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Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Jean-Claude Van Johnson is a 2016–2017 Amazon Prime Video action-comedy series created by Dave Callaham, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a retired action star whose film career covered his black-ops agent work; six episodes, cancelled after one season.
Jean-Didier Berger
Jean-Didier Berger (born 1980) is a French politician serving as Minister delegate to the Minister of the Interior since 2026, after representing Hauts-de-Seine in the National Assembly and as mayor of Clamart.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997), French journalist and editor-in-chief of Elle, wrote The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking his left eyelid after a 1995 stroke caused locked-in syndrome; he died two days after publication.
Jean-Edmé-Auguste Gosselin
Jean-Edmé-Auguste Gosselin (1787–1858) was a French Sulpician priest and ecclesiastical author, superior of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, best known for his edition of Fénelon's works and his study of medieval papal power.
Jean-François Allard
Jean-François Allard (1785–1839) was a French soldier who entered Maharaja Ranjit Singh's service in 1822 and organized the Fauj-i-Khas, the elite corps of the Sikh army.
Jean-François Borel
Jean-François Borel (1933–2025) was a Belgian-born Swiss pharmacologist and immunologist at Sandoz in Basel who identified cyclosporin A's immunosuppressive action, the first drug to control organ-transplant rejection.
Jean-François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861–1944) was a French surgeon whose 1890 thesis gave his name to Calot's triangle, a key landmark in cholecystectomy, and who founded the Institut orthopédique de Berck-sur-Mer.
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French philologist born in Figeac, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, announced 27 September 1822; used Coptic and the Rosetta Stone, rival of Thomas Young, founder of Egyptology.
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741–1788) was a French naval officer who led a round-the-world voyage of discovery and vanished with both ships in the South Pacific in 1788.
Jean-François Fauvarque
Jean-François Fauvarque is a French chemist whose 1977 report with Anny Jutand on palladium-catalyzed coupling of Reformatsky reagents was cited in the Nobel Committee's 2010 background.
Jean-François Formela, MD
Jean-François Formela, MD is a partner at Atlas Venture, a Boston venture capital firm he joined in 1993, known for co-founding biotechs including Intellia Therapeutics.
Jean-François Heymans
Jean-François Heymans (Jan Frans Heymans; 1859–1932) was a Belgian pharmacologist who held Belgium's first chair of experimental pharmacology at Ghent University and co-founded a pharmacology journal.
Jean-François Le Gall
Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959) is a French probabilist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for the Brownian snake, random trees, and the Brownian map.
Jean-François Lutz
Jean-François Lutz is a French polymer chemist, a CNRS research director who studies sequence-controlled and informational polymers, and director of the ISIS institute in Strasbourg since 2024.
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998), French philosopher and author of The Postmodern Condition (1979), which defined postmodernism as incredulity toward metanarratives, and of The Differend (1983), his theory of unresolvable conflicts between incommensurable language games.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), French Realist and Barbizon School painter of peasant life, creator of The Gleaners, The Sower, and The Angelus; trained under Delaroche, based in Barbizon from 1849, a key influence on Van Gogh and modern art.
Jean-François Papillon
Jean-François Papillon (died 1805) was a principal leader of the early Haitian Revolution, commanding insurgent enslaved forces in northern Saint-Domingue from 1791 and serving as a general in the Spanish army.
Jean-François Revel
Jean-François Revel (Jean-François Ricard, 1924–2006) was a French philosopher, essayist, and L'Express journalist, Académie française 1997, known for liberal essays like La tentation totalitaire and La Connaissance inutile.
Jean-François Thiriart
Jean-François Thiriart (1922–1992) was a Belgian political theorist, optician, and wartime collaborator who founded the neofascist Jeune Europe movement and theorized a unitary anti-American Europe, later a Euro-Soviet empire from Dublin to Vladivostok, influencing Aleksandr Dugin's neo-Eurasianism.
Jean-François-Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
Jean-François-Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613–1679), was a French churchman, coadjutor and later Archbishop of Paris, a leader of the Fronde, and author of the classic Mémoires.
Jean-Henri Fabre
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) was a self-taught French entomologist who observed live insects at his Harmas estate in Sérignan-du-Comtat and recorded his findings in the ten-volume Souvenirs entomologiques.
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine (1846–1930) was a Swiss pediatrician from Geneva, professor of internal pathology, rector of the University of Geneva, and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, known for d'Espine's sign.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), French Rococo painter, draftsman, and printmaker from Grasse; Prix de Rome 1752, painter of The Swing and Progress of Love, who worked for private patrons and died in poverty after the Revolution.
Jean-Jacques Burnel
Jean-Jacques Burnel, also JJ Burnel, born 1952 in London, is the Franco-English bassist, co-lead vocalist, and last founding member of The Stranglers, known for distorted melodic basslines on Peaches and No More Heroes and solo album Euroman Cometh.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin, 1758–1806), Haitian revolutionary general born into slavery, proclaimed Haiti's independence on January 1, 1804, ruled as Emperor Jacques I under the 1805 constitution, and was assassinated at Pont-Rouge in 1806.
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin is a French paleoanthropologist who led the discovery of 315,000-year-old Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and received the 2023 Balzan Prize.
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004) was a French economist who, with Jean Tirole, founded the modern theory of regulation and built the University of Toulouse into a leading economics department.
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Jean-Jacques Moreau (1923–2014) was a French mathematician and mechanician, professor at Montpellier from 1952, who discovered helicity in fluids, founded infinite-dimensional convex analysis, and created nonsmooth mechanics.
Jean-Jacques Olier
Jean-Jacques Olier (1608–1657) was a French Catholic priest, founder of the Society of the Priests of Saint-Sulpice for training priests, and co-founder of the Society of Notre-Dame de Montréal.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Genevan philosopher of the Discourses, Émile, and The Social Contract; theorist of the general will, natural goodness corrupted by society, and civil religion, whose reception shaped debates on the French Revolution and education.