List of Famous people named Jean

Jean Cornelis was a Belgian football player. He was born in Lot.

Jean Gregoire Sagbo is a Beninese-born Russian real estate agent and politician. His position is councilor of Novozavidovo in Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast. Sagbo is the first Russian of African descent, or Afro-Russian, to have been elected to a local council in the Russian Federation. He has been referred to as "Russia's Obama".

Jean Ribault was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States. He was a major figure in the French attempts to colonize Florida. A Huguenot and officer under Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Ribault led an expedition to the New World in 1562 that founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island in present-day South Carolina. Two years later, he took over command of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. He and many of his followers were massacred by Spanish soldiers near St. Augustine.

Jean Clair is the nom de plume of Gérard Régnier. Clair is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie française since May, 2008. He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Among the milestones of his long and productive career is a comprehensive catalog of the works of Balthus. He was also the director of the Venice Biennale in 1995.

Jean Cottard was a French fencer. He earned his Master of Arms at Fort Carré in 1949. The coach of Christian d'Oriola, he became the first National Technical Director of France in 1964. He served as a member of the French Federation of Fencing from 1988 until his death.

Jean Joubert was a French novelist, short story writer, and poet.

Jean de Poltrot, sieur de Méré or Mérey, was a nobleman of Angoumois, who murdered Francis, Duke of Guise.

Jean Vauthier was a 20th-century French playwright.

Jean Emile Junior Onana Onana is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Bordeaux.

Jean Barthe was a French rugby league and rugby union player.