37 Notable alumni of University of Orleans
Updated: May 29, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Orleans is ranked #1,011 in the world and #36 in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from University of Orleans 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 Orleans won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Nicolaus Henel von Hennenfeld
1582-1656 (aged 74)
historian
writer
Nicholas Henel was a Silesian historian, receiver, biographer and a chronicler. He's considered to be the most outstanding representative of Renaissance's historiography of Silesia.
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2. Henry de Lichton
diplomat
Catholic priest
Henry de Lichton [de Lychtone, Leighton] was a medieval Scottish prelate and diplomat, who, serving as Bishop of Moray (1414–1422) and Bishop of Aberdeen (1422–1440), became a significant patron of the church, a cathedral builder, and a writer. He also served King James I of Scotland as a diplomat in England, France, and Italy.
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3. Jørgen Bjelke
1621-1696 (aged 75)
judge
Jørgen Bjelke was a Dano-Norwegian or Norwegian officer and nobleman. He was born at Elingaard Manor on Onsøy near Fredrikstad, in Østfold County, Norway, and died in Kalundborg, Denmark.
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4. Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
1968-. (aged 58)
literary critic
painter
mythographer
philosopher
art historian
Norbert-Bertrand Barbe is a French art historian, semiologist, artist and writer. He was born in 1968 and has a master's degree in art history and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Université d'Orléans, 1996). He is an Honorary Member of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language.
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5. Henric Piccardt
1636-1712 (aged 76)
lawyer
Henric Piccardt was an ambitious Dutch lawyer who made good at the court of young king Louis XIV of France in Paris where he became a published poet in French. Returning to the Netherlands, he rose to become syndic of the Ommelanden of Groningen and the untitled lord of the majestic manor at Slochteren, the Fraeylemaborg.
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6. Jean Willybiro-Sako
1946-. (aged 80)
minister
politician
magistrate
Jean Willybiro-Sako is a politician in the Central African Republic. He was the Minister of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research from April 2011 to January 2013.
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7. Hans Rosing
1625-1699 (aged 74)
Lutheran pastor
Hans Rosing was a Norwegian clergyman. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Oslo from 1664 until 1699.
8. Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar
1957-. (aged 69)
diplomat
economist
politician
Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar is a Mauritanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Mauritania twice, from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2007.
9. Léonard Bourdon
1754-1807 (aged 53)
politician
lawyer
administrator
headmaster in France
pedagogue
Louis Jean Joseph Léonard Bourdon de la Cronière was a French politician of the French Revolution. He was president of the National Constituent Assembly and substitute for the procureur of the Commune de Paris.
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10. Stanisław Lanckoroński
1590-1657 (aged 67)
military personnel
politician
Stanisław Lanckoroński was a Polish magnate as well as a politician and military commander.
11. Łukasz Opaliński
1581-1654 (aged 73)
politician
Łukasz de Bnin Opaliński was a Polish nobleman, poet, political activist and one of the most important Polish political writers of the 17th century.
12. Daniel Delaveau
1952-. (aged 74)
journalist
politician
Daniel Delaveau is a French politician and former Mayor of Rennes. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
13. Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein
1532-1605 (aged 73)
politician
Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein, nicknamed "the Elder", formally "Louis I of Sayn, Count at Wittgenstein" ruled the County of Wittgenstein, on the upper reaches of the rivers Lahn and Eder, from 1558 until his death. He converted his county to Calvinism and was an influential politician in the service to the Electoral Palatinate.
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14. Sylvie Baïpo-Temon
civil servant
diplomat
minister
politician
Sylvie Baïpo-Temon is a Central African politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic since 14 December 2018. She replaced Charles-Armel Doubane, allegedly under Russian pressure because Doubane took a too pro-Western stance. Before her appointment, she worked as a financial analyst at BNP Paribas beginning in 2003 and had no prior diplomatic...
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15. Pieter Pauw
1564-1617 (aged 53)
anatomist
botanist
university teacher
Pieter Pauw, (2 August 1564 – 1 August 1617) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden.
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16. Lambert Daneau
1530-1595 (aged 65)
university teacher
theologian
jurist
Lambert Daneau was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian.
17. François Bourguignon
1945-. (aged 81)
researcher
economist
François Bourguignon is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2016, Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize. He focuses on the study...
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18. Hussein Hajj Hassan
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Hussein Hajj Hassan is a Lebanese politician from Hezbollah, founder of the Islamic Union of Lebanese Students in France and minister of industry. He was the head of Hezbollah's "Educational mobilization" unit. As agricultural ministry he signed a cooperative agreement Jihad al-Binaa to provide agricultural vocation. He is said to have focused his ministry's funds to Hezbollah constituencies.
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19. Guillaume Budé
1467-1540 (aged 73)
numismatist
classical scholar
translator
printer
librarian
Guillaume Budé was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.
20. Jean-Pierre Sueur
1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Jean-Pierre Sueur is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who since 2001 has been serving as a member of the Senate of France representing the Loiret department.
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21. Felwine Sarr
1972-. (aged 54)
librettist
university teacher
writer
economist
musician
Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese academic, musician and writer of novels and cultural essays, born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied economics and taught this subject at the Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his move in 2020 as Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in the United States.
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22. Isabelle Attard
1969-. (aged 57)
archaeologist
research fellow
politician
Isabelle Robert Attard is a French archaeologist and politician, best known for her work in archaeozoology, specialising in the Bearded vulture during the Last Glacial Period. She has served as the museum director for the Bayeux Tapestry Museum from 2005 to 2010, and then the Utah Beach D-Day Museum from 2010 to 2012. As a politician, she has served as...
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23. Jerzy Ossoliński
1595-1650 (aged 55)
diplomat
politician
Prince Jerzy Ossoliński h. Topór was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor (voivode) of Sandomierz from 1636, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, starost of Bydgoszcz (1633), Luboml (1639), Puck and Bolim (1647), magnate, politician, statesman and diplomat. Famous for being extensively educated, he...
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24. Krzysztof Opaliński
1611-1655 (aged 44)
diplomat
poet
politician
Krzysztof Opaliński was a Polish szlachta (nobleman), politician, writer, satirist, and Voivode (Governor) of Poznań. A notable figure during the Swedish Deluge, Opaliński was a skilled diplomat who opposed King John II Casimir and published many of his works concerning the daily political or social matters in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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25. François Bonneau
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
pensioner
François Bonneau is a French educationalist, politician, and incumbent President of the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
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26. Charles Perrault
1628-1703 (aged 75)
collector of fairy tales
children's writer
critic
poet
art theorist
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty",...
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27. Olivier Faure
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
corporate administrative and commercial executive
Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New...
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28. Étienne de La Boétie
1530-1563 (aged 33)
poet
writer
philosopher
judge
French moralist
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
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29. Jean de La Bruyère
1645-1696 (aged 51)
writer
lawyer
translator
aphorist
essayist
Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
30. Jacques Pierre Brissot
1754-1793 (aged 39)
lawyer
translator
judge
politician
journalist
Jacques Pierre Brissot, also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the faction of the Girondins (initially called Brissotins) at the National Convention in Paris.
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31. Ivo of Kermartin
1253-1303 (aged 50)
lawyer
judge
presbyter
Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives (and in Breton as Erwan, Iwan, Youenn or Eozenn, depending on the region, and known as Yves Hélory (also Helori or Heloury) in French), was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the...
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32. Jeannette Bougrab
1973-. (aged 53)
civil servant
jurist
university teacher
politician
Jeannette Bougrab is a French lawyer and politician of the UMP who served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2010 to 2012. Prior to this, she was the Chair of the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.
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33. Agrippa d'Aubigné
1552-1630 (aged 78)
writer
poet
military personnel
politician
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, the English poet Keith Bosley called d'Aubigné "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death,...
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34. Johann Reuchlin
1455-1522 (aged 67)
jurist
writer
translator
university teacher
theologian
Johann Reuchlin, sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France. Most of Reuchlin's career centered on advancing German knowledge of Greek and Hebrew.
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35. John Calvin
1509-1564 (aged 55)
Protestant reformer
theologian
lawyer
writer
pastor
John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and...
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36. Mariama Signaté
1985-. (aged 41)
handball player
Mariama Camara Signaté is a French handball player. Her playing position is left back.
37. Thomas Boni Yayi
1952-. (aged 74)
banker
economist
politician
Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013.
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