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IOC president 1980–2001
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime who served as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001.
Read biography ↗President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018.
Read biography ↗Poet
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity".
Read biography ↗American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.
Read biography ↗French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
Jules Michelet was a French historian and writer, best known for his multi-volume work Histoire de France, which chronicles the history of France from its earliest origins to the French Revolution.
Read biography ↗French author (1864-1910)
Pierre-Jules Renard was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist.
Read biography ↗French writer (1828–1905)
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Read biography ↗American chef
Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality.
Read biography ↗Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s.
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