French Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist comm

Is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired (his future wife) in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan (2008). His clients have included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy

Is a French former professional football (soccer) player.

Is a French former professional football (soccer) player.

Is a French mixed-media artist famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripp

Is a French mixed-media artist famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He builds posters in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.

A French actor. He is most famous for his role in Le Dîner de cons.

A French actor. He is most famous for his role in Le Dîner de cons.

Was a French cubist painter and printmaker.Born Gaston Emile Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute

Was a French cubist painter and printmaker.Born Gaston Emile Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, he came from a prosperous and artistically inclined family. While he was a young man, his maternal grandfather Emile Nicolle, successful businessman and artist, taught him and his siblings.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1951 to 1957.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1951 to 1957.

Is a French actor, director and writer. Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined

Is a French actor, director and writer. Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Reims. He then began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe

Is a French actor, director and writer, Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined

Is a French actor, director and writer, Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Reims. He then began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras.

Was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher w

Was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as Jacques Cousteau or Captain Cousteau.

Is a French former professional football (soccer) player. Zimako played for SC Bastia[1], AS Saint-Étienne[2] and FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He capped 13 times for France, scoring 2 goals.[3]

Is a French photographer, born in Paris, lived in Roche-sur-Yon. He was a medical student until 1924

Is a French photographer, born in Paris, lived in Roche-sur-Yon. He was a medical student until 1924 when he met André Breton through Pierre Naville, a Surrealist writer, and childhood friend. From then on, Boiffard decided to dedicate himself to Surrealist research in the Bureau of Surrealist Research, writing the preface with Paul Éluard and Roger Vitrac to the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste. Preferring photography to literature, he became Man Ray’s assistant. During the 1920s, he took portraits of the English writer Nancy Cunard and photographs of Paris which Breton used to illustrate his novel, Nadja. In 1928, Boiffard was abruptly expelled from the Surrealist movement for taking photographs of Simone Breton.

Was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions

Was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts.

Was a French lawyer, politician, and noted orator. Manuel returned to civilian life in 1797 and prac

Was a French lawyer, politician, and noted orator. Manuel returned to civilian life in 1797 and practiced law. In 1814, he was chosen a member of the Chamber of Representatives, and in 1815 he urged the claim of Napoleon's son to the French throne and protested against the restoration of the Bourbons. After this event, he actively opposed the government, his eloquence making him the foremost orator among the members of the Left.

Was a French composer, type-setter, and flutist. Little is known of his early life. He was married i

Was a French composer, type-setter, and flutist. Little is known of his early life. He was married in 1719. Most of his compositions were published in Paris between 1726 and 1740. The poet Denesle (c 1694 - c 1759) wrote a book called "Syrinx, ou l'origine de la flutte". It was dedicated to Naudot, Michel Blavet and Lucas, and published in 1739.

Was a French cardinal. Returning to Normandy he was presented to the king by Jacques of Matignon; af

Was a French cardinal. Returning to Normandy he was presented to the king by Jacques of Matignon; after he had abjured Protestantism, being again presented by Philippe Desportes, abbot of Tiron, as a young man without equal for knowledge and talent, he was appointed reader to the king. He was commanded to preach before the king at the convent of Vincennes

Was a French sculptor. Dumont came from a large dynasty of sculptors that included his grandfather P

Was a French sculptor. Dumont came from a large dynasty of sculptors that included his grandfather Pierre Dumont and children Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. He was a pupil of Augustin Pajou, and in 1788 he won the Prix de Rome. From 1788 to 1793, he lived in Italy, after which he returned to his native France,

Was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.

Was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.

Was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian. Under the pseudonym Augus

Was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian. Under the pseudonym Augustinus Leblanc, he wrote the standard history Historiae Congregationum de Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae of the Congregatio de Auxiliis, and the Dominican-Jesuit controversy on grace that led to its being set up. The work itself is partisan, awarding a Dominican victory based on an unpublished text[2], but well-documented[3]. It was attacked by the Jesuit Livinus de Meyer, writing as Theodorus Eleutherius, in 1705, in his Historiae controversiarum de divinae gratiae auxiliis.

Was a French journalist. He worked for the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, and was a frien

Was a French journalist. He worked for the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, and was a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, and of Simone de Beauvoir, who was his lover. He married Olga Kosakiewicz.

Was a French academic sculptor[1] of modest reputation, whose themes were of neoclassical and biblic

Was a French academic sculptor[1] of modest reputation, whose themes were of neoclassical and biblical inspiration; his public commissions were in large part for the programs of decorative architectural sculpture required by the grandiose public works programs characteristic of the Second Empire,[2] which included commemorative portraits of French culture heroes. He also provided models for goldsmith's work.

Was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations an

Was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[1]

Is an influential French-born, American domiciled composer, pianist and conductor of 20th century an

Is an influential French-born, American domiciled composer, pianist and conductor of 20th century and contemporary music.

Was a French architect who practiced in Paris, working in a neoclassical manner that he refined work

Was a French architect who practiced in Paris, working in a neoclassical manner that he refined working in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, Napoleon's chief architects. Huvé was the son of an architect, Jean-Jacques Huvé, with whom he received his earliest instruction. He was named supervisor of the works at the Église de la Madeleine in 1808, and at the decease of its architect, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon, in 1828, Huvé was called upon to bring the work to completion. With tenacity he pressed the government to release the funding that permitted the church to be completed in 1842.

Was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of

Was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Hotteterre lived and studied in Rome early in his career, and his nickname le Romain (the Roman) came from this period. He spent two years (1698-1700) employed by Prince Francesco Ruspoli in Rome

Was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes. After classical studie

Was a French editor, writer, and publicist working for Roman Catholic causes. After classical studies at the lesser seminary of Largentière, he entered the telegraphic service. In that capacity in 1855, during the Crimean War, he directed the telegraphic bureau of Varna, the first landing-place of the Franco-Russian troops.