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Jean Kasem
Jean Kasem (born 1954, Jean Charlotte Thompson) is an American retired actress, Loretta Tortelli on Cheers and The Tortellis, and widow of radio host Casey Kasem, later central to disputes over his care, burial in Oslo, and estate.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Jean Kennedy Smith (1928-2020), eighth of the nine Kennedy siblings, founded Very Special Arts in 1974 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland 1993-1998, aiding the Northern Ireland peace process.
Jean Klášterský
Jean Klášterský (Jean Klastersky), born 1940 in Prague, is a Belgian medical oncologist who led the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels and created the MASCC risk index.
Jean L. Rouleau
Jean L. Rouleau is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute known for leading the STICH heart-surgery trial and entering the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2023.
Jean Laborde
Jean Laborde was a French adventurer, industrialist, and diplomat who arrived in Madagascar in 1831, built industries for Queen Ranavalona I, and became France's first consul there.
Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte, also spelled Laffite, was a French pirate and smuggler who dominated New Orleans commerce and helped win the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
Jean Laigret
Jean Laigret (1893–1966) was a French physician at the Pasteur Institute who developed the Dakar vaccine, the first used against yellow fever in mass campaigns.
Jean Laudet
Jean Maurice Laudet (1930–2025), French canoeist; with Georges Turlier won C-2 10,000 m gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, then worked as an antique dealer; oldest French Olympic champion at his death.
Jean Laval
Jean Laval (1900–1980) was a French physicist who studied X-ray diffusion by crystals and was professor of theoretical physics at the Collège de France from 1950 to 1970.
Jean Le Clerc
Jean Le Clerc, known as Johannes Clericus, was a Genevan-born Remonstrant theologian and biblical critic in Amsterdam whose learned journals spread John Locke's thought across the continent.
Jean Le Vasseur
Jean Le Vasseur, also written Levasseur, was a French Huguenot engineer and flibustier who seized Tortuga in 1640, governing the buccaneer base until his assassination around 1652.
Jean Leclant
Jean Leclant (1920–2011) was a French Egyptologist who excavated the pyramid complex of Pepy I at Saqqara, discovering pyramids of previously unknown queens, and studied Meroitic Sudan.
Jean Leising
Jean Leising is a Republican member of the Indiana Senate representing District 42, elected in 2008, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture and is a retired nurse.
Jean Lejeune
Jean Lejeune (Jean Le Jeune, 1592–1672) was a French Oratorian priest and missionary preacher, known as "the Blind Father" after losing his sight while preaching at Rouen.
Jean Leloup
Jean Leloup is the stage name of Québécois rock singer-songwriter Jean Leclerc, born 1961 in Québec City, known for an eccentric persona, platinum albums, and 16 Félix awards.
Jean Leonetti
Jean Leonetti is a French cardiologist and politician, mayor of Antibes Juan-les-Pins since 1995, minister for European Affairs in 2011 and 2012, and author of France's end-of-life laws.
Jean Leray
Jean Leray (1906–1998) was a French mathematician who founded weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations and sheaf theory, holding a Collège de France chair from 1947 to 1978.
Jean Lesieur
Jean Lesieur (Jean Henri Eugène Lesieur, 1904–1943), French sailor, Olympic gold medalist in the 8-metre class at Amsterdam 1928 as crew aboard Virginie Hériot's L'Aile VI.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean Lhermitte, full name Jacques Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, son of the painter Léon Augustin Lhermitte, known for Lhermitte's sign and Lhermitte-Duclos disease.
Jean Lindenmann
Jean Lindenmann (1924–2015) was a Swiss virologist who co-discovered and named interferon with Alick Isaacs in London in 1957, then studied the Mx gene at Zurich.
Jean Louis Brugier
Jean-Louis Brugier (born 8 November 1939) is a French sprinter from the Drôme who twice set the European 4 x 100 m relay record in 1964 (39.25, Annecy) and was a non-starter at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics.
Jean Louisa Kelly
Jean Louisa Kelly (born 1972) is an American actress and singer from Worcester, Massachusetts, also known as Jean Pitaro. Known for Tia Russell in Uncle Buck, Rowena Morgan in Mr. Holland's Opus, Luisa in The Fantasticks, Kim Warner on Yes, Dear, and Sarah Kazansky in Top Gun: Maverick.
Jean Luc Brassard
Jean-Luc Brassard (born 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier, moguls gold medalist at Lillehammer 1994, first Canadian male Olympic champion in snow sports, later Rio 2016 Chef de Mission who resigned in 2016.
Jean Luc Cretier
Jean-Luc Crétier (born 1966, Albertville, France), French alpine skier and customs officer; won Olympic downhill gold at Nagano 1998 in 1:50.11, first French downhill champion since Killy 1968; never won a World Cup race; medal stolen 2024.
Jean M. Auel
Jean M. Auel, born 1936, American author of the Earth's Children prehistoric series beginning with The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980); six volumes, over 45 million copies sold, ending with The Land of Painted Caves (2011).
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet, born 1944 in Burgundy, France, is a polymer chemist known for convergent dendrimer synthesis, chemically amplified photoresists for microchips, and the 2019 King Faisal Prize in Science.
Jean Mabillon
Jean Mabillon (1632–1707) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur whose De re diplomatica (1681) founded the science of authenticating medieval charters.
Jean Malonga
Jean Malonga (1907–1985) was a Congolese writer and politician, regarded as the founder of modern Congolese literature; his novel Cœur d'Aryenne is considered the first Congolese novel.
Jean Manfred Grosheintz
Jean Manfred Grosheintz (1909–2003) was a Swiss carbohydrate chemist trained at ETH Zurich who worked in Toronto with Hermann O. L. Fischer and is known for the Grosheintz-Fischer-Reissert aldehyde synthesis.
Jean Marais
Jean Marais (1913–1998), pseudonym of Jean Alfred Villain-Marais, French stage and film actor, singer and sculptor; Cocteau's partner and star of La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, Le Bossu and the Fantômas trilogy; César d'honneur 1993.