44 Notable alumni of
University of Lille
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The University of Lille is 1076th in the world, 378th in Europe, and 34th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from the University of Lille sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gérald Darmanin
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- politiciancadres de la fonction publiquecorporate administrative and commercial executivecadre
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Gérald Moussa Jean Darmanin is a French politician serving as Minister of Justice in the Bayrou government. He previously served as Minister of the Interior in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean Castex, Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2020 to 2024.
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Barbara Pompili
- Occupations
- civil employees and civil servantspolitician
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Barbara Pompili is a French politician who served as Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
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Marine Tondelier
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- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
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Marine Tondelier is a French politician who works as the National Secretary of The Ecologists (LE). She was elected to this role after winning 90.8% of the vote in the second round of the party's congress on 10 December 2022.
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Maëva Coucke
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- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Maëva Coucke is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2018. She represented France at Miss World 2018, where she placed in the top twelve, and also represented France at Miss Universe 2019, where she placed in the top ten. Coucke is the third Miss France winner from Nord-Pas-de-Calais within the span of four years, following Iris Mittenaere (2016) and Camille Cerf (2015).
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Jacques Vallée
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- engineerastronomerwriterastrophysicistcomputer scientist
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Jacques Fabrice Vallée is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
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Ève Gilles
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Eve Gilles is a French beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2024. She had previously been crowned Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2023 and is the fourth woman from Nord-Pas-de-Calais to win Miss France. Due to her pixie cut, Gilles was also cited by the French media as the first woman with short hair to become Miss France.
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Johanna Rolland
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- politiciancadres de la fonction publiqueClass A official
- Biography
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Johanna Rolland is a French politician, belonging to the Socialist Party. She is the current mayor of Nantes, being the first woman to hold this position. As of April 2014, she is one of six female mayors of French cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
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Louise de Bettignies
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- covert agentresistance fighter
- Biography
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Louise Marie Jeanne Henriette de Bettignies was a French secret agent who spied on the Germans for the British during World War I using the pseudonym of Alice Dubois.
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Roger Salengro
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- politician
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Roger Henri Charles Salengro was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a few months after taking office, after being hounded by a calumny campaign orchestrated by extreme right-wing newspapers.
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Karima Delli
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- politician
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Karima Delli is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election, 2014 European elections and in the 2019 European elections for the Île-de-France constituency.
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Hervé Berville
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- Graduated with French masters degree
- Occupations
- politiciancadres de la fonction publiquecorporate administrative and commercial executiveeconomist
- Biography
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Hervé Berville is a French economist and politician of Renaissance (RE) who has served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022 and again since 2024, representing the department of Côtes-d'Armor.
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Chakib Benmoussaa
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- Graduated with Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Chakib Benmoussa is a Moroccan diplomat and politician. He previously served as the interior minister of Morocco and has been the lead negotiator for the Moroccan side in the Western Sahara conflict. Since December 2012, he is serving as the Moroccan ambassador to France. Between October 7, 2021 and November 12, 2024, he had served as the education and sports minister.
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Georges Lefebvre
- Occupations
- historian of the French Revolutionprofesseur des universitéshistorian
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Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789. Among his most significant works was the 1924 book Les Paysans du Nord pendant la Révolution française ("The Peasants of the North During the French Revolution"), which was the result of 20 years of research into the role of the peasantry during the revolutionary period.
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Clotilde Reiss
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Clotilde Reiss is a French student accused of being an agent of a French intelligence agency. Her arrest in Iran on espionage charges on 1 July 2009 generated considerable diplomatic controversy. She holds a master's degree from Sciences-Po Lille. At the time of her arrest, she was teaching in Isfahan and writing a master's thesis about teaching history and geography in Iranian schools.
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Noémie Saglio
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 43)
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- Studied in 2000-2004
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actor
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Noémie Saglio is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Yves Navarre
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- writer
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Yves Navarre was a French writer. A gay man, most of his work concerned homosexuality and associated issues, such as AIDS. In his romantic works, Navarre was noted for his tendency to emphasize sensuality and "the mystical qualities of love" rather than sexuality or sensationalism. He was awarded the 1980 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Jardin d'acclimatation.
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Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré
- Years
- 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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Caleb Gattegno
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- In 1951 graduated with Doctor in philosophy
- Occupations
- educatormathematician
- Biography
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Caleb Gattegno was an educator, psychologist, and mathematician. He is considered one of the most influential and prolific mathematics educators of the twentieth century. He is best known for introducing new approaches to teaching and learning mathematics (Visible & Tangible Math), foreign languages (The Silent Way) and reading (Words in Color). Gattegno also developed pedagogical materials for each of these approaches, and was the author of more than 120 books and hundreds of articles largely on the topics of education and human development.
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Firmanzah
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- economist
- Biography
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Firmanzah was an Indonesian academic.
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Sébastien Huyghe
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- politicianprofessions libérales et assimilésnotary
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Sébastien Huyghe is a French politician and member of the Republicans who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2022, representing the Nord department.
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Frédéric Leturque
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- politicianprofessors, scientific professions
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Frédéric Leturque is a French politician serving as mayor of Arras since 2011. He concurrently serves as president of the Communauté urbaine d'Arras since 2020. He has been a member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France since 2016, and was a member of the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais from 2004 to 2010.
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Job
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- comics creatorcomics writerjournalistillustrator
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André Jobin, known as Job, was a Swiss francophone comics creator. He is probably best known for his western children's comics series Yakari, for which he wrote the scripts from 1973 until 2016.
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Valérie Petit
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Valérie Petit is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 elections until 2022, representing the 9th constituency of the department of Nord. From 2016 until 2020, she was a member of La République En Marche! (LREM).
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Fatima Ouassak
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- In 1998 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies in political science
- Occupations
- political scientistactivistessayistconsultant
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Fatima Ouassak, is a French essayist, speaker, public policy consultant, and environmentalist, feminist and anti-racist activist, of Moroccan origin. She is co-founder of the Front de Mères collective, a parents' union in working-class neighborhoods. Her book The Power of Mothers received the Public Prize for Feminist Essay in 2021.
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Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq
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- miscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retireespolitician
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Charlotte Lecocq is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State in charge of People with Disabilities in the successive governments of Prime Ministers Michel Barnier and François Bayrou since 2024. She previously served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2024, representing the department of Nord.
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Yomtob Kalfon
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- politiciansocial activistlawyer
- Biography
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Yomtob Tovchai Kalfon is an Israeli attorney and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yamina.
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Anne-Laure Cattelot
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- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
- Biography
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Anne-Laure Cattelot is a French politician of Renaissance (RE) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France between 2017 and 2022, where she represents the 12th constituency of the Nord.
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Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross
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- politicianeconomistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Sally Ralea Greengross, Baroness Greengross, OBE was a British politician. Awarded an OBE in the 1993 New Year Honours, Greengross was raised to the peerage as Baroness Greengross, of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2000, sitting as a crossbencher.
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Frédérique Macarez
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- politician
- Biography
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Frédérique Macarez is a French politician serving as mayor of Saint-Quentin since 2016. Since 2020, she concurrently serves as president of the communauté d'agglomération du Saint-Quentinois. She has been a member of the Regional Council of Hauts-de-France since 2021.
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Auguste Angellier
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- literary historiandocentpoetwriterdean
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Auguste Angellier was the first teacher of language and English literature at the Faculté de Lettres of Lille, before becoming its dean from 1897 to 1900. A literary critic and historian of literature, he was also a poet, and made sensation at the Sorbonne attacking the theories of Hippolyte Taine in his thesis about Robert Burns in 1893.
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Charles Barrois
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- petrologistuniversity teachermineralogistgeologistpaleontologist
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Charles Eugene Barrois ForMemRS was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
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Claude Prouvoyeur
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- politician
- Biography
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Claude Prouvoyeur was a French politician.
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Jean-Baptiste Soufron
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- 2002-2003 studied corporate law
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Baptiste Soufron is a lawyer and writer in Bordeaux, France. He has been an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the French National Digital Council (2012–2015).
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Christophe Di Pompeo
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- politicianprofessors, scientific professionsmathematician
- Biography
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Christophe Di Pompeo is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Nord. He is a member of Renaissance (RE).
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Catherine Génisson
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- politician
- Biography
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Catherine Génisson is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who represented the Pas-de-Calais department in the National Assembly of France from 1997 to 2011 and later in the French Senate from 2011 to 2017.
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Jonathan Lobert
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- Studied in 2002-2004
- Occupations
- sailor
- Biography
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Jonathan Lobert is a French sailor. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Finn class, where he obtained the bronze medal.
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Mathilde Ollivier
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- 2012-2017 graduated with French masters degree in international relations and European studies
- Occupations
- environmentalistpoliticianpolitical activist
- Biography
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Mathilde Ollivier is a French politician serving as a member of the Senate since 2023. Until 2023, she was a member of the Assembly of French Citizens Abroad and the conseil consulaire.
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Romuald Fonkoua
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterman of lettersliterary scholar
- Biography
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Romuald Fonkoua is a professor of Francophone literature at the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University where he directs the International Center for Francophone Studies.
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Daniel Vincent
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Augustin Daniel Vincent, known as Daniel-Vincent, was a French teacher and politician. He was a deputy from 1910 to 1927, then a senator from 1927 to 1941. During World War I (1914–18) he served as an aviator, then as under secretary of state for Aviation. He tried to make the aircraft industry more effective in delivering planes of sufficient quality and numbers. As Minister of Labor in 1921–22 he introduced France's first social insurance bill. He also served in various cabinets as Minister of Education, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Public Works.
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Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph-Ernest Grégoire CBE was a French Canadian politician.
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Paul Charles Edouard Bertrand
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- Studied in 1900-1904
- Occupations
- paleontologistbotanist
- Biography
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Paul Charles Édouard Bertrand was a French paleobotanist. He was the son of botanist Charles Eugène Bertrand (1851–1917).
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Clotilde-Camille Deflandre
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- In 1910 graduated with doctorate in France in medicine
- Occupations
- physicianscientist
- Biography
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Clotilde-Camille Deflandre was a French scientist primarily known for her discovery with her mentor Paul Carnot of Hémopoïétine" (erythropoietin). She also pioneered work that led to the development of organ transplantation. She was the first woman in France to receive both a "docteur en médicine” (doctorate in medicine) and a docteur ès naturel sciences (doctorate in natural sciences).
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Fatiha Serour
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- politicianofficial
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Fatiha Serour is the Deputy Special Representative for Somalia. She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 30 October 2013.
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Fabrice Jaumont
- Enrolled in the University of Lille
- 1990-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerlanguage teacherpedagogue
- Biography
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Fabrice Jaumont is a French-born author and educator best known for his advocacy for dual-language bilingual education around the world. He is the author of several books translated in multiple languages.
