# Jean-Baptiste

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'''Jean-Baptiste''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ batist|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-Jean-Baptiste.wav}}) is a male [French](/source/French_language) name, originating with Saint [John the Baptist](/source/John_the_Baptist), and sometimes shortened to [Baptiste](/source/Baptiste_(name)). The name may refer to any of the following:

== Persons ==
* [Charles XIV John of Sweden](/source/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden), born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway
* [Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc](/source/Charles-Jean-Baptiste_Bouc), businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
* [Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève](/source/Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph_N%C3%A8ve), orientalist and philologist
* [Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target](/source/Gui-Jean-Baptiste_Target), French lawyer and politician
* [Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray](/source/Hippolyte_Jean-Baptiste_Garneray), French painter
* [Jean Baptiste (grave robber)](/source/Jean_Baptiste_(grave_robber)) – A 19th-century gravedigger in Utah, United States, notorious for robbing hundreds of graves, leading to his exile and mysterious disappearance.
* [Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr), French critic, journalist, and novelist
* [Jean-Baptiste Bagaza](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bagaza), chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987)
* [Jean-Baptiste Baudry](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Baudry), son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith
* [Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Beno%C3%AEt_Eyri%C3%A8s), French geographer, author and translator
* [Jean-Baptiste Bessières](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bessi%C3%A8res), duke of Istria (1768–1813), [Marshal of the Empire](/source/Marshal_of_the_Empire)
* [Jean-Baptiste Bethune](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bethune), Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement
* [Jean-Baptiste Billot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Billot), French general and politician
* [Jean-Baptiste Biot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Biot), French physicist, astronomer and mathematician
* [Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Bissot%2C_Sieur_de_Vincennes), Canadian career man with the colonial regular troops, son of François Byssot de la Rivière
* [Jean-Baptiste Boisot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Boisot), French scholar and abbott
* [Jean-Baptiste Boissière](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Boissi%C3%A8re), French lexicographer
* [Jean-Baptiste Bottex](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bottex), Haitian painter
* [Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Bouillaud), French physician
* [Jean-Baptiste Boussingault](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Boussingault), French chemist
* [Jean-Baptiste Bréval](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Br%C3%A9val), French cellist and composer
* [Jean Baptiste Brevelle](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Brevelle), French trader, explorer and soldier of [French Louisiana](/source/French_Louisiana) colony
* [Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot), French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
* [Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux), French sculptor and painter
* [Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Chaigneau), French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in the Vietnam War
* [Jean Baptiste Charbonneau](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Charbonneau), son of [Sacagawea](/source/Sacagawea) and her French-Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau
* [Jean-Baptiste Charcot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Charcot), French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist
* [Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph_B%C3%A9langer), French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics
* [Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Claude_Odiot), French silversmith working in a neoclassical style
* [Jean-Baptiste Cléry](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Cl%C3%A9ry), (1759–1809), the personal valet to King Louis XVI
* [Jean-Baptiste Colbert](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert), French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV
* [Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert%2C_Marquis_de_Seignelay), French politician
* [Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert%2C_Marquess_of_Torcy), French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV
* [Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Couillard_Dupuis), farmer, merchant, and political figure in Quebec
* [Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier](/source/Jean-Baptiste_de_La_Croix_de_Chevri%C3%A8res_de_Saint-Vallier), appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop by Louis XIV
* [Jean-Baptiste de La Salle](/source/Jean-Baptiste_de_La_Salle), French priest, educational reformer, and saint in the Roman Catholic Church
* [Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny](/source/Jean-Baptiste_de_Nomp%C3%A8re_de_Champagny), 1st Duc de Cadore, French admiral and politician
* [Jean-Baptiste de Voglie](/source/Jean-Baptiste_de_Voglie), eminent Italian road and bridge engineer
* [Jean-Baptiste Denys](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Denys), French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion
* [Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Dominique_Rusca), medical doctor who advocated the cause of the French Revolution
* [Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur%2C_comte_de_Rochambeau)
* [Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Du_Tertre), French blackfriar and botanist
* [Jean-Baptiste Dumas](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Dumas), French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis
* [Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau](/source/Jean-Baptiste-%C3%89douard_G%C3%A9lineau), French physician who first described narcolepsy
* [Jean-Baptiste Faure](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Faure), French operatic baritone and art collector who also composed several classical songs
* [Jean-Baptiste Ferré](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Ferr%C3%A9), miller and political figure in Lower Canada
* [Jean-Baptiste Forqueray](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Forqueray), son of Antoine Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer
* [Jean-Baptiste François des Marets, marquis de Maillebois](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Fran%C3%A7ois_des_Marets%2C_marquis_de_Maillebois), Marshal of France
* [Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue)](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Girard_(pedagogue)) (1765–1850), Swiss Franciscan educator
* [Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier)](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Girard_(soldier)) (1775–1815), French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars
* {{ill|Jean-Baptiste Girard (priest)|fr|Jean-Baptiste_Girard_(j%C3%A9suite)}} (1680–1733), a priest tried for witchcraft, abuse, and corruption of Catherine Cadière
* [Jean-Baptiste Giraud](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Giraud), French sculptor
* [Jean-Baptiste Guégan](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Gu%C3%A9gan), French singer
* [Jean-Baptiste Godart](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Godart), French entomologist
* [Jean-Baptiste Grange](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Grange), French alpine skier
* [Jean-Baptiste Grenouille](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Grenouille), protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind
* [Jean-Baptiste Greuze](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze), French painter
* [Jean-Baptiste Guimet](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Guimet), French industrial chemist
* [Jean-Baptiste Guth](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Guth), French portrait artist 
* [Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Henri_Deshays), French painter of religious and mythological subjects
* [Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Henri_Lacordaire), French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist
* [Jean-Baptiste Janssens](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Janssens), twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
* [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Joseph_Fourier), French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series
* [Jean-Baptiste Jourdan](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Jourdan) (1762–1833), Marshal of France
* [Jean-Baptiste Kléber](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Kl%C3%A9ber), French general during the French Revolutionary Wars
* [Jean-Baptiste Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), French naturalist
* [Jean-Baptiste Lamy](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamy), French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
* [Jean-Baptiste Landé](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Land%C3%A9) (died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet based in Saint Petersburg, Russia
* [Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Le_Moyne%2C_Sieur_de_Bienville), colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana
* [Jean-Baptiste Lepère](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lep%C3%A8re), French architect
* [Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Loeillet_of_Ghent), Belgian composer
* [Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Loeillet_of_London), Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord
* [Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Louis_Franquelin), cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation
* [Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Louis_Gresset), French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert"
* [Jean-Baptiste Lully](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lully), Italian-born French composer
* [Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot](/source/Marcellin_Marbot), French general during the Napoleonic Wars
* [Jean-Baptiste Maunier](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Maunier) (born 1990), French child actor
* [Jean-Baptiste Massillon](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Massillon), French churchman and preacher
* [Jean-Baptiste Meilleur](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Meilleur), doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada
* [Jean-Baptiste Michonis](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Michonis), personality of the French Revolution
* [Jean-Baptiste Mondino](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Mondino), French fashion photographer and music video director
* [Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician)](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Morin_(mathematician)), French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer
* [Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Morin_(composer)), French composer
* [Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh Diem](/source/Ngo_Dinh_Diem), South Vietnamese president
* [Jean-Baptiste Nolin](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Nolin), French cartographer and engraver
* [Jean-Baptiste Oudry](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Oudry), French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer
* [Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Ou%C3%A9draogo), President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983
* [Jean-Baptiste Pastré](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Pastr%C3%A9) (1804-1877), a French banker and arms-dealer.
* [Jean Baptiste Paul](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Paul) (1896-1966), Canadian First Nations wrestler
* [Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Peyras-Loustalet), French rugby union player
* [Jean-Baptiste Pigalle](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Pigalle), French sculptor
* [Jean-Baptiste Pitois](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Pitois), French writer on the occult
* [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Point_du_Sable), first settler in Chicago
* [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Poquelin) (1622–1673), known by his stage name Molière, Classical French playwright, actor and stage manager
* [Jean-Baptiste Raymond](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Raymond), seigneur, businessman, and political figure in Lower Canada
* [Jean-Baptiste Régis](/source/Jean-Baptiste_R%C3%A9gis), French Jesuit missionary in imperial China
* [Jean-Baptiste Regnault](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Regnault), French painter
* [Jean-Baptiste Renaud](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Renaud), prominent businessman, merchant, and land owner in Quebec
* [Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Ren%C3%A9_Hertel_de_Rouville), seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
* [Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Robert_Lindet), French politician of the Revolutionary period
* [Jean-Baptiste Rousseau](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Rousseau), French poet
* [Jean-Baptiste Salpointe](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Salpointe), first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
* [Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Sanson_de_Pongerville), French man of letters and poet
* [Jean-Baptiste Senaillé](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Senaill%C3%A9), French-born Baroque composer and violinist
* [Jean-Baptiste Say](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Say), French economist and businessman
* [Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin](/source/Jean-Baptiste-Sim%C3%A9on_Chardin), French painter
* [Jean-Baptiste Singelée](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Singel%C3%A9e), Belgian classical composer and violinist
* [Jean-Baptiste Tavernier](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Tavernier), French traveler and pioneer of trade with India
* [Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Vaquette_de_Gribeauval), French artillery officer and engineer
* [Jean Baptiste Vermay](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Vermay), French-born Cuban artist and educator
* [Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Vuillaume), French luthier
* [Jean Baptiste Wilkie](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Wilkie) (1803-1886), former chief of the Métis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota
* [Jean-Pierre-André Amar](/source/Jean-Pierre-Andr%C3%A9_Amar), also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution
* [Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin](/source/Joseph-Jean-Baptiste_Gosselin), merchant and political figure in Quebec
* [P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel](/source/P._Jean-Baptiste_Bradel), French draughtsman and engraver
* [Phạm Minh Mẫn](/source/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Minh_M%E1%BA%ABn), 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](/source/Henry_Jean-Baptiste), French politician born in [Martinique](/source/Martinique), MP for [Mayotte](/source/Mayotte)
* [Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste](/source/Jeremiah_Jean-Baptiste) (born 2001), American football player
* [Lucien Jean-Baptiste](/source/Lucien_Jean-Baptiste), French actor and film director born in [Martinique](/source/Martinique)
* [Marianne Jean-Baptiste](/source/Marianne_Jean-Baptiste), British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage

=== Fictional persons ===
* [Jean-Baptiste Clamence](/source/The_Fall_(Camus_novel)), Fictional character from Albert Camus's ''The Fall''
* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film ''[The Fifth Element](/source/The_Fifth_Element)''
* Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame [Overwatch](/source/Overwatch)

== See also ==
* [Baptiste (disambiguation)](/source/Baptiste_(disambiguation))
* [Batiste (disambiguation)](/source/Batiste_(disambiguation))
* [João Batista (disambiguation)](/source/Jo%C3%A3o_Batista_(disambiguation))
* [Juan Bautista (disambiguation)](/source/Juan_Bautista_(disambiguation))
* [Saint-Jean-Baptiste (disambiguation)](/source/Saint-Jean-Baptiste_(disambiguation))

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Category:Masculine given names

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