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Jacques H. Drèze

Jacques H. Drèze (1929–2022) was a Belgian economist and econometrician, professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, founder of CORE, and namesake of the Drèze equilibrium under price rigidities.

Jacques Hadamard

Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) was a French mathematician who proved the prime number theorem in 1896, introduced Hadamard matrices, and shaped the theory of well-posed problems.

Jacques Hébert

Jacques-René Hébert, known as Father Duchesne, was a French journalist of the Revolution whose radical paper Le Père Duchesne voiced the Paris sans-culottes until his execution in 1794.

Oct 22, 2026

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer and painter known for spontaneous black-and-white images of Belle Époque Paris, motor racing, aviation, and leisured high society.

Jacques Herbrand

Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931) was a French mathematician and logician whose 1930 thesis yielded Herbrand's theorem, a foundation of automated theorem proving, and ten papers on class field theory.

Jacques I. Pankove

Jacques I. Pankove, also known as Jacques Isaac Pankove, was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA team that made the first gallium nitride blue LED in 1971.

Jacques Isaac Pankove

Jacques Isaac Pankove (1922–2016) was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA Laboratories team that built the first gallium nitride blue LEDs in 1971.

Jacques J. Bourgoignie

Jacques J. Bourgoignie is an American nephrologist at Washington University, Albert Einstein, and the University of Miami, known for his 1988 New England Journal of Medicine study linking cocaine to rhabdomyolysis.

Jacques Kallis

Jacques Henry Kallis (born 1975), South African all-rounder, 1995-2014; only player with 10,000+ runs and 250+ wickets in both Tests and ODIs; 13,289 Test runs at 55.37, 292 wickets; ICC Hall of Fame 2020.

Sep 27, 2026

Jacques L. Wiener, Jr.

Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., also known as Jacques Loeb Wiener, Jr., is an American jurist and senior judge of the Fifth Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, "the French Freud." Known for the mirror stage, the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real registers, the 27-year Seminar, Écrits (1966), and his 1963 IPA expulsion over variable-length sessions.

Jacques Laffite

Jacques Laffite (Jacques-Henri Marie Sabin Laffite, born 1943, Paris), French F1 driver 1974-1986; six wins, 32 podiums, all wins with Ligier; career ended by 1986 Brands Hatch crash.

Jacques Lalevée

Jacques Lalevée, born 1976 in Remiremont, France, is a French photochemist and professor at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, known for NHC-borane radical photoinitiators and visible-light photopolymerization.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacques Lataste

Jacques Lataste (Jacques Vital Lucien Lataste), French foil fencer, 1922-2011; Olympic team foil gold 1948 and 1952, silver 1956; world team champion 1951, 1953; later a Paris surgeon.

Jacques Le Fèvre

Jacques Le Fèvre (c. 1645–1716) was a French Catholic priest, doctor of the Sorbonne, and controversialist nicknamed "Lefèvre de la Bastille" after six months imprisoned there in 1674.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacques le Lavasseur

Jacques le Lavasseur, also recorded as Jean le Vavasseur, was a French sailor of Société Nautique de Marseille who won two 1900 Olympic gold medals in the 2-3 ton class aboard the yacht Ollé at Meulan, with a DNF in the open class.

Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Lecoq was a French actor, director, and pedagogue who founded in Paris in 1956 the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a movement-based school of actor training.

Jacques Lemaire

Jacques Lemaire, born 1945 in LaSalle, Quebec, is a Hockey Hall of Fame center who won eight Stanley Cups with Montreal, coached New Jersey to the 1995 Cup, and later led the Minnesota Wild.

Jacques Lenfant

Jacques Lenfant (1661–1728) was a French Huguenot pastor who served Berlin's French churches for over 39 years and wrote histories of the late-medieval church councils.

Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb, born Isaak Loeb, was a German-born American physiologist who induced development in unfertilized sea-urchin eggs in 1899 and championed a mechanistic view of life at the Rockefeller Institute.

Jacques Mallet

Jacques Mallet (born 1945) is a French molecular neurobiologist and CNRS research director whose laboratory cloned the human tyrosine hydroxylase gene and developed adenoviral vectors for brain gene transfer.

Jacques Marie Mage

Jacques Marie Mage is an American luxury eyewear brand founded in Los Angeles by French-born designer Jérôme Mage, known for limited-edition sunglasses handmade in Japan and Italy.

Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was a French Catholic philosopher, a leading twentieth-century Thomist whose defense of human rights shaped Catholic social teaching and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Jacques Marquette

Jacques Marquette (1637–1675) was a French Jesuit priest and missionary in New France who, with Louis Jolliet, made the 1673 descent of the Mississippi from the Great Lakes.

Jacques Mayol

Jacques Mayol (1927-2001), French freediver called the Dolphin Man, first person to reach 100 m on one breath (1976, Elba), later 105 m; rival of Enzo Maiorca and inspiration for The Big Blue.

Jacques Mesrine

Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979), French bank robber and kidnapper, Public Enemy No. 1; four prison escapes including La Santé 1978, wrote L'Instinct de mort, shot dead by police in Paris in 1979.

Jacques Miller

Jacques Miller, born 1931, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who discovered the thymus's essential immune role and the T and B cell lineages.

Jacques Monod

Jacques Monod (1910–1976) was a French biologist at the Institut Pasteur who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and pioneered the operon model of gene regulation.