Jean
Encyclopedia
Jean may refer to:
  • Jeans
    Jeans
    Jeans are trousers made from denim. Some of the earliest American blue jeans were made by Jacob Davis, Calvin Rogers, and Levi Strauss in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers. Historic brands include Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler...

    , pants, trousers or high waist overalls made from denim


People
  • 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...

    , pronounced ʒɑ̃, is the French form of John
    John (given name)
    John is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Latin Ioannes, Iohannes, which is in turn a form of the Greek , Iōánnēs. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew name , , which means "God is generous"...

  • Jean (female given name)
    Jean (female given name)
    Jean is a common female given name in English-speaking countries. It is the Scottish form of Jane . It is sometimes spelt Jeaine...

    , pronounced ˈdʒiːn and sometimes ˈdʒeɪn, is the Scottish form of Jane
    Jane
    -Music:* Jane * Jane *Jane , an album by Jane McDonald* "Jane" * "Jane", a song by Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner...


Famous people with last name Jean
  • Michaëlle Jean
    Michaëlle Jean
    Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation, from 2005 to 2010....

     (born 1957), 27th Governor General of Canada
  • Wyclef Jean
    Wyclef Jean
    Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country...

     (born 1972), an American musician, music producer, and actor


Music and stage
  • Jean Valjean
    Jean Valjean
    Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables...

    , a fictional character in the 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables, numerous film adaptations of the novel, and the 1980 stage musical based on the novel
  • Jean, a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch
    Marvin Hamlisch
    Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He is one of only thirteen people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony . He is also one of only two people to EGOT and also win a Pulitzer Prize...

  • Jean
    Jean (song)
    "Jean" is the title of a popular song from 1969 . It was written by the American poet and composer Rod McKuen, who also recorded a version of the song....

    , a 1969 song by Rod McKuen


Places
  • Jean, Nevada
    Jean, Nevada
    Jean is a small commercial town in Clark County, Nevada, located approximately north of the Nevada-California state line along Interstate 15. Las Vegas is located about to the north...

    , a town in Clark County, Nevada, in the United States
  • "Jean," the fictional planet providing the setting for the majority of the Freefall webcomic


Other
  • USS Jean (ID-1308)
    USS Jean (ID-1308)
    USS Jean was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919.-Construction and service, 1909-1918:Jean was built as the depot collier SS Jean in 1909 at Newport News, Virginia, by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company...

    , a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
  • JEAN (programming language), a dialect of JOSS that ran on ICL's 1900 series mainframe computers and provided an interactive command language for the MINIMOP timesharing system

See also

  • Gene (disambiguation)
    Gene (disambiguation)
    A gene is a unit of heredity in living organisms.Gene may also refer to:* Gene , common form of the given name Eugene* Gene , a novel by Stel Pavlou* Gene , a scientific journal...

  • Jeanne (disambiguation)
  • Alternate forms for the name John
    Alternate forms for the name John
    Other language forms for the name John:* Džons * Džonas * Eoin * Evan * Gianina Irish* Gino, * Giovanni, Gianni * Gjon or Gjin * Hans * Honza...

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