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Jean-Marc Fontaine
Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944–2019) was a French mathematician, a founder of p-adic Hodge theory, known for his period rings, the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture, and proving no abelian variety over the rationals has good reduction everywhere.
Jean-Marc Robin
Jean-Marc Robin (born 1961) is a French economist, professor at Sciences Po since 2010, who works on labor economics, microeconometrics, and search-and-matching models of markets.
Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée (1963-2021) was a Quebec filmmaker, editor, and producer of C.R.A.Z.Y., Dallas Buyers Club, Wild, Big Little Lies, and Sharp Objects; first Quebec director nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Jean-Marie Adiaffi
Jean-Marie Adiaffi (full name Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi, 1941–1999) was an Ivorian novelist, poet, and screenwriter whose novel La carte d'identité won the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Jean-Marie Basset
Jean-Marie Basset is a French catalysis chemist, emeritus professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and founder of surface organometallic chemistry, known for discovering alkane metathesis.
Jean-Marie Eveillard
Jean-Marie Eveillard, born January 1940, is a French-born value investor who managed First Eagle's Global Fund from 1979 to 2004, earning Morningstar's lifetime achievement award.
Jean-Marie Ghuysen
Jean-Marie Ghuysen (1925–2004) was a Belgian microbiologist at the University of Liège who established the structure of bacterial peptidoglycan and showed how penicillin inactivates its target enzymes.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen was a French far-right politician and co-founder of the National Front. He led the party for 38 years, reaching the 2002 presidential runoff with 16.86%.
Jean-Marie Loret
Jean-Marie Loret (1918–1985), born Lobjoie, was a French railway worker who claimed to be Adolf Hitler's illegitimate son by Charlotte Lobjoie. Endorsed by historian Werner Maser, revived by Le Point in 2012, but rejected by historians and DNA tests.
Jean-Marie Perrot
Abbé Jean-Marie (Yann-Vari) Perrot (1877-1943), Breton Catholic priest, founder of Bleun-Brug and editor of Feiz ha Breiz, rector of Scrignac, killed by the Resistance on 12 December 1943; namesake of the Bezen Perrot militia.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), French neurologist, founder of modern neurology with Duchenne; Salpêtrière school, first neurology chair (1882), multiple sclerosis, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, contested hysteria and hypnosis work.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), American neo-expressionist painter, began as the graffiti writer SAMO© with Al Diaz, broke through at New York/New Wave 1981, and set a $110.5 million auction record in 2017.
Jean-Michel Bismut
Jean-Michel Bismut, born 1948 in Lisbon, is a French mathematician at Université Paris-Saclay known for probability theory, the index theorem, the hypoelliptic Laplacian, and the 2021 Shaw Prize.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau, born in 1938 in Toulon, France, is a French ocean explorer and environmentalist, eldest son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and founder of the Ocean Futures Society.
Jean-Michel Frank
Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was a French interior decorator and furniture designer known for minimalist interiors of spare forms and unusual materials, an approach his contemporaries called "poor luxury."
Jean-Michel Grandmont
Jean-Michel Grandmont (born 1939 in Toulouse) is a French mathematical economist at CREST who founded temporary general equilibrium theory and showed business cycles can arise without shocks.
Jean-Michel Jacques
Jean-Michel Jacques, born 1968 in Metz, is a French Renaissance politician who has been a deputy for Morbihan's 6th constituency since 2024 and chairs the National Assembly's defense committee.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre, French electronic music pioneer born 1948 in Lyon, composer of Oxygene (1976), Equinoxe, and Oxymore; record-breaking concerts in Paris, China, and Moscow; over 85 million records sold.
Jean-Michel Lasry
Jean-Michel Lasry is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Dauphine who, with Pierre-Louis Lions, founded mean field game theory in 2006 and co-founded the energy-data company Kayrros in 2015.
Jean-Michel M. Rendu
Jean-Michel M. Rendu is a French-educated mining engineer and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a foremost authority on mineral resource and reserve estimation.
Jean-Michel Raimond
Jean-Michel Raimond, born in 1955 in Orléans, France, is a French physicist who spent his career at the École Normale Supérieure controlling photons and atoms in microwave cavities.
Jean-Michel Signoles
Jean-Michel Signoles, born in 1949 in Carcassonne, is a French entrepreneur who founded the brand Chipie at seventeen and bought and revived the trunk-maker Goyard in 1998.
Jean-Noël Barrot
Jean-Noël Barrot, born 1983, is a French MoDem politician and economist who has served as Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs since 2024, after representing Yvelines in the National Assembly.
Jean-Pascal Hohm
Jean-Pascal Hohm (born 1997, Ludwigsfelde) is a German AfD politician, Brandenburg Landtag member for Cottbus I since 2024, and since November 2025 chairman of the AfD youth organization Generation Deutschland; classified as right-wing extremist.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021), French actor nicknamed Bébel, star of Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960) and about 90 films; New Wave icon and action hero who performed his own stunts, won a 1988 César, and received a national tribute at the Invalides.
Jean-Paul Boulee
Jean-Paul Boulee (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Jean-Paul Clozel
Jean-Paul Clozel is a French cardiologist who co-founded the Swiss biotech company Actelion in 1997 and led it until its 2017 sale to Johnson & Johnson.
Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude (born 1940) is a French illustrator, photographer, and director of spectacles. Not to be confused with namesakes; known for Esquire art direction, Grace Jones imagery, and the 1989 Revolution Bicentennial parade in Paris.
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793), born Jean Paul Mara in Boudry, Neuchâtel, was a physician, scientist, and radical French revolutionary journalist who published L'Ami du peuple, sat with the Mountain in the Convention, and was assassinated by Charlotte Corday in 1793.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, novelist, and political activist who developed existentialism. He declined the Nobel Prize in 1964 and was a key figure in the May 1968 uprising.