This is an incomplete list of notable people affiliated with the University of Paris (often called La Sorbonne).

Famous alumni

Entrance to the Sorbonne

• Michel Aflaq, (1910-1989), the ideological founder of Ba'athism, a form of Arab nationalism.
• Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), chess master
• Theo Angelopoulos (b. 1936), Greek film director.
• Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694), Roman Catholic theologian and writer.
• Joaquín Balaguer (1906-2002), President of the Dominican Republic
• Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), French poet and critic
• John Calvin (1509-1564), founder of Calvinism
• Roch Carrier (b. 1937), French-Canadian novelist
• Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada
• Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), physicist, Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
• Pierre Curie (1859-1906), physicist, Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 with his wife Maria Skłodowska-Curie
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French author, philosopher, and feminist.
• Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), French sculptor
• Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), founder of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), poet and co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house
• Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930), film director
• Abimael Guzmán (b. 1934), leader of the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso in Peru
• Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), English surgeon, best known as an etcher
• Mahmoud Hessaby (1903-1992) Iranian scientist and politician
• Vilayat Inayat Khan (b. 1916), Sufic leader and writer
• Irène Joliot-Curie, (1897-1956), French scientist, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot
• Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American writer
• Marsilius of Padua (1270-1342), Italian scholar. Rector of the university 1313
• Pol Pot (1925-1998), leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia 1976-1979
• André Morellet (1727-1819), French economist and writer
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky (1801-1862), Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
• Peter of Blois (1135 (?) - 1203 (?)), French poet and diplomat who wrote in Latin
• Pope Alexander V
• Pauline Réage
• Vera Maria Rosenberg (Vera Atkins of SOE)
• Ibrahim Rugova
• Émile Saisset
• Jean-Pierre Serre
• Ali Shariati
• Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Pierre Trudeau
• Marina Tsvetaeva
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
• John Napier Turner
• Jacques Verges
• Sérgio Vieira de Mello
• Sam Waterston
• Walter of Chatillon
• Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Past and present faculty professors

• Jean-Jacques Ampère
• François Victor Alphonse Aulard
• Victor Cousin
• Marie Curie
• Jean Philibert Damiron
• Jacques Derrida
• Claude Charles Fauriel
• Nicolas Eugène Géruzez
• François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
• Paul Janet
• Frédéric Joliot
• Irène Joliot-Curie
• Peter Martin Ngo-Dinh-Thuc
• Frédéric Antoine Ozanam
• Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
• Henri Poincaré
• Émile Saisset
• Étienne Vacherot
• Abel-Francois Villemain
• Boëthius of Dacia