Notable Alumni of School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences [Sorted List]

1. Victor Leemans

1901-1971 (aged 70)

sociologist politician trade unionist

Victor Leemans was a Belgian sociologist, politician and prominent ideologist of the radical Flemish movement in the 1930s. A member of the militant organisation Verdinaso, he is seen by some as the main Flemish exponent of the historical phenomenon known as the Conservative Revolution.

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2. Olivier Chaline

1964-. (aged 62)

historian

Olivier Chaline is a French historian who specialises in the history of Central Europe.

3. Maurice Olender

1946-2022 (aged 76)

historian docent archaeologist

Maurice Olender was a Belgian-French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His teaching focused in particular on the genesis of the idea of race in the nineteenth century. He also published widely on the intellectual history of the concepts of Indo-European languages and Proto-language, most importantly in his monograph Les langues du...

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4. John Tolan

1959-. (aged 67)

historian university teacher

John Victor Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin-speaking civilizations of the Middle Ages.

5. Mahnaz Shirali

1965-. (aged 61)

university teacher political scientist sociologist

Dr. Mahnaz Shirali is an Iranian author and political sociologist. She graduated in architecture engineering from faculty of fine arts of Tehran University in 1992. She moved to France in 1994 where she obtained her PhD in sociology from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris in 2000. Her PhD thesis was about crisis in youth Iranian...

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6. Claude Fischler

1947-. (aged 79)

sociologist

Claude Fischler is a French social scientist (sociology, anthropology). He is a directeur de recherche of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and heads the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (Interdisciplinary Institute for Contemporary Anthropology), a research unit of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris.

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7. Antonio Casilli

1972-. (aged 54)

university teacher sociologist

Antonio A. Casilli is a Professor of Sociology at Télécom Paris, the school of telecommunications engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and an Associate Researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His research focuses on computer-mediated communication, labour, and fundamental rights. He has been a regular commentator at La Grande Table and Place de la...

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8. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

1959-. (aged 67)

Director of Research at CNRS researcher neuroscientist pediatrician

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz is a French paediatrician. She is the Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at CNRS. Her research uses non-invasive brain imaging to understand children's cognitive function. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

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9. António Francisco dos Santos

1948-2017 (aged 69)

philosopher Catholic bishop Catholic priest

António Francisco dos Santos was a Roman Catholic bishop.

10. Jean-Louis Fabiani

1951-. (aged 75)

sociologist

Jean-Louis Fabiani is a French sociologist, professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, and the director of studies at the Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

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11. Gisèle Sapiro

1965-. (aged 61)

sociologist researcher

Gisèle Sapiro is a French sociologist and historian whose specialty area is 19th and 20th century French literature. She is a laureate of the CNRS Silver Medal (2021) and the CNRS Bronze Medal (2000).

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12. Françoise Thom

1951-. (aged 75)

historian senior lecturer sovietologist university teacher

Françoise Thom is a French historian and Sovietologist, honorary lecturer in contemporary history at Paris-Sorbonne University. A specialist in post-communist Russia, she is the author of works of political analysis on the country and its leaders.

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13. Annette Becker

1953-. (aged 73)

historian docent professeur des universités secondary school teacher

Annette Becker is a French historian specializing in study of World War I. She is daughter of historian Jean-Jacques Becker.

14. Laurent Thévenot

1949-. (aged 77)

sociologist economist

Laurent Thévenot is a French sociologist and Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

15. Heinz Wismann

1935-. (aged 91)

university teacher philosophy historian classical philologist translator hellenist

Heinz Wismann is a Franco-German philologist and philosopher.

16. Safi Faye

1943-2023 (aged 80)

screenwriter film director ethnologist anthropologist film actor

Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.

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17. Manuel Antonio Garretón

1943-. (aged 83)

writer sociologist

Manuel Antonio Garretón is a Chilean sociologist, political scientist and essayist. He received the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences in 2007 for his lifetime contribution to the field.

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18. Benoît Pellistrandi

1966-. (aged 60)

historian university teacher

Benoît Pellistrandi is a French historian and hispanist.

19. Rémy Rioux

1969-. (aged 57)

official

Rémy Rioux is a French civil servant. He is the chief executive of the French Development Agency.

20. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

1935-. (aged 91)

historian university teacher

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.

21. Simonetta Greggio

1961-. (aged 65)

novelist food critic short story writer journalist translator

Simonetta Greggio is an Italian novelist who writes in French.

22. Perrine Simon-Nahum

1960-. (aged 66)

historian university teacher collection manager

Perrine Simon-Nahum is a contemporary French historian.

23. Camille Froidevaux-Metterie

1968-. (aged 58)

university teacher philosopher political scientist research fellow women's rights activist

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie is a researcher and professor of political science. Her work focuses on the transformations of the female condition in the contemporary era, in a phenomenological perspective that places the question of the body at the center of the reflection. Her work also focuses on women's reappropriation of their bodies as expressed in recent feminist movements dealing with issues...

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24. Jean-Louis Cohen

1949-2023 (aged 74)

university teacher architect art historian architectural historian author

Jean-Louis Cohen was a French architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and city planning. Since 1994 he had been the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

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25. Yves Bréchet

1961-. (aged 65)

researcher engineer physicist

Yves Bréchet is a physicist, specialist of materials science, former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy of France, current Scientific Director of Saint Gobain, professor (part-time) at Monash University, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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26. Sia Anagnostopoulou

1959-. (aged 67)

historian politician university teacher

Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou is a left-wing Greek politician and academic who was the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. From 18 July to 28 August 2015, she served as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.

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27. Jade Y. Chen

1957-. (aged 69)

writer playwright journalist theatrical director

Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. She is best known for her book, China, which won the Taiwan Golden Text Award (金典獎) for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize.

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28. Geneviève Fraisse

1948-. (aged 78)

historian philosopher politician writer

Geneviève Fraisse is a French feminist philosopher.

29. Chahdortt Djavann

1967-. (aged 59)

anthropologist writer

Chahdortt Djavann is an Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and essayist. Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against Islam and Iranian religious leaders. She regularly appears on French television and radio.

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30. Ariella Azoulay

1962-. (aged 64)

art educator

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is an Israeli author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and an independent curator of Archives and Exhibitions.

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31. Marc Lazar

1952-. (aged 74)

historian sociologist university teacher

Marc Lazar is a French academic who served as a professor of history and dean of the Doctoral School at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). He was also the president of the LUISS school of government in Rome. He managed a research group on contemporary Italy with the International Research Center (Centre de recherches...

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32. 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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33. Soti Triantafyllou

1957-. (aged 69)

historian writer journalist

Soti Triantafyllou is a Greek writer, columnist, translator, and political/social commentator. She is based in Athens and Paris.

34. François Héran

1953-. (aged 73)

anthropologist statistician sociologist demographer

François Héran is a French anthropologist and demographic sociologist.

35. Anselm Jappe

1962-. (aged 64)

philosopher sociologist non-fiction writer

Anselm Jappe is a German professor of philosophy. Jappe currently resides in Italy. Jappe has authored several works in German, French, and Italian. Jappe has lectured at several institutions in within higher education.

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36. Olivier Weber

1958-. (aged 68)

biographer screenwriter writer film director journalist

Olivier Weber is a French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today...

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37. Fariba Adelkhah

1959-. (aged 67)

researcher translator anthropologist

Fariba Adelkhah is a French-Iranian anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who was detained in Iran from 2019 until 2023.

38. Alain Marleix

1946-. (aged 80)

journalist politician

Alain Marleix is a French politician. He was the Secretary of State for Veterans in the government of François Fillon from June 2007 to March 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was in charge of the redefinition of Boundary delimitation for the elections to the National Assembly.

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39. Susan George

1934-. (aged 92)

economist sociologist activist philosopher political scientist

Susan George was an American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer on global social justice, Third World poverty, underdevelopment and debt. She was the president of the Transnational Institute, a think-tank located in Amsterdam. She was a fierce critic of the present policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (IBRD) and what she called their...

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40. Louis Dumont

1911-1998 (aged 87)

university teacher anthropologist sociologist

Louis Charles Jean Dumont was a French anthropologist.

41. Laure Murat

1967-. (aged 59)

historian journalist university teacher writer

Laure Murat, born 4 June 1967, in Paris, is a French historian, writer, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

42. Marwan Bishara

1959-. (aged 67)

journalist

Marwan Bishara is an Israeli Arab author, columnist and senior political analyst for Al Jazeera English. From 2009 to 2016, Bishara was the editor and host of their flagship programs Empire, which examined global powers and their agendas in a fusion of documentary and debate with politicians, generals, philosophers, academics, novelists, movie directors, and activists from the world over. He...

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43. Pierre Bergounioux

1949-. (aged 77)

literary critic teacher diarist writer sculptor

Pierre Bergounioux is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work.

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44. Roger-Pol Droit

1949-. (aged 77)

researcher journalist philosopher university teacher

Roger-Pol Droit is a French academic and philosopher.

45. Theodor Paleologu

1973-. (aged 53)

businessperson philosopher political scientist writer historian

Theodor Paleologu is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. An independent who was formerly a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the People's Movement Party (PMP) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2008 to 2016. Additionally, in the first Emil Boc cabinet (December 2008 to December...

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46. 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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47. Jean Hyppolite

1907-1968 (aged 61)

translator professor linguist philosopher

Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G. W. F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel (1946) and Études sur Marx et Hegel (1955) and the first translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of...

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48. Enzo Traverso

1957-. (aged 69)

historian historian of Modern Age university teacher

Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history. He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working in France for over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at...

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49. Claude Hagège

1936-. (aged 90)

researcher professor linguist university teacher

Claude Hagège is a French linguist.

50. Jacques Salomé

1935-. (aged 91)

writer

Jacques Salomé is a French psychologist and writer.

51. Dominique Bourg

1953-. (aged 73)

philosopher ecologist honorary professor university teacher

Dominique Bourg is a French philosopher. Since 2006, he is professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

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52. Monique Canto-Sperber

1954-. (aged 72)

translator founder philosopher university teacher

Monique Canto-Sperber is a French philosopher. Her works, translated in several languages, are focused on ethics and contemporary political issues. A former director of the École normale supérieure from 2005 to 2012, she has been president of Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier latin, a French higher education and research institution, since 2012.

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53. Alain Gresh

1948-. (aged 78)

journalist

Alain Gresh is a French communist party leader and journalist.

54. Ignacio Ramonet

1943-. (aged 83)

semiologist writer journalist sociologist geopolitical analyst

Ignacio Ramonet Miguez is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career. After becoming first known for writing on film and media, he became editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique, serving from 1991 until March 2008. Under his leadership, LMD established editorial independence in 1996 from Le Monde, with which it had...

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55. Maylis de Kerangal

1967-. (aged 59)

writer editor

Maylis de Kerangal is a French author. Her novels deeply explore people in their work lives. She has won many awards for her work (including the Prix Médicis, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Grand prix RTL-Lire, and the Wellcome Book Prize), and her novels have been published in several languages. Two have been adapted as films.

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56. 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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57. 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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58. Stanislas Dehaene

1965-. (aged 61)

Director of Research at CNRS neuroscientist psychologist university teacher

Stanislas Dehaene is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging".

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59. Georges Didi-Huberman

1953-. (aged 73)

art theorist philosopher art historian university teacher

Georges Didi-Huberman FBA is a French philosopher and art historian.

60. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

1990-. (aged 36)

writer prose writer

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African to do so.

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61. Aurélien Bellanger

1980-. (aged 46)

cyclist novelist writer chronicler actor

Aurélien Bellanger,, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published novels on a regular basis. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré...

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62. Bernard Stiegler

1952-2020 (aged 68)

philosopher

Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. He co-founded Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers"...

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63. Franck Ferrand

1967-. (aged 59)

novelist writer non-fiction writer journalist radio personality

Franck Ferrand is a French writer and radio personality who specializes in history. He has a radio show about major figures of French history on Radio Classique, a French Radio station.

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64. Gilles Kepel

1955-. (aged 71)

researcher Islamicist professeur des universités political scientist

Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the...

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65. Alain Touraine

1925-2023 (aged 98)

university teacher sociologist

Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in...

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66. Julia Cagé

1984-. (aged 42)

economist

Julia Cagé is a French economist specializing in development economics, political economy, and economic history. In 2025, she was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.

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67. 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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68. Shlomo Sand

1946-. (aged 80)

historian activist university teacher

Shlomo Sand is an Israeli post-Zionist historian and socialist. He has served as an emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University since 2014. He is known for his book The Invention of the Jewish People, originally published in Hebrew as Matai ve’eich humtsa ha‘am hayehudi? (מתי ואיך הומצא העם היהודי? When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?) in...

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69. Frédéric Lenoir

1962-. (aged 64)

lecturer writer sociologist

Frédéric Lenoir is a French sociologist, philosopher and writer.

70. Laure Adler

1950-. (aged 76)

radio producer publisher radio personality journalist television producer

Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.

71. Thomas Piketty

1971-. (aged 55)

economist research fellow writer

Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).

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72. Esther Duflo

1972-. (aged 54)

university teacher researcher economist

Esther Duflo, FBA is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".

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73. Caroline Fourest

1975-. (aged 51)

writer pundit women's rights activist opinion journalist film director

Caroline Fourest, is a French writer, feminist political commentator, film director, and journalist. She is a radio presenter at France Culture, and editor of the magazine ProChoix. She was also a columnist for Charlie Hebdo, for Le Monde until 14 July 2012, and she joined Marianne in 2016. She frequently appears on French media to discuss issues related to Muslims,...

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74. Pap Ndiaye

1965-. (aged 61)

historian politician

Pap Ndiaye is a French historian and politician who has been serving as France's ambassador to the Council of Europe since 2023.

75. Gabriel Rockhill

1972-. (aged 54)

university teacher philosopher translator

Gabriel Rockhill is an American philosopher, writer, and cultural critic. He is Professor of Philosophy & Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Cultural Studies, and Director of the Critical Theory Workshop at Villanova University, as well as former program director at the Collège International de Philosophie.

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76. Božidar Đelić

1965-. (aged 61)

economist

Božidar Đelić is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in the Government of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and later as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Science...

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77. Nathalie Becquart

1969-. (aged 57)

nun

Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ is a French Catholic religious sister who has served as an undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops since 2021. She is the first woman to hold such a position and the first to have voting rights in the Synod. She is a member of the Congregation of Xavières.

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78. Pierre Rosanvallon

1948-. (aged 78)

economist collection manager historian political theorist professor

Pierre Rosanvallon is a French left historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.

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79. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie

1981-. (aged 45)

sociologist philosopher

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French philosopher and sociologist.

80. Gabriel Zucman

1986-. (aged 40)

university teacher economist

Gabriel Zucman is a French economist known for his expertise on tax havens. He has been a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics since 2023, Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and the director of the EU Tax Observatory in Paris.

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81. André Gattolin

1960-. (aged 66)

docent ecologist politician

André Gattolin is a French ecologist politician and Senator for Hauts-de-Seine from 2011 to 2023.

82. Jean-Christophe Attias

1958-. (aged 68)

historian Hebraist philosopher director of studies

Jean-Christophe Attias is a French Jewish historian and scholar.

83. Zineb El Rhazoui

1982-. (aged 44)

journalist

Zineb El Rhazoui, known mononymously as Zineb, is a French journalist. She was a columnist for the Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017, but was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015.

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84. Charbel Nahas

1954-. (aged 72)

university teacher politician writer engineer economist

Charbel Nahas is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer who is the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state". He is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for...

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85. Jean Tirole

1953-. (aged 73)

university teacher researcher economist

Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization and game theory. In particular, he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules. Tirole's work is largely theoretical and explored in mathematical models, not empirical...

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86. Frédéric Lordon

1962-. (aged 64)

Director of Research at CNRS economist sociologist philosopher

Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique....

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87. Arié Alimi

1976-. (aged 50)

lawyer

Arié Alimi, is a French lawyer and a member of the Human Rights League (LDH).

88. Frédéric Martel

1967-. (aged 59)

essayist writer journalist political scientist sociologist

Frédéric Martel is a French writer, researcher and journalist. His most famous books are The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968 (1996), Mainstream (2010) and In the Closet of the Vatican (2019), a New York Times bestseller.

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89. Asma Mhalla

1984-. (aged 42)

essayist columnist consultant political scientist research fellow

Asma Mhalla is a French-Tunisian political scientist. She is an associate researcher with the Laboratory of political anthropology, a joint project of the CNRS and the EHESS. She is a lecturer at Sciences Po and École Polytechnique.

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90. Karol Beffa

1973-. (aged 53)

classical composer pianist actor child actor

Karol Beffa, born on 27 October 1973 in Paris, is a French composer and pianist.

91. Delphine Minoui

1974-. (aged 52)

journalist

Delphine Minoui is a French journalist specializing in the Iranian world.

92. Valérie Petit

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Valérie Petit is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 elections until 2022, representing the 9th constituency of the department of Nord. From 2016 until 2020, she was a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).

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93. Édouard Louis

1992-. (aged 34)

writer editor

Édouard Louis is a French writer.

94. Bruno Latour

1947-2022 (aged 75)

writer philosopher anthropologist professor sociologist

Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became a professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the...

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95. Pierre Lévy

1956-. (aged 70)

screenwriter writer sociologist university teacher philosopher

Pierre Lévy is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.

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96. Tzvetan Todorov

1939-2017 (aged 78)

philosopher literary critic semiologist literary theorist geologist

Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.

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97. Michael Löwy

1938-. (aged 88)

university teacher politician philosopher sociologist research fellow

Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and...

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98. Ana Lucia Araujo

1971-. (aged 55)

historian writer

Ana Lucia Araujo is an American historian, art historian, author, and professor of history at Howard University. She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Her scholarship focuses on the transnational history, public memory, visual culture, and heritage of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

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99. Marcela Iacub

1964-. (aged 62)

poet lawyer lawyer writer

Marcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.

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100. Maristella Svampa

1961-. (aged 65)

sociologist environmentalist

Maristella Noemi Svampa is an Argentine sociologist.