This is a list of notable people affiliated with the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Alumni of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech are traditionally called Gadzarts.
Louis Béchereau - Angers, 1896: first airplane to reaches a speed of 200 km/h; creator of the famous World War I SPAD air fighter (Guynemer's Vieux Charles), 13,000 of which were built
Léon Lemartin - Aix-en-Provence, 1902: co-designer of the Gnome Omega rotary aero-engine, pioneer aviator for Bleriot, world record holder
Antoine Odier - Aix, 1909: created the Odier Vendôme biplane and constructed a twin-engined seaplane with ballcocks
René Couzinet - Angers, 1921: built his famous Arc-en-Ciel, which flew Paris to Buenos-Aires in 2 days and 15 hours
Pierre Nadot - Paris, 1924: first flight of the Caravelle
Georges Gutman - Cluny, 1943: creator of the EROS oxygen mask for civil aviation; inventor of a pneumatic harness for the fast use of the mask in flight; Nessim Habif Prize [fr]
Nicole Laroche (née Schrottenloher) - Lille, 1964: first female Gadzarts, worked on railway carriage air conditioning.
François Michel - Châlons, 1847: built the first sleepers, in Moscow, for the Saint Petersburg-Moscow line
Raymond Garde - Paris, 1939: one of the fathers of the High Speed Train (TGV)
Printing Industry
Charles Catala - Châlons, 1839: Manufacture of straw paper mass
Joseph Heusse - Châlons, 1842: enhancements of printing machines
Abel Boisseau - Angers, 1856: with Marioni, he created the rotary presses
Louis Moyroud - Cluny, 1933: Nessim Habif Prize [fr]; with René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944; member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame
Navy
Claude Goubet - Angers, 1843: first French submarine
Jean Roret - Paris, 1942: Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, Rouen and Sèvres bridges, Eiffel Tower handing-over to the standards, building of the Maine-Montparnasse tower
Joseph Meifred - Compiègne-Châlons-en-Champagne, 1801: cornist, pedagogue, horn designer; studied at the Paris Conservatory; based the Society of Arts et Métiers alumni in 1846
Aix-en-Provence
Henri Jus - Aix, 1847: geologist, master in the art of probing the ground; dedicated 44 years of his life to transforming the Sahara desert; by doing this, he saved the Oued Rihr oasis and created around 500 water sources, yielding a total of 250 000 m3/min; created many oases; named "ßou el Ma » (the father of water) by the Saharan people
Jacques Bonsergent - Angers, 1930: accidentally involved in a scuffle with German soldiers in 1940; arrested by mistake, he refused to denounce his companions; sentenced to death by a German military tribunal and became the first shot person in Paris, on December 23, 1940 at age 28; his name was given to a subway station in Paris in 1946
Châlons-en-Champagne
Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908: dedicated his life to the development of oil processing techniques; invented several new processes and created 14 big catalytic cracking units; files more than 600 patents; thanks to the higher energetic power of his gasoline, Allied war planes proved superior to their opponents during World War II
^"Financial statements 2022". unesdoc.unesco.org. 2023. p. 46. In accordance with the financial regulation concerning the Nessim Habif Fund (61 EX/38) and Organization's Investment Policy, the investment portfolio of the Nessim Habif Trust Fund is invested in bonds and a Corporate Bond ETF.
