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J. Earl McEwen
Joseph Earl McEwen (died 2004) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985. McEwen was born at Sharbot Lake, and educated in Trenton. He was a veterinarian before entering political life, as well as an active freemason. He also ow..
JEALOUS
'JEALOUS' is the first single by the J-Rock group Dir en grey released in 1998 on an independent label. Neither of the tracks appear on any other release. Both songs were made into promotional videos (PVs or Music Videos) and were featured on the 妄想統覚劇 (MOSO TOKAKU GEKI) PV Collection on..
Jealousy
For the X Japan album, see Jealousy (album). Emotions Attachment Bonding Boyfriend Cohabitation Divorce Friendship Family Girlfriend Jealousy Love Marriage Monogamy Open Marriage Polyamory Polyandry Polygamy Polygynandry Polygyny Sexuality Separation Swinging Widowhood Jealousy is typicall..
Jealousy (album)
Jealousy was the third album released by the Japanese band X Japan. It was released on July 1st, 1991 in Japan. The album debuted at #1 on the Oricon charts and included the power ballad Say Anything, the acoustic song Voiceless Screaming and Silent Jealousy, which is considered to be one of the ba..
Jealousy (song)
Jazz Album Listing "Fat Bottomed Girls"(Track 2) "Jealousy"(Track 3) "Bicycle Race"(Track 4) Jealousy is a song by the British rock band Queen from their 1978 album Jazz. It was written by Freddie Mercury. In 1979, "Jealousy" was released as a single in the United States and other countries. ..
Jealousy is My Middle Name
Jealousy is My Middle Name (Jiltuneun naui him) is a 2002 South Korean film. It won Best Film honors at the Pusan International Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival and was the directorial debut of Park Chan-ok. It was inspired by the poem of the same name by Ki Hyung-do. ..
Jealous Again
Jealous Again is a 12" EP that was the second-ever release by Black Flag and the third-ever release on SST Records. Contents 1 History of the EP2 Song History3 Existing Outtakes4 Reissued Variations5 Track listing6 Musical Personnel7 References and footnotes ..
Jealous Guy
"Jealous Guy" Single by John Lennon From the album Imagine Single Released November 1985 (UK) Recorded 1971 Song Length 4:14 Record label Parlophone Producer John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector Chart positions #65 (UK)#80 (US)(1988 release) "Jealous Guy" is a song written and perform..
Jealous of the Moon
"Jealous of the Moon" is a song played by the modern bluegrass band Nickel Creek. It was written by Chris Thile, and it was the third song on Nickel Creek's latest album, Why Should the Fire Die?. Jealous of the Moon has Chris Thile on lead vocals and mandolin, and Sean Watkins and Sara Watkins on g..
Jealous One's Envy
Jealous One's Envy is the second album by the latin rapper Fat Joe, released in November, 1995 (see 1995 in music). Track listing "Bronx Tale" (Diamond D/Fat Joe/KRS-One/Nestico) - 3:55"Success" (Domingo/Fat Joe/Ohta) - 3:50"Envy" (Fat Joe/Fat Joe/Fat Joe/Fat Joe/Fat Joe) - 4:11*Samples "Sexual H..
Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.)
Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) is Fat Joe's fourth solo album. It is his most commercially popular album, thus having the hit "What's Luv?" featuring pop singer, Ashanti. Track listing IntroJ.O.S.E.King of N.Y. (feat. Buju Banton)Opposites Attract (What They Like) (feat. Remy)Definition of a ..
Jean
Jean is a common female given name in English-speaking countries, usually pronounced /dʒi:n/ (IPA). It is the Scottish form of Jane (and is sometimes pronounced that way); both names derive from the Old French Jehanne (equivalent to Johanna/Joanna/Joanne/Joan). In French-speaking countries, Jean ..
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
JeanGrand Duke of Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg HRH Grand Duke Jean*HRH The Grand Duke*HRH The Grand Duchess**HRH The Hereditary Grand Duke**HRH Prince Félix**HRH Prince Louis**HRH Princess Alexandra**HRH Prince Sébastien*HI&RH Princess Marie Astrid*HRH Prin..
Jean, Nevada
Jean is a small community that is located on I-15 at exit 12, meaning that it is 12 miles north of the Nevada-California state line. Las Vegas is located about 30 miles to the north. Jean's slogan is "Old Vegas isn't gone... It just moved to exit 12." The area is mostly commercial with the Nevada..
Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres
Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d'Aguisy (1479, Lyon - October 22nd 1565, Paris) was a famous bibliophile, whose library was dispersed in 1675. The bindings of the books being ornamented with geometric patterns, have given name to bindings in this style. They bore the inscription, Io. Grolieri ..
Jean-Adam Guilain
Jean-Adam Guilain (real name Jean Adam Guillaume Freinsberg) (c. 1680 – after 1739) was a German organist and harpsichordist who was mostly active in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century. Little is known about his life. He was born in Germany, possibly around 1680 (the exact..
Jean-Alain Boumsong
Jean-Alain Boumsong (born December 14, 1979, in Cameroon) is a professional football defender who currently plays for Newcastle United F.C. and the French national team. He started his career with French team Le Havre before joining AJ Auxerre. He joined Alex McLeish at Rangers in 2004 and signed ..
Jean-Andoche Junot
Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes (October 23, 1771 – July 29, 1813) was a French general under Napoleon Bonaparte. Contents 1 Early career2 Italian campaign3 Peninsular War4 Later years Early career Junot was born in Bussy-le-Grand, France, and studied in Chatillon...
Jean-André Deluc
Jean-André Deluc (8 February 1727 - 7 November 1817) was a Swiss geologist and meteorologist. He was born at Geneva, descended from a family which had emigrated from Lucca and settled at Geneva in the 15th century. His father, François Deluc, was the author of some publications in refutation of M..
Jean-Antoine Alavoine
Jean-Antoine Alavoine (1778–1834) was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–40), the Colonne de juillet to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has ..
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Chaptal Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup (June 4, 1756 – July 30, 1832) was a French chemist and statesman. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Revolution1.3 Consulate, Empire, and Restoration2 Scientific works3 References ..
Jean-Antoine d'Aubermont
Jean-Antoine d'Aubermont was a Catholic theologian. Theologian of Bois-le-Duc; died 22 November, 1686. He joined the Dominicans in 1633, taught philosophy and theology in several convents of his order, was made doctor of theology at Louvain in 1652, and president of the local Dominican college in 1..
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Jean-Antoine Dubois
Jean-Antoine Dubois (1765 - 1848), French Catholic missionary in India, was ordained in the diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same year under the direction of the Missions étrangères. J.A. Dubois had been baptisized on January 10, 1766 in St.Remèze/Ardèche. He was at fir..
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Bust of Jefferson by Houdon Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 – July 15, 1828) was a French sculptor. He became famous for his busts and statues of the major thinkers and doers of the time, including those of Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Napo..
Jean-Antoine Nollet
Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November, 1700 – 25 April, 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist. As the head of a monastery, he was also known as Abbé Nollet. He was particularly interested in the new science of electricity, which he explored with the help of Du Fay and Réamur. He joined the R..
Jean-Antoine Roucher
Jean-Antoine Roucher (February 22, 1745 - July 25, 1794), was a French poet. Roucher was the son of a tailor from Montpellier. His epithalamium on Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette won him the favour of Turgot, and a salt-tax collectorship. His poem, entitled Les Mois, appeared in 1779, was praised i..
Jean-Arnold de Clermont
Jean-Arnold de Clermont (born October 22, 1941 in Paris) is a priest of the French Reformed Church. He has been president of the French Protestant Federation since July 1, 1999. External links [Official home page] ..
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot (August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine de Marbot (1754-1800), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere (Correze). He joined the republican army as a volunteer in 1799. At..
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland (born 25 December 1805 Montreal - died 11 January 1865 Quebec) was a French Canadian historian. He studied at the college of Nicolet and was ordained 1828. He ministered to country parishes until 1841, when he was made director of studies in the college of Nicolet. He b..
Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion
Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion (September 17 1826 – November 1 1866) was a journalist and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Lower Canada in 1826, the son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion. In 1842, he found work as a clerk in a store at Trois-Rivières. He was edit..
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne (Gisors, 1770-Paris, 1856) was a French painter and miniaturist. He become know after the exposition of 1804 and was a royal painter during Restauration. His works are quite realistic. ..
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (September 1, 1727 – April 12, 1794) was a French Roman Catholic cleric and politician of the Revolution. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Clerical career1.2 Politics2 References Biography Clerical career Gobel was born in Thann (Alsace), and studied..
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • ..
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) is considered by some to be the greatest of the 18th-century French Rococo painters. He favored simple still lifes and unsentimental domestic interiors. He is known for his beautifully textured still lifes as well as his se..
Jean-Baptiste Abessolo
Jean-Baptiste Nguema Abessolo, also seen as J.-B. Abessolo-Nguema, (b. 15 February 1932) is an educator and writer of Gabon. Born at Oyem, he was educated there and at Libreville, then studied educational administration at École des Cadres Superieures in Brazzaville and the École Normale Supérie..
Jean-Baptiste Accolay
Jean-Baptiste Accolay was a French violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period who lived from April 17, 1833 (Brussels, Belgium) to August 19, 1900 (Bruegge, Belgium). His best known composition is a student concerto with only one movement in A minor. It was written in ..
Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond
Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679-10 March 1719) was a French architect and garden designer who became the chief architect of Saint Petersburg in 1716. Contents 1 Career in France2 Career in Russia3 Principal works of architecture4 Notes5 References6 Further r..
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (November 24, 1808 - September 29, 1890), French critic, journalist and novelist. He was born in Paris, and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, Sous les Tilleuls (1832), were autobiographical rom..
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Jean-Baptiste Andrea grew up in Cannes, France. He started making short films, and later moved to Paris. He graduated from college with a degree in Economics and Political science, but funded most of his projects by translating books. In Paris, he met Fabrice Canepa, and the two of them began writin..
Jean-Baptiste André Godin
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne). The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in..
Jean-Baptiste Arban
Jean-Baptiste Arban Joseph Jean Baptist Laurent Arban (28 February 1825 - 9 April 1889) was a cornetist, conductor, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini's virtuosic technique on the violin and in an (arguably s..
Jean-Baptiste Audebert
Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759 - 1800) was a French artist and naturalist. Audebert was born at Rochefort. He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des colportes of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he ..
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (b. 1946) was chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until November 10, 1976, and president of Burundi from November 2, 1976 to September 3, 1987. Since 1994, he has led the Party for National Recovery (PARENA). |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Jean-Baptiste Baronian
Jean-Baptiste Baronian, Alexandre Lous (Joseph Lous Baronian) (Antwerp, 29 April 1942) is a Belgian writer in French. His parents come from Armenia. His a critic, essayist and writes children's book and novels. ..
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, also known informally as Cochonfucius, is a French cognitive science researcher. He is connected to the Human-Machine Communication Department of the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI). He was one of the team responsible f..
Jean-Baptiste Bessières
Jean-Baptiste Bessières Jean Baptiste Bessières, duke of Istria (August 6, 1768 – May 1, 1813), was a French marshal. Bessieres was born near Cahors. He served for a short time in the "Constitutional Guard" of Louis XVI and as a non-commissioned officer took part in the war against S..
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21 1774, Paris – February 3 1862, Paris) was a French physicist and mathematician who in the early 1800s studied the relationship between electrical current and magnetism (see Biot-Savart law), as well as the polarisation of light passing thro..
Jean-Baptiste Boissière
Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806-1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française (Analogical dictionary of French), published by Larousse in 1862. It was, in effect, the first thesaurus of the French..
Jean-Baptiste Breval
Jean-Baptiste Breval (November 6, 1753-March 18, 1823) was a French cellist and composer. Life Breval was born in Paris, and he went on to study with Jean-Baptiste Cupis. Kicking off his career by performing one of his sonatas at a Concert Spirituel in 1778, he became a member of their orchestra fr..
Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant
Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant (1602 - November 17, 1643), marshal of France, was born at Plessis-Budes, near St Brieuc, of an old Bretons family. He served first in the Netherlands, and in the Thirty Years' War he commanded from 1638 to 1639 the French contingent in the army of his frien..
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. Contents 1 The art of Corot2 Biography3 Selected artwork4 External links5 References The art of Corot Corot worked..
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814-1891), Belgian stained-glass painter, was born in Brussels in 1814, and died there in 1891. He had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his clever restorations of old exa..
Jean-Baptiste Cardinal Phạm Minh Mẫn
This is a Vietnamese name; the person's family name is Pham, but should be properly referred to as Man. Jean-Baptiste Cardinal Phạm Minh Mẫn (born December 31, 1934) is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Ca Mau, Vietnam, Mẫn ..
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he th..
Jean-Baptiste Carrier
Jean-Baptiste Carrier Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756 – November 16, 1794) was a French Revolutionary. Biography Carrier was born at Yolet, a village near Aurillac in Upper Auvergne. In 1790 he was a country attorney (counsellor for the bailliage of Aurillac) and in 1792 became deputy to ..
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867 – September 16, 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with ..
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
Jean Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (January 14, 1705 - 1786) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands. He was orphaned at the age of seven and after having been educated in Paris, he was sent to Saint Malo to study navigation. He became a lieutenant of the French Eas..
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (July 4, 1822 - 1905), French sculptor, was born at Montbard. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with "Theseus finding on a rock his Father's Swor..
Jean-Baptiste Cléry
Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1759-1809), was the personal valet to King Louis XVI. Contents 0.1 Before the Revolution0.2 During the Revolution0.3 Après la Révolution1 References2 External links Before the Revolution First serving as secretary of the Princess of Guéménée, h..
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy b..
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (born 1 November, 1651; died 3 November, 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy. In 1679 Seignelay married Catherine Thé..
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (September 14, 1665, Paris – September 2, 1746, Paris), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War o..
Jean-Baptiste Debret
Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848) was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the peoples of Brazil. Debret studied at the French Academy of Fine Arts and was a disciple of the great Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). His debut was at the Salon des Beaux Arts of 1798, where..
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jean-Baptiste Descamps (born 1714 in Dunkirk; died 1791) was a French writer and painter of village scenes. Descamps lived principally at Paris, till an accidental circumstance fixed him at Rouen, in 1740. On his way to England, he here formed an acquaintance with M. de Cideville, the friend of Vol..
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (June 24, 1704, Aix-en-Provence - January 11, 1771, Toulon) was a French philosopher and writer. By addressing his polemical writings to a general readership he helped to spread the ideas of the Enlightenment more widely. He wrote about philosophy, history..
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, or Lacurne, (1697-1781) was a French scholar born at Auxerre on the 6th of June 1697. His father, Edme, had been gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV. Sainte-Palaye had a twin brother to whom he was greatly attached, r..
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (John Baptist de La Salle) (April 30, 1651 in Reims – April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen on Good Friday) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of international educational movement who spent over forty years of his life dedicated to education for..
Jean-Baptiste de Vivien de Châteaubrun
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (July 1, 1725 – May 10, 1807) was a French aristocrat, soldier, and a Marshal of France. Contents 1 Military life2 American Revolution3 Return to France4 L..
Jean-Baptiste Drouet
Jean-Baptiste Drouet is a personal name: Jean-Baptiste Drouet (French revolutionary) (1763–1824), a French politician of the 1789 RevolutionJean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (1765–1844), a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army ..
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, comte d'Erlon (July 29, 1765-January 25, 1844) was a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army. D'Erlon notably commanded the I Corps of the Armée du Nord at the battle of Waterloo. D'Erlon was born in Reims, and in 1792 served as a corporal in the pre-revolutiona..
Jean-Baptiste Drouet (French revolutionary)
Jean-Baptiste Drouet (January 8, 1763—April 11, 1824), was a French politician of the 1789 Revolution, chiefly noted for the part he played in the arrest of King Louis XVI during the Flight to Varennes. Early life, Varennes, and in the Convention Born at Sainte-Menehould, he served for seven ..
Jean-Baptiste Dubos
Jean-Baptiste Dubos (December, 1670 – March 23, 1742) was a French author. He was born at Beauvais. After studying theology, he gave it up in favour of public law and politics. He was employed by M. de Torcy, minister of foreign affairs, and by the regent and Cardinal Dubois in several secret..
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Jean Baptiste André Dumas Jean Baptiste André Dumas (July 14, 1800 - April 10, 1884), French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) by measuring vapor densities. Dumas was born at Alais (Ga..
Jean-Baptiste du Hamel
Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (11 June 1624–6 August 1706) was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. Among Du Hamel's prolific publications were the following: De Meteoris et fossilibus (Paris, 1660)De consensu Veter..
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots
Baron de Cloots engraved by Levachez Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (1755 - March 24, 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots was a French politician, and a noteworthy figure in the French Revolution. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Convention2 Wo..
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet was a French botanist, born September 2, 1828 at Guérigny and dead at December 18, 1911 in Paris. Member of the French Académie des sciences, he wrote the Notes algologiques (1847-1880) and the Études phycologiques (1878). He established the nature of lichens and w..
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont
Élie de Beaumont Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont (September 25, 1798 – September 21, 1874) was a French geologist. Biography Élie de Beaumont was born at Canon, in Calvados. He was educated at the Lycee Henri IV where he took the first prize in mathematics and p..
Jean-Baptiste Élissalde
Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (b. November 23 1977 in La Rochelle) is a French rugby union footballer. He plays both scrum-half and fly-half. He played in Stade Rochelais until 2002 then decided to go to Stade Toulousain, where he has had a hard time becoming a team member, competed by Frédéric Michalak..
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne (7 November 1860 - 2 April 1936) was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation; and the creator of the French tank weapon. He was born at Condé-en-Barrois in the Meuse ..
Jean-Baptiste Faribault
Jean-Baptiste Faribault (19 October 1775 – 20 August 1860) was a trader with the Indians and early settler in Minnesota. His father Barthélemy Faribault, a lawyer of Paris, France, settled in Canada towards the middle of the 18th century and served as military secretary to the French army i..
Jean-Baptiste Gail
Jean-Baptiste Gail (July 4, 1755–February 5, 1829), was a French Hellenist scholar. He was born in Paris. In 1791 he was appointed deputy, and in 1792 titular professor at the College de France. During the French Revolution, he maintained his professional duties, taking no part in politics, ..
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse (or Dannse) de Villoison (March 5, 1750 (or 1753) – April 25, 1805) was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France. He belonged to a noble family (De Ansso) of Spanish origin, and took his surname from a village in the neighbourhood. In 1773 he publi..
Jean-Baptiste Gatete
Jean-Baptiste Gatete (born 1953) is a Rwandan politician, accused of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Gatete was born in the commune of Murambi in the prefecture of Byumba, Rwanda. He was educated as an agricultural engineer, and served as mayor (bourgmestre) of Murambi from 1987 to 1993...
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter. Biography Born at Tournus, in Burgundy, he is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, ..
Jean-Baptiste Guèvremont
Jean-Baptiste Guévremont (Guèvremont in some sources) (September 4 1826 - December 5 1896) was a farmer, political figure in Canada East and a member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1896. He was born at Isle-Dupas in Lower Canada in 1826. He became a farmer near Sorel in 1851. He was elected..
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Seraphin, comte de Villèle (April 14, 1773 - March 13, 1854), was a French statesman. He was born at Toulouse and brought up to go into the navy. He joined the "Bayonnaise" at Brest in July 1788. He served in the West and East Indies. Arrested in the Isle..
Jean-Baptiste Guimet
Jean-Baptiste Guimet (July 10, 1795 - April 8, 1871), French industrial chemist, was born at Voiron. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Salpetres. In 1828 he was awarded the prize offered by the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Ind..
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Portrait of Henri Dominique Lacordaire, by Théodore Chassériau (c. 1840). Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire or Father Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (March 12, 1802 - November 21, 1861), was a French ecclesiastic and orator. He was born at Recey-sur-Ource, Côte d'Or, the second of four children. ..
Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue
Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801 - December, 1872), was a French historian and biographer. He was born in Marseille, France. At the age of twenty he went to Paris to study law, but soon switched to journalism. He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards connected, either a..
Jean-Baptiste Huet
Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 15 October 1745–Paris, 27 January 1811) was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher. Born into a family of artists— his uncle was Christophe Huet, ..
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Isabey with his daughter, 1795, by François Gérard Miniature of Christine Boyer by Isabey Jean-Baptiste Isabey (April 11, 1767 - April 18, 1855), French painter, was born at Nancy. At nineteen, after some lessons from Dumont, miniature painter to Marie Antoinette, he became a pupil o..
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin was a French miniature painter. He was born in Saint-Dié in 1759 and died in Paris in 1832. Contents 1 Biography2 Famous people painted by Augustin3 Bibliography4 See also Biography He first had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Je..
Jean-Baptiste Janssens
-->Jean-Baptiste Janssens, S.J. (December 22, 1889—October 5, 1964) was the twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium. Contents 1 Early Life - Schooling2 Ascension To Father General3 Generalate4 Final Years Early Life - Scho..
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (June 14, 1825 - December 11, 1895), was a French critic. He was born at Limoges. He began to write for the Revue des deux mondes in 1847, contributing between 1851 and 1857 a series of articles on the English and American novel, and in 1857 he became chief li..
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan Jean-Baptiste, comte Jourdan (April 29, 1762 – November 23, 1833), was a marshal of France. He was born at Limoges, France, and apprenticed to a silk merchant of Lyon. In 1776 he enlisted in a French regiment to serve in the American War of Independence, and after ..
Jean-Baptiste Kelly
Jean-Baptiste Kelly (5 October, 1783 – 24 February 1854) was a Québécois Roman Catholic vicar-general active in Lower Canada. Contents 1 Early Life And Education2 Priesthood2.1 Madawaska2.2 Saint-Denis2.3 William Henry/Saint-Pierre2.4 European Travel2.5&n..
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (1742 - 1790) was a French composer and harpist. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterrházy's court orchestra (1773 - 1776) during which ..
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (August 26, 1736–July 3, 1790) formulated the Law of Constancy of Interfacial Angles in his Traitise on Crystallography (1772), which built on observations by the geologist Nicolaus Steno. He died in Paris, France on July 3, 1790. See also ..
Jean-Baptiste Labat
Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663-1738), French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner. Born in Paris, he entered the order of the Dominicans at the age of twenty. He was ordained at the completion of his philosophic..
Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière
Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière (25 December 1778 – 7 September 1855) was a French Canadian trapper employed in the fur trade by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land. Lagimodière is noted both as the Grandfather of Métis leader Louis Riel, and as the husband of Marie-Anne Gaboury, the fir..
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck is however remembered today ma..
Jean-Baptiste Lauzon
Jean-Baptiste Lauzon (March 15, 1858—?) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba on three occasions: from 1897 to 1899, from 1907 to 1910, and from 1914 to 1915. Lauzon was a member of the Conservative Party. Lauzon was born on March 15, 1858, in P..
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
For the governor of New France, see Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704 - 1778) was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of his father, Jean-Louis Lemoyne, and of Robert Le Lorrain. He was a great figure in his day, around whose modest and kindly personality there waged..
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
"Bienville" redirects here. For , see . Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767) was a colonizer and governor of Louisiana. He was a younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. He is also known as Sieur de Bienville. Contents 1 Early years2&n..
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781) was an important French etcher and painter. Le Prince first studied painting techniques in his native Metz. He then travelled to Paris around 1750 and became a leading student of the great painter, Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Le Prince's early paintings in bo..
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–June 19, 1730) was a Belgian flutist, oboist, and harpsichordist who worked in London and died there. Little can be found regarding Loeillet, but according to the New Penguin Dictionary of Music, he wrote music for flute, recorder and other instruments and helped to p..
Jean-Baptiste Louis Crevier
Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier (1693 - 1765) was a French author. He was born at Paris, where his father was a printer. He studied under Rollin and held the professorship of rhetoric in the college of Beauvais for twenty years. He completed Rollin's Histoire romaine by the addition of six volumes (17..
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870) was one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá (1838–1842), Athens (1850) and Ambassador to London (1852–1863) - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous dagu..
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (June 12, 1760 - August 25, 1797), was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat. Contents 1 Life1.1 Early life and literary works1.2 Early activism1.3 Deputy and Girondist1.4 Thermidor and Directory2 Louvet'..
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He took French citizenship in 1661. Jean-Baptiste Lully. Contents 1 Life2&n..
Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Colonel Marchand Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863 – 1934) was a French emissary in Africa. He was sent in 1890 to explore the sources of the Niger and other districts, and was afterwards appointed to push on to the White Nile, where he arrived in 1898, hoisting the French flag by the wa..
Jean-Baptiste Masse
Jean Baptiste Masse (c.1700 - c.1757) was a French composer and violoncello player. He was an Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi and a member of the King's Bande of Twenty-Four Violins and of the orchestra of the Comédie Française. Little is known of his life other than the publication dates of his..
Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Biography Jean-Baptiste Maunier was born December 22, 1990 and lives with his parents Thierry and Muriel and his younger brother Benjamin in Lyon, France. Jean-Baptiste enjoys playing tennis, football (soccer), and skateboarding. He has recently started to play the drumset and in a recent concert wi..
Jean-Baptiste Moens
Jean-Baptiste Moens (May 27, 1833 – April 28, 1908) was a Belgian philatelist and one of the first stamp dealers in the world. Born in Tournai, as a boy Moens began stamp collecting from his family's mail and packets and at age nineteen went into the business of buying and selling new and second-..
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born 1949) is an award-winning French fashion photographer and music video director. External links [Official website] ..
Jean-Baptiste Morin
Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583—November 6, 1656) was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Born in Villefranche, Yonne, in the Beaujolais, he began studying philosophy at Aix at the age of 16. He studied medicine at Avignon in 1611 and received his medical degree two years ..
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, duke of Cadore (1756 - 1834) was a French admiral and politician. He was born in Roanne. Entering the French royal navy in 1774, he fought through the war in America and resigned in 1787. Elected député by the noblesse of Forex to the States General in 1789,..
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo (born June 30, 1942) - President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983. He is a medical doctor and currently operates a medical facility (Notre-Dame de la Paix) on the outskirts of Ouagadougou. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jean-Baptiste Pater (December 29, 1695-July 25, 1736) was a French rococo painter. Born in Valenciennes, Pater was the son of sculptor Antoine Pater and studied under him before becoming a student of Antoine Watteau. He was accepted into the Académie in 1728. His most prominent customer was Fre..
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (March 25, 1783 - January 19, 1855), French painter, was born at Toulon, of poor parents. He learnt, as a lad, his father's trade of a locksmith, whilst at the same time he followed the classes of the free school of art. Having sold some copies to a local amateur, Guér..
Jean-Baptiste Perrée
Jean-Baptiste Perrée (1761-1800) was a French contre-amiral. He was born in Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme in Picardy. His military career started in May 1794, in September 1795 as a captain de vaisseau was taken at the Nile. After liberation, he was promoted contre-amiral in command of Alexandria station..
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant (December 6, 1790 - June 4, 1872), born in Dijon, was a Marshal of France. Vaillant entered the French army in 1809 in the corps of engineers. He served in the Russian campaign of 1812 and the next year became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Kulm. During the H..
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Statue of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle on the Hôtel de Ville of Paris Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (January 26, 1714 – August 28, 1785) was a French sculptor. He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Grand Prix, after a severe struggle he entered the A..
Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable
Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable (c. 1745 - August 28, 1818) was the first non-native settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. He was long ignored by historians, partly because he was a Haitian and not white, and partly because the early histories were written by the friends and descendants ..
Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois
Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (1776 – 1842) was a French engineer who together with Édouard de Villiers du Terrage journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the Description de l'Egypte. ..
Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Education of Achilles. 1780/1790. Jean-Baptiste Regnault (October 9, 1754 - November 12, 1829) was a French painter. He was born in Paris. He began life at sea in a merchant vessel, but at the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the car..
Jean-Baptiste Riché
Jean-Baptiste Riché (1780 - February 28, 1847) was a career officer and general in the Haïtian Army. He was made President of Haïti on March 1, 1846. Born a slave in 1780 to unknown parents, Riché joined the Haïtian Revolutionaries probably some time in 1801. After Haïti gained independence a..
Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet
Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet (May 2, 1746—February 17, 1825) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. His brother, Robert Thomas Lindet, became a constitutional bishop and member of the National Convention. Contents 1 Early career2 Comm..
Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset
Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset (7 February 1843 – 5 January, 1917) was a Canadian physician and parliamentarian. Born in St-Cuthbert, Canada East, Fiset was five times elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament representing the Quebec electoral district of Rimouski in the Canadian House of C..
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Jean-Baptiste Santerre
Jean-Baptiste Santerre (1650 - November 21, 1717), French painter, was born at Magny, near Pontoise, and was a pupil of Bon Boullogne. Biography He began life as a portrait-painter, and enjoyed for half a century a great reputation as a painter of the nude. He died at Paris on the 21st of N..
Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. Jean-Baptiste Say. Contents 1 Biography2 Say's Law3 See ..
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (born in Strasbourg in 1776, died in the same place in 1856) was the author of the third astronomical clock in Strasbourg, built between 1838 and 1843 (not 1842, as it is written on the clock itself). References Alfred Ungerer, Théodore Ungerer: L'horloge astronomique de ..
Jean-Baptiste Singelée
Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812-1875) was a Belgian classical composer of the romantic period. He may have died in 1875 or 1876; some sources disagree. According to the New Century Saxophone Quartet, Jean-Baptiste Singelée (1812-1876) was born in Brussels and studied at the Royal School of Music in..
Jean-Baptiste Sipido
Jean-Baptiste Victor Sipido (20 December 1884 – 20 August 1959Alexandre Notebaert in Biographie nationale, vol. 42 (1981), p. 662.) was a Belgian socialist who became known when he, then a young tinsmith's apprentice, attempted to assassinate the Prince of Wales at the Brussel-Nord railway sta..
Jean-Baptiste Stouf
Jean-Baptiste Stouf (Paris 1742–Charenton-le-Pont 1826), a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou, was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. His Bust of Belisarius at the J. P..
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 – 1689), French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, was born in 1605 at Paris, where his father Gabriel and uncle Melchior, Protestants from Antwerp, pursued the profession of geographers and engravers. The conversations he ..
Jean-Baptiste Thibault
Jean-Baptiste Thibault Jean-Baptiste Thibault (14 December, 1810 – 4 April, 1879) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary noted for his role in negotiating on behalf of the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. External links [Biography at th..
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born at Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo. Having at an early age executed several pictures for the decoration of the church and public b..
Jean-Baptiste van Mour
Jean-Baptiste van Mour or Vanmour (January 9, 1671—January 22, 1737) was a Flemish-French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III. Biography A native of Valenciennes, he went to Istanbul with the Fre..
Jean-Baptiste Ventura
Jean-Baptiste Ventura (ca. 1792 - ?) was a soldier, mercenary and adventurer who ended up in the Punjab. Of Italian origin from Modena, Ventura served with Napoleon's imperial army where he reached the rank of colonel of infantry. After Waterloo he travelled east, ending in Lahore with Jean-Franç..
Jean-Baptist David
Jean-Baptist David (January 25 1801 – March 24 1866) was a kanunnik and professor Dutch and history at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. David was born in the Belgian city of Lier. As a professor he worked together with Jan Frans Willems and was president of the first and second Taelcongres..
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Emperor Bokassa I also known as Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa and Jean-Bédel Bokassa, [IPA: ʒɑ̃ bedɛl bɔkasa] (February 22, 1921–November 3, 1996) was the military ruler from January 1, 1966 of the Central African Republic and from December 4, 1976, sole emperor of the Central Afr..
Jean-Benoît Dunckel
Jean-Benoît Dunckel, born on 7 September 1969 in Versailles, France, is a musician best known for being in the electronica duo Air. Working under the name "Darkel", Dunckel will release his debut solo album, Darkel, in September 2006. See also AirNicolas Godin External links [nndb profile�..
Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan
Jean-Bernard Gauthier de Murnan (1748 - September 27, 1796) was a French officer for the Continental Army and a French General during the French Revolution. When he was young, he had to leave France to serve as a cavalry officer and then military engineer in the Russian army. When he returned to Fr..
Jean-Bernard Klus
Jean-Bernard Klus was a fictional mathematician and philosopher created by as a hoax by Australian philosopher David Solomon. In his books he provides a biography and history of this fictional character as follows: Jean-Bernard Klus (1879-1961?) mathematician and philosopher. Klus was born in Par..
Jean-Bernard Raimond
Jean-Bernard Raimond (born February 6, 1926 in Paris) is a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988, as French ambassador to a number of states from the 1970s to the 1990s, and as a deputy in the French National Assembly from..
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
issued a report that the senatorial election was unfair and that the methodology for counting votes was flawed. Aristide supporters have claimed that the OAS report was engineered by the U.S. solely based on hostility to the president's policies. They also have questioned why the organization wai..
Jean-Bouin Stadium, Angers
Jean-Bouin Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Angers, France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Angers SCO. The stadium holds 17,000 people. ..
Jean-Charles Chapais
Jean-Charles Chapais as Receiver-General, in 1870 Jean-Charles Chapais, PC (2 December 1811 – 17 July 1885) was a Canadian Conservative politician, and considered a Father of Canadian Confederation for his participation in the Quebec Conference to determine the form of Canada's governm..
Jean-Charles Chenu
Jean-Charles Chenu (August 30th 1808, Metz - November 12th 1879, Paris) was a French physician and naturalist. Chenu is the author of an Encyclopaedia of Natural History. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ..
Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles de Borda Jean-Charles Chevalier de Borda (May 4, 1733 – February 19, 1799), was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor. Born in the city of Dax, in 1756 Borda wrote Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles, a product of his work as a military eng..
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (born 28 November 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French fashion designer and also has the title of marquis. External link [Fashionencyclopedia.com entry] ..
Jean-Charles de la Faille
Jean-Charles de la Faille (March 1, 1597-November 4, 1652) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium where he attended the Jesuit school. In 1613, he became a member of the Jesuit order and then went to a Jesuit college in Mechelen for two years. Afterwards, he came ba..
Jean-Charles Houzeau
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (1820-1888) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. He was born in Havre, Belgium (a small city near Mons). From 1842, he worked as a voluntary assistant at the Brussels observatory and began writing papers. He travelled a lot during his career (to Paris, the Unit..
Jean-Christian Michel
Jean-Christian Michel is a composer of music inspired by classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach and jazz. He plays the clarinet, piano and church organ. Jean-Christian Michel has received 3 diamond discs, 7 platinum discs and 10 golden discs. He is a "Full Member" of the SACEM (association of com..
Jean-Christophe Boullion
Jean-Christophe Boullion (born December 27 1969 in Saint-Brieuc, near Côtes d'Armor, France) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Sauber team. He started karting in 1982 and moved to cars in 1988 after attending a racing school outside Paris. He started racing in Formula Ford 1600 in 19..
Jean-Christophe d'Isigny
Jean-Christophe d'Isigny by various accounts is among the earliest ancestors of Walt Disney to have a similar name. Jean-Christophe was a Norman peasant from Isigny-sur-Mer who fought with William during the Norman Conquest, and he is credited with being the founder of the village of Norton Disney i..
Jean-Christophe Grangé
Jean-Christophe Grangé (born Paris, July 15, 1961) is a French mystery writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He was a journalist before setting up his own press agency L & G. Books Flight of the Storks (1999)Blood Red Rivers (1999)The Stone Council (2001)The Empire of the Wolves (2004)The Black Li..
Jean-Christophe Guinchard
Jean-Christophe Guinchard (born November 1, 1967) is an athlete from Switzerland. He competes in triathlon. Guinchard competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took twenty-fourth place with a total time of 1:50:50.76. ..
Jean-Christophe Lafaille
Jean-Christophe Lafaille (born March 31, 1965 in Gap, France – missing presumed dead on January 27, 2006 on Makalu) is a French climber who made numerous difficult ascents including a few first ascents. He has climbed 11 eight-thousanders: 2004 - Shishapangma - solo2003 - Broad Peak2003 - Nanga P..
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Bonaparte
Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Bonaparte was born on the 11 July 1986 in St. Raphaël and is the son of Prince Charles Napoléon and Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. His Grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon stipulated in his will following his death in 1997 that he wished Jean-Chr..
Jean-Christophe Mitterrand
Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (born December 19, 1946 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is the son of François Mitterrand, a former French president. He was an advisor to his father on African affairs, and earned the nickname Papamadit (which translates as "Papa told me") in Africa. In the 1990s he, along wit..
Jean-Christophe Novelli
Jean-Christophe Novelli (born 22 February 1961) is a French chef who works in England. Biography Born in Arras, northern France, in 1961, in a family who has ultimately Italian roots, Jean-Christophe Novelli worked in a bakery before becoming (at the age of 20) a personal chef to the Rothschild fa..
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin (born June 28, 1952) is a French physician and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières. Contents 1 Early life2 Human rights activism3 Report on racism and anti-Semitism4 Selected bibliog..
Jean-Christophe Simond
Jean-Christophe Simond (born 1960) was a French figure skater. He won eight French national championships. Competitive highlights 1975 European Championships - 16th1976 French Championships - 1stEuropean Championships - 13thOlympics - 15th1977 French Championships - 1stWorld Championships - 15th197..
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (born May 29, 1957) is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. External links John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Fields Medalists 2002: La..
Jean-Claude Bajeux
Jean-Claude Bajeux is a teacher and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, Haïti and also one of the leaders of the political party the National Congress of Democratic Movements, also known as Konakom. He and his family left Haïti in October 1993 after their house wa..
Jean-Claude Brialy
Brialy, Jean-Claude (b. March 30, 1933 in Aumale, now Sour el Ghozlane, Algeria) is a French socialite, actor and director who starred in French movies. He was one of the main actors of the French Nouvelle Vague, starting with Le Beau Serge. He is an alumnus of Prytanée National Militaire. Extern..
Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte
--> Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte (born June 26, 1936) is a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Montréal. His full title is "Cardinal of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Canadian Martyrs." Born in Montréal, Turcotte attended Collège André-Grasset from 1947 to 1955, and then..
Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière (born September 19, 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France) is a screenwriter and actor. He was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel. He is president of La Fémis. Some notable screenplays he has written or co-written include: Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of..
Jean-Claude Colliard
Jean-Claude Colliard is a member of the Constitutional Council of France since 1998. Current members of the Constitutional Council of France ..
Jean-Claude D'Amours
Jean-Claude J.C. D'Amours (born December 19, 1972 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian politician and current Member of Parliament for Madawaska—Restigouche. D'Amours served as a city councillor in Edmundston from 1998 to 2004. D'Amours is a former account executive, development manager..
Jean-Claude Decaux
Jean-Claude Decaux (born in 1938) is a French billionaire who earned his fortune in advertising. He is the chair of the advertising firm JCDecaux, which is now run by his sons, Jean-François and Jean-Charles. See also List of billionaires External links [Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest ..
Jean-Claude Dunyach
Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer. Contents 1 Overview2 Bibliography2.1 In English3 External link Overview Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France. Dunyach has bee..
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Jean-Claude Duvalier (nicknamed Bébé Doc or Baby Doc) (born July 3, 1951) succeeded his father, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the dictator of Haiti from his father's death in 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986. He married Michèle Bennet. Contents 1 Early life2 ..
Jean-Claude Flabel
Jean-Claude Flabel is the author of the aerospace engineering textbook Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers; a handbook on practical stress analysis which is widely used within the aerospace industry. Jean-Claude Flabel graduated from the University of California at Northridge in 1970 w..
Jean-Claude Forest
Jean-Claude Forest (11 September 1930, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France - 29 December 1998, Paris, France) was a writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella. Biography Jean-Claude Forest graduated from the Paris School of Design in the early 1950s and immediately began wor..
Jean-Claude Fruteau
Jean-Claude Fruteau (born 6 June 1947 in Saint-Benoît, Réunion) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer". He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee..
Jean-Claude Germain
Jean-Claude Germain (born in Montreal, 18 June 1939) is a playwright, author, journalist and historian. He contributed to the Petit Journal, to Victor-Lévy Beaulieu's Dimensions magazine and to Maclean's Magazine, and has been the senior editor to Le Québec littéraire. He writes a monthly column..
Jean-Claude Irvoas
Jean-Claude Irvoas (1949-2005) was a French employee of a street furniture firm. On October 27, 2005, the day the 2005 Paris suburb riots started, he died when being beaten by a group of youths in Épinay, after he tried to get back his camera the youths just robbed. Irvoas had been photographing a ..
Jean-Claude Izzo
Jean-Claude Izzo (June 20, 1945 - January 1, 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three detective novels, Total Kheops, Chourmo, and Solea. All three novels are set in the author's native city of Marseil..
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker (born December 9, 1954) is a Luxembourgian politican, the leader of the Christian Social People's Party. He is the incumbent Prime Minister of Luxembourg, having succeeded Jacques Santer on January 20, 1995. He has served two six-month terms as President of the European Council ..
Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. Born in Saint-Cloud, but brought up in Val d'Isère, Killy moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1969. Killy won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with 3 gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble..
Jean-Claude Latombe
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Jean-Claude La Marre
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Jean-Claude Lorquet
Jean-Claude Lorquet (born September 19, 1935 in Liège, Belgium) is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Liège. He is member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and author of over 100 scientific papers. Important contributions Theory of mass spectra.Stu..
Jean-Claude Maleval
Jean-Claude Maleval is a French lacanian psychoanalyst and professor of psychopathology at the University of Rennes 2. He is the author of three books: Folies hystériques et psychoses dissociatives (Hysterical Delusions and Dissociative psychosis) (1991), La Logique du Délire (The Logic of Delusi..
Jean-Claude Marcourt
Jean-Claude Marcourt (October 16, 1956) is the Minister of Economics and Employment of the Belgian region of Wallonia since 2004. He is member of the (PS). ..
Jean-Claude Martinez
Jean-Claude Martinez (born 30 July 1945 in Sète, Hérault) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Front National, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament. He sits on its Committee on Agriculture and Rural De..
Jean-Claude Mézières
Jean-Claude Mézières is a French comic strip artist born in Paris September 23, 1938. Longtime illustrator of the popular cartoon series [[Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent]], he was awarded the prestigious European comics prize, Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême (Alpha-art) in 1984. Biography ..
Jean-Claude Parrot
Jean-Claude Parrot was National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for fifteen years and its chief negotiator for eighteen. Early in his career, CUPW had reached a low point with Canadians when, at the outset of a 42-day postal strike, Parrot's presidential predecessor Joe Davidson ..
Jean-Claude Pascal
Jean-Claude Pascal (b. October 24, 1927 in Paris, France as Jean-Claude Villeminot. d. May 5, 1992). He won the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Nous les amoureux" (We the lovers) with music composed by Jacques Datin and lyrics by Maurice Vidalin. He later represented Luxembourg..
Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis
Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis has been the Chief Executive of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, since 2004. ..
Jean-Claude Richard
Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1727–1791) was a French painter and engraver. He is also known as the Abbé de Saint-Non (the Abbot of Saint-Non). Family background and history His family estate, from which he derives his full title, is The Château de Saint-Nom. It is located in the villa..
Jean-Claude Risset
Jean-Claude Risset (March 18, 1938 in Le Puy, France) is a French composer of electronic music. He is a former student of André Jolivet and former coworker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs. Arriving at Bell Labs, New Jersey in 1964, he used Mathew's MUSIC IV software to digitally recreate the sounds o..
Jean-Claude Rivest
The Honourable Jean-Claude Rivest Jean-Claude Rivest, LL.B (born January 27, 1943) is a Canadian lawyer, politician and Senator. Born in L'Assomption, Quebec, the son of Victor Rivest and Yvette Lafortune, he studied law at the Université de Montréal. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 196..
Jean-Claude Romand
Jean-Claude Romand (born February 11, 1954) is a French impostor and murderer who pretended to be a medical doctor. He killed his family when he was about to be exposed. Contents 1 Early life2 The deception3 Aftermath4 Fiction5 External links Early life Jean-Claude Roman..
Jean-Claude Rouzaud
Jean-Claude Rauzaud served for over 30 years as president of Champagne Louis Roderer. He is well-known for organizing a celebration in 1997 to celebrate his 30th anniversary as president of the well-known Champagne company. The owners of 30 of the best wines in the world, in his judgment, were inv..
Jean-Claude Rudaz
Jean-Claude Rudaz (b. July 23, 1942) is a former racing driver from Switzerland. He made one attempt at Formula One, at the 1964 Italian Grand Prix with a non-works Cooper T60. He blew his engine in practice and was unable to start the race, despite qualifying 20th of the 25 entrants. ..
Jean-Claude Schindelholz
Jean-Claude Schindelholz (born 11 October 1940) was a Swiss football striker. He got 13 caps and 1 goal for Switzerland between 15 April 1964 and 22 October 1966. He played in Switzerland's 0-5 loss to West Germany at the 1966 World Cup. Clubs FC Moutier1963-1971 Servette FC1971-1973 Vevey-Sports ..
Jean-Claude Schmitt
Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946) is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the socio-cultural aspects of medieval culture in Western Europe, using anthropological method relationships between educated people and laymen, superstitions— he contributed th..
Jean-Claude Simon
Jean-Claude Simon is one of the pioneers in the field of semiconductor optical amplifiers. Since 1998 he is Permanent professor at ENSSAT / University of Rennes1. Director of FOTON, research department in Optics and Optoelectronics for Telecom, affiliated to CNRS. Biography J.-C.Simon was born in ..
Jean-Claude St-André
Jean-Claude St-André (born September 27, 1962) is a Quebec provincial politician and the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec representing Assumption for the Parti Québécois. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in social sciences from the University of Montreal in 1984 and subsequently studied b..
Jean-Claude Suarès
Jean-Claude Suarès is a New York graphic designer, photographer, illustrator and author. Egyptian-born Suarès is reported to have said of his youth: "I was never allowed a cat or a car in my homeland, so when I came to the United States I got a cat and a Rolls-Royce. Then I started to multiply eve..
Jean-Claude Trichet
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Jean-Claude Usunier
Jean-Claude Usunier is a Professor of Marketing at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland, and author of various books on marketing and culture, including International Marketing: A Cultural Approach, Marketing Across Cultures and International and Cross-Cultural Management Research. External links http://www...
Jean-Claude Valluy
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Jean-Claude Valluy, an engineer, was the father of Jean-Etienne Valluy (with Jeanne Marie Cossanges). ..
Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe
Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe (born April 28, 1944), sometimes nicknamed as "Van Cau", is a Walloon (French-speaking Belgian) politician. He is member of the Belgian Francophone Socialist Party (PS). He was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2000 until October 2005. He resigned amid the Carolor�..
Jean-Claude Vrinat
Jean-Claude Vrinat served as an expert wine judge in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He was owner of the Taillevent restaurant in Paris. This three star restaurant, named after the court chef to King Charles V in the fourteenth century, has long been considered the epitome of Parisian cuisi..
Jean-Claude Wicky
Jean-Claude Wicky (born 1946 in Moutier, Switzerland) is a photographer noted for his series on Bolivian miners (1984-2001). Works Mineros, 2002, ISBN 2742740627 (French), ISBN 8477828261 (Spanish), ISBN 3926318538 (German). External links [Mountains of Pain] -- Article on the miners at C..
Jean-Damascène Bizimana
Jean-Damascène Bizimana is a Rwandan diplomat and the former ambassador of Rwanda to the United Nations. Bizimana was the last ambassador to the UN of the government of Juvénal Habyarimana. At the time of Habyarimana's assassination, Bizimana held a temporary seat on the United Nations Security ..
Jean-Daniel Cadinot
Jean-Daniel Cadinot (born February 10, 1944) is a French director and producer of gay pornographic films. His self-named studio was one of the first of its kind in France and continues to be the most well-known label from this country. The influence of his films with their cheerful, energetic outloo..
Jean-Daniel Lafond
His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond, CC (b. 1944) is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the husband to Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada. He is entitled to be styled His Excellency while his wife is in office. Lafond was born in France during the libe..
Jean-Daniel Nicoud
Picture of the miniCeline ultralight aircraft by Jean-Daniel Nicoud. This remote-controlled plane weighs only 6 g and is capable of indoor flying. Jean-Daniel Nicoud is a Swiss computer scientist, notably inventor of the optical computer mouse and of the CALM Common Assembly Language. H..
Jean-David Morvan
Jean-David Morvan (November 28, 1969 - ) is a French comics author. Jean-David Morvan studied for comic artist at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. He tried to become a comics artist, but realised that his strength was story writing, so now he is best known as a comics writer. He now lives in R..
Jean-Denis Bredin
Jean-Denis Bredin was born May 17, 1929 in Paris. By profession an attorney, he was elected to the Académie française June 15, 1989. Bibliography 1969 Traité de droit du commerce international, en collaboration avec le doyen Loussouarn (Sirey) 1974 La République de Monsieur Pompidou (Jul..
Jean-Denis Deletraz
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Jean-Denis Lejeune
Jean-Denis Lejeune is the father of Julie Lejeune, abducted along with Mélissa Russo in Belgium on June 24, 1995, and imprisoned in Marc Dutroux's cellar. She was 8 years old at the time. She died, probably of starvation, some time between December 6, 1995 and March 20, 1996. Jean-Denis Lejeune was..
Jean-Docile Brousseau
Jean-Docile Brousseau (February 24, 1825 – July 28, 1908) was a Canadian politician and newspaper owner. He was born in Quebec City in 1825. In 1855, he became the official printer for the archbishopric of Quebec and produced the Le Courrier du Canada, a religious newsletter, from 1857 to 187..
Jean-Dominique Bauby
At the age of forty three, on December 8 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist and editor of the magazine ELLE, suffered a massive stroke which rendered his brain stem inactive. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was mute and almost entirely paralysed — he could ..
Jean-Drapeau (Montreal Metro)
Jean-Drapeau Inaugurated 1 April, 1967 Line Yellow Line Architect Jean Dumontier Platform Depth 4.6 metres Rank 60th deepest Traffic 1,473,539 entrances in 2002 Rank 52nd busiest Interstation Distance 2362.10 metres to Berri-UQAM (longest distance in the sy..
Jean-Edern Hallier
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Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (April 1, 1746 - August 25, 1807), was a French jurist and politician in time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis was a diplomat and statesman. Contents 1 Life1.1 Early career1.2 Revolution1.3 Under Napoleo..
Jean-Étienne Boré
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Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol
Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol (1772 - 1840) was a French psychiatrist. He was born in Toulouse, France. He studied there and completed his education at Montpellier. He came to Paris in 1799 where he worked at the Salpêtrière Hospital and became a favorite student of Philippe Pinel. To enable E..
Jean-Étienne Guettard
Jean-Étienne Guettard (September 22, 1715 – January 7, 1786), French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Etampes. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualified as a doctor in medicine. Pursuing the study of botany in vari..
Jean-Etienne Liotard
Jean-Étienne Liotard (born 1702 at Geneva; died 1789 in Geneva) was a Swiss-French painter. He began his studies under Professor Gardelle and Petitot, whose enamels and miniatures he copied with considerable skill, He went to Paris in 1725, studying under J. B. Masse and F. le i~Ioyne, on whose..
Jean-Étienne Montucla
Jean-Étienne Montucla (September 5, 1725 – December 18, 1799) was a French mathematician Biography Montucla was born at Lyon. In 1754 he published an anonymous treatise entitled Histoire des récherches sur la quadrature du cercle, and in 1758 the first part of his great work, Histoire d..
Jean-Étienne Valluy
Jean-Étienne Valluy (May 15, 1899-January 4, 1970) was a French general. He was born in France to Jean-Claude Valluy and Jeanne Marie Cossanges. He attended the military academy of Saint-Cyr and joined the army. He climbed all the ranks of officer to Brigadier General in 1945. He was a French mi..
Jean-Eudes Dubé
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Jean-Féry Rebel
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist. Rebel (pronounced re-BEL) was a student of the great composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. By 1699 Rebel had become first violinist of the Académie royale de musique (Royal Academy of Music) and at the Opéra. Rebel went..
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin
Jean-François-Auguste Moulin was a member of the Directory from 20 June 1799 to 10 November 1799. ..
Jean-François-Marie de Surville
Jean-François-Marie de Surville (1717 - April 1770) was a French trader and navigator. In 1767 de Surville set sail in his ship, the St Jean Baptiste to India to trade between the French settlements in India and China. In 1768, while in India, de Surville heard rumours the British had discovered ..
Jean-François Allard
Jean-François Allard (1785 - 1839), a French soldier and adventurer. Born in Saint Tropez, he became a soldier and was twice injured while serving in Napoleon's army. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur and promoted to Captain of the 7th Hussars. After Waterloo, he drifted around and eventually en..
Jean-François Barrière
Jean-François Barrière (1786-1868) was a French historian. He wrote about the French revolution. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ..
Jean-Francois Batellier
Born in Paris in 1947, J-F Batellier is an independent "political" (in the broadest sense) cartoonist. He works in the dazibao style, frequently exhibiting his drawings on the streets. He has had many court cases concerned with the legality of so exhibiting his work. Several volumes of drawings have..
Jean-François Brûlet
Jean-François Brûlet is a French medical doctor. He has been involved for a long time in medical informatic techniques for family medicine. He is, with Philippe Ameline, the inventor of the Ligne de vie. ..
Jean-François Champollion
For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. Champollion is generally credited as the father of Egyptology. Based..
Jean-François Clervoy
Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French spationaut and a veteran of three NASA space shuttle missions. Clervoy was born in Longeville-lès-Metz, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by France i..
Jean-François Corbett
Jean-François Corbett (born June 4, 1976) is a physicist and has been a political activist. He was an active member of the now-defunct Toronto branch of the group Mobilization for Global Justice. After his 2002 move to Denmark, he became active in the anti-war group Vesterbro mod Krig, a member org..
Jean-Francois Damphousse
Jean-Francois Damphousse (born July 21, 1979 in Saint-Alexis-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. "J-F" was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the first round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft with the 24th overall pick. After playing three years of junior hocke..
Jean-François Dandrieu
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682 – January 17, 1738) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave his first public performances when he was 5 years old, playing the harpsichord for ..
Jean-François Deniau
Jean François Deniau (born October 31, 1928) is a French statesman, essayist and novelist Deniau was born in Paris. He was elected to the Académie française on April 9, 1992. In 1958, he became the director of Foreign Relations for the European Commission. In 1963, he was named French ambassa..
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
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Jean-François de la Barre
Jean-François, knight de la Barre (1745 - July 1, 1766), was a French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and burned at the stake for not having removed his hat before a Catholic procession. In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Si..
Jean-François de La Harpe
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Jean-François Ducis
Jean-François Ducis (August 22, 1733 – March 31, 1816) was a French dramatist and adapter of Shakespeare Biography Ducis was born at Versailles. His father, originally from Savoy, was a linen draper at Versailles; and all through life he retained the simple tastes and straightforward in..
Jean-Francois Fortin
Jean-Francois Fortin (born March 15, 1979 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the second round, 35th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. After playing four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with ..
Jean-François Gerbillon
Jean-François Gerbillon (4 June 1654, Verdun – 27 March 1707, Peking, China) was a French missionary, who worked in China. ..
Jean-Francois Jacques
Jean-Francois Jacques (born April 29, 1985 in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada) is a professional ice hockey left wing who currently plays for the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. Jacques was drafted in the 2nd round (68th overall) by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. Prior to his professional ..
Jean-François Jarrige
Jean-François Jarrige is a french archaeologist specializing in South Asian archaeology. He holds a doctorate from the University of Paris in oriental archaeology. He has done excavations in Baluchistan, Mehrgarh and Pirak. He is the director of the Musée Guimet in Paris. Works 1990 - La Préhist..
Jean-Francois Labbe
Jean-Francois Labbe (born June 15, 1972 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey-Liga. He was never drafted in the National Hockey League. After playing four seasons in the Quebec ..
Jean-François Lamour
Jean-François Lamour (born February 2, 1956) is a French former fencer and current politician and cabinet minister. A top fencer he was a gold medallist at the 1984 Olympics and 1988 Olympics and a bronze medal winner at the 1992 Olympics in the men's individual sabre. He was also world champion..
Jean-François Lapointe
Jean-François Lapointe is a Canadian baritone. He studied voice at Université Laval with Louise Andrée, and then in private lessons with Martial Singher (California). He is recognised for his interpretations of French repertoire, especially the role of Pelléas in Claude Debussy's Pelléas et M..
Jean-François Lisée
Jean-François Lisée (born in 1958, in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is a Quebecois journalist, author, intellectual and well-known sovereigntist thinker. He has been special advisor to Parti Québécois Premiers of Quebec Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard. He is presently Executive Director of the ..
Jean-François Lyotard
redirect [[Template:Inappropriate tone]]This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Jean-François Lyotard (August 10 1924 – April 21 1998) was a Fre..
Jean-François Marmontel
Jean-François Marmontel. French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]..
Jean-François Millet
The Sower. Jean-François Millet. 1850. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers. He was part of the movement termed "..
Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane
Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane (born October 6, 1939) was Prime Minister of Gabon from 23 January 1999 to 20 January 2006. He is a member of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). He was replaced by Jean Eyeghe Ndong after President Omar Bongo was sworn in for another term in January 2006. ..
Jean-François Oeben
Jean-François Oeben Johann Franz Oeben (* 9 October 1721 Heinsberg near Aachen - 21 January 1763) was a French cabinetmaker. Training c. 1734 - 1735 final examination c. 1740 - 1742 probably around Heinsberg, Jülich, Aachen or Cologne; From 1749 he lived at Faubourg Saint Antoine. On June 29, ..
Jean-François Paillard
Jean-François Paillard (born April 12, 1928) is a French conductor. He was born in Vitry-le-François and received his musical training at the Paris Conservatory and the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1953, he founded the Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble, which later became the Jean-François Pai..
Jean-François Porchez
Jean-François Porchez (born in 1964) is the president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces for Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France T�..
Jean-François Portaels
Jean-François Portaels (Vilvoorde, April 3, 1818 - Schaerbeek, February 8, 1895) was a Belgian orientalist painter and director of the Academy of Brussels. His father, a rich brewer, sent him to study in the Brussels Academy, and the director, François Navez, ere long received him as a pupil in h..
Jean-François Racine
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Jean-François Regnard
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Jean-François Remésy
Jean-François Remésy is a French professional golfer. He was born in Nimes on 5 June 1964, won the French Amateur Championship in 1985 and turned professional in 1987. For much of his career he has struggled to establish himself as a tour golfer, and he has made a dozen trips to the European Tour ..
Jean-François Revel
Jean-François Revel (Marseille, France, January 19, 1924 – April 30, 2006 in Kremlin-Bicêtre) was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française since June 1998. He was born Jean-François Ricard, but later adopted his pseudonym Revel as ..
Jean-François Rewbell
Jean-François Rewbell (October 8, 1747—November 23, 1807) was a French lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the Revolution. The revolutionary Born at Colmar (now in the département of Haut-Rhin), he became president of the local order of lawyers, and in 1789 was elected as a deputy to the E..
Jean-Francois Rischard
Jean-François Rischard is a Luxembourgish economist, and was the World Bank's vice president for Europe from 1998 to 2005. He lives in Paris, France. Publications High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them (2003). ISBN 0465070108 ..
Jean-François Rivière
Jean-François Rivière, born February 28, 1977 in Mayenne, France is a French striker currently playing for French Ligue 2 side Niort. His previous clubs include Stade Lavallois Mayonne, Amiens SC and Besançon RCF. Reference - [link] ..
Jean-François Séguier
Jean François Séguier de Nîmes (25 November, 1703 – 1784) was a French astronomer and botanist. Botanical works include: Plantae Veronenses, seu Stirpium quae in agro Veronensi repriuntur (1754). ..
Jean-François Susbielle
Jean-François Susbielle is a French author who wrote La morsure du dragon. In that novel, he stages what may happen if China were to ban Microsoft. JF Susbielle has written some of the very first technical books on Voice over IP, VoIP, "Telephonie sur l'Internet" in 1996, and "Internet Multimedia" ..
Jean-François Thiriart
Jean-Francois Thiriart (1922—November 23 1992) was a Belgian fascist politician. Contents 1 World War II2 Cold War syncretism3 National Bolshevism and later life4 See also5 Notes World War II Initially a Socialist, Thiriart evolved into a Nationalist form of non-Ma..
Jean-Frédéric Noël
Jean-Frédérick Noël is a Canadian born in 1982, in the province of Quebec. He an accomplished artist, his most recognised piece of art being the murals painted at the famous Utopik Hostel in Montreal. His pieces of art, mainly drawings and paintings are landmarks of Montreal buzzling artistic sce..
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas (July 9, 1701 - November 21, 1781) was a French statesman. He was born at Versailles, the son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, secretary of state for the marine and the royal household. Maurepas succeeded to his father's charge at fourteen, and began his func..
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
Jean Frederic Maximilien de Waldeck (June 13, 1766 - April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. Waldeck was undoubtedly a man of talent and accomplishments, but his love of self promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some asp..
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Jean-Gabriel Albicocco (15 February 1936, Cannes - 10 April 2001, Rio de Janeiro) was a French film director. In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt. He is considered a figure of the French New Wave cinema or Nouvelle Vague. Films 1961 : La Fille aux yeux d'or1962 : Le Rat d'A..
Jean-Gabriel Castel
Jean-Gabriel Castel (born 1925) is a Canadian law professor and Professor Emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School. Born in Nice, France, he served in the French Resistance during World War II receiving military decorations for his service. After the war, he received two law degrees in Paris. He receive..
Jean-Gaspard Deburau
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Jean-Gaston Tremblay
Jean Grégoire de La Trinité, alias Jean-Gaston Tremblay, from Canada proclaimed himself Pope Gregory XVII in 1968; however, it must be noted that Tremblay usually styles himself Pope John-Gregory XVII. He is the self styled successor of an ultra-modernist, reformist French antipope, Michel Collin,..
Jean-Georges Noverre
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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Jean-Jack Queyranne
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Jean-Jacques Boisard
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Jean-Jacques Boissard
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Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
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Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
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Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
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Jean-Jacques Domoraud
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Jean-Jacques Dony
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Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil
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Jean-Jacques Goldman
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Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
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Jean-Jacques Haus
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Jean-Jacques Henner
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Jean-Jacques Honorat
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Jean-Jacques Laffont
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Jean-Jacques Lebel
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Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu
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Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec
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Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Jean-Jacques Nattiez (born December 30 1945, Amiens, France) is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal. He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music semiology (doctoral) with Nicolas Ruwet. He is a noted specialist on ..
Jean-Jacques Pauvert
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Jean-Jacques Pelletier
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Sempé
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Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
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Jean-Jacques Tizié
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Jean-Jacques Willmar
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Jean-Jérôme Adam
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Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
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Jean-Joseph Mouret
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Jean-Lambert Tallien
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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Jean-Louis Aubert
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Jean-Louis Beffa
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Jean-Louis Berlandier
Jean-Louis Berlandier (ca. 1805 – 1851) was a French naturalist and anthropologist. Berlandier was born in rural Fort de l'Écluse, near France's border with Switzerland, and trained as a botanist in Geneva. During this time he probably served an apprenticeship to a pharmacist. In his e..
Jean-Louis Borloo
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Jean-Louis Bourlanges
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Jean-Louis Bruguière
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Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran
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Jean-Louis Costes
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Jean-Louis Cottigny
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Jean-Louis Debré
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Jean-Louis de Lolme
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Jean-Louis Fetjaine
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Jean-Louis Forain
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Jean-Louis Gassée
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Jean-Louis Gergorin
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Jean-Louis Hamon
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Jean-Louis Jeanmaire
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Jean-Louis Koszul
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Jean-Louis Laya
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Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus
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Jean-Louis Lemoyne
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Jean-Louis Lévesque
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Jean-Louis Morin
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Jean-Louis Pezant
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Jean-Louis Pierrot
Jean-Louis Pierrot (1761-1857) was a career officer and general in the Haïtian Army. He became president of Haïti on April 16, 1845. During the first Haïtian Kingdom, Henry I promoted Pierrot to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Army and granted him the hereditary title of Prince. As Presiden..
Jean-Louis Pons
Jean-Louis Pons (December 24, 1761 – October 14, 1831) was a French astronomer. Between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history. He discovered four periodic comets, only two of which bear his name today. One of them (observed on November 26, ..
Jean-Louis Rosier
Jean-Louis Rosier is the son of Louis Rosier. Together they won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950. The Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrand is also named after them. ..
Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux, CC (born May 18, 1923) is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Canada. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he originally studied medicine at the Université de Montréal, but gave it up to pursue acting. After travelling and performing in ..
Jean-Louis Scaringella
Jean-Louis Scaringella, was born in 1948, in Grenoble, France and graduated from HEC Paris and Harvard Business School. On november 1999, he was named as the Dean of ESCP-EAP. Internal links ESCP-EAP European School of Management ..
Jean-Louis Schiltz
Jean-Louis Schiltz (born 1964 in Luxembourg) is a politician of Luxembourg. He studied law in Luxembourg and Paris, and became a lawyer in 1989. Since 2004 he is a government minister. ..
Jean-Louis Schlesser
| Years = 1988 | Team(s) = Williams| Races = 1 | Championships = 0 | Wins = 0 | Podiums = 0 | Poles = 0 | Fastest laps = 0 | First race = 1988 Italian Grand Prix | First win = | Last win = | Last race = 1988 Italian Grand Prix | }} Jean-Louis Schlesser is a racing driver with experience in circ..
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour (born October 12, 1907 in Paris, died September 29, 1989, Paris) was a lawyer and French nationalist politician. He was a candidate in French presidential election, 1965, his campaign manager was Jean-Marie Le Pen. He won 1,260,208 votes, which was 5.2% of the total, giv..
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (born on December 11 1930 in Vaucluse, France) is a French actor. At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris, France to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. After touring in ..
Jean-Loup Chrétien
Jean-Loup J.M. Chrétien, is a retired Général de Brigade (brigadier general) of the Armée de l'Air (French air force), spationaut on several Franco-Soviet space missions, and former NASA mission specialist. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and Western European in space. Contents 1 Pers..
Jean-Lou Chameau
Jean-Lou Chameau (born 1953) is a civil engineer and provost for the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will be taking over as president of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Chameau received his secondary and undergraduate education in France where he attended the ENSAM. He then obtaine..
Jean-Luc
Jean-Luc can refer to: Jean-Luc Bennahmias, French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of FranceJean-Luc Dehaene, Flemish (Belgian) politicianJean-Luc De Meyer, Belgian vocalist and lyricist best known as the lead vocalist of Front 242Jean-Luc Godard, Franco-Swiss fi..
Jean-Luc Bennahmias
Jean-Luc Bennahmias (born 2 December 1954 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. He is a member of the French Green Party, part of the European Greens, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. He ..
Jean-Luc Brassard
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is a French-Canadian freestyle skiier, winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the sport's debut as a medal event. Brassard has been credited as popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and le..
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Jean-Luc Dehaene Jean-Luc Dehaene [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (born August 7 1940) is a Flemish (Belgian) politician. He was born in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing for the German troops. He got into politics through the Algemeen Christ..
Jean-Luc De Meyer
Jean-Luc De Meyer is a vocalist and lyricist who is best known as the lead vocalist of innovative Belgian Industrial group Front 242. De Meyer joined Front 242 early in their history and his inpassive growl became part of the group's trademark sound as their reputation grew during the late 1980's..
Jean-Luc Ettori
Jean-Luc Ettori (born July 29, 1955) is a former French football goalkeeper. ..
Jean-Luc Godard
(photograph by David Horvitz) Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930 in Paris) is a Franco-Swiss filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave". Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer,..
Jean-Luc Godard filmography
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Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre
Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre (born February 2, 1977, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the seventh round, 179th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. After playing four seasons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, ..
Jean-Luc Lagardère
Jean-Luc Lagardère (February 10, 1928 - March 14, 2003) was a major French businessman. Jean-Luc Lagardère was a Supelec engineer. He began his career in Dassault Aviation. CEO of Matra in the 1960s, he became famous with success in Formula 1 and Le Mans. He later built a large media and defense ..
Jean-Luc Mandaba
Jean-Luc Mandaba (1943–22 October 2000) was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 25 October 1993 to 12 April 1995. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Jean-Luc Margot
Jean-Luc Margot is a Belgian astronomer and an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. He specializes in planetary sciences. He was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society in 2004. The asteroid 9531 Jean-Luc is named after him. External links [Department of As..
Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) is among the best-known living philosophers in France. Life Marion was born in Meudon, France, in 1946. He married in 1970 and has two sons. Marion studied at the University of Nanterre (now the University Paris X – Nanterre) and the [[University of Paris IV: Paris-..
Jean-Luc Nancy
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Jean-Luc Pépin
Jean-Luc Pépin, PC, CC (November 1 1924 - September 30 1995) was a Canadian academic, politician and Cabinet minister. Pepin was a political science professor at the University of Ottawa when he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1963 election as a Liberal Member of Parliam..
Jean-Luc Picard
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a virtuoso French violinist and jazz composer. Trained as a professional classical violinist at the Paris Conservatory, Ponty's attraction to jazz was propelled by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's music. Ponty has worked with Stéph..
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, born November 13 1910 in Paris, was a minister in various French governments in the 1950s and 60s, as well as France's first ambassador to Algeria in the immediate aftermath of the Algerian war of independence. He has been a professor of economics and is the founder of the Ob..
Jean-Marc Ayrault
Jean-Marc Ayrault, born on January 25th, 1950 in Maulévrier, in the departement of Maine-et-Loire, is a french politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. He is currently Mayor of Nantes (since 1989) and President of Socialist Party Group in French National Assembly (since 1997). Career..
Jean-Marc Barr
Jean-Marc Barr was born on September 27, 1960 in Bitburg,Germany. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a director, screenwriter and producer. He studied philosophy at the Univ..
Jean-Marc Bosman
Jean-Marc Bosman (born October 30, 1964) is a former Belgian footballer, whose judicial challenge of the football transfer rules led to the Bosman ruling. This landmark judgement completely changed the way footballers are employed, allowing professional players in the European Union to move freely t..
Jean-Marc Bustamante
Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952) is a French artist, sculptor and photographer. He was born in Toulouse. He is noted as a conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. He has also worked with film. From 1983 to 1987 he and Bernard Baz..
Jean-Marc Carisse
Jean-Marc Carisse is a Canadian photographer. He has covered the political scene on Parliament Hill for over 25 years in both the Prime Minister's Office (a PMO record for an official photographer)and the National Liberal Caucus. Many of his photographs hang in the halls, rooms and offices of Pa..
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé (born 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in franco-ontarian literature. Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1976. He subsequently worked with several franco-ontarian theatre companies, in..
Jean-Marc de La Sablière
Jean-Marc de La Sablière is the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations. ..
Jean-Marc Fournier
The Honourable Jean-Marc Fournier (born October 7th, 1959) is a lawyer and the Minister of Education, Leisure and Sports for Quebec, Canada. Background Information / Recent Events The Quebec government of premier Jean Charest cut over $103 million from the student loans and bursaries program in 200..
Jean-Marc Gounon
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Jean-Marc Guillou
Jean-Marc Guillou is an French ex-footballer and current trainer. He was born on December 20 1945 in France. He played at the 1978 World Cup. Guillou was the founder of the Abidjan football school, eventually becoming the manager, technical director and trainer ofASEC Abidjan. He currently runs a ..
Jean-Marc Hamel
Jean-Marc Hamel (born 1925) was the Chief Electoral Officer from 1966 to 1990. Born in Lotbinière, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1948 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1949 from Laval University. He received a M.P.A. from Syracuse University in 1956. In 1990, he was made ..
Jean-Marc Lalonde
Jean-Marc Lalonde (born 1935) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Glengarry—Prescott—Russell for the Ontario Liberal Party. Lalonde was employed in the Public Service of Canada from 1956 to 1990. He ..
Jean-Marc Lederman
Jean-Marc Lederman is a Belgian keyboard player and producer. He has worked with numerous bands including Fad Gadget, The The, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Weathermen, Streets, and Front 242, and with other artists including Julianne Regan and Alain Bashung. ..
Jean-Marc Lofficier
Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22, 1954) is a French author of books about film and television programs, as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife Randy Lofficier. Lofficier was born in Toulon. He appears in an upco..
Jean-Marc Luisada
Jean-Marc Luisada (Born June 3, 1958) is a pianist born in Bizerte, Tunisia. At the age of 16 he commenced studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, under Domonique Merlet (piano) and Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux (chamber music). He has also studied with Nikita Magaloff and Paul Badura-Skoda. Among his ..
Jean-Marc Mormeck
Jean-Marc Mormeck (born june 3, 1972 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French professionnal boxer. Jean-Marc Mormeck is a former WBA (since February 23, 2002) and WBC (since April 22, 2005) Cruiserweight World Champion. He was the first unified Cruiserweight champion since Evander Holyfield. H..
Jean-Marc Nattier
Battle of Lesnaya by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1717 Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766), French painter, was born in Paris, the son of Marc Nattier, a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois, a miniaturist. He received his first instruction from his father, and having applied himself to copying pictures..
Jean-marc parent
[[Catégorie:Humoriste québécois|Parent, Jean-Marc]] Jean-Marc Parent est un humoriste québécois. ..
Jean-Marc Pelletier
Jean-Marc Pelletier (born March 4, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender. Currently, he plays for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. Pelletier was drafted out of Cornell University by the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the..
Jean-Marc Perraud
Jean-Marc Perraud is Executive Vice President and CFO of Schlumberger Limited. Perraud graduated from École des Hautes Études CommercialesMasters in Business Administration from Columbia UniversityFulbright ProgramLaw degree from Paris Universitybegan his career in Schlumberger in 1974 as IT mana..
Jean-Marc Reiser
French comic artist Jean-Marc Reiser was born April 13 1941 in Réhon. He died November 5 1983 in Paris, of bone cancer. He was a prolific artist from 1958 until his death. See also [Article in French Wikipedia] External link [Short bio] ..
Jean-Marc Vallée
Jean-Marc Vallée (born 1963) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. Filmography Les Fleurs magiques (1995)Liste noire (1995)Los Locos (1997)Les Mots magiques (1998)Loser Love (1999)C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) ..
Jean-Marc XO Vodka
Jean-Marc XO Vodka is a premium vodka distilled in the Cognac region of France by Jean-Marc Daucourt. It uses four French wheat grains (Ysengrain, Orvantis, Azteque, and Chargeur) selected for their specific flavors. Each wheat grain is separated from its chaff before distillation in order to elim..
Jean-Marie Auberson
Jean-Marie Auberson (May 2, 1920 – July 4, 2004) was a Swiss conductor and violinist, student of Ernest Ansermet and Carl Schuricht. He was born in Chavornay, Vaud canton, Switzerland and died in Draguignan, Var, France. His musical career: Violinist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausann..
Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry
General de Gaulle at upper left, Bastien-Thiry at upper right Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (October 19, 1927 – March 11, 1963) was a French military air weaponry engineer and the ringleader of attempts to assassinate President of France Charles de Gaulle. Bastien-Thiry was born to a family ..
Jean-Marie Beaupuy
Jean-Marie Beaupuy (born 28 November 1943) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the east of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Reg..
Jean-Marie Benjamin
The Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin is a priest who once worked as an assistant to the Vatican secretary of state and became an activist for lifting Iraqi sanctions prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is reported to have set up the meeting between former Pope John Paul II and Tariq Aziz, Iraq's foreign..
Jean-Marie Buchet
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Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger
Jean-Marie Lustiger (French pronunciation: [ |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot (11 October 1905 – 9 March 1979) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Lyon, and a prominent member of the Roman Curia in Vatican City. Biography Born in Saint-Amant-Tallende, France in 1905, Jean-Marie Villot was ordained a priest in 193..
Jean-Marie Cavada
Jean-Marie Cavada (born 24 February 1940 in Épinal, Vosges) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and chairs the Committee on Ci..
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962). French Admiral and Naval Minister of France. He fought in both World Wars, and was known mostly for his activity at Dunkirk in 1940. ..
Jean-Marie Charpentier
right Jean-Marie Charpentier is a French architect and urban planner. He founded the architectural practice "arte jean-marie charpentier", in Paris in 1969. Projects Shanghai Grand Theatre External link [arte jean-marie charpentier] ..
Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon
Jean-Marie Claude Alexandre Goujon (April 13, 1766 – 1795) was a French journalist, lawyer, and statesman of the French Revolution. He was the brother-in-law of Pierre François Tissot. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Convention1.3 Downfall2 References Biogra..
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (June 19, 1749 – January 8, 1796) was a French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. Contents 1 Early life2 Activism3 Terror, Thermidor, and deportation4 Wo..
Jean-Marie Colombani
Jean-Marie Colombani is the editor of the daily French newspaper Le Monde. He is the author of the leader article published after the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the front page of "Le Monde", entitled "We are All Americans". In 2004 he co-authored with Walter Wells, editor of the International ..
Jean-Marie Dedecker
Jean-Marie Dedecker (born Nieuwpoort, 13 June 1952) is a Belgian, Flemish politician of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD). Since June 2004 he is a member of the Belgian Senate and a member of the Flemish Parliament. Dedecker is scheduled to be a candidate in the municipal elections in Ostend..
Jean-Marie de Lamennais
Jean-Marie Robert de Lamennais (1780-1860) was a French Roman-Catholic priest, brother of the philosopher Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais, whom he influenced in their youth. Jean-Marie Robert de Lamennais founded the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in 1817 in order to suppor..
Jean-Marie Domenach
Jean-Marie Domenach (1922 – 1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker. He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert ..
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 13 of April, 1940 in Nice) is a French author. Bibliography Procès-verbal (Prix Renaudot 1963) The InterrogationDésertDéluge The FloodLa Fièvre FeverVers les icebergs (Essai sur Henri Michaud)L'Extase matérielleTerra Amata Terra Amata (Beloved Earth)Le Livre..
Jean-Marie Guyau
Jean-Marie Guyau (October 28, 1854 - March 31, 1888) was a French philosopher and poet. Inspired by poetry and philosophy, he read all the large texts with a preference for Hugo, Corneille, Musset, Epictetus, Plato, and Kant. Bachelor of arts at 17 years, he translated the Handbook of Epictetus. H..
Jean-Marie Halsdorf
De Jean-Marie Halsdorf (born 1957 in Luxembourg-Ville) is a politician of Luxembourg. He attended grammar school in Echternach (Iechternach) and studied in Strasbourg. In 1988 he was elected to the town council of Pétange (Péiteng). In 2003 he became mayor of the town. In 1994 he was elected to..
Jean-Marie Leblanc
Jean-Marie Leblanc (born July 27, 1944, Nueil-sur-Argent, France) is a retired professional road bicycle racer and general director of the Tour de France since 1989. He became a professional in 1966 and rode until 1971. He gained his best results in criteriums, small tours and single stage races, li..
Jean-Marie Leclair
Jean-Marie Leclair, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, (Lyon May 10, 1697 - Paris October 22, 1764) was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. Leclair left his native Lyon and studied dance and the violin in Turin. In 1716, he marri..
Jean-Marie Leclair the younger
Jean-Marie Leclair (1703-1777) was a French composer, the younger brother of the better-known Jean-Marie Leclair "the elder". His musical output included works for two violins. In 1733 he produced Le Rhone et la Saone, a vocal piece. Opus 1 appeared (1739) and his Opus 2 (1750) were published than..
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands. Professor Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i..
Jean-Marie Le Bris
Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856. A sailor and sea captain, Jean-Marie Le Bris sailed around the world observing the flight of the Albatross bird. Although he sailed around the world, his true ..
Jean-Marie Le Pen
We must tell the Algerians that it is not the case that they need France, but that France needs them. They are not a burden, and if they are for now, they will on the contrary be a dynamic part as well as the young blood of the French nation into which we will have integrated them. I claim tha..
Jean-Marie Londeix
Jean-Marie Londeix (September 20, 1932) is a french saxophonist born in Libourne who studied saxophone, piano, harmony and chamber music. Jean-Marie Londeix had classes with Marcel Mule at the Conservatory of Paris, he also studied with Fernand Oubradous and Norbert Dufourcq, among others. Then, h..
Jean-Marie Messier
Jean-Marie Messier (born December 13, 1956) is a French businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi SA (formerly Vivendi Universal) until 2002. After studying at the École Polytechnique from 1976 to 1980 (X1976) and then at the École nationale ..
Jean-Marie Musy
Jean-Marie Musy (April 10, 1876 - April 19, 1952) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 11, 1919, and handed over office on April 30, 1934. He was affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. During his time in office h..
Jean-Marie Pallardy
Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director. He is mostly popular for making campy B-movies, especially White Fire. External links [Nanarland] Biography of Jean-Marie Pallardy, his recurrent actors, reviews of his films and other media ..
Jean-Marie Pelt
Jean-Marie Pelt (born October 24, 1933) is a French botanist. Pelt founded the European Institute of Ecology in 1972. He is also known for his television series, particularly L'Aventure des Plantes (1982, 1987) and Des Plantes et des Hommes (1993). ..
Jean-Marie Perrot
The abbot Jean-Marie Perrot, in Breton Yann Vari Perrot (September 3 1877, Plouarzel-December 12 1943, Scrignac) was a Breton priest. He was raised in a provincial Breton-speaking family. After studying at the Institut des Frères des Écoles in Guingamp in 1889, he expressed a desire to become a p..
Jean-Marie Pfaff
Jean-Marie Pfaff (born in Lebbeke, December 4, 1953) was a Belgian football goalkeeper. At the age of 16, Pfaff joined K.S.K. Beveren with whom he won a Belgian champions title (1979) and a Belgian Cup (1978). The same year, he received the Belgian Golden Shoe. In 1982, he entered the Bayern Mu..
Jean-Marie Poitras
Jean-Marie Poitras (born September 5, 1918) is a former Canadian senator. Born in Macamic, Quebec, he was appointed to the Senate in 1988 representing the senatorial division of De Salaberry, Quebec. He resigned on May 25, 1993, just short of his 75th birthday and mandatory retirement. He was a mem..
Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière Vicomte Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (February 18, 1734 – November 10, 1793) was a French statesman and Girondist during the French Revolution. He served as a minister of the interior in King Louis XVI's Girondist cabinet of spring 1792. Contents ..
Jean-Marie Rouart
Jean-Marie Rouart (b. April 8, 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French novelist, essayist and journalist. He was elected to the Académie française December 18, 1997. Bibliography 1974 La Fuite en Pologne (Grasset)1975 La Blessure de Georges Aslo (Grasset)1977 Les Feux du pouvoir - Prix Inter..
Jean-Marie Souriau
Jean-Marie Souriau is a mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he is one of the pioneers. He has published several works, a treatise on relativity [Sou64b] and a treatise on mechanics: [Sou70]. He has developed the symplectic aspects of classical and quantu..
Jean-Marie Straub
Jean-Marie Straub (born 8 January 1933 in France) is a French film director. He collaborates with Danièle Huillet and since 1963 the duo have made about two dozen austere films which blend high European culture with Marxist-influenced politics. Some titles include Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bac..
Jean-Marie Tjibaou
Jean-Marie Tjibaou (1936 – 1989) was involved in politics in New Caledonia. During the 1970s, after undertaking a thesis in ethnology at the Sorbonne. While he did not complete his studies, he became engaged in cultural and ethnicity issues on New Caledonia. In 1975 he arranged the Melanesia 2000 ..
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center
The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center was designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano with the concept of celebrating the vernacular Kanak culture of New Caledonia. The centre is composed of 10 units, all of different sizes and different functions, but with the consistent form of vertically..
Jean-Marie Toulouse
Jean-Marie Toulouse (born 1942) is a Canadian academic. He is a Professor and Director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montreal. In 2004, he was made an Officer (Officier) of the National Order of Quebec. In 1997, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. External link..
Jean-Martin Charcot
Professor Charcot was well-known for showing, during his lessons at the Salpêtrière hospital, "hysterical" woman patients – here, his favorite patient, "Blanche" (Marie) Wittman, supported by Joseph Babiński. Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 - 16 August 1893) was a French neurol..
Jean-Martin Folz
Jean-Martin Folz (born in 1947, in Strasbourg, France) is a French businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën. ..
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert, comte Sérurier
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert, comte Sérurier (1742 - 1819), French soldier, was born at Laon of middle-class parentage. After being lieutenant of the Laon militia, he entered the royal army, and served in the campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762) and Corsica (1771). At the beginning of the Revolu..
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier
Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, comte Sérurier (December 8, 1742—December 24, 1819), was a French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France. Contents 1 Life1.1 Early life1.2 Revolution and Empire1.3 Later life Life Early life Born in Laon..
Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarède
Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarède was a canon regular and Vicar Capitular of Pamiers, born 1639; died 4 August, 1692. He was educated at Toulouse (France), entered the Seminary of Pamiers, and later joined the regular, who formed the cathedral chapter of that diocese. After the death of the bishop, F..
Jean-Michel Atlan
Jean-Michel Atlan (January 23, 1913 - February 12, 1960), was a French artist. He was born in Constantine, Algeria, and moved to Paris in 1930. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He started as a self taught painter in 1941. He was arrested for being Jewish and for his political activism in 1942..
Jean-Michel Badiane
Jean-Michel Badiane (born 9 May 1983 in Paris) is a French soccer defender, currently playing for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1. Badiane is the third choice centre back for the Parisian side, and made his professional début on 21 August 2004 in a match against Nantes. He signed his first professio..
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (IPA: [ʒã mi 'ʃɛl bas ˈkja] or [ʒan mi 'ʃɛl bas ki 'at]) (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. He gained fame, first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a highly successful Neo-expression..
Jean-Michel Byron
Jean-Michel Byron (born Byron DuPlessis) was the South African born lead vocalist for Los Angeles rock legends Toto for their Past to Present project. Disliked by many Toto traditionalists for his bizarre stage antics and fey manner, Byron was downgraded to backing vocalist during the 'Past to Prese..
Jean-Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (October 30, 1924 - July 10, 1989) was a French scriptwriter best known for his work in European comic books. He was a co-founder of the famed European comics-magazine Pilote. Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with the Stu..
Jean-Michel Cousteau
--> Jean-Michel Cousteau is the first son of ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He was born in 1938 to Jacques-Yves' wife Simone. He first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 7 years old. Fabien Cousteau is his son. Explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer--- for more than fo..
Jean-Michel d'Avray
Jean-Michel (Mich) d'Avray born February 19 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa is a football (Soccer) manager. D'Avray is the Technical Director for A-League team Perth Glory. D'Avray represented England at U/21 level. ..
Jean-Michel de Lepinay
Jean-Michel de Lepinay was the governor of the French colony of Louisiana from 1717 to 1718. Before serving as governor, Lepinay had been a naval officer and served over twenty years in Canada. He was appointed governor by Antoine Crozat, the royally appointed administrator of the colony. Lepinay ca..
Jean-Michel Dubernard
Jean-Michel Dubernard is a medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery, as well as a Deputy in the current French National Assembly. Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on September 23, 1998, the first successful double hand transpl..
Jean-Michel Folon
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Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec
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Jean-Michel Jarre
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Jean-Michel Liade Gnonka
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Jean-Michel Ménard
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Jean-Michel Saive
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Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
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Jean-Nicolas Bouilly
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Jean-Nicolas Corvisart
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Jean-Nicolas Démeunier
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Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy
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Jean-Nicolas Pache
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Jean-Nicolas Servan
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Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
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Jean-Noël Perrier Doumbe
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Jean-Noël Tremblay
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Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
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Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick
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Jean-Paul Abalo
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Jean-Paul Aron
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Jean-Paul Audet
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac
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Jean-Paul Colonval
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Jean-Paul Crespelle
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Jean-Paul Deschatelets
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Jean-Paul de Marigny
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Jean-Paul Duminy
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Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
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Jean-Paul Gaultier
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Jean-Paul Gauzès
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Jean-Paul Kamudimba Kalala
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Jean-Paul L'Allier
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Jean-Paul Laurens
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Jean-Paul Marat
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Jean-Paul Mousseau
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Jean-Paul Ney
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Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
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Jean-Paul Proust
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Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Jean-Paul Rigollot
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Jean-Paul Riopelle
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Jean-Paul Rostagni
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Jean-Paul Samputu
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
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Jean-Paul St. Laurent
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Jean-Paul Turcaud
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Jean-Paul Van Bendegem
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Jean-Philippe Bergeron
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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1921-2004) was a French photographer. ..
Jean-Philippe Collard
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Jean-Philippe Côté
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Jean-Philippe Darche
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Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux
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Jean-Philippe Fleurian
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Jean-Philippe Maitre
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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Jean-Pierre-Abel Rémusat
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Jean-Pierre-André Amar
Jean-Pierre-André Amar or Jean-Baptiste-André Amar (May 11, 1755—December 21, 1816) was a French political figure of the Revolution. Contents 1 Life1.1 Erly activities1.2 Prominence1.3 Later life Life Erly activities Born to a rich family of cloth salesmen in Grenoble..
Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel
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Jean-Pierre Abbat
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Jean-Pierre Abboud
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Jean-Pierre Abelin
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Jean-Pierre Andrevon
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Jean-Pierre Audy
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Jean-Pierre Aulneau
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
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Jean-Pierre Barda
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Jean-Pierre Bemba
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard
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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
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Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
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Jean-Pierre Brard
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Jean-Pierre Brisset
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Jean-Pierre Calloc'h
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Jean-Pierre Camus
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Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard
Styles of Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard Reference style His Eminence Spoken style Your Eminence Informal style Cardinal See Bordeaux et Bazes Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard (born 25 September 1944) is a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic church and archbishop of Bordeaux et Bazes. Contents..
Jean-Pierre Cassel
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Jean-Pierre Changeux
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Jean-Pierre Chevènement
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Jean-Pierre Cortot
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Jean-Pierre Côté
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Jean-Pierre Danel
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Jean-Pierre de Crousaz
Jean-Pierre de Crousaz (1663-1750) was a Swiss theologian and philosopher. He is now remembered more for his letters of commentary than his formal works. De Crousaz was born in Lausanne. He was a many-sided man, whose numerous works on many subjects had a great vogue in their day, but are now forgo..
Jean-Pierre de Montalivet
Jean-Pierre Bachasson, count of Montalivet. Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Pierre Bachasson, comte de Montalivet (1766 - 1823) was a French statesman and Peer of France. He was the father of Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet, Minister of the Interior under Louis-Philippe. C..
Jean-Pierre Dumont
Jean-Pierre Dumont (born April 1, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Buffalo Sabres in the National Hockey League (NHL). Previously, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks. JP, as he is usually referred to as, was drafted third overall the 1996 ..
Jean-Pierre Duport
This article about a musical group, band, singer, musician, album, or song does not make it clear whether the subject meets the [WikiProject MusicWikiProject Music] criteria for [importanceimportance]. For guidelines see the [Notability Wikipedia music notability guidelines&..
Jean-Pierre Elissalde
Jean-Pierre Elissalde (born December 31, 1953) was a French rugby union player at scrum half and since 2005 has been the first foreign head coach of the Japan national rugby union team. Contents 1 Coaching experience2 Player3 Other4 External links Coaching experience Elissa..
Jean-Pierre Ferland
Jean-Pierre Ferland (born June 24, 1934, Montreal) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. In 1996, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2003, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. External links [Jean-Pierre Ferland] at The Canadian Encyclopedia ..
Jean-Pierre Garnier
Jean-Pierre Garnier is Chief Executive Officer of GlaxoSmithKline. He assumed this role in January 2001 with the merger of SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome. He joined SmithKline Beecham in 1990 as president of its pharmaceutical business in North America and served as Chairman, Pharmaceuticals..
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1970 Jean-Pierre Gorin (born 1943, Paris, France), filmmaker and teacher, is best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period. In 1968, Gorin and Godard founded the collect..
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Jean-Pierre Goyer, PC (born January 17, 1932) is a lawyer and former Canadian Cabinet minister. Goyer was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Dollard, Quebec in the 1965 election. He was re-elected in the 1968 election, and in 1970,..
Jean-Pierre Haigneré
Jean-Pierre Haigneré (born 19 May 1948 ) is a French astronaut. Haigneré was born in Paris, France and joined the French Air Force, where he trained as a test pilot. He has flown on two Mir missions, in 1993 and 1999. This long-duration mission (186 days) also included an EVA. He is married t..
Jean-Pierre Hébert
independent artist, algorithmic art: drawings and mixed media since the 70's. cofounded the algorists in 1995. lives in santa barbara. has pioneered computer art, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software and custom built devices to create an original body of works. recipient o..
Jean-Pierre Jarier
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Jean-Pierre Jaussaud
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980. ..
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French film director. His films are idiosyncratic fantasies characterized by detailed sets and meandering storylines. Contents 1 Life and career2 Style3 Collaborators4 Filmography5 External links Life and career Jean-Pierre..
Jean-Pierre Jouyet
Jean-Pierre Jouyet Jean-Pierre Jouyet (born February 13, 1954) is a French economist. After having graduated from the prestigious Institute for Political Science (Institute d'études politiques, IEP, otherwise known as Science Po), and later from Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), he work..
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born October 30, 1938 in Paris, France) is a French film and television actor. Selected filmography The Dreamers (2003)Lulu (2002)La Repetition (2001)Saint-Cyr (2000)Total Western (2000)A Hundred and One Nights (1995)Dieu, L'Amant de Ma Mere, et le Fils du Charcutier (1995)Et D..
Jean-Pierre Kingsley
Jean-Pierre Kingsley (born July 12, 1943) is the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada and serves on the board of IFES, formerly known as the International Foundation for Election Systems. External links [Elections Canada On-Line Chief Electoral Officer of Canada][IFES - Board..
Jean-Pierre Laurant
Jean-Pierre Laurant ([1935] - ) was one of the founders of the academic study of esotericism and Traditionalism in France. He was best known for his work on Freemasonry, Christian esotericism, and René Guénon. Biography Laurant was born in 1935 in Paris and studied at the Lycée Claude..
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 5, 1944) is a French actor. Léaud was born in Paris, France. He made his debut as an actor when he was 15 as Antoine Doinel, an alter ego for French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows. Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of ..
Jean-Pierre Lebouder
Jean-Pierre Lebouder (b. 1944) was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 12 November 1980 to 4 April 1981. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Jean-Pierre Lebreton
Jean-Pierre Lebreton is a scientist at ESA, and the Huygens Project Scientist and Mission Manager. Lebreton is specializing in planetary science, particularly plasma physics. Besides the Huygens mission, he is also working with the Rosetta comet probe and its Plasma Consortium Experiment, and the Ve..
Jean-Pierre Lorit
Jean-Pierre Lorit is a French actor. His most recognizable role is in the film [[Three Colors: Red]]. In 2005, He performed Strindberg's "Créanciers" directed by Hélène Vincent, with Lambert Wilson and Emmanuelle Devos. And he nominated 2006 Molières Awards Best supporting role. Selected film..
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Jean-Pierre Luminet (1951 - ) is a French astrophysicist, specialized in black holes and cosmology. He works as research director for the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), and is a member of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the observatory of Paris-Meudon. The as..
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude was a French veteran of the Algerian War (1954-62), former member of the OAS' Delta commando, a nationalist terrorist group. He then became the informant of police officer Lucien Aimé-Blanc, former vice chief of staff of the Antigang brigade and of the Narcotics brigade...
Jean-Pierre Mangin
Jean-Pierre Mangin (born 26 October 1937) is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps. He wrote a bilingual world guide of Errors on stamps. Member of the French Académie de philatélie since 4 June 1994, he presides the European Academy of Philately for a ..
Jean-Pierre Marielle
--> Jean-Pierre Marielle (born April 12, 1932 in Dijon) is a French actor. He is widely regarded in his country as one of the greatest living French actors. He has played in more than a hundred movies in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen (Les Galettes..
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973) was a noted French director. He later adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. Born in Paris, France, Melville, who was Jewish, served in World War II and fou..
Jean-Pierre Monseré
Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948-1971) was a Belgian cyclist. He became professional in 1969. That year he had already won the Giro di Lombardia. One year later he became the Belgian and World Champion. In 1971 he became Belgian champion again. Shortly afterwards, on March 15, he fell when hit by a car du..
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Jean-Pierre Ouellet is a Canadian politician. He is a three term member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick representing the riding of Madawaska-les-Lacs for the Progressive Conservative Party. He was a member of Premier Richard Hatfield's cabinet. He served as Minister of Youth from 197..
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Papin also nicknamed JPP or Patator (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France) is a French former football player. He was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. Papin scored 30 goals for France in 54 matches. He played at the 1986 Wor..
Jean-Pierre Petit
Jean-Pierre Petit is a French scientist, retired member of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, National Center for Scientific Research). He is the author of French-language comic books titled Anselme Lanturlu, aimed as explaining scientific principles to children and other people..
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932-1988), a highly acclaimed opera director, was born in Paris on February 19, 1932. Ponnelle studied philosophy, art, and history in Paris. In 1952, he began his career in Germany as a theatre designer for Hans Werner Henze's opera Boulevard Solitude. In 1962, he directed hi..
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (born August 3, 1948) is a French conservative politician and senator of Vienne. Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from May 6, 2002 to May 31, 2005, resigning after France's rejection ..
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Rampal (January 7, 1922 – May 20, 2000) was a French flautist, seen by many as the greatest of the 20th century. Born in Marseille, France, Rampal was the first to introduce the flute onto the international concert circuit and the first in modern times to attract international att..
Jean-Pierre Rassam
Jean-Pierre Rassam (1942-1985) was a noted French film producer of the 1970s. Family He married Carole Bouquet and the two had a son, Dimitri Rassam. He had a brother named Paul Rassam and a sister named Anne-Marie Rassam. Claude Berri was his brother-in-law. Trivia American writer James Salte..
Jean-Pierre Reux-Tout
Jean-Pierre Reux-Tout, the former Irish Master of Monastery, was well known for his allegedly ability to speak to the dead. This was his pride, but also his suffer in life. Reux-Tout was born in the little French village Saint-Cashleut, about 1309. His mother, a really old nun, was originally from N..
Jean-Pierre Richard
French lord and father of the famous French painter and engraver, Jean-Claude Richard. Purchased The Château de la Bretèche, located in the French village of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, which subsequently became the family estate, and later the source from which his son took the title: the "Abbé de ..
Jean-Pierre Rives
Jean-Pierre Rives (born 31 December 1952) is a former French rugby union player who won 59 caps for France as a flanker. Born in Toulouse, Rives played club rugby for TOEC, Beaumont and Stade Toulousain, then in 1981 left Toulouse to join Racing Club de France. Nicknamed Casque d'or (French for "G..
Jean-Pierre Schecroun
Jean-Pierre Schecroun was a French painter and art forger who made forgeries of work of modern masters, including Picasso. He could make an imitation of a Picasso painting in three minutes. Schecroun was arrested for forgery in 1962. At the time he had made eight forgeries in two years and earned..
Jean-Pierre Serre
For the Italian commune, see Serre, Italy. Jean-Pierre Serre. Jean-Pierre Serre (born September 15, 1926) is one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century, active in algebraic geometry, number theory and topology. With the Fields Medal in 1954 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in ..
Jean-Pierre Smadja
Tunisian born, Parisian musician Jean-Pierre Smadja (Smadj) grew up listening to Oriental, Brazilian, funk, soul, and folk music. Entering a jazz school at age 15 due to his intense interest in the guitar, Smadj’s musical development came to be characterized by transforming traditional jazz styles..
Jean-Pierre Sudre
Jean-Pierre Sudre (1921-1927) was a commercial photographer in Paris until he decided to live and work in the south of France, where he devoted his life to workshops of "fine art" photography. He is known for his experimentation with chemicals as well as for his still lifes. ..
Jean-Pierre Talbot
Jean-Pierre Talbot (born 1943) is a Belgian actor. He played the comic character Tintin in the two Tintin live action films, Tintin and the Golden Fleece and Tintin and the Blue Oranges. External link [At IMDB] ..
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (born in Bruges, Belgium) on 29 may, 1945) is a well-known Flemish politician, entrepreneur and writer. He studied economics at the Univerisity of Gent in 1963-1967. With his final term paper he won the International Scholarship-price and was able to study two years of econom..
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant, (born 1914 at Provins) is a French historian and anthropologist. His speciality is Ancient Greece, and in particular Greek myths. He is now Honorary Professor at the Collège de France. Works (selected) La mort dans les yeux,Paris, Pluriel, 1998 ;Les origines de la pensée gre..
Jean-Pierre Vidal
Jean-Pierre Vidal (born February 27, 1977) is a French alpine skier. Honours Olympic Games Slalom Olympic Champion in 2002 World Championships Bronze medal of the Nations' Team Award in 2005 ..
Jean-Pierre Vigier
This article is about the physicist. For the ice hockey player, see J.P. Vigier. Jean-Pierre Vigier (b. 16 January 1920 d. 4 May 2004) worked closely with Louis de Broglie and David Bohm. Vigier pioneered the de Broglie-Bohm-Vigier approach to quantum physics, the causal stochastic interpretation. ..
Jean-Pierre Wallot
Jean-Pierre Wallot (born 1935) is a Canadian historian, educator, civil servant and the former National Archivist of Canada. Born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, he graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1954. He also received a Master's and Doctorate from the same university. From 195..
Jean-Pierre Wimille
Type 50B 4.7 L racing Bugatti with J. P. Wimille behind the wheel Jean-Pierre Wimille (February 26, 1908 – January 28, 1949) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Born in Paris, France to a father who loved motor sports and ..
Jean-Pol Martin
--> Jean-Pol Martin (born 1943, Paris, France) is a professor for foreign language teaching in Germany. He established the teaching method "Lernen durch Lehren" (learning by teaching), a method for students to learn by teaching their peers. This concept has developed into a common practice throug..
Jean-Raymond Abrial
Jean-Raymond Abrial (born 1938) is a French computer scientist and inventor of the Z and B formal methods. J.-R. Abrial is the originator of the Z notation (typically used for formal specification of software), during his time at the Programming Research Group within the Oxford University Computing..
Jean-Rémy Bessieux
Jean-Rémy Bessieux, also seen as Jean-Rémi or Jean René (24 December 1803 - 30 April 1876) was the founder of the Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and the first bishop to serve there. Born in Vélieux in Montpellier, France, Bessieux had been a parish priest and seminary teacher when he entered t..
Jean-Richard Bloch
Jean-Richard Bloch (1884 - March 15, 1947) was a French writer (critic, novel, playwright). He was a communist. Literary works A Publisher of "L'Effort Libre", 1910-1914 (left-wing literary magazine)Lévy, 1912... et Compaigne, 1918 (novel)La nuite Kurde (novel)Sybilla, 1932 (novel)Carnaval est m..
Jean-Richard Geurts
Jean-Richard Geurts, perhaps better known under his pseudonym Janry (born October 2, 1957 in Jadotville, currently Likasi, Zaire), is a comics artist. With Tome he created Le Petit Spirou and made several Spirou albums. Biography After 12 years in Zaire, Janry returns to Belgium with his parents, a..
Jean-Robert Argand
Jean-Robert Argand (July 18, 1768 - August 13, 1822) was a non-professional mathematician. In 1806, he, while managing a bookstore in Paris, published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram. External links John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. ..
Jean-Robert Bellande
Jean-Robert Bellande Jean-Robert Bellande in the World Poker Tour Bad Boys of Poker II event Nickname(s) Action Bob Hometown New York City, New York World Series of Poker Bracelet(s) None Money finishes 4 Highest ITM main event finish None World Poker Tour Titles None Fina..
Jean-Robert Gauthier
Jean-Robert Gauthier (born October 22, 1929) is a retired Canadian politician. A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons to represent the riding of Ottawa East in the 1972 election as a Liberal Party Member ..
Jean-Sébastien Aubin
Jean-Sébastien Aubin (born July 19, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional ice hockey goaltender for the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs. He was drafted in the third round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, 76th overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins. Aubin, played his junior career in the QMJHL, following ..
Jean-Sebastien Fecteau
Jean-Sebastien Fecteau (born on May 7, 1975 in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is a Canadian figure skater. He currently competes in pairs with partner Utako Wakamatsu. Prior to teaming up with Wakamatsu in 2002, he competed with Valerie Saurette. Contents 1 Competitive highlights1.1 (with Sa..
Jean-Sébastien Giguère
Jean-Sébastien "Jiggy" Giguère (born May 16, 1977, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian professional hockey goaltender. Giguère plays for the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks. He was drafted 13th overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He has played for..
Jean-Sélim Kanaan
Jean-Sélim Kanaan (1970 - August 19, 2003) was a United Nations (UN) diplomat, Egyptian, Italian and French national, who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, along with Sérgio Vieira de Mello and other members of his staff. Born in Rome, Italy, he was the son of an Egyptian ..
Jean-Serge Brisson
Jean-Serge Brisson (born in 1954 in Embrun, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the current leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada, which he joined in 1986. Brisson was raised in the francophone region of eastern Ontario, and still lives in Embrun. Since 1974, he has been the ow..
Jean-Sifrein Maury
Jean-Sifrein Maury Jean-Sifrein Maury (June 26, 1746 – may 10, 1817), was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Paris. Biography The son of a poor cobbler, he was born on at Valras in the Comtat-Venaissin, the district in France which belonged to the pope. His acuteness was observed by the ..
Jean-Talon (Montreal Metro)
Jean-Talon Inaugurated 14 October, 1966 (Orange Line)16 June, 1986 (Blue Line) Line Orange LineBlue Line Architect Duplessis, Labelle, Derome (Orange Line) Gilbert Sauvé (Blue Line) Platform Depth 10.4 metres (Orange Line)18.6 metres (Blue Line, Snowdon platform)23.8 metres..
Jean-Thierry Boisseau
Jean-Thierry Boisseau (born 1949) is a French composer, poet, and author. Contents 1 Biography2 Selected works3 Selected bibliography4 External links Biography Boisseau was born in Buxerolles and began his studies in his native Poitiers, studying piano, harmony and improvisat..
Jean-Thomas Taschereau
Jean-Thomas Taschereau can be: Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1778-1832), a Canadian politician.* Jean-Thomas Taschereau (jurist) (1814-1893), a Canadian jurist, his son. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to thi..
Jean-Thomas Taschereau (1778-1832)
Jean-Thomas Taschereau (b November 26, 1778 – d June 14, 1832) was a son of Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau and Marie-Louise-Élizabeth Bazin. He studied at the "petit" seminary of Quebec and began his legal training as an assistant to his father in 1799 and studied law with Jonathan Sewell. He b..
Jean-Thomas Taschereau (jurist)
Jean-Thomas Taschereau (December 12, 1814 – November 9, 1893) was a Canadian lawyer and judge. Born in Quebec City, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, a politician who was a Member of the Quebec National Assembly, and Marie Panet, he was called to the bar in 1836..
Jean-Victor Poncelet
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 – December 22, 1867) was a mathematician and engineer who did much to revive projective geometry. Contents 1 Life2 Bibliography2.1 Works2.2 Biography3 External links Life Born to a poor family in Metz, France, Poncelet won a sc..
Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin
Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (1652 - 1707) was a French military officer serving in Canada, and an Abenaki chief. He was born in Saint-Castin and died in Pau. Two of his sons were Bernard-Anselme and Joseph. External link [Detailed biography] ..
Jean-Vincent Scheil
Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (10 June1858, Koenigsmacker - 21 September1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He was one of the discoverers of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. After being ordained in 1887, he took courses of Egyptology and Assyriology at the École des hautes ..
Jean-Yves Adam
Jean-Yves Adam is a French race car driver. He drove in the French GT Championship of 2001 and also drove one race in the 2004 Porsche Supercup. ..
Jean-Yves Béziau
--> Jean-Yves Béziau (born January 15, 1965 in Orléans, France) is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Logic of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. A former student of (and frequent collaborator with) Newton da Costa, he has made important contributions to the field of logic—..
Jean-Yves Bouguet
Jean-Yves Bouguet, Ph.D., member of the Computer Vision Research Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Caltech, after graduating from ESIEE. Bouguet developed and holds a patent for a new method for 3D scanning based on dual-space geometry. Contents 1 Awards2 Accomp..
Jean-Yves Couliou
Jean-Yves Couliou (1916 –,1995)) was a French artist, a painter. Contents 1 Life2 Eight years of studies3 Styles4 Awards5 External links Life Born 1916 in Landerneau (Finistère) spent his youth in the neighbourhood of Pont-Aven, origine village of his parents. H..
Jean-Yves Cuendet
Jean-Yves Cuendet (born February 20, 1970) is a former Swiss Nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990's. He won a Bronze Medal in the Nordic combined Team Event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. He also won a Bronze Medal in the Team event at the 1995 Nordic skiing World Champi..
Jean-Yves Girard
Jean-Yves Girard is a French mathematician working in proof theory. His contributions include a proof of strong normalization in a system of second-order logic called system F; the invention of linear logic; the geometry of interaction; and ludics. Girard is a research director of CNRS in Marseille..
Jean-Yves Lacoste
Jean-Yves Lacoste is a postmodern theologian, who works in Cambridge and Paris. His publications include: Le Monde et l'absence d'oeuvreNote sur le temps: Essai sur les raisons de la mémoire et de l'espéranceExpérience et absolu: Questions disputées sur l'humanité de l'homme (Experience and ..
Jean-Yves Laforest
Jean-Yves Laforest is a Canadian Member of Parliament. A school administrator by profession, Laforest was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2006 federal election representing the Bloc Québécois for the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain. He sits in the Bloc Québécois Shadow ..
Jean-Yves Malmasson
The French Composer and Conductor Jean-Yves Malmasson was born in Saint-Cloud (92) in the Paris Suburbs, in 1963. After studies in Piano, Ondes Martenot, and composition at the Conservatoire National de Région, Boulogne-Billancourt, he went on to study composition and conducting at the Conservato..
Jean-Yves Pollock
Jean-Yves Pollock is a French linguist and a professor at [[University of Paris VIII: Centre universitaire expérimental de Vincennes - Saint-Denis|University of Paris VIII]]. Pollock is best known for proposing the 'Split IP Hypothesis' in a 1989 paper in Linguistic Inquiry called "Verb Movement, ..
Jean-Yves Roy
Jean-Yves Roy (born July 21, 1949 in Saint-Charles-Garnier, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. He is a Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons representing the district of Matapédia—Matane, and has been since he was first elected in the 2000 election. Prior to being elected he w..
Jean-Yves Thériault
Jean-Yves Thériault (Blacky) was the bassist for the Canadian metal/cyberpunk band Voivod. He co-founded the band and appeared on six albums - War and Pain, Rrröööaaarrr, Killing Technology, Dimension Hatross, Nothingface, and Angel Rat. He departed the group in 1991, and went on to found The Ho..
Jean-Yves Theriault
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Jean-Yves Thériault (b. Janu..
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (1961) is a notable French pianist. He was born in Lyon, France, began studying the piano at the age of five, and made his first public appearance at age seven. From the age of twelve, he studied at the Paris Conservatory. He has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall and th..
Jean-Yves Verd'hurt
Jean-Yves Verd'hurt (born c. 1940) is a retired French property agent and amateur Egyptologist. In September 2004, he claimed, along with his colleague Gilles Dormion, to have discovered a corridor inside the Great Pyramid of Giza which he believes could lead directly to the burial chamber of Phara..
Jeana
Jeana is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are two described species, both endemic to Australia. Species J. delicatulaJ. robiginosa External link [Hepialidae genera] ..
Jeananne Crowley
Jeananne Crowley is an Irish-born actress remembered for her roles on British film and television. She appeared in the film Educating Rita and is possibly best known for her role as Nellie Keene in the BBC drama series Tenko. Other TV credits include: The Onedin Line, Shoestring, Reilly, Ace of Sp..
Jeanatope
Jeanatope is iodinated I-125 albumin, typically injected to aid in the determination of total blood and plasma volume. I-125 is a radioactive isotope of Iodine, it decays by electron capture with a physical half-life of 60.14 days. The biologic half-life in normal individuals for I-125 has been repo..
Jeana Tomasino
Jeana Tomasino (also credited as Jeana Tomasina or Jeana Keough) was born Jean Myers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 18, 1955. She is a former model and actress, and is currently a realtor for RE/MAX in Coto de Caza, California. Family She married Matt Keough, a former pitcher for the Oakland..
Jeana Yeager
Jeana Yeager (born May 18, 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an aviator, most famous for flying with Dick Rutan on a non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Voyager aircraft in 1986 from December 14 to December 23. The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 ..
Jeanerette, Louisiana
Jeanerette is a city in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,997 at the 2000 census. Geography Jeanerette is located at [29°54′59″N, 91°40′21″W] (29.916438, -91.672483)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Burea..
Jeanetta Arnette
Jeanetta Arnette (b. 29 July 1954) is an actress best known for her television role as Miss Meara on the situation comedy Head of the Class. She has also appeared in numerous films (including Boys Don't Cry) and guest-starring roles on television. In 2006, she co-starred in Tori Spelling's VH1 sitc..
Jeanette
Jeanette (or Jeannette) is a French female name, a diminutive form of the name Jeanne. Other variations are Janet, Jane and Jeannette. People with this name include: Jeannette Armstrong, Canadian novelistJeanette Biedermann, German actress and singerJeanette Dimech, Spanish singerJeannette Rankin, ..
Jeanette Abadie
Jeanette Abadie (or l'Abadie) (born ca.1593) was a young woman of the village of Sibourre in Gascony, France, who was supposedly lured into witchcraft and was one of the principal witnesses concerning the supposed practices of the witches' Sabbath. Her account of the Sabbath was contained in the nar..
Jeanette Arocho-Burkart
Jeanette Arocho-Burkart was a Sergeant in the United States Army. Arocho-Burkart was an interrogator at the American prison in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay. She is known as one of the female interrogators who used sexual humilation, and sexual taunting, to break the will of her devout Musli..
Jeanette Aw
--> Jeanette Aw (Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ) born June 28, 1979, is a television actress from Singapore. Born Jeanette Aw Ee-Ping (欧燕苹), she attended Raffles Girls' Primary School, Crescent Girls' School, National Junior College and National University of Singapore consecutively. Aw n..
Jeanette Biedermann
Jeanette Biedermann (also known as Jeanette, born February 22, 1981 in Berlin) is a German singer and TV actress. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography2.1 Album2.2 Singles3 Awards3.0.1 20003.0.2 20013.0.3 20023.0.4 20033.0.5 20043.0.6 20054&nbs..
Jeanette Brakewell
Jeanette Brakewell, born February 4, 1974, has been riding since the age of four and is a competitive professional Event Rider. She was a member of the British silver medal team at the Athens Olympics of 2004. ..
Jeanette Dimech
--> Jeanette Dimech (October 10 1951 - ), who performs under the name Jeanette, is an English-born, American-raised singer who has resided in Spain since the age of 12, and who sings primarily in Spanish. Biography Because of her grandparents' import-export business, she lived with her parents..
Jeanette Fitzsimons
Parl. Electorate List Pos. Party 45th List 3 Alliance 46th Coromandel 1 Greens 47th List 1 Greens 48th List 1 Greens Jeanette Mary Fitzsimons (born 1945) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. She currently serves as co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand alongside R..
Jeanette Frehley
Jeanette Frehley is the wife of former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. She was born Jeanette Trerotola. She and Ace began dating in 1970 and were married on May 10, 1976. They have one daughter, Monique Frehley, born July 9, 1980. Jeanette is a co-writer on the song Speedin' Back to My Baby from A..
Jeanette I. Sustad
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Colonel Jeanette I. Sustad, USMC, was sixth Director of Women Marines from 1969 until her retirement in 1973, for which she was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious performance of outstanding service. Education Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she mo..
Jeanette Jenkins
Jeanette Jenkins is the founder and president of the Hollywood Trainer fitness company. She obtained her bachelor of science degree in human kinetics from the University of Ottawa. Jeanette Jenkins is also the official spokeswoman for the Black Entertainment Television's Foundation "A Healthy BET ..
Jeanette Jurado
Jeanette Livier Jurado is a Mexican-American singer and a member of the popular girl group Exposé. She was born on November 14, 1965 in Pico Rivera, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Jeanette was a member of Exposé from 1986 to 1996, along with Ann Curless and Gioia Bruno, then later Kelly Mo..
Jeanette Lee
--> Jeanette Lee (born July 9, 1971) is a highly successful Korean-American pool player. She is nicknamed "The Black Widow" for her tendency to wear black. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lee started playing pool in 1989. She went pro in 1993 and, within months, was already ranked in the top ten of al..
Jeanette Leuers
Jeanette Leuers B.1942 London, England. UK Artist. Works in Oils and other Media - Landscapes, figures and abstract. Lives and Works in Brittany,sometimes under the name Yanig de Roche. Work published and exhibited internationally. Long term friend of fellow artist Bill Murphy [link] ..
Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald Jeanette MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was a singer and actress best known for her film duets with Nelson Eddy, in films such as Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose-Marie (1936). Jeanette Anna MacDonald was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Daniel McD..
Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters
Jeanette MacDonald: The Irving Stone Letters is a book edited by Sharon Rich, published in 2002. ISBN 0-9711998-4-1 The following blurb is from the back of the book and used with the author's permission. Before she became a movie star, Jeanette MacDonald was a Broadway ingénue. In 1927 she f..
Jeanette MacDonald Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript
Jeanette MacDonald Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript, Annotated by Sharon Rich ISBN 0-9711998-8-4 The following blurb is from the back of the book and used with the author's permission. “Perhaps the most unbelievable note I ever received backstage was between the second and third act of &#..
Jeanette McGruder
Jeanette McGruder (born 8th November 1954) is a singer. As a child, McGruder discovered a natural ability to sing. Taught by her stepmother, she joined a female trio called "New Dawn" which would perform at nightclubs, and one black panther rally. During her schooling, McGruder played violin with E..
Jeanette Mott Oxford
Jeanette Mott Oxford (born July 16, 1954) is an American activist and politician from the state of Missouri. She is a currently a member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing a portion of St. Louis City. She is the first openly lesbian member of the Missouri Legislature. She i..
Jeanette Nolan
Jeanette Nolan was an American actress who was born on December 30, 1911, in Los Angeles, California. She began her acting career at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in "Omar Khayyam", the first transcontinental broadcas..
Jeanette Rundgren
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Jeanette Schmid
Jeanette Schmid (6 November 1924 - 9 March 2005) was perhaps the greatest professional transsexual whistler the world has seen. Born Rudolf Schmid in Volary, Sudentenland (in what is now the Czech Republic), Schmid began to dress in women's clothing at a young age and loved singing and dancing. D..
Jeanette Söderholm
Jeanette Söderholm is a Swedish singer of Jamaican origin. Musical Career Jeanette and her sister Diane first released several club albums under the name Dayeene in 1990. Their first album was United Soul Power. 'Is This Love (Compusex)' was produced by Denniz Pop and Douglas Carr at Cheiron Stu..
Jeanette Sterke
Jeanette Sterke is an Australian actress. She has led a long stage and television career. She is married to the actor Keith Michell. They have a son Paul and a daughter Helena. ..
Jeanette Washington
This article is about funk vocalist Jeanette Washington. For the soul vocalist of a similar name, see Justine "Baby" Washington. Jeanette Washington is a funk vocalist best known as a member of the band Parliament. Washington appeared as a background singer on recordings by James Brown in 1975. T..
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, Warsaw (Poland), February 16, 2005 Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian Missionary. She anno..
Jeanette Wohl
See also Wohl. Jeanette Wohl (October 16, 1783, Frankfurt am Main - November 27, 1861, Paris) was a wife and correspondent of Ludwig Börne. References Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt: Jeannette Straus-Wohl und ihre Beziehungen zu Börne in ''Westermanns illustrierten deutschen Monatsheften (1887, S. 4..
Jeane (Suikoden)
Jeane (ジーン) is a recurring character in the Suikoden role playing game series for the Playstation and Playstation 2. When recruited she acts as your headquarters runemaster. She has appeared in every game of the series so far even despite Suikoden 4 taking place over 100 years before the ot..
Jeane Dixon
Jeane Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 26, 1997) was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions and a best-selling biography. Born Jeane Lydia Pinckert in Medford, Wisconsin, but r..
Jeane Dixon effect
The Jeanne Dixon effect is named after the self-proclaimed psychic Jeanne Dixon. It states that the more predictions a psychic makes, the better odds one will "hit." Thus if one comes true, the psychic expects us to forget the vast majority which did not happen. The law was coined by John Allen ..
Jeane Ireine Biya
Jeane Ireine Biya was the first wife of the current president of Cameroon, Paul Biya. She died in July 1992 in Yaounde. ..
Jeane Kirkpatrick
thumb Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (born November 19, 1926) is an American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. An a..
Jeane manson
A American-French singer who was born in America, grew up in Mexico, studied music at Orange Coast College California, and drama at Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio. Contents 1 Its beginnings: the cinema2 a passion: the theatre3 Its roles with television4 To write: a ne..
Jeanie Greene
Jeanie Greene Jeanie Greene is a Canadian singer-songwriter who first worked as a backing singer for Elvis Presley. She recorded just one album, Mary Called Jeanie Greene released in 1972. The most memorable track is entitled Joa-Bim. Her vocal style is much admired amongst her peers, and has been..
Jeanie Tracy
Jeanie Tracy is a female African American dance music singer born in Houston, Texas and raised in Fresno, California. She had two minor hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the mid-eighties, and after a long hiatus, had a career resurgence in the late nineties which resulted in three Top ..
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
"Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" is a 1854 song by the American songwriter Stephen Foster. It was written for his wife, Jane McDowall, who would end up leaving him as his life declined in later years. Lyrics I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air; I..
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (anime)
is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation which ran on Japanese TV from 1992–1993. It is based on the 1854 song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen Foster. ..
Jeanine Basinger
Jeanine Basinger (born 1936) is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Founder and Curator of the Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. She is also a Trustee of the American Film Institute (which awarded her a Doctorate of Humane Letters June 7, 2006), a member of the..
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (born on 7 April 1973 in Heerlen) is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament for the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Hennis-Plasschaert sits on the European Parliament's Commit..
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Ferris Pirro (born June 2, 1951) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician from the state of New York. A Republican from Westchester County, Pirro served as a county judge before serving as the elected District Attorney of Westchester County for twelve years. As District Attorney s..
Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori (formerly known as Jeanine Levenson) is a composer of musicals. She is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie; she composed eleven new songs for the show and added them to three from the movie version; four previously written songs from the 1920's were al..
Jeanloup Sieff
Jeanloup Sieff (1933 – 20 September 2000) was a practitioner of the photographic art of high fashion, and avowed a fidelity to the frivolous and superficial. His legacy places him in the top rank of fashion and art photographers. Sieff was born in Paris to parents of Polish origin. His intere..
Jeanna Fine
Jeanna Fine (born Jennifer Payson on September 29, 1964 in New York, New York, USA) is an American porn star and erotic dancer. Contents 1 Career and life2 Awards3 Trivia4 External link Career and life Fine began in the adult movie industry as a blonde-haired punk-girl whe..
Jeanna Giese
Jeanna Giese is the first person known to have survived symptomatic rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine. She is only the sixth person known to have survived rabies after the onset of symptoms; the other survivors suffered from vaccine failures. In September 2004, Giese, then fifteen years o..
Jeanne
Jeanne is a French female name, equivalent to the English Joan or Jean (the feminine forms of John). Historical people who have been called simply Jeanne: Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc in English)Jeanne de Flandre (Joanna of Flanders in English)Jeanne de Dreux, also called Jeanne de Penthièvre (Joanna..
Jeanne, Countess of Flanders
Jeanne, called of Constantinople (1199/1200 – 1244) was countess of Flanders and Hainaut. She was the eldest daughter of Baldwin IX of Flanders, who was also (as Baldwin VI) count of Hainaut as well as Emperor of Constantinople. Her mother was Marie of Champagne. In 1202 Baldwin left on the ..
Jeanne-Agnes Berthelot de Pleneuf, marquise de Prie
Jeanne-Agnes Berthelot de Pleneuf, marquise de Prie (1698 - 7 October 1727) was a French noblewoman notable for her intriguing during the reign of Louis XV. She was the daughter of the rich but unscrupulous Étienne Berthelot. At the age of fifteen she was married to Louis, marquis de Prie, and wen..
Jeanne-Le Ber
Jeanne-Le Ber in relation to the other Montreal area ridings Jeanne-Le Ber is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 103,092. Contents 1 Geography2 History2.1 Members of..
Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan
Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, born Henriette Genet (October 2nd 1752, Paris - March 16th 1822, Mantes) was a French educator, the companion of Marie Antoinette. Her father, whose name was Genest, was first clerk in the foreign office, and, although without fortune, placed her in the most cultivat..
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont (Rouen, 1711 - Chavanod, Savoy, 1780) was a French novelist. Her first work, a moralistic novel, The Triumph of Truth (le Triomphe de la Vérité) was published in 1748. When her first marriage failed, she became a governess in London. She continued her literary c..
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711–1780) was the author of several fairy tales. Her best known work is a version of Beauty and the Beast, published 16 years after Villeneuve's novel, Belle et la bête, appeared. References Contes et autres écrits. Ed. Barbara Kaltz. Oxford: Voltaire ..
Jeanneke Pis
Jeanneke Pis Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels, which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city's trademark Manneken Pis, as it does aurally and geographically, being about the same distance away on the other side of the Grand Place / Grote Markt. It was made by ..
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Jeannette is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,654 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Trivia4 External links Geography Jeannette is located at [40°19′44″N, 79°36′50″W] (40.328773, -79.613..
Jeannette Altwegg
Jeannette Altwegg (born September 8, 1930 in Liverpool) was a British figure skater. She first rose to prominence by capturing the bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics. She won the gold medal at the 1951 World Figure Skating Championships and capped her career by winning gold at the 1952 Win..
Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born in 1948 and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. Armstrong has lived on the Penticton Indian Reserve for most of her life and has raised her two children there..
Jeannette Balou Tchichelle
Jeannette Balou Tchichelle is an author born in Republic of the Congo in 1947. She has lived in France since 1969 with her three sons. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil [A Heart in Exile] ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country. External links �..
Jeannette Charles
Leslie Nielsen and Jeanette Charles in Naked Gun Jeannette Charles (born October 15, 1927) is best known as a look-alike actress as Queen Elizabeth II. She has played the role in numerous films and TV shows, including Austin Powers in Goldmember and [[The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police S..
Jeannette Devereaux
Upper: Angel from Wing Commander I, below Angel from Wing Commander II. Jeanette Devereaux (2626-2669) is a character of the computer game series Wing Commander. A native of Belgium, she was a starfighter pilot in the Terran Confederation Space Force, flying under the callsign of Angel. She to..
Jeannette Island
Jeannette Island (Остров Жаннетты in Russian) is one of the islands of the De Long Islands archipelago in the East Siberian Sea, discovered in 1881 by sean dixon of the Jeannette expedition, commanded by Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, USN. Area: approx. 3,3 sq km. The highest ..
Jeannette Jolley
Jeannette Jolley (1949-present), politician, author and teacher was born in the Netherlands and migrated with her family to Australia in 1953, where she completed her training as a high school science teacher in Melbourne. During the 1970s, Jeannette married and had two children, before moving to S..
Jeannette Kizirian
Jeannette Kizirian ..
Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849 - 1916), was a pioneer for United States women in journalism and in 1881 helped to co-found The Critic, a literary magazine that was merged with the third incarnation of Putnam's Magazine in 1906. She was connected from 1869 with various newspapers in Newark and New Yo..
Jeannette MacDonald
Jeannette MacDonald was an American soprano and also one of MGM's major movie stars during the 1930s. The musicals in which she appeared with the baritone Nelson Eddy were often some of the top box-office champions of their respective years. She was born on June 18, 1903 in Philadelphia into a mus..
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress. A Republican and a lifelong pacifist, she was the only member of Congress to vote against United States entry into both World War I and Wo..
Jeannette Thurber
Jeanette Thurber is considered by some to have been the first major patron of classical music in America. Educated in Paris, Thurber was married to a millionaire grocery wholesaler. In the 1880s she founded the American Opera Company and the National Conservatory of Music, both in New York. In 1892,..
Jeanne Aubert
Jeanne Aubert, (February 21, 1906 – March 6, 1988) was a French singer and actress. Born Marguerite Perrinot in Paris, France to an aristocratic father and a former flower girl, she was pushed by her mother into showbusiness. At age five, little Marguerite began performing on stage at the Théâ..
Jeanne Balibar
Jeanne Balibar (born April 13, 1968) is a French actress. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perfom in both spheres. Recently she starred in All the fine promises..
Jeanne Baré
Jeanne Baré is probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation. She was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition in La Boudeuse and L'Étoile in 1766–1769. Baré joined the expedition disguised as a man, calling herself "Jean Baré". She enlisted as va..
Jeanne Basone
Jeanne Marie Basone is the real-life name of the wrestler/model "Hollywood". Hollywood was one part of the Tag Team Hollywood and Vine for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a professional wrestling promotion for women, that operated from 1985 to 1990. Jeanne was born May 19th, 1969 in Glendale, C..
Jeanne Bates
Jeanne Bates (born March 21, 1918) is an American film and television actress. She signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began a long career in films both in bit parts and larger roles. She played Bela Lugosi's vampires first victim in Return of the Vampire (1943) and she had a mi..
Jeanne Beker
Jeanne Beker (born 19 March 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian television personality, author and newspaper columnist, who covers fashion and lifestyle news for Citytv, FashionTelevisionChannel and The Globe and Mail. Beker first launched her career as an actor, landing a role in the CBC Tele..
Jeanne Bowser
Jeanne Bowser (born 1981 in Montreal, Quebec) is the daughter of George Bowser, half of Canadian musical comedy duo Bowser & Blue. She graduated from FACE (Fine Arts Core Education) high school in Montreal in 1998 and from Concordia University in 2003, and subsequently worked there as an acting coa..
Jeanne Boylan
Jeanne Boylan is a forensic sketch artist best known for her drawing of the Unabomber, later identified as Theodore Kaczynski. She also sketched the Oklahoma City bombing suspects and the suspect in the Polly Klaas murder case. ..
Jeanne Cagney
Jeanne Cagney (March 25, 1919 - December 7, 1984) was a film and television actress. She was the younger sister of film actor James Cagney, and actor and producer William Cagney and a film actress in her own right. Appeared with brother James in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Time of Your Life (1..
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment (February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) has the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days. Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study; more records have been produced to verify her age than for any other case...
Jeanne Clery
Jeanne Ann Clery was a 19-year-old freshman student at Lehigh University. Raped and murdered in her dorm room on April 5 1986, her death provided the impetus for the federal Clery Act, which mandated that all institutions of higher education must provide crime statistics and information to students..
Jeanne Combs
Jeanne Combs (b. 1955) is a Nebraska state senator from Milligan, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and a registered nurse. Personal Life She was born on Oct. 31, 1955, in Hamilton, Ohio and graduated from New Miami High School in 1974. She graduated from Miami University of Ohio in nursing (1..
Jeanne Cooper
Jeanne Cooper in a Y&R promo shot. Wilma Jeanne Cooper (born October 25, 1928 in Taft, California) is a Cherokee-American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless, which she has played since the series debut in 1973. Cooper began her career in the..
Jeanne Coyne
Jeanne Coyne (February 28, 1923 in Pennsylvania - May 10, 1973) was an acclaimed Broadway dancer, choreographer and actress. With Carol Haney (1924 - 1964), she formed a formidable team of choreographers for the directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, both of whom, coincidentally, she married. The..
Jeanne Crain
Jeanne Crain Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. Born in Barstow, California to George A. Crain (a school teacher) and Loretta Carr, she moved to Los Angeles as a young child. An excellent ice skater, Crain first attracted attention when sh..
Jeanne d'Arc (1899 film)
Jeanne d'Arc is a short silent film about Joan of Arc. The medieval film removes the viewer from spatial relations and institutionalized the use of the close-up. Released in 1899, Jeanne d'Arc, was one of the earliest films ever made. It was written and directed by Georges Méliès. External links..
Jeanne d'Arc (football)
Jeanne d'Arc may refer to: Jeanne d'Arc Poiré, football club in FranceASC Jeanne d'Arc, football club in Senegal redirect [[Template:Disambig]]..
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher is an oratorio by Arthur Honegger originally commissioned by Ida Rubinstein. Being tired of the classical form of oratorio, Arthur Honegger entitled his work as a dramatic oratorio, which, to the composer, meant directing it, adding speaking roles and actors, using the ondes..
Jeanne d'Arc Dijon Bourgogne
Jeanne d'Arc Dijon Bourgogne is a basketball club based in Dijon, France that plays in the Ligue Nationale de Basketball. ..
Jeanne d'Arc Poiré
Jeanne d'Arc Poiré-sur-vie are a non-league French football (soccer) team (they actually play in Division d'Honneur, which is the French 6th division). They were founded in 1954. Recently one of the clubs players, Richmond Forson, was called up to represent Togo at the 2006 World Cup. ..
Jeanne d'Evreux
Jeanne d'Evreux (1310-1371) was the third wife of King Charles IV of France, daughter of his uncle Louis d'Evreux. She bore no male heir, thus "causing" the end of the direct line of the Capetian dynasty. Two of Jeanne's remarkable possessions survive -- her prayer book and a statue of the Virgi..
Jeanne Demessieux
Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux (February 13, 1921–November 11, 1968), was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Contents 1 Biography2 Compositions2.1 Organ Solo2.2 Organ and Orchestra2.3 Piano Solo2.4 Songs (with Piano)2.5 Chamber Music2..
Jeanne de Bar
Jeanne de Bar b 1295 France - d 1361 London, was the granddaughter of Edward I "Longshanks" King of England and sister of Edouard de Bar. She was said to have been the 5th grand master of the Priory of Sion, an alleged secret society that figures prominently in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. ..
Jeanne de Montbéliard
There are two Jeanne de Montbéliard in French history. The first Jeanne de Montbéliard was the daughter of Renaud de Bourgogne and Guillemette de Neufchâtel. She married successively: *1299, Ulrich III, Count of Ferrette with whom she had two children: Jeanette (who married Alfred II of Austri..
Jeanne de Salzmann
Jeanne de Salzmann (1889 – 1990) was a close pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff, recognized as his deputy by many of Gurdjieff's other pupils. She was responsible for transmitting the movements and teachings of Gurdjieff through the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, the Gurdjieff Institute of Paris and ..
Jeanne DuPrau
Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American fantasy writer for children in middle school, best known for her Ember series of books. Bibliography The City of Ember (2003)The People of Sparks (2004)Car Trouble (2005)The Prophet of Yonwood (2006) Trivia She lives in Menlo Par..
Jeanne Duval
Jeanne Duval was a second-tier mulatto actress, and maintained a lifelong romantic association with French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. Poems which are dedicated to her or pay her homage are: 'Le Balcon', 'Parfum Exotique', 'La Chevelure', 'Le Serpent qui Danse', and 'Une charogne'. She ..
Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels (June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929) was an actress on Broadway and in several motion pictures. Biography She was born Amelia Jeannine Eagles in Kansas City, Missouri to a Catholic family. It was there that she began her acting career, appearing in a variety of small venues at a very..
Jeanne Fleming
Jeanne Fleming is an American Celebration Artist from New York, who organized the Harbor Festival Fair in 1986 and New York's Village Halloween Parade. One of Fleming's signatures is her use of pageant sized puppets – giant rod puppets operated by teams of puppeteers. For Liberty's part..
Jeanne Fox
Jeanne Fox is the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. She was originally appointed to the position in 2002 by former Gov. James McGreevey and was retained the Cabinets of former Gov. Richard Codey and Gov. Jon Corzine. Fox is the first former BPU staffer to become a commissioner..
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier (December 4, 1777 - May 11, 1849), a famous Frenchwoman in the literary and political circles of the early 19th century, was born at Lyon. Her maiden name was Bernard. She was married at fifteen to the banker Jacques Récamier (d. 1830), who was more ..
Jeanne Hachette
Jeanne Laisné (1456 - ?) was a French heroine known as Jeanne Fourquet and nicknamed Jeanne Hachette ('Jean the Hatchet'). We have no precise information about her family or origin. She is known solely for her act of heroism which on 27 June, 1472 saved Beauvais when it was on the point of being t..
Jeanne Hébuterne
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Jeanne Hébuterne (April 6, 1898 – January 26, 1920) was a French artist, best known as the frequent subj..
Jeanne Hoban
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. -->Jeanne Hoban (3 August 1924 Gillingham, Kent - 18 April 1997 Sri Lanka), known after her marriage as Jeanne M..
Jeanne Hopkins Lucas
Sen. Jeanne Hopkins Lucas Jeanne Hopkins Lucas is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's twentieth Senate district, including constituents in Durham county. An education administrator from Durham, North Carolina, Lucas is currently (2003-2004 session)..
Jeanne Julia Bartet
Jeanne Julia Bartet (1854 - October 28, 1941), French actress, was born in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire. In 1872 she began a successful career at the Vaudeville, and in 1879 was engaged at the Comedie Francaise, of which she became a sociétaire in 1880. For many years she played the chief..
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse (November 9, 1732 – May 23, 1776), was a French author. Contents 1 Early life2 The Salon of Madame du Deffand3 Establishment of her own Salon4 Relationship with the Marquis de Mora5 Relationship with the Comte du Guibert6 Dea..
Jeanne Kalogridis
J.M. Dillard, Tampa, Florida "Star Trek" convention 1989. Jeanne Kalogridis (born 1954) is an American writer of historical and horror fiction. She was born in Florida, and studied at the University of South Florida earning first BA in Russian and then an MA in Linguistics. After college sh..
Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Washington State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles represents the 36th District (Seattle). External links [Sen. Kohl-Welles] Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles has been an educator, a community leader, and legislator for many years. Education: Ph.D in Sociology Cal State Northbridge Political Affil..
Jeanne Lamon
Jeanne Lamon is a Canadian violinist and the music director of the Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik. Lamon teaches at University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Sources [Sony Classical biography] [Tafelmusik web site] ..
Jeanne Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) was a French fashion designer and entrepreneur. Lanvin was born in Brittany in 1867, the eldest of 10 children. She set up as a milliner in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1890, later branching out into children's and women's clothing. In 1909 Lavin joined the Sy..
Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance (November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French settler in Montreal. She was born in Langres, in eastern France. She came to Canada with Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in 1641 with the intent of organizing a hospital, and so is considered one of the founders of Montreal. She fo..
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (April 13, 1648 - June 9, 1717) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. This doctrine was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and as a result, Madame Guyon was imprisoned from 16..
Jeanne Marie Langtry Malcolm
Jeanne Marie Langtry Malcolm (8 March 1881 - 1964) was the illegitimate daughter of the actress Lillie Langtry. Given her mother's complicated love-life and her life-long discretion, it is difficult to be certain who Jeanne-Marie's father was. Prince Louis of Battenberg (the father of Lord Mountbat..
Jeanne Marie Spicuzza
Jeanne Marie Spicuzza (born 1969) is a poet, performance artist and actor, author of novels, children's stories, plays and screenplays, watercolor painter and illustrator, musician, composer and herbalist. She is the founder of Seasons & a Muse, Inc. Works beautiful terrible & true, 2001, 2005 (IS..
Jeanne Mas
Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a French pop singer and actress. She is well-known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for her numerous hit singles released in the 1980's. Her first success was Toute Première Fois in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the U..
Jeanne Moos
Jeanne Moos is a national news correspondent for CNN. She is based out of the network's studios in New York City. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moos originally wanted to pursue a career in print journalism, but while attending Syracuse University (where she holds a bachelor's degree in publ..
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (born 23 January, 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress and singer. Jeanne Moreau (left) in Jules et Jim Moreau was born in Paris to a French father and an English mother of Irish descent. She studied at the Conservatoire in Paris. In 1947, she made her theatre debut at ..
Jeanne of France
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. There were several Jeanne de France : Jeanne II of Navarre (1311-1349), daugh..
Jeanne of Luxembourg
Jeanne of Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol and Ligny (d. October 13, 1430, Boulogne-sur-Mer), called the Demoiselle de Luxembourg, was the daughter of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut of Châtillon, Countess of Saint-Pol. At the death of Philip I, Duke of Brabant, she was his nearest l..
Jeanne of Valois
Jeanne of Valois (c. 1294 Longpont, Aisne, France – 7 March 1342, Fontenelle, Yonne, France) She was the daughter of Prince Charles of Valois and Marguerite of Anjou and Maine (1274–1299) and the sister of king Philip VI of France. She married William III, Count of Holland and Hainaut in 1..
Jeanne Paulson
Jeanne Paulson was most recently seen in Singing Forest, and has appeared in many productions including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, Angels in America, The Little Foxes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and The Kentucky Cycle. On Broadway she received a Tony nomination for The Kentucky Cycle, directed by ..
Jeanne Phillips
Jeanne Phillips writes the "Dear Abby" column under the pen name Abigail Van Buren which was used by her mother, Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips. Jeanne's aunt (Pauline's identical twin sister) is the late Ann Landers. Her column is syndicated in many newspapers around the world and there are know..
Jeanne Prosperi
Jeanne Prosperi was American best-selling author Adeline Yen Mah's stepmother, publicized in Mah's autobiographical novels, Falling Leaves and Chinese Cinderella. In both novels, she is referred to as "Niang" (a Chinese word for "mother"). Prosperi was described as a stunningly beautiful woman..
Jeanne Pruett
Jeanne Pruett (born 1937) is an American country singer, probably best known for her 1973 hit "Satin Sheets." Born in 1937, she moved to Nashville in 1956 with her husband Jack, who eventually became Marty Robbins's guitarist. Robbins noticed her songwriting talent, signing her in 1963. Among the ..
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau(*10th June, 1870 in Candé; +22nd October, 1956 in Savigny-sur-Braye) was a French painter and an art theoretician. Rij-Rousseau was a Cubist painter. From 1890 on, she lived in Paris and moved in an artistic circle with painters of the "Ile de la Grande Jatte" in Montmar..
Jeanne Robert Foster
Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970) was an American poet from the Adirondack Mountains. She was born Julia Elizabeth Oliver in Johnsburg, New York. In 1896 she married Matlock Foster, and lived in Rochester, New York. She studied drama at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School, and worked in magazin..
Jeanne Safer
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., is an influential psychotherapist in the United States. She has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, Self, New Woman and many other publications. She has also authored the following books in psychotherapy: Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Childre..
Jeanne Sagan
Jeanne Sagan is the bassist for metalcore band All That Remains. She hails from Springfield, Massachusetts. She replaced former bassist Matt Deis. All That Remains' forthcoming album The Fall of Ideals is the first she has recorded with the band. According to her MySpace profile, Jeanne graduated..
Jeanne Sauvé
Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, PC, CC, CMM, CD, LL.D (née Benoit) (April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician and stateswoman. Contents 1 Early life2 Parliamentary career3 Governor General4 Retirement5 Honours6 External links Early life B..
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen (born January 28, 1947) was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Shaheen was born Jeanne Bowers in Saint Charles, Missouri and received a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the ..
Jeanne Smoot
Jeanne J. Smoot is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of North Carolina. Smoot was a candidate for the position of North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction in the North Carolina Council of State election, 2004. External link [Smoot for Schools] - campaign site ..
Jeanne St. Laurent
Jeanne Renault Saint-Laurent (born 1887 in Beauceville, Quebec; died November 14, 1966) was the wife of Louis St. Laurent, the 12th Prime Minister of Canada. They had five children together: two sons and three daughters. See also: Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada. |- style="text-align: ..
Jeanne Stuart
Jeanne Stuart (August 13, 1908 – February 12, 2003) (born Ivy Sweet) was a British stage and film actress. Using the stage name Jeanne Stuart, she performed on the London stage, on Broadway, and in motion pictures. She made her motion picture debut in 1931 and went on to perform and star in more ..
Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy
Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (1819 1897) was a French actress born in Metz on the 7th of September 1819, the daughter of a local actor named Plessy. She was a pupil of Samson at the Conservatoire in 1829, and made her debute as Emma at the Comedie Française in 1834 in Alexandre ival's La Fille d'..
Jeanne Thérèse du Han
Jeanne Thérèse du Han de Martigny (30 October 1707 Lunéville – 7 May 1748 Nancy) was born and baptized the same day in Lunéville, in the duchy of Lorraine, now part of France, and died in Nancy, the principal city of Lorraine. She was the daughter of Louis-Philippe du Han, comte de Martig..
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Tripplehorn 1990s Jeanne Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American film actress. She is primarily known for starring opposite Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct and alongside Kevin Costner in Waterworld, which was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made. Tripplehorn is a stage-t..
Jeanne Villepreux-Power
Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794- 1871) was a pioneering female French marine biologist who in 1832 was the first person to create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. She was born in Juillac, and travelled to Paris to become a dressmaker, where she became well known for creating a prince..
Jeanne Weber
Jeanne Weber strangled 10 children, including her own. Her motives may never be known -- after conviction, she hanged herself in her cell in 1910. External links [Crime Library] ..
Jeanne Zelasko
Jeanne Zelasko (born October 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a sports commentator for the FOX network. Primarily she covers Major League Baseball and NASCAR events. She became the pre-game host of FOX's MLB games in 2001 after the departure of Keith Olbermann. While covering the 2005 Major Leagu..
Jeannie
Jeannie was a 1973 Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS-TV. Based upon the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, the animated series features the eponymous genie character with a new master, high school student Corry Anders. Comedian and former Three Stooges star Joe B..
Jeannie Baker
Jeannie Baker is the author of the book Where the Forest meets the Sea. Baker was born in England. She went to art college before becoming a Children's Writer. Baker has written and illustrated the books she has written. She resides in Sydney, Australia. Books Home in the skyWindowWindow Big BookTh..
Jeannie Berlin
Jeannie Berlin (November 1, 1949) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. Jeannie Berlin is the daughter of screenwriter Elaine May. She made her screen debut in Getting Straight, the final film of Cecil Kellaway. In 1972, she was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for her role in ..
Jeannie C. Riley
Jeannie C. Riley Jeannie C. Riley (born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson on October 19, 1945) is an American country and gospel music singer. She was born in Anson, Texas to Oscar and Nora Stephenson. She is known for her major 1968 hit "Harper Valley PTA" that made her the first ever female sing..
Jeannie Carson
Jeannie Carson (birthname: Jean Schufflebottom, b. Yorkshire, England on May 23 1938) is a famous comedienne and stage actress. Although appeared on TV several times, Carson is not considered a TV star. Carson has a "star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[[Citing sources citation needed..
Jeannie Clark
Jeanne Clark (pronounced like Jeannie or Jeanne) was a professional wrestling diva for WCW (where she was billed as Lady Blossom) and World Class Championship Wrestling. Contents 1 Career2 Personal Life3 Trivia4 References Career Jeannie Clark was married to professional wr..
Jeannie Elias
Jeannie Elias (born August 23, 1954, Montreal, Quebec) is an American film and voice actress. The movies she has been in include The Pit and Blind Date. The cartoons she has been in include Dennis the Menace, As Told by Ginger, Quack Pack, Telebugs, Pink Panther and Sons, Richie Rich, I am Weasel, T..
Jeannie Ferris
Jeannie Margaret Ferris (born 14 March 1941), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing South Australia. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics. She was a jo..
Jeannie Hilton
Jeannie Hilton (born 1983) is a Canadian author from Montreal, Quebec. Daughter of former boxer Dave Hilton, Jr., she co-authored with her sister Anne Marie a book about the sexual abuse from their father against them. The book, titled [Le Coeur au beurre noir] (The Heart with a black ey..
Jeannie Lewis
Jeannie Lewis (born in 1945 in Australia, attended Sydney Girls High School[1] and studied at University of Sydney[5]) is a musician and stage performer whose work covers many different styles such as folk, jazz, Latin, blues, opera, rock and pushes all musical boundaries. Jeannie..
Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo, in red climber's jersey, leads a group uphill during the 2001 Women's Challenge Jeannie Longo (born October 31, 1958) is a female French cyclist, multiple French and world champion, who is still active in cycling as of 2006. She is famous for her highly-competitive nature and ..
Jeannie Ortega
Jeannette "Jeannie" Ortega (born November 19, 1986 in Bushwick,