Lejeune
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Lejeune, LeJeune or Le Jeune is a surname, and may refer to:
- C. A. LejeuneC. A. LejeuneCaroline Alice Lejeune was a British writer, best known as the film critic of The Observer from 1928 to 1960.-Family:...
(1897-1973), British writer - Claude Le JeuneClaude Le JeuneClaude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century...
(1528/1530-1600), French composer - Iry LeJeuneIry LeJeuneIry LeJeune was one of the best selling and most popular Cajun musicians in the mid to late 1940s into the early 1950s....
(1928-1955), American musician - Jean LejeuneJean LejeuneJean Lejeune was a French Oratorian priest, known as a preacher. Blindness overtook him at the age or thirty-five, and he was known as "The Blind Father".-Life:...
(1592-1672), French priest - Jean-Denis LejeuneJean-Denis LejeuneJean-Denis Lejeune is the father of Julie Lejeune, abducted along with Mélissa Russo in Belgium on June 24, 1995, and imprisoned in Marc Dutroux's cellar. She was 8 years old at the time. She died, probably of starvation, some time between December 6, 1995 and March 20, 1996...
- Jérôme LejeuneJérôme LejeuneServant of God Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French Catholic pro-life paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities...
(1926-1994), French geneticist - John A. LejeuneJohn A. LejeuneLieutenant General John Archer Lejeune, was the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Known as the "greatest of all Leathernecks" and the "Marine's Marine", he served for nearly 40 years. His service included commanding the U.S...
(1867-1942), 13th commandant of the United States Marine Corps - Kevin LejeuneKevin LejeuneKevin Lejeune is a French footballer. He currently plays for Tours as a Winger.-Career:Lejeune began his career in 1998 with Toulouse Fontaines Club before moving to Auxerre in July 2000, making his league debut six years later on 19 November 2006 during a 1–0 win over Toulouse...
(* 1985), French soccer player - Lisanne Lejeune (* 1963), Dutch hockey player
- Louis LejeuneLouis LejeuneLouis Lejeune Ltd. is a small bronze foundry in England, producing mainly small ornamental bronzes, decorative architectural fittings, and car mascots...
- Louis-François, Baron LejeuneLouis-François, Baron LejeuneLouis-François, Baron Lejeune was a French general, painter, and lithographer. His memoirs have frequently been republished and his name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe.-Life:...
(1775-1848), French general and painter - Norman LeJeuneNorman LeJeuneNorman LeJeune, Jr. is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
(* 1980), American football player - Olivier Le JeuneOlivier Le JeuneOlivier Le Jeune was the first recorded slave purchased in New France.Olivier was a young boy from Madagascar, believed to have been less than eight years of age when he was brought to the outpost of Quebec in New France, by British commander David Kirke when he captured the colony in 1629...
- Paul Le JeunePaul Le JeunePaul Le Jeune was a French Jesuit missionary in French Canada.-Biography:Le Jeune was born in Vitry-le-François in the region of Champagne, France in 1591...
(1591-1664), French jesuit missionary in Canada - Paul Lejeune-JungPaul Lejeune-JungPaul Adolf Franz Lejeune-Jung, was a German economist, politician, syndic in the pulp industry, and resistance fighter against Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.-Early life:Lejeune-Jung's roots were in an old Huguenot family in Berlin...
(1882-1944), German economist and politician - Stanislas Baron Lejeune (1945-1998), French nobleman
See also
- Marine Corps Base Camp LejeuneMarine Corps Base Camp LejeuneMarine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a United States military training facility in North Carolina. The base's of beaches make it a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports allows for fast deployments.The main base is supplemented by five satellite...
- Lejeune High SchoolLejeune High SchoolLejeune High School is a high school located on the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune near Jacksonville, North Carolina. The school is operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity of the United States Department of Defense...
- LeJeune Road
- USS Lejeune (AP-74)