43 Notable alumni of
University of Nantes
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The University of Nantes is 1114th in the world, 396th in Europe, and 37th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 43 notable alumni from the University of Nantes sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sylvie Tellier
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Sylvie Tellier is a French television personality, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2002. Previously, Tellier had been crowned Miss Lyon 2001, becoming the seventh woman from Rhône-Alpes to be crowned Miss France. As Miss France, Tellier also competed at Miss Universe 2002.
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Jean-Marc Ayrault
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- politician
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Jean-Marc Joseph Marcel Ayrault is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2012 to 31 March 2014. He later was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2017. He previously was Mayor of Nantes from 1989 to 2012 and led the Socialist Party group in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2012.
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François Bégaudeau
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- literary criticscreenwriterfilm directorwriteractor
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François Bégaudeau is a French novelist and essayist. He is best known for co-writing and starring in The Class (2008), a film based on his 2006 semi-autobiographical novel Entre les murs. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.
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Sarah El Haïry
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- corporate administrative and commercial executivepoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
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Sarah El Haïry is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem). She most recently served as Minister Delegate for Youth, Childhood, and Family in the Attal government in 2024. Previously, she was Secretary of State for Biodiversity from 2023 to 2024 in the Borne government.
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Laurent Berger
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- Graduated with French university master in history
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Laurent Berger is a French labor leader. He has been the general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) between 2012 and 2023.
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Sophie Binet
- Occupations
- trade unionistPrincipal Educational Adviser
- Biography
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Sophie Binet is a French trade unionist who has served as general secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) since 2023.
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Claire Bretécher
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- Graduated with French university master in psychology
- Occupations
- comics artist
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Claire Bretécher was a French cartoonist, known particularly for her portrayals of women and gender issues. Her comics often narrated femininity from a different perspective and reinterpretted gender roles. Her creations included the satirical comic series Les Frustrés, and the unimpressed teenager Agrippine.
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Stéphane Le Foll
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- professors, scientific professionsministerpoliticiansecondary school teacher
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Stéphane Le Foll is a French politician serving as Mayor of Le Mans since 2018. A member of the Socialist Party, he was Minister of Agriculture under President François Hollande from 2012 to 2017.
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Jeanne Cherhal
- Occupations
- singer-songwriteractor
- Biography
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Jeanne Cherhal is a French singer-songwriter.
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Alain Mabanckou
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- poet lawyeruniversity teacherwriterchildren's writerpoet
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Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
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Piyabutr Saengkanokkul
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- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Piyabutr Saengkanokkul is a Thai socialist academic, associate professor, former politician, and Secretary-General of the Progressive Movement, a socio-political group. He served as a member of the Thai House of Representatives and was the first and only Secretary-General for the Future Forward Party, which he co-founded in 2018. Prior to his political career, Piyabutr was an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. He has worked as a constitutional law professor for more than 16 years. In 2020, he was banned from national politics by the Constitutional Court.
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Claude Sérillon
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- journalistnews presenter
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Claude Sérillon, is a French journalist and TV presenter.
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Jacqueline Auriol
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
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Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Auriol was a French aviator who set several world speed records.
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Pierre Bordage
- Occupations
- science fiction writerscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Pierre Bordage was a French science fiction author. He won the Cosmos 2000 prize in 1996 for his novel La Citadelle Hyponéros.
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Yvonne Okoro
- Occupations
- entrepreneuractor
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Chinyere Yvonne Okoro is a Ghanaian and Nigerian actress. Born to a Nigerian Igbo father and Ghanaian mother, Yvonne Okoro is of mixed lineage and calls herself an African. Yvonne Okoro is from Koforidua in the Eastern Parts of Ghana. She received Ghana Movie Awards Best Actress Award in 2010 and was nominated for Africa Movie Academy Awards Best Actress twice in a row in 2011 and 2012 for her movies Pool Party and Single Six. She has also received four Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Award and in 2012 was honoured with a Distinguished Achievement Award at the Nigeria Excellence Awards.
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Jean Rouaud
- Occupations
- writernovelistessayistcolumnist
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Jean Rouaud is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory (French: Les Champs d'honneur) won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author.
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Patrick Deville
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- writer
- Biography
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Patrick Deville is a French writer.
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Christian Bouchet
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- essayistpolitical activistpublisher
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Christian Bouchet is a French far-right journalist and politician.
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Germain Boffrand
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- writersculptorengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsarchitect
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Germain Boffrand was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself. In his exteriors he held to a monumental Late Baroque classicism with some innovations in spatial planning that were exceptional in France. His major commissions, culminating in his interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise, were memorialised in his treatise Livre d'architecture, published in 1745, which served to disseminate the French Louis XV style throughout Europe.
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Pierre Henriet
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- professors, scientific professionspolitician
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Pierre Henriet is a French politician of the Renaissance (previously La République En Marche! (LREM)) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Vendée.
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Paul Christophe
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- Class A officialpoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
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Paul Christophe is a French politician who has represented Nord's 14th constituency in the National Assembly since 2017. From September to December 2024, he briefly served as Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy, and Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
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Janet Anderson
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- politician
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Janet Anderson was a British politician from the Labour Party. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 1992 until 2010, when she lost her seat. She was the Minister for Tourism from 1998 to 2001, a period which included the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak. In the 2009 United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, she was found to have claimed costs for journeys she had not made.
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Christian Baudelot
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- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Christian Baudelot is a French sociologist based at the École normale supérieure. Many of his works have been written in collaboration with Roger Establet.
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Nicolae Crețulescu
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- translatorlinguistphysicianpolitician
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Nicolae Kretzulescu was a Wallachian, later Romanian politician and physician. An aristocrat and member of the Kretzulescu family, he served two terms as Prime Minister of Romania: from 1862 to 1863, and from 1865 to 1866. He was also elected to the Romanian Academy, serving as its 3rd president from 1872 to 1873.
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Keïta Aminata Maiga
- Born in
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Mali - Occupations
- politician
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Keïta Aminata Maiga, also known as Aminata Maïga Keïta, is a Malian healthcare, public health, and children's advocate, and the widow of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Under this capacity, she served as the First Lady of Mali from 4 September 2013 until 19 August 2020. During her tenure as first lady, Maiga has promoted improvements in healthcare, education, the welfare of mothers and children, the environment and athletics. Maiga, an opponent of child marriage, launched a national campaign in October 2015 to end the practice in Mali.
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Marion Guillou
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- agronomist
- Biography
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Marion Guillou is a French scientist specialized in global food security.
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Julie Dachez
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 41)
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- In 2016 graduated with doctorate in France in psychology
- Occupations
- researcherwritercomics writerfilm actoractivist
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Julie Dachez is a French social psychologist, lecturer and autistic rights activist. She's the author of Invisible Differences and Dans ta bulle! ('In your dreams!'). In 2016, she became the first openly autistic person to defend a thesis on the subject in France.
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Valérie Oppelt
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- commerçants et assimiléscorporate administrative and commercial executivepolitician
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Valérie Oppelt is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.
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Matéo Bohéas
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- table tennis playerathlete
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Matéo Bohéas is a French Paralympic table tennis player. He won silver in the Men's individual class 10 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
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Tertius Zongo
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Tertius Zongo was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from June 2007 to April 2011.
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Philippe Latombe
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- Graduated with French masters degree
- Occupations
- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
- Biography
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Philippe Alcibiade Marie-Joseph Latombe is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has represented the 1st constituency of the Vendée department in the National Assembly since 2017.
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Pierre-Yves Le Borgn'
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- politician
- Biography
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Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ is a French Jurist and politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party (France). He was the deputy for the Seventh constituency for French residents overseas from 2012 to 2017.
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François Bréda
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- Graduated with French university master
- Occupations
- playwrightpoetliterary critictranslatoressayist
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François Bréda was a Hungarian-Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.
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Amy Dahan
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
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- mathematicianDirector of Research at CNRShistorian of science
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Amy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change.
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Stéphane Buchou
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- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
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Stéphane Buchou is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 election, representing the department of Vendée. He is a member of Renaissance (RE).
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Jörg M. Fegert
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- child psychiatristuniversity teacherpsychiatristauthorpsychotherapist
- Biography
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Jörg Michael Fegert is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and university professor.
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Martine Leguille-Balloy
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- In 1999 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- professions libérales et assimiléslawyerpolitician
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Martine Leguille-Balloy is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Vendée.
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Martin Parfait Aimé Coussoud-Mavoungou
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- administratorbusinesspersonministerpolitician
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Martin Parfait Aimé Coussoud-Mavoungou was a Congolese politician and businessman.
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Christophe Clergeau
- Enrolled in the University of Nantes
- 1987-1989 studied economics
- Occupations
- university teacherbusiness executivepolitician
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Christophe Clergeau is a French politician from the Socialist Party.
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Charles des Jamonières
- Occupations
- poetsport shooter
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Charles des Jamonières was a French sport shooter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, in the 1948 Summer Olympics, and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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Jean-Marc Coicaud
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- lawyerphilosopher
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Jean-Marc Coicaud is a French and American legal and political theorist focusing on global issues, among numerous other topics. He is Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea. Over the years, he has lived and worked in Europe, the Americas (the United States and Latin America), and Asia (Japan, China, and Taiwan). His professional trajectory has combined serving as a policy practitioner at the national, regional, and global levels, and as a scholar and professor in academia.
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Brigette Boucheron
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- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- women's rights activistcivil libertarianproofreader
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Brigitte Boucheron is a French feminist and anarchist Lesbian activist. She was a co-founder of the women-only Bagdam Cafée in Toulouse which opened in 1988. The cafe closed in 1999 but the name lives on with annual events as a focus for lesbian culture.
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Chloe Sauvourel
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- swimmer
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Chloé Marie Hélène Sauvourel is a French-born Central African swimmer. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 50 metre freestyle event; her time of 37.15 seconds in the heats did not qualify her for the semifinals. She was the flagbearer for her country at the Parade of Nations.
