French Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Tarn department. He is a member of the Sociali

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Tarn department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Is a French artist and filmmaker. He attended L'Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Cambrai. For much of the 1980

Is a French artist and filmmaker. He attended L'Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Cambrai. For much of the 1980s Prouveur worked independently in the photographic medium, creating artworks characterised by the "outlaw sexuality" of the male nude, punctuated by religious iconography, showing in London, Paris, New York, Amsterdam and Rome. He acknowledges artistic precedents in F. Holland Day and Wilhelm von Gloeden, and to a shared artistic preoccupation with contemporaries Robert Mapplethorpe and Gilbert and George.[2]

Is a French retired professional football striker.

Is a French retired professional football striker.

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Moselle department. He is a member of the Soci

Is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Moselle department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Is a contemporary French artist. Stylistically the art of Tournois tends to be close to figurative a

Is a contemporary French artist. Stylistically the art of Tournois tends to be close to figurative abstraction. Tournois characteristically uses simplified shapes and forms, his themes include mythology, observations of nature (animals and plants) and human behavior.

Was a French lawyer.

Was a French lawyer.

Is a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult consultant, and gradu

Is a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult consultant, and graduate in criminal law. He has been an expert witness at the Supreme Court of Appeal and Court for Businesses in France on the subject of cults, and analyst of cult deviances. In particular, he is most knowledgeable about Children of God and the Order of the Solar Temple, which he said maintained links with Gladio, NATO's stay-behind organization during the Cold War. He also said that the AMORC, of which he had been a member, had been related to Jacques Foccart's networks [1].

Is a French journalist, and was the editor of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1994 until 2007. Edu

Is a French journalist, and was the editor of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1994 until 2007. Educated at Paris II and Science-Po, he is the author of the lead article published after the New York City terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the front page of his newspaper, entitled "We are All Americans".

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National for FC Rou

Is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National for FC Rouen.

Was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker. He took over

Was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker. He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin. He retired voluntarily from this aged 54, then writing and teaching at university level. Opposed to torture during the Algerian War, he also held a meeting denouncing the 1961 Paris massacre.

Is a French writer and documentary maker. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from 198

Is a French writer and documentary maker. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from 1984 to 1994.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. Jean-Marie Goasmat was a brother of cyclist Joseph Goa

Was a French professional road bicycle racer. Jean-Marie Goasmat was a brother of cyclist Joseph Goasmat.

Was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicur

Was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset.

Is a former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Is a former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1987. His film Peindr

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1987. His film Peindre ou faire l'amour was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[1] He is the brother of film director Arnaud Larrieu.

A commune in the Deux-Sèvres département of western France.) is a French retired professional road

A commune in the Deux-Sèvres département of western France.) is a French retired professional road bicycle racer who was general director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2005, when he reached pensionable age and was succeeded by Christian Prudhomme.

Was a trained architect and surveyor, who produced a substantial and popular work advocating the "na

Was a trained architect and surveyor, who produced a substantial and popular work advocating the "natural" landscape style of gardening in France, a French landscape garden. Morel never visited England, to see the English garden style, but his book profited from the published theories of Thomas Whately and Claude-Henri Watelet and from the experience he had gained from his close association with the marquis de Girardin at Ermenonville. Girondin's own De la Composition des paysages appeared in 1777.

Is a French movie director. He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career

Is a French movie director. He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed results. His most ambitious project to date is White Fire (1985), starring Robert Ginty and Fred Williamson, a movie which has proved to be quite popular among camp aficionados. Pallardy's career dwindled in the 1980s, with the decline of France's exploitation cinema, and his movies became few and far between. His last movie to date, The Donor, guest-starring David Carradine, was released straight to DVD in 2004.

Is a French photographer and film director. the magazine Salut les copains organised a concert on Pl

Is a French photographer and film director. the magazine Salut les copains organised a concert on Place de la Nation in Paris, with singers such as Johnny Hallyday, Richard Anthony, Eddy Mitchell and Frank Alamo. It attracted over 150,000 young people and raised their spirits, with the following day's issue of the journal Paris-Presse having the headline "Salut les voyous !". The photographer and friend of many singers who photographed the concert was Jean-Marie Périer.

Is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.

Is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.

Is a French artist. Much of his early work consisted of erotica and hallucinogenic art, but as his a

Is a French artist. Much of his early work consisted of erotica and hallucinogenic art, but as his art has matured he has shown a great interest in landscapes as well. He is an exponent of the fantastic realism movement.[1]

Is a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he is one of the pioneer

Is a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he is one of the pioneers. He has published several works, a treatise on relativity [Sou64b] and a treatise on mechanics: [Sou70]. He has developed the symplectic aspects of classical and quantum mechanics. His work includes the first geometric interpretation of spin, and many important concepts, such as: the coadjoint action of a group on its moment space, the moment map, prequantization (geometric quantization), the classification of the homogeneous symplectic manifolds, diffeological spaces and many others.

Were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for t

Were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style. Jean-Marie Straub met Danièle Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community of the time, and was a friend of François Truffaut. Between 1954 and 1958, Straub worked as an assistant to the film directors Robert Bresson, Abel Gance, Jean Renoir

Is a French businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1997 to 2007.

Is a French businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1997 to 2007.

Is a French businessman. He is the founder and CEO of CEGID (Compagnie Européenne de Gestion par l'

Is a French businessman. He is the founder and CEO of CEGID (Compagnie Européenne de Gestion par l'Informatique Décentralisée) and serves and the owner and chairman of French football club Olympique Lyonnais whom he has owned since 1987.[2][3] Aulas has also expanded his branch of football knowledge through Europe. He was the last president of the prestigious G-14 until it disbanded in January 2008 and also currently serves on the board of European Club Association for his club.[4]