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Charles Péguy (1873–1914), writer •
Paul Hazard (1878–1944), historian •
Jules Isaac (1877–1963), historian •
Marc Boegner (1881–1970), pastor and writer •
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944), writer •
Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), writer •
Jacques Rivière (1886–1925), writer •
Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980), writer •
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), Nobel laureate in chemistry, physicist •
Robert Bresson (1901–1999), filmmaker • Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor •
Arthur Adamov (1908–1970), writer and playwright •
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (1909–1950), politician, engineer, military officer from Venezuela •
Maurice Allais (1911–2010), economist, Nobel laureate in economics • Pierre Hervé (1913–1993), deputy •
Jean-Toussaint Desanti (1914–2002), philosopher, professor at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne •
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000), politician •
Jacques Durand (1920–2009), engineer and automobile designer •
Georges Condominas (1921–2011), ethnologist •
Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926–2014), editor •
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), historian, honorary professor at the Collège de France •
Gérard Genette (1930–2018), literary theorist • Joël Schmidt, writer •
Dimitri Kitsikis (1935–2021), Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation. •
James Austin (1940–), fine-art and architectural photographer •
Jacques Bouveresse (1940–2021), philosopher, professor at the Collège de France •
Colin François Lloyd Austin (1941–2010), scholar of ancient Greek •
Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), writer •
Julien Clerc (1947–), singer •
Rony Brauman (1950–), doctor • Laurent Collet-Billon (1950–), general delegate for armament • Gérard Leclerc (1951–), journalist •
Philippe Laguérie (1952–), priest •
Renaud Van Ruymbeke (1952–), magistrate • Denis Lensel (1954–), journalist and writer • Sauveur Chemouni (1954–) founder of Invision Technologies, California •
Gilles Leroy (1958–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2007) •
Cédric Klapisch (1961–), director •
Christophe Claro (1962–), writer • Laurent Vachaud (1964–), scriptwriter • Emmanuel Bourdieu (1965–), writer, philosopher and director, son of sociologist and Collège de France professor
Pierre Bourdieu •
Pap Ndiaye (1965–), politician, minister of National Education and Youth •
Marie NDiaye (1967–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2009) • Christophe Ferré, writer •
Pierre Courtade (1915–1963), journalist and writer •
Muriel Barbery (1969–), writer •
Yann Golanski (1971–), theoretical astrophysicist, mathematician and software pioneer •
Laurent Chambon (1972–), sociologist •
Guillaume Peltier (1976–), politician •
Grégory Lamboley (1982–), international French rugby player ==Lycée Lakanal in popular culture==