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Jörg Leichtfried Jörg Leichtfried (born on 18 June 1967 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the SPÖ, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.
Jörg Schilling Jörg Schilling is a computer programmer known especially for his work on compact disk burning software and as an advocate of Solaris and OpenSolaris. Born in Berlin in 1956, he trained originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin.
Jörgen Brink Jörgen Brink (born March 10, 1974) is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 1994. He earned three bronze medals at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme (10 km + 10 km double pursuit, 50 km, and 4 x 10 km).
Jörgen Jönsson Jörgen Jönsson (born September 29 1972 in Ängelholm) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who started his professional career in Rögle BK. He has also played in the NHL (for the New York Islanders and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), but he chose moving home after one season because he wanted to be with his family.
Jörgen Lehmann Jörgen Erik Lehmann (15 January, 1898 – 26 December, 1989) was a Danish-born Swedish chemist best-known for his discovery in the 1940s that para-amino salicylic acid (PAS) would make an excellent orally-available tuberculosis therapy.
Jörgen Persson Jörgen Persson (born April 22 1966 in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Championship finals he faced fellow swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter.
Jörgen van Rijen Jörgen van Rijen is Principal Trombone (jointly with Ivan Meylemans) at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He is also a key member of young Dutch trombone ensemble, New Trombone Collective and Professor of Trombone at the Rotterdam Conservatorium where he studied as a teenager.
Jörn Donner Jörn Johan Donner (born 5 February 1933 in Helsinki, Finland), is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician and a member of the Donner family. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament.
Jötunheimr Jötunheimr (often anglicized Jotunheim) is the world of the giants (two types: rock and frost, collectively called Jotuns) in the Norse Mythology. From there they menace the humans in Midgard and the gods in Asgard (from whom they are separated by the river Iving).
Jørg Tofte Jebsen Jørg Tofte Jebsen (1888-1922) was a Norwegian physicist who discovered and published an important theorem concerning general relativity which is now known as Birkhoff's theorem. This result was rediscovered by George David Birkhoff a few years later.
Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon was a Norwegian linguist and historian. In recognizing the Hittite language as Indo-European on the basis of two letters found in Egypt (Die zwei Arzawa-Briefe, 1902), he played an important role in the dechipering of the Hittite language script.
Jørgen Brøndlund Fjord Jørgen Brøndlund Fjord (occasionally: Brøndlund Fjord), located at the southern shore of the namesake fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland, was a radio station and until 1950 the northernmost permanent outpost of the world, at 82°11'N, 30°45'W. Since then, Alert in Canada holds this distinction.
Jørgen Herman Vogt Jørgen Herman Vogt (1784 - 1862) was a Norwegian politician who served as first minister of Norway from 1855 to 1858, during the personal union between Sweden and Norway. The first minister was subordinated to the governor and the viceroy in the political hierarchy, but for two periods when no governor or viceroy was present, he served as a de facto prime minister of Norway.
Jørgen Christian Jensen Jørgen Christian Jensen (15 January 1891 – 1922) was a Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Jørgen Christopher von Klenow Jørgen Christopher von Klenow was a Dano-Norwegian officer born in Mecklenburg, (now Germany) and died in 1723 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was commandant of Akershus fortress, Christiania, Norway from 1712 through 1719.
Jørgen Kristensen Jørgen Kristensen (born December 12, 1946), nicknamed Troldmanden (the Wizard), is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played professionally for a number of foreign clubs. He played as an attacking midfielder or winger, and was one of the most technical ballplayers in Danish football.
Jørgen Løvland Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland (1848 - 1922) was a Norwegian politician and Prime Minister. He was Minister of Labour 1898-1899, 1900-1902 and 1902-1903, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1899-1900, Prime Minister in Stockholm in 1905, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1905 and 1905-1907, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1907-1908, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1915-1920.
Jørgen Mads Clausen Jørgen Mads Clausen (b. September 23, 1948) is the billionaire chief of Danfoss, the large Danish heating, refrigeration and air conditioning company started by his father, Mads Clausen, who in 1933 began manufacturing thermostatic expansion valves.
Jørgen Moe Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813-1882) was a Norwegian bishop and author who is best known for his work in collecting and publishing Norwegian fairy tales as one of the name-pair "Asbjørnsen & Moe".
Jørgen Nash Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of situationism. He was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark, baptized Jørgen Axel Jørgensen, the brother of Asger Jorn.
Jørgen Sadolin Jørgen Jensen Sadolin (c. 1490 - December 29 1559 in Odense) was a Danish reformer, the son of Jens Christensen, a curate and subsequently a canon of Viborg cathedral, and consequently, in all probability, born c.
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (1878 – 1964) was an engineer and industrialist of Danish origin. He moved to Germany and established several automobile and motorcycle manufacturing companies, including DKW and Framo.
Jørn Jamtfall Jørn Jamtfall (born july 27, 1966 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian football coach and a former goalkeeper. He spent most of his professional career, from 1994 to 2001, at Rosenborg, but was loaned out to Sogndal in the last half of the 2001 season.
Jørn Lande Jørn Lande (1968-) is a Norwegian heavy rock singer. He has performed with bands such as Vagabond (with Ronni Lè Tekrö from TNT), Yngwie Malmsteen, ARK, Beyond Twilight, Mundanus Imperium, Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus, Millennium and The Snakes as well as his own self-titled solo effort.
Jørn Sloth Jørn Sloth (born September 5, 1944 in Sjørring, Denmark) is a Danish chess grandmaster of the correspondence chess, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1975 and 1980.
Jèrriais Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It has been in decline over the past century as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration.
JÄ“kabpils District Jekabpils district (Latvian: JÄ“kabpils rajons) lies on both the banks of the Daugava in the south-east part of Latvia between Vidzeme and Latgale. In the south it borders on Lithuania and the length of the border is 44 km.
Jędrzej Jędrych Jędrzej Jędrych (born August 11, 1967 in Kolbuszowa) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 13791 votes in 29 Gliwice district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
JÄ«n The Chinese character ç‹ (pinyin: "JÄ«n") can mean either "muscle" or "tendon" Exercises designed to develop JÄ«n are known as JÄ«ngĹŤng (ç‹ ĺŠź). In the context of Chinese martial arts, such exercises develop the ability to recruit the tendons at the beginning and end of a movement as a means of enhancing and delivering the force generated by the stance and body.
JÄņi JÄņi () is a Latvian festival held on the 23/24 June to celebrate the summer solstice, the shortest night and longest day of the year. Both days of JÄņi are public holidays, and people usually spend them in the countryside.
JÄnis Miņins JÄnis Miņins (born 15 August 1980, KuldÄ«ga) is a Latvian bobsleigh pilot who has competed for Latvia in World Cup and World Championship events since 1999. In the 2004–05 season his best placing was a sixth place in the 4-man bob in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Winterberg, both times with Juris Latiss, Ainars Podnieks and JÄnis Ozols.
JÄti JÄtis (the word literally means births) comprise the subcastes found within the four major castes, or varnas, of the Indian caste system. Each jÄti typically has an association with a traditional job function in Hindu society, although religious beliefs (e.
Jbeil District Jbeil (Qadaa' Jbail) (Arabic قضاء جبيل) is a district (qadaa) in the Mount Lebanon Governorate (Arabic Ů…ŘاŮظة جبل لبنان), Lebanon, to the northeast of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital is Jbeil.
Jbilling jbilling (pronounced Jay Billing) is an open source billing system. The software is based on the Java EE framework (formerly J2EE), which makes it cross-platform; usable in any operating system that supports Java.
JBL Super League The JBL (Japan Basketball League) Super League is a professional basketball league in Japan. Although it is the top league in Japan, of a higher class than the JBL Japan League, it remains fairly unknown both in Japan and abroad outside of basketball enthusiasts.
JBTZ-trial The JBTZ-trial was a political trial held in a military court in Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia in 1988. The defendants, Janez Janša, Ivan Borštner, David Tasić and Franci Zavrl, were sentenced to between six months and four years imprisonment for "betraying military secrets", after being involved in writing and publishing articles critical of the Yugoslav People's Army.
JBX Grill JBX Grill was a new line of fast casual restaurants introduced in 2004 by Jack in the Box Inc. JBX Grill features high-quality, cafe-style food, avoiding most of the cheaper fast-food items typically served at Jack in the Box.
JC Denton JC Denton (fictionally born 17 March 2029) is the player character and protagonist of the First-person role-playing computer game Deus Ex. He was voiced by Jay Anthony Franke in both Deus Ex and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
JC Raulston Arboretum JC Raulston Arboretum is an 8 acre (32,000 m²) arboretum and botanical garden operated by North Carolina State University, and located at 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, North Carolina. It is open daily without charge.
JC virtual machine JC virtual machine is a Java Virtual Machine] (JVM) that converts class files from [[byte-code into C and compiles them using C compiler GCC. It uses Soot, a Java programming language framework to load, manipulate and optimize byte-code and GNU Classpath as a standard library.
JC virus The JC virus (JCV) is a type of human polyomavirus (formerly known as papovavirus) and is genetically similar to BK virus and SV40. It was discovered in 1971 and named after the two initials of the patient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
JCB (song) "JCB" (or "JCB Song") is the second single from Nizlopi's first album Half These Songs Are About You. The song is a reminiscence of childhood, based on singer Luke Concannon's own memories; it is sung from the point of view of a young boy, travelling with his father on his JCB digger.
JCI Senate Founded in 1952 in Melbourne, Australia, the JCI Senate is an international organization of men and women who have received special recognition from their local Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycee) chapters. Individuals who have been in the Jaycee organization for at least 5 years and who have applied their leadership skills to growing and improving the organization may be awarded a Senatorship in Junior Chamber International (JCI), bearing a unique number.
JClass DesktopViews JClass DesktopViews is a collection of Java user interface components for professional developers for building client-side applications with rich interface requirements. JClass DesktopViews includes 2D and 3D charting, tables and grids, layout and reporting, GUI enhancements, hierarchical data display, data connectivity as well as data input and validation.
JClic JClic is a set of free software applications licensed under the GNU General Public License that are used for carrying out different types of educational activities: puzzles, associations, text exercises, crosswords, scrambled letters, etc. It's developed in the Java platform and works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris systems.
JCT Mills FC JCT Football Club is an Indian football club based in Phagwara, Punjab and playing in the National Football League Premier Division in the Indian football league system. It also plays in the Punjab State Super League.
JCT600 JCT600 is a car dealership founded in Bradford, England in 1946 by Edward Tordoff - the company is now run by his grandson, John Tordoff It has 18 franchises operating from 20 dealerships across the North of England with an annual turnover in excess of ÂŁ450 million. [http://www.
JD Gravenor JD Gravenor is a Montreal print and radio journalist who contributes a weekly radio segment to Home Run, Montreal's CBC Radio 1 afternoon program concerning little-known stories about Montreal.He contributes weekly articles called Home Front and Teen Zone in the Montreal Gazette] and co-authored with his journalist-brother [[Kristian Gravenor the acclaimed Montreal: The Unknown City (2002).
JD Samson JD Samson (born August 4 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre. Samson grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike, Ohio and attended Orange High School.
JDBC driver To connect with individual databases, JDBC requires drivers for each database. The JDBC driver gives out the connection to the database and implements the protocol for transferring the query and result from client to database.
JDC West In its inaugral year, on the weekend of the January 20 - 23, 2006, 400 of the top business students from across Canada gathered in Vancouver, BC to compete with the best and experience the first JDC West. Next January JDC West 2007 will boast 9 academic case study competitions, 1 Parliamentary-style debate, 1 athletic tournament, and 7 school spirit challenges.
JDG-009X Devil Gundam JDG-009X Devil Gundam, is a fictional mobile fighter in the anime television series Mobile Fighter G Gundam. When Mobile Fighter G Gundam was translated to English the name was changed to "Dark Gundam", due to Cartoon Network's fears that the Devil name would offend some (see GF13-017NJII God Gundam for details).
JDiff JDiff is a Javadoc doclet which generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes, constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or changed in any way, including their documentation, when two Java APIs are compared. This is very useful for describing exactly what has changed between two releases of a product.
JDOM JDOM is an open source Java-based document object model for XML that was designed specifically for the Java platform so that it can take advantage of its language features. JDOM integrates with Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX), supports XPath and XSLT.
JDPR JDPR stands for Judge Diplomacy Player Ratings, an online rating system developed for the board game Diplomacy, as played by email around the world on computer servers called Judges. The rating system is loosely based upong the Elo rating system used in chess, adapted for a seven-player game.
Je (Cyrillic) Je (Đ, Ń) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional cyrillic accented и (Đą) in Vuk KaradĹľić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.
Je Danse Dans Ma TĂŞte "Je Danse Dans Ma TĂŞte" (meaning "I Dance in My Head") is a song from the Dion Chante Plamondon album by CĂ©line Dion. It was released as the third (radio only) single in Canada (February 3 1992) and first commercial single in France (April 6 1992).
Je Khenpo The Je Khenpo, formerly called the Dharma Raj by orientalists, is the title given to the highest religious official of Bhutan. His primary duty is to lead the Central Monk Body, the main monastic body of the country, and to arbitrate on matters of doctrine.
Je m'en fish 'Je m'en fish' roughly translates as 'I do not care' and is one of Belgium's largest organisations working with electronic music of any kind as well as incorporating a number of audiovisual artists, graphic artists and more. While being active before this time, it began as an officially recognized entity by the Belgian government in early 2003.
Je M'appelle Bagdad "Je M'appelle Bagdad" is the second single to be released from Tina Arena's fifth studio album Un Autre Univers. The song received significant airplay on French radio as did its predecessor "Aimer Jusqu'Ă L'impossible".
Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" is a pop music song written by British production team Stock Aitken and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988). It was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and received a mixed reception from music critics.
Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas "Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas" (meaning "I'm Not Forgetting You") is the first single from CĂ©line Dion's French-language greatest hits album, entitled On Ne Change Pas. It was released on October 10 2005.
Je Sais Pas "Je Sais Pas" (meaning "I Don't Know") is the second and last commercial single from D'eux album by CĂ©line Dion. It was released on October 2 1995 in Francophone countries and in December 1995 in selected European countries.
Je Souhaite Je Souhaite (French for "I Wish") is a seventh season The X-Files episode, which centers around a mischievous female Djinn, or genie, who will grant three wishes to whomever possesses a magic rug to which she is bound, but takes advantage of the poorly worded wishes that people want fulfilled. For example, a man wishing that his employer would just shut up ends with the employer losing his mouth, a man wishing to be invisible gets hit by a truck when he discovers he's completely invisible, the man's brother wishing him back from the grave, has his rotting cadaver sent back to him, and when Mulder wishes for world peace, he becomes the only person on earth.
Je Suis Un Vrai Garçon Je Suis Un Vrai Garçon (English translation: "I Am A True Boy", idiomatically "I Am A Tomboy") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, performed in French by Nina Morato. The song was performed twenty-fifth on the night (following Poland's Edyta Górniak with To Nie Ja).
Je t'aime John Wayne Je t'aime John Wayne (2000) is a ten minute short film parody about an English guy pretending to be Jean Paul Belmondo in the film Breathless, who in turn was pretending to be Humphrey Bogart. It was distributed on the DVD Cinema 16: British Short Films.
Je Tsongkhapa Tsongkhapa () (1357 - 1419) , whose name means "The Man from Onion Valley", was the founder of the Geluk (Dge-lugs) school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also known by his ordained name Lobsang Drakpa (Blo-bzang Grags-pa) or simply as "Je Rinpoche" (Rje Rin-bo-che).
Jealous Guy "Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions by musicians like the Black Crowes, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Criss (of KISS), and Cueshe.
Jealousy Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. The word jealousy stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), and from the Greek word for "ardour, zeal" (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").
Jealousy (album) Jealousy is the third album by the Japanese band X Japan and was released on July 1, 1991. It is noted for being the band's most diverse album in terms of songwriting credits and the last to feature Taiji Sawada on bass.
Jealousy (Pet Shop Boys song) "Jealousy" is a song written by the Pet Shop Boys, recorded for their 1990 album Behaviour. In 1991, it was released in a slightly remixed form as a single, which appears on both Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits albums.
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.
Jean Jean is a common female given name in English-speaking countries, usually pronounced (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).
Jean and Dinah Jean and Dinah is a calypso from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean sung by calypsonian Mighty Sparrow and became an international hit in 1956. This calypso, Sparrow's first hit, celebrated the increased availability of prostitutes following the closure of several American military bases in Trinidad following the ends of World War II.
Jean Adair Jean Adair (born Violet McNaughton, June 13, 1873 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; died May 11, 1953 in New York City) was an actress. Although she worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair), she made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace, a role she originated in the Broadway play.
Jean Aerts Jean Aerts (Laken, 8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships.
Jean Alexandru Steriadi Jean Alexandru Steriadi (29 October 1880 - 23 November 1956) was a Romanian painter and drawing artist. He made portraits and compositions based on a strong, expressive drawing; then he evoluated towards impressionistic influenced landscapes in which the subtle harmony is combined with a refined sense of picturesque ("The Morizzi House", "Ships in the BrÄila Harbour").
Jean Allaire Jean Allaire (born 1930) was the author of the Allaire Report, and subsequently in 1994 the first leader of the fiscally conservative, autonomist provincial level political party in Quebec, the Action démocratique du Québec. Allaire resigned within a few months for health reasons and was succeeded by Mario Dumont.
Jean Alphonse Turretin Jean Alphonse Turretin (1671-1737), son of Francis Turretin, was born at Geneva in August 1671. He studied theology at Geneva under Tronchin, and after travelling in Holland, England and France was received into the "Venerable Compagnie des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693.
Jean Anderson Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond, and the 1980s Second World War series Tenko as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (April 1, 1755, Belley, France - February 2, 1826, Paris), a French lawyer and politician, was quite possibly the most famous French epicure and gastronome of all. He was born in the town of Belley, Ain, where the Rhone River then separated France from Savoy, to a family of lawyers in whom eloquence flowed.
Jean Armand de Lestocq Count Jean Armand de L'Estocq (German: Johann Hermann Lestocq, Russian: Đван Đванович ЛеŃток, 29 April 1692, Luneburg — 12 June 1767, Saint Petersburg) was a French adventurer who wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth.
Jean Asselborn Jean Asselborn (born 27 April 1949 in Steinfort) is a Luxembourgian politician. Since July 31, 2004, he has been the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government led by Jean-Claude Juncker.
Jean Astruc Jean Astruc (Sauves, Auvergne, March 19, 1684 - Paris, May 5, 1766) was a famous professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture. Astruc was the first to convincingly suggest using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics— that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach that was still cautiously being called the documentary hypothesis in the late 19th century.
Jean Aubert Jean Aubert, "the Elder" (ca 1680 — 1741) was a French architect, "responsible for many fine interiors but not a leader of the first rank."Fiske Kimball, The Creation of the Rococo, 1943 (p 131).
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (pronounced ("Ang", rhymes with "bang", with a hint of the "r", but the final "es" is not pronounced) (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
Jean B. Fletcher Jean Bodman Fletcher (1915 - 1965) was an American architect who was a founding member of the Architects' Collaborative. She graduated from Smith College in 1937, and finished her architectural training at the Cambridge School in 1941, an architecture school for women affilitated with Harvard University and Smith.
Jean Babilée Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n)) (born February 2, 1923) is a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century, who is also considered to be one of modern ballet's greatest performers. He is notable as the first French dancer to gain international acclaim.
Jean Baillairgé Jean Baillairgé, (31 October 1726 – 6 September 1805 ), was a carpenter by trade and there is some reference to his being an architect. He was born in Blanzay, France and his death occurred at Quebec, Lower Canada.
Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco (German Johann Baptist, Graf von Arco) (c. 1650 – 21 March 1715, Munich) was a diplomat and field marshal in the service of the Electorate of Bavaria during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the 18th century, was born at Paris on the 11th of July 1697. Both a geographer and cartographer, he greatly improved the standards of map-making.
Jean Baptiste Carnoy Jean Baptiste Carnoy (1836 – 1899) , born in Rumillies (Belgium) was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the science of cytology. He made the initial explanation of the real nature of the albuminoid membrane, and did noted experiments on cellular segmentation.
Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye (b September 3, 1713 – d June 6, 1736) was the eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. He was born at Sorel, New France and he, with two brothers (Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye and François de La Vérendrye), was in the party his father led west in 1731.
Jean Baptiste Eble Jean Baptiste Eble (december 21 1758 - december 31 1812 ), was a French General, Engineer and Artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars. He is credited with saving Napoleon's Grand Army from complete destruction in 1812.
Jean Baptiste Filose Jean Baptiste Filose was a military commander in the army of Daulat Rao Sindhia, the Maratha ruler of Gwalior. In 1811 he captured the fortress of Chanderi on the eastern border of Sindhia's kingdom from the Bundela Rajput rulers.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was the son of Sacagawea and her French Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau, born while they were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; expedition co-leader William Clark nicknamed him Pomp or Pompy. Pompey's Pillar on the Yellowstone River in Montana is named after him, and his image can be found on the Sacagawea dollar coin; he is the only child ever depicted on United States currency.
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletIPNI gives this form of his name; however, his surnames are sometimes hyphenated, as Fusée-Aublet, his first names may also be hyphenated, and "Christophore" is sometimes given as "Christian". (1720–1778) was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.
Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle (or Romé de L'Isle) (August 26, 1736 – March 7, 1790), French mineralogist, was born at Gray, in Haute-Sane. As secretary of a company of artillery he visited the East Indies and was taken prisoner by the English in 1761 and held in captivity for three years.
Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne (1767 - October 23 1810, Carthagena) was a French General, who served throughout the Revolutionary campaign on the Rhine, took part in the campaign of Zurich in 1799, and distinguished himself very greatly by his escape from, and subsequent return to, Genoa, when in 1800 Masséna was closely besieged in that city. He became a cavalry colonel in 1803, was promoted general of brigade on the field of Austerlitz, and served in southern Italy and in Spain on the staff of King Joseph Bonaparte.
Jean Baptiste Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin (September 30, 1870 – April 17, 1942) was born in Lille, France where he attended École Normale Supérieure. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode and X-rays.
Jörg Schilling Jörg Schilling is a computer programmer known especially for his work on compact disk burning software and as an advocate of Solaris and OpenSolaris. Born in Berlin in 1956, he trained originally as an electrical engineer at the Technical University of Berlin.
Jörgen Brink Jörgen Brink (born March 10, 1974) is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 1994. He earned three bronze medals at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme (10 km + 10 km double pursuit, 50 km, and 4 x 10 km).
Jörgen Jönsson Jörgen Jönsson (born September 29 1972 in Ängelholm) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who started his professional career in Rögle BK. He has also played in the NHL (for the New York Islanders and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), but he chose moving home after one season because he wanted to be with his family.
Jörgen Lehmann Jörgen Erik Lehmann (15 January, 1898 – 26 December, 1989) was a Danish-born Swedish chemist best-known for his discovery in the 1940s that para-amino salicylic acid (PAS) would make an excellent orally-available tuberculosis therapy.
Jörgen Persson Jörgen Persson (born April 22 1966 in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish table tennis player. In two memorable World Championship finals he faced fellow swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter.
Jörgen van Rijen Jörgen van Rijen is Principal Trombone (jointly with Ivan Meylemans) at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He is also a key member of young Dutch trombone ensemble, New Trombone Collective and Professor of Trombone at the Rotterdam Conservatorium where he studied as a teenager.
Jörn Donner Jörn Johan Donner (born 5 February 1933 in Helsinki, Finland), is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician and a member of the Donner family. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament.
Jötunheimr Jötunheimr (often anglicized Jotunheim) is the world of the giants (two types: rock and frost, collectively called Jotuns) in the Norse Mythology. From there they menace the humans in Midgard and the gods in Asgard (from whom they are separated by the river Iving).
Jørg Tofte Jebsen Jørg Tofte Jebsen (1888-1922) was a Norwegian physicist who discovered and published an important theorem concerning general relativity which is now known as Birkhoff's theorem. This result was rediscovered by George David Birkhoff a few years later.
Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon was a Norwegian linguist and historian. In recognizing the Hittite language as Indo-European on the basis of two letters found in Egypt (Die zwei Arzawa-Briefe, 1902), he played an important role in the dechipering of the Hittite language script.
Jørgen Brøndlund Fjord Jørgen Brøndlund Fjord (occasionally: Brøndlund Fjord), located at the southern shore of the namesake fjord in Peary Land, northern Greenland, was a radio station and until 1950 the northernmost permanent outpost of the world, at 82°11'N, 30°45'W. Since then, Alert in Canada holds this distinction.
Jørgen Herman Vogt Jørgen Herman Vogt (1784 - 1862) was a Norwegian politician who served as first minister of Norway from 1855 to 1858, during the personal union between Sweden and Norway. The first minister was subordinated to the governor and the viceroy in the political hierarchy, but for two periods when no governor or viceroy was present, he served as a de facto prime minister of Norway.
Jørgen Christian Jensen Jørgen Christian Jensen (15 January 1891 – 1922) was a Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Jørgen Christopher von Klenow Jørgen Christopher von Klenow was a Dano-Norwegian officer born in Mecklenburg, (now Germany) and died in 1723 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was commandant of Akershus fortress, Christiania, Norway from 1712 through 1719.
Jørgen Kristensen Jørgen Kristensen (born December 12, 1946), nicknamed Troldmanden (the Wizard), is a Danish former football (soccer) player, who played professionally for a number of foreign clubs. He played as an attacking midfielder or winger, and was one of the most technical ballplayers in Danish football.
Jørgen Løvland Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland (1848 - 1922) was a Norwegian politician and Prime Minister. He was Minister of Labour 1898-1899, 1900-1902 and 1902-1903, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1899-1900, Prime Minister in Stockholm in 1905, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1905 and 1905-1907, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1907-1908, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1915-1920.
Jørgen Mads Clausen Jørgen Mads Clausen (b. September 23, 1948) is the billionaire chief of Danfoss, the large Danish heating, refrigeration and air conditioning company started by his father, Mads Clausen, who in 1933 began manufacturing thermostatic expansion valves.
Jørgen Moe Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813-1882) was a Norwegian bishop and author who is best known for his work in collecting and publishing Norwegian fairy tales as one of the name-pair "Asbjørnsen & Moe".
Jørgen Nash Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of situationism. He was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark, baptized Jørgen Axel Jørgensen, the brother of Asger Jorn.
Jørgen Sadolin Jørgen Jensen Sadolin (c. 1490 - December 29 1559 in Odense) was a Danish reformer, the son of Jens Christensen, a curate and subsequently a canon of Viborg cathedral, and consequently, in all probability, born c.
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (1878 – 1964) was an engineer and industrialist of Danish origin. He moved to Germany and established several automobile and motorcycle manufacturing companies, including DKW and Framo.
Jørn Jamtfall Jørn Jamtfall (born july 27, 1966 in Trondheim) is a Norwegian football coach and a former goalkeeper. He spent most of his professional career, from 1994 to 2001, at Rosenborg, but was loaned out to Sogndal in the last half of the 2001 season.
Jørn Lande Jørn Lande (1968-) is a Norwegian heavy rock singer. He has performed with bands such as Vagabond (with Ronni Lè Tekrö from TNT), Yngwie Malmsteen, ARK, Beyond Twilight, Mundanus Imperium, Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus, Millennium and The Snakes as well as his own self-titled solo effort.
Jørn Sloth Jørn Sloth (born September 5, 1944 in Sjørring, Denmark) is a Danish chess grandmaster of the correspondence chess, most famous for being the eighth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1975 and 1980.
Jèrriais Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It has been in decline over the past century as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration.
JÄ“kabpils District Jekabpils district (Latvian: JÄ“kabpils rajons) lies on both the banks of the Daugava in the south-east part of Latvia between Vidzeme and Latgale. In the south it borders on Lithuania and the length of the border is 44 km.
Jędrzej Jędrych Jędrzej Jędrych (born August 11, 1967 in Kolbuszowa) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 13791 votes in 29 Gliwice district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
JÄ«n The Chinese character ç‹ (pinyin: "JÄ«n") can mean either "muscle" or "tendon" Exercises designed to develop JÄ«n are known as JÄ«ngĹŤng (ç‹ ĺŠź). In the context of Chinese martial arts, such exercises develop the ability to recruit the tendons at the beginning and end of a movement as a means of enhancing and delivering the force generated by the stance and body.
JÄņi JÄņi () is a Latvian festival held on the 23/24 June to celebrate the summer solstice, the shortest night and longest day of the year. Both days of JÄņi are public holidays, and people usually spend them in the countryside.
JÄnis Miņins JÄnis Miņins (born 15 August 1980, KuldÄ«ga) is a Latvian bobsleigh pilot who has competed for Latvia in World Cup and World Championship events since 1999. In the 2004–05 season his best placing was a sixth place in the 4-man bob in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Winterberg, both times with Juris Latiss, Ainars Podnieks and JÄnis Ozols.
JÄti JÄtis (the word literally means births) comprise the subcastes found within the four major castes, or varnas, of the Indian caste system. Each jÄti typically has an association with a traditional job function in Hindu society, although religious beliefs (e.
Jbeil District Jbeil (Qadaa' Jbail) (Arabic قضاء جبيل) is a district (qadaa) in the Mount Lebanon Governorate (Arabic Ů…ŘاŮظة جبل لبنان), Lebanon, to the northeast of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital is Jbeil.
Jbilling jbilling (pronounced Jay Billing) is an open source billing system. The software is based on the Java EE framework (formerly J2EE), which makes it cross-platform; usable in any operating system that supports Java.
JBL Super League The JBL (Japan Basketball League) Super League is a professional basketball league in Japan. Although it is the top league in Japan, of a higher class than the JBL Japan League, it remains fairly unknown both in Japan and abroad outside of basketball enthusiasts.
JBTZ-trial The JBTZ-trial was a political trial held in a military court in Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia in 1988. The defendants, Janez Janša, Ivan Borštner, David Tasić and Franci Zavrl, were sentenced to between six months and four years imprisonment for "betraying military secrets", after being involved in writing and publishing articles critical of the Yugoslav People's Army.
JBX Grill JBX Grill was a new line of fast casual restaurants introduced in 2004 by Jack in the Box Inc. JBX Grill features high-quality, cafe-style food, avoiding most of the cheaper fast-food items typically served at Jack in the Box.
JC Denton JC Denton (fictionally born 17 March 2029) is the player character and protagonist of the First-person role-playing computer game Deus Ex. He was voiced by Jay Anthony Franke in both Deus Ex and its sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
JC Raulston Arboretum JC Raulston Arboretum is an 8 acre (32,000 m²) arboretum and botanical garden operated by North Carolina State University, and located at 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, North Carolina. It is open daily without charge.
JC virtual machine JC virtual machine is a Java Virtual Machine] (JVM) that converts class files from [[byte-code into C and compiles them using C compiler GCC. It uses Soot, a Java programming language framework to load, manipulate and optimize byte-code and GNU Classpath as a standard library.
JC virus The JC virus (JCV) is a type of human polyomavirus (formerly known as papovavirus) and is genetically similar to BK virus and SV40. It was discovered in 1971 and named after the two initials of the patient with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
JCB (song) "JCB" (or "JCB Song") is the second single from Nizlopi's first album Half These Songs Are About You. The song is a reminiscence of childhood, based on singer Luke Concannon's own memories; it is sung from the point of view of a young boy, travelling with his father on his JCB digger.
JCI Senate Founded in 1952 in Melbourne, Australia, the JCI Senate is an international organization of men and women who have received special recognition from their local Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycee) chapters. Individuals who have been in the Jaycee organization for at least 5 years and who have applied their leadership skills to growing and improving the organization may be awarded a Senatorship in Junior Chamber International (JCI), bearing a unique number.
JClass DesktopViews JClass DesktopViews is a collection of Java user interface components for professional developers for building client-side applications with rich interface requirements. JClass DesktopViews includes 2D and 3D charting, tables and grids, layout and reporting, GUI enhancements, hierarchical data display, data connectivity as well as data input and validation.
JClic JClic is a set of free software applications licensed under the GNU General Public License that are used for carrying out different types of educational activities: puzzles, associations, text exercises, crosswords, scrambled letters, etc. It's developed in the Java platform and works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris systems.
JCT Mills FC JCT Football Club is an Indian football club based in Phagwara, Punjab and playing in the National Football League Premier Division in the Indian football league system. It also plays in the Punjab State Super League.
JCT600 JCT600 is a car dealership founded in Bradford, England in 1946 by Edward Tordoff - the company is now run by his grandson, John Tordoff It has 18 franchises operating from 20 dealerships across the North of England with an annual turnover in excess of ÂŁ450 million. [http://www.
JD Gravenor JD Gravenor is a Montreal print and radio journalist who contributes a weekly radio segment to Home Run, Montreal's CBC Radio 1 afternoon program concerning little-known stories about Montreal.He contributes weekly articles called Home Front and Teen Zone in the Montreal Gazette] and co-authored with his journalist-brother [[Kristian Gravenor the acclaimed Montreal: The Unknown City (2002).
JD Samson JD Samson (born August 4 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre. Samson grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike, Ohio and attended Orange High School.
JDBC driver To connect with individual databases, JDBC requires drivers for each database. The JDBC driver gives out the connection to the database and implements the protocol for transferring the query and result from client to database.
JDC West In its inaugral year, on the weekend of the January 20 - 23, 2006, 400 of the top business students from across Canada gathered in Vancouver, BC to compete with the best and experience the first JDC West. Next January JDC West 2007 will boast 9 academic case study competitions, 1 Parliamentary-style debate, 1 athletic tournament, and 7 school spirit challenges.
JDG-009X Devil Gundam JDG-009X Devil Gundam, is a fictional mobile fighter in the anime television series Mobile Fighter G Gundam. When Mobile Fighter G Gundam was translated to English the name was changed to "Dark Gundam", due to Cartoon Network's fears that the Devil name would offend some (see GF13-017NJII God Gundam for details).
JDiff JDiff is a Javadoc doclet which generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes, constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or changed in any way, including their documentation, when two Java APIs are compared. This is very useful for describing exactly what has changed between two releases of a product.
JDOM JDOM is an open source Java-based document object model for XML that was designed specifically for the Java platform so that it can take advantage of its language features. JDOM integrates with Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX), supports XPath and XSLT.
JDPR JDPR stands for Judge Diplomacy Player Ratings, an online rating system developed for the board game Diplomacy, as played by email around the world on computer servers called Judges. The rating system is loosely based upong the Elo rating system used in chess, adapted for a seven-player game.
Je (Cyrillic) Je (Đ, Ń) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Serbian, Macedonian, Azeri, and Altai languages. It replaced the traditional cyrillic accented и (Đą) in Vuk KaradĹľić's alphabet, which invited accusations of submission to the Latin script and Catholic Church (in Austria) from the Orthodox clergy.
Je Danse Dans Ma TĂŞte "Je Danse Dans Ma TĂŞte" (meaning "I Dance in My Head") is a song from the Dion Chante Plamondon album by CĂ©line Dion. It was released as the third (radio only) single in Canada (February 3 1992) and first commercial single in France (April 6 1992).
Je Khenpo The Je Khenpo, formerly called the Dharma Raj by orientalists, is the title given to the highest religious official of Bhutan. His primary duty is to lead the Central Monk Body, the main monastic body of the country, and to arbitrate on matters of doctrine.
Je m'en fish 'Je m'en fish' roughly translates as 'I do not care' and is one of Belgium's largest organisations working with electronic music of any kind as well as incorporating a number of audiovisual artists, graphic artists and more. While being active before this time, it began as an officially recognized entity by the Belgian government in early 2003.
Je M'appelle Bagdad "Je M'appelle Bagdad" is the second single to be released from Tina Arena's fifth studio album Un Autre Univers. The song received significant airplay on French radio as did its predecessor "Aimer Jusqu'Ă L'impossible".
Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" is a pop music song written by British production team Stock Aitken and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988). It was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and received a mixed reception from music critics.
Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas "Je Ne Vous Oublie Pas" (meaning "I'm Not Forgetting You") is the first single from CĂ©line Dion's French-language greatest hits album, entitled On Ne Change Pas. It was released on October 10 2005.
Je Sais Pas "Je Sais Pas" (meaning "I Don't Know") is the second and last commercial single from D'eux album by CĂ©line Dion. It was released on October 2 1995 in Francophone countries and in December 1995 in selected European countries.
Je Souhaite Je Souhaite (French for "I Wish") is a seventh season The X-Files episode, which centers around a mischievous female Djinn, or genie, who will grant three wishes to whomever possesses a magic rug to which she is bound, but takes advantage of the poorly worded wishes that people want fulfilled. For example, a man wishing that his employer would just shut up ends with the employer losing his mouth, a man wishing to be invisible gets hit by a truck when he discovers he's completely invisible, the man's brother wishing him back from the grave, has his rotting cadaver sent back to him, and when Mulder wishes for world peace, he becomes the only person on earth.
Je Suis Un Vrai Garçon Je Suis Un Vrai Garçon (English translation: "I Am A True Boy", idiomatically "I Am A Tomboy") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, performed in French by Nina Morato. The song was performed twenty-fifth on the night (following Poland's Edyta Górniak with To Nie Ja).
Je t'aime John Wayne Je t'aime John Wayne (2000) is a ten minute short film parody about an English guy pretending to be Jean Paul Belmondo in the film Breathless, who in turn was pretending to be Humphrey Bogart. It was distributed on the DVD Cinema 16: British Short Films.
Je Tsongkhapa Tsongkhapa () (1357 - 1419) , whose name means "The Man from Onion Valley", was the founder of the Geluk (Dge-lugs) school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also known by his ordained name Lobsang Drakpa (Blo-bzang Grags-pa) or simply as "Je Rinpoche" (Rje Rin-bo-che).
Jealous Guy "Jealous Guy" is a song written and performed by John Lennon which first appeared on his 1971 album Imagine. It is one of the most commonly covered Lennon songs, with at least ninety-two recorded cover versions by musicians like the Black Crowes, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Criss (of KISS), and Cueshe.
Jealousy Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. The word jealousy stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), and from the Greek word for "ardour, zeal" (with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast").
Jealousy (album) Jealousy is the third album by the Japanese band X Japan and was released on July 1, 1991. It is noted for being the band's most diverse album in terms of songwriting credits and the last to feature Taiji Sawada on bass.
Jealousy (Pet Shop Boys song) "Jealousy" is a song written by the Pet Shop Boys, recorded for their 1990 album Behaviour. In 1991, it was released in a slightly remixed form as a single, which appears on both Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits albums.
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.
Jean Jean is a common female given name in English-speaking countries, usually pronounced (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).
Jean and Dinah Jean and Dinah is a calypso from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean sung by calypsonian Mighty Sparrow and became an international hit in 1956. This calypso, Sparrow's first hit, celebrated the increased availability of prostitutes following the closure of several American military bases in Trinidad following the ends of World War II.
Jean Adair Jean Adair (born Violet McNaughton, June 13, 1873 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; died May 11, 1953 in New York City) was an actress. Although she worked primarily on stage (sometimes billed as Jennet Adair), she made several film appearances late in her career, most notably as one of the misguided murdering aunts of Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace, a role she originated in the Broadway play.
Jean Aerts Jean Aerts (Laken, 8 September 1907 – 15 June 1992) was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur (1927) and professional (1935) road race championships.
Jean Alexandru Steriadi Jean Alexandru Steriadi (29 October 1880 - 23 November 1956) was a Romanian painter and drawing artist. He made portraits and compositions based on a strong, expressive drawing; then he evoluated towards impressionistic influenced landscapes in which the subtle harmony is combined with a refined sense of picturesque ("The Morizzi House", "Ships in the BrÄila Harbour").
Jean Allaire Jean Allaire (born 1930) was the author of the Allaire Report, and subsequently in 1994 the first leader of the fiscally conservative, autonomist provincial level political party in Quebec, the Action démocratique du Québec. Allaire resigned within a few months for health reasons and was succeeded by Mario Dumont.
Jean Alphonse Turretin Jean Alphonse Turretin (1671-1737), son of Francis Turretin, was born at Geneva in August 1671. He studied theology at Geneva under Tronchin, and after travelling in Holland, England and France was received into the "Venerable Compagnie des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693.
Jean Anderson Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond, and the 1980s Second World War series Tenko as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (April 1, 1755, Belley, France - February 2, 1826, Paris), a French lawyer and politician, was quite possibly the most famous French epicure and gastronome of all. He was born in the town of Belley, Ain, where the Rhone River then separated France from Savoy, to a family of lawyers in whom eloquence flowed.
Jean Armand de Lestocq Count Jean Armand de L'Estocq (German: Johann Hermann Lestocq, Russian: Đван Đванович ЛеŃток, 29 April 1692, Luneburg — 12 June 1767, Saint Petersburg) was a French adventurer who wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth.
Jean Asselborn Jean Asselborn (born 27 April 1949 in Steinfort) is a Luxembourgian politician. Since July 31, 2004, he has been the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government led by Jean-Claude Juncker.
Jean Astruc Jean Astruc (Sauves, Auvergne, March 19, 1684 - Paris, May 5, 1766) was a famous professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture. Astruc was the first to convincingly suggest using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics— that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach that was still cautiously being called the documentary hypothesis in the late 19th century.
Jean Aubert Jean Aubert, "the Elder" (ca 1680 — 1741) was a French architect, "responsible for many fine interiors but not a leader of the first rank."Fiske Kimball, The Creation of the Rococo, 1943 (p 131).
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (pronounced ("Ang", rhymes with "bang", with a hint of the "r", but the final "es" is not pronounced) (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he thought of himself as a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was his portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
Jean B. Fletcher Jean Bodman Fletcher (1915 - 1965) was an American architect who was a founding member of the Architects' Collaborative. She graduated from Smith College in 1937, and finished her architectural training at the Cambridge School in 1941, an architecture school for women affilitated with Harvard University and Smith.
Jean Babilée Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n)) (born February 2, 1923) is a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century, who is also considered to be one of modern ballet's greatest performers. He is notable as the first French dancer to gain international acclaim.
Jean Baillairgé Jean Baillairgé, (31 October 1726 – 6 September 1805 ), was a carpenter by trade and there is some reference to his being an architect. He was born in Blanzay, France and his death occurred at Quebec, Lower Canada.
Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco (German Johann Baptist, Graf von Arco) (c. 1650 – 21 March 1715, Munich) was a diplomat and field marshal in the service of the Electorate of Bavaria during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782), perhaps the greatest geographical author of the 18th century, was born at Paris on the 11th of July 1697. Both a geographer and cartographer, he greatly improved the standards of map-making.
Jean Baptiste Carnoy Jean Baptiste Carnoy (1836 – 1899) , born in Rumillies (Belgium) was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the science of cytology. He made the initial explanation of the real nature of the albuminoid membrane, and did noted experiments on cellular segmentation.
Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye (b September 3, 1713 – d June 6, 1736) was the eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. He was born at Sorel, New France and he, with two brothers (Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye and François de La Vérendrye), was in the party his father led west in 1731.
Jean Baptiste Eble Jean Baptiste Eble (december 21 1758 - december 31 1812 ), was a French General, Engineer and Artilleryman during the Napoleonic Wars. He is credited with saving Napoleon's Grand Army from complete destruction in 1812.
Jean Baptiste Filose Jean Baptiste Filose was a military commander in the army of Daulat Rao Sindhia, the Maratha ruler of Gwalior. In 1811 he captured the fortress of Chanderi on the eastern border of Sindhia's kingdom from the Bundela Rajput rulers.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was the son of Sacagawea and her French Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau, born while they were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; expedition co-leader William Clark nicknamed him Pomp or Pompy. Pompey's Pillar on the Yellowstone River in Montana is named after him, and his image can be found on the Sacagawea dollar coin; he is the only child ever depicted on United States currency.
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée AubletIPNI gives this form of his name; however, his surnames are sometimes hyphenated, as Fusée-Aublet, his first names may also be hyphenated, and "Christophore" is sometimes given as "Christian". (1720–1778) was a French pharmacist, botanist and explorer.
Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle (or Romé de L'Isle) (August 26, 1736 – March 7, 1790), French mineralogist, was born at Gray, in Haute-Sane. As secretary of a company of artillery he visited the East Indies and was taken prisoner by the English in 1761 and held in captivity for three years.
Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne (1767 - October 23 1810, Carthagena) was a French General, who served throughout the Revolutionary campaign on the Rhine, took part in the campaign of Zurich in 1799, and distinguished himself very greatly by his escape from, and subsequent return to, Genoa, when in 1800 Masséna was closely besieged in that city. He became a cavalry colonel in 1803, was promoted general of brigade on the field of Austerlitz, and served in southern Italy and in Spain on the staff of King Joseph Bonaparte.
Jean Baptiste Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin (September 30, 1870 – April 17, 1942) was born in Lille, France where he attended École Normale Supérieure. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode and X-rays.
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