Editing University of Paris (section)

===Alumni===
The Sorbonne has educated 11 [[President of France|French presidents]], almost 50 French heads of government, three Popes ([[Innocent&nbsp;III]], [[Celestine&nbsp;II]], and [[Adrian&nbsp;IV]]), and many other political and social figures. The Sorbonne has also educated leaders of Albania, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Gabon, Guinea, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Tunisia, and Niger among others.
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File:John Calvin - Young.jpg|[[John Calvin]]
File:Carlo_Crivelli_007.jpg|[[Thomas Aquinas]]
File:Denis_Diderot_111.PNG|[[Denis Diderot]]
File:Nicolas_de_Largilli%C3%A8re,_Fran%C3%A7ois-Marie_Arouet_dit_Voltaire_(vers_1724-1725)_-001.jpg|[[Voltaire]]
File:Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac_(1842)_Detail.jpg|[[Honoré de Balzac]]
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* [[Rodolfo Robles]], physician
* [[Albert Simard]], physician, activist during and post WWII.
* [[Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau]], writer
* [[Paul Biya]], President of [[Cameroon]]
* [[Jean-François Delmas (palaeographer)|Jean-François Delmas]], archivist, Director of the [[Bibliothèque Inguimbertine]] and the museums of Carpentras
* [[Aklilu Habte-Wold]], Ethiopian politician who served in [[Haile Selassie]]'s cabinet
* [[Leonardo López Luján]], Mexican archaeologist and director of the Templo Mayor Project
* [[Darmin Nasution]], [[Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs (Indonesia)|Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs]] of [[Indonesia]]
* [[Maria Pavlova|Maria Vasillievna Pavlova]] (née Gortynskaia) (1854–1939), paleontologist and academician <ref name="OgilvieHarvey2000">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA992|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z|author1=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2=Joy Dorothy Harvey|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2000|isbn=978-0-415-92040-7|pages=992–993}}</ref>
* [[Jean Peyrelevade]], French civil servant, [[French politician|politician]] and business leader.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nousbayrou.tumblr.com/post/15345499152/jean-peyrelevade-sur-son-soutien-a-hollande|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717134426/http://nousbayrou.tumblr.com/post/15345499152/jean-peyrelevade-sur-son-soutien-a-hollande|archive-date=17 July 2012|url-status=dead|title=NOUS BAYROU • Jean Peyrelevade sur son soutien à Hollande&nbsp;:...|access-date=Mar 23, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Issei Sagawa]], cannibal and murderer
* [[Tamara Gräfin von Nayhauß]], German television presenter
* [[Michel Sapin]], Deputy Minister of Justice from May 1991 to April 1992, Finance Minister from April 1992 to March 1993, and Minister of Civil Servants and State Reforms from March 2000 to May 2002.<ref name="assembly">{{cite web|url=http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/tribun/fiches_id/2679.asp |title=M. Michel Sapin : Assemblée Nationale |website=Assemblee-nationale.fr |access-date=2016-11-13}}</ref>
*[[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], Head of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement
*[[Ali Abu el-Fotoh]], was one of the most influential [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] economists from the 19th-century
* [[Ahmad al-Tayyeb]], [[Grand Imam of Al-Azhar]]
* [[Pol Theis]], attorney, interior designer, and founder of P&T Interiors in New York City
* [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], French writer
* [[Loïc Vadelorge]], French historian
* [[Yves-Marie Bercé]], historian, winner of the [[Madeleine Laurain-Portemer]] Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
* [[Phulrenu Guha]], Indian Bengali politician and educationist, class of 1928
* [[Antoine Compagnon]], professor of [[French literature]] at the Collège de France
* [[Anatole Félix Le Double]], anatomist, physician, and academic
* [[Philippe Contamine]], historian, member of the [[Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres]]
* [[Pridi Banomyong]], a Thai politician and professor who played an important role in drafting [[Thailand]]'s first constitutions.
* [[Denis Crouzet]], [[Renaissance]] historian, winner of the Madeleine Laurain-Portemer Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
* [[Marc Fumaroli]], member of the Académie française and professor at the Collège de France
* Olivier Forcade, historian of Political and [[International relations]] at the [[University of Paris-Sorbonne]] and [[Sciences-Po Paris]], member of the French National Council of Universities
* [[Edith Philips]], American writer and educator
* [[Jean Favier]], historian, member of the [[Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres]], president of the French Commission for [[UNESCO]]
* [[Nicolas Grimal]], egyptologist, winner of the Gaston-Maspero prize of the [[Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres]] et member of the [[Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres]], winner of the Diane Potier-Boes Prize of the Académie française.
* [[John Kneller]] (1916–2009), English-American professor and fifth president of [[Brooklyn College]]
* [[Claude Lecouteux]], professor of Medieval German literature, winner of the Strasbourg Prize of the Académie française
* [[Jean-Luc Marion]], [[Philosopher]], member of the Académie française
* [[Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh]], former Ambassador of [[Vietnam]] to the [[European Union]]
* [[Danièle Pistone]], [[Musicologist]], member of the {{Lang|fr|[[Académie des beaux-arts]]|italic=no}}
* [[Jean-Yves Tadié]], professor of French literature, Grand Prize of the Académie française
* [[Jean Tulard]], historian, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
* [[Khieu Samphan]], former [[Khmer Rouge]] leader and head of state of [[Democratic Kampuchea]]
* [[Haïm Brézis]],  French [[mathematician]] who mainly works in [[functional analysis]] and [[partial differential equation]]s
* [[Philippe G. Ciarlet]], French [[mathematician]], known particularly for his work on mathematical analysis of the [[finite element method]]. He has contributed also to elasticity, to the [[theory of plates and shells]] and [[differential geometry]]
* [[Gérard Férey]], was a French [[chemist]] who specialized in the [[Physical chemistry]] of solids and materials. He focused on the [[crystal chemistry]] of inorganic [[fluorides]] and on porous solids
* [[Jacques-Louis Lions]], was a French [[mathematician]] who made contributions to the theory of [[partial differential equation]]s and to [[Stochastic processes|stochastic control]], among other areas
* [[Marc Yor]], was a French mathematician well known for his work on [[stochastic processes]], especially properties of [[semimartingale]]s, [[Brownian motion]] and other [[Lévy processes]], the [[Bessel processes]], and their applications to [[mathematical finance]]
* [[Bernard Derrida]], a French [[Theoretical physics|theoretical]] [[physicist]]. He is best known for his work in [[statistical mechanics]], and is the eponym of ''Derrida plots'', an analytical technique for characterising differences between [[Boolean networks]].
* [[François Loeser]], a French [[mathematician]] who specialized in [[algebraic geometry]] and is best known for his work on [[Motivic Integration|motivic integration]], part of it in collaboration with [[Jan Denef]]
* [[Achille Mbembe]], Cameroonian [[Intellectual historian]], [[Political philosophy]], author of ''[[On the Postcolony]]'', introduced the concept of [[necropolitics]]
* [[Claire Voisin]], French mathematician known for her work in [[algebraic geometry]]
* [[Jean-Michel Coron]], French [[mathematician]] who studied the [[control theory]] of [[partial differential equation]]s, and which includes both control and stabilization
* [[Michel Talagrand]], French [[mathematician]] specialized in [[functional analysis]] and [[probability theory]] and their applications
* [[Claude Cohen-Tannoudji]], French [[physicist]] who specialized in methods of [[laser cooling]] and trapping atoms
* [[Serge Haroche]], French [[physicist]] who specialized in [[Quantum mechanics|quantum physics]], whose other works developed [[laser spectroscopy]]
* [[Riad Al Solh]], First Prime-minister of [[Lebanon]]
* [[Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman]] (1903–1990), one of the first woman members of the Turkish parliament (1935)
* [[Abdelkebir Khatibi]], Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist
* [[Muhammad Shahidullah]], Bengali linguist, educationalist, and social reformer
* [[Raphael Armattoe]], Ghanaian medical doctor, politician, poet and writer
* [[Wu Songgao]] (1898–1953), [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] politician, jurist and political scientist
* [[Abdul Hafeez Mirza]] (1939–2021) Pakistani tourism worker, cultural activist and Professor of French. Recipient of [[Ordre des Palmes académiques|Ordre des Palmes Academiques]]
* [[Rostislav Doboujinsky]] (1903-2000), Russian designer
* [[Barbara Jo Allen]] (1906–1974), American actress
* [[Inam Karimov]], Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Azerbaijan
* [[Gérard de Vaucouleurs]], observational astronomer known for his work on galaxies
*[[Lucien Abenhaim]] Pharmacoepidemiologist, professor of Public Health, and former General Director of Health for France.
* [[Nadine Ribault]] (1964–2021), writer and translator
* [[Élodie Yung]], actress.