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IOC president 1980–2001

Juan Antonio Samaranch

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.

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President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018

Juan Manuel Santos

Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018.

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Poet

Juan Ramón Jiménez

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".

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American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)

Judith Butler

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.

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French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance

Jules Michelet

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.

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French author (1864-1910)

Jules Renard

Pierre-Jules Renard was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist.

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French writer (1828–1905)

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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American chef

Julia Child

Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality.

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Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic

Julia Kristeva

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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