82 Notable alumni of
University of Poitiers
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The University of Poitiers is 739th in the world, 268th in Europe, and 22nd in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 82 notable alumni from the University of Poitiers sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Francis Bacon
- Occupations
- astrologerhistorianwriterphilosopherscientist
- Biography
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
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Stéphane Séjourné
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Studied in 2011
- Occupations
- cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
- Biography
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Stéphane Séjourné is a French politician of Renaissance who currently serves as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy. He served as Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, his former domestic partner, between January and September 2024.
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François Rabelais
- Occupations
- writernovelistphysician writerhumorist
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François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, 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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Sandrine Rousseau
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- economistprofessors, scientific professionswomen's rights activistpolitician
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Sandrine Rousseau is a French economist and politician who has represented the 9th constituency of Paris in the National Assembly since 2022. Member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), she has been widely seen as a figurehead of France's MeToo movement against sexual violence, and describes herself as an ecofeminist.
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Dominique Pinon
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Dominique Pinon is a French actor. He is known for appearing in films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, often playing eccentric or grotesque characters.
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Joachim du Bellay
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- poetliterary criticwriter
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Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.
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Mostafa Mir-Salim
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- university teacherwriterpolitician
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Mostafa Mir-Salim is an Iranian engineer and conservative politician. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was formerly a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2020 to 2024.
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François Viète
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Studied in 1558-1559
- Occupations
- cryptographermathematicianlawyer
- Biography
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François Viète, known in Latin as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to his innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. Because of this, Viète is sometimes called "the father of modern algebraic notation". He was a lawyer by trade, and served as a privy councillor to both Henry III and Henry IV of France.
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Henri Konan Bédié
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- diplomatministerpolitician
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Aimé Henri Konan Bédié was an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999, and formerly President of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally (PDCI–RDA). Prior to becoming president, he was a member and president of the National Assembly of Ivory Coast. He unsuccessfully sought another term as president in the 2020 presidential election.
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Saskia Sassen
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- economisttheoristscientistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics. The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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Moustapha Fall
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Moustapha Fall is a French professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He is also a member of the senior men's French national team. Standing at 2.18 m (7 ft 2 in), Fall plays at the center position. He is an excellent defender, finishing effectively in almost all pass under the basket, while often serving as a racket playmaker as he is pretty good passer.
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Georges Gilles de la Tourette
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- psychiatristneurologistphysician writer
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Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics. His main contributions in medicine were in the fields of hypnotism and hysteria.
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Sacha Houlié
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- professions libérales et assimiléspolitician
- Biography
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Sacha Houlié is a French lawyer and politician of former member La République En Marche! (LREM 2017-2024) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Vienne.
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Marie-Amélie Le Fur
- Occupations
- para athletics competitor
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Marie-Amélie Le Fur she is a French Paralympic athlete from Vendôme, Centre Region, competing in T44 sprint and F44 long jump events. Her left leg was amputated below the knee following a motor scooter accident in 2004. Before she lost her leg, she was a French junior running champion. As of 2023, Le Fur is the President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee.
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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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Yves Bonnefoy
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- philosopheruniversity teacherwritertranslatorpoet
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Yves Jean Bonnefoy was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″
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Haïm Korsia
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 2006 graduated with doctorate in France in historical science
- Occupations
- military chaplainrabbi
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Haïm Korsia is the Chief Rabbi of France. He was elected by the Central Consistory.
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Alain Corbin
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 1968 graduated with doctorate in France in study of history
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachersecondary school teacheradjunct professor
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Alain Corbin is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
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Pierre Person
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- politician
- Biography
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Pierre Person is a French crypto executive and former politician who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Usual Money since 2022.
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Maine de Biran
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- writerdiaristmathematicianphilosopherpsychologist
- Biography
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François-Pierre-Gontier de Biran, better known as Maine de Biran ( French: [mɛn də biʁɑ̃]), was a French philosopher.
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Christopher Gibbs
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- art dealerantiquarian sellerscenographer
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Christopher Henry Gibbs was a British antiques dealer and collector who was also an influential figure in men's fashion and interior design in 1960s London. He has been credited with inventing Swinging London, and has been called the "King of Chelsea" and "London's most famous antiques dealer". The New York Times described him as a "man of infinite taste, judgment and experience, the one who introduced a whole generation to the distressed bohemian style of interior design."
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Mathurin Jacques Brisson
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- biologistphilosopherzoologistentomologistornithologist
- Biography
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Mathurin Jacques Brisson was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
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Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, also known as Jean Nicolas or by his nicknames, the Righteous Patriot or the Tiger, was a French lawyer and a major figure in the French Revolution. A close associate of Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, he was one of the most militant members of the Committee of Public Safety, and is often considered a key architect of the Reign of Terror.
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Luc Ravel
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Luc Marie Daniel Ravel, C.R.S.V. is a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who was the Archbishop of Strasbourg from 2017 to 2023, when he resigned at the age of 66. He was bishop of the Diocese of the French Armed Forces from 2009 to 2017.
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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
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- historianwriter
- Biography
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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie française.
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Helen Doron
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- teacherentrepreneur
- Biography
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Helen Doron is a British-Israeli linguist and educator based in Israel. She is best known as the creator of the Helen Doron Method of teaching and as the Founder of Helen Doron Educational Group, an international pedagogic network for babies, children, and teens learning English and other programs, including Helen Doron Academy Kindergartens, Helen Doron International, MathRiders and Helen Doron Connect.
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Sébastien Nadot
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- physical education teachersport historianpolitician
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Sébastien Nadot, is a French historian, writer and politician. In the 2017 elections, he was elected as a member of La République En Marche! to the French National Assembly, representing the department of Haute-Garonne's 10th constituency. In December 2018, he was excluded from LREM for having voted against the 2019 draft budget. In May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members of the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group in the National Assembly.
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Joseph Louis Anne Avenol
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Louis Anne Marie Charles Avenol was a French diplomat. He served as the second Secretary General of the League of Nations from 3 July 1933 to 31 August 1940. He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933. He was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League dissolved.
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Onésime Reclus
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- geographeropinion journalist
- Biography
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Onésime Reclus was a French geographer who specialized in the relations between France and its colonies.
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Michel Roger
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- civil servantjuristuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Michel Roger is a French and Monégasque politician who served as Minister of State of Monaco from 2010 to 2015. Prior to his tenure as Minister of State, he served on the Supreme Court of Monaco and as a municipal councilor in Poitiers.
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Guillaume Chiche
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- miscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retireespolitician
- Biography
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Guillaume Chiche is a French politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Deux-Sèvres. He was considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron. He was elected as a member of La République En Marche!, but left the party and in May 2020, he was one of the 17 initial members who formed the short-lived Ecology Democracy Solidarity group. Since 2020, he is a member of The New Democrats.
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Alain Claeys
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- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Alain Claeys is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party, former Mayor of Poitiers (2008-2020) and a former member of the National Assembly of France for the first constituency of the Vienne department (1997-2017). He sits in the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left group in the National Assembly.
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Michel Brunet
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistpaleontologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France between 2008 and 2011. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï. These remains may predate the earliest previously known hominid remains, Lucy, by over three million years; however, this conclusion is the subject of a significant controversy.
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Laila Soueif
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- university teacherhuman rights defendermathematician
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Laila Soueif is an Egyptian human and women's rights activist and a professor of mathematics at Cairo University. She is the widow of Ahmed Seif El-Islam, and she is mother of activists: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Sanaa Seif, and Mona Seif. Her sister is the novelist Ahdaf Soueif.
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François de La Mothe Le Vayer
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- writerphilosopher
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François de La Mothe Le Vayer, was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV.
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Thomas Mesnier
- Occupations
- emergency physicianpoliticiancadres de la fonction publique
- Biography
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Thomas Mesnier is a French physician and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as a member of the French National Assembly from the 2017 until 2022, representing the 1st constituency of the department of Charente.
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Barthélemy de Chasseneuz
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- 1480-1541 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- lawyerjurist
- Biography
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Barthélemy de Chasseneuz was a French jurist. His name has also been recorded as Cassaneus Bertalan, Bartholomaeus Cassaneus, Bartholomäus Cassaneus, Barthelemy de Chassenée, de Chassaneo, Bartholm Chasseneux, Chassanæus, Chassanaeus, Hassanaus, or Bartholomew Cassaneus.
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Jean-Claude Perrot
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- historianuniversity teacher
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Jean-Claude Perrot was a French historian. He specialized in urban history, economic politics, demography, and statistics. His studies focused around 18th-century France and he was a professor at the Sorbonne University Association and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He was also President of the French Institute for Demographic Studies.
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François Jolivet
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- politiciananciens cadres
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François Jolivet 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 Indre.
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Dominic Selwood
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- historianbloggerjournalist
- Biography
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Dominic Selwood FSA FRSA FRHistS is an English historian, author, journalist and barrister. He has written several works of history, historical fiction and historical thrillers, most notably The Sword of Moses and Anatomy of a Nation. A History of British Identity in 50 Documents. His background is in medieval history. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter.
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Jean-Michel Clément
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- professions libérales et assimiléspolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Clément is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France from the 2007 elections to 2022, representing the 3rd constituency of the Vienne department. He is a former member of La République En Marche! (LREM) and of the Socialist Party.
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Andries de Graeff
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- art collectorpolitician
- Biography
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Andries de Graeff was a regent and burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam and leading Dutch statesman during the Golden Age.
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Jean-Pierre Abelin
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- pensioneranciens cadrespolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Pierre Abelin is a French politician.
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Gerard Ambassa Guy
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Gerard Ambassa Guy, nicknamed JJ (Chinese: 卓卓), is a football coach and former professional footballer who played as a centre back. Born in Cameroon, he represented Hong Kong internationally.
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Salah El Mahdi
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- conductormusic criticjudgemusicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Salah El Mahdi was a Tunisian musicologist, conductor, composer, flautist, music critic and judge.
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Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont
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- historianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
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Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe was a French historian and clergyman. He was bishop of Rodez, then archbishop of Paris.
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John Lesley
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopwriterhistorian
- Biography
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John Lesley was a Scottish Catholic bishop and historian. His father was Gavin Lesley, rector of Kingussie, Badenoch.
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Paul Ardenne
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- art historianwriterart critic
- Biography
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Paul Ardenne is Professor of history at the University of Amiens, and is also an art critic and a curator in the field of contemporary art.
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Sylvie Baïpo-Temon
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- civil servantdiplomatministerpolitician
- Biography
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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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Mustafa Balel
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Studied in 1971-1972
- Occupations
- novelistwriterlinguistchildren's writertranslator
- Biography
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Mustafa Balel is a Turkish short story writer and novelist.
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Jean Pradel
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 1960 graduated with doctorate in France in law
- Occupations
- university teachermagistratejurist
- Biography
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Jean Pradel was a French jurist, magistrate, and professor. He specialised in criminal law.
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Jacques Brault
- Occupations
- university teacherwriteressayistplaywrightliterary critic
- Biography
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Jacques Brault was a French Canadian poet and translator who lived in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He became a professor at the Université de Montréal, in the Département d'études françaises and the Institut des sciences médiévales, and made frequent appearances as a cultural commentator on Radio-Canada.
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Édouard Louis Trouëssart
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- physicianarachnologistprofessorzoologist
- Biography
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Édouard Louis Trouessart was a French zoologist born in Angers.
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Sophie Beaudouin-Hubière
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- miscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retireespolitician
- Biography
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Sophie Beaudouin-Hubière is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing Haute-Vienne's 1st constituency.
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Francis de Noyelle
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- diplomatmountaineerFrench resistance fighter
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Francis de Noyelle was a French diplomat. He was French ambassador to Nepal between 1980 and 1984.
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Martine Leguille-Balloy
- Occupations
- professions libérales et assimiléslawyerpolitician
- Biography
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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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Raoul Péret
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Raoul Adolphe Péret was a French lawyer and politician.
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Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye
- Occupations
- poetsoldierwriter
- Biography
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Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye was a French poet born at the château of La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage or Caen in Normandy in 1536.
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Ha Ilji
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- writerpainterpoetuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hailji is a modern South Korean writer whose series of "Racetrack" novels created controversy in Korea.
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Joan Veny i Clar
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguistdialectologist
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Joan Veny i Clar is a linguist and Catalan dialectologist from Majorca, considered one of the most prestigious and renowned of the Catalan Countries. He is the author of Els parlars catalans, an essential book for Catalan dialectology, synthesis of the dialectal variation of the entire space of the Catalan Countries; and furthermore a dense and rich work, made in conjunction with Lydia Pons: Linguistic Atlas of the Catalan Domain.
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Nicolas Rigault
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- librarianclassical scholarjurist
- Biography
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Nicolas Rigault was a French classical scholar.
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Leïla Heurtault
- Occupations
- karateka
- Biography
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Leïla Heurtault is a French karateka. She is a three-time medalist, including two golds, in the women's team kumite event at the World Karate Championships.
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Émile Garçon
- Occupations
- juristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Émile Garçon was a French jurist. He served as a Law Professor at the University of Paris.
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Bekim Bejta
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Bekim Bejta is a Kosovar Albanian linguist, poet and translator. In 2009, he received the Kosovo National Literary Prize for the translation of Raga. Approche du continent invisible by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.
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Justin Damo Baro
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Damo Justin Baro, also known as Justin Damo Barro, is a Burkinabe economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance between 1983 and 1986 under Thomas Sankara. During that time, he was President of ECOWAS' Council of Ministers. In the 1990s, he served in the World Bank, and later helped create the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
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Doudou Thiam
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 1951 graduated with doctorate in France in law
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianlawyerdiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Doudou Thiam was a Senegalese diplomat, politician and lawyer. Thiam was the first ever foreign minister of independent Senegal from 1960–1962 and the third from1964–1968. From 1970 until his death in 1999, Thiam was a member of the International Law Commission. During his almost three decades of service on the Commission, Thiam served as Special Rapporteur on one of the major projects of the Commission, the Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind. He was appointed as Special Rapporteur in 1982, and served between 1983 and 1985. His contribution included preparation of 13 reports for the Commission containing detailed analysis, texts and commentaries until completion of the Code containing 20 draft articles in 1996. He also held several offices on the Commission, including the post of Chairman of the Commission.
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Charles des Jamonières
- Occupations
- poetsport shooter
- Biography
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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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Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche
- Occupations
- economistjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Jacques Antoine Creuzé-Latouche was a French lawyer, Jacobin, and member of the National Convention of France during the French Revolution.
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Sylvie Le Noach
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Sylvie Le Noach is a retired French swimmer. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m and 200 m backstroke, but did not reach the finals. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1974 European Aquatics Championships. She finished sixth in the same event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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Charles de Sainte-Marthe
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- Studied law and theology
- Occupations
- poettheologian
- Biography
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Charles de Sainte-Marthe was a French Protestant and theologian.
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René Sudre
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerscience journalist
- Biography
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René Sudre was a French journalist, parapsychologist and writer.
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Raymond H. A. Carter
- Occupations
- gendarmeaikidokajurist
- Biography
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Raymond H. A. Carter was a Gendarmerie Nationale senior officer who served for thirty-five years. He is an expert consultant in the field of international security. Carter is also an accomplished exponent of the martial arts.
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Jean Glénisson
- Enrolled in the University of Poitiers
- In 1940 studied study of history
- Occupations
- historianarchivist
- Biography
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Jean Glénisson was a French historian, archivist and paleographer.
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Francine Caron
- Occupations
- poetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Francine Caron is a French writer and poet.
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Brigette Boucheron
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- women's rights activistcivil libertarianproofreader
- Biography
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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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Scévole de Sainte-Marthe
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Scévole de Sainte-Marthe was a French historian.
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Aicha Duihi
- Occupations
- human rights defender
- Biography
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Aicha Duihi is a Moroccan Sahrawi human rights activist who is the president of the Sahara Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights. Duihi has advocated against the Polisario Front's camps in the Tindouf Province of Southwestern Algeria on the border of Western Sahara, and serves as a spokesperson for those kidnapped and those being held captive in the Polisario camps. She seeks to combat propaganda and misinformation which further marginalise vulnerable women.
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Claire Bren
- Occupations
- kayaker
- Biography
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Claire Bren is a French female canoeist who won 13 medals at senior level at the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships.
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Marie Charpentier
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.
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Georg Anton von Rodenstein
- Years
- 1579-1652 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Georg Anton von Rodenstein was the Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1629 to 1652.
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Ludovic Payen
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Ludovic Payen is a French athlete specialising in the high hurdles. He won a gold medal at the 2017 European U23 Championships.
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Aymeric Lusine
- Occupations
- middle-distance runner
- Biography
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Aymeric Lusine is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade.
