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Jean Weigle
Jean Weigle (Jean-Jacques Weigle, 1901–1968) was a Swiss experimental physicist who became a molecular biologist in Max Delbrück's phage group at Caltech, known for Weigle reactivation and mutagenesis of UV-damaged virus DNA.
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach, born 1946 in Strasbourg, is a French molecular geneticist and CNRS researcher who directed the Généthon genetic map and Genoscope, and won the 2008 CNRS gold medal.
Jean Wicki
Jean Wicki (Jean Roland Wicki, 1933–2023), Swiss bobsleigh pilot; four-man Olympic gold at Sapporo 1972 with Leutenegger, Camichel, Hubacher; bronze 1968 four-man and 1972 two-man; eight Swiss titles; federation president 1977–80.
Jean Wilim Tom
Jean Wilim Tom is an American chemical engineer in pharmaceutical process development who contributed to 12 marketed drugs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Jean Y. J. Wang
Jean Y. J. Wang, also published as Jean Yin Jen Wang, is a cancer biologist at UC San Diego known for work on the ABL kinase, DNA damage response, and apoptosis.
Jean Yoon
Jean Yoon, born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois, is a Korean-Canadian actor and playwright known as Umma in CBC's Kim's Convenience (2016-2021), winner of ACTRA and Canadian Screen Awards, and a cultural equity advocate who criticized the show's writers room.
Jean Zay (supercomputer)
Jean Zay is a French supercomputer for high-performance computing and AI, operated by the CNRS at IDRIS in Orsay since 2019 and quadrupled to 125.9 petaflops in 2025.
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler (born Hans Ziegler, 1934, Thun; died June 2026) was a Swiss sociologist, Social Democratic National Councillor, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (2000-2008), and author of about 30 books attacking Swiss banking secrecy and global hunger.
Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa
Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa is a Malagasy geographer and archaeologist who directed the University of Antananarivo's museum from 1973 to 2007 and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Jean-Alain Boumsong
Jean-Alain Boumsong (born 1979, Douala, Cameroon), French central defender with 27 caps; played for Auxerre, Rangers, Newcastle, Juventus, Lyon, Panathinaikos; later Auxerre assistant coach.
Jean-Antoine Dubois
Jean-Antoine Dubois (1766–1848) was a French Catholic missionary who spent about thirty years in South India and wrote a celebrated 1817 account of Hindu society.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) was a French sculptor, born in Versailles, who became the leading portrait sculptor of the European Enlightenment, best known for busts of Voltaire and George Washington.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), French Neoclassical painter, David's foremost pupil; Prix de Rome 1801, Grande Odalisque, Vow of Louis XIII, line-versus-color rival of Delacroix, later Roman Academy director and Senator.
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (1946-2016), Burundian Tutsi Hima colonel from Rutovu, president 1976-1987 after a bloodless coup against Micombero; modernized Burundi but suppressed the Catholic Church; deposed by Buyoya in 1987.
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887) was a French agricultural chemist who showed that plants take nitrogen from soil nitrates rather than air, clarifying the nitrogen cycle; he ran an experimental farm in Alsace and taught in Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Bouvier
Jean-Baptiste Bouvier (1783–1854) was a French Catholic theologian and Bishop of Le Mans whose Institutiones theologicae ran through fifteen editions and was used in seminaries across France, the United States, and Canada.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) was a French sculptor and painter, regarded as the leading sculptor of Napoleon III's Second Empire, known for Ugolino and His Sons and The Dance.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683) was the French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XIV, who rebuilt the kingdom's fiscal administration after 1661 and gave his name to Colbertism, the mercantilist doctrine of state-directed trade and industry.
Jean-Baptiste Cotelier
Jean-Baptiste Cotelier, also known as Johannes Baptista Cotelerius, was a French Catholic patristic scholar whose 1672 edition of early Christian writers gave the corpus its name, the Apostolic Fathers.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), French marshal and commander of the 1780 expédition particulière; landed at Newport July 11, 1780, and led French forces at the 1781 siege of Yorktown.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765-1844), French general and marshal of France; I Corps commander at Waterloo whose corps missed Ligny and Quatre Bras; later governor-general of Algeria.
Jean-Baptiste du Casse
Jean-Baptiste du Casse, also spelled Jean-Baptiste Ducasse (1646–1715), was a French naval officer and privateer best known as governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 and as a commander in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Jean-Baptiste du Tertre
Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, born Jacques Dutertre (1610–1687), was a French Dominican missionary in the Antilles whose Histoire générale des Antilles, published from 1654, long stood as the authority on the French islands.
Jean-Baptiste Duhamel
Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, also written Du Hamel, was a French Oratorian priest and natural philosopher who served as the first secretary of the Académie royale des sciences from 1666 to 1697.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) was a French chemist, professor in Paris and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Sciences, known for the Dumas nitrogen method and substitution theory.
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994) was a French historian of international relations who, with Pierre Renouvin, founded the French school of the field and won the 1982 Balzan Prize.
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828–1911) was a French botanist and physician who worked chiefly on algae and lichens, collaborated with Gustave Thuret, and joined the Académie des sciences in 1886.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a French painter of moralizing domestic scenes and portraits of children, born in Tournus, whose Village Marriage of 1761 was praised by Diderot.
Jean-Baptiste Labat
Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663–1738) was a French Dominican missionary in the Antilles whose Nouveau Voyage aux isles de l'Amérique (1722) is the era's most-read account of French colonization.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist at the Paris Muséum, first formulator of a comprehensive theory of evolution in Philosophie zoologique (1809), coined 'invertebrates', and is known for use and disuse and inheritance of acquired characters.