poet, playwright, essayist, and professor Frieda Ekotto – Francophone African novelist and literary critic, professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan Henri Fluchère – chairman of the Société Française Shakespeare and a literary critic Raymond Jean – French writer François Ricard – Canadian writer, professor of French literature at McGill University Émile Ripert – French academic, poet, novelist and playwright Urbano Tavares Rodrigues – Portuguese professor of literature, a literary critic and a fiction writer Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna – Brazilian poet, essayist, and professor Roselyne Sibille – French poet William E. Wilson – American writer Music André Bon – French composer André Boucourechliev – French composer Barry Conyngham – Australian composer and academic Jean-Claude Risset – French composer Scientists and academics Jean-Claude Abric – professor in social psychology Giulio Angioni – Italian writer and anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari, fellow of St Antony's College of the University of Oxford Nicolas Maurice Arthus – French immunologist and physiologist Anthony Barnes Atkinson – Fellow of the British Academy, a senior research fellow of Nuffield College of the University of Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) Sydney Hervé Aufrère – French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS Philip Augustine – Indian gastroenterologist, specialist in gastrointestinal endoscopy Henri Bacry – visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and a researcher at CERN Patrick Baert – Belgian sociologist and social theorist, reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge René Baillaud – French astronomer Ugo Bardi – professor in physical chemistry at the University of Florence Eugène Benoist – French classical philologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Reinhold Bertlmann – Austrian physicist, professor of physics at the University of Vienna Eugenio Bianchi – Italian theoretical physicist Danielle Bleitrach – French sociologist Maurice Blondel – French philosopher David E. Bloom – the Chair of Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging Jean Bosler – French astronomer Svetlana Broz – Bosnian–Serbian author and physician, the granddaughter of the 1st President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito Henri Buisson – French physicist François Burgat – French political scientist and arabist, senior research fellow at the French National