List of Famous people named Jean

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, he joined the Resistance during the World War II occupation of northern France and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.

Jean Arthur was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.

Jean Mavis Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress. She was best known to television viewers for her long running role of Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street, she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.

Jean Todt is a French former rally driver who went on to become Peugeot Talbot Sport's Director and then Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 team principal, before being appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ferrari from 2004 to 2008.

Jean Deza is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a winger for peruvian club Carlos Stein.

Jean Hilliard, from Lengby, Minnesota, is a survivor of a severe six-hour freezing, “frozen solid”, during the nighttime after a car accident in rural northwestern Minnesota, United States left her car inoperative in frigid temperatures. She survived and her recovery was described as "a miracle" by journalists and "undeniably lucky" by a doctor.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.

Jean Benguigui is a French actor. He is of Jewish-Algerian descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet.