Jean-Pierre Filiu is a French professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs, an orientalist and an arabist.

Jean-Pierre Makouta-Mboukou was a Congolese politician, academic, novelist and playwright. For his abundant and eclectic work his biographers have called him the “Congolese Victor Hugo” and the “baobab of Congolese literature”.

Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes

Jean-Pierre Papon was an 18th-century French abbot, historian of the Provence and of the French Revolution.

Jean-Pierre Richard was a French writer and literary critic.

Jean-Pierre Van Rossem was a Belgian stock market guru, economist, econometrician, convicted fraudster, author, philosopher, public figure, politician, and member of the Belgian and Flemish Parliaments.

Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet was a French politician, playwright and poet. He was also a member of the Académie française and a prominent Freemason.

Jean-Richard Bloch was a French critic, novelist and playwright.

Gerald Gary "Jed" Mercurio is a British television writer, producer, director and novelist. A former hospital doctor and Royal Air Force officer, Mercurio has been ranked among UK television's leading writers. In 2017, Mercurio was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Television Society and the Baird Medal by RTS Midlands.