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Jean Genet
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French poet, novelist, playwright, and activist; author of Our Lady of the Flowers, The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Screens; ex-convict pardoned in 1949, later Black Panther and Palestinian supporter.
Jean Gerson
Jean Gerson (Jean Charlier de Gerson, 1363–1429) was a French theologian and reformer who served as Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1395 and participated prominently in the Council of Constance.
Jean Ginibre
Jean Ginibre was a French mathematical physicist at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay known for the 1965 random-matrix ensembles, the circular law, and the Ginibre point process.
Jean Ginsburg
Jean Ginsburg (1926–2004) was a British endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London who set up one of Britain's first menopause clinics and published over 250 papers.
Jean Giono
Jean Giono (1895–1970) was a French novelist and pacifist from Manosque in Provence, known for the Pan trilogy, the Hussard cycle, and "The Man Who Planted Trees."
Jean Giraud
Jean Giraud (1938–2012), French comics artist signing as Gir and Mœbius; creator of Blueberry, Arzach, Le Garage hermétique, and L'Incal, co-founder of Métal Hurlant, and designer for Alien, Tron, and The Fifth Element.
Jean Giraud bibliography
Bibliography of Jean Giraud (1938-2012), French comics artist signed Gir or Mœbius: Fort Navajo/Blueberry (from 1965), Arzach, Le Garage hermétique, L'Incal, Métal Hurlant co-founding, and English editions.
Jean Goguel
Jean Goguel (1908–1987) was a French geologist and geophysicist, professor at the École des Mines de Paris, who applied mechanics and gravity data to tectonics and wrote the Traité de tectonique.
Jean Goujon
Jean Goujon (Jean Georges Goujon, 1914-1991), French track and road cyclist; double gold medalist at Berlin 1936 in team pursuit and team road race, later professional 1937-1949 with 35th place, 1937 Tour de France.
Jean Grey
Jean Grey (Marvel Girl, Phoenix) is a Marvel Comics X-Men founding member created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, an Omega-level telepath and telekinetic bonded to the Phoenix Force and famous for the Dark Phoenix saga.
Jean Grüenberg
Jean Gruenberg is a cell biologist at the University of Geneva known for cell-free assays that reconstitute endosome fusion and for showing the GTPase rab5 controls early endosome fusion.
Jean Guéhenno
Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a French writer, teacher, and education inspector best remembered for Journal des années noires, his secret diary of the German occupation of France.
Jean Guitton
Jean Guitton (1901–1999) was a French Catholic philosopher who taught the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne, sat in the Académie française, and was a close friend of Pope Paul VI.
Jean Guy Gautier
Jean Guy Gautier was a French sprinter and rugby union player who won a gold medal in rugby at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Jean H. Felker
Jean H. Felker (1919–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who led development of TRADIC, the first fully transistorized computer in the United States.
Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (Jean Shirley Verhagen, 1923–1977), American actress; Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), Oscar-nominated supporting actress; Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle; Danny Thomas's TV wife on Make Room for Daddy.
Jean Hale
Jean Hale (Carol Jean Hale, 1938-2021), American actress of 1960s film and TV, known for In Like Flint, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and Batman's Mad Hatter episodes; ex-wife of Dabney Coleman.
Jean Hamon
Jean Hamon (1618–1687) was a French physician, moralist, and Solitary of Port-Royal who treated some 400 patients and directed the nuns' spiritual life during persecution.
Jean Hardouin
Jean Hardouin (1646–1729) was a French Jesuit scholar who edited the church councils and argued that nearly all ancient literature was forged in the Middle Ages.
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter, 1911-1937), American film actress and pre-Code Hollywood sex symbol known as the Platinum Blonde; MGM star of Red Dust, Red-Headed Woman, and Bombshell; died at 26 of kidney failure.
Jean Harris
Jean Struven Harris (1923-2012), Madeira School headmistress convicted of second-degree murder in the 1980 shooting of Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower; 15-years-to-life sentence, 1992 clemency.
Jean Hessels
Jean Hessels (Jan Hessels) was a Flemish theologian and professor at the University of Louvain who took part in the Council of Trent and defended Michael Baius.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni (1924–1997) was a Swiss-born physicist who invented the planar process for manufacturing silicon transistors, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and later founded the chip maker Intersil.
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (1862–1950) was a French army physician and bacteriologist who identified the organisms behind Vincent's angina and directed the antityphoid vaccination that nearly eliminated typhoid from French armies in World War I.
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803–1847), pseudonym J. J. Grandville, French caricaturist and illustrator from Nancy; famed for Les Métamorphoses du jour (1829), La Fontaine's Fables, Un autre monde (1844), and Surrealist-recognized fantasy.
Jean J. Zhao
Jean J. Zhao, also published as Jean Zhao, is a molecular biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for PI3K isoform research in cancer.
Jean Jacques Machado
Jean Jacques Machado (born 1968, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-American BJJ coral-belt, 1999 ADCC 77kg champion and 2000/2001 runner-up, who built a grip-independent no-gi game despite Amniotic Band Syndrome and coaches in Woodland Hills, California.
Jean Johansson
Jean Johansson (born Jean Anderson, 1981) is a Scottish TV presenter and journalist, host of Channel 4's A Place in the Sun and BBC's Animal Park, married to footballer Jonatan Johansson.
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel (born 1947) is a French paleoclimatologist and glaciologist who reconstructed past climates from polar ice cores and was IPCC Working Group I vice-president from 2002 to 2015.
Jean K. Chalaby
Jean K. Chalaby, sociologist and Professor of International Communication at City St George's, University of London; LSE PhD 1994; studies transnational television, the Anglo-American TV format trade, and global value chains in streaming.