List of Famous people named Jacques

Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on May 12, 1785. He was sometimes called Charles the Geometer. Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first unmanned hydrogen-filled gas balloon in August 1783; then in December 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1,800 feet in a manned gas balloon. Their pioneering use of hydrogen for lift led to this type of balloon being named a Charlière.

Jacques Zegers is a Belgian singer, best known for his participation in the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest.

Jacques Loeb was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.

Jacques Van Gompel is a Belgian politician for the Socialist Party (PS).

Jacques Laurent or Jacques Laurent-Cély was a French writer and journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of a barrister. During World War II he fought with the Algerian Tirailleurs.

Jacques Yandé Sarr was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thiès, Senegal.

Jacques Charles François Sturm was a French mathematician.