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Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker was a Swiss Protestant banker who directed French royal finances from 1776 to 1781 and again from 1788, financing the American war by loans.
Jacques Neefjes
Jacques Neefjes is a Dutch cell biologist known for research on how MHC molecules present antigens, and head of Cell and Chemical Biology at LUMC.
Jacques Neveu
Jacques Neveu (1932–2016) was a Belgian-born French probabilist, considered one of the founders of modern probability theory, who directed the Laboratoire de Probabilités at Paris VI.
Jacques Ochs
Jacques Ochs (Jacques Martin Ochs, 1883–1971), Belgian painter, caricaturist for Pourquoi Pas?, and fencer; won 1912 Olympic team épée gold and 1914 world épée title; drew fellow prisoners at Fort Breendonk.
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (Jacob Offenbach, 1819-1880), German-born French composer and cellist, creator of French operetta. Founded the Bouffes-Parisiens (1855); wrote Orphée aux Enfers, La Belle Hélène, and the unfinished Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
Jacques Opangault
Jacques Opangault (1907–1978) was a Congolese socialist politician who led the Mouvement Socialiste Africain, headed Moyen-Congo's first Congolese government in 1957, and served as Fulbert Youlou's main rival.
Jacques Oudin
Jacques Oudin (1908–1985) was a French physician and immunologist at the Institut Pasteur who developed immunodiffusion in gels and discovered allotypy and idiotypy in antibodies.
Jacques Pépin
Jacques Pépin (born 1935, Bourg-en-Bresse) is a French-American chef, author of La Technique, and PBS cooking-show host; former chef to de Gaulle, Howard Johnson's research director, 16-time James Beard winner, and founder of the Jacques Pépin Foundation.
Jacques Peters
Jacques Péters (1923–2018) was a Belgian mechanical engineer and Catholic priest, professor of production engineering at KU Leuven, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard, full name Jacques Ernest Piccard, was a Swiss engineer and oceanographer who made the first crewed dive to the Challenger Deep with Don Walsh in 1960.
Jacques Pierre Brissot
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), French Girondin leader, journalist of the Patriote francais, founder of the Societe des Amis des Noirs, architect of the 1792 war declaration, guillotined 31 October 1793.
Jacques Pirenne
Jacques Pirenne (1891–1972) was a Belgian historian of law and Egyptologist, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Geneva, and second son of the historian Henri Pirenne.
Jacques Plante
Jacques Plante (Joseph Jacques Omer Plante), 1929-1986, Canadian NHL goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and first NHL goalie to wear a mask regularly, on November 1, 1959; six Stanley Cups, seven Vezina Trophies, Hart Trophy 1961-62, Hall of Fame 1978.
Jacques Pouysségur
Jacques Pouysségur is a French biochemist who spent his main career at the CNRS in Nice, known for the Na+/H+ exchanger, MAP kinase signaling, and the Warburg effect.
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) was a French poet and screenwriter whose collection Paroles (1946) made him one of the most widely read French poets of the twentieth century.
Jacques R. Fresco
Jacques R. Fresco (1928–2021) was an American molecular biologist who spent 53 years on the Princeton University faculty, known for work on RNA structure and mutations.
Jacques Rabemananjara
Jacques Rabemananjara (1913–2005) was a Malagasy poet and statesman who wrote in French and won the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 1988.
Jacques Rançon
Jacques Rançon, the "tueur de la gare de Perpignan", is a French serial killer and rapist convicted three times to life for the 1986, 1997, and 1998 murders of young women, identified in 2014 by DNA.
Jacques Rougeau
Jacques Rougeau (Jacques Rougeau Jr., The Mountie), Canadian wrestler born 1960 in Saint-Sulpice, Quebec; WWF Intercontinental Champion 1992 and three-time WWF World Tag Team Champion as one of The Quebecers; later ran a family-friendly Montreal promotion.
Jacques Roumain
Jacques Roumain (1907–1944) was a Haitian poet, novelist, and ethnographer who founded the Haitian Communist Party and the Bureau d'Ethnologie, and wrote Gouverneurs de la rosée.
Jacques Roux
Jacques Roux (1752-1794), the 'red curé' of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, was a French priest and leader of the Enragés who delivered the 25 June 1793 Manifesto demanding price maximums and died by suicide in prison.
Jacques Saadé
Jacques Saadé (1937–2018) was a Lebanese-born French shipping magnate who founded CMA in Marseille in 1978, merging it in 1999 into CMA CGM, the world's third-largest container-shipping line.
Jacques Samarut
Jacques Samarut (born 1949) is a French biologist working on endocrinology and cancer, known for showing a thyroid hormone receptor can act as an oncogene.
Jacques Saurin
Jacques Saurin (1677–1730) was a French Huguenot pulpit orator who served the Walloon church in London and, for twenty-five years, the French church at The Hague.
Jacques Sirmond
Jacques Sirmond was a French Jesuit patristic scholar, secretary to Claudio Acquaviva in Rome and confessor to Louis XIII from 1637 to 1643, best known for the Constitutiones Sirmondianae.
Jacques Stephen Alexis
Jacques Stephen Alexis (Jacques Stéphen Alexis) was a Haitian novelist and neurolog known for Compère Général Soleil and killed opposing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961.
Jacques Stern (French cryptographer)
Jacques Stern, born 1949 in Paris, is a French cryptographer and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, called the father of the French school of cryptology and winner of the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal.
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (Jacques Tatischeff), French comic filmmaker and actor (Le Pecq 1907 - Paris 1982), creator of Monsieur Hulot; directed six features including Jour de fête, Mon Oncle (1959 Oscar), and the 70 mm Playtime, whose failure bankrupted him.
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written from 1765 and first printed in 1796.
Jacques Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse, born 1946 in Belgium, is an economist and Professor Emeritus at UCLouvain working in location theory and economic geography, coauthor of Economics of Agglomeration.