List of Famous people named Jacques

Willem Hendrik Jacques "Sheep" du Plessis is a South African rugby union player, currently playing in France with the French Top 14 side Montpellier. His regular positions are flanker or lock.

Jacques Mathou is a French actor, best known for his appearance in Delicatessen.

Jacques Castelot was a French film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis.

Jacques Herlin was a French character actor.

Jacques Amyot, French Renaissance writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.

Jacques Foix was a French footballer who played striker. His playing career spanned from 1951 to 1964. Foix made seven appearances for the French national team between 1953 and 1956, scoring three goals and was a member of two French League championship squads in 1959 and 1964.

Jacques Israelievitch, CM was a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians.

Jacques Heim was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion house Jacques Heim, which closed in 1969. He was president of the Paris Chambre Syndicale de la haute couture from 1958 to 1962, a period of transition from haute couture to ready-to-wear clothing.

Jacques Witkowski is a French civil servant. From 30 January 2013 until 30 July 2014 he served as the Prefect of Mayotte. He was succeeded by Seymour Morsy.

Jacques Lipchitz was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson.