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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 Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc (November 25, 1766 – November 30, 1832) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born Charles-Baptiste Bouc in Terrebonne, the son of a merchant, and was involved in the trade of grain and f ...

, 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 Co ...

, French critic, journalist, and novelist *

Jean-Baptiste Bagaza Jean-Baptiste Bagaza (29 August 19464 May 2016) was a Burundian army Officer (armed forces), officer and politician who ruled Burundi as President of Burundi, president and ''de facto'' Military dictatorship, military dictator from November 1976 ...

, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) *

Jean-Baptiste Baudry Jean-Baptiste Baudry ( bapt 3 July 1684 – 20 November 1755) was born at Trois-Rivières and was the son of Guillaume Baudry, a gunsmith and goldsmith. Jean-Baptiste pursued his father's craft and, as in his fathers case, was known by variou ...

, 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 18 ...

, 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 Jean-Baptiste Bethune {April 25, 1821 - June 18, 1894) was a Belgian architect, artisan and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement. He was called by some the "''Pugin of Belgium''", with reference ...

, 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 ba ...

, 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 ...

, 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 en ...

, 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 Vietna ...

, 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

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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 Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1759–1809) was the personal valet to King Louis XVI. Biography Before the Revolution First serving as secretary of the Victoire de Rohan, Princess of Guéménée, he was made valet of the dauphin (who would become Louis ...

, (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 Torc ...

, 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 the ...

, French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV *

Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis (August 24, 1814 – August 13, 1889) was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal. His surname was "Couill ...

, farmer, merchant, and political figure in Quebec *

Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de St. Vallier (November 14, 1653 – December 26, 1727) is most known as Quebec's second bishop. Born in the southeastern French city of Grenoble in 1653, to a wealthy land owning family, Saint-Vallier swi ...

, 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 t ...

, 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 Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis ...

, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion *

Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca Jean-Baptiste is a male French language, French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste (name), Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Bapt ...

, 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 Jean-Baptiste Ferré (February 12, 1767 – February 27, 1828) was a miller and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented York in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1815 to 1820. His name also appears as Jean-Baptiste Féré ...

, miller and political figure in Lower Canada *

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ...

, French mathematician and physicist most commonly known for the Fourier Series, law, and transform. *

Jean-Baptiste Forqueray __NOTOC__ Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (3 April 1699 – 28 June 1782), the son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer. Forqueray was born in Paris. He is most famous today for his 1747 publication of twenty-nine pieces fo ...

, 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, French entomologist * Jean-Baptiste Grange, French alpine skier * Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind * Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Guimet, French industrial chemist * Jean Baptiste Guth, Jean-Baptiste Guth, French portrait artist * Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter of religious and mythological subjects * Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist * Jean-Baptiste Janssens, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) *

, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series * Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762–1833), Marshal of France * Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars * Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist * Jean-Baptiste Lamy, 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, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana * Jean-Baptiste Lepère, French architect * Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Belgian composer * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord * Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, 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, Italian-born French composer * Marcellin Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot, French general during the Napoleonic Wars * Jean-Baptiste 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, French fashion photographer and music video director * Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician), French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer * Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer), French composer * Ngo Dinh Diem, Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president * Jean-Baptiste Nolin, French cartographer and engraver * Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer * Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, 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, French sculptor * Jean-Baptiste Pitois, French writer on the occult * Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, 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, 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, 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, French economist and businessman * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter * Jean-Baptiste Singelée, Belgian classical composer and violinist * Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India * Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery officer and engineer * Jean Baptiste Vermay, French-born Cuban artist and educator * Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, 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, MP for Mayotte * :fr:Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, French actor and film director born in Martinique * Marianne Jean-Baptiste, British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage

Fictional persons

* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film ''The Fifth Element'' * Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame Overwatch

Persons

Surnames

Fictional persons

See also