List of Famous people named Jean

Jean Henri van Swinden was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who taught in Franeker and Amsterdam.

Jean Bodel, was an Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras.

Jean Mouton was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School.

Jean Yarbrough was an American film director.

Jean Lenoir pseudonym for Jean Bernard Daniel Neuburger was a French songwriter, whose work included chansons and romantic light film songs.

Jean Rousseau was a French viol player, theorist, composer, and author remembered principally for his Traité de la viole (1687), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time, as well as on techniques used in the construction of viols.

Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur was a French bishop.

Jean de Bosschère was a Belgian writer and painter.

Jean Erdman, Baron Dieskau or Jean-Armand Dieskau, Baron de Dieskau or Ludwig August von Dieskau was a German-born soldier remembered mostly as a French general and commander in America for a part of the French and Indian War.