List of École normale supérieure people

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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.[1]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Alumni[]

The year when they entered the ENS is in parenthesis.

Nobel laureates[]

  • Henri Bergson (1878) (1927 Nobel Prize in Literature)
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1953) (1997 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1951) (1991 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Gérard Debreu (1941) (1983 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)
  • Albert Fert (1957) (2007 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Serge Haroche (1963) (2012 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Alfred Kastler (1921) (1966 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Gabriel Lippmann (1868) (1908 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Louis Néel (1924) (1970 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1891) (1926 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Romain Rolland (1886) (1915 Nobel Prize in Literature)
  • Paul Sabatier (1874) (1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1924) (declined 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature)
  • Esther Duflo (2019 Nobel Prize in Economics)

Fields Medal laureates[]

The following Fields Medal were educated at the École Normale Supérieure.

Sciences[]

Medicine and biology[]

Physics[]

See also: § Nobel laureates

Mathematics[]

See also: § Fields Medal laureates

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
  • (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[]

Literary criticism[]

Philology, grammar, linguistics[]

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[]

See also: § Nobel laureates

Government and public policy[]

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[]

  1. ^ See the dedicated website, http://www.archicubes.ens.fr/ Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ National Assembly biography
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