Academia •
Geoffrey Keating (c. 1569–c. 1644), Irish historian •
Léon Duguit (1859–1928), French scholar of public law •
Henri Moysset (1875–1949), French historian and politician •
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994), French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor •
James Joll (1918–1994), British historian and university lecturer •
Julio Cotler (1932–2019), Peruvian anthropologist and sociologist •
Théophile Obenga (b. 1936), Congolese Egyptologist •
Spencer C. Tucker (b. 1937), American military historian •
Charles Butterworth (b. 1938), American political philosopher •
Helene Hagan (b. 1939), Moroccan–American anthropologist and Amazigh activist •
Pascal Salin (b. 1939), French economist and professor •
Marie-France Vignéras (b. 1946), French mathematician •
Alfredo Co (b. 1949), Filipino Sinologist •
Idowu Bantale Omole (b. 1954), Nigerian professor and academic administrator •
Abderrahmane Hadj-Salah (1928–2017), Algerian linguist •
Roger Naslain (b. 1936), professor of chemical and physical science at the University of Bordeaux •
Guy Brousseau (1933–2024), French mathematician • (b. 1967), French academic and advisor to the French government on banking
Activism •
Aubrey Willis Williams (1890–1965), American social and civil rights activist •
Jean-Claude Bajeux (1931–2011), Haitian political activist and professor •
Louis Clayton Jones (1935–2006), African-American international attorney and civil rights leader
Business •
Mireille Gillings (b. 1971), French Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur •
Olivier Le Peuch (b. 1963/1964), French businessman, CEO of Schlumberger
Law •
Thomas Barclay (c. 1570–1632), Scottish jurist and professor •
Montesquieu (1689–1755), legal philosopher and political theorist •
Ba Maw (1893–1977), Burmese politician •
James Marshall Sprouse (1923–2004), United States Circuit judge
Literature and journalism •
François Mauriac (1885–1970) French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, journalist and Nobel laureate (1952) •
Saint-John Perse (1887–1975), French poet and diplomat, Nobel laureate (1960) •
Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka (1929–1997), Malagasy writer, poet and politician •
Annie Ernaux (b. 1940), Nobel laureate (2022) French writer and professor of literature •
Esther Seligson (1941–2010), Mexican writer, poet, translator, and historian •
Lee Mallory (b. 1946), American poet, editor and academic •
Marc Saikali (b. 1965), Lebanese–French journalist •
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (b. 1969), British Nigerian writer
Performing arts •
Luc Plissonneau (b. 1961), French screenwriter and film director •
Morteza Heidari (b. 1968), Iranian TV presenter •
Koffi Olomide (b. 1956), Congolese singer-songwriter
Politics •
Hassan II (1929–1999), King of
Morocco •
Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac (1778–1832), French statesman •
Jean Ybarnégaray (1883–1956), Basque–French politician •
Michel Buillard (1950), mayor of
Papeete, French Polynesia •
Jean-Fernand Audeguil (1887–1956), French politician •
Ba Maw (1893–1977), Head of State of
Burma •
Michel Kafando (b. 1942), Burkinabé diplomat •
Xavier Darcos (b. 1947), French politician, scholar, civil servant and former Minister of Labour •
Jean-Paul Gonzalez (b. 1947), French virologist •
Mario Aoun (b. 1951), Lebanese politician •
Alain Vidalies (b. 1951), the French Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries •
Nagoum Yamassoum (b. 1954), Chadian politician and former Prime Minister of Chad •
Anicet-Georges Dologuélé (b. 1957), Central African politician •
Reza Taghipour (b. 1957), Iranian conservative politician •
Thierry Santa (b. 1967), French Polynesian politician in New Caledonia •
Germaine Kouméalo Anaté (b. 1968), Togolese government minister, scholar and writer •
Olivier Falorni (b. 1972), French politician •
Myriam El Khomri (b. 1978), French politician
Sciences •
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), French physician, politician and freemason and namesake of the
guillotine •
Célestin Sieur (1860–1955), French physician •
Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard (1873–1927), French pharmacist and botanist •
Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895–1985), French zoologist •
Laure Gatet (1913–1943), French pharmacist, biochemist and spy •
Basile Adjou Moumouni (1922–2019), Beninese physician •
Roland Paskoff (1933–2005), French geologist •
Jean-Marie Tarascon (b. 1953), French chemist and professor •
Bruno Vallespir (b. 1960), French engineer and professor
Sports •
Jean-Pierre Escalettes (b. 1935), French retired footballer •
Karounga Keïta (1941–2023), Malian football official and former coach and player •
Bixente Lizarazu (b. 1969), Basque–French retired footballer
Visual arts •
Charles James (1906–1978), English-American fashion designer
Winemaking •
Emma Gao •
Émile Peynaud (1912–2004), French oenologist == See also ==