Jacques
Encyclopedia
Jacques ʒak is the French
equivalent of James
.
Jacques is derived from the Late Latin
Iacobus, from the Greek
(Septuagintal Greek ), from the Hebrew
. (See Jacob
.) James is derived from Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus.
As a first name, Jacques is often phonetically converted to English
as Jacob, Jake (from Jacob), or Jack
, but the last is not an accurate translation. (Jack, from Jankin, is strictly a diminutive of John.)
Jacques The Scratcher, a boss from the computer game " Wizard 101"
Jacques Chétoi, the cameo of a street performer in Pennsylvania
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
equivalent of James
James (name)
The name James is derived from the same Hebrew name as Jacob, meaning "Supplanter" ....
.
Jacques is derived from the Late Latin
Late Latin
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the written Latin of Late Antiquity. The English dictionary definition of Late Latin dates this period from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD extending in Spain to the 7th. This somewhat ambiguously defined period fits between Classical Latin and Medieval Latin...
Iacobus, from the Greek
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the universal dialect of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity , developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture of elements especially from Ionic....
(Septuagintal Greek ), from the Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
. (See Jacob
Jacob (name)
Jacob is a common male first name and a less well-known surname. Since 1999 and through 2010, Jacob has been the most popular baby name for newborn boys in United States. It is a cognate of James....
.) James is derived from Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus.
As a first name, Jacques is often phonetically converted to English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as Jacob, Jake (from Jacob), or Jack
Jack (name)
Jack is a male given name, although in very rare cases it can be used as a female given name, and sometimes as a surname.In English it is traditionally used as the diminutive form of the name John, though it is also often given as a proper name in its own right.The name Jack is unique in the...
, but the last is not an accurate translation. (Jack, from Jankin, is strictly a diminutive of John.)
List of people with surname Jacques
- Brian JacquesBrian JacquesJames Brian Jacques was an English author best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.-Biography:Brian Jacques was born...
(1939 - 2011), British author and radio host, known primarily for the Redwall series - Cheryl JacquesCheryl JacquesCheryl Ann Jacques is a United States politician who, beginning in January 2004, served for 11 months as president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, advocacy organization...
(born 1962), American activist - Hattie JacquesHattie JacquesJosephine Edwina Jaques was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques.Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio appearances with Tommy Handley on ITMA and later with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour...
(1922 – 1980), British comedy actress - Jeph JacquesJeph JacquesJeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomic Questionable Content. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music...
(born 1980), American webcomic artist - Kateřina JacquesKaterina JacquesKateřina Jacques is a Czech Green Party politician. She was elected to the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in the June 2006 election, representing the Prague electoral district...
(born 1971), Czech politician - Martin JacquesMartin JacquesMartin Jacques is a British former magazine editor and academic. He was born and raised in Coventry. He was an undergraduate student at Manchester University, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree, and subsequently studied for a PhD at King's College, Cambridge.He was editor of the...
(born 1945), British journalist, former editor of Marxism Today - Richard JacquesRichard JacquesRichard Jacques is a British music composer. He is best known for his video game music, most notably for numerous video games created by Sega.-Early life:...
(born 1973), British composer - Jean-François JacquesJean-Francois JacquesJean-François "J. F." Jacques is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
(born 1985), Canadian professional hockey player
List of people with given name Jacques
- Jacques AbadyJacques Abady-Early life:Born on 2 October 1872, Abady was educated at Manchester Grammar School and the Birkbeck Institute. His first vocation was as an engineer, becoming a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and inventing several scientific instruments....
(1872-1964), British lawyer - Jacques BarzunJacques BarzunJacques Martin Barzun is a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, but is perhaps best known as a philosopher of education, his Teacher in America being a strong influence on post-WWII training of schoolteachers in the United...
(born 1907), French-born American historian - Jacques BrelJacques BrelJacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
(1929 – 1978), Belgian singer and songwriter - Jacques BrinkmanJacques BrinkmanJacques Brinkman is a former Dutch field hockey player, who twice won the golden medal with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
(born 1966), Dutch field hockey player and coach - Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
(1910 – 1997), French underwater explorer - Jacques CartierJacques CartierJacques Cartier was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big...
(1491 – 1557), French explorer - Jacques ChapiroJacques ChapiroJacques Chapiro , a Jewish painter of the School of Paris, was born in Dinaburg, Russian Empire and died in Paris in 1972.-Biography:...
(1887–1972), painter - Jacques ChiracJacques ChiracJacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 , and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the...
(born 1932), French politician - Jacques DelorsJacques DelorsJacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...
(born 1925), French politician - Jacques DerridaJacques DerridaJacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
(1930-2004), Algerian-born French philosopher - Jacques EllulJacques EllulJacques Ellul was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the interaction between Christianity and politics....
(1912 – 1994), French philosopher - Jacques GaillotJacques GaillotThe Most Reverend Dr. Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Monseigneur Gaillot , Titular Bishop of Partenia, is a French Catholic clergyman and social activist. He was from 1982 to 1995 Bishop of Évreux in France...
(born 1935), French social activist and Roman Catholic Bishop - Jacques HanegraafJacques HanegraafJacobus Johannes Henricus Hanegraaf is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1981 to 1994. He twice won the Dutch title in the men's road race . His other major wins include the 1984 Amstel Gold Race...
(born 1960), Dutch cyclist - Jacques IbertJacques IbertJacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
(1880-1962), French composer of classical music - Jacques KallisJacques KallisJacques Henry Kallis is a South African cricketer. As an all-rounder he is a formidable right-handed batsman and fast-medium swingbowler. He is one of the greatest all-rounders of all time, being the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 12,000 runs and 250 wickets in both...
(born 1975), South African cricketer - Jacques La DegaillerieJacques La DegaillerieJacques La Degaillerie is a French fencer. He won a silver medal in the individual épée event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.-References:...
(born 1940), French fencer - Jacques LacanJacques LacanJacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...
(1901-1981), French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst - Jacques LandryJacques LandryJacques Dalma Landry, December 4, 1969 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is a retired professional Canadian cyclist who represented Canada in the 1992 Olympic Games and the 1996 Olympic Games in the individual road race, where he finished 62nd and 88th....
(born 1969), Canadian cyclist - Jacques LoebJacques LoebJacques Loeb was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.-Biography:...
(1859-1924), German-born American physiologist and biologist - Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...
(1748 – 1825), French neo-classical painter - Jacques MarquetteJacques MarquetteFather Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...
(1637 – 1675), French explorer, led first European expedition to the northern Mississippi River - Jacques MassuJacques MassuJacques Émile Massu was a French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez crisis.-Early life:Jacques Massu was born in Châlons-sur-Marne to a family of military officers; his father was an artillery officer...
(1908-2002), French general - Jacques MonodJacques MonodJacques Lucien Monod was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...
(1910–76), French biologist and Nobel Prize recipient - Jacques OchsJacques OchsJacques Ochs , was a Jewish Belgian artist and épée and foil fencer.-Early years, and art study:Ochs was Jewish, and was born in Nice, France. His family moved to Liège, Belgium, in 1893. Ochs studied art there at the Royal Academy of Art in Liège, graduating 1903. He won the Donnay Prize that year...
(1883-1971) , Belgian Olympic champion épée fencer - Jacques ParizeauJacques ParizeauJacques Parizeau, is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.-Early life and career:...
(born 1930), Prime Minister of Québec - Jacques PepinJacques PépinJacques Pépin is an internationally recognized French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States. Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon in France, Pepin was raised by a father and mother who jointly owned a restaurant, where he later credited the start of his love for food. He...
(born 1935), French chef - Jacques PrévertJacques PrévertJacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
(1900–77), French poet and screenwriter - Jacques PucheranJacques PucheranJacques Pucheran was a French zoologist.Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the Astrolabe between 1837 and 1840, under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville, with fellow-naturalists Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot...
(1817–94), French zoologist - Jacques RoggeJacques RoggeJacques Rogge, Count Rogge , is a Belgian sports bureaucrat. He is the eighth and current President of the International Olympic Committee .-Life and career:...
(born 1942), Belgian sports administrator, president of the International Olympic Committee - Jacques RougeauJacques RougeauJacques Rougeau Jr. is a retired French-Canadian professional wrestler from Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s with the World Wrestling Federation under his own name, and as The Mountie. Rougeau has held fifteen championships during his career...
(born 1960), Canadian professional wrestler - Jacques RudolphJacques RudolphJacobus Andries Rudolph , popularly known as Jacques Rudolph, is a South African Test and ODI cricketer currently playing in England with Yorkshire CCC and in South Africa with Titans.He had an unbeaten 222 in his debut Test inning...
(born 1981), South African cricketer - Jacques SyllaJacques SyllaJacques Hugues Sylla was a Malagasy politician. He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar under President Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 until January 2007. He subsequently served as the President of the National Assembly of Madagascar from 2007 until 2009.Sylla was born on the island of...
(born 1946), Malagasy politician, former Prime Minister of Madagascar - Jacques TatiJacques TatiJacques Tati was a French filmmaker, working as a comedic actor, writer and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time...
(1907 – 1982), French filmmaker - Jacques VilleneuveJacques VilleneuveJacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, , is a Canadian musician and automobile racing driver. He is the son of the late Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve, and is the namesake of his uncle...
(born 1971), Canadian racing driver - Jacques YokoJacques YokoJacques Yoko is a retired volleyball player from France, who played for the Men's National Team in the late 1990s.-International Competitions:*1997 – European Championship *2000 – World League...
(born 1972), French volleyball player
Fictional people
- "Frère JacquesFrère Jacques"Frère Jacques" , in English sometimes called "Brother John" or "Brother Peter", is a French nursery melody. The song is traditionally sung in a round. When the first singer reaches the end of the first line the next person starts at the beginning...
", French children's song - Jacques BlancOnimusha 3: Demon SiegeOnimusha 3: Demon Siege, released in Japan and Europe as , is an action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom. It is the third game of the Onimusha series and was released for the PlayStation 2 on April 27, 2004. It was later ported to Windows on December 8, 2005.-Plot:The game opens...
, character from the Onimusha series - Jacques the Cleaner Shrimp, character from Finding NemoFinding NemoFinding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
- Dr. Jacques Von Hämsterviel, character from Lilo & Stitch
- Jacques, boss character from the original Spyro the Dragon (also the level's name, and the name of the music track which plays during the level; however, Stewart CopelandStewart CopelandStewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks...
has referred to the music as "RainThe Stewart Copeland Anthology- Credits :* Recorded, mixed, and engineered by Jeff Seitz* Mastering engineer: Howie Weinberg* Album art and design: Eugenio Brambilla...
". - Jacques Beaupierre, character in the Aaron ElkinsAaron ElkinsAaron Elkins is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'.Education and background:...
novel Skeleton Dance
Jacques The Scratcher, a boss from the computer game " Wizard 101"
Jacques Chétoi, the cameo of a street performer in Pennsylvania