List of Famous people named Jean-francois
Jean-François Michael
Yves Roze better known as Jean-François Michael is a French singer born on 16 April 1946. Between 1963 and 1968, he sang under his birth name Yves Roze. In 1968, Michel Berger wrote "Adieu jolie Candy" that was a hit for Jean-François Michael. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
Jean-François Lamour
Jean-François Lamour is a former French fencer and current French politician and cabinet minister. A top fencer, he was a gold medallist at the 1984 Olympics and 1988 Olympics and a bronze medal winner at the 1992 Olympics in the men's individual sabre. He married Dr. Isabelle Spennato, a former French fencer and current president of the French Fencing Federation. He was also world champion in 1987. Retiring, he entered politics serving as the sports and youth counselor to the Mayor of Paris from 1993 to 1995. In 2002, he became the minister of sport, and in 2004, he was given responsibility for youth in addition to this.
Jean-François Bernard
Jean-François Bernard is a former French professional road bicycle racer.
Jean François Mbaye
Jean François Mbaye is a French politician representing La République En Marche! (LREM). He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Val-de-Marne.
Jean-François Berthelier
Jean-François-Philibert Berthelier was a French actor and singer, who performed many light tenor roles in opéra-comique and opéra-bouffe.
Jean-François Bohnert
Jean-François Bohnert is a French magistrate. He was appointed as director of the Parquet national financier on 7 October 2019.
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, conte crayon drawings, and etchings.
Jean-François Bazin
Jean-François Bazin was a French politician, journalist, and writer.
Jean-François de la Barre
François-Jean Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman. He was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso. La Barre is often said to have been executed for not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession, though other charges of a similar nature were laid against him.
Jean-François Thomas de Thomon
Jean-François Thomas de Thomon was a French neoclassical architect who worked in Eastern Europe in 1791–1813. Thomas de Thomon was the author of Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns on the spit of Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg and the first building of the Odessa Theatre, destroyed by fire in 1873. Thomas de Thomon, graduate of the French Academy in Rome, "imported" the high classicism practiced by this school in 1780s into Russia and thus contributed to the formation of Russian national variant of neoclassicism practiced during the reign of Alexander I.