and received the Spanish National Research award "Juan de la Cierva" and the Rey Jaime...
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Fabien Gouttefarde

24. Fabien Gouttefarde

1978-. (aged 48)
cadres de la fonction publique politician
Fabien Gouttefarde is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as member of the French National Assembly between 2017 and 2022, representing the 2nd constituency of Eure.
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Aline Bonami

25. Aline Bonami

mathematician university teacher
Aline Bonami is a French mathematician known for her expertise in mathematical analysis. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Orléans, and was president of the Société mathématique de France for 2012–2013.
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Louis-Marie de Blignières

26. Louis-Marie de Blignières

1949-. (aged 77)
Catholic priest theologian
Louis-Marie de Blignières, born Olivier de Blignières on April 11, 1949, in Madrid) is a French traditionalist Catholic priest, and the founder of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer.
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Alexandra Recchia

27. Alexandra Recchia

1988-. (aged 38)
karateka
Alexandra Recchia is a French karateka. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the World Karate Championships and a two-time gold medalist in this event at the European Karate Championships.
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Denis Serre

28. Denis Serre

1954-. (aged 72)
mathematician university teacher
Denis Serre is a French mathematician who works as a professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he has chaired the mathematics department since 2012. His research concerns partial differential equations, hydrodynamics, and conservation laws.
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater

29. Jean-Jacques Quisquater

1945-. (aged 81)
computer scientist engineer cryptographer university teacher
Jean-Jacques Quisquater is a Belgian cryptographer and a professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). He received, with Claus P. Schnorr, the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics and the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award in 2013.
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Sandrine Bélier

30. Sandrine Bélier

1973-. (aged 53)
jurist environmentalist politician
Sandrine Bélier is a French environmental jurist and politician of Europe Ecology – The Greens who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2014, representing the East constituency.
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Christine Petit

31. Christine Petit

1948-. (aged 78)
researcher geneticist biologist professor
Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.
Marie-Paule Cani

32. Marie-Paule Cani

1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist researcher
Marie-Paule Cani is a French computer scientist conducting advanced research in the fields of shape modeling and computer animation. She has contributed to over 300 research publications having around 15000 citations.
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Ahmed Djebbar

33. Ahmed Djebbar

1941-. (aged 85)
historian of mathematics historian of science professeur des universités mathematician
Ahmed Djebbar is an academic and the Algerian minister for education in the 1992 government of Belaid Abdessalam.
Mary K. Gaillard

34. Mary K. Gaillard

1939-2025 (aged 86)
physicist university teacher
Mary Katharine Gaillard was an American theoretical physicist, known for her work in particle physics. She was a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, and visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was Berkeley's first tenured female physicist.
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Taraneh Javanbakht

35. Taraneh Javanbakht

1974-. (aged 52)
photographer literary critic playwright essayist translator
Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

36. Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

1940-. (aged 86)
physicist philosopher university teacher science communicator
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and essayist.
Catherine Bréchignac

37. Catherine Bréchignac

1946-. (aged 80)
physicist researcher
Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is a commander of the Légion d'honneur, "secrétaire perpétuel honoraire" of the Académie des sciences and former president of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research"). The Times says she has "a formidable reputation for determination, decisiveness and an aptitude for analysing and clarifying complex matters." As a president of the CNRS, she...
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Sylvia Serfaty

38. Sylvia Serfaty

1975-. (aged 51)
university teacher mathematician academic
Sylvia Serfaty is a French mathematician working in the United States. She won the 2004 EMS Prize for her contributions to the Ginzburg–Landau theory, the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and the Mergier–Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013.
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John H. Hubbard

39. John H. Hubbard

1945-. (aged 81)
university teacher mathematician information scientist
John Hamal Hubbard is an American mathematician and professor at Cornell University and the Université de Provence. He is known for the mathematical contributions he made with Adrien Douady in the field of complex dynamics, including a study of the Mandelbrot set. One of their most important results is that the Mandelbrot set is connected.
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Constantino Tsallis

40. Constantino Tsallis

1943-. (aged 83)
physicist scientist
Constantino Tsallis is a naturalized Brazilian physicist of Greek descent, working in Rio de Janeiro at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Brazil.
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Jean-Philippe Uzan

41. Jean-Philippe Uzan

1969-. (aged 57)
astrophysicist cosmologist
Jean-Philippe Uzan is a French cosmologist and directeur de recherche employed by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Lassina Zerbo

42. Lassina Zerbo

1963-. (aged 63)
politician geophysicist
Lassina Zerbo is a Burkinabé politician and scientist who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that he was the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). On 24 January 2022, Zerbo was deposed from office in a coup d'état.
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Jean-Marie Hullot

43. Jean-Marie Hullot

1954-2019 (aged 65)
computer scientist engineer programmer photographer
Jean-Marie Hullot was a French computer scientist and programmer who authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into an important part of Mac OS X. He also helped to conceive iPhone, though did not play...
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Roberto Battiston

44. Roberto Battiston

1956-. (aged 70)
university teacher experimental physicist physicist
Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist, specialized in the field of fundamental physics and elementary particles, and leading experts in the physics of cosmic rays. He was the president of the Italian Space Agency from 2014 to 2018 and president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Committee on Astroparticle Physics from 2009 to 2014.
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Iulia Motoc

45. Iulia Motoc

1967-. (aged 59)
jurist lawyer judge university teacher
Iulia Antoanella Motoc KSR is a Romanian judge and international law expert, currently a judge of the International Criminal Court. Motoc is the first Romanian judge elected to the International Criminal Court.
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Gérard Laumon

46. Gérard Laumon

1952-2025 (aged 73)
mathematician university teacher
Gérard Laumon was a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.
Alain Fuchs

47. Alain Fuchs

1953-2024 (aged 71)
university teacher chemist
Alain Fuchs was a Swiss-born French chemist. A Doctor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, he specialised in molecular simulation. Fuchs served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He also served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.' Fuchs became an Officer of the Legion of...
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Jean-Paul Delahaye

48. Jean-Paul Delahaye

1952-. (aged 74)
computer scientist philosopher mathematician science communicator engineer
Jean-Paul Delahaye is a French computer scientist and mathematician.
Aristidis Baltas

49. Aristidis Baltas

1943-. (aged 83)
physicist philosopher university teacher politician
Aristides Baltas is a philosopher of science and physicist who served as the Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece and as the Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from 27 January 2015 to 4 November 2016.
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Hugo Duminil-Copin

50. Hugo Duminil-Copin

1985-. (aged 41)
mathematician university teacher
Hugo Duminil-Copin is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
Laurent Lafforgue

51. Laurent Lafforgue

1966-. (aged 60)
mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The proof was...
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Albert Fert

52. Albert Fert

1938-. (aged 88)
university teacher researcher physicist
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, scientific director of a joint laboratory (Unité mixte de recherche) between the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Scientific Research Centre) and Thales Group, and...
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Michael Rapoport

53. Michael Rapoport

1948-. (aged 78)
mathematician university teacher
Michael Rapoport is an Austrian mathematician.
Claire Voisin

54. Claire Voisin

1962-. (aged 64)
mathematician
Claire Voisin is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held the chair of algebraic geometry at the Collège de France from 2015 to 2020.
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Michèle Audin

55. Michèle Audin

1954-2025 (aged 71)
university teacher writer historian mathematician historian of mathematics
Michèle Audin was a French mathematician, writer and academic. She worked as a professor at the University of Geneva, the University of Paris-Saclay and lastly at the University of Strasbourg, where she performed research notably in the area of symplectic geometry.
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf

56. Jean-Baptiste Kempf

1983-. (aged 43)
computer scientist software developer engineer
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is a major contributor to the VideoLAN project and VLC software.
Nadia Benmokhtar

57. Nadia Benmokhtar

1985-. (aged 41)
association football player
Nadia Benmokhtar is a French-Algerian association footballer and sports manager. She was a semi-professional player, pursuing a sporting career in the French women's Première Ligue.
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Idriss Aberkane

58. Idriss Aberkane

1986-. (aged 40)
essayist conference speaker vlogger
Idriss Jamil Aberkane is a French public speaker and essayist. Known for his writings and lectures on personal development, he published a particularly popular essay in 2016, titled Free your brain! Treaty of neurowisdom to change school and society. However, he has been accused of artificially inflating his resume, plagiarizing portions of one of this theses, and of using his...
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Katarina Barley

59. Katarina Barley

1968-. (aged 58)
jurist Justiciar judge politician
Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and...
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Ngô Bảo Châu

60. Ngô Bảo Châu

1972-. (aged 54)
mathematician professor
Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal.
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Jean-Luc Lemoine

61. Jean-Luc Lemoine

1970-. (aged 56)
actor
Jean-Luc Marie Lemoine is a French humourist, media personality and stand-up comedian.
Philippe Flajolet

62. Philippe Flajolet

1948-2011 (aged 63)
university teacher computer scientist mathematician researcher engineer
Philippe Flajolet was a French computer scientist.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

63. Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

1957-2016 (aged 59)
chess player mathematician university teacher
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.
Didier Fassin

64. Didier Fassin

1955-. (aged 71)
humanitarian university teacher anthropologist sociologist physician
Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des...
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Mohcine Jazouli

65. Mohcine Jazouli

1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Mohcine Jazouli is a Moroccan politician who served from 7 October 2021 to 23 October 2024 as the Delegate-Minister to the Head of Government of Investment, Convergence and the Evaluation of Public Policies.
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Michel Devoret

66. Michel Devoret

1953-. (aged 73)
physicist
Michel Henri Devoret is a French-American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the...
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Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

67. Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

1986-. (aged 40)
investment banker pretender to the French throne
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Prince of Montfort, is a French businessman and the disputed head of the Imperial House of France, and as such the heir of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of the French. He would be known as Napoleon VIII.
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Philippe Michel

68. Philippe Michel

1969-. (aged 57)
mathematician
Philippe Gabriel Michel is a French mathematician who holds the chair in analytic number theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Marie-Noëlle Lienemann

69. Marie-Noëlle Lienemann

1951-. (aged 75)
university teacher politician
Marie-Noëlle Lienemann is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France. Until 2018, she was a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Françoise Brochard-Wyart

70. Françoise Brochard-Wyart

1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher theoretical physicist physicist
Françoise Brochard-Wyart is a French theoretical physicist of soft matter. Currently, she is a emeritus professor of physical chemistry of Sorbonne University at the Curie Institute in Paris.
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Sylvie Retailleau

71. Sylvie Retailleau

1965-. (aged 61)
professor of physics professeur des universités physicist
Sylvie Retailleau is a French physicist and politician who has been serving as Minister of Higher Education in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal since 20 May 2022. She served as president of Paris-Sud University from 2016 to 2022.
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Éric Halphen

72. Éric Halphen

1959-. (aged 67)
magistrate writer
Éric Halphen is a French judge best known as the investigating magistrate in the Parisian low-cost housing scandals of the 1990s.
Nicușor Dan

73. Nicușor Dan

1969-. (aged 57)
mathematician activist university teacher politician
Nicușor Daniel Dan is a Romanian mathematician and politician serving as the seventh president of Romania since 2025. He previously served as the mayor of Bucharest from 2020 to 2025 and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2016 to 2020.
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Alain Aspect

74. Alain Aspect

1947-. (aged 79)
physicist researcher
Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
Jean-Yves Le Gall

75. Jean-Yves Le Gall

1959-. (aged 67)
businessperson engineer
Jean-Yves Le Gall is a French aerospace engineer who worked as governmental official and executive in the French space industry.
Leila Schneps

76. Leila Schneps

1961-. (aged 65)
novelist mathematician writer
Leila Schneps is an American mathematician and fiction writer at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique working in number theory. Schneps has written general audience math books and, under the pen name Catherine Shaw, has written mathematically themed murder mysteries.
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Bernard Bigot

77. Bernard Bigot

1950-2022 (aged 72)
official chemist university teacher nuclear physicist
Bernard Bigot was a French academic and civil servant. He served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.
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Jean Jouzel

78. Jean Jouzel

1947-. (aged 79)
researcher research fellow climatologist university teacher glaciologist
Jean Jouzel is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice.
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Raphaël Liégeois

79. Raphaël Liégeois

1988-. (aged 38)
biomedical engineer balloonist astronaut
Raphaël Liégeois is a Belgian-Luxembourgish biomedical engineer and astronaut. Liégeois completed a doctorate at the University of Liège on the functioning of the human brain from 2011 to 2015, and then held post-doctoral appointments at the National University of Singapore and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has held a teaching and research position at the University of Geneva...
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Pierre Deligne

80. Pierre Deligne

1944-. (aged 82)
mathematician university teacher
Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.
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Modesto Montoya

81. Modesto Montoya

1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher nuclear physicist politician
Modesto Montoya is a nuclear physicist and former president of the Peruvian Institute for Nuclear Energy in Lima, Peru. He is a former president and current member of the Peruvian Academy of Nuclear Sciences, former president of the Peruvian Physical Society and member for Peruvian National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he became an advisor to President Pedro Castillo on...
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Osmar Zaiane

82. Osmar Zaiane

1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist academic
Osmar R. Zaiane is a researcher, computer scientist, professor at the University of Alberta specializing in data mining and machine learning. He was the secretary treasurer of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) from 2009 to 2012 and treasurer of the ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics. He served...
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Hatem Ben Salem

83. Hatem Ben Salem

1956-. (aged 70)
diplomat politician
Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Education under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga

84. Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga

1954-2022 (aged 68)
journalist diplomat minister politician
Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga was a Malian politician who was the Prime Minister of Mali between 30 December 2017 and 18 April 2019. The leader of the Alliance for Solidarity in Mali, he had previously served in the government of Mali as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Amadou Toumani Touré from 5 April 2011 until the March 2012 coup d'état....
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Yasmine Belkaid

85. Yasmine Belkaid

1968-. (aged 58)
researcher immunologist
Yasmine Belkaid is an Algerian immunologist who is best known for her work studying host-microbe interactions in tissues and immune regulation to microbes. Belkaid currently serves as the director of the NIAID Microbiome program. On March 29, 2023, she was appointed as President of the Pasteur Institute for a six-year term, starting from January 2024. She is the daughter of...
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Sihem Amer-Yahia

86. Sihem Amer-Yahia

1972-. (aged 54)
computer scientist researcher
Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team. Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management, declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging...
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