Jean-Pierre is a French male given name (in English "
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
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Peter
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), a French actor
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Jean-Pierre Bemba
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (born 4 November 1962) is a Congolese politician and former rebel leader. He currently serves as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ministry of Transport and Channels of Communication, Transportation and Channels of Communicat ...
(b. 1962), a Congolese politician and rebel leader
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Jean-Pierre rançoisBlanchard (; 4 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloo ...
(1753–1809), a French inventor and aviation pioneer
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel (; born Jean-Pierre Crochon; 27 October 1932 – 19 April 2007) was a French actor and dancer. A popular star of French cinema, he was initially known for his comedy film appearances, though he also proved a gifted dramatic a ...
(1932–2007), a French actor
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Jean-Pierre Changeux (b. 1936), a French neuroscientist
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Jean-Pierre Chantin (born 1961), a French historian of religion
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Jean-Pierre Chauveau (b. 1942), a French politician
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(b. 1939), a French politician
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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (6 March 1755, near Sauve, Gard, France – 13 September 1794, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, Sceaux, France) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist.
Life
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian was born on 6 March 1755 in t ...
(1755–1794), a French poet and romance writer
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Jean-Pierre Corteggiani (1942–2022), a French Egyptologist
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Jean-Pierre Côté
Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Côté (January 9, 1926 – July 10, 2002) was a Canadian parliamentarian and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Early life
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Émile Côté and Cédia Roy, he studied to be ...
(1926–2002), a Canadian politician
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne (b. 1951), one of the Dardenne brothers filmmaking duo
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Jean-Pierre Demailly (1957–2022), a French mathematician
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Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (1937—2023), a French journalist
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Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), a French physiologist and pioneer in anesthesia
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Jean-Pierre Foucault (b. 1947), a French television host
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Jean-Pierre Gorin, (b. 1943), a French filmmaker and professor
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Jean-Pierre Grivois, French writer and music schola
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Jean-Pierre Haigneré (b. 1948), a French astronaut
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Jean-Pierre Houdin (b. 1951), a French architect
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism, and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations.
Jeunet debuted as a direc ...
(b. 1953), a French film director
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Jean-Pierre Léaud (b. 1944), a French actor
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Jean-Pierre Mader (b. 1955), a French singer-songwriter
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Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmake ...
(1917–1973), a French film director
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Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin (; born 5 November 1963) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He is the head coach of Championnat National 3 club Marseille B. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1991.
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(b. 1963), a French football player and manager
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Jean-Pierre Pury (1675–1736), Swiss explorer
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (; born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac.
He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Un ...
(b. 1948), a French politician
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Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922–2000), a French flautist
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Jean-Pierre Richard (1922–2019), a French writer and literary critic
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Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre (; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inau ...
(b. 1926), a French mathematician
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Jean-Pierre Thiollet
Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist. He is also affiliated with the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, a European trade union.
Career
Thiollet attended a school in Châtelleraul ...
(b. 1956), a French writer
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Jean-Pierre Tokoto (b. 1993), American basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Jean-Pierre Verdet (b. 1932), a French astronomer and historian of astronomy
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Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant (; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, traged ...
(1914–2007), a French historian and anthropologist
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Jean-Pierre Vigier (b. 1969), French politician
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Jean-Pierre Vigier (1920–2004), French physicist
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Jean Pierre (priest) (1831-1873), Breton missionary priest
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Jean Pierre (Rwandan informant), an anonymous Rwandan informant to
Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Antonius Dallaire (born June 25, 1946) is a retired Canadian politician and military officer who was a senator from Quebec from 2005 to 2014, and a lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces. He notably was the force commander of U ...
in the run-up to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Fictional characters bearing the name include:
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Jean-Pierre (Metalocalypse character), the chef in American animated television series "Metalocalypse"
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Jean-Pierre Delmas, the father of Elisabeth Delmas and headmaster of Kadic Junior High School in the French animated television series ''Code Lyoko''
* Jean Pierre, a character in ''
Fighter's History
is a series of fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original '' Fighter's History'' was first released for the arcades in 1993 and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Two different sequels ...
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Jean-Pierre Polnareff (1989), the French crusader possessing
Silver Chariot in
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and later making an appearance in
Golden Wind.
* Jean Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th, the first member of the Legion of Stationery in ''
Paper Mario: The Origami King'', and the second major boss of said game.
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Jean-Pierre LaFitte, the mid-90s WWF wrestler who was billed as a descendant of the pirate Jean LaFitte
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Jean (male given name)
In many French-speaking countries, Jean is a male name derived from the Old French ''Jehan'' (or Jahan). The -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''Jeha ...
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John (given name)
John ( ) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew origin.
The English form is from Middle English ''Ioon'', ''Ihon'', ''Iohn, Jan'' (mid-12c.), itself from Old French ''Jan'', ''Jean'', ''Jehan'' (Moder ...
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Pierre
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Peter (given name)
Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek language, Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''wikt:petra, petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ...
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