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Jean Céa
Jean Céa (1932–2024) was a French mathematician specializing in optimization and numerical analysis, known for Céa's lemma and for building applied mathematics at the University of Nice and founding CIMPA.
Jean Chardin
Jean Chardin, later Sir John Chardin, was a French Huguenot jeweler and merchant who spent about ten years in Safavid Persia and wrote the ten-volume Voyages en Perse.
Jean Charest
Jean Charest (born 1958), Canadian politician: federal Progressive Conservative leader 1993–1998, 29th Premier of Quebec 2003–2012 for the Quebec Liberal Party, later defeated 2022 Conservative leadership candidate.
Jean Charles Rochet
Jean Charles Rochet, born in 1957, is a French economist at the Toulouse School of Economics known for his theory of two-sided markets and work on banking and systemic risk.
Jean Charles Valladont
Jean-Charles Valladont is a French recurve archer, born in 1989 in Besançon, who won Olympic silver at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 and reached world number 1 in 2017.
Jean Chastre
Jean Chastre is a French intensivist and physician-scientist in critical care medicine at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on ventilator-associated pneumonia, including a 2003 JAMA trial comparing 8 and 15 days of antibiotics.
Jean Chazy
Jean Chazy (1882–1955) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose 1922 classification of three-body final motions remains standard; he held the Sorbonne's analytical mechanics chair.
Jean Chrétien
Jean Chrétien (born 1934, Shawinigan, Quebec), twentieth Prime Minister of Canada 1993–2003, Liberal leader 1990–2003, Trudeau-era cabinet minister, Charter negotiator, deficit eliminator, and leader who kept Canada out of the 2003 Iraq War.
Jean Christophe Bette
Jean Christophe Bette is a French rower born in 1977 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye who won Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four at the 2000 Sydney Games.
Jean Christophe Rolland
Jean-Christophe Rolland, French rower (born 1968, Condrieu), Olympic coxless pair champion Sydney 2000 with Michel Andrieux, and president of World Rowing (FISA) since 2014, IOC member since 2017.
Jean Christophe Thouvenel
Jean-Christophe Thouvenel, born 1958, French defender and 1984 Los Angeles Olympic football gold medalist; Bordeaux right back (1979-1991) with three French titles and two Coupes de France; 4 France caps.
Jean Claude Lemoult
Jean-Claude Lemoult, born 1960 in Neufchâteau, France, is a former midfielder who won Olympic football gold at Los Angeles 1984, played nine seasons for Paris Saint-Germain, and later won the 1990 Coupe de France with Montpellier.
Jean Claude Magnan
Jean-Claude Magnan, French foil fencer born 1941 in Aubagne; four Olympic medals 1960-1972 including team foil gold at Mexico 1968 and individual silver at Tokyo 1964; three world titles.
Jean Clausse
Jean Clausse (born 4 September 1938), French middle-distance runner; ran the opening leg of France's 15:04.2 4x1500m relay world record in 1961 with Bogey, Jazy, and Bernard; 1500m best 3:46.4h, sixth at the 1962 European Championships.
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was a French poet, painter, playwright, and filmmaker of the Orphic trilogy (Le Sang d'un poète, La Belle et la Bête, Orphée), also author of Parade and Les Enfants terribles, and Académie française member elected in 1955.
Jean Collas
Jean Collas (1874-1928), French rugby and tug-of-war athlete of Racing Club de France; won 1900 Olympic gold in rugby and silver in tug-of-war at Paris.
Jean Cugnot
Jean Cugnot (Jean Pierre Gaston Cugnot) was a French track cyclist who won gold in the Tandem Sprint and bronze in the individual Sprint at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Jean D. Beggs
Jean D. Beggs, born Jean Lancaster, is a Scottish molecular biologist known for pioneering gene cloning in yeast and for work on RNA splicing and the spliceosome.
Jean D. Ross
Jean D. Ross was a researcher in pediatrics and hematology at Tufts Children's Hospital and Tufts University, known for work on infant iron-deficiency anemia and newborn methemoglobinemia.
Jean D. Wilson (scientist)
Jean D. Wilson was an American endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas who discovered that testosterone is converted into the more potent androgen dihydrotestosterone.
Jean Daillé
Jean Daillé (Latinized Joannes Dalleus, 1594–1670) was a French Huguenot pastor and theologian, minister of Charenton for over forty years, best known for his 1632 treatise on the right use of the Church Fathers.
Jean Dalibard
Jean Dalibard, born in 1958, is a French physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel and the Collège de France known for laser cooling of atoms and quantum gases.
Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset (1916–2009) was a French immunologist who discovered the HLA system, the cell-surface proteins governing transplant acceptance, and shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Jean de Béthencourt
Jean de Béthencourt (c.1362–1425), Norman nobleman of Grainville-la-Teinturière, led the 1402 Franco-Castilian conquest of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and El Hierro with Gadifer de La Salle, recorded in Le Canarien.
Jean de Bie
Jean de Bie (Jan De Bie, 1892-1961), Belgian goalkeeper for Racing Club de Bruxelles; 37 caps 1920-1930, 1920 Olympic football gold at Antwerp, three Olympics, 1930 World Cup squad member who did not play.
Jean de Brébeuf
Jean de Brébeuf (1593–1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who spent two decades among the Huron people of New France and was martyred by Iroquois warriors in 1649.
Jean de Breteuil
Jean de Breteuil (1949-1972), French count and drug dealer to rock stars; supplied Janis Joplin and, per Marianne Faithfull, Jim Morrison; died of heroin overdose in Tangier.
Jean de Brisacier
Jean de Brisacier (died 1668) was a French Jesuit controversialist who fought Jansenism around Blois, wrote Le Jansénisme confondu (1651), and helped answer Pascal's Lettres provinciales.
Jean de Carrouges
Jean IV de Carrouges, Norman knight who won the last judicial duel sanctioned by the Parlement of Paris on 29 December 1386, killing Jacques Le Gris, whom he accused of raping his wife Marguerite de Thibouville; died at Nicopolis in 1396.
Jean de Dunois
Jean de Dunois, the Bâtard d'Orléans (c. 1402/1403–1468), illegitimate son of Duke Louis I of Orléans, defender of Orléans and comrade of Joan of Arc, count of Dunois and Longueville and Charles VII's grand chambellan.