This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with the University of Paris, often called "La Sorbonne".

Faculty professors

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  • Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800–1864), French philologist
  • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Doctor of the Church, Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
  • François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French historian of the Revolution and Napoleon
  • Edvard Beneš (1884 - 1948) President and co-founder of Czechoslovakia
  • François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut (1720–1794), French teacher, writer and translator
  • Boetius of Dacia, 13th-century Swedish philosopher
  • St. Bonaventure (1221–1274), a Franciscan theologian and Doctor of the Church
  • George Buchanan (1506–1582), Scottish historian
  • Victor Cousin (1792–1867), French philosopher
  • Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist, pioneer in the early field of radiology and the first two-time Nobel laureate
  • Jean Philibert Damiron (1794–1862), French philosopher
  • Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent
  • Claude Charles Fauriel (1772–1844), French historian, philologist and critic
  • St. Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174–1240), English Saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • François Géré (1950-), research director, specializing in geostrategic issues
  • Nicolas Eugène Géruzez (1799–1865), French critic
  • Étienne Gilson (1884–1978), French philosopher and historian of philosophy
  • François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, orator and statesman
  • Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963), French mathematician
  • Paul Janet (1823–1899), French philosopher and writer
  • Frédéric Joliot (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), Nobel Prize–winning French scientist; daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
  • Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Albertus Magnus (between 1193 and 1206–1280), Doctor of the Church, Dominican friar, German philosopher and theologian
  • Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam
  • Frédéric Ozanam (1813–1853), French-Catholic scholar
  • John Peckham (c. 1230–1292), English Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Louise du Pierry (1746 - 1807), astronomer, first female professor
  • Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), mathematician, theoretical physicist, philosopher of science
  • Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845), French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group
  • Émile Saisset (1814–1863), French philosopher
  • Étienne Vacherot (1809–1897), French philosophical writer
  • Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), French politician and writer
  • Robert Winchelsey (c. 1245–1313), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury

Notable alumni

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  • Michel Aflaq (1910–1989), ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism
  • Milos Alcalay (born 1945), Venezuelan diplomat
  • Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), World Chess Champion
  • Pope Alexander V (1339–1410), Pope or antipope during the Western Schism
  • Nathan Alterman (1910–70), Israeli poet and playwright
  • Luis López Álvarez (born 1930), Spanish poet
  • Mirza Javad Khan Ameri (1891–1980), Iranian politician
  • Reginald Fraser Amonoo (born 1932), ghanaian academic
  • Theo Angelopoulos (born 1936), Greek film director
  • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
  • Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer
  • Robert Badinter, Professor of Law
  • Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002), President of the Dominican Republic
  • Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), writer
  • Roland Barthes (1915–1980, literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician
  • Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), Cultural theorist and philosopher
  • Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), author, philosopher, and feminist
  • Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), Litvak lexicographer of Hebrew and newspaper editor
  • Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger
  • Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880-1968), Russian and Soviet mathematician
  • Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
  • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), poet and critic
  • Habib Bourguiba (c. 1903–2000), first President of Tunisia (1957–1987)
  • Paschase Broët French Jesuit and early companion of Ignatius of Loyola
  • George Buchanan (1506–1582), Scottish historian
  • Gerald M. Moser (1915–2005), German-American academic and author
  • John Calvin (1509–1564), Protestant Reformer and proponent of Calvinism
  • Roch Carrier (born 1937), Canadian novelist
  • Pierre Cartier (1932–2024), mathematician
  • Constantin-François Chassebœuf, philosopher and count
  • Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Governor General of Canada
  • Conrad of Megenberg (born 1309), German historian
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911
  • Pierre Curie (1859–1906), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with his wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie
  • Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), philosopher
  • Hasan Dosti (1895–1991), Albanian jurist and politician
  • St. Maurice Duault (1117–1191), French abbot and saint
  • Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876–1918), sculptor
  • St. Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174–1240), English Saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469–1536), Dutch humanist and theologian
  • Peter Faber (1506–1546), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
  • Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984), founder of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house
  • David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), rabbi and historian
  • Jean-Luc Godard (born 1930), film director
  • Haim Gouri (born 1923), Israeli poet, novelist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker
  • Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), English surgeon, best known as an etcher
  • Pavel Hak (born 1962), playwright and author
  • Jean-Noël Herlin (born 1940), Archivist and curator of art and books
  • Mahmoud Hessaby (1903–1992), Iranian scientist and politician
  • Ivica Hiršl (1905–1941), Croatian communist and Mayor of Koprivnica
  • Enver Hoxha (1908–1985), Albanian communist dictator (1946–1985)
  • Victor Hugo (1802–1885), Romantic novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus
  • Luce Irigaray (born 1930), French feminist, psychoanalytic and cultural theorist
  • Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
  • Max Karoubi (born 1938), mathematician
  • Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916), Sufic leader and writer
  • Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Dimitri Kitsikis (born 1935), Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
  • Jean-Louis Koszul (1921-2018), mathematician
  • Arvid Kurck (1464–1522), Finnish bishop
  • Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Ronald Lauder (born 1944), American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist
  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), father of modern chemistry, developed the law of conservation of mass
  • Theodore K. Lawless (1892-1971), American dermatologist, medical researcher, and philanthropist
  • Diego Laynez (1512–1565), Roman Catholic theologian, and the second general of the Society of Jesus
  • Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), Marxist sociologist and philosopher
  • Bernard Lewis (born 1916), British American historian specializing in oriental studies
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009), anthropologist who developed structuralism
  • Mélanie Lipinska (1900s), Historian of Female Scientists
  • Peter Lombard (c. 1100–1160/64), Roman Catholic theologian
  • Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), philosopher and literary theorist
  • Hilda Madsen (1910–1981), British-American artist and dog breeder
  • Norman Mailer (1923–2007), American writer
  • John Mair (also known as John Major) (1467–1550), Scottish philosopher
  • Benoît Mandelbrot (1923-2010), mathematician
  • Sigmund Mannheimer (1835–1909), German-American educator
  • Fabrizio Marrella (born 1966), Italian scholar; Full Professor of International Law & International Business Law; former European Director of the Master in Human Rights
  • Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), Italian scholar; Rector of the university 1313
  • Bernard Miège (born 1941), media theorist
  • Sherman Minton, Democratic United States Senator from Indiana; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • François Mitterrand, former President of France
  • André Morellet (1727–1819), economist and writer
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), wife of US President John F. Kennedy and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; US First Lady 1961-1963
  • Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
  • John Peckham (c. 1230–1292), English Archbishop of Canterbury
  • José Francisco Peña Gómez (1937–1998), leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party
  • Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975), discovered Francium and was the first woman member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Denis Pétau (1583–1652), Jesuit theologian
  • Konstanin "Koča" Popović (1908-1992), Spanish Civil War volunteer, Yugoslav Partisans division commander and Yugoslav statesman
  • Peter of Blois (1135–1203), poet and diplomat
  • Paul H. Raihle (born 1893), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
  • Pauline Réage (1907–1998), author
  • Paul Ricœur (1913–2005), philosopher
  • Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE)
  • Ibrahim Rugova (1944–2006), first President of Kosovo
  • Modjtaba Sadria (1949-), philosopher, Honorary Professor of Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society in Monash University, Australia
  • Émile Saisset (1814–1863), philosopher
  • Nawaf Salam, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
  • Alfonso Salmeron (1511–1590), theologian, and one of the original members of the Society of Jesus
  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitch Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidei Dynasty and World Jewish Outreach Organization
  • Jean-Pierre Serre (born 1926), mathematician
  • Ali Shariati (1933–1977), Iranian sociologist
  • Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836), French statesman; revolutionary leader; instigator of the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power
  • Joshua Sobol (born 1939), Israeli playwright, writer, and director
  • Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer and activist
  • Jean Stein, American author and editor
  • Hasan Tahsini (1811-1881), Albanian scholar
  • Andrea Tantaros, (born 1978), American political commentator
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), Jesuit Priest, paleontologist and philosopher
  • René Thom (1923-2002), mathematician
  • Dale C. Thomson DFC (1923–1999), Canadian academic, author, Prime Ministerial advisor
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer
  • Seka Severin de Tudja (1923–2007), Yugoslavian-born Venezuelan ceramist
  • Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (1727–1781), French statesman and economist
  • John Turner (born 1929), former Canadian Prime Minister
  • Maria Ubach i Font (born 1973), current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Andorra
  • Simone Veil (1927-2017), lawyer and politician, Minister of Health, President of the European Parliament, and member of the Constitutional Council of France
  • Jacques Vergès (born 1925), lawyer
  • Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), Belgian physician and anatomist
  • Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948–2003), Brazilian United Nations diplomat
  • Paul Virilio (born 1932), cultural theorist and urbanist
  • Walter of Châtillon, 12th-century writer and theologian
  • Sam Waterston (born 1940), American actor
  • André Weil (1906-1998), mathematician
  • Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
  • Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate. novelist and political activist
  • Robert Winchelsey (c. 1245–1313), English Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
  • Nasser Yeganeh, PhD in public law, former President of the Supreme Court of Iran

Non-Graduates

  • Guy Debord (1931–1994), Situationist theorist

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