Jean-Baptiste () is a male
French name, originating with Saint
John the Baptist
John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...
, and sometimes shortened to
Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:
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Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway
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Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
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Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist
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Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician
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Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter
* Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter
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Jean Baptiste (grave robber) – A 19th-century gravedigger in Utah, United States, notorious for robbing hundreds of graves, leading to his exile and mysterious disappearance.
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.
Life
Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the Co ...
, French critic, journalist, and novelist
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Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987)
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Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith
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Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator
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Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duke of Istria (1768–1813),
Marshal of the Empire
Marshal of the Empire () was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by on 18 May 1804 and to a large extent reinstated the formerly abolished title of Marshal of France. According to the ''Sénatus-consulte'', a Mar ...
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Jean-Baptiste Bethune, Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement
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Jean-Baptiste Billot, French general and politician
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Jean-Baptiste Biot
Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French people, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, ma ...
, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician
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Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes
Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, (19 January 1668 – 1719) was a Canadians, Canadian soldier, explorer, and friend to the Miami tribe, Miami Nation. He spent a number of years at the end of his life as an agent of New France among ...
, Canadian career man with the colonial regular troops, son of François Byssot de la Rivière
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Jean-Baptiste Boisot, French scholar and abbott
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Jean-Baptiste Boissière, French lexicographer
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Jean-Baptiste Bottex
Jean-Baptiste Bottex (June 24, 1918 – May 28, 1979) was a Haitian painter.
Biography
Hailing from Port Margot, near Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti, Jean-Baptiste and his younger brother Seymour are descendants of the Haitian Generals o ...
, Haitian painter
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (16 September 1796 – 29 October 1881) was a French physician born in Bragette, now part of Garat, Charente. Bouillaud was an early advocate of the localization of cerebral functions (especially of speech).
He received ...
, French physician
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Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault – an agric ...
, French chemist
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Jean-Baptiste Bréval
Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Bréval (6 November 1753 – 18 March 1823) was a French cellist and composer. He wrote mostly for his own instrument, including pedagogical works as well as virtuoso display pieces.
Life
Bréval was born in Paris, ...
, French cellist and composer
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Jean Baptiste Brevelle
Jean Baptiste Brevelle () was a French-born American trader, explorer, and one of the first soldiers garrisoned at Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in present-day Natchitoches, Louisiana and Le Poste des Cadodaquious in Texas.
Explorer o ...
, French trader, explorer and soldier of
French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana ( ; ) refers to two distinct regions:
* First, to Louisiana (New France), historic French Louisiana, comprising the massive, middle section of North America claimed by Early Modern France, France during the 17th and 18th ...
colony
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...
, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (; 11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
Life
Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpe ...
, French sculptor and painter
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Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau
Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau (1769–1832) was a French Navy sailor and an adventurer who played an important role in Vietnam in the 19th century. He served the Nguyễn dynasty from 1794 to 1819, and 1821 to 1826,Tran, p. 206. and took the Vietnamese ...
, French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in the Vietnam War
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Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866), sometimes known in childhood as Pompey or Little Pomp, was an American explorer, guide, Animal trapping, fur trapper, trader, military scout during the Mexican–American War, ''alcal ...
, son of
Sacagawea and her French-Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist
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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics
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Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, French silversmith working in a neoclassical style
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Jean-Baptiste Cléry, (1759–1809), the personal valet to King Louis XVI
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, French politician
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy, French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV
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Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis, farmer, merchant, and political figure in Quebec
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Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop by Louis XIV
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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest, educational reformer, and saint in the Roman Catholic Church
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Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore, French admiral and politician
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Jean-Baptiste de Voglie, eminent Italian road and bridge engineer
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Jean-Baptiste Denys, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion
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Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca, medical doctor who advocated the cause of the French Revolution
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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
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Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre
Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre (''Jacques Du Tertre''; 1610 in Calais – 1687 in Paris) was a French Dominican Order, blackfriar and botanist.
In 1633 he joined the Dutch army where he worked in the headquarters in Maastricht. Subsequently, he jo ...
, French blackfriar and botanist
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Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis
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Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, French physician who first described narcolepsy
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Jean-Baptiste Faure, French operatic baritone and art collector who also composed several classical songs
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Jean-Baptiste Ferré, miller and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, son of Antoine Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer
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Jean-Baptiste François des Marets, marquis de Maillebois, Marshal of France
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Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue) (1765–1850), Swiss Franciscan educator
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Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier) (1775–1815), French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars
* (1680–1733), a priest tried for witchcraft, abuse, and corruption of Catherine Cadière
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Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Guégan, French singer
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Jean-Baptiste Godart, French entomologist
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Jean-Baptiste Grange, French alpine skier
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Guimet, French industrial chemist
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Jean-Baptiste Guth, French portrait artist
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Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter of religious and mythological subjects
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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist
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Jean-Baptiste Janssens, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762–1833), Marshal of France
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Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biologi ...
, French naturalist
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Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
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Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet based in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of Louisiana (New France) ...
, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana
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Jean-Baptiste Lepère, French architect
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Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Belgian composer
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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation
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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert"
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Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer
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Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot, French general during the Napoleonic Wars
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Jean-Baptiste Maunier (born 1990), French child actor
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Jean-Baptiste Massillon, French churchman and preacher
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Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Michonis, personality of the French Revolution
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Jean-Baptiste Mondino, French fashion photographer and music video director
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Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician), French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer
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Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer), French composer
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Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president
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Jean-Baptiste Nolin, French cartographer and engraver
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer
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Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983
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Jean-Baptiste Pastré (1804-1877), a French banker and arms-dealer.
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Jean Baptiste Paul (1896-1966), Canadian First Nations wrestler
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Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet, French rugby union player
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Pitois, French writer on the occult
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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first settler in Chicago
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622–1673), known by his stage name Molière, Classical French playwright, actor and stage manager
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Jean-Baptiste Raymond, seigneur, businessman, and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Régis, French Jesuit missionary in imperial China
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Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Renaud, prominent businessman, merchant, and land owner in Quebec
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Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, French politician of the Revolutionary period
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet
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Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French man of letters and poet
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Jean-Baptiste Senaillé, French-born Baroque composer and violinist
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Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Belgian classical composer and violinist
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India
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Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery officer and engineer
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Jean Baptiste Vermay, French-born Cuban artist and educator
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Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French luthier
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Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803-1886), former chief of the Métis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota
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Jean-Pierre-André Amar, also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution
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Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin, merchant and political figure in Quebec
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P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver
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Phạm Minh Mẫn, short for Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn), Catholic cardinal priest and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
Surnames
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Henry Jean-Baptiste, French politician born in
Martinique
Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...
, MP for
Mayotte
Mayotte ( ; , ; , ; , ), officially the Department of Mayotte (), is an Overseas France, overseas Overseas departments and regions of France, department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is one of the Overseas departm ...
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Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste (born 2001), American football player
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Lucien Jean-Baptiste, French actor and film director born in
Martinique
Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known as Iguanacaera which translates to iguana island in Carib language, Kariʼn ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste, British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage
Fictional persons
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Jean-Baptiste Clamence, Fictional character from Albert Camus's ''The Fall''
* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film ''
The Fifth Element''
* Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame
Overwatch
See also
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Baptiste (disambiguation)
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Batiste (disambiguation) Batiste is a lightweight woven fabric.
Batiste may also refer to:
People
* Batiste (surname)
* Batiste Madalena (1902–1988), American commercial artist
See also
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* Baptiste (disambiguation)
* Baptist (disambiguation)
* Batista
* Battiste
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João Batista (disambiguation)
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Juan Bautista (disambiguation)
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste (disambiguation)
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