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Jean Paul
Jean Paul was the pen name of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), a German novelist known for humorous works such as Hesperus, Siebenkäs, and Titan.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier, born 1952 in Arcueil, is the French couturier who founded his Paris label in 1976, created Madonna's cone-bra corsets, skirts for men, and the Le Male fragrance, opened a couture house in 1997, designed for Hermès 2004-2010, and retired from the runway in January 2020.
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery is a French cell and cancer biologist whose work on epithelial-mesenchymal transition established it as a central mechanism of carcinoma progression and metastasis.
Jean Peters
Jean Peters (Elizabeth Jean Peters, 1926–2000) was an American film actress of Captain from Castile, Niagara, and Pickup on South Street fame who left acting in 1957 to marry Howard Hughes, divorced him in 1971, and later returned to television.
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896–1980), Swiss psychologist and epistemologist, founder of genetic epistemology and the four-stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational), using assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration.
Jean Pierre Curtillet
Jean Pierre Curtillet is the name variant of Jean-Pascal Curtillet, a French freestyle swimmer, born 1942 in Algiers, who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
Jean Pierre Mégnin
Jean Pierre Mégnin (1828–1905), French army veterinarian and entomologist, author of La faune des cadavres (1894) with its eight waves of insect succession, founder of forensic entomology and pioneer of dog-breed classification.
Jean Pierre Soulier
Jean Pierre Soulier (1915–2003) was a French physician and hematologist who directed the Centre national de transfusion sanguine from 1954 to 1984 and helped identify the two forms of hemophilia.
Jean Ping
Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and politician: UNESCO delegate, foreign minister, OPEC president 1993, UN General Assembly 59th president 2004-05, AU Commission chair 2008-2012, and 2016 Gabonese opposition presidential candidate against Ali Bongo.
Jean Piot
Jean Piot (1890–1961), French fencer from Saint-Quentin, won two team gold medals (foil and épée) at the 1932 Olympics, competed in 1928 and 1936, refereed in 1924, and later coached at the Paris Prefecture of Police fencing school.
Jean Pliya
Jean Pliya (1931–2015) was a Beninese writer of French expression and geographer by training, a founding figure of Beninese theater whose plays Kondo le requin and La Secrétaire particulière dominated the stage for two decades.
Jean Ponce
Jean Ponce is a French computer-vision researcher, professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2023, known for the PMVS multiview stereopsis algorithm and the textbook Computer Vision: A Modern Approach.
Jean Pormanove
Jean Pormanove, alias of French streamer Raphaël Graven (1979–2025), died live on Kick after a 12-day abusive broadcast; his death sparked trials of streamers Naruto and Safine and French court action against Kick.
Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars (1876–1969) was a Haitian doctor, diplomat, politician, and ethnologist whose 1928 book Ainsi parla l'oncle launched the Haitian Indigenist Movement and shaped Négritude.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was a French metalworker and designer from Nancy who pioneered prefabricated houses and industrial furniture, insisting he was a builder, not an architect.
Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (Jehan Pucelle), who died in Paris in 1334, was a French manuscript illuminator whose Paris workshop pioneered grisaille figures and three-dimensional settings, and who illuminated the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux.
Jean Puiforcat
Jean Puiforcat (Jean Élysée Puiforcat, 1897–1945) was a French silversmith and designer, the defining French silversmith of the Art Deco period, known for geometric sterling silver.
Jean Purdy
Jean Marian Purdy, British nurse and embryologist, third pioneer of IVF with Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe; first clinical embryologist, Technical Director of Bourn Hall, co-author of 26 IVF papers, died 1985 aged 39.
Jean Quiquampoix
Jean Quiquampoix (born 1995, Paris) is a French 25m rapid fire pistol shooter, TS Antibes club, Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and silver at Rio 2016, 2014 junior world champion.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine, also known as Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist born at La Ferté-Milon in 1639 whose classical tragedies include Phèdre and Britannicus.
Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (Jean Paul Raspail, 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020), French novelist, journalist, and explorer; author of Le Camp des saints (1973) and Moi, Antoine de Tounens; Académie française Grand Prix du Roman 1981.
Jean Reno
Jean Reno (Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez), French actor born 1948 in Casablanca to Andalusian Spanish parents; Luc Besson collaborator (Le Grand bleu, Nikita, Léon) with a parallel Hollywood career (Ronin, The Da Vinci Code); also novelist.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894–1979), French film director, son of painter Auguste Renoir; maker of La Grande Illusion and La Règle du jeu, pioneer of deep-focus staging in depth, Hollywood exile in the 1940s, honorary Oscar 1975.
Jean Renoir filmography
Jean Renoir filmography: the films of French director Jean Renoir (1894–1979), from silent Catherine (1924) through Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939), Hollywood's The Southerner (1945), color films, and The Little Theatre (1969).
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams), Dominican-born modernist novelist (1890 or 1894–1979), author of Quartet, Voyage in the Dark, Good Morning, Midnight, and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), the Jane Eyre prequel that restored her fame.
Jean Rivero
Jean Rivero (1910–2001) was a French jurist and professor of public law at Poitiers and Paris who wrote the standard Précis of administrative law and won the 1986 Balzan Prize.
Jean Roche
Jean Roche (1901–1992) was a French biochemist known for demonstrating the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952 and serving as rector of the University of Paris.
Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin (1938-2010), French director of dreamlike erotic vampire films such as Le Viol du vampire, Fascination, and Requiem for a Vampire; also made hardcore films under pseudonyms like Michel Gentil to fund personal work.
Jean Roncali
Jean Roncali is a French CNRS emeritus research director at the University of Angers known for π-conjugated systems and organic photovoltaics, including the 2014 'Small is Beautiful' paper.
Jean Rosa
Jean Rosa (1927–2025) was a French physician-scientist in hematology and red-cell biochemistry who identified hemoglobin variants, pioneered prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease in France, and led an INSERM research unit at the Hôpital Henri Mondor.