ALUMNIL network In 2011, an on-line network of the UNIL alumni, called ALUMNIL, was created. Since then, regular events (throughout the year) and an annual party (in autumn) are organised every year for the alumni.
Royalty •
King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) of Thailand (1925-1946) •
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand (1927-2016) •
Princess Galyani Vadhana of Thailand •
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands •
Princess Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc, Lithuanian princess and Russian-Ukrainian surgeon
Politics •
Jean-Luc Addor Swiss politician •
Samuel Bendahan Swiss politician •
Ignazio Cassis,
President of the Swiss Confederation •
İsmail Cem, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey •
Paul Ceresole, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Georges-André Chevallaz, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Ernest Chuard, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, President of the Swiss Confederation • Vedat Dicleli, Minister of Economy & Trade of
Turkey •
Daniel-Henri Druey, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Florika Fink-Hooijer, prominent European civil servant •
Constant Fornerod, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Nuria Gorrite, President of the
Council of State of Vaud •
Şemsettin Günaltay, Prime Minister of Turkey •
Max Huber, Swiss international lawyer and diplomat, President of the
International Committee of the Red Cross •
Yvette Jaggi, Swiss National Councillor, Member of the Council of States, and Mayor of Lausanne •
Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Fazıl Küçük, first Vice President of the
Republic of Cyprus •
Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime Minister of
Mozambique •
Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of
Italy,
Duce of Italy •
Marguerite Narbel (1918–2010), member of the
Grand Council of Vaud •
Marcel Pilet-Golaz, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Eugène Ruffy, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Marc-Emile Ruchet, President of the Swiss Confederation •
Mohammad Sa'ed, Prime Minister of
Iran •
Jonas Savimbi, leader of
UNITA, an anti-Communist rebel group in
Angola •
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk,
Leading Minister of the German Reich •
Germaine Suter-Morax (1896–1974), Swiss-French Resistance member •
Christine Wohlwend, (born 1978), Liechtensteiner politician
Business •
Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of
Hublot •
Louis C. Camilleri, CEO of
Philip Morris International •
Jean Claude Gandur, CEO of
Addax Petroleum Literature •
Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet •
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, prominent
Iranian writer •
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss poet and novelist •
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer
Scholars •
André Bonnard (1888–1959), Swiss Hellenist and philologist •
Jacques Dubochet (1942–), biophysicist and co-laureate of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017. •
Pierre Gilliard (1879–1962), French professor,
Legion of Honour recipient •
Leo Aryeh Mayer (1895–1959), rector of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. •
Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) Economist, engineer, sociologist, philosopher, Professor of Economics at University of Lausanne, co-founder of the
Lausanne School of economics, together with Léon Walras •
Jean Piccard (1884–1963), Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. •
Martine Rebetez (1961–), Swiss climatologist •
Georges de Rham (1903–1990), Swiss mathematician, known for his contributions to
differential topology. •
Pedro Rossello (1897–1970), Catalonian educator and Deputy Director of the
International Bureau of Education. •
Jean de Serres (1540–1598), French humanist, Plato translator, Calvinist. •
Léon Walras (1834–1910) Economist, Professor of Economics at University of Lausanne, co-founder of the
Lausanne School of economics, together with: Vilfredo Pareto •
Luc E. Weber (1941–), Rector Emeritus of the
University of Geneva •
Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss-French physician, co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the
bubonic plague. •
Zaharina Dimitrova (1873–1940),
Bulgarian doctor,
Order of Civil Merit recipient, philanthropist. •
Marguerite Narbel (1918–2010), Swiss biologist
Others •
Sepp Blatter, President of
FIFA •
Murielle Bochud, Swiss physician who is the co-chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems of
Unisanté •
Abraham Davel, independence hero of the Canton of Vaud •
Akbar Etemad, president of the
Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran •
Christophe Keckeis, Head of the
Swiss Army •
Claude Nicollier, Swiss astronaut •
Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist •
Nikolaus Senn (1926–2014), co-director of
Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft •
Peter Herzen, Soviet
surgeon == School of Lausanne ==