37 Notable alumni of
University of Orleans
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The University of Orleans is 1447th in the world, 498th in Europe, and 47th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from the University of Orleans sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Calvin
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- Protestant reformertheologianlawyerwriterpastor
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John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Reformed Church movements, including Continental Reformed, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Waldensians, Baptist Reformed, Calvinist Methodism, and Reformed Anglican Churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
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Charles Perrault
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- collector of fairy taleschildren's writercriticpoetart theorist
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Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".
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Olivier Faure
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- politiciancorporate administrative and commercial executive
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Olivier Faure is a French politician who has served as the First Secretary of the Socialist Party since 2018 and Member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne's 11th constituency since 2012. He was elected to the post of first secretary in the party's Aubervilliers Congress and re-elected in the 2021 Villeurbanne Congress. Faure was previously the head of the New Left group (French: Groupe Nouvelle Gauche), the parliamentary group formed around the PS in the National Assembly, from December 2016 to April 2018.
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Étienne de La Boétie
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- poetwriterphilosopherjudgeFrench moralist
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Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
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Jean de La Bruyère
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- writerlawyertranslatoraphoristessayist
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Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
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Jacques Pierre Brissot
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- lawyertranslatorjudgepoliticianjournalist
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Jacques Pierre Brissot, also known as Brissot de Warville, was a French journalist, abolitionist, and revolutionary leading the faction of the Girondins (initially called Brissotins) at the National Convention in Paris.
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Ivo of Kermartin
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- lawyerjudgepresbyter
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Ivo of Kermartin, TOSF, also known as Yvo, Yves, or Ives (and in Breton as Erwan, Iwan, Youenn or Eozenn, depending on the region, and known as Yves Hélory (also Helori or Heloury) in French), was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. He is the patron of Brittany, lawyers, and abandoned children. His feast day is 19 May. Poetically, he is referred to as "advocate of the poor".
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Jeannette Bougrab
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- civil servantjuristuniversity teacherpolitician
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Jeannette Bougrab is a French lawyer and politician of the UMP who served as the junior minister for Youth and Community Life in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon from 2010 to 2012. Prior to this, she was the Chair of the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission (HALDE) from 16 April 2010 to 14 November 2010.
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Agrippa d'Aubigné
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- writerpoetmilitary personnelpolitician
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Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, the English poet Keith Bosley called d'Aubigné "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death, he "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him."
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Thomas Boni Yayi
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- bankereconomistpolitician
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Thomas Boni Yayi is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013.
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Johann Reuchlin
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- juristwritertranslatoruniversity teachertheologian
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Johann Reuchlin, sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France. Most of Reuchlin's career centered on advancing German knowledge of Greek and Hebrew.
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Guillaume Budé
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- numismatistclassical scholartranslatorprinterlibrarian
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Guillaume Budé was a French scholar and humanist. He was involved in the founding of Collegium Trilingue, which later became the Collège de France.
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Jean-Pierre Sueur
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- politician
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Jean-Pierre Sueur is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who since 2001 has been serving as a member of the Senate of France representing the Loiret department.
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Felwine Sarr
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- librettistuniversity teacherwritereconomistmusician
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Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese academic, musician and writer of novels and cultural essays, born in Sine Saloum, Niodior Arrondissement. He studied economics and taught this subject at the Gaston Berger University (Senegal) until his move in 2020 as Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University in the United States.
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Isabelle Attard
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- archaeologistresearch fellowpolitician
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Isabelle Robert Attard is a French archaeologist and politician, best known for her work in archaeozoology, specialising in the Bearded vulture during the Last Glacial Period. She has served as the museum director for the Bayeux Tapestry Museum from 2005 to 2010, and then the Utah Beach D-Day Museum from 2010 to 2012. As a politician, she has served as deputy for Calvados's 5th constituency, and was a member of the Europe Ecology – The Greens party until 2013, after which she was co-president of the New Deal party until 2015. Since 2015, she self-identifies as an anarchist.
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Jerzy Ossoliński
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- diplomatpolitician
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Prince Jerzy Ossoliński h. Topór was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor (voivode) of Sandomierz from 1636, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, starost of Bydgoszcz (1633), Luboml (1639), Puck and Bolim (1647), magnate, politician, statesman and diplomat. Famous for being extensively educated, he was a skillful politician and a persuasive public speaker.
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Krzysztof Opaliński
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- diplomatpoetpolitician
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Krzysztof Opaliński was a Polish szlachta (nobleman), politician, writer, satirist, and Voivode (Governor) of Poznań. A notable figure during the Swedish Deluge, Opaliński was a skilled diplomat who opposed King John II Casimir and published many of his works concerning the daily political or social matters in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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François Bonneau
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- politicianpensioner
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François Bonneau is a French educationalist, politician, and incumbent President of the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
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François Bourguignon
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- researchereconomist
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François Bourguignon is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2016, Bourguignon was awarded the Dan David Prize. He focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality, economy-wide country studies, international trade, trade and tax policy, redistribution and education.
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Hussein Hajj Hassan
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- politician
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Hussein Hajj Hassan is a Lebanese politician from Hezbollah, founder of the Islamic Union of Lebanese Students in France and minister of industry. He was the head of Hezbollah's "Educational mobilization" unit. As agricultural ministry he signed a cooperative agreement Jihad al-Binaa to provide agricultural vocation. He is said to have focused his ministry's funds to Hezbollah constituencies.
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
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Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar is a Mauritanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Mauritania twice, from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2007.
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Mariama Signaté
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- handball player
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Mariama Camara Signaté is a French handball player. Her playing position is left back.
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Léonard Bourdon
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- politicianlawyeradministratorheadmaster in Francepedagogue
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Louis Jean Joseph Léonard Bourdon de la Cronière was a French politician of the French Revolution. He was president of the National Constituent Assembly and substitute for the procureur of the Commune de Paris.
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Stanisław Lanckoroński
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- 1590-1657 (aged 67)
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- military personnelpolitician
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Stanisław Lanckoroński was a Polish magnate as well as a politician and military commander.
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Łukasz Opaliński
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- poetwriter
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Łukasz de Bnin Opaliński was a Polish nobleman, poet, political activist and one of the most important Polish political writers of the 17th century.
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Daniel Delaveau
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- journalistpolitician
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Daniel Delaveau is a French politician and former Mayor of Rennes. He is a member of the Socialist Party.
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Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein
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- politician
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Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein, nicknamed "the Elder", formally "Louis I of Sayn, Count at Wittgenstein" ruled the County of Wittgenstein, on the upper reaches of the rivers Lahn and Eder, from 1558 until his death. He converted his county to Calvinism and was an influential politician in the service to the Electoral Palatinate.
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Sylvie Baïpo-Temon
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- 20th Century
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- civil servantdiplomatministerpolitician
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Sylvie Baïpo-Temon is a Central African politician who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic since 14 December 2018. She replaced Charles-Armel Doubane, allegedly under Russian pressure because Doubane took a too pro-Western stance. Before her appointment, she worked as a financial analyst at BNP Paribas beginning in 2003 and had no prior diplomatic experience. In July 2022, Sylvie Baïpo-Temon was ordered by the French tax authorities to pay €18,000 of unpaid taxes.
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Pieter Pauw
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- anatomistbotanistuniversity teacher
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Pieter Pauw, (2 August 1564 – 1 August 1617) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden.
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Lambert Daneau
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- university teachertheologianjurist
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Lambert Daneau was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian.
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Jørgen Bjelke
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- judge
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Jørgen Bjelke was a Dano-Norwegian or Norwegian officer and nobleman. He was born at Elingaard Manor on Onsøy near Fredrikstad, in Østfold County, Norway, and died in Kalundborg, Denmark.
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Norbert-Bertrand Barbe
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- literary criticpaintermythographerphilosopherart historian
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Norbert-Bertrand Barbe is a French art historian, semiologist, artist and writer. He was born in 1968 and has a master's degree in art history and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Université d'Orléans, 1996). He is an Honorary Member of the Nicaraguan Academy of Language.
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Henric Piccardt
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- 1636-1712 (aged 76)
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- lawyer
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Henric Piccardt was an ambitious Dutch lawyer who made good at the court of young king Louis XIV of France in Paris where he became a published poet in French. Returning to the Netherlands, he rose to become syndic of the Ommelanden of Groningen and the untitled lord of the majestic manor at Slochteren, the Fraeylemaborg.
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Jean Willybiro-Sako
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- ministerpoliticianmagistrate
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Jean Willybiro-Sako is a politician in the Central African Republic. He was the Minister of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research from April 2011 to January 2013.
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Hans Rosing
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- Lutheran pastor
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Hans Rosing was a Norwegian clergyman. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Oslo from 1664 until 1699.
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Nicolaus Henel von Hennenfeld
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- historianwriter
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Nicholas Henel was a Silesian historian, receiver, biographer and a chronicler. He's considered to be the most outstanding representative of Renaissance's historiography of Silesia.
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Henry de Lichton
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- diplomatCatholic priest
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Henry de Lichton [de Lychtone, Leighton] was a medieval Scottish prelate and diplomat, who, serving as Bishop of Moray (1414–1422) and Bishop of Aberdeen (1422–1440), became a significant patron of the church, a cathedral builder, and a writer. He also served King James I of Scotland as a diplomat in England, France, and Italy.
