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Jacques Thube
Jacques Thubé (Jacques Marie Thubé, 1882-1969), French sailor from Nantes; won France's first Olympic sailing gold, 6m class aboard Mac Miche with brothers Gaston and Amédée at Stockholm 1912; introduced the Snipe dinghy to France around 1935.
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits (1930–2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who introduced Tits buildings, held the Chair of Group Theory at the Collège de France, and won the 2008 Abel Prize for shaping modern group theory.
Jacques Torres
Jacques Torres, born 1960 in Algiers, is a French chocolatier and pastry chef called Mr. Chocolate; Meilleur Ouvrier de France 1986, Le Cirque pastry chef 1989-2000, James Beard winner, and founder of Jacques Torres Chocolate in New York.
Jacques Tréfouël
Jacques Tréfouël (1897–1977) was a French chemist who showed in 1935 that the antibacterial action of Prontosil comes from its sulfanilamide portion, and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1940 to 1964.
Jacques U. Baenziger
Jacques U. Baenziger is a Swiss-born American biochemist and physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the liver receptors that clear glycoprotein hormones from blood.
Jacques Vallée
Jacques Vallée, full name Jacques Fabrice Vallée, is a French-born American technologist, venture investor, and ufologist who worked on the ARPANET and proposed the control-system hypothesis of UFOs.
Jacques Van Dam
Jacques Van Dam (J. Van Dam) is a gastroenterologist who led Stanford's gastroenterology division until 2021 and served as president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Jacques van Egmond
Jacques van Egmond (Jacobus Johannes van Egmond, 1908-1969), Dutch track cyclist nicknamed De Lange and De Locomotief; 1932 Olympic sprint gold and 1,000 m time trial silver at Los Angeles, 1933 amateur world sprint champion in Paris.
Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès (1924/1925–2013), French lawyer nicknamed the Devil's Advocate, devised the rupture defence and defended Djamila Bouhired, Klaus Barbie, Carlos the Jackal, and Khieu Samphan; he vanished from 1970 to 1978 and died in Paris in 2013.
Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Villeneuve (born 1971), Canadian racing driver, son of Gilles Villeneuve; 1995 Indianapolis 500 winner and CART champion, 1997 Formula One world champion with Williams after the Jerez collision with Michael Schumacher; later BAR, BMW Sauber, and Canal+ commentator.
Jacques Winter
Jacques Winter, also Jacques-Michel Winter, was a French physicist of the École Normale Supérieure named in the 1966 Nobel speech as a performer of the first optical pumping experiment.
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851–1940) was a French physicist and physician who invented the moving-coil galvanometer, the basis of virtually all panel pointer meters, and established high-frequency electrotherapy, known in France as darsonvalisation.
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), bishop of Meaux, tutor of the Grand Dauphin, Académie member, divine-right absolutism theorist, and polemicist against Protestants and Fénelon.
Jacques-Davy Duperron
Jacques-Davy Duperron (1556–1618) was a French cardinal, theologian, and diplomat who converted from Calvinism, instructed Henry IV before his 1593 abjuration, and defeated Mornay at Fontainebleau in 1600.
Jacques-Gabriel Bridge
The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge (Pont Jacques-Gabriel) is an 18th-century masonry arch bridge carrying the road across the Loire at Blois, France, built between 1717 and 1724.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), French Neoclassical painter, Prix de Rome 1774, Convention deputy who voted Louis XVI's death, First Painter to the Emperor 1804, exiled to Brussels as regicide in 1816.
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions (1928–2001) was a French mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, control theory, and numerical analysis, holding a Collège de France chair from 1973 to 1998.
Jacques-Paul Migne
Jacques-Paul Migne (1800–1875) was a French Catholic priest whose Petit-Montrouge publishing house produced the Patrologia Latina and Patrologia Graeca, vast cheap collections of patristic writings.
Jacques, Hereditary Prince of Monaco
Jacques, Hereditary Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux, born 2014, twin son of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene; first in line under Monaco's male-preference primogeniture, ahead of elder twin Gabriella.
Jacquet
Jacquet, a French tables game of the backgammon family also known as Triktrak, played with 15 checkers per side moving counterclockwise; reference French tables game from about 1800 until displaced by backgammon in the 1960s.
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Jacquetta of Luxembourg (c. 1415/16–1472), Duchess of Bedford, later Lady Rivers, mother of Elizabeth Woodville; married John of Lancaster then Sir Richard Woodville, had fourteen children, and was tried for witchcraft in 1470.
Jacqui Abbott
Jacqui Abbott, English singer from St Helens, was vocalist of The Beautiful South 1994-2000 (Rotterdam, Don't Marry Her, Perfect 10; Blue Is the Colour) and records as Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, with No 1 albums Manchester Calling (2020) and N.K.-Pop (2022).
Jacqui Irwin
Jacqui Irwin is an American Democratic politician serving in the California State Assembly since 2014 and running in 2026 for the US House in California's 26th congressional district.
Jacqui Lambie
Jacqui Lambie (born 1971, Ulverstone) is an Australian Senator for Tasmania and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network; former Palmer United Party senator (2013), ADF veteran, re-elected 2025.
Jacqui Lambie Network
The Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) is an Australian political party registered in 2015 by Senator Jacqui Lambie, based in Tasmania. It won Senate seats from 2016, holds one federal Senate seat after the 2025 election, and briefly held three Tasmanian Assembly seats in 2024 before internal splits left one.
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith, Baroness Smith of Malvern (born 1962), British Labour politician, MP for Redditch 1997-2010 and the UK's first female Home Secretary (2007-09); resigned over the MPs' expenses scandal and returned as Skills minister in 2024.
Jacquie et Michel
Jacquie et Michel (Jacquie & Michel), French adult entertainment brand founded by Michel Piron (site launched 2002), run by group Ares, long France's porn market leader against Dorcel; central to 2020s French porn criminal investigations and sold in 2024 to WGCZ-controlled JetM.
Jacquie O'Sullivan
Jacquie O'Sullivan, English singer born in London in 1960, Shillelagh Sisters vocalist and Bananarama member 1988-1991 who replaced Siobhan Fahey, sang on Pop Life and later became a yoga teacher.
Jacquline Lydia
Jacquline Lydia (ஜாக்வ்லின் லிடியா), born 1996, is a Tamil television presenter and actress known for hosting Kalakka Povathu Yaaru with Rakshan, starring in Thaenmozhi B.A., and finishing 6th on Bigg Boss Tamil 8.
Jaculus
Jaculus (Erxleben 1777), the desert jerboas, is a Dipodidae rodent genus of North Africa and Arabia; includes J. jaculus, J. hirtipes, J. orientalis, J. blanfordi; bipedal, water-independent desert hoppers.