Azadeh Kian (Persian: آزاده کیان), Iranian-French director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies and BBC project 100 Women.
Alain Carpentier, French surgeon, Albert-Lasker Award
Axel Kahn, French scientist and geneticist
Daniel Mansuy, French researcher and chemist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian Minister of Defense
Claude Allègre, French Minister of National Education from 1997 to 2000 and member of the Académie des sciences
Artur Avila, 2014 Fields Medal recipient
Jean-Luc Bennahmias, French member of the European Parliament
Bernard Cerquiglini, rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Michel Ciment, French journalist, writer and president of FIPRESCI
Vincent Courtillot, geophysicist, member of the Académie des sciences
Jean Dausset, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1980
Luc Ferry, French minister of National Education from 2002 to 2004
Erol Gelenbe, professor at Université Paris 5 René Descartes (1986–2005), computer scientist, electronic engineer, and applied mathematician, fellow of the French Academy of Technologies, of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, of The Science Academy Society of Turkey, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and other academies, Mustafa Prize in 2017.
Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, sociologist and feminist
Thierry Morand, French biocontainment expert and entrepreneur
Élisabeth Roudinesco, French historian and psychoanalyst
Jean-Michel Savéant, member of the Académie des sciences
Laurent Schwartz, 1950 Fields Medal recipient
Justin E. H. Smith, author and professor of history and philosophy of science
George Fitzgerald Smoot, Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for the discovery of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation
Stefano Zacchiroli, former Debian project leader
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician