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Jacques Clémenty

Jacques Clémenty is a French cardiologist specializing in cardiac electrophysiology who led the Bordeaux team that identified pulmonary veins as the trigger of atrial fibrillation.

Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) was a French naval officer who co-invented the Aqua-Lung, explored the oceans aboard the Calypso, and won three Academy Awards for his films.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacques Coutrot

Jacques Coutrot (1898–1965), French fencer and FIE president 1949–1952; Olympic team foil gold 1924, silver 1936; French foil champion 1926, épée 1939.

Jacques Crétineau-Joly (1803–1875) was a French legitimist journalist and historian, born at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée, best known for his six-volume history of the Jesuits and his history of the Vendée wars.

Jacques Curie

Jacques Curie (1856–1941) was a French physicist who, with his younger brother Pierre, co-discovered the piezoelectric effect in 1880 and later held a chair at Montpellier.

Jacques d'Amboise (dancer)

Jacques d'Amboise (1934-2021), American ballet dancer and educator, NYCB principal 1953-1984, Balanchine's most-favored male dancer, Apollo interpreter, and founder of the National Dance Institute in 1976.

Jacques Dantal

Jacques Dantal, born 1959, is a French nephrologist and professor of clinical immunology at the CHU de Nantes, known for trials on cancer after kidney transplantation.

Jacques Davy Du Perron

Jacques Davy Du Perron (1556–1618) was a French cardinal, diplomat, and theologian, born to Calvinist parents, who helped convert Henry IV to Catholicism and defended papal authority against Gallicanism.

Jacques de Bascher

Jacques de Bascher (1951-1989), French dandy born in Saigon, companion of Karl Lagerfeld and lover of Yves Saint Laurent; his affair triggered the couturiers' rupture, and he directed the 1977 Fendi film Histoire d'eau.

Jacques de Falaise

Jacques de Falaise, stage name of Jacques Simon (1754-1825), French performer billed as Le polyphage who swallowed objects and live animals, hired by Louis Comte in 1816, distinct from other Falaise namesakes.

Jacques De Keyser

Jacques De Keyser is a Belgian neurologist and neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, known for research on stroke, multiple sclerosis, and astrocytes.

Jacques de Molay

Jacques de Molay (c. 1243–1314), last Grand Master of the Knights Templar: entered the order at Beaune in 1265, led it from 1292, was arrested 13 October 1307 by Philip IV, absolved at Chinon in 1308, and burned in Paris on 18 March 1314 after retracting his confession.

Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy (1931-1990), French director of Lola, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort; husband of Agnès Varda; maker of sung, interconnected musical fairy tales rooted in Nantes.

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French-Algerian philosopher and founder of deconstruction, author of Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, and Speech and Phenomena (1967), coined différance and contested the metaphysics of presence.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacques Dimont

Jacques René Émile Dimont (1945-1994), French foil fencer; Olympic team foil gold medalist at Mexico City 1968 with Berolatti, Magnan, Noël, and Revenu; also 1965 Junior World silver medalist.

Jacques Dixmier

Jacques Dixmier, born 1924 in Saint-Étienne, is a French mathematician whose monographs on von Neumann and C-algebras defined operator algebra theory; he was a Bourbaki member and Alain Connes's teacher.

Jacques Donnez

Jacques Donnez, born 1947 in Tournai, Belgium, is a Belgian gynecologist at UCLouvain known for the first live birth after cryopreserved ovarian tissue transplantation and for endometriosis surgery.

Jacques Doriot

Jacques Doriot (1898–1945), French politician; PCF deputy for Seine 1924–1937, expelled 1934; founded the fascist Parti Populaire Français in 1936; leading Nazi collaborator, LVF volunteer, killed at Mengen, Germany in 1945.

Jacques Drouin

Jacques Drouin is a Canadian molecular biologist directing the Molecular Genetics Research Unit at Montreal's IRCM since 1981, known for discovering the Pitx transcription factors and Tpit.

Jacques Dubochet

Jacques Dubochet, born in 1942 in Aigle, Switzerland, is a Swiss biophysicist and emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacques Dupont

Jacques Dupont (Jacques Laurent Simon Dupont, "Jacques la méthode"), French cyclist, 1948 Olympic kilometre time trial champion in 1:13.5, 1948 team road race bronze, French road champion 1954, Paris-Tours winner 1951 and 1955.

Jacques Dutronc

Jacques Dutronc, French singer, composer, and actor born 1943 in Paris; 1960s hits with lyricist Jacques Lanzmann (Et moi, et moi, et moi; Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille), César-winning actor in Van Gogh, partner of Françoise Hardy, father of Thomas Dutronc.

Oct 22, 2026

Jacques Dyel du Parquet

Jacques Dyel du Parquet was a French Norman colonist who governed Martinique from 1637 to 1658 and in 1650 bought Martinique, Saint Lucia, Grenada, and the Grenadines.

Jacques Echard

Jacques Echard (1644–1724) was a French Dominican friar and bio-bibliographer who completed the Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum, the two-volume catalog of Dominican writers published at Paris in 1719 and 1721.

Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) was a French sociologist, jurist, and Protestant theologian at the University of Bordeaux, best known for his analysis of technique in The Technological Society (1954).

Jacques Forestier

Jacques Forestier (1890–1978) was a French rheumatologist at Hôpital Cochin in Paris who pioneered gold salt therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and described DISH, long known as Forestier's disease.

Jacques Friedel

Jacques Friedel (1921–2014) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on the electron theory of metals and alloys, known for Friedel oscillations and the Friedel sum rule.

Jacques Gansler

Jacques "Jack" Gansler (1934–2018) was an American defense acquisition official and academic who served as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer from 1997 to 2001, then taught at the University of Maryland.

Jacques Genest

Jacques Genest (1919–2018) was a Canadian physician and hypertension researcher who founded and directed the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, and whose work on the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system helped establish the hormonal basis of high blood pressure.