List of Famous people named Jacques
Jacques Gabriel Louis Le Clerc de Juigné
Jacques d'Amboise
Jacques d'Amboise was a French religious dignitary and patron of medieval France. He was abbot of Jumièges then of Cluny, and bishop of Clermont. He was a member of the House of Amboise, an old noble family.
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset
Jacques de Bourbon, Count de Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of Bourbon-Busset.
Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet
Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet was a French university professor and diplomat. He served as the French Ambassador to the United States from 1972 to 1977.
Jacques Arago
Jacques Étienne Victor Arago was a French writer, artist and explorer, author of a Voyage Round the World.
Jacques d'Arc
Jacques d'Arc, originally spelled Darc (1380–1440), was a farmer in the village of Domrémy in Lorraine, and the father of the French heroine and Catholic saint Jeanne d'Arc.
Jacques Pierre Brissot
Jacques Pierre Brissot, who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution and founder of the abolitionist Society of the Friends of the Blacks. Some sources give his name as Jean Pierre Brissot.
Jacques Rozier
Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Jacques Dessemme
Jacques Dessemme was a French basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Jacques Isorni
Jacques Isorni (1911–1995) was a French lawyer and memoirist. He came to prominence for his role as defending counsel in a number of cases involving prominent figures on the far right as well as for his own involvement in right wing politics.