100 Notable alumni of
University of Montpellier
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The University of Montpellier is 523rd in the world, 194th in Europe, and 13th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Montpellier sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nostradamus
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- mathematicianphysician writerwriterpharmacistphysician
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Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
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Petrarch
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- 1316-1320 studied law
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- poettranslatorphilosopherautobiographerwriter
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Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, and one of the earliest humanists.
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Enver Hoxha
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- politician
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Enver Hoxha was an Albanian Communist politician who was the dictator of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country.
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François Rabelais
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- writerphysician writernovelisthumoristmonk
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François Rabelais, has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both John Calvin and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, and diplomat, later he became better known as a satirist, for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
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Ahmed Shawqi
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- writerpoettranslatorlinguistplaywright
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Ahmed Shawqi, nicknamed the Prince of Poets (Arabic: أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’), was an Egyptian poet laureate, Linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World.
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Taha Hussein
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- literary critictranslatorliterary scholarliterary historianhistorian
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Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times.
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Didier Raoult
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Studied in 1982
- Studied in 1983
- Studied in 1985
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- infectious disease physicianmicrobiologistProfesseur des universités – Praticien hospitalier
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Didier Raoult is a retired French physician and microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases. He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the Rickettsia Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes. He gained significant worldwide attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for vocally promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease, despite the lack of evidence for its effectiveness and the subsequent opposition from NIH and WHO to its use for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
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Guillaume Musso
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- novelistwriter
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Guillaume Musso is a French novelist. He is one of the most popular contemporary French authors.
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Ramon Llull
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- missionarytheologianclericwriterphilosopher
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Ramon Llull, anglicised as Raymond Lully or Lull, was a philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, Christian apologist and former knight from the Kingdom of Majorca.
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Alexander Grothendieck
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Studied in 1945-1948
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- university teachermathematician
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Alexander Grothendieck was a French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics. He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century.
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Robert Ménard
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- journalistpoliticianessayist
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Robert Ménard is a French far-right politician serving as Mayor of Béziers. Formerly a journalist, he was a co-founder of the Paris-based international non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders, acting as its general-secretary from 1985 to 2008. He subsequently participated in the launch of the conservative information website Boulevard Voltaire in 2012. An independent politician since 1981, he was elected as mayor of Béziers in 2014 with the support of the National Front. He joined the Les Amoureux de la France alliance in 2017.
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Sahle-Work Zewde
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- politiciandiplomat
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Sahle-Work Zewde is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who is the president of Ethiopia since 2018, being the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
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Alexis Corbière
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- politicianteacher
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Alexis Corbière is a French politician. A member of La France Insoumise (FI), he has been member of the National Assembly for the 7th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis department since 2017. Corbière is also a spokesperson for La France Insoumise and the party's leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2017 French presidential election.
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Mohed Altrad
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- businesspersonrugby union executivewriter
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Mohed Altrad is a French-Syrian billionaire businessman, rugby chairman and writer, born c. March 1948. He was born to a very young mother and his Bedouin father gave him away to his grandparents at age four following his mother's death. In 2015, Altrad was named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year.
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Khieu Samphan
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- politician
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Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian former communist politician and economist who was the chairman of the state presidium of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) from 1976 until 1979. As such, he served as Cambodia's head of state and was one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, although Pol Pot remained the General Secretary (highest official) in the party.
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Guillaume de Nogaret
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- politicianjurist
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Guillaume de Nogaret was a French statesman, councilor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France.
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Benedict XIII of Avignon
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- Latin Catholic priestuniversity teacherLatin Catholic bishop
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Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor, known as el Papa Luna in Spanish and Pope Luna in English, was an Aragonese nobleman who, as Benedict XIII, is considered an antipope (see Western Schism) by the Catholic Church.
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Ariel Henry
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- physicianpoliticianneurosurgeon
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Ariel Henry is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who has served as the acting prime minister of Haiti since 20 July 2021 after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. He later became involved in a controversy due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities over his links with Joseph-Félix Badio, one of the suspects accused of orchestrating the assassination of President Moïse on 7 July 2021. Officers who investigated the case suspected Henry was involved with planning the assassination.
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Thomas Browne
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- physician writerwriterphysicianphilosopher
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Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence.
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Qasim Amin
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Studied in 1881-1885
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- writerProtestant reformerwomen's rights activistjuristphilosopher
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Qasim Amin was an Egyptian jurist, Islamic Modernist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University. Qasim Amin has been historically viewed as one of the Arab world's "first feminists", although he joined the discourse on women's rights quite late in its development, and his "feminism" has been the subject of scholarly controversy. Amin was an Egyptian philosopher, reformer, judge, member of Egypt's aristocratic class, and central figure of the Nahda movement. His advocacy of greater rights for women catalyzed debate over women's issues in the Arab world. He criticized veiling, seclusion, early marriage, and lack of education of Muslim women. More recent scholarship has argued that he internalized a colonialist discourse on women's issues in the Islamic world, regarded Egyptian women as objects serving to achieve national aspirations, and in practice advocated reforms that diminished the legal rights of women in marriage contracts.
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Mikhail Gurevich
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- aerospace engineerinventoraircraft 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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Paul Gachet
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- psychiatristart collectorpainterphysician
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Paul-Ferdinand Gachet was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement. He was an amateur painter, signing his works "Paul van Ryssel", referring to his birthplace: Rijsel is the Dutch name of Lille.
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Stamen Grigorov
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Studied natural science
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- physicianmicrobiologistscientist
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Stamen Gigov Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbiologist. He discovered the Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacillus, used in the making of yogurt.
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Conrad Gessner
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- linguistnaturalistbotanistuniversity teacherbibliographer
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Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zürich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine. He became Zürich's city physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography (Bibliotheca universalis 1545–1549) and zoology (Historia animalium 1551–1558) and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to describe species of plants or animals in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559. A number of plants and animals have been named after him.
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Uta Ranke-Heinemann
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- writertheologianuniversity teacherCatholic theologian
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Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a German theologian, academic, and author. In 1969, she was the first woman in the world to be habilitated in Catholic theology. She held a chair of ancient Church history and the New Testament at the University of Duisburg-Essen. When her license to teach was revoked by the bishop because of her critical position in matters of faith, the university created a nondenominational chair of History of Religion. Her 1988 book Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, criticising the Catholic Church's stance on women and sexuality, was published in several editions, and translated in 12 languages. Her 1992 book Nein und Amen, revised in 2002, said there were "fairy tales you don't need to believe to have a living faith".
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Nabila Mounib
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- physicianpoliticianprofessor
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Nabila Mounib is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as the General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). She is the first woman to be elected head of a Moroccan party.
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Adamantios Korais
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- writerphilosopherlinguistphilologistliterary critic
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Adamantios Korais or Koraïs was a Greek scholar credited with laying the foundations of modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and the emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as Katharevousa. Encyclopædia Britannica asserts that "his influence on the modern Greek language and culture has been compared to that of Dante on Italian and Martin Luther on German".
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Arnaldus de Villa Nova
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- diplomatalchemisttheologianphysicianphilosopher
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Arnaldus de Villa Nova was a physician and a religious reformer.
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Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol
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- psychiatrist
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Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol was a French psychiatrist.
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Guy de Chauliac
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- canonphysiciansurgeon
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Guy de Chauliac, also called Guido or Guigo de Cauliaco (c. 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages (including Middle English) and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe.
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Valérie Gauvin
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- association football player
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Valérie Marie Christelle Gauvin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Division 2 Féminine club Montauban FCTG.
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Manouchehr Eghbal
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- university teacherpoliticianphysician
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Manouchehr Eghbal was an Iranian physician and royalist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1957 to 1960.
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Jacques Bompard
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- pensionerprofessions libérales et assimiléspolitician
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Jacques Bompard is a French politician who has presided over the League of the South (LS) since he co-founded in 2010. He served as Mayor of Orange from 1995 to 2021 and a member of the National Assembly for Vaucluse from 1986 to 1988, elected at-large, before returning from 2012 until 2017, when he represented its 4th constituency.
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Gaston Thorn
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianbankerresistance fighter
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Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. Amongst the posts that he held were the 20th prime minister of Luxembourg (1974–1979), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and the seventh president of the European Commission (1981–1985).
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Carolus Clusius
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- university teachermycologistornithologisttranslatorbotanist
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Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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- mycologistpteridologistbotanistphysicianprofessor
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
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Julien Sanchez
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- permanent politicianpoliticianmiscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retirees
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Julien Sanchez is a French politician.
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Albert Zafy
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- politiciansurgeon
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Albert Zafy was a Malagasy politician and educator who served as the fourth President of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996. In 1988, he founded the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD).
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Jean Pierre Flourens
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- professorphysiologistanatomistbiologistphysician
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Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, father of Gustave Flourens, was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science, and a pioneer in anesthesia.
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Gilles-Éric Séralini
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- professormolecular biologist
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Gilles-Éric Séralini is a French molecular biologist, political advisor and activist on genetically modified organisms and foods. He is of Algerian-French origin. Séralini has been a professor of molecular biology at the University of Caen since 1991, and is president and chairman of the board of CRIIGEN.
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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
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- naturalistnumismatistastronomerarchaeologistphilosopher
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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. His research included a determination of the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa.
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Jakob Arjouni
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- science fiction writerwriterplaywright
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Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.
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René Grousset
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- historianart historiancurator
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René Grousset was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française. He wrote several major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations, with his two most important works being Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934–1936) and The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (1939), both of which were considered standard references on the subject.
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William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
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- aristocratmilitary leader
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Wilhelm, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, born Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, was a German ruler of the County of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, an important military commander in the Seven Years' War, Generalfeldzeugmeister of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a British field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and the grandson of George I of Great Britain.
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Samuel-Auguste Tissot
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- physicianuniversity teacher
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Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was a notable 18th-century Swiss physician.
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Jacques Curie
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- university teacherchemistphysicistmineralogistscientist
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Jacques Curie was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.
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Pierre Charron
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- writertheologianclericphilosopher
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Pierre Charron, French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.
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Charles Debbas
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Graduated with doctorate in law
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Debbas was a Greek Orthodox Lebanese political figure. He was the first President of Lebanon (before independence) and served from 1 September 1926 to 2 January 1934, under the French Mandate of Lebanon (known as Greater Lebanon). He also served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon from January to October 1934.
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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
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- physicistuniversity teacherhydraulic engineerschool teachermathematician
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Joseph Valentin Boussinesq was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.
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François Gigot de la Peyronie
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- surgeon
- Biography
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François Gigot de la Peyronie was a French surgeon who was born in Montpellier, France. His name is associated with a condition known as Peyronie's disease.
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Jean Astruc
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- writerprofessorphysicianphysician writerexegete
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Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. Astruc was the first to try to demonstrate, by using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics, the theory that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach now called the documentary hypothesis.
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Mohammed Moussaoui
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- university teacher
- Biography
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Mohammed Moussaoui is the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith.
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Mustapha Adib
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- Graduated with doctorate in France
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- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mustapha Abdul Wahed Adib is a Lebanese diplomat, politician and academic who has served as Lebanese Ambassador to Germany since 11 July 2013. In 2020, he was chosen as the prime minister-designate but stepped down when he failed to form a cabinet. He is well known for his academic research and expertise work in the fields of Human and State Security, Electoral laws and parliamentary oversight of the security sector.
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Bartolomé Bennassar
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherassistant professor
- Biography
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Bartolomé Bennassar was a French historian and writer. He specialized in Spanish and Latin American history.
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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed
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- politician
- Biography
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Ismaïl Ould Cheikh Ahmed is a Mauritanian diplomat and politician. He served as a United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen and was therefore head of the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen from 25 April 2015 to 26 February 2018.
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Édouard Roche
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- astronomermathematicianuniversity teachermeteorologist
- Biography
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Édouard Albert Roche was a French astronomer and mathematician, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. His name was given to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit, and Roche lobe. He also was the author of works in meteorology.
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Urs Widmer
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- writer
- Biography
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Urs Widmer was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer.
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Mélissa Plaza
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- In 2016 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mélissa Plaza is a French football player who last played for EA Guingamp of the Division 1 Féminine. She plays as a defensive midfielder. Plaza is a former women's youth international having played with the under-20 team at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and is a currently a member of the senior team making her debut in 2009. She also played with the France team at 2009 Summer Universiade Games where she netted two goals.
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Bernard de Jussieu
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- naturalistphysicianbotanist
- Biography
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Bernard de Jussieu was a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.
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Josias Braun-Blanquet
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- In 1915 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistbotanist
- Biography
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Josias Braun-Blanquet was an influential phytosociologist and botanist. Braun-Blanquet was born in Chur, Switzerland, and died in Montpellier, France.
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David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral
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- politiciansolicitor
- Biography
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David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, MBE, PC is a British Conservative politician who served as a member of the Cabinet during the Thatcher and Major ministries, and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1990.
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Jan of Jenštejn
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- writerCatholic priestpoetcomposerphilosopher
- Biography
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Jan z Jenštejna was a Bohemian archbishop, composer and poet. From 1379 to 1396 he was the Archbishop of Prague. He studied in Bologna, Padova, Montpellier and Paris.
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François Brottes
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- politicianradio personality
- Biography
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François Brottes was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Isère's 5th constituency from 1997 to 2012 as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. Brottes also serves as the mayor of Crolles. In 2012 he was appointed director of Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, and was replaced in the assembly by his substitute, Pierre Rebeaud.
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Jacques Dubois
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- anatomistphysicianprofessor
- Biography
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Jacques Dubois was a French anatomist. Dubois was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey. He was the brother of Franciscus Sylvius Ambianus (François Dubois; c. 1483 – 1536), professor of humanities at the Collège de Tournai, Paris.
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Olivier Clément
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- poethistorianwritertheologian
- Biography
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Olivier-Maurice Clément was a French Eastern Orthodox theologian who taught at St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, France. He actively promoted the reunification of Christians (he was friends with Pope John Paul II), dialogue between Christians and people of other beliefs, and the engagement of Christian thinkers with modern thought and society.
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Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc
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- politician
- Biography
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Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc,, was an uncle of Emperor Bảo Đại, and Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam in 1954. He was a great-great-grandson of Emperor Minh Mạng, the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. Both of his great-grandfather Nguyễn Phúc Miên Trinh and grandfather Nguyễn Phúc Hường Thiết were distinguished poets during the reign of Nguyễn dynasty. He later emigrated to Paris and spent his life there until his death in 1990.
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Thomas Mensah
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- entrepreneurscientistinventorengineerchemical engineer
- Biography
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Thomas O. Mensah is a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic manufacturing and nanotechnology. He has 14 patents, and was inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2015. In 2017, Dr. Mensah served as Editor-in-Chief of the textbook Nanotechnology Commercialization, published by John Wiley & Sons.
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Carl-Ludwig Wagner
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Carl-Ludwig Wagner was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Hélène Mandroux
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- politician
- Biography
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Hélène Mandroux-Colas is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (PS) since 1982, her career in Montpellier debuted in Georges Frêche's municipal administration. Frêche gave her important responsibilities such as finances, municipal staff, legal affairs since 1995, and vice-mayor from 2001. She became mayor of Montpellier in 2004, following the resignation of Frêche, who could not cumulate the job as mayor with his new role as President of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region. She defeated her UMP opponent Jacques Domergue in a three-way runoff during the 2008 French municipal elections.
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Yvan Lachaud
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- politician
- Biography
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Yvan Lachaud is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Gard department, and is a member of the New Centre.
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Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert
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- physicianpoliticianuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert was a French politician, botanist, freemason, medical doctor and member of the Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts of Lyon.
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Felix Platter
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- academicpsychiatristuniversity teacherbotanistphysician writer
- Biography
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Felix Platter was a Swiss physician, well known for his classification of psychiatric diseases, and was also the first to describe an intracranial tumour (a meningioma).
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Pierre Morel-A-L'Huissier
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- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Morel-À-L'Huissier is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Lozère department, as a member of UMP, then the Republicans, then UDI. He was deputy for Lozère's 2nd constituency until it was abolished in the 2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies. Then from the 2012 election he represented the new constituency for the whole department.
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Jean Joubert
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- poetchildren's writerwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean Joubert was a French novelist, short story writer, and poet.
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Françoise Dumas
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- politician
- Biography
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Françoise Dumas is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) and of Territories of Progress (TDP) who was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2022, representing Gard's 1st constituency. She was previously a member of the Socialist Party.
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Hichem Hamdouchi
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- chess player
- Biography
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Hichem Hamdouchi is a Moroccan-French chess grandmaster.
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Dun Mikiel Xerri
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- priest
- Biography
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Dun Mikiel Xerri was a Maltese patriot. He was baptised Mikael Archangelus Joseph in the parish church of Żebbuġ on 30 September 1737, the son of Bartholomew Xerri and his wife Anne. Xerri studied at different universities in Europe. He lived under the Knights of St. John during their time in Malta, as well as the French when they took over the Maltese archipelago. He participated in an unsuccessful revolt to overthrow French rule under Napoleon Bonaparte; he, together with other locals, was executed on 17 January 1799 at the age of 61.
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Marie Paule Kieny
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- In 1980 graduated with doctorate in microbiology
- Occupations
- researchervirologistmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Marie-Paule Kieny is a French virologist, vaccinologist, public health expert and science writer. She is currently director of research at INSERM and chief of the board at DNDi.
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Jacques Labillardière
- Occupations
- explorerbotanist
- Biography
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Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the first Flora on the region.
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François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
- Occupations
- physicianprofessorbotanist
- Biography
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François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès. He was the brother of naturalist Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710—1795).
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Matthias de l'Obel
- Occupations
- writerdesignerbotanistphysicianillustrator
- Biography
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Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was a Flemish physician and plant enthusiast who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England. He studied at the University of Montpellier and practiced medicine in the low countries and England, including positions as personal physicians to two monarchs. A member of the sixteenth-century Flemish School of Botany, he wrote a series of major treatises on plants in both Latin and Dutch. He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons. The Lobelia plant is named after him.
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Heinz Ellenberg
- Occupations
- writerbiologistuniversity teacherbotanistecologist
- Biography
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Heinz Ellenberg was a German biologist, botanist and ecologist. Ellenberg was an advocate of viewing ecological systems through holistic means. He developed 9–point scales for rating European plant preferences for light, temperature, continentality (geographic region), nutrients, soil moisture, pH, and salinity.
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Ziza Massika
- Occupations
- nursemilitary personnel
- Biography
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Ziza Massika was an Algerian nurse who died during the Algerian War.
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Jules Émile Planchon
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.
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René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary physician
- Biography
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René-Nicolas Dufriche, baron Desgenettes was a French military doctor. He was chief doctor to the French army in Egypt and at Waterloo.
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Maximilien Sorre
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Maximilien Sorre, known as Max Sorre, was a French geographer whose work was mainly in the areas of biological and human geography.
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Amédée Borrel
- Occupations
- physicianuniversity teacherbotanistvirologist
- Biography
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Amédée Marie Vincent Borrel was a French physician and microbiologist born in Cazouls-lès-Béziers, Hérault.
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Henricus Regius
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherphysicianhead teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Henricus Regius was a Dutch philosopher, physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Utrecht from 1638.
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Sisowath Youtevong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sisowath Youtevong was a Cambodian prince, politician and mathematician, credited as the "Father of Cambodian Democracy", and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Cambodia from December 1946 to July 1947. He was the first to be elected prime minister.
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Élie Doté
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Élie Doté is a Central African politician. He was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from June 2005 to January 2008.
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Raymond Vieussens
- Occupations
- cardiologistanatomistphysician
- Biography
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Raymond Vieussens was a French anatomist from Le Vigan. There is uncertainty regarding the exact year of Vieussens birth, with some sources placing it as late as 1641.
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Audrey Merle
- Occupations
- triathlete
- Biography
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Audrey Merle is a French triathlete. In 2016, she was named in the French team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Thomas Platter the Younger
- Occupations
- writerdiaristuniversity teacherbotanistphysician
- Biography
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Thomas Platter the Younger was a Swiss-born physician, traveller and diarist, the son of the humanist Thomas Platter the Elder.
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Harry Cleaver
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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Harry Cleaver Jr. is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.
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Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
- Occupations
- naturalistuniversity teacherbotanistphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet was a French naturalist who contributed primarily to botany. He was born in Montpellier, where he was educated, and travelled to Morocco, Spain, the Canary Islands, and Southern Africa before returning to France and serving as director of the botanical garden in Montpellier. The tree Broussonetia is named after him.
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Jacques Daléchamps
- Occupations
- physiciantranslatorbotanist
- Biography
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Jacques Daléchamps was a French botanist and physician. When the scholar Isaac Casaubon first established the Greek text of the recently rediscovered Deipnosophistae, it was printed alongside a Latin translation by Daléchamps.
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Malik Dohan al-Hassan
- Enrolled in the University of Montpellier
- In 1951 graduated with diploma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Malik Dohan al-Hassan was an Iraqi politician and academician, who served as Minister of Culture and Information in 1967, headed the Iraqi Bar Association in 2003, and was the Minister of Justice in the Iraqi Interim Government in 2004.
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Ogobara K. Doumbo
- Occupations
- researcherphysicianmedical researcher
- Biography
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Ogobara Doumbo was a Malian medical researcher at the University of Mali. He was recognised as a global leader in malaria research. He was the recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mali, Legion d'honneur and research award on Malaria in Africa.
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Susan P. Holmes
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- biostatisticianstatisticianacademicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Susan P. Holmes is an American statistician and professor at Stanford University. She is noted for her work in applying nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology.
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Théophile de Bordeu
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianencyclopédistes
- Biography
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Théophile de Bordeu was a French physician.
