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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli, 1632–1687), Italian-born founder of French opera, surintendant of Louis XIV's music, creator of the tragédie en musique with Quinault, holder of the 1672 opera monopoly, died of gangrene after a conducting-cane injury.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663–1742) was a French Oratorian priest and bishop of Clermont from 1717, famed for his Advent sermons, funeral orations, and the Petit Carême.
Jean-Baptiste Michel
Jean-Baptiste Michel is a French and Mauritian data scientist, co-leader with Erez Lieberman Aiden of the 2011 culturomics paper that produced the Google Books n-gram corpus and Ngram Viewer.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) was a French animal painter, tapestry designer, and illustrator who recorded the hunts of Louis XV, directed the Beauvais tapestry manufactory, and illustrated La Fontaine's Fables.
Jean-Baptiste Sans Souci
Jean-Baptiste Sans Souci (died 1803) was an African-born, probably Kongo commander of the Haitian Revolution who led insurgent forces from 1791 until Henri Christophe had him killed in 1803.
Jean-Baptiste Senderens
Jean-Baptiste Senderens (1856–1937) was a French Catholic priest and chemist who, in a two-decade collaboration with Paul Sabatier at Toulouse, co-founded direct catalytic hydrogenation and discovered the methanation reaction known as the Sabatier reaction.
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard (1938–2009) was a Congolese poet, novelist, and longtime government minister of the Republic of the Congo, regarded as one of the most significant poets of French-speaking Africa.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a French jewel merchant and traveler who made six voyages to India and Persia and supplied Louis XIV with the Hope Diamond.
Jean-Baptiste Terrien
Jean-Baptiste Terrien (1832–1903) was a French Jesuit dogmatic theologian who taught for over twenty years and wrote major treatises on the Sacred Heart, grace, and Mary.
Jean-Baptiste Ventura
Jean-Baptiste Ventura, born Giovanni Battista Rubino, was an Italian Napoleonic veteran who served the Sikh Empire from 1822, raising the Fauj-i-Khas infantry and serving as Governor of Lahore.
Jean-Baptiste Vincent
Jean-Baptiste Vincent, born 1983, is a planetary scientist at the DLR Institute of Space Research in Berlin who studies asteroid and comet surfaces and activity.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a French landscape painter whose oil sketches and soft late souvenirs made him one of the most popular painters of his time.
Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra
Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra (1812–1889) was a French Benedictine of Solesmes, created cardinal in 1863, who served as Vatican Librarian and Archivist and edited recovered Greek and Oriental church texts.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921–1996), also Emperor Bokassa I, Central African military ruler who seized power from David Dacko on 31 December 1965, proclaimed the Central African Empire in 1976, staged a Napoleon-style coronation in 1977, and was overthrown by French troops in September 1979.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953), Haitian Salesian priest and liberation theologian, was Haiti's first democratically elected president (1990), overthrown in 1991, restored in 1994, reelected in 2000, and exiled again in 2004.
Jean-Charles de Baas
Jean-Charles de Baas was a French soldier and colonial administrator who served as governor general of the French West Indies from 1669 until his death in 1677.
Jean-Charles Trouabal
Jean-Charles Trouabal (born 1965, Paris) is a French former sprinter, 200m and 4x100m relay specialist; European relay champion 1990 and 1994, world relay silver 1991, co-holder of the 37.79 s 4x100m world record set at Split 1990.
Jean-Christophe Granier
Jean-Christophe Granier is a British businessman and former Aberdeen solicitor who led the Angus textile manufacturer J&D Wilkie from 2012 to 2023 and now leads iGii.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) was a French mathematician in dynamical systems, known for work on circle maps and small divisors, who received the 1994 Fields Medal.
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon
Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon (Jean-Christophe Napoléon Bonaparte, born 1986) is a French banker, head of the former Imperial House of France since 1997 and the Bonapartist pretender, a great-great-great-great-nephew of Napoleon I.
Jean-Clair Todibo
Jean-Clair Todibo (born 1999, Cayenne, French Guiana), French centre-back; Toulouse, Barcelona, Nice, West Ham United (€40m permanent 2025), on loan at Lens 2026/27; 2 France caps.
Jean-Claude Charles
Jean-Claude Charles (1949–2008) was a Haitian poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist who spent his career in exile and coined the term enracinerrance for permanent displacement.
Jean-Claude Chermann
Jean-Claude Chermann is a French retrovirologist who co-discovered HIV at the Institut Pasteur in 1983, yet was the only co-discoverer excluded from the 2008 Nobel Prize.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier (1951-2014), president-for-life of Haiti 1971-1986, ruled through the Tontons Macoutes, fled to France in 1986, returned in 2011, and died before trial.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker (born 1954), Luxembourgish CSV politician: Prime Minister of Luxembourg 1995–2013, Eurogroup president 2005–2013, and 12th President of the European Commission 2014–2019, later shadowed by the LuxLeaks tax-ruling scandal.
Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy (born 1943) is a French alpine skier who swept downhill, giant slalom, and slalom gold at Grenoble 1968, won the first World Cup overall title in 1967, then co-organized Albertville 1992 and served on the IOC 1995–2014.
Jean-Claude Martinou
Jean-Claude Martinou is a Swiss molecular and cell biologist known for work on cell death and mitochondrial metabolism, and for identifying the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier.
Jean-Claude Naimro
Jean-Claude Naimro is a Martinican keyboardist, singer, and composer best known as a member of the zouk group Kassav', where he wrote the hit 'Kolé séré'.
Jean-Claude Romand
Jean-Claude Romand, French impostor born 1954, posed as a WHO physician for 18 years, killed his wife, two children, and parents in January 1993, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, born 1960, Brussels), Belgian actor and martial artist, 'Muscles from Brussels', star of Bloodsport, Universal Soldier, Timecop, JCVD.