Jean-Baptiste Clément was a French chansonnier, journalist, socialist activist and communard. He is mostly known for his work Le Temps des cerises, which is strongly associated with the Paris Commune.

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great.

Jean-Baptiste Garcia, known by the pen name Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, is a French writer. He was born in Toulouse.

Jean-Baptiste Dubos, also referred to as l'Abbé Du Bos, was a French author. He was also a diplomat and an art critic.

Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle was a Saint Dominican writer of French literature and translator. He was made a member of the "Corps législatif" in 1802 and was admitted into the Académie française in 1804.

Jean-Baptiste Louis Crévier (1693–1765) was a French author. He was born in Paris, where his father was a printer.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray was a French novelist, playwright and journalist.

Jean-Baptiste Pérès (1752–1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum, a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted "in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative tendencies of the rationalistic criticism of the Scriptures then in vogue" through humorously suggesting ways in which the history of Napoleon Bonaparte could be shown to be an expression of an ancient sun myth.

Jean-Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean-Baptiste or Paul Christian (1811–1877), was a French author, known for The History and Practice of Magic, first published in France in 1870.

Jean-Baptiste Robinet, also known as Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet, was a French naturalist, known for his five-volume work De la nature (1761-8). He was also involved in the sequel publications to the Encyclopédie, took on Diderot's editorial role, and was a translator of numerous works to the French language.