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People with the given name Jehan
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People with the given name Jehan
* Jehan Adam (15th century), French mathematician
* Jehan Alain">Jehan Adam">Jahan (name)">Jahan in some South Asian languages.
People with the given name Jehan
* Jehan Adam (15th century), French mathematician
* Jehan Alain (1911–1940), French organist and composer
* Jahanara Begum (1614–1681), Mughal (Indian) royalty sometimes known as Jehan Begum
* Jehan Cauvin (1509–1564), French theologian and founder of Calvinism better known as John Calvin
* Jean Cousin the Younger, Jehan Cousin the Younger (circa 1522–1595), French artist
* Jehan Daruvala
Jehan Daruvala (Marathi language, Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA, ͡ʒeˈɦɑn daːruːvaːlaː born 1 October 1998) is an Indian racing driver who last raced in the Formula E for Maserati MSG Racing. He was a protégé of the Force India ...
(born 1998), Indian racing driver
* Jehan de Lescurel
Jehan de Lescurel (; also Jehannot de l'Escurel) was a composer-poet of late medieval music. Jehan's extensive surviving ''oeuvre'' is an important and rare examples of the ''formes fixes'' before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of ...
(died 1304), medieval poet and composer also known as Jehannot de l'Escurel
* Jehan de Vezelay, birth name of Johannes of Jerusalem (1042–1119), French abbot
* Jehan de Waurin
Jean de Waurin or Wavrin (c. 1400c. 1474) was a medieval French chronicler and compiler, also a soldier and politician. He belonged to a noble family of Artois, and witnessed the Battle of Agincourt from the French side, but later fought on the ...
(circa 1400–1474), French chronicler
* Jehan Fresneau
Jehan Fresneau (also Fresnau, Frasnau) (fl. ca. 1468 – 1505) was a Franco-Flemish school, French composer of the Renaissance music, Renaissance. He was one of the composers in the renowned Milan chapel in the mid-1470s, which was disbanded a ...
(fl. ca. 1468–1505), French composer
* Jehan Mubarak (born 1981), American-born Sri Lankan cricketer
* Jehan Rictus (1867–1933), French poet
* Jehan Sadat
Jehan Sadat (, ; ; 29 August 1933 – 9 July 2021) was an Egyptian human rights activist and the First Lady of Egypt, as the wife of Anwar Sadat, from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981. As Egypt's first lady, she greatly influenc ...
(1933–2021), first lady of Egypt
* Jehan Ara Saeed (1926–2007), Pakistani radio newsreader
* Jehan Tabourot (1520–1595), Catholic priest better known by his pen name Thoinot Arbeau
Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot (March 17, 1520 – July 23, 1595). Tabourot is most famous for his ''Orchésographie'', a study of late sixteenth-century French Renaissance social dance. He was born ...
* Jehan Titelouze (c. 1562/63–1633), French organist and composer
* Jehan Georges Vibert
Jehan Georges Vibert or Jean Georges Vibert (30 September 1840 – 28 July 1902) was a French academic painter.
Biography
He was born in Paris, the son of engraver and publisher Théodore Vibert, and grandson of the influential rose-breeder J ...
(1840–1902), French academic painter
* Jehan Wali
According to the United States Department of Defense, there were five dozen Pakistani detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was opened on January 11, 2002. In the summer of 2004, following the United ...
(21st century), Pakistani extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
Fictional character
* Jehan Frollo
''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (, originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. I ...
, a character in Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
's ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (, originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. I ...
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People with the surname Jehan
* Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan (21 September 192623 December 2000) was a Pakistani playback singer and actress who worked in both British India and later in Pakistan's cinema of Pakistan, cinema. Her career lasted over six decades, during which she recorded 10,00 ...
(1926–2000), Pakistani film singer
* Sonya Jehan
Sonya Rizvi (; born 24 April 1980), better known by her stage name Sonya Jehan, is a French and Pakistani film actress who predominantly works in Urdu and Hindi-language films. She is the granddaughter of legendary singer Noor Jehan and filmm ...
(born 1980), Franco-Pakistani actress
People with the nickname Jehan
* Jehan (singer)
Jean Marie Cayrecastel better known as Jehan (stylized as JeHaN) (born in Montluçon, Allier in 1957) is a French songwriter and singer. He is one of the last itinerant songwriter from the Midi with uninterrupted Trouvère (i.e. French-Speaking T ...
(born 1957), French songwriter and singer
* Jean (Jehan) Prouvaire, a character in Victor Hugo's novel ''Les Misérables
''Les Misérables'' (, ) is a 19th-century French literature, French Epic (genre), epic historical fiction, historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. '' ...
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* Jehanne (disambiguation)
Jehanne, or Joan of Arc, is a patron saint of France.
Jehanne or ''variant'', may also refer to:
* Jehanne la Pucelle d'Ay de Domremy (1412–1431, Saint Joan of Arc), Patron Saint of France
* Jehanne d'Alcy (1865–1956), French actress
* Je ...
* 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 ...
* Jahan (name)
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