Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint

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, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:

Persons

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, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist *

Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (, 17 December 1733 – 9 September 1806) was a French lawyer and politician. Biography Born in Paris, Target was the son of a lawyer, and was himself a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris. He acquired a great reputation as ...

, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter *

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Life Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the C ...

, French critic, journalist, and novelist *

Jean-Baptiste Bagaza Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 19464 May 2016) was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and ''de facto'' military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987. Born into the Tutsi ethnic group in 1946, Baga ...

, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) * Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith *

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (; 24 June 176713 June 1846) was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories ''Fantasmagoriana'', published anonymously in ...

, French geographer, author and translator *

Jean-Baptiste Bessières Jean-Baptiste Bessières (; 6 August 1768 – 1 May 1813), 1st Duke of Istria (''Duc d'Istrie''), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. His younge ...

, duke of Istria (1768–1813), was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era * Jean-Baptiste Bethune, Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement *

Jean-Baptiste Billot Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828, Chaumeil, Corrèze – 31 May 1907, Paris) was a French general and politician. Life Jean-Baptiste Billot entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1847, and on leaving it in 1849 joined the st ...

, French general and politician *

Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (; ; 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early b ...

, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician *

Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, (19 January 1668 – 1719) was a Canadian soldier, explorer, and friend to the Miami Nation. He spent a number of years at the end of his life as an agent of New France among the Miami. Vincennes was ...

, Canadian career man with the colonial regular troops, son of François Byssot de la Rivière * Jean-Baptiste Boissière, French lexicographer *

Jean-Baptiste Boisot Jean-Baptiste Boisot (July 1638 – 4 December 1694) was a French Benedictine Abbot, bibliophile, and scholar. He founded the first French museum on his death in 1694 when he bequeathed his personal collection of artwork and manuscripts to the Be ...

, French scholar and abbott * Jean-Baptiste Bottex, Haitian painter *

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Biography Jean-Baptiste Boussingault – an agric ...

, French chemist *

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast o ...

, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching *

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III. Life Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux ...

, French sculptor and painter *

Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau (1769–1832) was a French Navy sailor and an adventurer who played an important role in Vietnam in the 19th century. He served the Nguyễn dynasty from 1794 to 1819, and 1821 to 1826,Tran, p. 206. and took the Vietnam ...

, French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in the Vietnam War *

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was a Native American-French Canadian explorer, guide, fur trapper, trader, military scout during the Mexican–American War, ''alcalde'' (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Franc ...

, son of

Sacagawea Sacagawea ( or ; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May – December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884).e., present-day Gibbons Pass A week later, on July 13, Sacagawea advised Clark to cross into the Yellowstone River basin at what is now known a ...

and her French-Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau *

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...

, French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist * Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics * Jean-Baptiste Clamence, Fictional character from Albert Camus's ''The Fall'' *

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763–1850) was a French silversmith working in the neoclassical style. Business ''Maison Odiot'', in English "House of Odiot", was established in 1690, during the reign of Louis XIV by Jean-Baptiste Gaspard Odiot, ...

, French silversmith working in a neoclassical style * Jean-Baptiste Cléry, (1759–1809), the personal valet to King Louis XVI *

Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the countr ...

, French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV *

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November 1651 – 3 November 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Tor ...

, French politician *

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably th ...

, French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV * Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis, farmer, merchant, and political figure in Quebec * Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop by Louis XIV *

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Jean-Baptiste de La Salle () (; 30 April 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for te ...

, French priest, educational reformer, and saint in the Roman Catholic Church *

Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore (4 August 1756 – 3 July 1834) was a French admiral and politician. He was born in Roanne, Loire. Entering the French royal navy in 1774, he fought through the war in America and resigned ...

, 1st Duc de Cadore, French admiral and politician * Jean-Baptiste de Voglie, eminent Italian road and bridge engineer * Jean-Baptiste Denys, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion * Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca, medical doctor who advocated the cause of the French Revolution *

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807, was a French nobleman and general whose army played the decisive role in helping the United States defeat the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the ...

* Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, French blackfriar and botanist *

Jean-Baptiste Dumas Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 180010 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring v ...

, French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis * Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, French physician who first described narcolepsy * Jean-Baptiste Ferré, miller and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist most commonly known for the Fourier Series, law, and transform. * Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, son of Antoine Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer * Jean-Baptiste François des Marets, marquis de Maillebois, Marshal of France * Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue) (1765–1850), Swiss Franciscan educator * Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier) (1775–1815), French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars * (1680–1733), a priest tried for witchcraft, abuse, and corruption of Catherine Cadière * Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor * Jean-Baptiste Guégan, French singer *

Jean-Baptiste Godart Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist. Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on the ...

, French entomologist *

Jean-Baptiste Grange Jean-Baptiste Grange (born 10 October 1984) is a French retired World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed primarily in slalom and earlier also in giant slalom and combined. Born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Grange grew up in Valloire, ...

, French alpine skier * Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind *

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Biography Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed ...

, French painter *

Jean-Baptiste Guimet Jean-Baptiste Guimet (20 July 17958 April 1871), French industrial chemist, and inventor of synthetic colors, was born at Voiron, Isère. He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Sal ...

, French industrial chemist * Jean-Baptiste Guth, French portrait artist * Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter of religious and mythological subjects *

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in ...

, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist * Jean-Baptiste Janssens, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) * Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series *

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon I in ...

(1762–1833), Marshal of France *

Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean-Baptiste Kléber () (9 March 1753 – 14 June 1800) was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he entered Habsburg service seven years later. However, his plebeian ancestr ...

, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars *

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolog ...

, French naturalist *

Jean-Baptiste Lamy Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 – February 13, 1888), was a French-American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel '' Death Comes for the Archbishop'' is based on his lif ...

, French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America * Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet based in Saint Petersburg, Russia *

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four ...

, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana *

Jean-Baptiste Lepère Jean-Baptiste Lepère (December 1, 1761 – July 16, 1844) was a French architect, father-in-law of the architect Jacques Hittorff. He was the designer of the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, largely revised by Hittorf during its protra ...

, French architect * Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Belgian composer *

Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (18 November 1680 – 19 July 1730), was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord. He is called the London Loeillet to distinguish him from another famous ...

, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord *

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin (1650-c.1712) was a French trader who was appointed in the early 1670s as the first cartographer in '' Nouvelle France'' (Canada) by the colony's governor. He was appointed in 1688 as royal hydrographer by Louis XIV. ...

, cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation * Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert" *

Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...

, Italian-born French composer * Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot, French general during the Napoleonic Wars *

Jean-Baptiste Maunier Jean-Baptiste Maunier (, born 22 December 1990) is a French actor and singer. He is best known for his role in the 2004 French film '' Les Choristes''. Early life Jean-Baptiste Maunier was born to Thierry Maunier, a cameraman, and Muriel Maunier ...

(born 1990), French child actor * Jean-Baptiste Massillon, French churchman and preacher * Jean-Baptiste Meilleur, doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Michonis, personality of the French Revolution *

Jean-Baptiste Mondino Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Axel Bauer and Les Rita M ...

, French fashion photographer and music video director *

Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician) Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583 – November 6, 1656), also known by the Latinized name as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Life and work Born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Beaujolais, he began stu ...

, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer * Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer), French composer * Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president * Jean-Baptiste Nolin, French cartographer and engraver *

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

, French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer *

Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo Jean-Baptiste Philippe Ouédraogo (; born 30 June 1942), also referred to by his initials JBO, is a Burkinabé physician and retired military officer who served as President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 198 ...

, President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983 * Jean-Baptiste Pastré (1804-1877), a French banker and arms-dealer. * Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet, French rugby union player *

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785) was a French sculptor. Life Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the ''Prix de Rome'', after a severe struggle he entered the '' A ...

, French sculptor *

Jean-Baptiste Pitois Jean-Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean-Baptiste or Paul Christian (1811–1877), was a French author, known for ''The History and Practice of Magic'', first published in France in 1870. Early life Jean-Baptiste Pitois was born May 15, 1811, in ...

, French writer on the occult *

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled ''Point de Sable'', ''Point au Sable'', ''Point Sable'', ''Pointe DuSable'', ''Pointe du Sable''; before 1750 – 28 August 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would ...

, first settler in Chicago * Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 1673), known by his stage name Molière, Classical French playwright, actor and stage manager * Jean-Baptiste Raymond, seigneur, businessman, and political figure in Lower Canada *

Jean-Baptiste Régis Jean-Baptiste Régis (11 June 1663 or 29 January 1664 – 24 November 1738) was a French Jesuit missionary in imperial China. Biography and works He was born at Istres, in Provence, on 11 June 1663, or 29 January 1664; died in Beijing on 24 Nove ...

, French Jesuit missionary in imperial China * Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Renaud, prominent businessman, merchant, and land owner in Quebec * Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada * Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet, French politician of the Revolutionary period * Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet *

Jean-Baptiste Salpointe Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (February 22, 1825 – July 15, 1898) was the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe. Early life and education Salpointe was born in Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat, Puy-de-Dôme, to Jean and Jeanne ( ...

, first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico * Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French a man of letters and poet *

Jean-Baptiste Say Jean-Baptiste Say (; 5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for Say's law—also known as the law of ...

, French economist and businessman * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Belgian classical composer and violinist *

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia ...

, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India *

Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (15 September 1715 – 9 May 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionised the French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed for lighter, more uniform g ...

, French artillery officer and engineer * Jean Baptiste Vermay, French-born Cuban artist and educator *

Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (7 October 1798 – 19 March 1875) was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards. His workshop made over 3,000 instruments. Early life Vuillaume was born in Mirecourt, where his father and gra ...

, French luthier * Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803-1886), former chief of the Métis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota * Jean-Pierre-André Amar, also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution * Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin, merchant and political figure in Quebec * P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver * Phạm Minh Mẫn, short for Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn), Catholic cardinal priest and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City

Surnames

* Henry Jean-Baptiste, French politician born in

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island and an Overseas department and region, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of ...

, MP for

Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is ...

Lucien Jean-Baptiste Lucien Jean-Baptiste (born 6 May 1964) is a French actor, writer and director.Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island and an Overseas department and region, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film '' Secrets & Lies'', for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Sup ...

, British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage

Fictional persons

* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film ''

The Fifth Element ''The Fifth Element'' is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Milla Jov ...

'' * Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame Overwatch

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