This list of alumni of Aix-Marseille University includes graduates and non-graduate former students of Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France.
Lawyers, judges, and legal academics
Peter Annis – Judge of the Federal Court (Canada): 2013–present
Marta Cartabia – Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Italy: 2014–present; Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy: 2011–present
Gaston Crémieux – French lawyer, journalist and writer
Charles Debbasch – French academic and jurist
Tony Downes – the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law of the University of Reading
Charles Annibal Fabrot – French jurisconsult
Jean-Pierre Gibert – French Canon lawyer
Claude Jorda – French jurist, former Judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Jeff Kurzon – American attorney and politician
Iulia Motoc – Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania, and judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
Grégoire Mourre – President of the First Civil Division of the Court of Cassation of France: 1811–1815; Chief Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation of France: 1815–1830
Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan – French jurist and former Chair of Comparative Criminal Law at Sorbonne University
Louis Sarrut – President of the Court of Cassation of France: 1917–1925
Herdis Thorgeirsdottir – Icelandic lawyer and political scientist
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 – the Arbitration Chair at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute
Prosper Weil – French lawyer, professor emeritus at Panthéon-Assas University, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Kiarash Anvari – Iranian film maker, video artist and script writer
Fanny Ardant – French actress, winner of the 1997 César Award for Best Actress
Ariane Ascaride – French actress, winner of the 1998 César Award for Best Actress
Ishmael Bernal – Filipino film, stage and television director
Carole Bienaimé – French film and television producer
Robin Campillo – French screenwriter, editor and film director
Bradley Cooper – American actor and film producer, four-time Academy Award nominee
Philippe Faucon – French film director, screenwriter and producer, winner of the 2016 César Awards for Best Film and Best Adaptation
Sadaf Foroughi – Iranian film maker, video artist and film editor
Robert Guédiguian – French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer
Ken Hom – Chinese American chef, author and British television-show presenter
Caroline Huppert – French film director and screenwriter, the sister of actress Isabelle Huppert
Ariane Labed – French actress, who was awarded the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
Xavier Laurent – French actor
Richard Marquand – Welsh film director
Paul Meurisse – French actor
Marcel Pagnol – French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker, who became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française
Jean Renoir – French film director, recipient of the Academy Honorary Award, and son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Richard Sammel – German actor
Corinne Touzet – French actress
Jean-Louis Trintignant – French actor, winner of the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and the 2013 César Award for Best Actor
Xavier Accart – French historian of ideas
Karima Dirèche – French Algerian historian specialising in the contemporary history of the Maghreb
Marc Fumaroli – French historian and essayist, member of the Académie française, the Académie des Inscriptions, and a foreign member of the British Academy
Emile Haag – Luxembourgish historian, trade unionist and former principal of the Athénée de Luxembourg
Bernard Lugan – French historian and Associate Professor of African history at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3
Antoine Pagi – French ecclesiastical historian
Régine Pernoud – French historian and medievalist
Ambroise Roux-Alphéran – French historian
Abdeljelil Temimi – Tunisian historian
Matthias Theodor Vogt – German historian and musicologist
Ali Bach Hamba – Tunisian journalist
Jim Hoagland – American journalist, an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
Lutz Kleveman – German investigative journalist and photographer
François Mignet – French journalist, historian, member of the Académie française and the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Jean-Marc Morandini – French journalist
Terry Phillips – American journalist, author and media consultant
David Pujadas – French journalist
Chris Agee – Irish poet, essayist and editor
Jean Aicard – French poet, dramatist and novelist, member of the Académie française
Paul Alexis – French novelist, dramatist and journalist
Joseph d'Arbaud – French poet
Christophe Arleston – French comics writer and editor
Léon de Berluc-Pérussis – French poet and historian
Mongo Beti – Cameroonian writer
Beverley Bie Brahic – American poet and translator
Marcel Brion – French essayist, literary critic, novelist, historian, member of the Académie française
Ashley Bryan – American writer and illustrator of children's books, winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Marion May Campbell – Australian novelist and academic
Raphaël Confiant – French writer
Ferdinand Duviard – French writer and novelist
Jean Echenoz – French writer
Marian Engel – Canadian novelist
José Frèches – French historical novelist
Madeleine Gagnon – Quebec educator, literary critic and writer
Joachim Gasquet – French author, poet, and art critic
Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher – Ethiopian writer
José Giovanni – French writer and film-maker
Pétur Gunnarsson – Icelandic writer
Malek Haddad – Algerian poet and writer
William Kreiten – German literary critic and poet
Pierre La Mure – French author
Abdelwahab Meddeb – an award-winning French-language poet, novelist, essayist, translator, editor, Islamic scholar, cultural critic, political commentator, radio producer, public intellectual and professor of comparative literature at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Stoyan Mihaylovski – Bulgarian writer and social figure
Denise Morel – French writer and psychiatrist
Suzanne Prou – French novelist, winner of the 1973 Prix Renaudot
André de Richaud – French poet and writer
Boris Schreiber – French writer
Christiane Singer – French writer, essayist and novelist
Olga Stanisławska – Polish writer
Patrick Süskind – German writer and screenwriter
Bahaa Trabelsi – Moroccan novelist
Ira Trivedi – Indian author, columnist, and yoga Acharya
Ana Lydia Vega – Puerto Rican writer
Manuel Veiga – Cape Verdean writer
Keith Waldrop – American poet, writer and translator, Professor Emeritus at Brown University, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry
Rosmarie Waldrop – American poet, translator and publisher
Choe Yun – Korean writer, winner of the 1994 Yi Sang Literary Award
Thierry Amiel – French singer and songwriter
Françoise Atlan – French singer
Paul Bastide – French conductor and composer
Emmanuel Boyer de Fonscolombe – French composer
Régis Campo – French composer
Anaïs Croze – French singer
Nick Drake – English singer-songwriter and musician
Francisco Negrin – award winning stage director working in opera
Henry Padovani – a musician from the Mediterranean French isle of Corsica, noted for being the original guitarist for the Police
Mélanie Pain – French indie pop singer
Jean-Pierre Rampal – French flautist
Cécile McLorin Salvant – American jazz vocalist, winner of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Nicolas Vatomanga – saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer
Gilles Barbier – French contemporary artist
Paul Cézanne – French artist and Post-Impressionist painter
Lucien Clergue – French photographer, Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts
Michel-François Dandré-Bardon – French history painter and etcher
Roger Excoffon – French graphic designer
Xiao Ge – Chinese artist and curator
Phoebe Gloeckner – American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist
Jeremy Houghton – British fine artist
George Morrison – American landscape painter and sculptor
Michael Reinhardt – American photographer whose images were featured in magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Sports Illustrated
Haim Steinbach – American artist
Parya Vatankhah – Iranian visual artist
Catherine Walker – designer of Diana, Princess of Wales
Scientists and academics
Philip Augustine – Indian gastroenterologist
Philippe Baumard – organizational scientist who has held visiting professorships at New York University, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and is currently École Polytechnique's Chair on Innovation & Regulation, and President of the Scientific Council of France's High Council for Strategic Education and Research
Ariel Beresniak – Swiss specialist in Public Health and Health Economics
Saviour Bernard – Maltese medical practitioner, scientist, and major philosopher
Mounir Bouchenaki – Algerian archaeologist and Director of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage
Jean Boutière – French philologist
Emmanuel Brunet Jailly – Canadian politics and public policy scholar
Veronica Dahl – Argentine/Canadian computer scientist
Michel Darluc – French naturalist
Marcelo Dascal – Israeli philosopher and linguist, professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University
Alexandre del Valle – Italo-French political scientist and geopolitician
Maurice Dongier – neuropsychiatrist at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute
François Doumenge – French geographer
Pierre-Michel Duffieux – French physicist, the founder of Fourier optics
William A. Earle – American philosopher
Mansour Mohamed El-Kikhia – Libyan academic and politician
Pascal Engel – French philosopher, who works on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of logic
Bruno Étienne – French sociologist and political analyst
Arthur Fallot – French physician
F. J. Friend-Pereira – Indian academic and author
Roger Garaudy – French philosopher
Pierre Joseph Garidel – French botanist
Pierre Gassendi – French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer and mathematician
Henri Gastaut – French neurologist
Antoine Marc Gaudin – professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Éric Geoffroy – French philosopher, islamologist, writer and scholar
Paul Gourret – French zoologist
Jean-Marc Guichet – French orthopedic surgeon
Yang Huanming – Chinese genetics researcher, Director of the Beijing Genomics Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fredric Jameson – American literary critic and Marxist political theorist, who has taught at Harvard and Yale
Eugène Jamot – French physician
Miro Kačić – Croatian linguist
Henry-Louis de La Grange – musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler
Saadi Lahlou – Professor in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics (LSE)
Janja Lalich – Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico
Thomas LaMarre – Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and member of the faculty of McGill University
Henri Lefebvre – French sociologist, Marxist intellectual and philosopher
Éliane Amado Levy-Valensi – French-Israeli psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher
Joseph Lieutaud – a pediatrician to the Louis XV of France's court, the personal physician to Louis XVI of France, a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Society
Raphaël Liogier – French sociologist, director of the Observatoire du religieux
Randal Marlin – Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University
Jean-François Mattéi – French philosopher
Marco Tulio Medina – Honduran neurologist and scientist
Simon Claude Mimouni – French biblical scholar
Jean-Baptiste Morin – French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer
Jean-Jacques Nattiez, OC, CQ, FRSC – Canadian semiotician, professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal
Nicola Padfield – Head of Fitzwilliam College of the University of Cambridge
Philip M. Parker – INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell – specialist in engineering risk analysis, and professor of management science at Stanford University
René Pomeau – French scholar, member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
Jean-Bernard Racine – Professor of Geography at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and at HEC Lausanne Business School
Léon Rostan – French internist, member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, and foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Louis Roule – French zoologist
Laurent Sagart – director of research at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, unit of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Enric Sala – marine ecologist and an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic
Peng Shige – Chinese mathematician, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jean-Athanase Sicard – French neurologist and radiologist
Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões – linguist, an associate professor at the University of Kansas
Gustavo Uzielli – Italian geologist, historian, and scientist
Jean Véronis – French linguist, computer scientist and blogger
Jane Zemiro – Australian academic and author
Business and economics
Olivier Baussan – French businessman, the founder of L'Occitane en Provence, Oliviers & Co and Première Pression Provence
Sunil Benimadhu – the Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM): 1998–present
Philippe Bourguignon – Member of the Board of Directors of eBay, former co-Chief Executive Officer of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Pierre Falcone – French businessman, the Chairman of Pierson Capital Group
Peter Hambro – founder of Peter Hambro Mining and a Non-Executive Director of the Private Banking Division of Société Générale
Rupert Hambro – British heir, banker, businessman and philanthropist
Chips Keswick – non-executive director of DeBeers Sa, Investec Bank, Persimmon plc, Arsenal Holdings plc (the parent company of Arsenal F.C.), and former Director of the Bank of England
Hugh D. MacPhie – Canadian author, consultant, and founder and a principal with MacPhie & Company
Angus Maddison – British economist, Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Groningen
Demetrios Mantzounis – Greek banker, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Bank
Jens Weidmann – 8th President of the German Federal Bank: 2011–present; Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB): 2011–present; Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2011–present
Sandrine Aubert – four-time winner in Alpine Skiing World Cup
Frédérick Bousquet – French freestyle and butterfly swimmer
Cecile Canqueteau-Landi – French gymnastics coach and former artistic gymnast
Mohamed Diop – Senegalese basketball player
Pape Diouf – President of Olympique de Marseille: 2005–2009
Anthony Giacobazzi – French rugby union player, who plays as scrum half for RC Toulonnais
Jean-Luc Gripond – President of FC Nantes: 2001–2005
Jason Lamy-Chappuis – French skier, Olympic gold medallist in combined events 2010
Alain Mosconi – French swimmer, Olympic medalist and world record holder
Michel Nandan – Monaco-based motor sport executive
Barry Jean Ancelet – Cajun folklorist, expert in Cajun music and Cajun French
Isabelle Arvers – French media art curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation, digital cinema, retrogaming, chiptunes and machinima
Dominique Bénard – former Deputy Secretary-General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
Gaston Berger – French futurist, industrialist and philosopher
James Birch – English art dealer, curator and gallery owner
Jean-Baptiste de Brancas – Bishop of La Rochelle: 1725–1729; Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence: 1729–1770
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux – French naval officer, explorer and colonial governor
Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage – Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre: 2003–present
Christopher Fomunyoh – Senior Associate for Africa and Regional Director at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
Romain Gary – French diplomat, novelist, film director and World War II aviator
Emmanuel Goffi – French Air Force Officer
Pascal Lalle – Director of Active Services at the Central Directorate of Public Security: 2012–present
Dai Llewellyn – Welsh socialite
Claude Njiké-Bergeret – development aid volunteer
Jean-Michel Parasiliti di Para, Prince Antoine IV – the head of household for the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc – French astronomer, antiquary and savant
Henri Antoine Marie Teissier – French-Algerian Catholic Bishop and Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers
Nguyen Xuan Vinh – Commander of Vietnam Air Force: 1958–1962
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