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{{short description|Wikipedia list article} The following is a list of notable people associated with the Pompeu Fabra University, including alumni and faculty members of the university.

UPF alumni include

Activists

 * Mireia Boya Busquet (1979), scientist, activist, and politician
 * Míriam Hatibi (1993), data analyst and activist
 * Agostina Mileo (1987), Argentine environmentalist, science communicator, and writer

Artists and Architects

 * Simon Penny (1955), Australian artist, theorist and curator
 * Jordi Pericot i Canaleta (1931), plastic artist and designer
 * Jaime Serra Palou (1964), artist and journalist, specialized in infographics and data visualization design

Architecture

 * Josep Acebillo (1946), architect; winner of the Royal Gold Medal
 * Alexander Pilis, architectural investigator

Photography

 * Gloria Aura Bortolini (1982), Italian reporter, photographer and filmmaker
 * Antonio Briceño (1966), professional photographer and has been a passionate activist in environmental issues, as well as in ethnic minorities and human rights
 * Valeria Zalaquett (1971), Chilean photographer and portraitist who has worked mainly in contemporary and digital art
 * Joan Fontcuberta (1955), conceptual artist whose best-known works examine the truthfulness of photography; winner of the David Octavius Hill Medal and Hasselblad Award
 * Pedro Madueño (1961), photographer

Authors

 * Rafael Argullol (1949), writer, philosopher, poet and professor of aesthetics; winner of the Premio Nadal
 * Iolanda Batallé (1971), writer and editor
 * Constantino Bértolo (1946), publisher and writer
 * Javier Calvo (1973), writer; winner of the Premio Biblioteca Breve
 * Edgar Cantero (1981), writer and cartoonist
 * Jorge Carrión (1976), writer and cultural critic
 * Teresa Colom i Pich (1973), Andorran author; considered one of the most important poets in Andorra
 * Alicia Escardó (1963), Uruguayan writer, cultural manager, and multimedia e-learning content creator
 * Berta García Faet (1988), poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature
 * Robert Juan-Cantavella (1976), writer
 * Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1973), novelist; winner of the Premio Planeta de Novela, European Book Prize, Franz Kafka Prize and Miguel de Cervantes Prize
 * Valerie Miles (1963), publisher, writer, translator and the co–founder of Granta en español
 * Mónica Ojeda (1988), Ecuadorian writer
 * Francesc Serés (1972), Catalan language writer
 * Jaume Subirana i Ortín (1963), writer, scholar, and blogger; dean of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes
 * Olga Xirinacs Díaz (1936), writer; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi; only female Mestra en Gai Saber (Master in the Art of Poetry) after Mercè Rodoreda

Business and management

 * Lourdes Casanova, academic, author and Senior Lecturer of Management
 * Vinay Nair, serial entrepreneur and academic

Film and theatre

 * Javier Beltrán (1983), film and theatre actor
 * Gloria Aura Bortolini (1982), Italian reporter, photographer and filmmaker
 * David Bonneville (1978), London-based filmmaker
 * Meritxell Colell Aparicio (1983), director
 * Lluís Galter (1983). film director and screenwriter
 * Ingrid Guardiola (1980), film director, producer and cultural essayist
 * Quim Gutiérrez (1981), actor; winner of a Goya Award
 * Tatiana Huezo (1972), film director of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, residing in Mexico; winner of the Ariel Award for Best Director
 * Isaki Lacuesta (1975), film director; winner of a Golden Shell
 * Oliver Laxe (1982), French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor; winner of the FIPRESCI Award
 * Simona Levi (1966), theatre director, playwright, activist, technopolitical strategist
 * Carlos Marqués-Marcet (1983), film director, screenwriter and film editor best known for his first fictional film 10,000 km; winner of a Goya Award, Biznaga de Oro and Gaudí Award
 * Oriol Paulo (1975), screenwriter and director; winner of a Goya Award
 * Nicole Vanden Broeck (1988), French-Mexican film director, writer, and producer
 * Lydia Zimmermann (1966), actress, film director and editor, businesswoman, author, activist, cinematographer, and academic

Historians

 * Joaquim Albareda (1957), professor of modern history
 * Josep Fontana (1931-2018), historian
 * Josep Maria Fradera (1952), professor of Contemporary History
 * Antoni Malet (1950), historian of mathematics
 * Ana Margarida Arruda (1955), Portuguese historian and archaeologist specialized in Phoenician-Punic archaeology
 * Josep Termes (1936-2011), historian; awarded the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes
 * Enric Ucelay-Da Cal (1948), American historian specializing in contemporary history

Economic historians

 * Jörg Baten (1965), German economic historian
 * Jordi Nadal (1929-2020), economic historian; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi
 * Hans-Joachim Voth (1968), German economic historian

Journalism

 * Carlos Alberto Scolari (1963), researcher and expert in communication and digital media, interfaces and communication ecology
 * Núria Almiron (1967), specialized in communication and power relations
 * Marcel Mauri (1977), journalist and historian; vice president and spokesman of Òmnium Cultural
 * Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet (1942-2019), feminist journalist; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi
 * Sandra Sabatés (1979), journalist and TV presenter
 * Vladimir de Semir (1948), journalist
 * Mònica Terribas i Sala (1968), journalist and professor; director of Televisió de Catalunya

Law

 * Meritxell Batet (1973), jurist and President of the Congress of Deputies; Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service
 * Genís Boadella (1979), lawyer, politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
 * Victor Comella Ferreres, professor and author of Law
 * Joan Herrera i Torres (1971), lawyer and politician; leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya
 * Charles W. Mooney Jr. (1947), Professor of Law
 * Josep Joan Moreso (1959), academic
 * Carles Mundó (1976), lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice of Catalonia
 * Miquel Roca (1940), lawyer and politician; one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain

Linguistics and literature

 * Paz Battaner (1938), philologist and lexicographer
 * Victoria Cirlot (1955), scholar of medieval culture and literature, philologist, translator and editor
 * Teun A. van Dijk (1943), Dutch scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
 * Berta García Faet (1988), poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature
 * Martí Gasull i Roig (1969-2012), Catalan linguistic activist and a mountaineer; one of the founders of the Platform for the Catalan Language (Plataforma per la Llengua)
 * Jaume Vallcorba Plana (1949-2014), philologist and publisher

Music

 * Uri Giné (1986), musician, singer and songwriter; founder and lead singer of Bongo Botrako
 * Sergi Jordà (1961), innovator, installation artist and digital musician
 * Andrés Lewin-Richter Ossiander (1937), composer of electronic music
 * Cristina Pato (1980), Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer; member of the Silk Road Ensemble
 * Frederic Schindler (1980), French-Argentinean music supervisor
 * Xavier Serra (1959), researcher in the field of sound and music computing

Other

 * Gloria Pérez-Salmerón (1958), librarian; President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
 * Josep Sucarrats (1975), writer specialized in gastronomy

Philosophy

 * Jaume Casals (1958), Professor of Philosophy; rector of UPF
 * Catia Faria (1980), Portuguese moral philosopher and activist for animal rights and feminism
 * Hugo Omar Seleme (1968), Argentinean political philosopher
 * Eugenio Trías Sagnier (1942-2013), philosopher
 * Santiago Zabala (1975), philosopher; author of Hermeneutic Communism

Politicians

 * Elisenda Alamany (1983), teacher and politician
 * Elsa Artadi (1976), economist, academic and politician; member of the Parliament of Catalonia and Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia
 * Meritxell Batet (1973), jurist and President of the Congress of Deputies; Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service
 * Genís Boadella (1979), lawyer, politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
 * Alfred Bosch (1961), academic, journalist, author, politician and Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia
 * Mireia Boya Busquet (1979), scientist, activist, and politician
 * Antoni Comín (1971), philosopher and Spanish politician; Counselor of Health of Catalonia
 * Luis Garicano (1967), economist and politician; Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
 * Joan Herrera i Torres (1971), lawyer and politician; leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya
 * Joan Margall (1975), politician; mayor of Torroella de Montgrí
 * Andreu Mas-Colell (1944), expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists; his textbook on microeconomics is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world; Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia; winner of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
 * Sergi Miquel (1989), politician who serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
 * Dolors Montserrat (1973), lawyer and politician; Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality of Spain; Third Vice President of the Congress
 * Carles Mundó (1976), lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice of Catalonia
 * Neus Munté (1970), politician; Vice President of Catalonia; Minister of Presidency; Government Spokesperson; Minister of Social Welfare and Family
 * Núria Parlón (1974), politicians; mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet
 * Marta Pascal (1983), politician; Senator of the Parliament of Catalonia; President of the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia
 * Miquel Roca (1940), lawyer and politician; one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain
 * Marta Rosique (1996), politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
 * Marta Rovira (1977), politician and lawyer; Secretary-General of Republican Left of Catalonia
 * Gabriel Rufián (1982), politician
 * Roger Torrent (1979), politician and urban planner; 15th President of the Parliament of Catalonia
 * Ramon Tremosa (1965), economist and politician; Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge
 * Mireia Vehí (1985), sociologist and politician

International

 * Sílvia Riva González (1979), Andorran politician and notary; Minister of Culture and Sports
 * Mariana Zuvic (1974), Argentine politician; vice-president of the Civic Coalition ARI party

Sciences

 * Nolasc Acarín Tusell, specialist in neurology and psychiatry
 * Ricardo Baeza-Yates (1961), Chilean-Catalan computer scientist; awarded the J. W. Graham Medal
 * Jordi Camí (1952), Professor of Pharmacology; Vicepresident of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation
 * Felipe Cucker (1958), Uruguayan mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
 * Gustavo Deco, Argentinian and Italian neuroscientist
 * Robin M. Hogarth (1942), British-American psychologist and emeritus professor in the Department of Economics and Business
 * Carles Lalueza-Fox (1965), biologist specialized in the study of ancient DNA; one the fifty investigators that collaborated with a study which demonstrated the presence of Neanderthal DNA in the Homo sapiens for the first time
 * Núria López Bigas (1975), biologist and research professor with expertise in medical genetics, computational biology, and bioinformatics
 * Angel Lozano, electrical engineer
 * Josep Maria Ganyet (1965), computer engineer specialized in artificial intelligence
 * Núria Sebastián Gallés, cognitive scientist known for her work on bilingual language development and the impact of bilingualism on cognition
 * Michael Wolf (1967), econometric and applied statistician

Social sciences

 * Rainer Bauböck (1953), Austrian sociologist, political scientist and migration researcher; winner of the European Latsis Prize
 * Xavier Coller i Porta, sociologist and journalist
 * Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947), Danish sociologist whose primary focus has been on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies; author of The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
 * Vicenç Navarro (1937), sociologist and political scientist
 * Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, sociologist
 * Andrés Roemer (1963), writer, philanthropist, and an internationally recognized public intellectual who is passionate about critical thinking and human rights
 * Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier (1935-2010), Professor of Political Sciences and Administration; first female Rector of a Catalan University
 * Willem Saris (1943), Dutch sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Methodology
 * Mireia Vehí (1985), sociologist and politician

Economics

 * Rita Almeida (1974), Portuguese economist
 * Oriol Amat (1957), Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting
 * Mary Amiti, economist
 * Pol Antràs (1975), economist
 * Elsa Artadi (1976), economist, academic and politician; member of the Parliament of Catalonia and Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia
 * Diego Comin, economist
 * Fabián Estapé (1923-2012), economist
 * Jordi Galí (1961), macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today; winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award
 * Luis Garicano (1967), economist and politician; Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
 * Jeffrey E. Harris, economist and physician
 * Adriana Kugler, Colombian-American economist
 * Andreu Mas-Colell (1944), expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists; his textbook on microeconomics is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world; Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia; winner of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
 * Albert Marcet (1960), economist, specialized in macroeconomics, time series, financial economics and economic dynamic theory
 * Eleonora Patacchini, economist specializing in applied economics and applied statistics
 * Albrecht Ritschl, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics
 * Barbara Rossi, professor of economics
 * Gilles Saint-Paul (1963), French economist
 * Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1962), Spanish-born Catalan-American economist
 * John Schmitt (1962), American economist
 * Uwe Sunde (1973), German economist; winner of the Gossen Prize
 * Ramon Tremosa (1965), economist and politician; Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge
 * Reinhilde Veugelers, Belgian economist
 * Xavier Vives (1955), economist regarded as one of the main figures in the field of industrial organization
 * Fabrizio Zilibotti (1964), Italian economist; winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award

Sports

 * Tòn Cónsul (1998), pair skater; 2020 Spanish national champion
 * Anna Corbella i Jordi (1976), sailor; first Catalan-Spanish sailor to finish the Barcelona World Race; awarded the Royal Order of Sports Merit
 * Esther Morales Fernández (1985), swimmer
 * Jessica Vall (1988), competitive swimmer and breaststroke specialist