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Serge Aurier

Serge Aurier (Serge Alain Stéphane Aurier), born 1992 in Ouragahio, is an Ivorian right-back ex-Lens, PSG, Tottenham, Villarreal, Forest, Galatasaray, Persepolis; AFCON winner 2015 and 2023; now Lens U15 coach joining FC Montigny-en-Gohelle.

Serge Belongie

Serge Belongie is a computer vision and machine learning researcher, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for the shape context descriptor introduced in 2002.

Serge Beynaud

Serge Beynaud (Guy Serge Beynaud Gnolou, born 1987 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, a leading name in post-coupé-décalé Ivorian pop.

Serge Blusson

Serge Blusson (Serge Robert Blusson, 1928-1994), French track and road cyclist; won 1948 London Olympic team pursuit gold with Adam, Coste, Decanali; pro 1950-1958, third at Milan-Sanremo 1952.

Serge Branco

Serge Branco, Cameroonian footballer (born 1980), Olympic gold medalist with Cameroon at Sydney 2000; club career at Eintracht Frankfurt, VfB Stuttgart, QPR, Krylya Sovetov, and Wisła Kraków.

Serge Charpak

Serge Charpak is a French neuroscientist at the Institut de la Vision in Paris who studies neurovascular coupling, the link between brain activity and blood flow.

Serge Daan

Serge Daan (1940–2018) was a Dutch chronobiologist at the University of Groningen who coauthored the 1976 Daan–Pittendrigh papers and the two-process model of sleep regulation.

Serge F. Kovaleski

Serge F. Kovaleski, born Serge Frank Kovaleski in 1961, is a South African-born American investigative reporter who spent nearly two decades at The New York Times.

Serge Fiori

Serge Fiori (1952–2025) was a Quebec singer-songwriter and cofounder of the group Harmonium, whose three 1970s albums, including L'Heptade, became classics of Quebec popular music.

Serge G. Lemay

Serge G. Lemay is a Dutch-based electrochemist and nanoscientist who has been professor of Iontronics at Leiden University since 2026, known for nanofluidic single-molecule detection and carbon nanotube electronics.

Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg (1928-1991), French singer-songwriter, composer and filmmaker; wrote Poupée de cire, Je t'aime moi non plus, Histoire de Melody Nelson and the reggae Aux armes et cætera.

Serge Gnabry

Serge David Gnabry (born 1995, Stuttgart) is a German winger and forward for Bayern Munich and Germany: 2019/20 treble winner, Olympic 2016 silver medallist and joint-top scorer, Bayern's 100-goal forward under contract to 2028.

Serge Gratch

Serge Gratch (1921–2007) was an Italian-born American chemical and mechanical engineer who directed research at Ford Motor Company and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.

Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche, born 1944 in Casablanca, is a French physicist and founder of cavity quantum electrodynamics, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland.

Serge Ibaka

Serge Ibaka (Serge Jonas Ibaka Ngobila), born 1989 in Brazzaville, Congolese-Spanish NBA power forward/center; 2008 draft pick 24, Thunder shot-blocking leader 2011-14, 2019 Raptors champion, later Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

Serge Lang

Serge Lang (1927–2005) was a French-born American mathematician and Yale professor who worked in algebraic number theory, coined the term Diophantine geometry, and wrote the influential textbook Algebra.

Serge Letchimy

Serge Letchimy is a French politician who has led the executive of Martinique's territorial collectivity since 2021, facing a debt crisis approaching one billion euros.

Serge Mabiala

Serge Mabiala is a Congolese rumba and ndombolo singer, known as Fumu ya bandinga, who sang with Wenge Musica Maison Mère before a solo career in France.

Serge Massar

Serge Massar, born in Zambia in 1970, is a Belgian physicist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works on quantum information, device-independent cryptography, and reservoir computing.

Serge Maury

Serge Jean Maury (born 1946, Bordeaux) is a French sailor, 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist in the Finn dinghy with 58 points at Kiel; Finn Gold Cup winner 1973, bronze 1971, 10th at Montreal 1976.

Serge Mimpo

Serge Mimpo (Serge Mimpo-Tsintsémé), born 1974 in Ndom, Cameroon, is a retired Cameroonian centre-back who won gold in men's football at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and later captained Paris FC.

Serge Monast

Serge Monast (1945–1996) was a Quebec journalist, poet, and conspiracy writer, founder of the Agence internationale de presse libre, originator of Project Blue Beam (1994) and Les Protocoles de Toronto; he died of cardiac arrest in December 1996.

Serge Moscovici

Serge Moscovici (1925–2014) was a Romanian-born French social psychologist who founded the theory of social representations and minority influence, and built European social psychology's institutional base.

Serge Papin

Serge Papin is a French politician and businessman serving as Minister of SMEs, Commerce, Artisanat, Tourism, and Purchasing Power, after leading the Système U retail group.

Serge Pizzorno

Serge Pizzorno (Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno, born 1980, Salford) is the British co-founder, chief songwriter, guitarist, and since 2020 frontman of Kasabian, with six UK No 1 albums, a 2019 solo album The S.L.P., and the 2024 album Happenings.

Serge Przedborski

Serge Przedborski is a Belgian-trained physician-scientist at Columbia University, the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology, known for mechanistic work on neuronal death in Parkinson's disease and ALS.

Serge Reggiani

Serge Reggiani, born Sergio Reggiani in Italy in 1922, was a French actor and singer known for dark anti-hero roles and as a major interpreter of chanson.

Serge von Bubnoff

Serge von Bubnoff (Бубнов Сергей Николаевич) was a German-Baltic geologist, born in Saint Petersburg in 1888, who became the dominant figure in East German earth sciences.

Serge Voronoff (Сергей Абрамович Воронов)

Serge Voronoff (Сергей Абрамович Воронов, 1866–1951), Russian-born French surgeon famous for the 1920s "monkey gland" operation grafting chimpanzee testis slices into aging men; claims of rejuvenation were unsubstantiated and the practice collapsed with the arrival of synthetic androgens.

Serge Y. Fuchs

Serge Y. Fuchs, also known as Serge Fuchs, is a cancer biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine who studies how tumors disable interferon signaling.