Alumni
Emo of Friesland (c.1175–1237) - Frisian scholar and abbot
Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) - poet
Walter de Coventre (died 1371 or 1372) - Scottish ecclesiastic
Walter Forrester (died 1425 or 1426) - Bishop of Brechin, Scotland
Henry de Lichton (died 1440) - Scottish prelate and diplomat, Bishop of Moray and Bishop of Aberdeen
Oliver King (c.1432 – 1503) - Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Bath and Wells
Michel Bucy (1484 – 1511) - Archbishop of Bourges
John Calvin (1509–1564), influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation
Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom – 1559) - magistrate, Protestant martyr
William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) - English Puritan, translator of the Geneva Bible
Claude Fauchet (1530 – 1602) - historian, antiquary, and pioneering romance philologist
Anselmus de Boodt (Bruges, 1550 - 1632) - humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist
François de Joyeuse (1562 – 1615) - churchman and politician
Jørgen Bjelke (1621 – 1696) - Norwegian officer and nobleman
Molière (1622–1673), French playwright and actor, considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature
Pierre de Fermat (c. 1601 – 1665), best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory
St Ivo of Kermartin (died 1303), patron of lawyers
Étienne de Mornay, counsellor of Philippe IV le Bel
Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522)
Guillaume Budé (1468–1540) - scholar and humanist
Francis Bothwell, Procurator of the Scottish Nation at Orléans during 1513–1514, later a member of the Parliament of Scotland and a judge
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) - writer, poet, political theorist
Thomas Brooke alias Cobham (1533–1578) - English nobleman, privateer, conspirator
Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630) - poet, soldier, propagandist
Mathieu Molé (1584 – 1656) - statesman
Théophraste Renaudot (1586–1653) - physician, philanthropist, journalist
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) - author
Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633 - 1705) - German historian, Orientalist, jurist and Christian Hebraist
Anthonie Heinsius (1641 – 1720) - Grand Pensionary of Holland
Conrad von Reventlow (1644 – 1708) - Grand Chancellor of Denmark
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) - philosopher
Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754 – 1793) - leading member of the Girondins
Jacques Paul Migne (1800 – 1875) - theologian
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805 – 1871) - watchmaker, magician and illusionist
Alphonse Magnien (1837 – 1902) - priest, theologian, academic administrator
Michel Jébrak (born c.1948) - geologist
Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh (1949 – disappeared 2008) politician and opposition leader Chad
Thomas Boni Yayi (born 1951) - banker and politician, President of Benin
Charles-Éric Lemaignen (born 1952) – politician LR, deputy mayor and president of Orléans
François Bonneau (born 1953, in Amilly, Loiret) educationalist, politician SP
Norbert-Bertrand Barbe - art historian, semiologist, artist and writer
Hussein Hajj Hassan (born 1960) - politician and minister of industry Lebanon
Olivier Carré (born 1961) - independent politician; mayor of the city of Orléans
Patrick Grant (born 1972) - Scottish fashion designer and businessman
Jeannette Bougrab (born 1973, in Déols) French lawyer and politician UMP
