French Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a French geographer and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during

Was a French geographer and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.France. He was very bright, showing an interest in mathematics and astronomy, and becoming a math teacher at the age of 19. Starting in 1817, he worked at the Paris Observatory with the mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. Afterward, he worked as a mathematics professor at the Collège Louis-le-Grand during the 1820s.Following financial difficulties in France, Nicollet emigrated to the United States in 1832. First living in New Orleans, Louisiana, he later moved up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri.

Is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture in 1985. It is

Is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture in 1985. It is perhaps the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis.

Was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Fre

Was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold medal.

Was a French actor and plawright. The son of a theatre grip, he began his stage career in Berlin in

Was a French actor and plawright. The son of a theatre grip, he began his stage career in Berlin in 1755 and then acted in the Austrian Netherlands from 1756 to 1763, notably in Brussels in the company of the Théâtre de la Monnaie. He then acted in Marseille and Geneva, where he also began to write plays.

Was a French naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist aboard the ships

Was a French naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist aboard the ships La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey, and L'Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville between 1826 and 1829. During this voyage they discovered the now extinct giant skink of Tonga Tachygia microlepis.He was the scientific leader on La Recherche (1835-1836) during its expedition to the Arctic Sea.[citation needed] In 1835 Gaimard visited Iceland, returning again the following summer as the head of a scientific mission funded by the French government. Out of this trip came the 9 volume Voyage en Islande et au Groënland (8 text volumes, one of geographical illustrations), which was said at the time to be the definitive study of the islands. In 1838, he was the leader of a scientific expedition to Spitsbergen.

Was a French Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Was a French Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Was a French author and politician. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in

Was a French author and politician. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887. He attracted the attention of Léon Gambetta by writing articles on Balkan politics for the Revue bleue, and joined the staff of the Republique française.

Was a French mathematician who was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curv

Was a French mathematician who was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis.

Was a French mathematician and physicist. He was a professor of mathematics and in 1696 became a mem

Was a French mathematician and physicist. He was a professor of mathematics and in 1696 became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Is a French computer scientist of Greek origin, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund

Is a French computer scientist of Greek origin, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.

Was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies a

Was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921. Historians such as Georges Blond, Basil Liddell Hart

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was eliminated in the first r

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was eliminated in the first round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Samuel Mosberg.

Is a French football midfielder.

Is a French football midfielder.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the 1956 Tour de France.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the 1956 Tour de France.

Was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of French sculptors by François Jouffroy and François Rude

Was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of French sculptors by François Jouffroy and François Rude. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he created Ulysse blessé à la chasse par un sanglier, a bas-relief with whom he won the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1857. Then he moved to Rome and lived in the Académie de France à Rome of Villa Medici, from 27 January 1858 to 31 December 1862.[1]

Was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrody

Was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille). From 1896 to his retirement in 1918, he was professor of mechanics at Faculty of Sciences of Paris.

Is a former French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer O

Is a former French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Was a Luxembourgian politician. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), Wohlfart

Was a Luxembourgian politician. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), Wohlfart held office at local, national, and supranational level.In 1950, Wohlfart was elected to the communal council of Lorentzweiler, on which he served for over two decades, including a period as mayor (1961 – 74). He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1954. Wohlfart sat in the Thorn Ministry as the Minister for the Interior from 1974 until 1979. In 1988, on the death of Lydie Schmit, Wohlfart succeeded as one of Luxembourg's six Members of the European Parliament, in which capacity he served until the 1989 election.

Was a French archaeologist and Canon of Belley. He studied at the petit séminaire of Belley and bec

Was a French archaeologist and Canon of Belley. He studied at the petit séminaire of Belley and became a professor there in 1832. He was curate later at Cressy and afterwards a parish priest of Arbignieu.

Was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was elected bishop of Nancy on March

Was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was elected bishop of Nancy on March 27, 1867. He took part in the First Vatican Council. He was promoted to the Metropolitan See of Besançon on March 30, 1882, and transferred to the Metropolitan See of Lyon on May 26, 1887.

Was a Swiss architect. Coming from an old middle class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his

Was a Swiss architect. Coming from an old middle class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his architectural studies in Switzerland, receiving his degree in Solothurn in 1809. He then left for Paris, endowed with a pension from the Swiss government to complete his studies in Paris. He entered the école des Beaux-Arts in 1809, gallicizing his name into Joseph Antoine Frelicher, then Froelicher.

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France)

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony (Île-de-France). He is associated with an original movement in Post-modernim, cited in the ‘‘Larousse de la musique’’ (see Histoire de la musique published by Larousse, 2000, p. 1137). His compositional style is situated between the formal conception of a theorised musical heritage and the research of new freely referenced musical climates. He is very sensitive to the sound qualities of contemporary music as well as the human role in the context of musical interpretation. As a cellist, he studied with Robert Cordier, Maurice Gendron and Claude Burgos. He studied orchestral conducting with J.C. Hartmann and Pierre Dervaux. As a composer, he was principally the disciple of Claude Ballif.

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to a family of modest means. His father was a shoe-maker in the Place Jean d'Autan. His uncle was a bassoonist, who brought him to Paris to learn the oboe. In 1769 Garnier joined the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music (which was to become the National Opera of Paris after the Revolution),

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which d

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which deal with musical phenomenology, especially on the symbolic forms of music (1984), on the great musical topics (1994), on musical aesthetics (2000), as well as on musical theory, among them the first French reissue of Rameau’s Traité d'harmonie of 1722, a project supported by the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1986, and in 1996 Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique of 1726. Must be also mentioned several works of comparative aesthectics [3].

Was a French Jesuit missionary and writer. Joseph-François Lafitau entered the Society of Jesus, in

Was a French Jesuit missionary and writer. Joseph-François Lafitau entered the Society of Jesus, in 1696, and the general, Tamburini, yielding to his entreaties, sent him to Canada in 1711. Appointed to the mission of Sault Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga), he made a thorough study of Iroquois character and usages, as a preparation to his great work Mœures des Sauvages américains comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps, published in 1724.