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Jean-Philippe Avouac
Jean-Philippe Avouac is a French geophysicist at Caltech who studies crustal deformation, earthquakes, and the seismic cycle, and was named director of IPGP in 2026.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Jean-Philippe Fricker is a Swiss-trained hardware engineer, EPFL graduate, and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, where he designed the Wafer Scale Engine interconnect as Chief System Architect.
Jean-Philippe Mateta
Jean-Philippe Mateta, French striker born 1997 in Sevran, plays for Crystal Palace and France; Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist, transformed under Oliver Glasner, 25 Premier League goals for Palace.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764), Dijon-born French Baroque composer and theorist, master of tragédie lyrique after Lully; author of the 1722 Traité de l'harmonie and operas including Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, and Les Boréades.
Jean-Philippe Rohr
Jean-Philippe Rohr, born 1961 in Metz, French midfielder; 1984 Olympic gold medalist with France, 1988 French champion with Monaco, one senior France cap (16 minutes, 1987), later a poker and backgammon player.
Jean-Philippe Susilovic
Jean-Philippe Susilovic (born 1975, Brussels), called JP, Belgian maître d'hôtel of Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen (UK season 1; US seasons 1-7, 11-12), later restaurant director at Pétrus and co-owner of Kiss the Chef in Ostend.
Jean-Philippe Tanguy
Jean-Philippe Tanguy is a French politician of the Rassemblement national, deputy for Somme's 4th constituency since 2022, a former party spokesperson, and national coordinator of L'Avenir français.
Jean-Pierre Adams
Jean-Pierre Adams (1948–2021), French central defender born in Dakar, won 22 France caps (1972–76) with Nîmes, Nice, and PSG, formed the 'garde noire' with Marius Trésor, and died after 39 years in a coma from a 1982 anaesthesia error.
Jean-Pierre Aguilar
Jean-Pierre Aguilar was a French trader who founded the Paris quantitative hedge fund Capital Fund Management in 1991 and led it until his death in 2009.
Jean-Pierre Amat
Jean-Pierre Amat, French rifle shooter born 1962 in Chambéry, Olympic gold medalist in 50 m rifle three positions and bronze in 10 m air rifle at Atlanta 1996, five-time Olympian, later French biathlon shooting coach.
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont (Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons, 1911–2001) was a French stage and film actor of Parisian Jewish family, a Free French decorated veteran, MGM contract player, husband of Maria Montez and Marisa Pavan, known for Hôtel du Nord, Lili, and Day for Night.
Jean-Pierre Bemba
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, born in 1962, is a Congolese businessman and former rebel leader who founded the MLC, served as Vice-President of the DRC, and was convicted and later acquitted by the ICC.
Jean-Pierre Boyer
Jean-Pierre Boyer was a Haitian soldier and politician who served as president of Haiti from 1818 to 1843, the longest-lasting regime in the country's history.
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932-2007), born Jean-Pierre Crochon, French actor and tap dancer famed for Philippe de Broca comedies (Les Jeux de l'amour) and for Melville's L'Armée des ombres and Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; father of Vincent Cassel.
Jean-Pierre Demailly
Jean-Pierre Demailly (1957–2022) was a French mathematician and professor at Université Grenoble-Alpes, known for his holomorphic Morse inequalities, L2 vanishing theorems, and the freely available book Complex analytic and differential geometry.
Jean-Pierre Farandou
Jean-Pierre Farandou is a French politician serving as Minister of Labour and Solidarities. A former chief executive of the SNCF, he entered government without prior elected experience.
Jean-Pierre Gury
Jean-Pierre Gury (1801–1866) was a French Jesuit moral theologian who taught at Vals from 1834 and whose Compendium theologiae moralis, first published in 1850, shaped Catholic seminary moral teaching for generations.
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Jean-Pierre Hansen, born in Luxembourg in 1942, is a scientist known for work on the statistical mechanics of fluids and as co-author of Theory of Simple Liquids.
Jean-Pierre Issa
Jean-Pierre Issa is a physician-scientist in cancer epigenetics who has been President and CEO of the Coriell Institute since 2019, known for describing age-related methylation, discovering CIMP, and developing decitabine.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director born in Roanne, France; maker of Delicatessen with Marc Caro, Amélie (2001), and Alien: Resurrection; currently promoting Changer l'eau des fleurs (2026), an adaptation of Valérie Perrin's novel.
Jean-Pierre Julien
Jean-Pierre Julien is a Canadian molecular neuroscientist at Université Laval in Quebec City, known for showing that neurofilament disruption causes neurological disease and for building early transgenic mouse models of ALS.
Jean-Pierre Kahane
Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926–2017) was a French mathematician who worked on harmonic analysis and probability, best known for random series of functions, the Khintchine–Kahane inequalities, and Gaussian multiplicative chaos.
Jean-Pierre Kruth
Jean-Pierre Kruth, born in Knokke in 1952, is a Flemish engineer and emeritus KU Leuven professor who pioneered metal additive manufacturing and won the 2015 Bower Award.
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor born 1944 in Paris, the face of the French New Wave; Antoine Doinel in Truffaut's five-film cycle from The 400 Blows (1959), Silver Bear 1966, honorary Palme d'Or 2016.
Jean-Pierre Lihau Ebua
Jean-Pierre Lihau Ebua is a Congolese politician of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy serving as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Public Service.
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville (Jean-Pierre Grumbach, 1917–1973), French director of Le Samouraï, Le Cercle rouge, and Army of Shadows; Resistance veteran, independent producer-director, and precursor of the French New Wave.
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Papin, "JPP", French striker born 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer; 1991 Ballon d'Or with Olympique de Marseille, 54 caps and 30 goals for France, later Milan, Bayern, coach and RMC consultant.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, born in Paris in 1944, is a French supramolecular chemist known for template synthesis of interlocked molecules and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre, born in 1926, is a French mathematician who reshaped topology, algebraic geometry, and number theory, winning the 1954 Fields Medal and the first Abel Prize in 2003.
Jean-Ralphio Saperstein
Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, played by Ben Schwartz, is a recurring Parks and Recreation character, Tom Haverford's friend and Entertainment 720 co-founder, twin brother of Mona-Lisa, known for singing in ears and faking his death.