28 Notable alumni of
Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
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The Jean Jaures University of Toulouse is 1309th in the world, 455th in Europe, and 40th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jean Castex
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- Graduated with licence in study of history
- Occupations
- statespersonpolitician
- Biography
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Jean Castex is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2020. Castex served for twelve years as mayor of the small town of Prades prior to his appointment as prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron. He resigned his post ahead of the 2022 legislative election. After leaving public office, he served as president of the state-owned RATP from 2022 to 2025, and has served as president of the SNCF since November 2025.
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Marie-Sophie Lacarrau
- Occupations
- television journalist
- Biography
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Marie-Sophie Lacarrau is a French journalist and TV presenter.
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Bernard Stiegler
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. He co-founded Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" in 2018. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.
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Thaïs d'Escufon
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- Studied Langues étrangères appliquées
- Occupations
- political activist
- Biography
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Thaïs d'Escufon is an antifeminist militant and French far right activist. She was spokesperson of Génération identitaire from 2018 to its dissolution by the French government in 2021.
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Jean-Luc Nancy
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Jean-Luc Nancy was a French philosopher. Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre (The Title of the Letter, 1992), a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Nancy is the author of works on many thinkers, including La remarque spéculative in 1973 (The Speculative Remark, 2001) on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Le Discours de la syncope (1976) and L'Impératif catégorique (1983) on Immanuel Kant, Ego sum (1979) on René Descartes, and Le Partage des voix (1982) on Martin Heidegger.
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Coralie Balmy
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Coralie Balmy is a French freestyle swimmer. Balmy was born in La Trinité, Martinique. She won her first senior title at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven in the 4 × 200 m relay freestyle. At the same Championships she won the silver medal in the 400 m freestyle with the time of 4:04.15, all-time fourth fastest behind Federica Pellegrini's world record. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she finished fourth in the 400 m freestyle final. On 6 December 2008 she set the world record for the 200 m freestyle (short course) at the French National Championships in Angers, France in a time of 1:53.16. At the 2012 Summer Olympics her 4 × 200 m freestyle team won the bronze medal in a time of 7:47.49. The split times: Camille Muffat (1:55.51); Charlotte Bonnet (1:57.78); Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne (1:58.05); Coralie Balmy (1:56.15).
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Robert Redeker
- Occupations
- writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Robert Redeker is a French writer and philosophy teacher. He was teaching at the Pierre-Paul-Riquet high school, in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, and at the École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile. He is currently in hiding under police protection.
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François Piquemal
- Occupations
- professors, scientific professionshistory-geography teacherpolitician
- Biography
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François Piquemal is a French politician and educator who was elected to represent the Haute-Garonne's 4th constituency in the 2022 legislative election. A member of La France Insoumise, Piquemal ran as a candidate of the left-wing New Ecologic and Social People's Union (NUPES) coalition in 2022. Piquemal previously served as a municipal councilor in Toulouse, Occitania.
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Bernard Antony
- Occupations
- essayistpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Bernard Antony is a French politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1999.
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Kader Arif
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kader Arif is a French politician of the French Socialist Party (PS) who served as Junior Minister for Veterans to the French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian from 2012 until 2014. Prior to this, he was a Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France.
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Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas
- Occupations
- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
- Biography
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Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas is a French politician representing La République En Marche! She was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Tarn. In the June 2022 election she was narrowly defeated in the second round by Karen Erodi of LFI.
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Philippe Lacôte
- Occupations
- film producerscreenwriterfilm director
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Philippe Lacôte is an Ivorian film director. He is most noted for his 2014 film Run, which was a Lumière Award nominee for Best French-Language Film at the 20th Lumière Awards, and his 2020 film Night of the Kings, which won the Amplify Voices Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Véréna Paravel
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- In 2003 graduated with doctorate in France in sociology
- Occupations
- screenwritercinematographeranthropologistfilm editorphotographer
- Biography
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Véréna Paravel is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.
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Françoise Castex
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Françoise Castex is a French politician.
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Pierre Laborie
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- In 1978 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
- Occupations
- historiandirector of studiesuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pierre Laborie was a French historian who was best known for his studies of French public opinion during World War II.
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Paul Ardenne
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- art historianwriterart critic
- Biography
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Paul Ardenne is Professor of history at the University of Amiens, and is also an art critic and a curator in the field of contemporary art.
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Slim Khalbous
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Slim Khalbous is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Tunisian Minister of Higher Education and, since 1 May 2017, National Education.
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Jean-Claude Perez
- Occupations
- cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Claude Perez is a French politician, and was a member of the National Assembly. He represented Aude's 1st constituency from 1997 to 2017, as a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group. He was mayor of Carcassonne from 2009 to 2014.
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Élisabeth Toutut-Picard
- Occupations
- anciens cadrespoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
- Biography
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Élisabeth Toutut-Picard is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected as a member of the French National Assembly in the 2017 elections, representing the 7th constituency of the Haute-Garonne department. She served until 2022. Picard contracted COVID-19 on 7 March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Abdelhak Serhane
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- writernovelistpsychologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Abdelhak Serhane is a Moroccan novelist writing in French. Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou.
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Maria Ubach
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maria Ubach i Font is an Andorran diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 June 2017 to 16 May 2023 under the governments of Prime Minister Antoni Martí and the current Head Xavier Espot.
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Mohammed Ameur
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammed Ameur is a Moroccan politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces. Between 2007 and 2012, he held the position of "Minister-Delegate for the Moroccans Living Abroad" in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi. He currently serves as the ambassador to Belgium.
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Jean Pinet
- Occupations
- test pilotfighter pilotaircraft pilotengineeradministrateur civil (France)
- Biography
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Jean Pinet is a French aviator and aeronautical engineer; as a former Concorde test pilot, he was the first person to take Concorde supersonic, in early October 1969.
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Zacharie Tshimanga Wa Tshibangu
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Zacharie Tshimanga Wa Tshibangu was a Congolese historian and writer and co-founder of the SOHIZA in 1974.
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Jacques Jaubert
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Enrolled in the Jean Jaures University of Toulouse
- 1999-2000 graduated with habilitation to Supervise Research
- Graduated with habilitation
- Occupations
- researcherprehistoriananthropologistuniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Jacques Jaubert is a French prehistorian and professor of Paleolithic archaeology at the University of Bordeaux.
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Joe͏̈l Suhubiette
- Occupations
- conductorsingerchoir directormusic director
- Biography
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Joël Suhubiette is a contemporary French choral conductor. In particular, he conducts the chamber choir Les Éléments which he founded in Toulouse and with which he received a Victoire de la musique classique in 2006 and the Ensemble Jacques Moderne in Tours.
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José Acquelin
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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José Acquelin is a Canadian poet from Quebec. He won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Anarchie de la lumière, and was a nominee for the same award at the 1996 Governor General's Awards for L'Oiseau respirable.
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Judy Quinn
- Occupations
- writernovelistpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Judy Quinn is a Canadian writer and editor living in Quebec.
