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Pierre Janet
Pierre Janet (1859–1947) was a French psychologist and philosopher, regarded in his time as the leading French psychologist, who originated the concepts of dissociation and the subconscious.
Pierre Janssen
Pierre Janssen (1824–1907) was a French astronomer who showed that the Sun's gaseous prominences can be observed spectroscopically in daylight, and became founding director of the Meudon Observatory.
Pierre Jean Jouve
Pierre Jean Jouve (1887–1976) was a French poet, novelist, and critic who renounced his early pacifist work around 1924 and rebuilt his writing on psychoanalysis and Christian mysticism.
Pierre Joliot
Pierre Joliot (1932–2026), French biologist, grandson of Pierre and Marie Curie; pioneer of photosynthesis research, co-namesake of the Kok–Joliot water-oxidation model, CNRS Gold Medal 1982, Collège de France professor.
Pierre Joly
Pierre Joly, also Pierre Dumesnil (born 10 December 1931), French breaststroke swimmer with Racing Club de France; 17th in the 1952 Olympic 200 m breaststroke and 1953 world and European 4x100 m medley relay record holder.
Pierre Jonqueres D'oriola
Pierre Jonqueres D'oriola (1920–2011) was a French show jumping rider who won two individual Olympic gold medals, at Helsinki 1952 and Tokyo 1964, and the 1966 world title.
Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet
Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet (1891–1921) was a Dutch mathematician who became professor at Delft before thirty and posed the conjecture van der Waerden proved in 1927.
Pierre Jurieu
Pierre Jurieu (1637–1713) was a French Calvinist theologian who, as pastor of the Walloon church of Rotterdam, became a leading polemicist of the Huguenot diaspora after the 1685 Revocation.
Pierre Kalulu
Pierre Kalulu (Pierre Kazeye Rommel Kalulu Kyatengwa), born 2000 in Lyon, is a French defender for Juventus and France. Lyon academy right-back turned centre-back, 2022 Serie A champion with AC Milan, first France cap June 2025.
Pierre Lagrange
Pierre Lagrange is a Belgian fund manager who co-founded the London hedge fund GLG Partners in 1995 and later became a senior executive at Man Group.
Pierre Lalive d'Epinay
Pierre Lalive d'Epinay (1923–2014) was a Swiss law professor at the University of Geneva, called the grand old man of Swiss arbitration and the 1990 Balzan Prize laureate for private international law.
Pierre Landry Kaboré
Pierre Landry Kaboré, born 2001, Burkinabè striker for Heart of Midlothian since August 2025 and Burkina Faso (10 caps, 3 goals); rose via ASF Bobo, Salitas, and JK Narva Trans, where he scored 33 goals in 51 games.
Pierre Lassonde
Pierre Lassonde is a Canadian mining financier who co-founded Franco-Nevada with Seymour Schulich in 1982, pioneered the mining royalty company model, and served as president of Newmont Mining from 2002.
Pierre Laurent‐Puig
Pierre Laurent-Puig is a French professor of oncology at Université Paris Cité who showed that KRAS mutations predict resistance to cetuximab in colorectal cancer and pioneered liquid-biopsy RAS testing.
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval (1883–1945), French politician, twice Third Republic prime minister, then head of the collaborationist Vichy government 1942–1944; architect of the STO forced-labor laws, executed for treason at Fresnes in October 1945.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661–1706) was a French Canadian soldier, explorer, and privateer who fought the English from Hudson Bay to Newfoundland and founded French Louisiana.
Pierre Le Roy
Pierre Le Roy (1717–1785) was a French clockmaker in Paris who invented the detent escapement in 1748 and built the 1766 marine chronometer regarded as the foundation of the modern chronometer.
Pierre Lelong
Pierre Lelong (1912–2011) was a French mathematician who introduced plurisubharmonic functions, the Lelong number, and closed positive currents, giving several complex variables much of its foundational language.
Pierre Léopold
Pierre Léopold is a French developmental biologist at Institut Curie in Paris who studies how organs coordinate growth in the fruit fly, and discovered the hormone Dilp8.
Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti, pen name of French naval officer Julien Viaud (1850–1923), wrote about forty novels from his seagoing career and joined the Académie française in 1891.
Pierre Lottin
Pierre Lottin (born 1989) is a French actor revealed as Wilfried in Les Tuche (2011) and winner of the 2026 César for Best Supporting Actor for Ozon's L'Étranger; he will play Louis de Funès in a 2027 biopic.
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908–2011) was a French shipowner and grain-trade executive who flew 81 bombing missions with the Free French and led the Louis Dreyfus group.
Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs (Pierre-Félix Louis, 1870–1925), French Parnassian poet and novelist, author of the Bilitis hoax (1894) and Aphrodite (1896), friend of Gide, Valéry, and Debussy.
Pierre Lueders
Pierre Lueders, Canadian bobsleigh pilot born 1970 in Edmonton, five-time Olympian (1994-2010), 1998 Nagano two-man gold shared with Italy at 3:37.24, 2006 silver, two-time world champion, most decorated Canadian bobsledder.
Pierre M. Ailleret
Pierre M. Ailleret (1900–1996) was a French electrical engineer who directed the interconnection of France's regional power grids and helped shape Électricité de France after 1946.
Pierre M. Beaujuge
Pierre M. Beaujuge, also published as Pierre Beaujuge, is a materials scientist at the KAUST Solar Center in Saudi Arabia, known for electrochromic polymers and organic solar cells.
Pierre Maquet
Pierre Maquet, born 1961, is a Belgian neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liège known for neuroimaging studies of sleep, dreaming, and memory consolidation.
Pierre Marie
Pierre Marie (1853–1940) was a French neurologist and favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot who gave the first clinical description of acromegaly and attacked the doctrine that Broca's area is the seat of speech.
Pierre Masson
Pierre Masson (1880–1959) was a French physician and pathologist who held pathology chairs at Strasbourg and the Université de Montréal and devised the trichrome stain for collagen.
Pierre Massuet
Pierre Massuet, properly René Massuet, was a French Benedictine Maurist (1665 or 1666 to January 1716) best known for his 1710 edition of Irenaeus's Against Heresies.