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Jean Pormanove
Jean Pormanove, alias of French streamer Raphaël Graven (1979–2025), died live on Kick after a 12-day abusive broadcast; his death sparked trials of streamers Naruto and Safine and French court action against Kick.
Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars (1876–1969) was a Haitian doctor, diplomat, politician, and ethnologist whose 1928 book Ainsi parla l'oncle launched the Haitian Indigenist Movement and shaped Négritude.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was a French metalworker and designer from Nancy who pioneered prefabricated houses and industrial furniture, insisting he was a builder, not an architect.
Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (Jehan Pucelle), who died in Paris in 1334, was a French manuscript illuminator whose Paris workshop pioneered grisaille figures and three-dimensional settings, and who illuminated the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.
Jean Puiforcat
Jean Puiforcat (Jean Élysée Puiforcat, 1897–1945) was a French silversmith and designer, the defining French silversmith of the Art Deco period, known for geometric sterling silver.
Jean Purdy
Jean Marian Purdy, British nurse and embryologist, third pioneer of IVF with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe; first clinical embryologist, Technical Director of Bourn Hall, co-author of 26 IVF papers, died 1985 aged 39.
Jean Quiquampoix
Jean Quiquampoix (born 1995, Paris) is a French 25m rapid fire pistol shooter, TS Antibes club, Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and silver at Rio 2016, 2014 junior world champion.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine, also known as Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist born at La Ferté-Milon in 1639 whose classical tragedies include Phèdre and Britannicus.
Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (Jean Paul Raspail, 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020), French novelist, journalist, and explorer; author of Le Camp des saints (1973) and Moi, Antoine de Tounens; Académie française Grand Prix du Roman 1981.
Jean Reno
Jean Reno (Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez), French actor born 1948 in Casablanca to Andalusian Spanish parents; Luc Besson collaborator (Le Grand bleu, Nikita, Léon) with a parallel Hollywood career (Ronin, The Da Vinci Code); also novelist.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894–1979), French film director, son of painter Auguste Renoir; maker of La Grande Illusion and La Règle du jeu, pioneer of deep-focus staging in depth, Hollywood exile in the 1940s, honorary Oscar 1975.
Jean Renoir filmography
Jean Renoir filmography: the films of French director Jean Renoir (1894–1979), from silent Catherine (1924) through Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939), Hollywood's The Southerner (1945), color films, and The Little Theatre (1969).
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams), Dominican-born modernist novelist (1890 or 1894–1979), author of Quartet, Voyage in the Dark, Good Morning, Midnight, and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), the Jane Eyre prequel that restored her fame.
Jean Rivero
Jean Rivero (1910–2001) was a French jurist and professor of public law at Poitiers and Paris who wrote the standard Précis of administrative law and won the 1986 Balzan Prize.
Jean Roche
Jean Roche (1901–1992) was a French biochemist known for demonstrating the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952 and serving as rector of the University of Paris.
Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin (1938-2010), French director of dreamlike erotic vampire films such as Le Viol du vampire, Fascination, and Requiem for a Vampire; also made hardcore films under pseudonyms like Michel Gentil to fund personal work.
Jean Roncali
Jean Roncali is a French CNRS emeritus research director at the University of Angers known for π-conjugated systems and organic photovoltaics, including the 2014 'Small is Beautiful' paper.
Jean Rosa
Jean Rosa (1927–2025) was a French physician-scientist in hematology and red-cell biochemistry who identified hemoglobin variants, pioneered prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease in France, and led an INSERM research unit at the Hôpital Henri Mondor.
Jean Rossier
Jean Rossier (1944–2025) was a Belgian and Swiss neurobiologist known for work on opioid peptides and neocortical interneurons, elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Jean Rouxel
Jean Rouxel (1935–1998) was a French chemist and professor at the University of Nantes, a founder of "chimie douce" whose intercalation chemistry of layered chalcogenides fed into lithium-battery cathodes.
Jean Sablon
Jean Sablon (1906–1994) was a French singer and actor who pioneered microphone singing, brought swing into chanson with Django Reinhardt, and starred on American radio as "The French Troubadour".
Jean Saint Fort Paillard
Jean Saint-Fort Paillard (Jean Gérard Saint-Fort Paillard, 1913-1990), French dressage rider; won team dressage gold at the 1948 London Olympics on Sous les Ceps, later competed in 1952 dressage and 1956 eventing; son of Olympian Léon Saint-Fort Paillard.
Jean Schlumberger (writer)
Jean Schlumberger (1877–1968) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright who co-founded La Nouvelle Revue Française with André Gide in 1908 and ran it from 1909 to 1914.
Jean Schmidt
Jean Schmidt is an American Republican politician serving in the Ohio House of Representatives since 2021, having represented Ohio's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2005 to 2013.
Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress from Marshalltown, Iowa, star of Godard's Breathless (1960) and Preminger's Saint Joan; FBI COINTELPRO target for Black Panther support; died in Paris 1979; portrayed by Kristen Stewart (2019) and Zoey Deutch (2025).
Jean Segura
Jean Segura (El Mambo), Dominican MLB infielder born 1990; two-time All-Star shortstop/second baseman for Angels, Brewers, Diamondbacks, Mariners, Phillies, Marlins; .281 average, 1,545 hits, 211 steals; retired May 2025.
Jean Servais Stas
Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891) was a Belgian analytical chemist who disproved Prout's hypothesis through precise atomic weight determinations and devised the Stas-Otto forensic toxicology method.
Jean Shepard
Jean Shepard, born Ollie Imogene Shepard, was an American country singer whose 1953 hit "A Dear John Letter" led to a 60-year Grand Ole Opry career.
Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd, full name Jean Parker Shepherd Jr., was an American humorist who delivered improvised late-night radio monologues on WOR-AM in New York from 1955 to 1977.
Jean Shiley
Jean Shiley (Jean Marie Shiley Newhouse, 1911–1998), American high jumper; 1932 Olympic gold medalist at 1.65 m in a famous duel with Babe Didrikson; 1928 Olympian, AAU champion 1929–1932.