43 Notable alumni of University of Lille
Updated: May 29, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Lille is ranked #389 in the world and #8 in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from University of Lille sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Lille won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Fatiha Serour
politician
official
Fatiha Serour was the Deputy Special Representative for Somalia. She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 30 October 2013.
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2. Fabrice Jaumont
1972-. (aged 54)
language teacher
pedagogue
writer
Fabrice Jaumont is a French-born author and educator best known for his advocacy for dual-language bilingual education around the world. He is the author of several books translated in multiple languages.
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3. Romuald Fonkoua
1961-. (aged 65)
man of letters
literary scholar
university teacher
writer
Romuald Fonkoua is a professor of Francophone literature at the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University where he directs the International Center for Francophone Studies.
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4. Daniel Vincent
1874-1946 (aged 72)
politician
Charles Augustin Daniel Vincent, known as Daniel-Vincent, was a French teacher and politician. He was a deputy from 1910 to 1927, then a senator from 1927 to 1941. During World War I (1914–18) he served as an aviator, then as under secretary of state for Aviation. He tried to make the aircraft industry more effective in delivering planes of sufficient...
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5. Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
1886-1980 (aged 94)
lawyer
politician
Joseph-Ernest Grégoire CBE was a French Canadian politician.
6. Paul Charles Edouard Bertrand
1879-1944 (aged 65)
paleontologist
botanist
Paul Charles Édouard Bertrand was a French paleobotanist. He was the son of botanist Charles Eugène Bertrand (1851–1917).
7. Clotilde-Camille Deflandre
1871-1946 (aged 75)
physician
scientist
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre was a French scientist primarily known for her discovery with her mentor Paul Carnot of Hémopoïétine" (erythropoietin). She also pioneered work that led to the development of organ transplantation. She was the first woman in France to receive both a "docteur en médicine” (doctorate in medicine) and a docteur ès naturel sciences (doctorate in natural sciences).
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8. Anne-Laure Cattelot
1988-. (aged 38)
politician
corporate administrative and commercial executive
Anne-Laure Cattelot is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France between 2017 and 2022, where she represents the 12th constituency of the Nord.
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9. Frédérique Macarez
1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Frédérique Macarez is a French politician serving as mayor of Saint-Quentin since 2016. Since 2020, she concurrently serves as president of the communauté d'agglomération du Saint-Quentinois. She has been a member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France since 2021.
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10. Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross
1935-2022 (aged 87)
economist
political scientist
politician
Sally Ralea Greengross, Baroness Greengross, OBE was a British politician. Awarded an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours, Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross, of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2000, sitting as a crossbencher.
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11. Auguste Angellier
1848-1911 (aged 63)
docent
poet
writer
dean
teacher
Auguste Angellier was the first teacher of language and English literature at the Faculté de Lettres of Lille, before becoming its dean from 1897 to 1900. A literary critic and historian of literature, he was also a poet, and made sensation at the Sorbonne attacking the theories of Hippolyte Taine in his thesis about Robert Burns in 1893.
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12. Claude Prouvoyeur
1927-2018 (aged 91)
politician
Claude Prouvoyeur was a French politician.
13. Charles Barrois
1851-1939 (aged 88)
university teacher
mineralogist
geologist
paleontologist
petrologist
Charles Eugene Barrois ForMemRS was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
14. Christophe Di Pompeo
1964-. (aged 62)
professors
scientific professions
mathematician
politician
Christophe Di Pompeo is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Nord. He is a member of Renaissance (RE).
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15. Catherine Génisson
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
Catherine Génisson is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.
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16. Job
1927-2024 (aged 97)
comics writer
journalist
illustrator
comics creator
André Jobin, known as Job, was a Swiss francophone comics creator. He is probably best known for his western children's comics series Yakari, for which he wrote the scripts from 1973 until 2016.
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17. 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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18. Yomtob Kalfon
1986-. (aged 40)
social activist
lawyer
politician
Yomtob Tovchai Kalfon is an Israeli attorney and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yamina.
19. Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq
1977-. (aged 49)
miscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retirees
politician
Charlotte Lecocq is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Michel Barnier, François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu since 2024. She previously served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2024, representing the department...
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20. Frédéric Leturque
1968-. (aged 58)
professors
scientific professions
politician
Frédéric Leturque is a French politician serving as mayor of Arras since 2011. He concurrently serves as president of the Communauté urbaine d'Arras since 2020. He has been a member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France since 2016, and was a member of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 2004 to 2010.
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21. Caleb Gattegno
1911-1988 (aged 77)
educator
mathematician
Caleb Gattegno was an educator, psychologist, and mathematician. He is considered one of the most influential and prolific mathematics educators of the twentieth century. He is best known for introducing new approaches to teaching and learning mathematics (Visible & Tangible Math), foreign languages (The Silent Way) and reading (Words in Color). Gattegno also developed pedagogical materials for each of these...
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22. Firmanzah
1976-2021 (aged 45)
economist
Firmanzah was an Indonesian academic.
23. Sébastien Huyghe
1969-. (aged 57)
professions libérales et assimilés
notary
politician
Sébastien Huyghe is a French politician and member of the Republicans who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2022, representing the Nord department.
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24. Fatima Ouassak
1976-. (aged 50)
activist
essayist
consultant
political scientist
Fatima Ouassak, is a French essayist, speaker, public policy consultant, and environmentalist, feminist and anti-racist activist, of Moroccan origin. She is co-founder of the Front de Mères collective, a parents' union in working-class neighborhoods. Her book The Power of Mothers received the Public Prize for Feminist Essay in 2021.
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25. Johanna Rolland
1979-. (aged 47)
Class A official
politician
cadres de la fonction publique
Johanna Rolland is a French politician, belonging to the Socialist Party. She is the current mayor of Nantes, being the first woman to hold this position. As of April 2014, she is one of six female mayors of French cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
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26. Louise de Bettignies
1880-1918 (aged 38)
covert agent
resistance fighter
Louise Marie Jeanne Henriette de Bettignies was a French secret agent who spied on the Germans for the British during World War I using the pseudonym of Alice Dubois.
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27. Roger Salengro
1890-1936 (aged 46)
politician
Roger Henri Charles Salengro was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months after taking office, after being hounded by a calumny campaign orchestrated by extreme right-wing newspapers.
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28. Karima Delli
1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Karima Delli is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election, 2014 European elections and in the 2019 European elections for the Île-de-France constituency.
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29. Hervé Berville
1990-. (aged 36)
corporate administrative and commercial executive
economist
politician
cadres de la fonction publique
Hervé Berville is a French economist and politician of Renaissance (RE) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022 and again since 2024, representing the department of Côtes-d'Armor.
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30. Chakib Benmoussaa
1958-. (aged 68)
diplomat
engineer
politician
Chakib Benmoussa is a Moroccan diplomat and politician, currently serving as the High Commissionaire of the High Commission on Planning (HCP). He previously served as the interior minister of Morocco and has been the lead negotiator for the Moroccan side in the Western Sahara conflict. Since December 2012, he is serving as the Moroccan ambassador to France. Between October 7,...
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31. Georges Lefebvre
1874-1959 (aged 85)
historian
historian of the French Revolution
professeur des universités
Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord...
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32. Clotilde Reiss
1985-. (aged 41)
Clotilde Reiss is a French student accused of being an agent of a French intelligence agency. Her arrest in Iran on espionage charges on 1 July 2009 generated considerable diplomatic controversy. She holds a master's degree from Sciences-Po Lille. At the time of her arrest, she was teaching in Isfahan and writing a master's thesis about teaching history and geography...
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33. Noémie Saglio
1982-. (aged 44)
television actor
screenwriter
film director
Noémie Saglio is a French film director and screenwriter.
34. Jacques Vallée
1939-. (aged 87)
astronomer
television actor
engineer
mathematician
investor
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
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35. Gérald Darmanin
1982-. (aged 44)
corporate administrative and commercial executive
cadre
politician
cadres de la fonction publique
Gérald Moussa Jean Darmanin is a French politician who has been serving as Minister of Justice in the successive governments of Prime Ministers François Bayrou and Sébastien Lecornu since 2024. He previously served as Minister of the Interior in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2020 to 2024.
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36. Marine Tondelier
1986-. (aged 40)
politician
corporate administrative and commercial executive
Marine Tondelier is a French politician and national secretary of The Ecologists since 2022. She was elected to this role after, winning at 90.8% of the vote in the second round of the party's congress on 10 December 2022.
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37. Barbara Pompili
1975-. (aged 51)
civil employees and civil servants
politician
Barbara Annick Pompili is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
38. Maëva Coucke
1994-. (aged 32)
model
beauty pageant contestant
Maëva Coucke is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2018. She represented France at Miss World 2018, where she placed in the top twelve, and also represented France at Miss Universe 2019, where she placed in the top ten. Coucke is the third Miss France winner from Nord-Pas-de-Calais within the span of four years,...
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39. Ève Gilles
2003-. (aged 23)
model
beauty pageant contestant
Eve Gilles is a French beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2024. She had previously been crowned Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2023 and is the fourth woman from Nord-Pas-de-Calais to win Miss France. Due to her pixie cut, Gilles was also cited by the French media as the first woman with short hair to become Miss France.
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40. Yves Navarre
1940-1994 (aged 54)
writer
Yves Navarre was a French writer. A gay man, most of his work concerned homosexuality and associated issues, such as AIDS. In his romantic works, Navarre was noted for his tendency to emphasize sensuality and "the mystical qualities of love" rather than sexuality or sensationalism. He was awarded the 1980 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Jardin d'acclimatation.
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41. Jean-Baptiste Soufron
1978-. (aged 48)
lawyer
Jean-Baptiste Soufron is a lawyer and writer in Bordeaux, France. He has been an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the French National Digital Council (2012–2015).
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42. Jonathan Lobert
1985-. (aged 41)
sailor
Jonathan Lobert is a French sailor. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Finn class, where he obtained the bronze medal.
43. Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré
1948-. (aged 78)
minister
economist
politician
Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré is a Burkinabé politician who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 21 January 2019 to 28 December 2020 and from 5 January 2021 to 8 December 2021. He was appointed to the position of Prime Minister by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré following the resignation of Paul Kaba Thieba and his cabinet. Dabiré...
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