70 Notable alumni of
University of Bordeaux
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The University of Bordeaux is 782nd in the world, 280th in Europe, and 25th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 70 notable alumni from the University of Bordeaux sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Émile Durkheim
- Occupations
- professorsociologistphilosopherhistorian of religionanthropologist
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David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber.
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Hassan II
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- Graduated with master's degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary leaderentrepreneurchancellordiplomat
- Biography
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Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. A member of the Alawi dynasty, he was the eldest son of King Mohammed V, and his second wife Princess Abla bint Tahar.
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Annie Ernaux
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- writerfilm directorteacher
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Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
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Jacques Ellul
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- philosopherwriterFrench resistance fightersociologistuniversity teacher
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Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor. Noted as a Christian anarchist, Ellul was a longtime professor of History and the Sociology of Institutions on the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Bordeaux. A prolific writer, he authored more than 60 books and more than 600 articles over his lifetime, many of which discussed propaganda, the impact of technology on society, and the interaction between religion and politics.
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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
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- politicianphysician
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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a man named Tobias Schmidt, working with the king's physician, Antoine Louis.
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Marcel Mauss
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- ethnologistpoliticianprofessoranthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology. Today, he is perhaps better recognised for his influence on the latter discipline, particularly with respect to his analyses of topics such as magic, sacrifice and gift exchange in different cultures around the world. Mauss had a significant influence upon Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology. His most famous work is The Gift (1925).
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Saint-John Perse
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- writertranslatorpoetdiplomat
- Biography
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Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse ([sɛ̃ d͜ʒɔn pɛʁs]; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative imagery of his poetry which in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time"
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Geneviève Darrieussecq
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- physicianpoliticianprofessions libérales et assimilés
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Geneviève Darrieussecq is a French physician and politician of Democratic Movement (MoDem) who served as Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in 2024 and as Minister for People with Disabilities in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2023. From 2017 to 2022, she was the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex.
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Maurice Duverger
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristpolitical scientist
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Maurice Duverger was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente. Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in Bordeaux, France. An emeritus professor of the Sorbonne and member of the FNSP, he has published many books and articles in newspapers, such as Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, El País, and especially Le Monde.
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Michel Kafando
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Michel Kafando is a Burkinabé diplomat who served as the transitional President of Burkina Faso from 2014 to 2015. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1983 and was the Permanent Representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations from 1998 to 2011.
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Marie Patouillet
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- Studied in 2014-2014
- Occupations
- sport cyclistphysicianathlete
- Biography
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Marie Patouillet is a French cyclist who competes in C5 classification, physician, and LGBT+ activist.
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Léon Duguit
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- university teacherphilosopher of lawjurist
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Léon Duguit was a leading French scholar of public law (droit public). After a stint at Caen from 1882 to 1886, he was appointed to a chair of constitutional law at the University of Bordeaux in 1892, where one of his colleagues was Émile Durkheim.
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Nicole Bricq
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Bricq was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Seine-et-Marne department.
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Théophile Obenga
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- politicianhistorianegyptologistlinguist
- Biography
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Théophile Obenga is professor emeritus in the Africana Studies Center at San Francisco State University. He is a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. Obenga is an Egyptologist, linguist, and historian.
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Marcel Cachin
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- publisherpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marcel Cachin was a French Communist politician and editor of the daily newspaper L'Humanite.
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Jean Carbonnier
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- professeur des universitésjurist
- Biography
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Jean Carbonnier was one of the most important French jurists of the 20th century. He was a civil law specialist and a private law professor.
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Maurice Hauriou
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- university teacherphilosopher of lawjuristsociologist
- Biography
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Maurice Hauriou was a French jurist and sociologist whose writings shaped French administrative law in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Thanat Khoman
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Thanat Khoman was a Thai diplomat and politician. He was foreign minister from 1959 to 1971, leader of the Democrat Party from 1979 to 1982, and deputy prime minister from 1980 to 1983. He died at the age of 101 on 3 March 2016, a couple of months shy of his 102nd birthday.
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Sadet Karabulut
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- Studied political science
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Sadet Karabulut is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish descent. As a member of the Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij), she has been an MP since 30 November 2006. She focuses on matters of social affairs (poverty reduction, social assistance, purchasing power, child benefits), female emancipation, and social integration.
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Hélène Laporte
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- corporate administrative and commercial executivepoliticianmiscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retirees
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Hélène Laporte is a French politician who was elected as a National Rally (part of the Identity and Democracy) group Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.
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Michel Crépeau
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Michel Crépeau was a French centre-left politician.
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Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh
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- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current vice president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. Jalloh is a political scientist, businessman and a former United Nations official. Jalloh is a senior member of the Sierra Leone People's Party.
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Samuel Pozzi
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- translatorpoliticianphysiciannumismatistpoet
- Biography
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Samuel Jean Pozzi was a French surgeon and gynecologist. He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. He is remembered today for John Singer Sargent's portrait of him.
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Reza Taghipour
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Reza Taghipour Anvari is an Iranian conservative politician who was the Minister of Communications from 2009 to 2012. He was elected as a member of Tehran City Council in 2013 local elections.
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Wilhem Belocian
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- hurdlerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Wilhem Belocian is a French hurdler and sprinter from Guadeloupe.
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Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré
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- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré is a Burkinabé politician who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 24 January 2019 to 9 December 2021. He was appointed to the position of Prime Minister by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré following the resignation of Paul Kaba Thieba and his cabinet. Dabiré had previously represented Burkina Faso at the West African Economic and Monetary Union, and went on to serve as a minister under former president Blaise Compaoré from 1994 to 1996, with Kaboré holding the title of Prime Minister.
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Anne Lacaton
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- architect
- Biography
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Anne Lacaton is a French architect and educator. She runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Jean-Philippe Vassal. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize.
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Jean Ybarnégaray
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- politician
- Biography
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Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnégaray was a French Basque politician and founder of the International Federation of Basque Pelota.
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Gabriel Tual
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- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Gabriel Tual is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres.
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Mahamat Saleh Haroun
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- film screenwriterfilm producerscreenwriterfilm directorjournalist
- Biography
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Though he has lived in France since 1982, most of his films have been set in and made in Chad.
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Alain Vidalies
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Alain Vidalies was the French Secretary of State for Transport, the Sea and Fisheries from 26 August 2014 to 10 May 2017. He represents the Landes department in the National Assembly of France, and is a member of the Socialist Party and of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche parliamentary group.
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Anne-Marie Garat
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- writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Anne-Marie Garat was a French novelist. She won the Prix Femina for her novel Aden in 1992 and the Prix Marguerite-Audoux for her novel Les mal famées.
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Émile Boirac
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- Esperantistpsychicphilosopherpsychologist
- Biography
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Émile Boirac was a French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer.
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Pierre Camou
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- rugby union executivebankerrugby union player
- Biography
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Pierre Camou was a French rugby union administrator. He was the President of the French Rugby Federation from 2008 to 2016, before he was succeeded by Bernard Laporte. Prior to becoming President of the FFR he was also the treasurer then vice-president of FIRA-AER.
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Pascal Salin
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- economist
- Biography
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Pascal Salin is a French economist, professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance and monetary economics. He is a former president of the Mont Pelerin Society (1994 to 1996).
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Daniel Bacquelaine
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Daniel Alain Marie Bacquelaine is a Belgian Walloon politician. As a member of the Reformist Movement, he served as the Federal Minister for Pensions in the Michel Government and Wilmès Government and a member of parliament since 1994.
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James Joll
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- historianbiographer
- Biography
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James Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism.
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Shaf Baloch Keshavjee
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- 1993-1994 graduated with fellowship
- Occupations
- surgeonresearcher
- Biography
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Shaf Keshavjee is a Canadian surgeon and the current Surgeon-in-Chief at University Health Network in Toronto, the Director of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, as well as a clinical scientist and professor with the University of Toronto.
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Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien
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- professeur des universitésjurist
- Biography
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Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien is a French professor of law.
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Laure Gatet
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- deported French resistancebiochemistpharmacistFrench resistance fighter
- Biography
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Laure Gatet was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.
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Max Brisson
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- politician
- Biography
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Max Brisson is a French politician of The Republicans serving as a member of the Senate since 2017. He has served as spokesperson for the Senate Republicans since 2024.
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Claude Arpi
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- writerjournalisthistorian
- Biography
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Claude Arpi is French-born author, journalist, and tibetologist born in 1949 in Angoulême who lives in Auroville, India. He is the author of several books including The Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects, and several articles on Tibet, China, India and Indo-French relations.
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Joaquín Sánchez de Toca Calvo
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- politicianwriterhistorianlawyer
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Joaquín Sánchez de Toca y Calvo was a Spanish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister in 1919.
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Augustin Cabanès
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- writerhistorianphysician writerjournalist
- Biography
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Dr. Augustin Cabanès was a French medical doctor, historian and writer of numerous works of fiction and history. He was known for his books on historical medical mysteries.
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Esther Seligson
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- journalisthistorianpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Esther Seligson was a Mexican writer, poet, translator, and historian. She was an academic, with a wide range of interests including art, cultural history, Jewish philosophy, mythology, religion and theater. She published books, poems, short stories and translations. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize and the Magda Donato Award for her literary contributions.
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Vincent Bru
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- professors, scientific professionspolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Bru is a French politician representing the Democratic Movement. He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 6th constituency of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
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Mireille Gingras
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- entrepreneurneurobiologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Mireille Gingras Gillings, is a US-based Canadian neurobiologist and entrepreneur. She founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm in 2004, and is the San Diego, California, company's CEO and Executive Chair. The company has offices in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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Julie Thibaud
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- association football player
- Biography
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Julie Martine Thibaud is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Leicester City and the France national team.
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Jean-Fernand Audeguil
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- French resistance fighterpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Fernand Audeguil was a French professor, a member of the resistance and a politician.
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Francis Fontan
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- cardiac surgeonsurgeonresearchercardiologist
- Biography
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Francis Fontan was a French cardiologist and cardiothoracic surgeon best known for developing the Fontan procedure, a surgical procedure used to treat some forms of congenital heart disease.
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Aubrey Willis Williams
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- social worker
- Biography
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Aubrey Willis Williams was an American social and civil rights activist who headed the National Youth Administration during the New Deal.
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Jean-Philippe Ardouin
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- politician
- Biography
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Jean-Philippe Ardouin is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly from the 2017 elections to 2024, representing the department of Charente-Maritime.
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Jean Abadie
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- psychiatristneurologist
- Biography
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Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie was a French neurologist who is remembered for naming Abadie's symptom.
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Nagoum Yamassoum
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- In 1988 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nagoum Yamassoum is a Chadian politician who was Prime Minister of Chad from 1999 to 2002 and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005. He is from the district of Grande Sido in the region of Moyen Chari.
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Joachim Hahn
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- university teacheranthropologistprehistorianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Joachim Hahn was a German archaeologist and expert on the Upper Paleolithic era.
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Manon Cormier
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- officialwomen's rights activistlawyerwriterFrench resistance fighter
- Biography
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Madeleine Cormier, known as Manon Cormier, was a lawyer and feminist writer. Active and activist, Manon Cormier undertakes a doctorate of Law at the Faculty of Bordeaux, and in parallel engages in many associations. She was the president of the Bordeaux Students' Association, a member of charities, such as the French Red Cross, involved in the Women's Liberation Movement as founder and president of the Gironde section of the French League for Women's Rights, founder of the Soroptimist Club of Bordeaux. A resistance fighter during World War II, Cormier was arrested and imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp. She survived until liberation but was heavily weakened and died in Paris after the war's conclusion.
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Éric Girardin
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- corporate administrative and commercial executivepoliticiananciens artisans, commerçants, chefs d'entreprise
- Biography
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Éric Girardin is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2024, representing the department of Marne.
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Marie-France Vignéras
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Marie-France Vignéras is a French mathematician. She is a Professor Emeritus of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. She is known for her proof published in 1980 of the existence of isospectral non-isometric Riemann surfaces. Such surfaces show that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum. Another highlight of her work is the establishment of the mod-l local Langlands correspondence for GL(n) in 2000. Her current work concerns the p-adic Langlands program.
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Mamadou Ismaïla Konate
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Mamadou Ismaïla Konate is a Malian lawyer. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers before creating his own firm in Bamako, Jurifis Consult, in 1998. On 7 July 2016 he was appointed Malian Secretary of State for Justice and took leave from the Paris and Bamako Bars and from his firm. He left office on 27 November 2017.
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Étienne Fouvry
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Bordeaux
- In 1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Étienne Fouvry is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory.
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Chantal Bourragué
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chantal Bourragué is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the first constituency of the Gironde department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
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Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau
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- pharmacistbotanist
- Biography
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Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard, name sometimes given as Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau was a French pharmacist and botanist.
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Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka
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- writerpoliticianpoet
- Biography
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Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka was a Malagasy writer, poet, and politician. He was born in Fianarantsoa, and studied at the University of Bordeaux 3 and Paris-Sorbonne University. In 1977, he was elected to the National Assembly of Madagascar, and was also elected its president. He won reelection in 1983 and 1989, and was reelected president each year until 1991, when the National Assembly was dissolved. In addition to his political career, he was a writer and poet, best known for his work involved the oral tradition of several Malagasy ethnic groups.
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Henri Moysset
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Henri Moysset was a French historian and politician. He was a scholar of the history of socialism, especially Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He was the French Minister of State for the Coordination of New Institutions from 1941 to 1942. He was a vocal critic of Pan-Germanism, and he influenced many of Vichy France's social policies.
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Hélène Ruiz Fabri
- Occupations
- university teacherresearcheracademicjurist
- Biography
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Hélène Ruiz Fabri is a French jurist and Professor of Law. She was a Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law until it got closed.
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Robert Francis Scharff
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- zoologist
- Biography
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Robert Francis Scharff was an English zoologist, known for his lifetime of work in Ireland and contributions to the understanding of Irish flora and fauna. He was acting director of the National Museum of Ireland from 1916 to 1922.
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Lucinda Backwell
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- academicarchaeologist
- Biography
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Lucinda Backwell is an archaeologist and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She obtained her MSc in palaeoanthropology (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in 2000. Her PhD in palaeoanthropology was awarded in 2004, making her the first South African woman to be awarded a PhD in palaeoanthropology at a local institution.
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Maite Axiari
- Occupations
- psychologistactivist
- Biography
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Maite Axiari was a French Basque feminist activist.
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Friedhelm Hummel
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- neurologistresearcherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Friedhelm Christoph Hummel is a German neuroscientist and neurologist. A full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, he is the Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, and the head of the Hummel Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences. He also is an associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Geneva.
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Luc Plissonneau
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Luc Plissonneau is a French screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing the short films Fil Rouge, Angela est partie, and Les Mains.
