24 Notable alumni of
CentraleSupelec
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CentraleSupelec is 1421st in the world, 487th in Europe, and 45th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from CentraleSupelec sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pierre Schaeffer
- Enrolled in CentraleSupelec
- Studied in 1931-1932
- Occupations
- music criticmusicianradio personalitymusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innovative work in both the sciences—particularly communications and acoustics—and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime.
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Jean-Luc Lagardère
- Enrolled in CentraleSupelec
- 1949-1951 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Jean-Luc Lagardère was a major French businessman, CEO of the Lagardère Group, one of the largest French conglomerates.
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Patrick Achi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick Jérôme Achi is an Ivorian politician who served as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from March 2021 to October 2023 in President Alassane Ouattara's government. He is a member of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR). He studied at Supélec and Stanford University and specialises in engineering and infrastructure. He has also worked as the government spokesman for President Alassane Ouattara.
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Christian Piquemal
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Christian Piquemal, is a retired army corps general of the French Army and Commandant of the Legion from 1994 to 1999.
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Pierre Bézier
- Enrolled in CentraleSupelec
- Studied in 1930-1931
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineermathematician
- Biography
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Pierre Étienne Bézier was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. As an engineer at Renault, he became a leader in the transformation of design and manufacturing, through mathematics and computing tools, into computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling.
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Jean Pisani-Ferry
- Occupations
- economistengineer
- Biography
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Jean Pisani-Ferry is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He is also a senior professor in economics and public management at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and a professor at the European University Institute near Florence.
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Shlomo Aviner
- Occupations
- rabbiwriter
- Biography
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Shlomo Chaim Hacohen Aviner is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He is the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Ateret Yerushalayim (formerly Ateret Cohanim) and the former rabbi of Beit El, an Israeli settlement. He is considered one of the spiritual leaders of the Religious Zionist movement.
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Louis Charles Breguet
- Occupations
- aeronautical engineeraerospace engineeraircraft pilotentrepreneur
- Biography
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Louis Charles Breguet was a French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers.
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet
- Occupations
- professorhistorianphysicistengineeressayist
- Biography
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.
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Marcel Niat Njifenji
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Marcel Niat Njifenji is a Cameroonian politician who has been President of the Senate of Cameroon since 2013. A member of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), he previously served for years as Director-General of the National Electricity Company, and he was also a minister in the government during the early 1990s.
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Matila Ghyka
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianpoetmathematicianphilosopher
- Biography
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Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka, was a Romanian naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, academic and diplomat. He did not return to Romania after World War II, and was one of the most significant members of the Romanian diaspora. His first name is sometimes written as Matyla.
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Tadeusz Tański
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Tadeusz Tański was a Polish automobile engineer and the designer of, among others, the first Polish serially-built automobile, the CWS T-1.
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Henri Fabre
- Occupations
- aerospace engineeraircraft pilotbusinessperson
- Biography
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Henri Fabre was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion.
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Michel Danino
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Michel Danino is a French-born Indian writer. He is a guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar and has been a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research. In 2017, Government of India conferred Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honor for his contribution towards Literature & Education.
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Anas Farouki
- Occupations
- industrialistentrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Ernest Mercier was a French industrialist, director of the French Petroleum Company (CFP), the forerunner of the French petroleum conglomerate Total. His father, Jean Ernest Mercier, was a historian and the mayor of Constantine, Algeria, Algeria (then a French colony), where Ernest was born.
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Anatole Abragam
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessortheoretical physicistphysicistengineer
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Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Griva, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.
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Traian Lalescu
- Enrolled in CentraleSupelec
- Studied in 1919-1919
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Traian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics.
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Géo André
- Occupations
- aerospace engineermiddle-distance runnerjournalistengineerathletics competitor
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Georges Yvan "Géo" André was a French track and field athlete and rugby union player. As an athlete he competed at the 1908, 1912, 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics in various events, including long jump, high jump, 400 m sprint, 110 and 400 m hurdles, pentathlon and decathlon. He won a silver medal in the high jump in 1908 and a bronze in the 4 × 400 m relay in 1920, finishing fourth in the 400 m hurdles in 1920 and 1924 and fifth in the standing high jump in 1908. At the 1924 Olympics he took the Olympic Oath and served as the flag bearer for the French delegation.
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René Barthélemy
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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René Barthélemy was a French engineer and a pioneer in the development of television.
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Édouard de Niéport
- Occupations
- aerospace engineeraircraft pilotsport cyclistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Édouard de Niéport, usually known as Édouard Nieuport was the co-founder with his brother Charles of the eponymous Nieuport aircraft manufacturing company, Société Anonyme Des Établissements Nieuport, formed in 1909 at Issy-les-Moulineaux. An engineer and sportsman, Édouard was also one of the pre-eminent aeroplane designers and pilots of the early aviation era (from the late 19th century to the outbreak of World War I in 1914). As a pilot, he set a new world speed record of 74.37 miles per hour (119.69 km/h) on 11 May 1911 at Mourmelon, flying his Nieuport II monoplane, powered by a 28 horsepower (21 kW) engine of his own design. Later that year at Châlons, he bettered this time with a new record of 82.73 miles per hour (133.14 km/h). Racing for the Gordon Bennett Trophy in July at Eastchurch, he finished third, beaten for first place by one of his own aircraft, flown by the American pilot C. T. Weymann.
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Jean-Marie Louvel
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Jean-Marie Louvel was a French engineer and politician. He was born in La Ferté-Macé and died in Caen.
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André Maréchal
- Occupations
- engineerphysicist
- Biography
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Robert Gaston André Maréchal was a French researcher and administrator in optics.
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Emil Grosswald
- Enrolled in CentraleSupelec
- Studied in 1934
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Emil Grosswald was a mathematician who worked primarily in number theory.
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Patrick Tabeling
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Patrick Tabeling is a French physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, researcher at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris. He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious peer reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 14000 times. He has been the director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research institution in Paris which regroups more than 300 expert researchers.
