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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 .
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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
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni [
fr ] (1963), linguist, specialist of
pragmatics
Charles de Lamberterie [
fr ] , specialist of Armenian and
comparative linguistics of
Indo-European languages
Gilbert Lazard (1940), linguist, iranologist
Christiane Marchello-Nizia (1961), specialist of
Old French
Alain Rouveret [
fr ] (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
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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