Italian-born French composer (1632–1687)
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
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French physicist (1870–1942)
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.
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Belgian actor and martial artist (born 1960)
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor.
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French painter (1814–1875)
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.
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French film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1943)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosophe, writer, and composer.
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French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
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French left-wing populist politician (born 1951)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon is a French left-wing politician who has been the de facto leader of La France Insoumise since it was established in 2016.
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French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J.
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