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Jean Harlow Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM.
Jean Harris Jean Harris (b. Jean Struven in Cleveland on April 27, 1923) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her ex-lover Dr.
Jean Havez Jean Havez (December 24, 1869 – February 11, 1925), was an American writer of novelty songs and silent era comedy films. In his film career, Havez worked with the legendary comedians Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
Jean Henri Riesener Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) was born in Gladbeck in Germany and became a master cabinet maker at the court of France. He was responsible for some of the most important examples of furniture in the Louis XVI style.
Jean Henry-Mead Sources: Wyoming Authors Wikipedia, Natrona County Memorial Library; Casper, Wyoming; statewide newspaper, Casper Star-Tribune; Roundup Magazine (Western Writers of America), American Western Magazine (online), AOL.com and Google search, Amazon.
Jean Huber Jean Huber (1721-1786), was the father of François Huber, the naturalist. He had served for many years as a soldier and was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his observations on the flight of birds (Geneva, 1784).
Jean Hundertmark Jean Hundertmark is a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 40th district where she has served four terms as State Representative. In 2006, Hundertmark ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Mark Green.
Jean Chalopin Jean Chalopin (born 1950) is a French producer and writer. In 1971, Chalopin created the company DIC Audiovisuel, which later evolved into DIC Entertainment, and wrote and produced a lot of programmes directed by uncredited Japanese studios, such as Inspector Gadget.
Jean Chardin Jean Chardin, born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, also known as Sir John Chardin, (November 16, 1643 – January 5, 1713) was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.
Jean Charles de Menezes Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978–22 July 2005) was a Brazilian electrician living in the Tulse Hill area of south London. Menezes was shot and killed at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers.
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (April 24, 1817–April 15, 1894) was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei and whose study of the rare earth elements led to his discovery of ytterbium in 1878 and codiscovery of gadolinium in 1880.
Jean Chastel Jean Chastel was a local farmer and inn-keeper, noted for killing the Beast of GĂ©vaudan on June 19, 1767 at Mount Chauvet. According to tradition and several subsequent novels (often taken as facts by would-be historians) he positioned himself on a prime spot to get first bids on the beast and opened a prayer book.
Jean Ichbiah Jean David Ichbiah (born 25 March 1940) was the chief designer of the Ada programming language from 1977-1983. At the time, he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France.
Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch (1343 - 1377), was a cousin of the Count of Foix and a renowned military leader in the Hundred Years' War who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.
Jean Jacoby Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (26 March 1891 – 9 September 1936) was a Luxembourg artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, Duke of Parma, (18 October 1753–8 March 1824), was a French lawyer and statesman, best remembered as the author of the Napoleonic code, which still forms the basis of French civil law.
Jean Jacques Waltz Jean Jacques Waltz (Colmar 23 February 1873 - 10 June 1951), also known as "Oncle Hansi", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsacian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his cute drawings, some of which contain harsh critics against the German of the time.
Jean Jaurès Jean Léon Jaurès—full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès—(September 3, 1859 – July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. He was one of the first social democrats: within the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), he opposed Jules Guesde's refusal of socialist participation in bourgeois governments.
Jean Jenkins (ethnomusicologist) Jean Jenkins (17 March 1922 - 12 September 1990) was an American-born ethnomusicologist who spent most of her career based in the UK and travelled all over the world to collect sound recordings, slides and musical instruments.
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (March 4, 1901, Tananarive - June 22, 1937, Tananarive), was a Malagasy poet writing in both Malagasy and French. His poetry collections are entitled Cutting the Ashes (1924), Nearly Dreams (1934), and Translation of the Night (1935).
Jean Joseph Rolette Jean Joseph Rolette (September 24, 1781 - December 1, 1842), often known as Joseph Rolette, was a prominent fur trader and member of the Mackinac Company who operated a trading post in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Jean Kambanda Jean Kambanda (born October 19, 1955) was the Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda from the start of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide, in the first group of such convictions since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into effect in 1951.
Jean King Jean King was Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from 1978 to 1982 in the administration of Governor of Hawaii George Ariyoshi. She was removed from the ticket and a chance for a second term after deciding to challenge the sitting governor with whom she served.
Jean le Pautre Jean le Pautre (1618-1682), French designer and engraver. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and builder and in addition to learning mechanical and constructive work developed considerable facility with the pencil.
Jean Laborde Jean Laborde (16 October 1805 in Auch - 27 December 1878 in Madagascar) was the first French consul to Madagascar, where the government of Napoléan III used him to establish French influence on the island. He became the chief engineer of the Merina monarchy, supervising the creation of a modern manufacturing center.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve protects significant examples of the rich natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. The park, named after Jean Lafitte, seeks to illustrate the influence of environment and history on the development of a unique regional culture.
Jean Lambert Jean Lambert (born June 1, 1950 in Orsett, Essex) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for London. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales, and has been an MEP since 1999.
Jean Laplanche Jean Laplanche (born June 21 1924) is a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and has written more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory.
Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny (born 1692, Reims, France - died 1785, Paris) was a historian, who in 1713, with his brothers, Champeaux and LĂ©vesque de Pouilly, he began to compile a dictionary of universal knowledge, similar to an encyclopedia, which comprised twelve large manuscript folios, and afforded Burigny ample material for his subsequent works. In 1718, at The Hague, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on L'Europe savante, in twelve volumes, of which he contributed at least one-half.
Jean Lecanuet Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (March 4, 1920 - February 21, 1993) was born in a family of very modest conditions, he oriented towards studies of literature. He received his diploma at the age of 22, becoming the youngest agrégé in France.
Jean Leclant Jean Leclant (born August 8, 1920 in Paris, France) is a renowned Egyptologist who is an Honorary Professor at the College of France and Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France.
Jean Liebault Jean Liebault (1535-1596) was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon. He married the daughter of the printer Charles Estienne and was given the French translation of Estienne's book La Maison Rustique ("The Rustic House").
Jean Liedloff Jean Liedloff (born in New York) is an American author, best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. As a teenager, she accomplished the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at the Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate.
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554-1642), first Duke of Épernon, was a powerful member of the French nobility at the turn of the 17th century. He was deeply involved in plots and politics throughout his life (allegedly, Dumas drew his inspiration for the character of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers from de La Valette).
Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu (1800; Nîmes, France – 1874; Paris, France) was an early French photographer of nudes, known for making studies for Eugène Delacroix. Some of Durieu's nudes were used by Delacroix to creating his own paintings and drawings.
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is the protagonist and narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird. She is a 6 year old girl and a tomboy, possibly due to her closeness with her older brother, and from the lack of a mother as a female role model.
Jean Luzac Jean Luzac (1746–1807) was the most influential newspaper editor in the Western world in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. His newspaper, the Gazette de Leyde, published in the Dutch town of Leiden, served as Europe's 'newspaper of record.
Jean Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne Jean Lyon nee Nicholsen (September 22, 1713 - April 22, 1778) was the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the wife of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of the Queen Mother. The couple were married on July 20, 1736, in Houghton le Spring in Durham, England and had seven children:
Jean M. Auel Jean Marie Auel (born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.
Jean M. Muller Jean Muller was a bridge engineer who focused on design and construction of concrete bridges. By working closely with Eugene Freyssinet, he was able to learn the technique and develop more efficient ways to join bridge segments together.
Jean Maitron Jean Maitron (December 10, 1917 - November 16, 1987) was a French historian specialist of the labour movement. A pionneer of such historical studies in France, he introduced it to University and gave it its archives base, by creating ijn 1949 the Centre d'histoire du syndicalisme (Historic Center of Trade-Unions) in the Sorbonne, which received important archives from activists such as Paul Delesalle, Émile Armand, Pierre Monatte, etc.
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (April 24 1774 - 1838) was a French physician born in Provence.Jean Itard, MĂ©moire et Rapport sur Victor de l'Aveyron (1801 et 1806) 1825, Itard was credited with describing the first case of Tourette syndrome] in [[Marquise de Dampierre, a woman of nobility.
Jean Marie Chérestal Jean Marie Chérestal was prime minister of Haïti from 2 March 2001 to 21 January 2002. Forced to resign after accusations of mismanagement, on 16 January 2002 Cherestal relinquished the office after being presented with a letter of dismissal by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which he did not accept until 21 January.
Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert was a French Commissioner in the French Gendarmerie. He was sent to Colombia as part of an exchange program between the two countries to help found the Colombian National Police in November 5, 1891.
Jean Marsh Jean Marsh (born 1 July 1934) is an English actress and writer, who is best known for co-creating the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins. She also portrayed house parlourmaid Rose Buck in the same series.
Jean Mathonet Jean Mathonet was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Jupiler League with 26 goals in 1956 while playing for Standard Liège. He played 13 times with the Belgian national team between 1952 and 1958.
Jean Maximilien Lamarque Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770–1832) was a French commander during the Napoleonic Wars who later became a member of French Parliament. As an opponent of the Ancien Régime, he is known for his active suppression of Royalist and Legitimist activity.
Jean Mayer Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 – January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues.
Jean MĂ©decin Jean MĂ©decin (December 2, 1890-November 18, 1965) was a French lawyer and politician. He was Mayor of Nice, France from 1928 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1965, and the father of Jacques MĂ©decin, whom succeeded him as mayor until 1990.
Jean Meslier Jean Meslier (1664 - 1733), was a Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. Entitled "Common Sense" and described by the author as his "testament" to his parishoners, the text denounces all religion, and argues the superiority of atheist morality.
Jean Michel Jean Michel (died 1501) was a French dramatic poet of the fifteenth century known for revising and enlarging "the Mystery of the Passion" composed by Arnoul Gréban. There are three Michels mentioned in connection with this work.
Jean Michel Constant Leber Jean Michel Constant Leber (1780-1859), French historian and bibliophile, was born at Orleans on the 8th of May 1780. His first work was a poem on Joan of Arc (1804); but he wrote at the same time a Grammaire gendral synthetique, which attracted the attention of J.
Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (November 9, 1888 – March 16, 1979) is regarded by many as the architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist.
Jean Morlet Jean Morlet is a French geophysicist who did pioneering work in the field of wavelet analysis in collaboration with Alex Grossman. Morlet invented the term "wavelet" to describe equations similar to those that had been around since the 1930s.
Jean Moulin Jean Moulin (June 20, 1899–July 8, 1943) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance because of his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.
Jean N. Destréhan Jean Noel Destréhan (1754-October 8,1823) was a Creole politician in Louisiana and one-time owner of Destréhan Plantation, one of Louisiana's most famous ante-bellum historical landmarks. The city of Destrehan, Louisiana is named after him.
Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond (August 4, 1938-July 27, 2003) was a prominent Zairian politician. Born in Musumba, Shaba province in 1938, he received a master's degree in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and held numerous academic titles and international orders.
Jean Nicod Prize The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. The lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as part of its effort to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive science in France.
Jean Nicolay Jean Nicolay (born December 27, 1937) was a Belgian football goalkeeper who earned the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1963 while at Standard Liège. He played 39 times for the national team between 1959 and 1967, starting in a 0-2 friendly defeat to Austria on May 24, 1959.
Jean O'Hara Jean O'Hara was a famed prostitute in Honolulu's "vice district" during World War II. Miss O'Hara violated the so-called "10 commandments" (for prostitutes) and demanded to own choice real estate, which landed her in jail for a period.
Jean Orry Jean Orry (Paris, 4 September 1652–Paris, 29 September 1719) was a French economist whose broad financial and governmental reforms in early 18th-century Bourbon Spain helped to further the implementation of centralized and uniform administration in that country.
Jean Ouimet Jean Ouimet (born on September 3, 1954 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is a Quebecois politician and the president of Naviga-Cité, a multimedia company. He is the former leader of the Parti vert du Québec, a green party, and now a militant of the sovereigntist and social democratic Parti Québécois .
Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé (1902-11-20 - 1989-07-02) was a French director of more than two hundred science and nature films and an early champion of the genre. Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painlevé scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify.
Jean Parker Lois Mae Green, known by her screen name Jean Parker, (August 11, 1915 - November 30, 2005), was an American movie actress born in Deer Lodge, Montana. She was once married to actor Robert Lowery (who played Batman in 1949).
Jean Passerat Jean Passerat (1534-1602), French political satirist and poet, was born at Troyes, on the 18th of October 1534. He studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have had some curious adventures at one time working in a mine.
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (Carcassonne, 1713 – June 2, 1785 Paris) was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.
Jean Pellissier Jean Pellissier was a shepherd in the Comté de Foix in the early fourteenth century, made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Pellissier was born in Montaillou to a family of poor peasants.
Jean Pernet, père Jean Claude Pernet, père (October 15, 1832 - March 31, 1896) was a French rosarian known for his cultivation of rose cultivars. He was born to a family of rose growers in Villeurbanne, Rhône, near the city of Lyon.
Jean Petit Jean Petit (born September 25, 1949 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a former football midfielder from France, who earned twelve international caps (one goal) for the French national team during the late 1970s. Petit played most of his professional career for AS Monaco, with whom he won the French title in 1978.
Jean Petitot Jean Petitot (1608 - April 3, 1691) was a French-Swiss enamel painter, was born at Geneva, a member of a Burgundian family which had fled from France on account of religious difficulties. His father, Faulle, was a wood carver.
Jean Piaget Jean Piaget [] (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget University of Angola Universidade Jean Piaget de Angola (Jean Piaget University of Angola) is a small university in Angola, with campuses in the capital of Luanda and in the Benguela province of Angola. It currently has 815 students enrolled and is one of seven state recognized universities, both private and public, in Angola is named after the Swiss] philosopher [[Jean Piaget.
Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde The Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Universidade de Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Unibersidadi di Jean Piaget di Kauberdi) is a Cape Verdean university located in the capital city of Praia on Santiago and has been Cape Verde's only university. Geographically it is the westernmost university in all of Africa.
Jean Picard Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted 1669-70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.
Jean Picker Firstenberg Jean Picker Firstenberg has been the CEO and Director of the American Film Institute since 1980and will retire in 2007. After studying at Mount Holyoke College] she attended [[Boston University], from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1958 Picker Firstenberg]
Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga is a Cameroonian publisher of the newspaper L'Anecdote. Belinga gained notoriety in March 2006 when a Cameroon court jailed him for four months for defaming Gregoire Owona, a government minister named in a list of 50 presumed homosexuals in Cameroon.
Jean Pierre Boyer Jean-Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 – July 9, 1850), Haïtian soldier and President of Haïti (1818-1843), born a free mulatto in Port-au-Prince, and educated in France. He fought with Toussaint L'Ouverture and then joined André Rigaud, also a mulatto, in the latter's abortive insurrection against Toussaint.
Jean Pierre de Caussade Jean Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751) was a French Catholic writer known for his work "Abandonment to Divine Providence" and his posthumously-published letters of instruction to the Nuns of the Visitation at Nancy.
Jean Pierre Cherid Jean Pierre Cherid (died on March 19, 1984 in Biarritz, France 36 etarras muertos por sus propias bombas, El Mundo ) was a far right French activist, who first became a member of the OAS during the Algerian War (1954-1962), and then belonged to the Spanish GAL death squad (he had already been a key figure of the Batallón Vasco Español, BVE death squad Spain's Dirty War Against Basque Militants, in Euskal Herria Journal, ). A former French paratrooper, he took part in the 1978 assassination of Argala, an etarra who had participated to the 1973 assassination of Franco's Prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco.
Jean Pierre-Bloch Jean Pierre-Bloch (born Jean-Pierre Bloch) (14 April 1905 – 17 March 1999) was a French Resistant of the Second World War as an activist, being a former president of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
Jean Plantureux Jean Plantureux (Paris, March 23, 1951 - ), who goes by the professional name Plantu, is a cartoonist specializing in political satire. His work has frequently appeared in the French newspaper Le Monde since 1972.
Jean Prévost (politician) Jean Prévost (November 17 1870 – July 21 1915) was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure. He represented Terrebonne in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Liberal from 1900 to 1912 and as an Independent Liberal from 1912 to 1915.
Jean Pronovost Jean Pronovost (born 18 December, 1945 in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey right winger who played in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames and Washington Capitals. He is also a noted born-again Christian.
Jean Prouvé Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984) was a French architect and designer. His main achievement was transferring the manufacturing technology from industry to the architecture, without losing the aesthetic qualities.
Jean Quenu Jean Auguste Quenu (1889-1975) was a French surgeon, and a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. His father, Edouard Quenu, was the first surgeon in France to apply asepsis during surgical operations and deliveries.
Jean Rabe Jean Rabe is a fantasy and sci-fi author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others. Early in her career she worked for the Quincy Herald-Whig in Quincy, Illinois, and then for the Evansville Courier & Press in Evansville, Indiana.
Jean Racine Jean Racine (French IPA: ) (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille). Racine was primarily a tragedian, though he did write one comedy.
Jean Ratelle Joseph Gilbert Yvon "Jean" Ratelle (born October 3, 1940 in Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has often been said of Jean Ratelle that he was so consistently effective at a high level of play day in and day out that he has been overlooked by some as one of the greatest to have played the game.
Jean Ray Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Johannes Maria de Kremer (8 July 1887-17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian French language writer. Although he wrote straight journalism, stories for young readers in the Flemish language under the name John Flanders, scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written under the name Jean Ray.
Jean Renard Jean Renard is presently a manager and living in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is a partner in the Beverly Hills firm BKM headed by manager Barry Krost, whose resume includes Cat Stevens, Sarah Brightman, Matthew Perry, John Osbourne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Liza Minelli, Barbara Bain and others, as well as a producer of feature films, most notably When a Stranger Calls.
Jean René Allard Jean René Allard (born September 22, 1930) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 as a New Democrat, but subsequently left to sit as an Independent MLA.
Jean Reno Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez, July 30, 1948) is a French actor of Spanish descent. Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but also European productions such as the 2005 Italian film The Tiger And The Snow.
Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (French IPA: ) (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Jean Reverzy Jean Reverzy (1914–1959) is a French general practitioner from Lyon who won the Prix Renaudot in 1954 for Le Passage ("The Passage"), his first novel. It described the slow anguish of a patient with liver problems who returned with a tired wahine of Polynesia.
Jean Rhys Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 - May 14, 1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure.
Jean Roger-Ducasse Jean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873—Taillan-Médoc (Gironde) 19 July 1954) was a French composer, the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire,He also studied there with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge. where he succeeded Fauré as professor of composition; in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration.
Jean Rogers Jean Rogers (born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren on March 25, 1916 in Belmont, Massachusetts; died February 24, 1991 at age 74 in Sherman Oaks, California from complications of surgery) was an American actress. She won a national beauty contest in 1933 and was offered a contract by a Hollywood producer.
Jean Rollin Jean Michel Rollin Le Gentil (born November 3, 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France) is a French auteur (filmmaker), actor, and author best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Rollin is credited as having made the first French vampire film (Le Viol du vampire, 1968) as well as the first French gore film (Le Raisins de la mort, 1978).
Jean Rondeau Jean Rondeau (May 12, 1946 - December 27, 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.
Jean Rousseau Jean Rousseau (born: 1644; died 1699) was a French viol player, composer, and author remembered principally for his "Traité de la viole" (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time.
Jean Harris Jean Harris (b. Jean Struven in Cleveland on April 27, 1923) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia who made national news in 1980 as the defendant in a high-profile murder case of her ex-lover Dr.
Jean Havez Jean Havez (December 24, 1869 – February 11, 1925), was an American writer of novelty songs and silent era comedy films. In his film career, Havez worked with the legendary comedians Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
Jean Henri Riesener Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) was born in Gladbeck in Germany and became a master cabinet maker at the court of France. He was responsible for some of the most important examples of furniture in the Louis XVI style.
Jean Henry-Mead Sources: Wyoming Authors Wikipedia, Natrona County Memorial Library; Casper, Wyoming; statewide newspaper, Casper Star-Tribune; Roundup Magazine (Western Writers of America), American Western Magazine (online), AOL.com and Google search, Amazon.
Jean Huber Jean Huber (1721-1786), was the father of François Huber, the naturalist. He had served for many years as a soldier and was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his observations on the flight of birds (Geneva, 1784).
Jean Hundertmark Jean Hundertmark is a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 40th district where she has served four terms as State Representative. In 2006, Hundertmark ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Mark Green.
Jean Chalopin Jean Chalopin (born 1950) is a French producer and writer. In 1971, Chalopin created the company DIC Audiovisuel, which later evolved into DIC Entertainment, and wrote and produced a lot of programmes directed by uncredited Japanese studios, such as Inspector Gadget.
Jean Chardin Jean Chardin, born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, also known as Sir John Chardin, (November 16, 1643 – January 5, 1713) was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.
Jean Charles de Menezes Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978–22 July 2005) was a Brazilian electrician living in the Tulse Hill area of south London. Menezes was shot and killed at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers.
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (April 24, 1817–April 15, 1894) was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei and whose study of the rare earth elements led to his discovery of ytterbium in 1878 and codiscovery of gadolinium in 1880.
Jean Chastel Jean Chastel was a local farmer and inn-keeper, noted for killing the Beast of GĂ©vaudan on June 19, 1767 at Mount Chauvet. According to tradition and several subsequent novels (often taken as facts by would-be historians) he positioned himself on a prime spot to get first bids on the beast and opened a prayer book.
Jean Ichbiah Jean David Ichbiah (born 25 March 1940) was the chief designer of the Ada programming language from 1977-1983. At the time, he was a member of the Programming Research division at CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France.
Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch (1343 - 1377), was a cousin of the Count of Foix and a renowned military leader in the Hundred Years' War who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.
Jean Jacoby Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (26 March 1891 – 9 September 1936) was a Luxembourg artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, Duke of Parma, (18 October 1753–8 March 1824), was a French lawyer and statesman, best remembered as the author of the Napoleonic code, which still forms the basis of French civil law.
Jean Jacques Waltz Jean Jacques Waltz (Colmar 23 February 1873 - 10 June 1951), also known as "Oncle Hansi", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsacian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his cute drawings, some of which contain harsh critics against the German of the time.
Jean Jaurès Jean Léon Jaurès—full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès—(September 3, 1859 – July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. He was one of the first social democrats: within the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), he opposed Jules Guesde's refusal of socialist participation in bourgeois governments.
Jean Jenkins (ethnomusicologist) Jean Jenkins (17 March 1922 - 12 September 1990) was an American-born ethnomusicologist who spent most of her career based in the UK and travelled all over the world to collect sound recordings, slides and musical instruments.
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (March 4, 1901, Tananarive - June 22, 1937, Tananarive), was a Malagasy poet writing in both Malagasy and French. His poetry collections are entitled Cutting the Ashes (1924), Nearly Dreams (1934), and Translation of the Night (1935).
Jean Joseph Rolette Jean Joseph Rolette (September 24, 1781 - December 1, 1842), often known as Joseph Rolette, was a prominent fur trader and member of the Mackinac Company who operated a trading post in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Jean Kambanda Jean Kambanda (born October 19, 1955) was the Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda from the start of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide, in the first group of such convictions since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into effect in 1951.
Jean King Jean King was Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii from 1978 to 1982 in the administration of Governor of Hawaii George Ariyoshi. She was removed from the ticket and a chance for a second term after deciding to challenge the sitting governor with whom she served.
Jean le Pautre Jean le Pautre (1618-1682), French designer and engraver. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and builder and in addition to learning mechanical and constructive work developed considerable facility with the pencil.
Jean Laborde Jean Laborde (16 October 1805 in Auch - 27 December 1878 in Madagascar) was the first French consul to Madagascar, where the government of Napoléan III used him to establish French influence on the island. He became the chief engineer of the Merina monarchy, supervising the creation of a modern manufacturing center.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve protects significant examples of the rich natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. The park, named after Jean Lafitte, seeks to illustrate the influence of environment and history on the development of a unique regional culture.
Jean Lambert Jean Lambert (born June 1, 1950 in Orsett, Essex) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for London. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales, and has been an MEP since 1999.
Jean Laplanche Jean Laplanche (born June 21 1924) is a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and has written more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory.
Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny Jean LĂ©vesque de Burigny (born 1692, Reims, France - died 1785, Paris) was a historian, who in 1713, with his brothers, Champeaux and LĂ©vesque de Pouilly, he began to compile a dictionary of universal knowledge, similar to an encyclopedia, which comprised twelve large manuscript folios, and afforded Burigny ample material for his subsequent works. In 1718, at The Hague, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on L'Europe savante, in twelve volumes, of which he contributed at least one-half.
Jean Lecanuet Jean Adrien François Lecanuet (March 4, 1920 - February 21, 1993) was born in a family of very modest conditions, he oriented towards studies of literature. He received his diploma at the age of 22, becoming the youngest agrégé in France.
Jean Leclant Jean Leclant (born August 8, 1920 in Paris, France) is a renowned Egyptologist who is an Honorary Professor at the College of France and Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France.
Jean Liebault Jean Liebault (1535-1596) was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon. He married the daughter of the printer Charles Estienne and was given the French translation of Estienne's book La Maison Rustique ("The Rustic House").
Jean Liedloff Jean Liedloff (born in New York) is an American author, best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. As a teenager, she accomplished the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at the Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate.
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (1554-1642), first Duke of Épernon, was a powerful member of the French nobility at the turn of the 17th century. He was deeply involved in plots and politics throughout his life (allegedly, Dumas drew his inspiration for the character of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers from de La Valette).
Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu Jean Louis Marie Eugène Durieu (1800; Nîmes, France – 1874; Paris, France) was an early French photographer of nudes, known for making studies for Eugène Delacroix. Some of Durieu's nudes were used by Delacroix to creating his own paintings and drawings.
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is the protagonist and narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird. She is a 6 year old girl and a tomboy, possibly due to her closeness with her older brother, and from the lack of a mother as a female role model.
Jean Luzac Jean Luzac (1746–1807) was the most influential newspaper editor in the Western world in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. His newspaper, the Gazette de Leyde, published in the Dutch town of Leiden, served as Europe's 'newspaper of record.
Jean Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne Jean Lyon nee Nicholsen (September 22, 1713 - April 22, 1778) was the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the wife of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of the Queen Mother. The couple were married on July 20, 1736, in Houghton le Spring in Durham, England and had seven children:
Jean M. Auel Jean Marie Auel (born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.
Jean M. Muller Jean Muller was a bridge engineer who focused on design and construction of concrete bridges. By working closely with Eugene Freyssinet, he was able to learn the technique and develop more efficient ways to join bridge segments together.
Jean Maitron Jean Maitron (December 10, 1917 - November 16, 1987) was a French historian specialist of the labour movement. A pionneer of such historical studies in France, he introduced it to University and gave it its archives base, by creating ijn 1949 the Centre d'histoire du syndicalisme (Historic Center of Trade-Unions) in the Sorbonne, which received important archives from activists such as Paul Delesalle, Émile Armand, Pierre Monatte, etc.
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (April 24 1774 - 1838) was a French physician born in Provence.Jean Itard, MĂ©moire et Rapport sur Victor de l'Aveyron (1801 et 1806) 1825, Itard was credited with describing the first case of Tourette syndrome] in [[Marquise de Dampierre, a woman of nobility.
Jean Marie Chérestal Jean Marie Chérestal was prime minister of Haïti from 2 March 2001 to 21 January 2002. Forced to resign after accusations of mismanagement, on 16 January 2002 Cherestal relinquished the office after being presented with a letter of dismissal by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which he did not accept until 21 January.
Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert Jean Marie Marcelin Gilibert was a French Commissioner in the French Gendarmerie. He was sent to Colombia as part of an exchange program between the two countries to help found the Colombian National Police in November 5, 1891.
Jean Marsh Jean Marsh (born 1 July 1934) is an English actress and writer, who is best known for co-creating the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins. She also portrayed house parlourmaid Rose Buck in the same series.
Jean Mathonet Jean Mathonet was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Jupiler League with 26 goals in 1956 while playing for Standard Liège. He played 13 times with the Belgian national team between 1952 and 1958.
Jean Maximilien Lamarque Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770–1832) was a French commander during the Napoleonic Wars who later became a member of French Parliament. As an opponent of the Ancien Régime, he is known for his active suppression of Royalist and Legitimist activity.
Jean Mayer Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 – January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues.
Jean MĂ©decin Jean MĂ©decin (December 2, 1890-November 18, 1965) was a French lawyer and politician. He was Mayor of Nice, France from 1928 to 1943 and from 1947 to 1965, and the father of Jacques MĂ©decin, whom succeeded him as mayor until 1990.
Jean Meslier Jean Meslier (1664 - 1733), was a Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. Entitled "Common Sense" and described by the author as his "testament" to his parishoners, the text denounces all religion, and argues the superiority of atheist morality.
Jean Michel Jean Michel (died 1501) was a French dramatic poet of the fifteenth century known for revising and enlarging "the Mystery of the Passion" composed by Arnoul Gréban. There are three Michels mentioned in connection with this work.
Jean Michel Constant Leber Jean Michel Constant Leber (1780-1859), French historian and bibliophile, was born at Orleans on the 8th of May 1780. His first work was a poem on Joan of Arc (1804); but he wrote at the same time a Grammaire gendral synthetique, which attracted the attention of J.
Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (November 9, 1888 – March 16, 1979) is regarded by many as the architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist.
Jean Morlet Jean Morlet is a French geophysicist who did pioneering work in the field of wavelet analysis in collaboration with Alex Grossman. Morlet invented the term "wavelet" to describe equations similar to those that had been around since the 1930s.
Jean Moulin Jean Moulin (June 20, 1899–July 8, 1943) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance because of his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.
Jean N. Destréhan Jean Noel Destréhan (1754-October 8,1823) was a Creole politician in Louisiana and one-time owner of Destréhan Plantation, one of Louisiana's most famous ante-bellum historical landmarks. The city of Destrehan, Louisiana is named after him.
Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond (August 4, 1938-July 27, 2003) was a prominent Zairian politician. Born in Musumba, Shaba province in 1938, he received a master's degree in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and held numerous academic titles and international orders.
Jean Nicod Prize The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. The lectures are organized by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as part of its effort to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive science in France.
Jean Nicolay Jean Nicolay (born December 27, 1937) was a Belgian football goalkeeper who earned the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1963 while at Standard Liège. He played 39 times for the national team between 1959 and 1967, starting in a 0-2 friendly defeat to Austria on May 24, 1959.
Jean O'Hara Jean O'Hara was a famed prostitute in Honolulu's "vice district" during World War II. Miss O'Hara violated the so-called "10 commandments" (for prostitutes) and demanded to own choice real estate, which landed her in jail for a period.
Jean Orry Jean Orry (Paris, 4 September 1652–Paris, 29 September 1719) was a French economist whose broad financial and governmental reforms in early 18th-century Bourbon Spain helped to further the implementation of centralized and uniform administration in that country.
Jean Ouimet Jean Ouimet (born on September 3, 1954 in Valleyfield, Quebec) is a Quebecois politician and the president of Naviga-Cité, a multimedia company. He is the former leader of the Parti vert du Québec, a green party, and now a militant of the sovereigntist and social democratic Parti Québécois .
Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé (1902-11-20 - 1989-07-02) was a French director of more than two hundred science and nature films and an early champion of the genre. Advocating the credo "science is fiction," Painlevé scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify.
Jean Parker Lois Mae Green, known by her screen name Jean Parker, (August 11, 1915 - November 30, 2005), was an American movie actress born in Deer Lodge, Montana. She was once married to actor Robert Lowery (who played Batman in 1949).
Jean Passerat Jean Passerat (1534-1602), French political satirist and poet, was born at Troyes, on the 18th of October 1534. He studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have had some curious adventures at one time working in a mine.
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves Jean Paul de Gua de Malves (Carcassonne, 1713 – June 2, 1785 Paris) was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.
Jean Pellissier Jean Pellissier was a shepherd in the Comté de Foix in the early fourteenth century, made notable by appearing in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Pellissier was born in Montaillou to a family of poor peasants.
Jean Pernet, père Jean Claude Pernet, père (October 15, 1832 - March 31, 1896) was a French rosarian known for his cultivation of rose cultivars. He was born to a family of rose growers in Villeurbanne, Rhône, near the city of Lyon.
Jean Petit Jean Petit (born September 25, 1949 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a former football midfielder from France, who earned twelve international caps (one goal) for the French national team during the late 1970s. Petit played most of his professional career for AS Monaco, with whom he won the French title in 1978.
Jean Petitot Jean Petitot (1608 - April 3, 1691) was a French-Swiss enamel painter, was born at Geneva, a member of a Burgundian family which had fled from France on account of religious difficulties. His father, Faulle, was a wood carver.
Jean Piaget Jean Piaget [] (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development.
Jean Piaget University of Angola Universidade Jean Piaget de Angola (Jean Piaget University of Angola) is a small university in Angola, with campuses in the capital of Luanda and in the Benguela province of Angola. It currently has 815 students enrolled and is one of seven state recognized universities, both private and public, in Angola is named after the Swiss] philosopher [[Jean Piaget.
Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde The Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Universidade de Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Unibersidadi di Jean Piaget di Kauberdi) is a Cape Verdean university located in the capital city of Praia on Santiago and has been Cape Verde's only university. Geographically it is the westernmost university in all of Africa.
Jean Picard Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted 1669-70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.
Jean Picker Firstenberg Jean Picker Firstenberg has been the CEO and Director of the American Film Institute since 1980and will retire in 2007. After studying at Mount Holyoke College] she attended [[Boston University], from which she graduated summa cum laude in 1958 Picker Firstenberg]
Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga is a Cameroonian publisher of the newspaper L'Anecdote. Belinga gained notoriety in March 2006 when a Cameroon court jailed him for four months for defaming Gregoire Owona, a government minister named in a list of 50 presumed homosexuals in Cameroon.
Jean Pierre Boyer Jean-Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 – July 9, 1850), Haïtian soldier and President of Haïti (1818-1843), born a free mulatto in Port-au-Prince, and educated in France. He fought with Toussaint L'Ouverture and then joined André Rigaud, also a mulatto, in the latter's abortive insurrection against Toussaint.
Jean Pierre de Caussade Jean Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751) was a French Catholic writer known for his work "Abandonment to Divine Providence" and his posthumously-published letters of instruction to the Nuns of the Visitation at Nancy.
Jean Pierre Cherid Jean Pierre Cherid (died on March 19, 1984 in Biarritz, France 36 etarras muertos por sus propias bombas, El Mundo ) was a far right French activist, who first became a member of the OAS during the Algerian War (1954-1962), and then belonged to the Spanish GAL death squad (he had already been a key figure of the Batallón Vasco Español, BVE death squad Spain's Dirty War Against Basque Militants, in Euskal Herria Journal, ). A former French paratrooper, he took part in the 1978 assassination of Argala, an etarra who had participated to the 1973 assassination of Franco's Prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco.
Jean Pierre-Bloch Jean Pierre-Bloch (born Jean-Pierre Bloch) (14 April 1905 – 17 March 1999) was a French Resistant of the Second World War as an activist, being a former president of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
Jean Plantureux Jean Plantureux (Paris, March 23, 1951 - ), who goes by the professional name Plantu, is a cartoonist specializing in political satire. His work has frequently appeared in the French newspaper Le Monde since 1972.
Jean Prévost (politician) Jean Prévost (November 17 1870 – July 21 1915) was a Quebec lawyer, journalist and political figure. He represented Terrebonne in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec as a Liberal from 1900 to 1912 and as an Independent Liberal from 1912 to 1915.
Jean Pronovost Jean Pronovost (born 18 December, 1945 in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey right winger who played in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames and Washington Capitals. He is also a noted born-again Christian.
Jean Prouvé Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984) was a French architect and designer. His main achievement was transferring the manufacturing technology from industry to the architecture, without losing the aesthetic qualities.
Jean Quenu Jean Auguste Quenu (1889-1975) was a French surgeon, and a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. His father, Edouard Quenu, was the first surgeon in France to apply asepsis during surgical operations and deliveries.
Jean Rabe Jean Rabe is a fantasy and sci-fi author and editor who has worked on the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, and BattleTech series, as well as many others. Early in her career she worked for the Quincy Herald-Whig in Quincy, Illinois, and then for the Evansville Courier & Press in Evansville, Indiana.
Jean Racine Jean Racine (French IPA: ) (December 22, 1639 – April 21, 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille). Racine was primarily a tragedian, though he did write one comedy.
Jean Ratelle Joseph Gilbert Yvon "Jean" Ratelle (born October 3, 1940 in Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has often been said of Jean Ratelle that he was so consistently effective at a high level of play day in and day out that he has been overlooked by some as one of the greatest to have played the game.
Jean Ray Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Johannes Maria de Kremer (8 July 1887-17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian French language writer. Although he wrote straight journalism, stories for young readers in the Flemish language under the name John Flanders, scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written under the name Jean Ray.
Jean Renard Jean Renard is presently a manager and living in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is a partner in the Beverly Hills firm BKM headed by manager Barry Krost, whose resume includes Cat Stevens, Sarah Brightman, Matthew Perry, John Osbourne, Elizabeth Montgomery, Liza Minelli, Barbara Bain and others, as well as a producer of feature films, most notably When a Stranger Calls.
Jean René Allard Jean René Allard (born September 22, 1930) is a former politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 as a New Democrat, but subsequently left to sit as an Independent MLA.
Jean Reno Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez, July 30, 1948) is a French actor of Spanish descent. Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but also European productions such as the 2005 Italian film The Tiger And The Snow.
Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (French IPA: ) (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Jean Reverzy Jean Reverzy (1914–1959) is a French general practitioner from Lyon who won the Prix Renaudot in 1954 for Le Passage ("The Passage"), his first novel. It described the slow anguish of a patient with liver problems who returned with a tired wahine of Polynesia.
Jean Rhys Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 - May 14, 1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were published during the 1920s and 1930s, but it was not until the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 that she emerged as a significant literary figure.
Jean Roger-Ducasse Jean Jules Amable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873—Taillan-Médoc (Gironde) 19 July 1954) was a French composer, the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire,He also studied there with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge. where he succeeded Fauré as professor of composition; in 1935 he succeeded Paul Dukas as professor of orchestration.
Jean Rogers Jean Rogers (born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren on March 25, 1916 in Belmont, Massachusetts; died February 24, 1991 at age 74 in Sherman Oaks, California from complications of surgery) was an American actress. She won a national beauty contest in 1933 and was offered a contract by a Hollywood producer.
Jean Rollin Jean Michel Rollin Le Gentil (born November 3, 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France) is a French auteur (filmmaker), actor, and author best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Rollin is credited as having made the first French vampire film (Le Viol du vampire, 1968) as well as the first French gore film (Le Raisins de la mort, 1978).
Jean Rondeau Jean Rondeau (May 12, 1946 - December 27, 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.
Jean Rousseau Jean Rousseau (born: 1644; died 1699) was a French viol player, composer, and author remembered principally for his "Traité de la viole" (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time.
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