This is a list of alumni, former staff, and those otherwise associated with Sorbonne University (and the former autonomous universities Paris-IV Sorbonne and Paris-VI Pierre and Marie Curie). This list is incomplete.

• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel Prize in Physics 1997)
• Emmanuelle Charpentier (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020)
• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
• Serge Haroche (Nobel Prize in Physics 2012)
• Gérard Mourou (Nobel Prize in Physics 2018)

• Donald Adamson (1939–2024), British historian
• Shmuel Agmon (born 1922), Israeli mathematician
• Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari (born 1948), Qatari diplomat
• Sophia Antoniadis (1895–1972), classical scholar and first female professor at Leiden University
• Philippe Barbarin (born 1950), French Catholic Archbishop of Lyon and cardinal
• Charlotte Casiraghi (born 1986), Italian fashion journalist
• Karl P. Cohen (1913–2012), American physical chemist
• Ioan Petru Culianu (1950–1991), Romanian historian
• Abiol Lual Deng (born 1983), South Sudanese-American political scientist
• Mamadou Diouf, Senegalese professor of Western African history at Columbia University
• Julia Ducournau, French director and screenwriter
• Marie Drucker (born 1974), French journalist
• Soudabeh Fazaeli (born 1947), Iranian seismologist, researcher, mythologist and writer
• Luc Ferry (born 1951), French philosopher
• Henri Guaino (born 1957) French politician
• William Irigoyen (born 1970), French journalist
• Besiana Kadare (born 1972), Albanian Ambassador to the UN
• Samir Kassir (1960–2005), Lebanese-French professor of history at Saint-Joseph University
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (born 1895), Indian philosopher
• Thanh Hai Ngo (born 1947), Vietnamese-Canadian senator
• Caterina Magni (born 1966) Italian-French archaeologist
• Shahrzad Rafati (born 1980), Iranian-Canadian media entrepreneur
• Bernard Romain (born 1944), French painter and sculptor
• Christiane Taubira (born 1952), Minister of Justice of France
• Habib Tawa (born 1945), Lebanese-French historian
• Jean-Pierre Thiollet (born 1956), French writer
• Shunichi Yamaguchi (born 1950), Japanese politician
• Nureldin Satti, Sudanese diplomat and ambassador to the United States.^[1]
• Jemima West (born 1987), Anglo-French actress
• Baby Varghese Indian scholar and professor
• Abdul Hafeez Mirza (born 1939), Pakistani Tourism worker, cultural activist and Professor of French. Studied International Tourism.
• Zahia Ziouani (born 1978), French composer

• Claude Bartolone, French politician, former President of the National Assembly
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, politician and senior international civil servant
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate
• Nicole Capitaine, French astronomer
• Emmanuelle Charpentier, French microbiologist, biochemist and Nobel laureate
• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and Nobel laureate
• Serge Haroche, French physicist, Nobel laureate
• Gérard Mourou, French physicist, Nobel laureate
• Georges Calas, French mineralogist
• Vincent Calvez, French mathematician
• Sébastien Candel, French physicist
• Eudald Carbonell, Spanish archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist
• Sophie Carenco, French chemist
• Pierre Charneau, French virologist
• Cécile Charrier, French neuroscience researcher
• Daniel Choquet, French neuroscientist
• Gérard Denis Cohen, French computer science professor
• Dominique Costagliola, French epidemiologist
• Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, French biologist
• Nicolas Courtois, French and British cryptographer
• Jean Dalibard, French physicist
• Olivier Danvy, French computer scientist
• Bernard Debré, French urologist and politician (1944–2020)
• Jean-Pierre Demailly, French mathematician (1957–2022)
• Julie Diani, French academic in the field of mechanics of polymeric materials
• Sindika Dokolo, Congolese art collector and businessman (1972–2020)
• Maïmouna Doucouré, French filmmaker (born 1985)
• Bérengère Dubrulle, French astrophysicist (born 1965)
• Catherine Dulac, French–American biologist