68 Notable alumni of University of Burgundy

Guillaume de Berghes or of Glymes, baron of Grimbergen, was bishop of Antwerp from 1597 to 1601 and archbishop of Cambrai from 1601 until his death.

Sylvain Curinier is a French slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a silver medal in the K1 event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Joseph Dainow was a Canadian-American professor of law. He was born and grew up in Montreal, Canada, and received a law degree from McGill University but spent most of his life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was professor of law at Louisiana State University.

Roger Guilard is a French chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France where he is a member of the Institute of Molecular Chemistry of the University of Burgundy.

Lucette Desvignes was a French writer.

Antonio La Torre is an Italian athletics coach, Technical Director of Italy national athletics team.

Gaspard Auguste Brullé was a French entomologist.

Emmanuel Trélat is a French mathematician.

Henri-François Gautrin is a Quebec politician, professor and physicist. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Verdun in the Montreal region. He represented the Quebec Liberal Party and was the former Minister of Governmental Services from February 2006 to February 2007.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins was a United States career foreign service officer and member of the U.S. State Department. She was the United States ambassador to Togo from 2008 to 2011.

André Villiers is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the second ward of the department of Yonne.

Marie-Christine Vergiat is a community organizations' activist and a French politician. As of June 2009, she is a Member of the European Parliament, representing the Left Front. She is the companion of Jean-Pierre Dubois, president of the French Human Rights League, with whom she has a son. She is the leader of the organization in the Seine-Saint-Denis department outside of...

Jean-François Bazin was a French politician, journalist, and writer.

Charles Théveneau de Morande was a gutter journalist, blackmailer and French spy who lived in London in the 18th century.

Auguste Henri Ponsot was a French politician and statesman.

Michèle Crouzet is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Yonne. From 2017 until 2019, she was a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).

Kilien Stengel is a French gastronomic author, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He has worked at Gidleigh Park, Nikko Hotels, Georges V Hotel in Paris, and in a number of Relais & Châteaux restaurants (including Marc Meneau and Jacques Lameloise).

Amine bin Saeed bin Mahmoud bin Hussein Takieddine, 7 November 1884 – 31 May 1937) was a Lebanese writer, poet, lawyer, and political journalist who engaged in Lebanese journalism and politics but failed to break through due to the dissonance between his character and the conception of politics in people's minds. Born in Baakleen in the Chouf District, Takieddine finished...

Émile Henri Roblot a French civil servant who served as the Minister of State of Monaco from 1937 to 1944.

Grégoire Courtine is a French neuroscientist and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he is the co-director of the Defitech center for interventional neurotherapies (NeuroRestore). His research focuses on the field of neurotechnology, with the aim to restore locomotor functions in patients with central nervous system disorders such as spinal cord injuries.

Laurent Grandguillaume is a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 2012 to 2017, representing the 1st constituency of Côte-d'Or.

Charles Rozoy is a Paralympic swimmer of France who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the men's S8 100m butterfly.

Élisabeth Vonarburg is a science fiction writer. She was born in Paris (France) and has lived in Chicoutimi (now Saguenay), Quebec, Canada since 1973.

Christophe Arend is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the French National Assembly from the 2017 elections until 2022, representing Moselle's 6th constituency.

Alexis Miellet is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 1500 metres and the 3000 metres steeplechase. He is the 2024 European Champion in the 3000 metres steeplechase.

Sophie Béjean is a French university president. She served as president of the University of Burgundy (2007–12), before becoming president of fr:Centre national des œuvres universitaires et scolaires (CNOUS) and fr:Campus France (April 2013).

Jean-Marc Berlière is a French historian who specialises in the history of the French police. He works as a professor at the University of Burgundy. In 1991, he completed a Doctoral thesis on the Police of the French Third Republic.

Yoann Damet is a French association football coach who is currently the head coach of Major League Soccer club St. Louis City SC.

Didier Martin is a French politician representing Renaissance. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 1st constituency in the department of Côte-d'Or.

Nathalie Koenders is a French politician of the Socialist Party serving as mayor of Dijon since 2024. She has been a member of the Departmental Council of Côte-d'Or since 2015 and served as acting mayor from July to August 2015.

Valéria Faure-Muntian is a French politician of Renaissance who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing the 3rd constituency of the department of Loire.

Mahmoud El Materi was a Tunisian physician and politician. He was the first president and one of the founders of the Neo Destour.

Abdoulaye Bio Tchané is a Beninese economist and politician.

Youssouf Ouédraogo was a Burkinabé politician. In 1992 he became the first prime minister of Burkina Faso since 1983, serving from 16 June 1992 to 22 March 1994. Ouédraogo, a member of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), later served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from January 1999 to June 2007.

Édouard Belin was a French photographer and inventor. In 1907 Belin invented a phototelegraphic apparatus called the Bélinographe (télestéréographe)—a system for receiving photographs over telephone wires via telegraphic networks.

Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet.

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

Aminata Touré is a Senegalese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Senegal from 1 September 2013 to 4 July 2014. She was the second female Prime Minister of Senegal after Mame Madior Boye, and she previously served as Justice Minister from 2012 to 2013. While campaigning for the upcoming elections in February 2024, she was arrested by the...

Christophe Sirugue was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Saône-et-Loire department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. He is vice-president of the French National Assembly since 2012.

Eva Son-Forget, formerly known as Joachim Son-Forget, is a South Korean-born French politician who lives in Switzerland. She also holds Kosovar (since 2018) and Swiss citizenships (since 2020).

Jiří Dienstbier was a Czech politician and journalist.

Léger-Félicité Sonthonax was a French politician and colonial administrator. He was a Jacobin before joining the Girondins, which emerged in 1791. During the Haitian Revolution, he controlled 7,000 French troops in Saint-Domingue. His official title was Civil Commissioner. From September 1792, he and Polverel became the de facto rulers of Saint-Domingue's non-slave population. Because they were associated with Brissot’s party,...

Roger Charles Louis Guillemin was a French-American neuroscientist. He received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

Fadila Khattabi is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who served as Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2023 to 2024. She was a member of the French National Assembly from the 2017 elections, representing Côte-d'Or.

Robin Deiana is a French television personality, actor, model and breakdancer who lives and performs in South Korea. He was a cast member of the talk show Non-Summit. He is also currently a host of the TV show The Most Beautiful Days.

Augustin Mouchot was a 19th-century French inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, converting solar energy into mechanical steam power.

Patrick Karam is a French personality defending human rights. He is a researcher in international relations. He is the vice-president of the regional council of Île-de-France, responsible for youth, sports and community life.

Albert-Xavier-Émile Mathiez was a French historian, best known for his Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution. Mathiez emphasized class conflict. He argued that 1789 pitted the bourgeoisie against the aristocracy and then the Revolution pitted the bourgeoisie against the sans-culottes, who were a proletariat-in-the-making. Mathiez greatly influenced Georges Lefebvre and Albert Soboul in forming what came to be known as...

Laurence Rossignol is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has served as a member of the French Senate from 2011 to 2014 and again since 2017, representing Oise. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Secretary of State for the Family, Senior Citizens and Autonomy in the governments of Prime Ministers Manuel Valls and Bernard Cazeneuve.

Brigitte Boisselier, also known as Brigitte Roehr, is a French chemist and Raëlian religious leader best known for her claim to have overseen the creation of the first human clone. A native of Champagne-Ardenne, she studied chemistry in France and the United States, earning two PhDs. From 1984 to 1997, she lived near Paris and worked as a research chemist...

Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his doctoral thesis The Theory of Speculation (Théorie de la spéculation, defended in 1900).

Aurélie Trouvé is a French politician and anti-globalization activist. She was co-president of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action (Attac) from 2006 to 2012, then spokesperson for the association from 2016 to 2021.

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is a Burkinabé banker and politician who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012. Kaboré was also president of the Congress for Democracy...

Chuka Harrison Umunna // is a British businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later Change UK, along...

Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour. In view of his vast influence over Persian short story writing, he is often referred to as the father of this genre in Iran.

Lucien Paul Victor Febvre was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. He was the initial editor of the Encyclopédie française together with Anatole de Monzie.

Alain Colas was a French sailor, the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull. He met Éric Tabarly in Sydney in 1967, and bought Pen Duick IV from him in 1970, and won the "Transat" in 1972. The same year, he started the construction of a 72m (236 feet) 4-masted monohull for the 1976 "Transat".

Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities.

Rachida Dati is a French politician, lawyer and magistrate who has served as Minister of Culture since January 2024 in the government of Gabriel Attal, government of Michel Barnier, government of François Bayrou and the first and second governments of Sébastien Lecornu. She previously was Minister of Justice from 2007 to 2009 under Prime Minister François Fillon.

François Claude Pierre René Baroin is a French politician and lawyer who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012, following a stint as Budget Minister in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. A member of The Republicans (LR), he was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and has been Mayor of Troyes in Champagne since 1995.

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...

Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who served as Minister of Industrial Renewal from May 2012 to April 2014, then as Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal and Digital Affairs until August 2014. He is a former member of the Socialist Party (PS), having participated in its 2011 and 2017 presidential primary, finishing third both times. Following his...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes.

Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich is a French Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Paris since 2022. He was previously Archbishop of Lille from 2008 to 2022 and Archbishop of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise from 2000 to 2008. He was vice president of the Bishops' Conference of France from 2007 to 2013.

Edvard Beneš was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.

Aurelijus Rūtenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. He has a master's degree in philosophy from the National University of Colombia, and a Honoris Causa PhD from the University of Paris.

Farhat Horchani is a Tunisian politician. He served as Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.