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Jean-Joseph Gaume
Jean-Joseph Gaume (1802–1879) was a French Catholic priest, theologian, and author, vicar-general of Nevers, whose 1851 attack on pagan classics in Catholic education ignited a major controversy.
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 or 1903 – 1937) was a Malagasy poet, novelist, and translator, regarded as the first modern poet of Madagascar, best known for Presque-Songes and Traduit de la nuit.
Jean-Kévin Augustin
Jean-Kévin Augustin, French centre-forward born 1997 in Paris, PSG academy graduate, 2016 U19 Euro best player, RB Leipzig striker, later Leeds, Nantes, Basel, Motor Lublin, now Yverdon-Sport.
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova, born in Paris in 1963, is a French immunologist at Rockefeller University who showed that single-gene defects can make healthy children vulnerable to specific infections.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), French academic painter, sculptor, and École des Beaux-Arts professor known for Orientalist scenes like The Snake Charmer, Pollice Verso, and The Death of Caesar, and for opposing the Impressionists.
Jean-Léon Maître
Jean-Léon Maître is a developmental biologist who leads the Mechanics of Mammalian Development team at Institut Curie in Paris, studying forces that shape the early embryo.
Jean-Louis Bessereau
Jean-Louis Bessereau is a French molecular neuroscientist at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 who studies how synapses are built, using the nematode C. elegans as his model organism.
Jean-Louis Hérisson
Jean-Louis Hérisson is a French chemist who, as Yves Chauvin's student at the Institut Français du Pétrole, co-authored the 1971 paper first proposing the accepted mechanism of olefin metathesis.
Jean-Louis Koszul
Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–2018) was a French mathematician known for the Koszul complex, Koszul duality, and the Koszul connection, who worked in homological algebra and differential geometry at Strasbourg and Grenoble and belonged to the Bourbaki group.
Jean-Louis Le Mee
Jean-Louis Le Mee, born 1973, is a hedge fund manager who co-founded Westbeck Capital Management, a London firm focused on energy and energy-transition equities, in 2016.
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (1768–1836) was a French-born Catholic priest, the first Bishop of Boston from 1808 to 1823, later Archbishop of Bordeaux and a cardinal.
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946 in Strasbourg) is a French human geneticist who identified the unstable repeat mutation causing fragile X syndrome in 1991 and received the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Jean-Louis Murat
Jean-Louis Murat, born Jean-Louis Bergheaud (1952–2023), was a French singer-songwriter from the Auvergne whose literary, rock-inflected albums included the gold Cheyenne Autumn (1989) and the duet "Regrets" with Mylène Farmer.
Jean-Louis Nicolas
Jean-Louis Nicolas is a French number theorist at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, best known for a 1983 theorem exactly equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis and for work on highly composite numbers.
Jean-Louis Pierrot
Jean-Louis Pierrot (1761–1857) was a Haitian military officer and politician who served as the fifth president of Haiti from 1845 to 1846, pursuing reunification of the island before being deposed by Jean-Baptiste Riché.
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (1930-2022), French actor of restrained style; star of And God Created Woman, A Man and a Woman, Z, The Conformist, Three Colours: Red, and Amour; Cannes and Berlin best-actor winner, 2013 Cesar recipient.
Jean-Louis Verdier
Jean-Louis Verdier was a French mathematician and student of Alexander Grothendieck who introduced triangulated categories and Verdier duality, co-authored SGA 4, and led the Société Mathématique de France from 1984.
Jean-Louis Zanon
Jean-Louis Zanon, born 1960 in Montauban, is a French former midfielder who won Olympic gold with France at Los Angeles 1984, earned one senior France cap in 1983, and played for Saint-Étienne, Marseille, Metz, Nîmes, Nancy, and Gap.
Jean-Loup Puget
Jean-Loup Puget, born 1947 in France, is a French astrophysicist who identified interstellar PAH molecules, made the first detection of the cosmic infrared background, and led Planck's HFI, winning the 2018 Shaw Prize.
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas (born 1954) is a Belgian computational chemist known for his theory of the electronic structure of conjugated polymers, and a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona.
Jean-Luc Brunel
Jean-Luc Brunel (1946-2022), French modeling agent and head of Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, charged in France with raping a minor, found hanged in La Santé prison in 2022.
Jean-Luc Crucke
Jean-Luc Crucke is a Belgian politician of Les Engagés who has served as federal Minister of Climate and Mobility in Bart De Wever's government since February 2025.
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022), French-Swiss director and Cahiers du cinéma critic, led the French New Wave; his Breathless (1960) revolutionized film language, and he made over 100 films including Histoire(s) du cinéma.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (born 1951, Tanger) is a French radical-left politician, founder of La France insoumise and three-time presidential candidate (2012, 2017, 2022), a former Socialist minister under Jospin who left the PS in 2008 to found the Left Party, and a declared 2027 candidate.
Jean-Luc Moudenc
Jean-Luc Moudenc is a French politician of the miscellaneous right who has served as Mayor of Toulouse since 2026, his fourth term, and also leads Toulouse Métropole.
Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard is the fictional Starfleet captain played by Patrick Stewart, lead of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) commanding the USS Enterprise-D, later the Enterprise-E, and the series Star Trek: Picard.
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942, Avranches, France) is a pioneering French jazz-fusion violinist and composer who played with Zappa, Elton John, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, pioneered the electric violin, and scored twelve consecutive top-5 Billboard jazz albums on Atlantic from 1975.
Jean-Luc Raharimanana
Jean-Luc Raharimanana (born 1967) is a Malagasy writer and poet based in Paris whose work, notably the novel Nour, 1947, confronts the 1947 Malagasy insurrection.
Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr, born 1960 in Bitburg, Germany, is a French-American actor and filmmaker, the diver Jacques Mayol in The Big Blue (1988), a Lars von Trier collaborator, and director of Lovers.
Jean-Marc Connerotte
Jean-Marc Connerotte is the Belgian examining magistrate of Neufchâteau who arrested Marc Dutroux in August 1996, freed Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, and was removed by the Court of Cassation's spaghetti arrest on 14 October 1996.