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Jean‐Paul Vincent

Jean-Paul Vincent is a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for work on Wnt signaling and morphogen gradients in fruit flies.

Jean‐Philippe Croué

Jean-Philippe Croué (born 1960) is a French water chemist, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Poitiers, known for research on disinfection by-products, membrane fouling, and advanced oxidation processes.

Jean‐Pierre Benhamou

Jean-Pierre Benhamou (1927–2008) was a French hepatologist who led the liver unit at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, directed an INSERM liver research unit, and is remembered as the father of modern hepatology in Europe.

Jean‐Pierre Cartron

Jean-Pierre Cartron is a French biochemist and physician-scientist at the Institut national de transfusion sanguine in Paris, known for defining the molecular basis of human blood group systems.

Jean‐Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936) is a French neuroscientist, emeritus professor at the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, known for the allosteric model of protein regulation.

Jean‐Pierre Després

Jean-Pierre Després is a Canadian kinesiologist and exercise physiologist at Université Laval whose research on visceral obesity and insulin resistance made waist measurement routine medical practice worldwide.

Jean‐Pierre Valet

Jean-Pierre Valet (1954–2024) was a French geophysicist at CNRS and IPGP known for the Sint composite records of geomagnetic field variation and work on polarity reversals.

Jean‐Pierre Wigneron

Jean-Pierre Wigneron is a French senior research scientist at INRAE in Bordeaux, where he heads the remote sensing team and developed the L-MEB model behind ESA's SMOS soil-moisture mission.

Jean‐Yves Blay

Jean-Yves Blay is a French medical oncologist, Directeur général of the Centre Léon Bérard in Lyon, professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and president of Unicancer.

Jean‐Yves Delattre

Jean-Yves Delattre is a French neurologist and neuro-oncologist who leads neuro-oncology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and led the 2007 trial establishing radiotherapy for elderly glioblastoma patients.

Jean‐Yves Douillard

Jean-Yves Douillard is a French medical oncologist who worked on lung and gastrointestinal cancers, led the PRIME trial of panitumumab, and became ESMO's first Chief Medical Officer in 2016.

Jean–Claude Weill

Jean–Claude Weill, born 1941, is a French immunologist who showed that chickens diversify their antibody genes by gene conversion, and later mapped the polymerases behind mouse antibody hypermutation.

Jean–Michel Pawlotsky

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, born in 1961, is a French physician-scientist in hepatology and virology, professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil and director of virology at Hôpital Henri Mondor in Créteil.

Jean, Count of Paris

Jean d'Orléans, Count of Paris (born 1965), head of the House of Orléans since 2019 and Orléanist pretender to the French throne as Jean IV; rival claimant is legitimist Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou.

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Jean (1921-2019), Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1964-2000, son of Grand Duchess Charlotte; Irish Guards veteran of Normandy and the liberation of Luxembourg; abdicated in favor of his son Henri.

Jean’ne M. Shreeve

Jean'ne M. Shreeve is an American fluorine and energetic-materials chemist who joined the University of Idaho in 1961 and is known for nitrogen-rich energetic salts and ionic liquids.

Jeana Keough

Jeana Keough (born Jean Myers, 1955) is an American reality TV personality, realtor, and former Playboy Playmate (November 1980, as Jeana Tomasino) and ZZ Top video model; an original Real Housewives of Orange County cast member (2006–2010), diagnosed with tongue cancer in July 2026.

Jeana Yeager

Jeana Lee Yeager is an American aviator who, with pilot Dick Rutan, flew the Rutan Voyager on the first nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world in December 1986.

Jeane Ann Grisso

Jeane Ann Grisso is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for case-control studies of falls, hip fracture, and violent injury in women.

Jeane Dixon

Jeane Dixon, born Lydia Emma Pinckert, was an American astrologer and syndicated horoscope columnist who became famous after Kennedy's 1963 assassination for a 1956 prediction.

Jeane Tsutsui

Jeane Tsutsui is a Brazilian cardiologist and business executive who has been CEO of Grupo Fleury since April 2021, after 24 years with the company.

Jeanette

Jeanette (Janette Anne Dimech) is a Spanish singer of balada and pop, born in London in 1951, whose whispered voice made 'Porque te vas' an international hit.

Jeanette Aw

Jeanette Aw (欧萱), born 1979, Singaporean actress; won the 2000 Route to Glamour talent search, starred in Holland V and The Little Nyonya, left Mediacorp in 2017, runs patisserie Once Upon A Time, and returns as lead in Highway to Somewhere (2026).

Jeanette Bolden

Jeanette Bolden (Bolden-Pickens), born 1960 in Los Angeles, American sprinter and coach; 1984 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist, UCLA women's track head coach with three NCAA titles, and 2008 U.S. Olympic women's head coach.

Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio

Jeanette Christina Dousdebes Rubio (born 1973, Miami) is the wife of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, daughter of Colombian parents from Bogotá and Cali, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, married Rubio in 1998, mother of four.

Jeanette Hegg Duestad

Jeanette Hegg Duestad, Norwegian rifle shooter born 1999 in Tønsberg, world champion in 50m and 300m rifle 3 positions, holder of the 300m 3P world record 591, four-time Olympian-place finisher.

Jeanette Lee

Jeanette Lee, "The Black Widow" (Lee Jin-Hee), born 1971 in Brooklyn, is a Korean American professional pool player who became world No. 1, won 30-plus titles and the 2001 World Games gold, entered the BCA Hall of Fame in 2013, and has fought stage IV ovarian cancer since 2021.

Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965), American soprano and actress, starred in 29 films 1929–1949; musicals with Chevalier and eight MGM operettas with Nelson Eddy, including Naughty Marietta; died in Houston.

Jeanette Nolan

Jeanette Nolan (1911–1998), American character actress of radio, film, and television; Lady Macbeth in Welles's Macbeth (1948), four Emmy nominations, The Virginian, Dirty Sally, The Horse Whisperer. Distinct from other people named Jeanette Nolan.

Jeanette Nuñez

Jeanette M. Nuñez, Florida's first Hispanic female lieutenant governor (2019–2025) under Ron DeSantis, is the seventh president of Florida International University, confirmed June 18, 2025, and its first alumna and first woman to lead it.