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Jean Marie Charles Abadie
Jean Marie Charles Abadie (1842–1932) was a French ophthalmologist born in Saint-Gaudens, trained in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, known for Abadie's sign, a lid sign of Graves' disease.
Jean Marsh
Jean Marsh (1934–2025), British actress and writer, co-created Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins and won a 1975 Emmy as parlour maid Rose Buck; also The House of Eliott and Doctor Who's Sara Kingdom.
Jean Martianay
Jean Martianay (1647–1717) was a French Benedictine of the Maurist congregation and Biblical scholar at the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, chiefly known as the editor of the works of St. Jerome.
Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (1920-1993) was a French-born American nutrition scientist, Harvard professor, and originator of the glucostatic theory of appetite regulation who led Tufts University as its tenth president.
Jean Mermoz
Jean Mermoz (1901–1936) was a French aviator who flew airmail for the Aéropostale and made the first commercial mail crossing of the South Atlantic in 1930.
Jean Métellus
Jean Métellus (1937–2014) was a Haitian poet, novelist, playwright, and neurologist who left Haiti in 1959 under the Duvalier dictatorship and spent his life in exile in France.
Jean Michaël Seri
Jean Michaël Seri (born 1991) is an Ivorian central midfielder for Maribor and Ivory Coast; ex-Nice, Fulham (£25m, 2018), Galatasaray loan, Hull City; AFCON 2023 winner.
Jean Michel Henry
Jean-Michel Henry, French épée fencer born 1963 in Marseille, four-time Olympian (1984-1996) with four Olympic medals including team épée gold at Seoul 1988, and world team champion in 1983 and 1994.
Jean Michel Lucenay
Jean Michel Lucenay (Jean-Michel Marc Lucenay), French left-handed épée fencer born 1978 in Fort-de-France, Martinique; Olympic team gold Rio 2016 and six world team titles (2002–2017).
Jean Michel Monin
Jean Michel Monin, French track cyclist born 1967 in Argenteuil; won Olympic gold in the 1996 Atlanta team pursuit with Capelle, Ermenault, and Moreau, and world silver at Manchester 1996.
Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin (1899-1943), French prefect and Resistance leader under aliases Max and Rex, unified the Resistance as de Gaulle's delegate, founded the CNR on 27 May 1943, was arrested at Caluire, tortured by Klaus Barbie, and died 8 July 1943; panthéonized 1964.
Jean Nicolet
Jean Nicolet (Jean Nicollet de Belleborne, c. 1598–1642), French interpreter and explorer of New France under Champlain; his disputed 1634 Great Lakes journey makes him traditionally the first European to see Wisconsin, alternatively the discoverer of Lake Superior.
Jean Noel Ferrari
Jean-Noël Ferrari, born 1974 in Nice, is a French right-handed foil fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Sydney 2000, four-time world team medalist, and now a fencing master at OGC Nice Escrime.
Jean Orr-Ewing
Jean Orr-Ewing (1897–1944) was a co-worker in Howard Florey's penicillin team at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, named in the Nobel Committee's 1945 presentation speech yet left with almost no individual record.
Jean Pascal
Jean Pascal, born Jean-Thenistor Pascal in Port-au-Prince in 1982, is a Haitian-born Canadian boxer, WBC light heavyweight champion from 2009 to 2011 and WBA regular champion from 2019 to 2021.
Jean Pascal Barraque
Jean Pascal Barraque, born 1991 in Le Chesnay, is a French rugby union and sevens international (fly-half, centre, fullback, wing) who won the 2012 European Challenge Cup with Biarritz and Olympic sevens gold at Paris 2024.
Jean Patou
Jean Patou (1880 or 1887–1936) was a French couturier who founded his Paris house in 1914, pioneered corset-free dress and women's sportswear with muse Suzanne Lenglen, created the JP monogram and the perfume Joy, and led a house later headed by Lagerfeld and Lacroix.
Jean Patry
Jean Patry (Jean Mathias Gérard Patry), French opposite spiker born 1996 in Montpellier; two-time Olympic volleyball champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), son of international Christophe Patry; clubs include Montpellier, Milano, Jastrzebski Wegiel, Galatasaray.
Jean Paul
Jean Paul was the pen name of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), a German novelist known for humorous works such as Hesperus, Siebenkäs, and Titan.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier, born 1952 in Arcueil, is the French couturier who founded his Paris label in 1976, created Madonna's cone-bra corsets, skirts for men, and the Le Male fragrance, opened a couture house in 1997, designed for Hermès 2004-2010, and retired from the runway in January 2020.
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery is a French cell and cancer biologist whose work on epithelial-mesenchymal transition established it as a central mechanism of carcinoma progression and metastasis.
Jean Peters
Jean Peters (Elizabeth Jean Peters, 1926–2000) was an American film actress of Captain from Castile, Niagara, and Pickup on South Street fame who left acting in 1957 to marry Howard Hughes, divorced him in 1971, and later returned to television.
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss psychologist and epistemologist, founder of genetic epistemology and the four-stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational), using assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration.
Jean Pierre Curtillet
Jean Pierre Curtillet is the name variant of Jean-Pascal Curtillet, a French freestyle swimmer, born 1942 in Algiers, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
Jean Pierre Mégnin
Jean Pierre Mégnin (1828–1905), French army veterinarian and entomologist, author of La faune des cadavres (1894) with its eight waves of insect succession, founder of forensic entomology and pioneer of dog-breed classification.
Jean Pierre Soulier
Jean Pierre Soulier (1915–2003) was a French physician and hematologist who directed the Centre national de transfusion sanguine from 1954 to 1984 and helped identify the two forms of hemophilia.
Jean Ping
Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and politician: UNESCO delegate, foreign minister, OPEC president 1993, UN General Assembly 59th president 2004-05, AU Commission chair 2008-2012, and 2016 Gabonese opposition presidential candidate against Ali Bongo.
Jean Piot
Jean Piot (1890–1961), French fencer from Saint-Quentin, won two team gold medals (foil and épée) at the 1932 Olympics, competed in 1928 and 1936, refereed in 1924, and later coached at the Paris Prefecture of Police fencing school.
Jean Pliya
Jean Pliya (1931–2015) was a Beninese writer of French expression and geographer by training, a founding figure of Beninese theater whose plays Kondo le requin and La Secrétaire particulière dominated the stage for two decades.
Jean Ponce
Jean Ponce is a French computer-vision researcher, professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2023, known for the PMVS multiview stereopsis algorithm and the textbook Computer Vision: A Modern Approach.