Binot Paulmier, sieur de Gonneville, French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France to have been the discoverer of the Terra Australis. Currently, history books from Normandy, in France, teach that Binot Paulmier was a French-Norman navigator who arrived in what is now Southern Brazil in 1504.
Alfred Sauvy was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy. Sauvy coined the term Third World in reference to countries that were unaligned with either the Western bloc or the Eastern bloc during the Cold War.
Serge Latouche is a French emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris-Sud. He holds a degree in political sciences, philosophy and economy.
Jacques Sternberg was a French-language writer of science fiction and fantastique.
Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought", and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology. As he explains: He holds two bachelors: one in history and geography and one in law. He never did a Ph.D. Though less well known in the anglophone world due to the limited availability of English translations of his over 60 books, Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world, Europe, and Latin America.
Louis Pauwels was a French journalist and writer.
The French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, also called the French Geodesic Mission to Peru and the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission, was an 18th-century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth radius can be inferred. The mission was one of the first geodesic missions carried out under modern scientific principles, and the first major international scientific expedition.
Jean-Pierre Thiollet is a French writer and journalist.
Jean C. Baudet is a Belgian philosopher and writer, born in Brussels and died in Laeken.
Sérigne M'Baye Gueye, better known by his stage name Disiz, is a French rapper and actor. Born to a Senegalese father and Belgian mother, he grew up listening to hip hop music.
Jean-Claude Pecker was a French astronomer, astrophysicist and author, member of the French Academy of Sciences and director of the Nice Observatory. He served as the secretary-general of the International Astronomical Union from 1964 to 1967. Pecker was the President of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), the French amateur astronomical society, from 1973–1976. He was awarded the Prix Jules Janssen by the French Astronomical Society in 1967. A minor planet is named after him. Pecker was a vocal opponent of astrology and pseudo-science and was the president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique (AFIS), a skeptical organisation which promotes scientific enquiry in the face of quackery and obscurantism.
Thierry Libaert is a leading French specialist on Organizational Communication. He has been professor of Organizational Communication at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where he chaired the Laboratory for the Analysis of Organisational Communication Systems (LASCO). He previously worked for the State industry department, for a public relations agency and as PR manager for one of France's leading companies.
Stanislas-Étienne Meunier was a French geologist born in Paris.
Georges Louis Bouligand was a French mathematician. He worked in analysis, mechanics, analytical and differential geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. He is known for introducing the concept of paratingent cones and contingent cones.
André Warusfel was a French mathematician and an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure.
Jean Varenne was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite. He taught Sanskrit at the Aix-Marseille University, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, where he was eventually nominated professor emeritus. Varenne has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, and at other universities in India, Cambodia and Mexico.
Gabriel Veraldi, real name William Schmidt was a Swiss French-speaking writer and translator. Veraldi is the author of several novels and essays.
François Thierry de Crussol, known by his Chinese name 蒂埃里, is a French numismatist, specialising in East Asian currency.
Francois Forget is a French astrophysicist, specializing in the exploration of the solar system and planetary environments. He is a research director at the CNRS and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Olavo Avelino Garcia Correia commonly known as Olavo Correia, is a Cape Verdean politician. He currently serves as the deputy prime minister, and Minister of Finance of Cape Verde since May 2016.
