Jean-Claude Izzo - Graduated in 1978, a renowned French author known for his Marseille Trilogy.
Jean-Pierre Luminet - Graduated in 1976, an astrophysicist and writer, known for his work on cosmic topology.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for her discovery of HIV, associated with the Université de la Méditerranée (Aix Marseille II).
Didier Raoult - A prominent microbiologist and researcher, known for his work on infectious diseases, graduated from AMU.