Jean-Jacques
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Jean-Jacques is a French given name.

Notable people bearing the name include:
  • Jean-Jacques Bertrand
    Jean-Jacques Bertrand
    Jean-Jacques Bertrand was the 21st Premier of Quebec, Canada, from October 2, 1968 to May 12, 1970. He led the Union Nationale party.-Member of the legislature:...

     (1916–1973), the Premier of Quebec, Canada
  • Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
    Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
    Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council .Challet was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on July 12, 1864 as the first member from the Canton of Geneva. He handed over office on December 31, 1872 after being voted out of office...

    , a member of the Swiss Federal Council
  • Jean-Jacques Conceição
    Jean-Jacques Conceição
    Jean-Jacques Nzadi da Conceição, better known as Jean-Jacques , is a former Angolan-Portuguese basketball player. He was a power forward. He played for Benfica in Portugal, where he won seven national championships and three Cups of Portugal...

     better known as Jean-Jacques (born 1964), a former Angolan-Portuguese basketball player
  • Jean-Jacques De Gucht
    Jean-Jacques De Gucht
    Jean-Jacques De Gucht is a Flemish politician and member of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. He was elected to the Belgian Senate by the Dutch electoral college in the 2007 Belgian federal election, which took place on 10 June 2007....

     (born 1983), a Flemish politician and member of Open VLD
  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines
    Jean-Jacques Dessalines
    Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. Initially regarded as Governor-General, Dessalines later named himself Emperor Jacques I of Haiti...

    , a leader of the Haïtian Revolution
  • Jean-Jacques Domoraud
    Jean-Jacques Domoraud
    Dakaud Otto Jean-Jacques Domoraud is a Côte d'Ivoire football defender who is currently without a club.- Privates :He is the brother of Cyril and Gilles Domoraud.- International :...

     (born 1981), a Côte d'Ivoire football defender
  • Jean-Jacques Goldman
    Jean-Jacques Goldman
    Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...

     (born 1951), a French singer-songwriter
  • Jean-Jacques Kieffer
    Jean-Jacques Kieffer
    Jean-Jacques Kieffer was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects. Educated as a priest, Kieffer taught natural science in Bitche, Lorraine while working on the description and classification of insects...

     (1857–1925), a French naturalist and entomologist
  • Jean-Jacques Lafon
    Jean-Jacques Lafon
    Jean-Jacques Lafon is a French singer-songwriter and painter. He remains known for his 1985 hit "Le géant de papier", which peaked at #6 on the SNEP singles chart and earned a Silver disc...

    , a French singer-songwriter
  • Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan
    Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan
    Jean-Jacques Lefranc , Marquis de Pompignan was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises on archeology, nature, travel and many other subjects; and a wide selection of highly-regarded...

    , a French poet
  • Jean-Jacques Olier
    Jean-Jacques Olier
    -Early life:At Lyon, where his father had become administrator of justice, he made a thorough classical course under the Jesuits ; he was encouraged to become a priest by St. Francis de Sales, who predicted his sanctity and great services to the Ccatholic Church. He studied philosophy at the...

     (1608-1657), a French priest and the founder of the Sulpicians
  • Jean-Jacques Manget
    Jean-Jacques Manget
    Jean-Jacques Manget was a Swiss physician and writer. He was an assiduous compiler of previous medical literature.He wrote in particular a major treatise on the bubonic plague...

     (1652–1742), a Swiss physician and writer
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...

    , a Swiss philosopher
  • Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
    Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
    Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical Party in 1971...

     (1924-2006), a French journalist and politician


As a last name
  • Jamil Jean-Jacques
    Jamil Jean-Jacques
    Jamil Jean-Jacques is a Haitian footballer playing currently for USL First Division side Miami FC.-Club career:Jean-Jacques started his career at Racing Club Haïtien and only moved abroad to Miami FC at age 31...

     (born 1975), a Haitian football player
  • Martin Jean-Jacques
    Martin Jean-Jacques
    Martin Jean-Jacques was a Dominican cricketer. During his eight years in first-class cricket, he played for Derbyshire and Hampshire....

     (born 1960), a Dominican cricketer

See also

  • 1461 Jean-Jacques
    1461 Jean-Jacques
    1461 Jean-Jacques is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2018.2528546 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 30, 1937.-References:...

    , a main belt asteroid
  • Jean (male given name)
    Jean (male given name)
    On the European continent and in all French-speaking countries, Jean, pronounced , is a male name derived from the Old French Jehan. The name ultimately drives from Hebrew. See John for more details. The female equivalent is Jeanne, pronounced , and derives from the Old French Jehanne...

  • Jacques
    Jacques
    Jacques is the French equivalent of James.Jacques is derived from the Late Latin Iacobus, from the Greek , from the Hebrew ...

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