Jacques Séraphin Marie Audiberti was a French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.

Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parliament of Paris.

Jacques Aumont is a French academic and writer on film theory.

Jacques Pierre Bainville was a French historian and journalist. A geopolitical theorist, concerned by Franco-German relations, he was a leading figure in the monarchist Action Française. As fascinated as he was worried by Germany which continuously grew stronger, he intensely advocated against democracy, the French Revolution, internationalism and liberalism. A plaza is named after him at the heart of the 7th arrondissement of Paris.

Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.

Jacques Basnage De Beauval was a celebrated French Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote a History of the Reformed Churches and on Jewish Antiquities.

Jacques Bergier was a chemical engineer, member of the French-resistance, spy, journalist and writer. He co-wrote the best-seller The Morning of the Magicians with Louis Pauwels as a work of "fantastic realism".

Jacques Augustin Berque was a French scholar of Islam and sociologist of the Collège de France. His expertise was the decolonisation of Algeria and Morocco.

Jacques Bertillon was a French statistician and demographer.

Jacques Bidet is a French philosopher and social theorist who is currently professor emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre.