Biographies
Biographies is a category for works that tell the life stories of real people, highlighting their experiences, achievements, and historical significance. It includes both full-length accounts and shorter profiles written to inform and engage readers.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable — founder of Chicago
Jean Beaudin
Jean Beaudin (1939–2019), Canadian film director and screenwriter
Jean Béliveau
Jean Béliveau: Montreal Canadiens Legend and Hockey Statesman
Jean Burns
Jean Burns (Australian aviator and parachutist)
Jean Chatillon
Jean Chatillon: Canadian Composer and Music Educator
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist
Jean d'Ormesson
Jean d'Ormesson (1925–2017): French novelist, Académie française member and dean
Jean Darling
Jean Darling: American child actress of the silent era
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine: French fabulist and poet (1621–1695)
Jean Fouquet
Jean Fouquet: Pioneer of French Renaissance Painting and Illumination
Jean Frederick Oberlin
Jean Frederick Oberlin (1740–1826), Alsatian educator and social reformer
Jean Fritz
Jean Fritz: American Author of Children's History and Biographies
Jean Giraud
Jean Giraud (Mœbius) — French comics artist, illustrator, and storyteller
Jean Guillou
Jean Guillou: French organist, composer, improvisor and teacher
Jean Joubert
Jean Joubert: French novelist, poet and short‑story writer
Jean Juventin
Jean Juventin: French Polynesian Politician and Long-Serving Mayor
Jean Kent
Jean Kent (Joan Mildred Summerfield) — British film and television actress
Jean Little
Jean Little: Canadian author of children's fiction (1932–2020)
Jean Marois
Jean Marois (Canadian ice hockey goaltender)
Jean Marsh
Jean Marsh (English actress and writer)
Jean Miotte
Jean Miotte: French Informel Painter and Abstract Expressionist Figure
Jean Périmony
Jean Périmony: French actor, director and influential drama teacher
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget: Swiss psychologist and founder of genetic epistemology
Jean Piat
Jean Piat (1924–2018) — French stage and screen actor and writer
Jean Plaskie
Jean Porter
Jean Porter (1922–2018)
Jean Racine
Jean Racine: 17th-Century French Tragic Playwright
Jean Redpath
Jean Redpath — Scottish folk singer, teacher, and interpreter of tradition
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys (1890–1979), novelist born in Dominica
Jean Sorel
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski (1920–2019): Swiss literary critic and intellectual historian
Jean Vanier
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–1890)
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Claude Boulard
Jean-Claude Boulard (1943–2018)
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Jean‑Claude Malgoire — French conductor and pioneer of baroque performance
Jean-Claude Pecker
Jean-Claude Pecker: French astronomer, astrophysicist and science communicator
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme: Belgian martial artist and action film star
Jean-François Bazin
Jean-François Beltramini
Jean-François Cesarini
Jean-François Cesarini (1970–2020): French National Assembly deputy for Vaucluse
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse — French Pacific navigator
Jean-François Hory
Jean-François Hory — French politician (1949–2017)