Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, UCM) is a public research university in Madrid, Spain, one of the oldest operating universities in the world, founded in Alcalá de Henares in 1293 and raised to a full university by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros under the papal bull of 1499 before relocating to Madrid in 1836.马德里康普顿斯大学(Universidad Complutense de Madrid,缩写 UCM)是位于西班牙马德里的公立研究型大学,为世界上持续办学最古老的大学之一,1293 年创建于埃纳雷斯堡,1499 年经教宗诏书由西斯内罗斯枢机升格为完全大学,1836 年迁至马德里。
With over 86,000 students it is the largest university in Spain, it is ranked 199th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, it carries the Latin motto Libertas Perfundet Omnia Luce, and it is popularly known as La Complu.学校现有学生逾 86,000 人,是西班牙规模最大的大学,在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 199,拉丁文校训为 Libertas Perfundet Omnia Luce,通称「La Complu」。
History
- On 20 May 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile granted the Archbishop of Toledo, Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel, a royal charter to found a studium generale in Alcalá de Henares, named El Estudio de Escuelas Generales.1293 年 5 月 20 日,卡斯蒂利亚国王桑丘四世向托莱多大主教 Gonzalo Pérez Gudiel 颁发王家特许状,在埃纳雷斯堡创办通用学园「El Estudio de Escuelas Generales」。
- On 13 April 1499 Cardinal Cisneros secured from Pope Alexander VI a papal bull that expanded the school into a full university and renamed it Universitas Complutensis after Complutum, the Latin name of Alcalá de Henares.1499 年 4 月 13 日,西斯内罗斯枢机取得教宗亚历山大六世诏书,将学校升格为完全大学,并以埃纳雷斯堡的拉丁语名称 Complutum 命名其为 Universitas Complutensis。
- Cisneros laid the first stone of the San Ildefonso College in March 1499, creating the first university campus planned ex-novo in history, the Civitas Dei, or city of God, named after the work of Augustine of Hippo.西斯内罗斯于 1499 年 3 月为圣伊尔德丰索学院(San Ildefonso College)奠基,建成历史上第一座完整规划的大学校园「Civitas Dei」(上帝之城),其名取自奥古斯丁的著作。
- Construction was completed in 1508 and the first students enrolled that autumn, and on 17 October 1508 Pedro del Campo was elected the university's first rector, opening the academic year with a lecture on the moral philosophy of Aristotle.建筑工程于 1508 年竣工,同年秋季首批学生入学;1508 年 10 月 17 日,「Pedro del Campo」当选首任校长,以一场关于亚里士多德道德哲学的演讲开启学年。
- From 1502 Cisneros collected books for a library and began work on a multilingual Bible, and in 1510 he published the Constitution of the College of San Ildefonso, regulating the faculties of theology, canon law, medicine and the liberal arts.自 1502 年起,西斯内罗斯为图书馆购藏图书并着手编纂多语《圣经》;1510 年颁布《圣伊尔德丰索学院宪章》,对神学、教会法、医学与艺学部作出规定。
- In the 1509-1510 school year the university already ran five major schools, arts and philosophy, theology, canon law, philology and medicine, and through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it ranked among the greatest centres of learning in the world.1509 至 1510 学年,学校已设艺术与哲学、神学、教会法、语文学与医学五个学部;16 至 17 世纪间,学校位居世界最重要的学术中心之列。
- Special colleges were created for students from abroad, such as the Irish College of San Jorge at Alcalá de Henares, and many of the leading figures of the age studied or taught in its classrooms.学校为外国学生设立专门学院,如位于埃纳雷斯堡的爱尔兰圣豪尔赫学院(Irish College of San Jorge);时代众多杰出人物曾在此就读或执教。
- In 1785 the university became one of the first in the world to grant a doctorate to a female student, María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda.1785 年,学校成为世界上最早向女学生授予博士学位的高校之一,获此学位者为「María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda」。
- In 1824 Francisco Tadeo Calomarde further expanded the university by merging it with the University of Sigüenza.1824 年,Francisco Tadeo Calomarde 将锡古恩萨大学并入学校,学校进一步扩张。
- By a royal order of 29 October 1836 Queen Regent Maria Christina suppressed the university at Alcalá and ordered its move to Madrid, where it took the name Literary University and, from 1851, that of Central University.根据 1836 年 10 月 29 日的王家命令,摄政女王 Maria Christina 关闭埃纳雷斯堡的大学并令其迁往马德里,学校初名文学大学,1851 年起改称中央大学。
- By Royal Decree of 1857 the Central University became the first and only institution in Spain authorised to grant doctorates throughout the Spanish Empire, which established it as the Docta, the learned house of the country.1857 年王家法令使中央大学成为西班牙全帝国唯一获准授予博士学位的机构,学校由此获称「Docta」,成为国家的最高学术权威。
- The university expanded greatly in the nineteenth century, and its quarters in central Madrid, former aristocratic mansions and royal châteaux, proved increasingly inadequate, with philosophy lectures held in old ballrooms.19 世纪学校大幅扩张,位于马德里市中心的校舍多为旧贵族宅第与王家城堡,日趋局促,哲学课只能在昔日舞厅中讲授。
- In 1927 King Alfonso XIII ceded state-held lands near the Palace of La Moncloa by royal decree, laying out the vast swath of western Madrid known as the Ciudad Universitaria, or University City.1927 年,国王阿方索十三世以王家法令划出拉蒙克洛亚宫附近的国有土地,兴建马德里西部大片「大学城」(Ciudad Universitaria)。
- The Central University awarded Albert Einstein a Doctor of Science degree honoris causa on 28 February 1923, the first such degree Einstein accepted from a European university, and Einstein met Alfonso XIII and the faculty on 11 March 1923.1923 年 2 月 28 日,中央大学授予阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦荣誉科学博士学位,这是爱因斯坦从欧洲大学接受的首个荣誉博士学位;1923 年 3 月 11 日,爱因斯坦会见了阿方索十三世与校内教师。
- In April 1933 the minister for education and the arts, Fernando de los Ríos, announced that Einstein had agreed to a professorship at a planned Instituto Albert Einstein under the School of Science, but the deteriorating political situation sent him to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.1933 年 4 月,教育艺术大臣「Fernando de los Ríos」宣布爱因斯坦已答应出任理学院下筹设的爱因斯坦研究所(Instituto Albert Einstein)教职,但日益恶化的政局最终使他改赴普林斯顿高等研究院。
- The surviving buildings of the era, among them the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology, betray a fondness for the German Bauhaus movement and stand as an homage to structural functionalism.那一时期留存至今的建筑以医学院、药学院与牙科学院为代表,带有德国包豪斯运动印记,是对结构功能主义的致敬。
- These buildings survived the design revisions, the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime, and during the 1930s the university offered refuge to the European intelligentsia fleeing the terrors of fascism.这些建筑历经设计改版、西班牙内战与佛朗哥时期而保存;20 世纪 30 年代,学校还为逃避法西斯恐怖的欧洲知识分子提供避难所。
- Its graduates have sat, at congressional or ministerial level, in all the governments of Spain since the Enlightenment.自启蒙时代以来,历届西班牙政府中都有其毕业生担任议员或大臣。
- In 1943 the university was renamed Universidad de Madrid, and in 1970 it recovered the Complutense name.1943 年学校改名马德里大学(Universidad de Madrid),1970 年恢复康普顿斯之名。
- In the 1970s existing colleges were divided between the Complutense University of Madrid and the new Technical University of Madrid, and the university reopened at Alcalá was named Universidad de Alcalá de Henares to distinguish it from the Complutense.20 世纪 70 年代,原有学院在马德里康普顿斯大学与新设的马德里理工大学之间分拆;埃纳雷斯堡旧校园复校时定名为阿尔卡拉大学,以区别于康普顿斯。
- During the 2004-2005 academic year the university recorded an enrolment of 91,598 students and a staff of 9,500, of whom over 6,000 were in teaching, on an annual budget of over 500 million euros.2004 至 2005 学年,学校注册学生 91,598 人,职员 9,500 人,其中直接任教者逾 6,000 人,年度预算超过 5 亿欧元。
- In June 2016 rector Carlos Andradas proposed a structural plan to cut the faculties from 26 to 17, revised to 22 that November, and to reduce departments from 185 to about 70, sparking debate across the campus.2016 年 6 月,校长 Carlos Andradas 提出结构重组方案,拟将学院由 26 个减至 17 个(同年 11 月修订为 22 个)、学系由 185 个压缩至约 70 个,引发全校争论。
- Joaquín Goyache Goñi, professor of animal health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, took office as rector on 4 April 2019.兽医学院动物卫生学教授 Joaquín Goyache Goñi 于 2019 年 4 月 4 日出任校长。
- The Faculty of Fine Arts was created in 1978 and now offers first degrees in fine arts, design and the preservation and restoration of artistic patrimony, as well as postgraduate degrees.美术学院创设于 1978 年,现设美术、设计与艺术遗产保护修复本科专业,并授研究生学位。
Academics
- The university comprises 20 faculties, six specialised schools and 184 departments, and in the 2021-2022 academic year it offered 70 undergraduate degrees, 20 double degrees, 13 international degrees, 157 master's programmes, 59 doctorate programmes and more than 300 continuing-education titles.学校设 20 个学院、6 所专门学校与 184 个学系;2021 至 2022 学年开设 70 个本科、20 个双学位、13 个国际学位、157 个硕士、59 个博士项目及 300 余个继续教育专业。
- Its traditional strengths include philosophy, Spanish literature, history, pharmacy, optics, journalism, psychology and sociology, fields in which it leads Spanish universities.学校传统优势学科包括哲学、西班牙文学、历史学、药剂学、视光学、新闻学、心理学与社会学,诸科在西班牙高校中居领先地位。
- The School of Medicine operates the Hospital Clínico Universitario de San Carlos, the Hospital Gregorio Marañón and the Hospital 12 de Octubre, together with specialised clinics on campus.医学院运营圣卡洛斯大学临床医院、格雷戈里奥·马拉尼翁医院与十月十二日医院,校园内另设多家专门诊所。
- The School of Communications keeps close ties with the press, many of its professors being former reporters and editors of major newspapers, and serves as a leading pre-screening venue for Spanish film productions.传播学院与新闻界关系密切,许多教授曾任大报记者与编辑;学院亦是西班牙电影新片的重要点映场所。
- Research is carried out in named units such as the Cajal Institute, where university biologists work, and the Smart Biomaterials group headed by the chemist María Vallet-Regí.学校科研机构包括卡哈尔研究所(Cajal Institute)等,生物学家在此工作;化学家 María Vallet-Regí 主持智能生物材料研究组。
- Enrolment stands at 74,771 undergraduates and 11,388 postgraduates, over 86,000 students in all, making the university the eighth largest non-distance institution in Europe by enrolment.学校现有本科生 74,771 人、研究生 11,388 人,合计逾 86,000 人,按在校生规模为欧洲第八大非远程高校。
- Administrative staff number 11,162, and the published annual budget reaches 607,559,030 euros.行政职员共 11,162 人;公布的年度预算达 607,559,030 欧元。
- More than 30 libraries hold over 2 million printed works, an archive of more than 90,000 historical documents and one of the most extensive film collections in Europe.全校 30 余座图书馆藏有印刷品逾 200 万册、历史文献逾 90,000 件,并拥有欧洲最丰富的电影收藏之一。
- Academic affiliations include the Compostela Group of Universities, Europaeum, the International Association of Universities, Una Europa, UNICA and the Utrecht Network.学校为康普斯特拉大学集团、Europaeum、国际大学协会、Una Europa、UNICA 与乌得勒支网络等组织的成员。
- The university runs four full-time institutions outside Spain, among them the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, created with the support of King Juan Carlos I, Queen Sofia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.学校在西班牙境外开设四所全日制机构,其中设于哈佛大学的「Real Colegio Complutense」由国王胡安·卡洛斯一世、王后索菲亚与马萨诸塞州支持创建。
- The Real Colegio Complutense follows the tradition of the Royal Spanish College founded in 1364 to host Spanish visiting scholars at the University of Bologna, and its accord is the only one of its kind ever approved by Harvard.「Real Colegio Complutense」沿袭 1364 年为西班牙访问学者在博洛尼亚大学设立的皇家西班牙学院传统,其合作协议是哈佛唯一批准的同类安排。
- The Collège des Hautes Études Européennes Miguel Servet, located within the Sorbonne in Paris, is a Franco-Iberian centre of learning founded on the initiative of the Club Européen des Recteurs, and it opened chapters in Italy, Portugal and South America in 1995.设于巴黎索邦大学内的「Collège des Hautes Études Européennes Miguel Servet」是一所法国—伊比利亚学术中心,由欧洲校长俱乐部倡议创立,1995 年在意大利、葡萄牙与南美洲开设分部。
- Further overseas chairs operate in partnership with Charles University in Prague as the Cátedra Complutense en la Universidad de Karlova, and with Comenius University in Bratislava as the Cátedra Dubcek, both offering bachelor and doctoral degrees.学校还在布拉格与查理大学合办「Cátedra Complutense en la Universidad de Karlova」,在布拉迪斯拉发与夸美纽斯大学合办「Cátedra Dubcek」,两校均授学士与博士学位。
- Doctoral study is organised in 221 doctorate programmes, and the published overview counts nearly 80 majors across 230 individual degrees.学校开设 221 个博士项目;据其公布概况,全校共设约 80 个专业方向、230 种独立学位。
- The Faculty of Geography and History and the Faculty of Information Sciences are among the best known, the latter training journalists and documentalists.地理与历史学院与信息科学学院是学校最知名的学院,后者培养新闻与文献工作者。
- Postgraduate provision spans university master's degrees, international master's programmes and doctoral studies, and practical-training scholarships worth about 2.3 million euros were awarded in 2021.研究生培养涵盖校级硕士、国际硕士与博士项目;2021 年发放的实践培训奖助学金总额约 230 万欧元。
Campus
- The main campus occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, at about 40 degrees 27 minutes north and 3 degrees 44 minutes west, with annexes in the Somosaguas district of neighbouring Pozuelo de Alarcón.主校区占据马德里大学城全区,地理坐标约为北纬 40 度 27 分、西经 3 度 44 分,并在邻近的波苏埃洛—德阿拉尔孔市 Somosaguas 区设有分校。
- Both the Palace of Moncloa, the official residence of the prime minister, and the Spanish Constitutional Court stand directly on the university's grounds.首相官邸拉蒙克洛亚宫与西班牙宪法法院均直接坐落于大学校园之内。
- The Ciudad Universitaria was laid out on state lands ceded in 1927 between the Royal Palace and the Palace of El Pardo, and its early buildings follow Bauhaus-inspired structural functionalism.大学城系 1927 年划出的、位于王宫与埃尔帕多宫之间的国有土地,早期建筑遵循受包豪斯影响的结构功能主义。
- The Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odontology, the Rectorate building and the historical Paraninfo auditorium at 49 San Bernardo street are among the best-known structures.医学院、药学院、牙科学院、校长办公楼与位于 San Bernardo 街 49 号的历史建筑 Paraninfo 礼堂是校园最著名的建筑。
- The Estadio Nacional Complutense, the national athletics stadium of Spain, and the Museum of Medical and Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology and Criminalistics stand on campus grounds.西班牙国家体育场「Estadio Nacional Complutense」与医学法医人类学、古病理学与刑事学博物馆均设在校园之内。
- The campus is served by the Ciudad Universitaria and Moncloa stations of Madrid Metro line 6, which places the political centre of the city within walking distance.校园由马德里地铁 6 号线的 Ciudad Universitaria 站与 Moncloa 站提供服务,城市政治中心步行可达。
- Registered dormitories lie on the fringes of the campus in bordering neighbourhoods, so no students truly live on the campus proper, and the majority rent apartments or stay in non-affiliated halls.注册学生宿舍位于校园边缘的邻街街区,严格说来无人住校,多数学生自行租房或入住非隶属宿舍。
- The second campus at Somosaguas lies in Pozuelo de Alarcón on the western edge of the metropolitan area, complementing the historic Ciudad Universitaria.第二校区 Somosaguas 位于都会区西缘的波苏埃洛—德阿拉尔孔,与历史的大学城校区相辅相成。
Reputation
- The Complutense University of Madrid is ranked 199th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, falls in the 401-450 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.马德里康普顿斯大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 199,在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 401 至 450 区间,在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。
- The 2023 US News Best Global Universities ranking placed it 337th worldwide, and the Scimago institutions ranking puts it 175th in the world and third in Spain.《美国新闻与世界报道》2023 年全球大学排名将其列第 337 位;Scimago 机构排名则列其全球第 175、西班牙第三。
- OpenAlex records 178,595 works by the university that have drawn 9,039,405 citations, under the institution identifier I121748325, and the ROR registry assigns it the code 02p0gd045.OpenAlex 收录学校论文 178,595 篇,被引 9,039,405 次,机构标识为 I121748325;ROR 登记代码为 02p0gd045。
- Seven Nobel laureates are counted among its alumni and faculty, among them the writers José Echegaray in 1904, Jacinto Benavente in 1922, Vicente Aleixandre in 1977 and Camilo José Cela in 1989, all of them in literature.师生中先后走出七位诺贝尔奖得主,包括 1904 年的 José Echegaray、1922 年的 Jacinto Benavente、1977 年的 Vicente Aleixandre 与 1989 年的 Camilo José Cela,四人均为文学奖得主。
- The physician Santiago Ramón y Cajal received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the biochemist Severo Ochoa the 1959 prize in the same field.医学家「Santiago Ramón y Cajal」获 1906 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖,生物化学家 Severo Ochoa 获 1959 年同项奖项。
- Alumni have also collected 18 Prince of Asturias Awards, seven Miguel de Cervantes Prizes and ten European Research Council grants.校友另获阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖 18 项、塞万提斯奖 7 项与欧洲研究委员会资助 10 项。
- Over seven centuries the university has trained Spanish prime ministers, EU commissioners, a European Parliament president, a NATO secretary general, a UNESCO director general, an IMF managing director and members of the Spanish Royal House.七个世纪以来,学校培养了多位西班牙首相、欧盟委员、欧洲议会议长、北约秘书长、联合国教科文组织总干事、国际货币基金组织总裁及西班牙王室成员。
- By the Royal Decree of 1857 it was the sole institution in the Spanish Empire empowered to grant doctorates, a status summed up as the Docta, and the Wikidata registry lists it as Q219694.1857 年王家法令使其成为西班牙帝国唯一的博士学位授予机构,即所谓「Docta」;Wikidata 登记编号为 Q219694。
- The university is generally counted among the top three research universities in Spain and places inside the global top 200 in the major rankings.学校通常被视为西班牙前三的研究型大学,在主要榜单上位居全球前 200。
Student life
- The motto is Libertas Perfundet Omnia Luce, Latin for freedom will flood all things with light, and the school colour is red.校训为拉丁文 Libertas Perfundet Omnia Luce,意为「自由将以光照亮万物」,学校代表色为红色。
- The university publishes the bi-monthly newspaper Gaceta Complutense and runs Radio Complutense on 107.5 FM, which broadcasts twelve hours a day, both from the School of Communications.学校出版双月刊《Gaceta Complutense》,运营每日播出 12 小时的 Radio Complutense(调频 107.5),两者均由传播学院主办。
- More than 100 student political, social and sports groups are registered, and the university fields male and female teams in basketball, football, volleyball and rugby.全校注册的政治、社会与体育类学生团体超过 100 个;学校设有男女篮球、足球、排球与橄榄球队。
- Chess, badminton, golf, judo, karate, table tennis and archery teams are also on offer, along with courses in aerobics, gym work, yoga, swimming, tennis, diving and tai chi.学校另有国际象棋、羽毛球、高尔夫、柔道、空手道、乒乓球与射箭队,并开设有氧、健身、瑜伽、游泳、网球、潜水与太极课程。
- The Complutense takes part in the regional university games held each March at the Puerta del Hierro Stadium in Madrid, and internal games between the schools are held several times a year.康普顿斯每年 3 月参加在马德里「Puerta del Hierro」体育场举行的地区大学生运动会,校内各学院间的比赛每年举行数次。
- All major Spanish film productions are pre-screened before Complutense students, a tradition illustrated when Pedro Almodóvar's Volver was shown in 2006 with its leading actors attending the post-screening press conference.所有西班牙主要影片的新片均在康普顿斯学生中点映,2006 年 Pedro Almodóvar 的《Volver》点映时,主要演员出席了映后记者会,即这一传统的例证。
- The Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes invites Complutense students to its annual conferences with philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, and the faculties have hosted lectures by Joan Manuel Serrat, Ernst Gombrich, Umberto Eco and Santiago Carrillo.马德里美术协会(Círculo de Bellas Artes)每年邀请康普顿斯学生参加其哲学家、社会学家与心理学家系列讲座;校内亦曾接待 Joan Manuel Serrat、Ernst Gombrich、Umberto Eco 与 Santiago Carrillo 开讲。
- Alejandro Amenábar wrote his first film, Tesis, while attending the School of Communications, and the building appears in the plot of the film.Alejandro Amenábar 在就读传播学院期间写出其首部电影《Tesis》,学院建筑亦在剧情中登场。
Notable people
- King Sancho IV of Castile granted the 1293 royal charter, and Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, archbishop of Toledo, founded the university proper with the papal bull of 1499.卡斯蒂利亚国王桑丘四世颁发 1293 年王家特许状,托莱多大主教弗朗西斯科·希门尼斯·德·西斯内罗斯枢机则以 1499 年教宗诏书创建大学本体。
- Pedro del Campo, elected the first rector in 1508, opened the academic year with a lecture on Aristotle, and Joaquín Goyache Goñi has served as rector since 4 April 2019.「Pedro del Campo」于 1508 年当选首任校长,以亚里士多德讲座开课;Joaquín Goyache Goñi 自 2019 年 4 月 4 日起担任校长。
- Albert Einstein accepted the honorary doctorate of the Central University in 1923, the first he took from a European university, and the university has kept a tradition of hosting visiting professors of world rank.爱因斯坦 1923 年接受中央大学荣誉博士学位,为其从欧洲大学接受的首例;学校长期保持接待世界级访问教授的传统。
- The philosopher José Ortega y Gasset studied and taught at the university, and the sociologist Juan Linz, theorist of democratisation, the writer Federico García Lorca and the dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca are counted among its alumni.哲学家「José Ortega y Gasset」曾在此就读并执教;社会学家 Juan Linz、作家 Federico García Lorca 与剧作家「Pedro Calderón de la Barca」均为其校友。
- Spanish politics is thick with Complutense graduates, among them the prime ministers Adolfo Suárez and José María Aznar, the first deputy prime minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, and the European Parliament president Josep Borrell.西班牙政坛遍布康普顿斯校友,包括首相 Adolfo Suárez、José María Aznar,第一副首相「María Teresa Fernández de la Vega」与欧洲议会议长 Josep Borrell。
- Javier Solana, a Complutense graduate, served as secretary general of the European Council and of NATO, and Alan García Pérez, president of Peru, also studied at the university.校友 Javier Solana 曾任欧盟理事会秘书长与北约秘书长,秘鲁总统 Alan García Pérez 亦曾在此求学。
- King Juan Carlos I of Spain studied law at the university in 1960 and 1961, and Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, the first commoner to become queen consort, took her degree in journalism there.西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯一世曾于 1960 至 1961 年在此研读法律,王后莱蒂齐亚·奥尔蒂斯·罗卡索拉诺则在此取得新闻学学位,她是西班牙首位平民王后。
- José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, and Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, are counted among the historical alumni of the university.菲律宾民族英雄何塞·黎刹与法国首相马扎然主教均为学校的历史校友。
- Among the faculty, the chemist María Vallet-Regí heads the Smart Biomaterials group, the biologist Javier de Felipe works at the Cajal Institute, and the palaeontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga teaches in the Faculty of Geological Sciences.教师队伍中,化学家 María Vallet-Regí 主持智能生物材料组,生物学家「Javier de Felipe」任职于卡哈尔研究所,古生物学家 Juan Luis Arsuaga 执教于地质科学学院。
- The art historian José María de Azcárate held the chair of History of Medieval Art from 1973 until his death in 2001, and the ethicist Fernando Savater taught in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.艺术史家「José María de Azcárate」自 1973 年起任中世纪艺术史讲席教授直至 2001 年去世;伦理学家 Fernando Savater 曾在哲学与文学学院任教。
- The filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar, director of Tesis, graduated from the School of Communications.电影导演 Alejandro Amenábar 毕业于传播学院,代表作《Tesis》。
- The international relations scholar Zhuo Zhonghong, a specialist in European Union affairs, is among the Chinese-speaking alumni of the university.国际关系学者卓忠宏专研欧盟议题,是该校校友中华人学者的代表。