List of École normale supérieure people explained
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the École normale supérieure.
The term used in ENS slang for an alumnus is Archicube.[1]
Alumni
The year when they entered the ENS is in parentheses.
Nobel laureates
Fields Medal laureates
The following Fields Medal recipients were educated at the École Normale Supérieure.
Sciences
Chemistry
Medicine and biology
Physics
Mathematics
Humanities
Philosophy
- Louis Althusser (1939), Marxist philosopher
- Raymond Aron (1924), political philosopher, founder of French conservative thought post-1960
- Alain Badiou, philosopher
- Étienne Balibar (1960), philosopher and linguist
- Georges Canguilhem (1924), philosopher of science
- Jean Cavaillès (1923), philosopher and Résistance hero
- Emile Auguste Chartier "Alain" (1889), philosopher
- Gustave Belot (1878), philosopher
- André Comte-Sponville (1972), philosopher and essayist
- Victor Cousin (1810), spiritualist philosopher and historian of philosophy
- Jacques Derrida (1952), founder of deconstruction
- Michel Foucault (1946), historian of systems of thought, member of Collège de France
- Georges Gusdorf (1933), philosopher and historian of ideas
- Jean Hyppolite (1924), founder of Hegelian studies in France
- Vladimir Jankélévitch (1922), philosopher, musicologist
- Quentin Meillassoux, philosopher
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1926), phenomenologist
- Jacques Rancière (1960), philosopher
- Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1975), rhetorician, member of College international de philosophie
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1924), philosopher, novelist, playwright, journalist
- Hippolyte Taine (1893)
- Simone Weil (1928), philosopher and mystic
Sociology
Literature
- Paul Bénichou (1927)
- Robert Brasillach, novelist, critic and pro-Nazi collaborationist
- Aimé Césaire (1935), poet and politician
- Marie Darrieussecq (1990), novelist
- Assia Djebar (1955), Algerian novelist and filmmaker
- Jean Giraudoux (1903), playwright
- Julien Gracq (1930), novelist and literary critic
- Sabiha Al Khemir (1982), writer, illustrator and expert in Islamic art
- Édouard Louis (2011), novelist and sociologist
- Paul Nizan (1924)
- Charles Péguy (1894), poet
- Claude Ribbe (1974), historian and novelist
- Romain Rolland (1886), novelist
- Jules Romains (1906), novelist
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1980)
Literary criticism
Philology, grammar, linguistics
- Anatole Bailly (1853), hellenist
- Jean Bousquet (1931), hellenist
- Michel Bréal (1852), philologist
- Jérôme Carcopino (1901), specialist of Roman Antiquity
- Jacqueline de Romilly (1933), hellenist, specialist of the history and literature of Ancient Greece
- Antoine Culioli (1944), linguist
- Oswald Ducrot (1949), linguist, specialist of pragmatics
- Georges Dumézil (1916), philologist, linguist, caucasianist, specialist of Proto-Indo-European language and society
- Alexandre François (1992), linguist, specialist of Oceanic languages
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1850), specialist of classical and mediaeval history
- Marcel Granet (1904), sinologist
- Pierre Grimal (1933), Latinist
- Claude Hagège (1955), linguist
- (1963), linguist, specialist of pragmatics
- , specialist of Armenian and comparative linguistics of Indo-European languages
- Gilbert Lazard (1940), linguist, iranologist
- Christiane Marchello-Nizia (1961), specialist of Old French
- (1968), syntactician
History
- Marc Bloch (1904), co-founder of the Annales School
- Lucien Febvre (1899), co-founder of the Annales School
- Henri Hauser (1885), economic historian
- Ernest Lavisse (1862), a founder of Positivist history
- Jacques Le Goff (1945), medievalist
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1949), historian
- Neil MacGregor, art historian, Director of the British Museum
- Paul Mantoux (1894), economic historian
- Jacques Soustelle (1929), ethnologist
- Gilbert Dagron (1953), historian
Economics
Government and public policy
- Léon Blum (1890) (expelled during his third year), first Socialist Prime Minister of France (1936)
- Pierre Brossolette (1922), politician and resistant
- Laurent Fabius (1966), Prime Minister of France, 1984-1986
- Édouard Herriot (1891), Prime Minister of France, 1924–1925, 1926 and 1932
- Jean Jaurès (1878), Socialist leader
- Alain Juppé (1964), Prime Minister of France 1995-1997
- Bruno Le Maire (1989), Minister of the Economy, 2017-present ; Minister of Agriculture 2009-2012
- Benny Lévy (1965), founder of Gauche prolétarienne
- Paul Painlevé (1883), mathematician; Prime Minister of France in 1917 and 1925
- Georges Pompidou (1931), Prime Minister of France 1962–1968; President of France 1969-1974
- Michel Sapin (1974), Finance Minister 1992–1993; Minister of Civil Servants and State Reforms 2000-2002[2]
- Laurent Wauquiez (1994), President of The Republicans, 2017–present ; Minister of Higher Education 2011-2012
Business
Faculty
Sources
Dates of entrance at the ENS can be checked at https://web.archive.org/web/20071009092113/http://www.archicubes.ens.fr/
References
- See the dedicated website, http://www.archicubes.ens.fr/ .
- http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/tribun/fiches_id/2679.asp National Assembly biography
