21 Notable alumni of
Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space
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Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space is 1649th in the world, 571st in Europe, and 56th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Thomas Pesquet
- Enrolled in Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space
- Studied in 1998-2001
- Occupations
- amateur radio operatormilitary flight engineeraircraft pilotengineerastronaut
- Biography
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Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, European Space Agency astronaut, actor, musician, and writer. He was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and successfully completed his basic training in November 2010. From November 2016 to June 2017, he was part of Expedition 50 and Expedition 51 on the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer. Pesquet returned to space in April 2021 on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon for a second six-month stay on the ISS.
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Serge Dassault
- Occupations
- military flight engineerpublisherentrepreneurengineerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Serge Dassault was a French engineer, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Dassault Group, and a conservative politician. According to Forbes, Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at US$15 billion.
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Marcel Dassault
- Occupations
- inventorbusinesspersonentrepreneurmedia proprietorfilm producer
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Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than three decades in both houses of the French Parliament from 1951 until his death in 1986.
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Mostafa Mir-Salim
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpolitician
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Mostafa Mir-Salim is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was formerly a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2020 to 2024.
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Henri Coandă
- Occupations
- physicistmilitary flight engineeraircraft pilotengineerinventor
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Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
- Occupations
- military engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was a French Air Force lieutenant colonel, military air-weaponry engineer and the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. Bastien-Thiry and multiple colleagues attempted to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the Petit-Clamart attack of 22 August 1962 in retaliation for de Gaulle's decision to accept Algerian independence. Bastien-Thiry remains the most recent person to be executed by firing squad in France.
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Mikhail Gurevich
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineerinventoraircraft pilot
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Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.
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Guillaume Faury
- Occupations
- military flight engineerchief executive officermanager
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Guillaume Faury is a French engineer and businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) at the aerospace corporation Airbus SE and chairman of its civil aircraft division, Airbus SAS.
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Sophie Adenot
- Enrolled in Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space
- Studied in 2001-2003
- Occupations
- military aviatorhelicopter pilotengineertest pilotair force officer
- Biography
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Sophie Marie Laurence Adenot is a French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut. She holds the rank of colonel in the French Air and Space Force and became France's first female helicopter test pilot in 2018. She was selected to join the European Astronaut Corps as part of the 2022 group. Her first space flight was in 2026, on SpaceX Crew-12, during which she launched to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission as a part of Expedition 74/75.
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Jean-François Clervoy
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineerastronaut
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Jean-François André Clervoy is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions.
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Roger Béteille
- Occupations
- aerospace engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Roger Béteille was a French aeronautical engineer and businessman who was associated with Airbus. Regarded as one of the founding fathers of the company, he is known for his contributions towards Airbus, which contributed towards the airline company's initial success. He also worked for Air France, Lufthansa, United, TWA and American Airlines.
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Henri Ziegler
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineerFrench resistance fighter
- Biography
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Henri Ziegler CVO, CBE was one of the founders of Airbus and its first president.
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Marwan Lahoud
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineerbusinessperson
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Marwan Lahoud is a French-Lebanese weapons engineer who resides in France. He served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Strategy and Marketing for the Airbus Group until February 2017.
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Oussama Khatib
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineeruniversity teacherartificial intelligence researcher
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Oussama Khatib is a roboticist and a professor of computer science at Stanford University, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is credited with seminal work in areas ranging from robot motion planning and control, human-friendly robot design, to haptic interaction and human motion synthesis. His work's emphasis has been to develop theories, algorithms, and technologies, that control robot systems by using models of their physical dynamics. These dynamic models are used to derive optimal controllers for complex robots that interact with the environment in real-time.
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Bernard Ziegler
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineeraircraft pilot
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Bernard Ziegler was a French pilot and engineer, who served in Airbus as senior vice president for engineering, well known for his evangelical zeal for the application of the fly-by-wire system in the Airbuses. He was the son of Airbus founder Henri Ziegler.
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Bernard Ramanantsoa
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Bernard Ramanantsoa was the Dean of HEC Paris between 1996 and 2015.
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Henry Potez
- Occupations
- aerospace engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Henry Potez was a French aircraft industrialist.
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Jean Pierson
- Enrolled in Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- industrialistmilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Jean Pierson was a French aerospace engineer who served as the managing director and CEO of Airbus Industrie between 1985 and 1998. During his time as its leader, the company emerged as a global competitor to the then leader Boeing. In addition to advancing the Airbus A320 program he also set up the wide-bodied double-decker Airbus A380 program.
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Jean-Paul Herteman
- Occupations
- military flight engineerengineerbusinessperson
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Jean-Paul Herteman is a French aerospace engineer, materials scientist and chief executive. He was CEO of Safran until April 2015, the French Aerospace engine & equipment manufacturer and chairman of both the French Aerospace Industries Association (GIFAS) and of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe(ASD). He is vice-chairman of the Conseil général de l'armement (General Council of Armament) chaired by the Minister of Defence.
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François Hussenot
- Occupations
- engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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François Hussenot was a French engineer, credited with the invention of one of the early forms of the flight data recorder.
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Jean Louis Conneau
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotmilitary flight engineer
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Jean Louis Conneau, better known by the pseudonym André Beaumont, was a pioneer French aviator, French Navy lieutenant, and flying boat manufacturer.
