25 Notable alumni of
Francois Rabelais University
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Francois Rabelais University is 1278th in the world, 440th in Europe, and 38th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Francois Rabelais University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Bruno Latour
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- writersociologistprofessoranthropologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.
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Okan Bayülgen
- Occupations
- film actorstage actorradio personality
- Biography
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Kaan Okan Bayülgen is a Turkish actor, variety and talk show host, comedian and photographer.
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Harry Roselmack
- Occupations
- film editorscreenwriternews presenterfilm producerjournalist
- Biography
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Harry Roselmack is a French radio and TV journalist of Martiniquan descent.
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Laurent Nuñez
- Occupations
- officialpolitician
- Biography
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Laurent Nuñez-Belda is a French civil servant and independent politician who has served as Head of the National Center of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (CNRLT) from 2020 to 2022. From 2018 until 2020, he was as Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. He served as director-general of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) from 2017 to 2018.
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Éric Brunet
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Éric Brunet is a French author, political commentator and radio host. In 2010, he started hosting Radio Brunet, known as Carrément Brunet until 2016, on RMC with 700,000 daily listeners as of 2018. In 2020, Brunet joined La Chaîne Info as host of Brunet Direct and Brunet & les Agitateurs.
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William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
- Occupations
- land owneraristocratpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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William James Robert Peel, 3rd Earl Peel, GCVO, PC, DL, styled Viscount Clanfield until 1969, is a British hereditary peer who was a Conservative peer from 15 May 1973 until October 2006 when, on his appointment as Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household, he became a crossbench (non-partisan) member of the House of Lords.
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Elvira Roca Barea
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- Studied in 1994
- Occupations
- writercolumnist
- Biography
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María Elvira Roca Barea is a Spanish academic and writer. She studied philology, and specialized in the literature of the Middle Ages and early modern Europe. Her research work has primarily focused on narrative strategies in different literary periods, but she became famous for her work on the Spanish Black Legend.
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Edward Lachman
- Occupations
- film directorcinematographer
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Edward Lachman is an American cinematographer and director. He has primarily worked in independent film, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes (including Far from Heaven in 2002 and Carol in 2015, both of which earned Lachman Oscar nominations), Ulrich Seidl, Wim Wenders, Steven Soderbergh and Paul Schrader. His other work includes Werner Herzog's La Soufrière (1977), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999), Robert Altman's final film A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime (2009). He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
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Amadou Koné
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherwriter
- Biography
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Amadou Koné is a writer from Cote d'Ivoire.
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François Lelord
- Occupations
- writerpsychiatrist
- Biography
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François Lelord is a French psychiatrist and author.
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Philippe Briand
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
- Biography
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Philippe Briand was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Indre-et-Loire department, as a member of The Republicans.
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Armand Trousseau
- Occupations
- politicianinternist
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Armand Trousseau was a French internist. His contributions to medicine include Trousseau sign of malignancy, Trousseau sign of latent tetany, Trousseau–Lallemand bodies (an archaic synonym for Bence Jones proteins). He is sometimes credited with the quip "use new drugs quickly, while they still work", though Michel-Philippe Bouvart had said the same over 40 years earlier.
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Maboula Soumahoro
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- In 2008 graduated with doctorate in France in English studies
- Occupations
- scholar of Englishwomen's rights activistuniversity teacheressayist
- Biography
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Maboula Soumahoro is a French scholar and Afro-feminist whose parents came to France from the Ivory Coast in the late 1960s. An associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, she specializes in studies on Afro-American diaspora and has published a paper on Rastafari. A contributor to the French committee on the history of slavery (Comité national pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage), Soumahoro launched the French version of Black History Month in 2011. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist Black French Muslim.
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Derrick de Kerckhove
- Occupations
- linguistsociologistwriter
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Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology from 1983 until 2008.
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Fabrice Lhomme
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Fabrice Lhomme is a French investigative journalist for Le Monde.
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Jean Germain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean Germain was a French socialist politician.
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François Cormier-Bouligeon
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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François Cormier-Bouligeon is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the Ardennes's 2nd constituency.
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Hubert Mono Ndjana
- Occupations
- writer
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Hubert Mono Ndjana was a Cameroonian academic and philosopher. Additionally, he was a writer, publishing numerous books on political leaders.
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Daniel Labaronne
- Enrolled in Francois Rabelais University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- senior lecturerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Daniel Labaronne is a French economist and politician of La République En Marche! who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the department of Indre-et-Loire.
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Jean-Patrick Gille
- Occupations
- permanent politicianpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Patrick Gille was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2017. He represented the 1st constituency of the Indre-et-Loire department, as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.
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Alexandra Goujon
- Occupations
- university teacherresearch fellowpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Alexandra Goujon is a French political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Burgundy. She specializes in political conflict and regime change in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine and Belarus.
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Laurent Percerou
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic priest
- Biography
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Laurent Percerou is a French bishop of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Moulins from 2013 to 2020. He was named Bishop of Nantes on 11 August 2020.
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Moshé Prywes
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Moshe Prywes was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975).
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Nadia Belakhdar
- Occupations
- handball player
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Nadia Belakhdar is an Algerian team handball player. She plays for the club Noisy Le Grand, and on the Algerian national team. She competed at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia, where Algeria placed 22nd.
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Philippe Blay
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- musicologist
- Biography
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Philippe Blay is a French musicologist.
