Aix-Marseille University

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) is a public research university in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409, making it one of the oldest universities in the French-speaking world. Over time, it grew and changed, and in 2012, it became the largest university in the French-speaking world.

The university has five main campuses in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, with additional facilities in cities like Arles, Avignon, and Gap. Its headquarters are in the 7th arrondissement of Marseille.

Many important people have studied or worked at AMU, including five Nobel Prize laureates, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and several leaders in government and the arts. The university also works closely with research groups like the French National Centre for Scientific Research and is part of many international academic organizations.

History

The story of Aix-Marseille University starts in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou asked a church leader to start the University of Provence. This made it one of the oldest universities in France. For many years, students from Provence had to study only in Aix, which helped the university grow.

Over time, the university changed a lot. In 1603, a new school for studying languages and ideas was added and later became part of the university. Famous people like the artist Paul Cézanne and the writer Émile Zola met and became friends at this school when they were young.

During the French Revolution, many universities closed, but some parts of this university kept teaching. In the 1800s, new schools for studying medicine, literature, and science were added to help the growing city and country.

In 1968, big changes happened in how universities worked in France. The old university split into three smaller ones. But in 2012, these three universities joined back together to become Aix-Marseille University again. This brought all the different areas of study together under one name.

Organization

Aix-Marseille University has five main areas of study:

• Law and Political Science

  • Faculty of Law and Political Science
  • Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance

• Economics and Management

  • Faculty of Economics and Management
  • School of Journalism and Communication
  • Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management
  • Regional Institute of Labour

• Arts, Literature, Languages and Human Sciences

  • Faculty of Arts, Literature, Languages and Human Sciences
  • Training Center for Musicians
  • Mediterranean House of Human Sciences
  • Faculty of Medical and Paramedical Sciences
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Faculty of Pharmacy

• Sciences and Technology

  • Faculty of Sciences
  • Faculty of Sports
  • Pytheas Institute – Earth Sciences and Astronomy Observatory
  • Polytech Marseille

The University Institute of Technology and Institute of Teaching and Education are also part of the university.

Governance

Aix-Marseille University is led by a group of important people who help make decisions. There is a President, some Vice Presidents, and other leaders who meet every week to talk about the university's plans.

After their meeting, all the deans and directors meet to talk about school activities.

There are special groups that help decide what the university does. One group has 30 members and decides the university's overall plans. Another group has two parts: one for research and one for teaching and student life. They help plan new ideas for learning and studying.

The President helps decide the university's goals and can start new projects, but these need to be approved by the university council. There are two big planning processes that happen every few years. One happens every six years and involves the government and the region to plan big projects like new buildings. The other happens every four years and needs approval from the French Ministry of Education. It helps the university plan its teaching and research goals.

Academic profile

Aix-Marseille University has about 80,000 students, including more than 10,000 students from other countries. The university offers many courses in subjects like arts, social sciences, health, sports, economics, law, political science, management, and sciences such as mathematics and biology. It has many research units and faculties, focusing on social and natural sciences. The university works with other institutions around the world to support students studying abroad. Special programs help international students learn French and feel welcome.

The university has a large library system with many books, online journals, and digital resources. The libraries have plenty of space for students to study and access computers for research.

Political Science

The Institute of Political Studies, also called Sciences Po Aix, was started in 1956. It is one of France’s well-known political science schools. Sciences Po Aix trains students for leadership roles in government and other sectors. The school focuses on politics, history, law, economics, and international relations. It is very selective and offers opportunities for students to study and intern abroad.

Law

The law school at Aix-Marseille University dates back to the university’s founding in 1409. It is one of France’s largest and most respected law schools, known for its wide range of courses and research. The school is highly ranked and has produced many important leaders in law and politics. It offers programs in many areas of law and has strong research centers.

Business and Management Studies

IAE Aix-en-Provence is the first Graduate School of Management in France’s public university system. It offers programs in general management, international management, finance, marketing, and more. The school has received international recognition for its quality and offers both French and international perspectives in business education.

Economics

Aix-Marseille School of Economics brings together researchers in economics from different areas such as macroeconomics, econometrics, and public economics. It offers master’s and doctoral programs in economics, focusing on research and education. The school works with other top universities in Europe.

Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine at Aix-Marseille University has a long history, dating back to the 1400s. It grew over time and moved to different locations. The faculty has been important for medical research and education, especially in areas like tropical diseases and neurology. It also includes faculties of pharmacy and dentistry.

Earth Sciences and Astronomy

The Astronomy Observatory of Marseille-Provence was founded in 1702. It is one of France’s national observatories and focuses on studying cosmology, galaxy formation, stars, and planets. The observatory also works on environmental sciences and helps share astronomy discoveries with the public. It includes research labs and the Haute-Provence Observatory.

Engineering

Polytech Marseille is a graduate school of engineering that offers programs in emerging technologies. Students study for five years and take part in professional placements. The school is part of France’s Polytech Group and its programs are recognized for their high quality and strong focus on practical skills.

Rankings and reputation

Aix-Marseille University (AMU) is famous for its good school subjects. In 2025, the Academic Ranking of World Universities put AMU between 151st and 200th in the world. It also did very well in subjects like Physics and Oceanography, sharing a place between 51st and 75th.

Other lists also show AMU’s quality. In the 2025 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it shared a place between 401st and 500th. In the 2026 QS World University Rankings, AMU shared a place around 428th. These lists help us see how AMU compares to universities around the world.

University presses

Aix-Marseille University works with two university presses: Presses Universitaires de Provence and Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille. One press makes books about subjects like history and science. The other press makes books about law.

Notable alumni

Main article: List of alumni of Aix-Marseille University

Aix-Marseille University has many successful graduates. Some famous graduates have won big prizes like the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Others have won Olympic medals or film awards called César Awards. Many have also worked in politics, including leaders of countries and important members of governments in France and Europe.

Notable faculty and staff

Nobel laureates

• Sheldon Glashow – winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

Politics and government

Foreign politicians

• Chedly Ayari – Minister of Planning of Tunisia
• Renato Balduzzi – Minister of Health of Italy
• Daniel Barbu – Minister of Culture of Romania
• Boudewijn Bouckaert – Member of the Flemish Parliament
• Sadok Chaabane – Minister of Justice of Tunisia and Minister of Higher Education
• Tullio De Mauro – Minister of Education of Italy
• Francis Delpérée – Member of the Senate of Belgium and the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
• Sven Koopmans – Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process
• António Coimbra Martins – Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Portugal
• Guido Melis – Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
• Nikolaos Politis – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece
• Kenneth F. Simpson – Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
• Michel van den Abeele – Director-General of Eurostat and Ambassador of the EU to the OECD and UNESCO

French politicians

• Joseph Barthélemy – Minister of Justice of France
• Hippolyte Fortoul – Minister of the Navy and Colonies of France and Minister of National Education of France/Minister of Public Worship of France
• Hubert Haenel – French politician, member of the Constitutional Council of France
• Didier Maus – Councillor of State of France
• Jean-Paul Proust – Minister of State of Monaco and Prefect of Police of Paris
• Joseph Jérôme Siméon – President of the National Assembly of France, Minister of National Education of France, Minister of the Interior of France and President of the Court of Financial Auditors of France
• Michel Tonon – Mayor of Salon-de-Provence
• Jean-Jacques Weiss – Councillor of State of France

Members of the National Assembly of France

• Gilbert Baumet – Deputy and Senator
• René Brunet – Deputy
• Joseph Comiti – Deputy
• Paul de Fougères de Villandry – Deputy
• Jean-Pierre Giran – Deputy
• François-Michel Lambert – Deputy
• Rémy Montagne – Deputy
• Ambroise Mottet – Deputy and Mayor of Aix-en-Provence
• Paul Patriarche – Deputy
• Camille Perreau – Deputy
• Philippe Sanmarco – Deputy
• Henri-Emmanuel Poulle – Deputy
• Dominique Taddéi – Deputy
• Maurice Toga – Deputy

Members of the Senate of France

• Alain Delcamp – Secretary-General
• Brigitte Devésa – Senator
• Claude Domeizel – Senator
• Michèle Einaudi – Senator
• Hélène Masson-Maret – Senator

Diplomatic service

• Bajrakitiyabha, Princess Rajasarini Siribajra – Thai Ambassador to Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia
• Gilles-Henry Garault – French Ambassador to Nepal
• Jeane Kirkpatrick – United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol – French Ambassador to the United States

Lawyers, judges, and legal academics

• Sami A. Aldeeb – Head of the Arab and Islamic Law Department at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
• Harry Blackmun – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Leonardo Nemer Caldeira Brant – Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Jay Bybee – Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Mirjan Damaška – Sterling Professor emeritus at Yale Law School
• René David – former Chair of Comparative Law at the University of Paris, Sorbonne
• Louis Favoreu – French academic and jurist
• Barry E. Friedman – American academic
• Giorgio Gaja – Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Alon Harel – Phillip P. Mizock & Estelle Mizock Chair in Administrative and Criminal Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. – Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School
• Ayşe Işıl Karakaş – Turkish academic, judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
• Peter Lindseth – Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law
• Ejan Mackaay – Professor of Law at the Université de Montréal
• John F. Murphy – American lawyer and a professor at Villanova University
• John L. Murray – Chief Justice of Ireland, Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland, Judge of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and Attorney General of Ireland
• Theo Öhlinger – Member of the Constitutional Court of Austria
• Francesco Parisi – Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School
• Raymond Ranjeva – Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Hjalte Rasmussen – former professor of EU Law at the University of Copenhagen
• Michel Rosenfeld – Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
• Francisco Rubio Llorente – Judge of the Constitutional Court of Spain and President of the Spanish Council of State
• Eli Salzberger – Law Professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law
• Antonin Scalia – Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Bernhard Schlink – German jurist and writer
• Ronald Sokol – American lawyer and writer
• Alec Stone Sweet – Leitner Professor of Law, Politics and International Studies at Yale Law School
• Symeon C. Symeonides – Dean of the Willamette University College of Law
• Stefan Talmon – professor of international law at the University of Bonn
• Michael Tigar – American criminal defense attorney
• Hélène Tigroudja – Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Arts, literature, humanities, and entertainment

Historians

• François Victor Alphonse Aulard – professor of the history of the French Revolution at the University of Paris, Sorbonne
• Gabriel Camps – French historian, former member of the Academy of Overseas Sciences and Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
• Georges Duby – French historian, former member of the French Academy and Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
• Georges Foucart – French historian and Egyptologist, former member of the Academy of Overseas Sciences
• Derek Hopwood – British historian and Arabist, former Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford
• Douglas Johnson – British historian, an advisor to the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on all matters concerning France, Professor of French History at University College London (UCL)
• Charles Joret – French literary historian, philologist and botanical author, former member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
• Nora Lafi – French historian, co-founder and editor of H-Mediterranean, H-Net, Michigan State University (MSU)
• Paolo Malanima – Italian economic historian
• George E. Mowry – American historian focusing primarily on the Progressive Era, professor at UCLA and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Jean-Rémy Palanque – professor of ancient history, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
• Serge Ricard – professor of American Civilization at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
• Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen – French historian, former President of the Peace Through Law Association
• Rafał Taubenschlag – Polish historian of law, specialist in Roman law and papyrology, former member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Paul Veyne – French historian and archaeologist, former member of the École française de Rome and honorary professor at the Collège de France
• Catherine Virlouvet – French historian, professor of economic and social history of ancient Rome, former Director of the École française de Rome, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and the Academia Europaea
• Arundhati Virmani – Indian historian, lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
• Jules Sylvain Zeller – French historian, lecturer at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques

Literature

• Yves Bonnefoy – French poet and essayist, former member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• Paule Constant – French novelist, winner of the 1998 Prix Goncourt
• Louis O. Coxe – American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor
• Louis Ducros – 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature nominee
• Frieda Ekotto – Francophone African novelist and literary critic, professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan
• Henri Fluchère – chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a literary critic
• Raymond Jean – French writer, winner of the 1983 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
• Mazarine Pingeot – French writer, journalist and professor, the daughter of former President of France, François Mitterrand
• François Ricard – Canadian writer, professor of French literature at McGill University
• Émile Ripert – French academic, poet, novelist and playwright
• Urbano Tavares Rodrigues – Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer
• Lydie Salvayre – French writer, winner of the 2014 Prix Goncourt
• Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna – Brazilian poet, essayist, and professor
• Roselyne Sibille – French poet
• William E. Wilson – American writer

Music

• André Bon – French composer
• André Boucourechliev – French composer
• Barry Conyngham – Australian composer and academic
• Jean-Claude Risset – French composer

Scientists

Social Science

• Jean-Claude Abric – professor in social psychology
• Giulio Angioni – Italian writer and anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari, fellow of St Antony's College of the University of Oxford
• Tony Atkinson – former Fellow of the British Academy, a senior research fellow of Nuffield College of the University of Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE)
• Sydney Hervé Aufrère – French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS
• Patrick Baert – Belgian sociologist and social theorist, reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge
• Eugène Benoist – French classical philologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
• Danielle Bleitrach – French sociologist
• Maurice Blondel – French philosopher
• David E. Bloom – former Chair of Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health
• François Burgat – French political scientist and arabist, senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
• Forrest Capie – professor emeritus of Economic History at the Cass Business School, City University London
• Brian Lee Crowley – Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and the founding President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS)
• Christie Davies – British sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Reading
• Rajeev Dehejia – professor of public policy in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University
• Roger Establet – French scholar of the sociology of education
• Jean-Yves Girard – French logician
• Louis Godart – Chair of Philology at the University of Naples Federico II
• Lucien Golvin – French university professor who specialized in the study of art from the peoples of the Maghreb
• Gérard Granel – French philosopher and translator
• Gilles-Gaston Granger – French analytic philosopher, former member of the Academia Europaea
• Pierre Gros – contemporary scholar of ancient Roman architecture and the Latin language
• Maurice Gross – French linguist and scholar of Romance languages, former professor at Paris 8 University and Paris Diderot University
• Gene Grossman – Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University
• Bernard Harcourt – Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University and professor of political science and the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
• Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński – Polish philosopher
• Jean-Louis Le Moigne – French specialist on systems theory and constructivist epistemology
• Leigh Lisker – American linguist and phonetician
• Carlo Lottieri – Political Philosophy professor
• John Loughlin – Director of the Von Hügel Institute, and a senior fellow and affiliated lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge
• Octave Merlier – expert on the Modern Greek language
• Georges Mounin – French linguist, translator and semiotician
• Gunasekaran Paramasamy – Vice-Chancellor of Thiruvalluvar University
• Jules Payot – French educationist
• Charles Rostaing – French linguist specialising in toponymy
• Mark Seidenberg – Hilldale and Donald O. Hebb Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Samah Selim – Egyptian scholar and translator of Arabic literature
• Bernard Sellato – former Director of the Institute for Research on Southeast Asia
• Étienne Souriau – French philosopher, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
• Paul Souriau – French philosopher
• William H. Starbuck – organizational scientist who held professorships in social relations (Johns Hopkins University), sociology (Cornell University), business administration (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), and management (New York University)
• Nikola Stoyanov – Bulgarian scientist, economist and financier
• Eero Tarasti – Finnish musicologist and semiologist
• John Waterbury – American academic, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
• Jean Varenne – French Indologist
• Andrey Zaliznyak – Russian linguist, former corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, former full academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Christoph Zürcher – professor at the graduate school of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, former professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin

Medical science

• Nicolas Maurice Arthus – French immunologist and physiologist
• Marius Audier – French physician, cardiologist, and polymath, founder of the Institut de Gérontologie Sociale
• Philip Augustine – Indian gastroenterologist, specialist in gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Svetlana Broz – Bosnian–Serbian author and physician
• Boris Cyrulnik – French doctor, ethologist, neurologist and psychiatrist
• Jacques Daviel – French ophthalmologist, oculist to Louis XV
• Édouard Marie Heckel – French botanist and medical doctor, former director of the Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel, and founder of the Colonial Institute and Museum of Marseille
• Antoine Mérindol – French physician, doctor to Louis XIII
• Jean Roche) – French physician, former member of the French Academy of Medicine and the French Academy of Sciences, and former Rector of the University of Paris, Sorbonne

Physical science

• Henri Bacry – visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and a researcher at CERN
• René Baillaud – French astronomer, former corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Ugo Bardi – professor in physical chemistry at the University of Florence
• Reinhold Bertlmann – Austrian physicist, professor of physics at the University of Vienna
• Eugenio Bianchi – Italian theoretical physicist
• Jean Bosler – French astronomer, member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Henri Buisson – French physicist, co-discoverer of the ozone layer, member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Jean Cabannes – French physicist, former member of the French Academy of Sciences, former President of the Société astronomique de France and the Bureau des Longitudes
• Christian Cambillau – French scientist at the CNRS in Structural Biology
• Carlo Carraro – President of the University of Venice, Director of the Sustainable Development Program of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and Director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC)
• Maurice Caullery – President of the French Academy of Sciences: Jan–Dec 1945
• Jean Chacornac – French astronomer, the asteroid 1622 Chacornac and the lunar crater Chacornac are named in his honour
• Jérôme Eugène Coggia – French astronomer, two-time recipient of the Lalande Prize
• Alain Colmerauer – French computer scientist and creator of the logic programming language Prolog, former member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Henri Coquand – French geologist and paleontologist
• Pablo Cottenot – French astronomer
• Charles Depéret – French geologist and paleontologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Société géologique de France
• August Alphonse Derbès – French naturalist, zoologist and botanist
• Jean Dufay – French astronomer, member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Jean-Yves Empereur – French archeologist and egyptologist, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres
• Honoré Fabri – French Jesuit theologian, mathematician, physicist and controversialist
• Charles Fehrenbach – French astronomer, member of the French Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Haute-Provence Observatory (OHP)
• John F. Forester – American planning theorist with a particular emphasis on participatory planning, former Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University
• Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart – French astronomer, former member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Alex Grossmann – Croatian-French physicist, former member of the Academia Europaea
• Rudolf Haag – German theoretical physicist, member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, and corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Isao Imai – Japanese theoretical physicist, former member of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the University of Tokyo
• Henri Lucien Jumelle – French botanist, former member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
• Daniel Kastler – French theoretical physicist, former corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Joseph J. Katz – American chemist at Argonne National Laboratory, member of the US National Academy of Sciences
• Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie – French astronomer, former member of the Academia Europaea, the French Academy of Sciences, and the International Astronomical Union
• Deepak Lal – James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Antonio Lanzavecchia – Italian immunologist
• Lucien Laubier – French oceanographer, former Director of the Institut océanographique de Paris
• Laurie Menviel - Australian climate scientist & oceanographer
• Henry de Lumley – French archeologist, geologist and prehistorian
• John L. Lumley – professor emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University
• Roger Malina – physicist, astronomer, Executive Editor of Leonardo Publications at the MIT Press
• Antoine Fortuné Marion – French naturalist, former corresponding member of the Société de Géographie
• Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt – Polish–Lithuanian Jesuit astronomer and mathematician, former Rector of Vilnius University
• Jean-Louis Pons – French astronomer
• Didier Raoult – French biology researcher
• Carlo Rovelli – Italian physicist, member of the Institut Universitaire de France
• Evry Schatzman – French astrophysicist, former member of the Academia Europaea, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique
• Édouard Stephan – French astronomer, former member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Wilhelm Tempel – German astronomer, former member of the Royal Society and the Accademia dei Lincei
• Jose L. Torero – former BRE Trust/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Fire Safety Engineering, former Director of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at University of Edinburgh, and current Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London (UCL)
• Nicolas Tournadre – professor specializing in morphosyntax and typology, member of the LACITO lab of the CNRS
• Benjamin Valz – French astronomer, former member of the French Academy of Sciences
• Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière – French scientist
• Margaret Weitz – American academic, former professor emeritus at Suffolk University
• Dan Werthimer – co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project, Chief Scientist of the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley
• Francisco José Ynduráin – Spanish theoretical physicist, former member of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, the American Physical Society, the Academia Europaea, and the European Physical Society

Business and economics

• Georges Anderla – French economist, former professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the University of Paris, Sorbonne
• Bruce Caldwell – Research Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy
• Jean-Pierre Danthine – Swiss-Belgian economist, Vice President of the Swiss National Bank (SNB): 2012–2015
• Lars Feld – Director of the Walter Eucken Institut, professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts
• Garance Genicot – Belgian-American economist, associate professor of economics at Georgetown University
• Rick Gilmore – President/CEO of GIC Trade, Inc. (the GIC Group), Special external advisor to the White House/USAID for the private sector/global food security and managing director of the Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF) in Beijing
• Victor Ginsburgh – Belgian economist
• Sanjeev Goyal – Indian economist, professor of economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
• Nancy Hubbard – American professor of business, author, and Miriam Katowitz Chair of Management and Accounting at Goucher College
• Richard Lyons – Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley: 2008–2018; Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley: 2024–present
• Angus Maddison – British economist, former Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and former emeritus professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Groningen
• Gérard Mestrallet – Chairman and CEO of Engie: 2008–2016
• Henry Mintzberg – academic and author on business and management, the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University
• Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay – Indian economist
• Nikolay Nenovsky – Bulgarian economist, member of the Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank
• Pierre Pestieau – Belgian economist, former lecturer at Cornell University, and former professor of economics at the University of Liège
• George Selgin – Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, professor emeritus of economics at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, and an associate editor of Econ Journal Watch
• Mark P. Taylor – Dean of Warwick Business School (WBS) at the University of Warwick and an academic in the fields of International Finance and Economics
• Paul Tiffany – Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Lawrence H. White – American economics professor at George Mason University
• Myrna Wooders – Canadian economist, Fellow of the Econometric Society, professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and the University of Warwick

Mathematics

• Sergio Albeverio – Swiss mathematician working in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics
• Peter Balazs – Austrian mathematician working at the Acoustics Research Institute Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat – French mathematician and physicist, who was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences
• Joachim Cuntz – German mathematician, fellow of the American Mathematical Society
• Roland Fraïssé – French mathematical logician
• John H. Hubbard – American mathematician, professor at Cornell University
• Henri Padé – French mathematician, known for his development of approximation techniques for functions using rational functions
• Étienne Pardoux – French mathematician working in the field of Stochastic analysis, in particular Stochastic partial differential equations
• Olivier Ramaré – French mathematician
• Nicolas Sarrabat – French mathematician and scientist, the son of the painter Daniel Sarrabat
• Jean-Marie Souriau – French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry
• Masamichi Takesaki – Japanese mathematician, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and fellow of the American Mathematical Society
• David Trotman – British mathematician, leading expert in an area of singularity theory known as the theory of stratifications
• André Weil – French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry

Miscellaneous

• Robert Chaudenson – French linguist, a specialist in creole languages
• Jean-François Delmas – French librarian, chief curator of the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine and the Musées de Carpentras, member of the French Catholic Academy
• Michel Duc-Goninaz – member of the World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO), and co-editor of La Folieto
• Roger Duchêne – French biographer specializing in the letters of Madame de Sévigné, former member of the Société d'étude du XVIIe siècle
• Leonard Liggio – classical liberal author, research professor of law at George Mason University, and executive vice president of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia
• Tuncer Őren – Turkish Canadian systems engineer, professor emeritus of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa
• Rascas de Bagarris – founder of the science of historical numismatics and one of the most notable antiquaries of his time
• Willy Ronis – French photographer, former member of Les 30 × 40 (Le Club photographique de Paris)