Médecins du Monde Henri Krasucki (1924–2003), Polish-born former secretary general of the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) from 1982 to 1992 Jack Lang (born 1939), Minister of Culture (1981–1986, 1988–1993) and Minister of Education (1992–1993, 2000–2002) Pierre Lellouche (born 1951), Tunisian-born member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party Georges Mandel (1885–1944), Interior Minister, 1939 René Mayer (1895–1972), Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister, 1954–55; withdrew from Indochina Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), first Jewish Prime Minister, 1920, and first Jewish President of France, serving 1920 to 1924 Jules Moch (1893–1985), Transport Minister, 1945–47; Interior Minister, 1947–50; Defense Minister, 1950–51 Pierre Moscovici (born 1957), European Union Economic Affairs Commissioner, former French Finance Ministerer and member of the French Parliament for the Socialist Party (PS) Yaël Braun-Pivet (born 1970), Jewish grandparents, first practicing Jew, as well as woman, to serve as President of the French National Assembly, serving since 2022. Maurice Schumann (1911–1998), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969–1973), Jewish father Alexandre Stavisky (1886–1934), Ukrainian-born financier and embezzler; Stavisky Affair Abraham Schrameck (1867–1948), Minister of the Interior, and colonial governor of French Madagascar, senator. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (born 1949), Finance Minister, 1997–99; President of the International Monetary Fund, 2007–11 Simone Veil (1927–2017), Health Minister, 1974–76; legalized abortion; President of the European Parliament, 1979–82 Georges Wormser (1888–1978), chief of staff of Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau Éric Zemmour (born 1958), French far-right politician, political journalist, essayist and 2022 French presidential election candidate Journalists Paul Amar (born 1950), journalist and television presenter Michel Drucker (born 1942), journalist and TV host Erik Izraelewicz (1954–2012), journalist and author, specialised in economics and finance; director and editorial executive of the daily Le Monde Ruth Elkrief (born 1960), journalist and television presenter Jean-François Kahn (born 1938), founder of Marianne magazine Ariel Wizman (born 1962), Moroccan-born TV journalist, DJ, musician and stage actor Academic figures Scientists Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), hypnosis pioneer Georges Charpak (1924–2010), Polish-born, Nobel Prize in physics in 1992 Claude Cohen Tannoudji (born 1933), Nobel Prize in physics in 1997 Serge Haroche (born 1944), Nobel Prize in physics in 2012 François Jacob (1920–2013), Nobel Prize in medicine in 1965 Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), Luxembourgish-born physicist, Nobel Prize (1908) Andre Michael Lwoff (1902–1994), microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965) Mathematicians Immanuel Bonfils (c. 1300 – 1377), mathematician and astronomer Maurice Block (1816–1901), German-born statistician Paul Lévy, mathematician specialized in probability theory Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born mathematician Olinde Rodrigues (1795–1851), mathematician and