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Jean de Florette
Jean de Florette is a 1986 French drama directed by Claude Berri, adapted from Marcel Pagnol's novel L'Eau des collines and starring Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, and Daniel Auteuil.
Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696) was a French essayist and moralist, author of Les Caractères (1688), a collection of maxims and portraits of his century.
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) was a French poet and fabulist whose 239 verse fables, drawn from Aesop, place him in the first rank of French literature.
Jean de La Haye
Jean de La Haye (1540–1614) was a Jesuit Biblical scholar of the post-Tridentine generation who taught at Louvain and Douai and published three Gospel works between 1607 and 1611.
Jean de Labadie
Jean de Labadie (1610–1674) was a French theologian who left the Jesuits, became a Reformed pastor celebrated in Geneva as a second Calvin, and founded the Labadists, a Pietist separatist community practicing community of goods.
Jean de Meun
Jean de Meun (c. 1240 – c. 1305) was a French poet who completed the Roman de la Rose, adding about 17,000 lines to Guillaume de Lorris's allegory.
Jean de Thévenot
Jean de Thévenot (1633–1667) was a French traveler and writer who spent thirteen months in Mughal India, crossing from Surat to Masulipatam, and died in Persia on the return journey.
Jean Delarge
Jean Delarge (Jean Joseph Delarge, 1906–1977), Belgian welterweight boxer from Liège; won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, beating Héctor Méndez, the only Belgian boxer with Olympic gold.
Jean Demoor
Jean Demoor (1867–1941) was a Belgian physician and physiologist, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, known for work on chemical mediators of nerve conduction.
Jean Despeaux
Jean Sylvain Despeaux (1915-1989), French boxer, won middleweight gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by decision over Norway's Henry Tiller, then boxed professionally, twice French middleweight champion 1941-1945.
Jean Dieudonné
Jean Dieudonné (1906–1992) was a French mathematician, a founding member and principal writer of the Bourbaki group, known for work in topology and classical groups.
Jean du Bellay
Jean du Bellay (c. 1499–1560) was a French cardinal and diplomat, chief counselor of Francis I, bishop of Paris, and later dean of the Sacred College in Rome.
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French painter, sculptor, and writer who coined art brut in 1945 and built the art brut collection now in Lausanne.
Jean Dujardin
Jean Dujardin (born 1972), French actor, star of Un gars, une fille, Brice de Nice and the OSS 117 parodies, and the first French winner of the Best Actor Oscar for The Artist (2012).
Jean Dunand
Jean Dunand, born Jules John Dunand (1877–1942), was a Swiss-born French Art Deco designer known for hammered-metal dinanderie and lacquer work with crushed eggshell inlay.
Jean E. Johnson
Jean E. Johnson, full name Jean Elaine Irwin Johnson (1925–2022), was an American nurse scientist at the University of Rochester known for self-regulation theory in patient education.
Jean E. Schaffer
Jean E. Schaffer is an American physician-scientist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School known for discovering the first fatty acid transport protein and establishing lipotoxicity in diabetic heart disease.
Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo
Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo, Burkinabé journalist and former RTB television director, is Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since December 2024 under Ibrahim Traoré, after serving as junta spokesperson and communications minister.
Jean Eudes
Jean Eudes (1601–1680) was a French Catholic priest from Normandy who founded the Eudists to train priests and composed the first Offices honoring the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Jean Fanchette
Jean Fanchette (1932–1992) was a Mauritian-born French-language poet, psychoanalyst, and editor who founded the Paris review Two Cities and won the Académie française's prix de la Langue française in 1976.
Jean Favard
Jean Favard (1902–1965) was a French mathematician at the Sorbonne and École Polytechnique whose name marks central results of approximation theory, including the Favard constants.
Jean Fergusson
Jean Fergusson (1944-2019), English actress, played Marina in BBC's Last of the Summer Wine 1985-2010 (216 episodes), appeared in Coronation Street, and was Olivier-nominated for her Hylda Baker show She Knows You Know!.
Jean Ferrat
Jean Ferrat, born Jean Tenenbaum (1930–2010), was a French singer-songwriter, a leading figure of poetic chanson, best known for 'Nuit et brouillard' and setting Louis Aragon's poems to music.
Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet (c. 1415–1420 Tours – 1478/1481) was the leading French painter and illuminator of the 15th century, court painter to Charles VII and Louis XI, famed for the Melun Diptych, the Hours of Étienne Chevalier, and his fusion of Flemish realism with Italian Renaissance space.
Jean Frederic Chapuis
Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (born 1989, Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a retired French ski cross racer, 2014 Sochi Olympic champion, 2013 Voss world champion, three-time crystal globe winner with 15 World Cup wins.
Jean Frederic Oberlin
Jean Frédéric Oberlin (1740–1826) was a Lutheran pastor who served the poor Ban de la Roche valley for 59 years, building schools, roads, and health services.
Jean Frédéric Osterwald
Jean Frédéric Osterwald, also written Jean-Frédéric Ostervald, was a Reformed pastor and theologian of Neuchâtel, its first pastor from 1699 to 1747, known for his catechism and 1744 French Bible revision.
Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin, the stage name of Jean-Alexis Moncorgé (1904–1976), was a French film actor who became the emblematic star of poetic realism in 1930s and 1940s French cinema.
Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917) was a French mathematician who worked in differential geometry and analysis, and after whom the Darboux integral is named. Born in Nîmes, he held the chair of higher geometry in Paris.
Jean Gautier
Jean Gautier is a molecular biologist known for purifying maturation-promoting factor from Xenopus eggs and showing how cdc25 activates the cell-cycle kinase p34cdc2; he joined MD Anderson in 2025.