Created in 1918, the title of doctor honoris causa is one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded by French universities to honour "personalities of foreign nationality for eminent services rendered to the sciences, letters or the arts, to France and to the university".
Sofia Corradi
Emeritus Professor at the University of Rome III and initiator of the Erasmus programme
7th June 2024
Hisham Matar
Author
7th June 2024
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President of the Republic of Ghana
10 October 2022
Gesine Schwan
Academic (Romance linguistics, history, philosophy and political science at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder) and German politician
10 December 2018
David Schmeidler
Israeli mathematician and economic theorist (Tel Aviv University)
10 December 2018
Natalie Zemon Davis
Canadian historian, specialist in the cultural and social history of 16th and 17th century France and the modern era (University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University)
10 December 2018
Juan Manuel Santos
President of the Republic of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize winner
23 June 2017
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
25 June 2016
Béji Caïd Essebsi
President of the Republic of Tunisia
7 April 2015
Amartya Sen
1998 Nobel Prize in Economics
14 May 2007
James Richard Crawford
Whewell Chair - Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge
3rd May 2007
Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Prize in Economics 2002
5th July 2006
Juan Somavia
Director-General of the International Labour Organisation
23 May 2003
Francesco Rosi
Film director
5 April 2002
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former President of the USSR
12 December 2001
William J. Baumol
Professor Emeritus of Princeton University
Ulrich Hübner
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Cologne - Professor of Insurance Law
Otto Gerhard Oexle
Director of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen
Juan Alejandro Tobias
Professor of Philosophy, Rector of the University of El Salvador
28 September 2001
Abdurrahman Wahid
President of the Republic of Indonesia
14th June 2000
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