Notable Alumni of Paris West University Nanterre La Defense [Sorted List]

1. Manuel Pinho

1954-. (aged 72)

politician economist

Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho is a former Portuguese Minister of Economy and Innovation (2005–09) who achieved greater notoriety after he left office for being prosecuted and convicted on multiple charges of passive corruption, tax fraud, and money laundering. In 2024 he was sentenced to 10-years in prison and a fine in the amount of 4.9 million euros...

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2. Louis-Georges Tin

1974-. (aged 52)

writer group activist university teacher collection manager

Louis-Georges Tin is a French academic, gay rights campaigner, and anti-racist activist. Tin is noted for initiating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, now marked in over 130 countries across the world, and co-founding the Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN).

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3. Alain Ehrenberg

1950-. (aged 76)

sociologist Director of Research at CNRS

Alain Ehrenberg is a French sociologist, known for his major work on clinical depression, The Weariness of the Self. His work focuses on the culture of individualism in modern times, and its relationship to mental health. As of 2023 he is research director at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

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4. Xavier Iacovelli

1981-. (aged 45)

politician

Xavier Iacovelli is a French politician who has been a member of the French Senate for Hauts-de-Seine since 2017.

5. Sophie Taillé-Polian

1974-. (aged 52)

cadres de la fonction publique politician

Sophie Taillé-Polian is a French politician who has represented Val-de-Marne's 11th constituency in the National Assembly since 2022. She previously served as a Senator for Val-de-Marne from 2017 to 2022.

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6. Marie-France Stirbois

1944-2006 (aged 62)

politician

Marie-France Stirbois was a French National Front politician, representing Dreux from 1989 to 1993, and a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2004.

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7. François Cusset

1969-. (aged 57)

historian university teacher

François Cusset is a writer, intellectual historian, and Professor of American Civilisation at the University of Nanterre.

8. Arlette Farge

1941-. (aged 85)

historian radio personality teacher

Arlette Farge is a French historian who specialises in the study of the 18th century, a director of research at the CNRS, attached to the centre for historical research at the EHESS.

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9. Ziyad Baroud

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Ziyad Baroud is a French Lebanese civil servant and civil society activist. He served as minister of interior and municipalities from 2008 to 2011 for two consecutive cabinets in both Fuad Siniora and Saad Hariri's governments.

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10. Caroline Mécary

1963-. (aged 63)

professions libérales et assimilés lawyer politician

Caroline Mécary is a French lawyer as well as a politician of the France Unbowed (also known as La France Insoumise or LFI) in France. She is also an active member of the Regional council of Île-de-France. A staunch supporter of LGBT rights and gay marriage, Caroline Mécary is also the co-founder of the Copernic Foundation.

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11. Gilles Boyer

1971-. (aged 55)

writer politician

Gilles Boyer is a French politician of the Horizons party. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and was re-elected in 2024.

12. Nathalie A. Cabrol

1963-. (aged 63)

mountaineer freediver astrobiologist planetary scientist author

Nathalie A. Cabrol is a French American astrobiologist specializing in planetary science. Cabrol studies ancient lakes on Mars, and undertakes high-altitude scientific expeditions in the Central Andes of Chile as the principal investigator of the "High Lakes Project" funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). There, with her team, she documents life's adaptation to extreme environments, the effect of rapid...

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13. Camille Pascal

1966-. (aged 60)

essayist civil servant writer historian official

Camille Pascal is a French writer and senior civil servant.

14. Jean-Jacques Aillagon

1946-. (aged 80)

official art historian university teacher politician

Jean-Jacques Aillagon is a French museum director and politician.

15. Nathalie Élimas

1973-. (aged 53)

politician school teacher cadres de la fonction publique

Nathalie Élimas is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who served as State Secretary for Priority Education at the Ministry of National Education in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022. She was previously a member of the National Assembly from 2017 until 2020, representing Val-d'Oise's 6th constituency.

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16. Aleksander Pociej

1965-. (aged 61)

extra lawyer opinion journalist politician

Aleksander August Pociej is a Polish lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (8th, 9th and 10th term) representing the constituency of Warsaw.

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17. Camille de Toledo

1976-. (aged 50)

photographer film screenwriter film producer sculptor comics writer

Camille de Toledo is a French writer and a visual artist.

18. Annie Cohen-Solal

1948-. (aged 78)

historian writer university teacher

Annie Cohen-Solal is a writer, historian, cultural diplomat and public intellectual in a trajectory that spans more than four decades. Born in Algiers, in a Jewish family from multiple Mediterranean origins, she faced numerous geographical displacements and devoted her entire career to issues of migration and creation. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society...

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19. Jean-Noël Jeanneney

1942-. (aged 84)

historian politician university teacher

Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a French historian and politician. He is the son of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and the grandson of Jules Jeanneney, both important figures in French politics.

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20. Françoise de Panafieu

1948-. (aged 78)

politician

Françoise de Panafieu is a French politician, member of The Republicans (LR) party and mayor of the 17th arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2008.

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21. Guillaume Martin

1993-. (aged 33)

playwright writer sport cyclist

Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Groupama–FDJ United.

22. Annette Wieviorka

1948-. (aged 78)

historian art historian university teacher

Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.

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23. Pascal Ory

1948-. (aged 78)

historian

Pascal Ory is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1970s, he contributed to a better definition of cultural history.

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24. Philippe Augier

1949-. (aged 77)

businessperson pensioner anciens artisans commerçants chefs d'entreprise politician

Philippe Augier is a French politician. He is a member of the New Centre.

25. Daniel Bensaïd

1946-2010 (aged 64)

writer philosopher school teacher university teacher

Daniel Bensaïd was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.

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26. François Delapierre

1970-2015 (aged 45)

politician

François Delapierre was a French politician. He served as the national secretary of the Left Party from December 2010 until his death in 2015. He was also a regional councillor of Île-de-France from February 2009 until his death. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party from 1986 to 2008. He was born in Paris.

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27. Stéphane Courtois

1947-. (aged 79)

historian Director of Research at CNRS

Stéphane Courtois is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche-sur-Yon, and director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and communist states.

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28. Pierre Assouline

1953-. (aged 73)

writer literary critic journalist biographer

Pierre Assouline is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family. He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.

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29. Chloé Delaume

1973-. (aged 53)

novelist film director writer playwright publisher

Chloé Delaume is a French writer. She is also an editor and, more occasionally, a performer, musician, and singer. Her literary work, largely autobiographical, focuses on the practice of experimental literature, feminism and the issue of autofiction.

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30. Danielle Simonnet

1971-. (aged 55)

professors scientific professions school counselor politician

Danielle Simonnet is a French politician. She was elected Member of Parliament for Paris's 15th constituency in the 2022 legislative election.

31. Jeanne Barseghian

1980-. (aged 46)

corporate administrative and commercial executive environmentalist jurist politician

Jeanne Barseghian is a French politician who is the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after...

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32. Bernard Friot

1946-. (aged 80)

university teacher lecturer sociologist

Bernard Friot is a French sociologist and economist. He is an emeritus professor of Sociology, and previously taught at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.

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33. Zeev Sternhell

1935-2020 (aged 85)

historian opinion journalist political scientist university teacher

Zeev Sternhell was a Polish-born Israeli historian, political scientist, commentator on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and writer. He was one of the world's leading theorists of the phenomenon of fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and wrote for Haaretz newspaper.

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34. Sylvie Germain

1954-. (aged 72)

teacher philosopher writer

Sylvie Germain is a French author.

35. Laurence Boone

1969-. (aged 57)

economist

Laurence Boone is a French economist who served as the Secretary of State for European affairs in the administration of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.

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36. Zoe Konstantopoulou

1976-. (aged 50)

jurist lawyer politician

Zoe Konstantopoulou is a Greek politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament from February to October 2015. Since 2016 she serves as the president of the Course of Freedom.

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37. Dominique Raimbourg

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer politician

Dominique Raimbourg was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Loire-Atlantique's 4th constituency from 2001 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2017, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He is the son of famous French actor Bourvil.

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38. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

1963-. (aged 63)

actor television actor screenwriter performing artist theatrical director

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing is a French actor and film director. He has a daughter with cinematographer Caroline Champetier, the actress Alice de Lencquesaing.

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39. Clara Dupont-Monod

1973-. (aged 53)

literary scholar writer journalist

Clara Dupont-Monod is a French journalist and woman of letters. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 2021.

40. Bruno Le Roux

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Bruno Le Roux is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from December 2016 to March 2017.

41. Philippe Delerm

1950-. (aged 76)

novelist teacher writer sports journalist essayist

Philippe Delerm is a French writer whose collection of essays La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules sold more than one million copies in France.

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42. Brice Hortefeux

1958-. (aged 68)

politician

Brice Hortefeux is a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories and Territorial collectivities. He was previously Minister for Labour, Labour Relations, the Family, Solidarity and Urban Affairs and Minister-Delegate for Local Government at the Ministry of the Interior and was a Member of the European Parliament from 2011 to 2024.

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43. Pierre Lellouche

1951-. (aged 75)

jurist lawyer politician

Pierre Lellouche, is a lawyer and geopolitics specialist, recognized as a right-wing political figure in France. He is also known for his work as a columnist and author. Elected as a deputy in Sarcelles in 1993, he subsequently represented the 4th constituency of Paris from 1997 until his appointment as Secretary of State for European Affairs in June 2009. In...

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44. Éric Naulleau

1961-. (aged 65)

radio personality essayist

Éric Naulleau is a French literary critic, editor, essayist and columnist.

45. Nicolas Bay

1977-. (aged 49)

politician

Nicolas Bay is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. He served as General Secretary of the National Front from 2014 to 2017. He has served as a Regional Councillor for Normandy since January 2016, having previously served as a Municipal Councillor for Elbeuf from 2014 to 2015.

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46. Katherine Pancol

1954-. (aged 72)

journalist writer

Katherine Pancol is a French journalist and novelist. Her books have been translated into some 30 languages, and sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, she is known as the author of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Penguin, 2013) and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles (Penguin, 2016), both translated by William Rodarmor.

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47. Étienne Chouard

1956-. (aged 70)

teacher political activist

Étienne Chouard is a French high school teacher, blogger, and political activist.

48. Christian Jacq

1947-. (aged 79)

writer

Christian Jacq is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book series about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.

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49. Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara

1953-. (aged 73)

businessperson

Dominique Claudine Nouvian Ouattara is the current First Lady of Ivory Coast, married to President Alassane Ouattara.

50. Eva Illouz

1961-. (aged 65)

university teacher writer communication scholar director of studies sociologist

Eva Illouz is a professor of sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and a Professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

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51. Christophe Bourseiller

1957-. (aged 69)

radio producer radio personality teacher novelist film actor

Christophe Gintzburger, known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller ( French pronunciation: [buʁsɛje]), is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.

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52. Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as the party's First Secretary from April 2014 to June 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the city of Paris, as a member of the Socialist, Republican & Citizen.

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53. Muriel Pénicaud

1955-. (aged 71)

business executive businessperson politician

Muriel Pénicaud is a former French business executive and politician who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 17 May 2017 to 6 July 2020.

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54. Cornelius Castoriadis

1922-1997 (aged 75)

psychoanalyst economist philosopher university teacher

Cornelius Castoriadis was a Greek-French philosopher, sociologist, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie collective.

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55. Richard Malka

1968-. (aged 58)

comics artist lawyer comics writer

Richard Malka is a French lawyer, comics writer and novelist. As lawyer Malka in 2007 successfully defended Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val against charges of racism following the magazine's publication of Mohammad caricatures. Other clients include Clearstream, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Caroline Fourest.

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56. Olivier Besancenot

1974-. (aged 52)

politician mail carrier trade unionist communist author

Olivier Christophe Besancenot is a French far-left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau parti anticapitaliste, NPA) from 2009 to 2011.

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57. Stéphane Freiss

1960-. (aged 66)

actor television writer film actor stage actor film director

Stéphane Freiss is a French film, television, and stage actor. He won a César Award for his performance in the 1988 film Chouans!.

58. Jeanne Mas

1958-. (aged 68)

actor singer songwriter

Jeanne Mas is a French pop singer. She is well known in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was "Toute première fois" in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the United Kingdom in English. Two of her singles charted at number one in France: "Johnny, Johnny" and...

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59. William Leymergie

1947-. (aged 79)

television producer news presenter journalist television presenter

William Leymergie is a French journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public broadcaster France 2 and TV5 in Canada.

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60. Anne Wiazemsky

1947-2017 (aged 70)

screenwriter novelist film director film actor

Anne Wiazemsky was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).

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61. Pierre Ménès

1963-. (aged 63)

sports journalist film actor

Pierre Ménès is a French football commentator, analyst and presenter. He was an analyst on the Canal+ programme Canal Football Club.

62. Daniel Cohn-Bendit

1945-. (aged 81)

film director journalist television presenter environmentalist teacher

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.

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63. Valérie Trierweiler

1965-. (aged 61)

politician writer journalist

Valérie Trierweiler is a French journalist and author. She has hosted political talk shows and has contributed to Paris Match. She is best known for having been the companion of the president of France, François Hollande, until January 2014.

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64. Katalin Novák

1977-. (aged 49)

politician economist

Katalin Éva Veresné Novák is a Hungarian politician who served as president of Hungary from 2022 to 2024. Elected at the age of 44, she was the first woman and youngest person ever to hold the post. Prior to her presidency, she had been a member of the National Assembly for Fidesz from 2018 to 2022, during which time she...

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65. Élodie Bouchez

1973-. (aged 53)

film actor

Élodie Bouchez is a French actress. She became internationally known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film Wild Reeds.

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66. Jocelyn Quivrin

1979-2009 (aged 30)

screenwriter film director television actor actor film actor

Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the film Syriana.

67. Frédéric Mitterrand

1947-2024 (aged 77)

film director writer film producer film actor radio personality

Frédéric Mitterrand was a French actor, screenwriter, producer, and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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68. Jean-François Lyotard

1924-1998 (aged 74)

writer philologist philosopher sociologist literary critic

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism...

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69. Yasmina Reza

1959-. (aged 67)

film director writer playwright translator actor

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays 'Art' and God of Carnage. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award-winning 2006 play God of Carnage.

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70. Clémence Poésy

1982-. (aged 44)

actor television actor model film actor stage actor

Clémence Guichard, known professionally as Clémence Poésy ( French: [klemɑ̃s pɔezi]), is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë...

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71. Vincent Bolloré

1952-. (aged 74)

businessperson

Vincent Bolloré is a French billionaire businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of the investment group Bolloré until his retirement from the family business in 2022. In January 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$9.9 billion.

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72. Kev Adams

1991-. (aged 35)

film producer television actor actor stand-up comedian voice actor

Kev Adams or Kev' Adams is a French comedian, actor, humorist, screenwriter and film producer.

73. Blanche Gardin

1977-. (aged 49)

screenwriter film director stand-up comedian comedian actor

Blanche Gardin is a French comedian, actress and screenwriter. She became known to the general public through her participation in the Jamel Comedy Club and for her role in the television series WorkinGirls on Canal+, and then became popular with her stand-up shows. She won the Molière Award for Humor two years in a row for her shows Je parle...

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74. David Guetta

1967-. (aged 59)

record producer disc jockey songwriter

Pierre David Guetta is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify. Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs polls in 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. In 2013, Billboard ranked his song "When Love...

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75. Christine Lagarde

1956-. (aged 70)

athlete economist lawyer banker politician

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019. Lagarde had also served in the Government of France, most prominently as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from...

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76. Sébastien Nadot

1972-. (aged 54)

physical education teacher sport historian politician

Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the...

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77. Benjamin Stora

1950-. (aged 76)

historian university teacher

Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs (1974 and 1984) and a Doctorate of the State (1991).

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78. Philippe Descola

1949-. (aged 77)

anthropologist professor senior lecturer university teacher ethnologist

Philippe Descola, FBA is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.

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79. Cheng Li-chiun

1969-. (aged 57)

university teacher politician

Cheng Li-chiun is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the vice premier of the Republic of China since 2024. Before her vice premiership, she served as the minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.

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80. Loïc Wacquant

1960-. (aged 66)

university teacher anthropologist sociologist

Loïc J. D. Wacquant is a French sociologist specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography.

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81. Alexandre Mars

1974-. (aged 52)

entrepreneur

Alexandre Mars is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. He is an ambassador and board member of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

82. Georges Frêche

1938-2010 (aged 72)

historian jurist university teacher politician

Georges Frêche was a French politician. He served as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region from 2004 until his death: prior to that, he had been mayor of Montpellier for 27 years, and was also a former member (député) of the National Assembly. Frêche had been a member of the French Socialist Party until he was expelled on January 27, 2007.

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83. Jean-Louis Borloo

1951-. (aged 75)

lawyer politician

Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician and lawyer who served as the inaugural president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. In government, he was Minister Delegate for the City and Urban Renewal from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing from 2004 to 2007 under President Jacques Chirac, and...

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84. Dominique Strauss-Kahn

1949-. (aged 77)

economist lawyer university teacher politician

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals. Strauss-Kahn was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense...

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85. Olivia Grégoire

1978-. (aged 48)

cadres de la fonction publique politician

Olivia Grégoire is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Trade, Crafts and Tourism under President Emmanuel Macron since 2022.

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86. Andreas D. Mavroyiannis

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat lawyer politician

Andreas D. Mavroyiannis is a Cypriot diplomat and politician who served as Cyprus' ambassador and representative to the United Nations, European Union, France, and Ireland. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

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87. Bruno Gollnisch

1950-. (aged 76)

japanologist jurist politician

Bruno Gollnisch is a French academic and politician of the far-right National Rally (RN), formerly known as National Front. He was a member of the European Parliament and was chairman of the European Parliamentary group 'Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty' in 2007, which was dissolved in November 2007 following the defection of the Greater Romania Party. He was thereafter a Non-Inscrit (independent)....

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88. Camille Kouchner

1975-. (aged 51)

university teacher jurist lawyer

Camille Kouchner, is a lawyer, French academic and lecturer in private law. With her book, La familia grande, she initiated the Duhamel scandal.

89. Olivier Blanchard

1948-. (aged 78)

university teacher economist

Olivier Jean Blanchard is a French economist and professor. He is Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, and as the C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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90. Ludovic Chaker

1979-. (aged 47)

politician consultant martial arts teacher yoga instructor official

Ludovic Chaker is a French government official. A former diplomat and politician, he is chiefly known as a political advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron and the first secretary of his political movement, En Marche!.

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91. Bernard de La Villardière

1958-. (aged 68)

journalist radio personality

Bernard Berger de La Villardière is a French journalist, radio and television presenter.

92. Jean Messiha

1970-. (aged 56)

pundit politician cadres de la fonction publique

Jean Messiha is an Egyptian-born French far-right economist, media personality, and formerly a politician and senior civil servant. He was appointed Deputy Undersecretary of Management at the Ministry of Defence in 2014 before he joined the National Front (FN) in 2016, when he became spokesman of Horaces, a group of high-ranking civil servants and business executives who meet once a...

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93. Dominique de Villepin

1953-. (aged 73)

writer lawyer diplomat politician

Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007 under President Jacques Chirac.

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94. Emmanuel Macron

1977-. (aged 49)

banker politician investment banker statesperson official

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He served as Minister of Economics and Finance under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016.

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95. Abdourahman Waberi

1965-. (aged 61)

writer literary critic

Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic, and short-story writer from Djibouti.

96. Serge Tisseron

1948-. (aged 78)

psychoanalyst writer psychiatrist caricaturist university teacher

Serge Tisseron is a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He holds a PhD in Psychology. He is a senior research fellow at University Paris VII Denis Diderot. He is a member of Centre of Psychoanalysis Research, Medicine and Society at Université Paris VII (CRPMS). He studies the relationships between youth, the media and images and the effect of information and communication...

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97. Anne Hidalgo

1959-. (aged 67)

Personnel of direct services to individuals politician

Ana María "Anne" Hidalgo Aleu is a Spanish-born French politician who has served as Mayor of Paris since 2014, the first woman to hold the office. She is a member of the Socialist Party (PS).

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98. María Ángela Holguín

1963-. (aged 63)

diplomat

María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar is a Colombian politician and diplomat who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Personal Envoy on Cyprus since 2024.

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99. Ana Maria Machado

1941-. (aged 85)

painter writer children's writer novelist scholar

Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha. She received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000 for her "lasting contribution to children's literature". She also won the SM Ibero-American Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2012.

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100. Abd al-Aziz Jarad

1954-. (aged 72)

university teacher political scientist politician

Abdelaziz Djerad is an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 28 December 2019 to 30 June 2021. In September 2021, he was appointed ambassador to Sweden.

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