List of Famous people named Jean

Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet (1876–1938) was a French socialist politician and journalist. He was Karl Marx's grandson.

Jean Nichol was a Canadian singer and songwriter.

Jean Grenet was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, and was a member of the Radical Party. He was born to politician Henri Grenet in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Jean Corti was an Italian-French accordionist and composer. He was the accompanist of Jacques Brel for six years, from 1960 to 1966.

Jean, Baron Bourgain was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics.

Jean Mohr was a Swiss documentary photographer who had been active since 1949, primarily with some of the major humanitarian organizations of the world, including the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organization.

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.

Jean Malaurie is a French cultural anthropologist, explorer, geographer, physicist, and writer. He and the Inuit Kutsikitsoq were the first two men to reach the North Geomagnetic Pole on May 29, 1951.

Michel Albert Jean Joseph Ybarnégaray was a French Basque politician and founder of the International Federation of Basque Pelota.

Jean Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance.