Jean

Jean is an English female [ dʒi ː n] and a French male [ ʒɑ ] first name and a family name.

• 2.3.1 As a pseudonym

Origin and Meaning

Jean is the French form of Johann and Johannes or Johanna. He is one of the most common first names in France, meaning " the Lord (YHWH ) is gracious " / " the Lord has shown mercy ."

Bearers of the name

Holy Name

• Saint -Jean

First name

Male

• Jean Alesi (born 1964 ), French race car driver
• Jean -Hugues Anglade ( born 1955 ), French actor
• Jean Anouilh (1910-1987), French dramatist
• Jean de La Balue (1421-1491), cardinal and minister of Louis XI. (France)
• Jean Bart (1650-1702), a corsair from Flanders
• Jean de Beaumont (~ 1190-1255 ), Lord of Villemomble and Grand Chamberlain of France
• Jean de Bertrand ( † 1432 ), 1408-1418 Bishop of Geneva and from 1418 to 1432 Archbishop of Tarentaise
• Jean de Béthune :; (. Johann III) (German Johann von Bethune † 1219 ), bishop of Cambrai made ​​the house Béthune
• Jean Bodel (1165-1209), French poet minstrel
• Jean Bodin (1529-1596), French political philosopher
• Jean -Claude Borrelly ( born 1953 ), French trumpeter
• Jean VIII de Bourbon, comte de Vendôme (1428-1478), Count of Vendôme
• John James Bouget (1762-1810), politician, Privy Councilor Kurkölnischer, Chairman of the Board and deputy
• Jean Jacques Bougie de (1655-1744), Field Marshal in the regiment Collonel
• Jean de Bougy (1617-1658), French general
• Jean Bourgoin (1913-1991), a French cameraman
• Jean de Brogny (~ 1342-1426 ), Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, Archbishop of Arles, bishop of Geneva, Viviers
• Jean Carmet (1920-1994), French actor
• Jean Charlot (1898-1979), French artist
• Jean Chrétien ( born 1934 ), Canadian politician
• Jean de Clermont († 1356), Lord of Chantilly and a Marshal of France from the House Clermont
• Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French writer, director and painter
• Jean Courtecuisse (* 1350, † 1423 ), dean of the theological faculty of the Sorbonne and the chancellor of Notre -Dame
• Jean -Claude Van Damme ( born 1960 ), Belgian actor
• Jean Daniélou (1905-1974), Catholic theologian, Jesuit priest and cardinal
• Jean Dréville (1906-1997), French film director and screenwriter
• Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695), French writer
• Jean Gabin (1904-1976), French actor and cabaret singer
• Jean Galfione (born 1971 ), French pole vaulter
• Jean de Garlande (* around 1195 in England; † after 1272 ), English grammarian, who worked in France
• Jean de Garlande (13th century ), French musician and music theorist
• Jean -Paul Gaultier ( born 1952 ), French fashion designer
• Jean Genet (1910-1986), French writer and playwright
• Jean Giraud (1938-2012), French comic book artist
• Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), French writer and career diplomat
• Jean Grave (1854-1939), French anarchist
• Jean de Homedes y Coscon (actually Juan de Homedes; 1477-1553 ), 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta ( 1536-1553 )
• Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), French socialist politician
• Jean de Joinville (also John of Joinville; * 1224 or 1225, † 1317 ), Lord of Joinville and seneschal of the county of Champagne
• Jean Jülich (1929-2011), German resistance fighter
• Jean Laffite (1780-1826), French privateers
• Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770-1832), French general and politician
• Jean Laplanche (1924-2012), French psychoanalyst and author
• Jean Mandel (1911-1974), co-founder of the National Union of Jewish Communities in Bavaria
• Jean Marteilhe (around 1684-1777 ), French convict, convicted of his evangelical faith
• Jean Martin (1922-2009), French actor
• Jean Michel ( Bishop ) ( † 1468 ), 1466 Bishop of Mondovi and 1466-1468 Bishop of Lausanne
• Jean -Baptiste Maunier (* 1990), French actor and singer
• Jean de Meung (1240-1305), French poet
• Jean de Murol († 1399 ), 1378-1385 Bishop of Geneva, from 1385 and cardinal from 1385 to 1388 Bishop of Saint -Paul -Trois -Châteaux
• Jean -Claude Olivier (1945-2013), a French motorcycle racer and motor sports official
• Jean Pierre Clément Marie d' Orléans, duc de Guise (1874-1940), head of the House of Orléans
• Jean d' Outremeuse (originally Jean of the price; 1338-1400 ), a Belgian cleric and chronicler
• Jean Pellissier (born 1972 ), Italian ski mountaineer
• Jean Poiret (1926-1992), French actor
• Jean Pütz (* 1936), German science journalist and television presenter
• Jean Racine (1639-1699), author of French classicism
• Jean Reno ( born 1948 ), French actor
• Jean -Noël reef ( b. 1981 ), French chess player
• Jean de Rochetaillée († 1437), Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, Bishop of Geneva and Paris, Archbishop of Rouen and administrator of the Archdiocese of Besançon
• Jean de Rossillon ( presumably † 1341 ), 1323-1341 Bishop of Lausanne
• Jean Sarrasins (or Sarrazin, lat: John Sarracenus; † after 1258 ), a court official of the French king Louis IX. the Holy
• Jean Servais (1910-1976), Belgian actor
• Jean Soro ( born 1963 ), Ivorian national team and two-time participants as national coach at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
• Jean -Yves Thibaudet ( b. 1961 ), French pianist
• Jean Tigana ( born 1955 ), French football player and coach
• Jean Vallée (1941-2014), Belgian singer
• Jean de Valois, duc de Berry (Jean de Berry, Jean le Magnifique; 1340-1416 ), Duke of Berry and Auvergne, Count of Poitiers and Montpensier
• Jean de Vienne (1341-1396), a French knight and admiral during the Hundred Years War
• Jean Ziegler ( born 1934 ), Swiss sociologist

Female

• Jean Arthur (1900-1991), American actress
• Jean Craighead George (1919-2012), American writer
• Jean Harlow (1911-1937), American actress
• Jean Lave ( * 19 **), American ethnographer, sociologist and anthropologist
• Jean Liedloff ( * 19 **), American author
• Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress
• Jean Simmons (1929-2010), British- American actress
• Jean Stapleton (1923-2013), American actress

Family name

• Al Jean ( born 1961 ), American screenwriter and producer
• Alain Jean -Marie ( born 1945 ), French jazz pianist
• Cassandra Jean ( born 1985 ), American actress
• Corentin Jean ( * 1995), French footballer
• Edmond Aman -Jean (1858-1936), French painter
• Élisabeth Laforest, Jean ( * 1988), Canadian biathlete
• Frédéric Jean ( b. 1983 ), French biathlete
• Gérard Jean- Juste (1949-2009), Haitian priest and liberation theologian
• Gauscelin de Jean ( † 1348 ), Frankish Catholic Cardinal
• Jimmy Jean- Louis ( born 1968 ), Haitian actor and model
• Marianne Jean -Baptiste (born 1967 ), British actress, writer and composer
• Marie- Josephe, Jean- Pierre ( born 1975 ), Mauritian badminton player
• Max Jean ( born 1943 ), French race car driver
• Michaëlle Jean ( born 1957 ), Canadian politician and journalist
• Nicolas Jean- Prost (born 1967 ), French ski jumper
• Norma Jean ( singer ) ( born 1938 ), American country singer
• Olivier Jean ( born 1984 ), Canadian Shorttracker
• Samuel Laforest, Jean ( * 1990), Canadian biathlete
• Vadim Jean ( born 1963 ), British film director and producer
• Victor Jean (1874-1953), French politician
• Wyclef Jean (born 1972 ), Haitian musician, songwriter and producer

As a pseudonym

• Jean -Charles (1922-2003), French writer