List of Famous people named Jean

Jean Robert François Matouk was a French economist, banker, and professor of economics.

Jean Sainteny or Jean Roger was a French politician who was sent to Vietnam after the end of the Second World War in order to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces and to attempt to reincorporate Vietnam into French Indochina.

Jean-Paul Grangaud was an Algerian pediatrician and university professor.

Jean-Jacques Grosman, known as Jean Achard, was a French race-car driver and journalist and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.

Jean Carlos Sales Bemvindo, or simply Jean Carlos, is a Brazilian striker. He currently plays for Barra.

Jean Bourlès was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Pleyber-Christ. He was a professional cyclist between 1954 and 1965. He won stage 16 in the 1957 Tour de France.

Jean Rouch was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.

Jean Prouff was a French former football midfielder and a manager.

Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities.

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement art brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime.