Notable alumni
Jean Aicard – poet, dramatist and novelist
Paul Alexis – novelist, dramatist and journalist
Joseph d'Arbaud – poet
Fanny Ardant – actress, winner of the César Award for Best Actress
Isabelle Arvers – media art curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, chip tunes and machinima
Ali Bach Hamba – Tunisian lawyer, journalist and politician
Édouard Balladur – Prime Minister of France: 1993–1995; Minister of the Economy, Finance and Privatization of France: 1986–1988
Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux – politician of the Revolutionary period
Victor Barthélemy – political activist
Dominique Bénard – former Deputy Secretary-General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
Léon de Berluc-Pérussis – poet and historian
Roland Blum – conservative politician, member of the National Assembly of France and member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
Philippe Bourguignon – Member of the Board of Directors of eBay, former co-Chief Executive Officer of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Valérie Boyer – Member of the National Assembly of France
Marcel Brion – essayist, literary critic, novelist and historian
Emmanuel Brunet Jailly – Canadian politics and public policy scholar
Marie-Arlette Carlotti – Member of the European Parliament
René Cassin – the French Minister of Justice: 1941–1943; President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): 1965–1968; the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Paul Cézanne – artist and Post-Impressionist painter
Zouheir Chokr – President of the Lebanese University, former Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar
Jürgen Chrobog – German Ambassador to the United States: 1995–2001
Raphaël Confiant –writer
Adolphe Crémieux – French Minister of Justice: 1848; 1870–1871
Gaston Crémieux – lawyer, journalist and writer
Gaston Defferre – Minister of the Interior of France: 1981–1984; Mayor of Marseille: 1944–1946; 1953–1986
Thomas Degos – Prefect of Mayotte: 2011–present
Alexandre del Valle – Italo-French political scientist and geopolitician
Blaise Diagne – political leader, the first black African elected to the National Assembly of France
Pape Diouf – President of Olympique de Marseille: 2005–2009
Émile Eddé – President of Lebanon: 1936–1941; 1943; Prime Minister of Lebanon: 1929–1930
Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David – archaeologist and writer on art
Roland Eng – Advisor to the Cambodian Government and Ambassador-at-Large
Bruno Étienne – sociologist and political analyst
Roger Excoffon – graphic designer
Charles Annibal Fabrot – jurisconsult
Pierre Falcone – businessman, the Chairman of Pierson Capital Group
Christopher Fomunyoh – Senior Associate for Africa and Regional Director at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
José Frèches – historical novelist
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, PC – British politician, the Leader of the House of Lords, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
Romain Gary – diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator
Antoine Marc Gaudin – professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Jean-Pierre Gibert – Canon lawyer
Félix Gouin – President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic: 1946; Co-Prince of Andorra: 1946; President of the Constituent National Assembly of France: 1945–1946
Sylvie Goulard – Member of the European Parliament
Élisabeth Guigou – French Minister of Justice: 1997–2000; the French Minister of Social Affairs: 2000–2002
Malek Haddad – anAlgerian poet and writer
Peter Hambro – founder of Peter Hambro Mining and a Non-Executive Director of the Private Banking Division of Société Générale
Maryse Joissains-Masini – Member of the National Assembly of France; Mayor of Aix-en-Provence: 2001–present
Sophie Joissains – politician and a member of the Senate of France
Pravind Jugnauth – Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius: 2010–2011; Minister of Finance of Mauritius: 2003–2005; 2009–2011
Sébastien Jumel – politician, member of the French Communist Party (PCF)
Roger Karoutchi – Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): 2009–present
Vasil Kolarov – Provisional President of Bulgaria: 1946–1947; Prime Minister of Bulgaria: 1949–1950
Mamadou Koulibaly – President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire: 2001–present
Christine Lagarde – Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2011–present; Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment of France: 2007–2011
Luzolo Bambi Lessa - Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2008–present
Raphaël Liogier – Director of the Observatoire du religieux
Jean-Charles Marchiani – prefect and politician
Jean-François Mattéi – philosopher
Kenneth H. Merten – American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Haiti
Paul Meurisse – actor
François Mignet –journalist and historian
Stoyan Mihaylovski – Bulgarian writer and social figure
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau – President of the National Constituent Assembly of France: 1791
Frédéric Mistral – writer, winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature
Iulia Motoc – Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, former Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, former judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania
Prince Norodom Ranariddh – second son of former king Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of the current king Norodom Sihamoni
Patrick Ollier – President of the National Assembly of France: 2007; Vice-President of the National Assembly of France: 1998–2002
Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan – jurist and former Chair of Comparative Criminal Law at the Sorbonne University
Philip M. Parker – INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science
Benoît Pelletier – Minister of Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs: 2003–2008; Leader of the Government in Parliament: 2007–2008
Terry Phillips – journalist, author and media consultant
Richard Pollock – Canadian lawyer and politician
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis – jurist and politician in time of the French Revolution and the First Empire
François Juste Marie Raynouard – dramatist and academic
André de Richaud – poet and writer
Didier Robert – Member of the National Assembly of France
Maurice Rouvier – Prime Minister of France: 1887; 1905–1906; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France: 1905–1906
Ambroise Roux-Alphéran – historian
Nicolas Schmit – Minister of Labour, Employment and Immigration of Luxembourg: 2009–present
Philippe Séguin – President of the National Assembly of France: 1993–1997; President of the Court of Financial Auditors of France: 2004–2010
Roland Theis – General Secretary of the Christian Democrat Union in Saarland, Germany
Adolphe Thiers – 2nd President of France: 1871–1873; Co-Prince of Andorra: 1871–1873; Minister of the Interior of France: Oct–Dec 1832; Apr–Nov 1834; 1834–1836; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France: Feb–Sep 1836; Mar–Oct 1840; Prime Minister of France: Feb–Sep 1836; Mar–Oct 1840
Dominique Tian – Member of the National Assembly of France
Jean-Louis Trintignant – actor, winner of the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival
Richard Tuheiava – Member of the Senate of France
Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre CBE – Scottish lawyer, former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Albert Jan van den Berg – Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute
Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem – Prime Minister of Angola: 1991–1992; 1996–1999; President of the National Assembly of Angola: 1992–1996
Nicolas Vatomanga – saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer
Jens Weidmann – 8th President of the Deutsche Bundesbank: 2011–present; Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB): 2011–present; Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2011–present
Claire Atangana Bikouna – Cameroonian lawyer
