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, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:


Persons

* Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist * Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist *
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 19464 May 2016) was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and ''de facto'' military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987. Born into the Tutsi ethnic group in 1946, Bagaza ...
, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) *
Jean-Baptiste Baudry Jean-Baptiste Baudry ( bapt 3 July 1684 – 20 November 1755) was born at Trois-Rivières and was the son of Guillaume Baudry, a gunsmith and goldsmith. Jean-Baptiste pursued his father's craft and, as in his fathers case, was known by variou ...
, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith *
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (; 24 June 176713 June 1846) was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories '' Fantasmagoriana'', published anonymously in 18 ...
, French geographer, author and translator *
Jean-Baptiste Bessières Jean-Baptiste Bessières (; 6 August 1768 – 1 May 1813), 1st Duke of Istria (''Duc d'Istrie''), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. His younge ...
, duke of Istria (1768–1813), was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era *
Jean-Baptiste Bethune Jean-Baptiste Bethune {April 25, 1821 - June 18, 1894) was a Belgian architect, artisan and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement. He was called by some the "''Pugin of Belgium''", with reference ...
, Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement * Jean-Baptiste Billot, French general and politician *
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early ba ...
, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician *
Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, (19 January 1668 – 1719) was a Canadian soldier, explorer, and friend to the Miami Nation. He spent a number of years at the end of his life as an agent of New France among the Miami. Vincennes was ...
, Canadian career man with the colonial regular troops, son of François Byssot de la Rivière * Jean-Baptiste Boissière, French lexicographer * Jean-Baptiste Boisot, French scholar and abbott * Jean-Baptiste Bottex, Haitian painter * Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching *
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. Carpeaux en ...
, French sculptor and painter * Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau, French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in the Vietnam War * Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and her French-Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau *
Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean- ...
, French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist * Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics * Jean-Baptiste Clamence, Fictional character from Albert Camus's ''The Fall'' *
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763–1850) was a French silversmith working in the neoclassical style. Business ''Maison Odiot'', in English "House of Odiot", was established in 1690, during the reign of Louis XIV by Jean-Baptiste Gaspard Odiot, ...
, French silversmith working in a neoclassical style * Jean-Baptiste Cléry, (1759–1809), the personal valet to King Louis XVI * Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV *
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November 1651 – 3 November 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torc ...
, French politician *
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the ...
, French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV * Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis, farmer, merchant, and political figure in Quebec *
Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) is most known as Quebec's second bishop. Born in the southeastern French city of Grenoble in 1653, to a wealthy land owning family, Saint-Vallier swi ...
, appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop by Louis XIV *
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for tea ...
, French priest, educational reformer, and saint in the Roman Catholic Church *
Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore (4 August 1756 – 3 July 1834) was a French admiral and politician. He was born in Roanne, Loire. Entering the French royal navy in 1774, he fought through the war in America and resigned ...
, 1st Duc de Cadore, French admiral and politician * Jean-Baptiste de Voglie, eminent Italian road and bridge engineer * Jean-Baptiste Denys, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion * Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca, medical doctor who advocated the cause of the French Revolution *
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807, was a French nobleman and general whose army played the decisive role in helping the United States defeat the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the ...
* Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, French blackfriar and botanist * Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis * Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, French physician who first described narcolepsy * Jean-Baptiste Ferré, miller and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist most commonly known for the Fourier Series, law, and transform. * Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, son of Antoine Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer * Jean-Baptiste François des Marets, marquis de Maillebois, Marshal of France * Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue) (1765–1850), Swiss Franciscan educator *
Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier) Jean-Baptiste Girard (21 February 1775 at Aups, in Var – 27 June 1815 in Paris) was a French général and baron d'Empire, who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Biography Girard entered the French Revolutio ...
(1775–1815), French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars * (1680–1733), a priest tried for witchcraft, abuse, and corruption of Catherine Cadière * Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor * Jean-Baptiste Guégan, French singer *
Jean-Baptiste Godart Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist. Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on thes ...
, French entomologist *
Jean-Baptiste Grange Jean-Baptiste Grange (born 10 October 1984) is a French retired World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed primarily in slalom and earlier also in giant slalom and combined. Born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Grange grew up in Valloire ...
, French alpine skier * Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind *
Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Biography Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed h ...
, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Guimet, French industrial chemist * Jean-Baptiste Guth, French portrait artist * Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter of religious and mythological subjects * Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist * Jean-Baptiste Janssens, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) * Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series *
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon I in ...
(1762–1833), Marshal of France *
Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean-Baptiste Kléber () (9 March 1753 – 14 June 1800) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he entered Habsburg service seven years later. However, his plebeian ancest ...
, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars *
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 biolo ...
, French naturalist * Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America * Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet based in Saint Petersburg, Russia *
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 colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four ...
, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana *
Jean-Baptiste Lepère Jean-Baptiste Lepère (December 1, 1761 – July 16, 1844) was a French architect, father-in-law of the architect Jacques Hittorff. He was the designer of the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, largely revised by Hittorf during its protract ...
, French architect * Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Belgian composer * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord *
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin (1650-c.1712) was a French trader who was appointed in the early 1670s as the first cartographer in ''Nouvelle France'' (Canada) by the colony's governor. He was appointed in 1688 as royal hydrographer by Louis XIV. ...
, cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation *
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem ''Vert-Vert''. Life He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his ...
, French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert" * Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer * Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot, French general during the Napoleonic Wars * Jean-Baptiste Maunier (born 1990), French child actor * Jean-Baptiste Massillon, French churchman and preacher * Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Michonis, personality of the French Revolution *
Jean-Baptiste Mondino Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Axel Bauer and Les Rita ...
, French fashion photographer and music video director * Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician), French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer * Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer), French composer * Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president *
Jean-Baptiste Nolin Jean-Baptiste Nolin (–1708) was a French cartographer and engraver. Life and career Jean-Baptiste Nolin was born . He trained with the engraver François de Poilly, which caught the attention of the Italian cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli, who ...
, French cartographer and engraver *
Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...
, French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer *
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo Jean-Baptiste Philippe Ouédraogo (; born 30 June 1942), also referred to by his initials JBO, is a Burkinabé physician and retired military officer who served as President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 198 ...
, President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983 * Jean-Baptiste Pastré (1804-1877), a French banker and arms-dealer. * Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet, French rugby union player * Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor *
Jean-Baptiste Pitois Jean-Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean-Baptiste or Paul Christian (1811–1877), was a French author, known for ''The History and Practice of Magic'', first published in France in 1870. Early life Jean-Baptiste Pitois was born May 15, 1811, in ...
, French writer on the occult *
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled ''Point de Sable'', ''Point au Sable'', ''Point Sable'', ''Pointe DuSable'', ''Pointe du Sable''; before 1750 – 28 August 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would ...
, first settler in Chicago *
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Jean-Baptiste is a male French language, French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste (name), Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Bapt ...
(1622 1673), known by his stage name Molière, Classical French playwright, actor and stage manager * Jean-Baptiste Raymond, seigneur, businessman, and political figure in Lower Canada *
Jean-Baptiste Régis Jean-Baptiste Régis (11 June 1663 or 29 January 1664 – 24 November 1738) was a French Jesuit missionary in imperial China. Biography and works He was born at Istres, in Provence, on 11 June 1663, or 29 January 1664; died in Beijing on 24 Novem ...
, French Jesuit missionary in imperial China *
Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I ...
, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Renaud, prominent businessman, merchant, and land owner in Quebec *
Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville (June 20, 1789 – January 3, 1859) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Montreal, the son of Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville. He became a lieutenant in the mi ...
, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, French politician of the Revolutionary period * Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet *
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (February 22, 1825 – July 15, 1898) was the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe. Early life and education Salpointe was born in Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat, Puy-de-Dôme, to Jean and Jeanne ( ...
, first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico * Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French a man of letters and poet * Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Belgian classical composer and violinist *
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia ...
, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India * Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery officer and engineer *
Jean Baptiste Vermay Jean Baptiste Vermay (1786–1833) was a French-born Cuban painter, sculptor, caricaturist, educator, musician, and architect. He was the founding director of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro. Biography Jean-Baptiste Vermay ...
, French-born Cuban artist and educator *
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (7 October 1798 – 19 March 1875) was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards. His workshop made over 3,000 instruments. Early life Vuillaume was born in Mirecourt, where his father and g ...
, French luthier * Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803-1886), former chief of the Métis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota * Jean-Pierre-André Amar, also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution *
Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (November 22, 1848 – May 16, 1929) was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1900 to 1919 as a Liberal. He was born in Saint-Athan ...
, merchant and political figure in Quebec * P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver *
Phạm Minh Mẫn Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn ( vi, Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn, links=no) (born 5 March 1934) is a cardinal priest and archbishop emeritus of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Born in Cà Mau, Vietnam, Asia, Mẫ ...
, 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 Henry-Jean Baptiste (3 January 1933 in Fort-de-France, Martinique – 5 January 2018 in Paris) was a French politician from Martinique who was elected and represented Mayotte in the French National Assembly from 1986 to 2002. References Page on t ...
, French politician born in
Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...
, MP for
Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loca ...
* Lucien Jean-Baptiste, French actor and film director born in
Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...
*
Marianne Jean-Baptiste Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film '' Secrets & Lies'', for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sup ...
, British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage


Fictional persons

* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film ''
The Fifth Element ''The Fifth Element'' is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Milla ...
'' * Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame Overwatch


See also

* Baptiste (disambiguation) * Batiste (disambiguation) * João Batista (disambiguation) * Juan Bautista (disambiguation) * Saint-Jean-Baptiste (disambiguation) {{given name, cat=French masculine given names