List of Famous people named Jean

Jean Coutu, is a Canadian pharmacist and businessman. He is the founder and Chairman of the Jean Coutu Group which he started in 1969. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.3 billion, Coutu was ranked by Forbes as the 22nd wealthiest Canadian and 938th wealthiest person in the world.

Jean Carlos Jiménez Centeno is Colombian-Venezuelan singer and composer of vallenato, bolero and salsa. Centeno gained fame as singer and composer for the vallenato group Binomio de Oro de America. On December 31, 2005 Centeno left the Binomio de Oro to pursue his own vallenato group along accordionist Juan Fernando "Morre" Romero. In 2006 Centeno and Romero released the album Ave Libre.

Jean Cluzel was a French politician who was renowned in the 1980s for his reports about the audiovisual media. He was born in Moulins, Allier, France in November 1923. Cluzel served as a senator, and was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.

Jean Barthélémy Richard was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921. Richard died in January 2021, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.

Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.

Jean Vilar was a French actor and theatre director.

Jean de Viguerie was a French historian. He specialized in the history of education and of the Catholic Church in the Enlightenment period.

Jean Dell is a French actor and writer.

Jean René Bazaine was a French painter, designer of stained glass windows and writer. He was the great great grandson of the English Court portraitist Sir George Hayter.