Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

62247 persons found

Jérôme Bonaparte

b. 1784

King of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813

Jerome Brown

American football player (1965–1992)

Jerome Bruner

American psychologist and scholar (1915–2016)

Jerome Callet

b. 1930

American musical artist (1930–2019)

Jerome Corsi

b. 1946

American conservative author (born 1946)

Jerome Emser

German theologian and antagonist of Martin Luther (1477–1527)

Jerome F. Donovan

American politician (1872–1949)

Jerome Ford

b. 1999

American football player (born 1999)

Jerome H. Lemelson

b. 1923

American engineer and inventor (1923–1997)

Jerome K. Jerome

b. 1859

English writer and humorist (1859–1927)

Jerome Karle

American physical chemist (1918–2013)

Jerome Kern

American composer (1885–1945)

Jerome Kersey

b. 1962

American basketball player (1962–2015)

Jérôme Lejeune

b. 1926

French pediatrician and geneticist (1926–1994)

Jérôme Louis Heldring

Dutch journalist (1917–2013)

Jerome of Prague

14/15th-century Czech reformist theologian and scholastic philosopher

Jerome Robbins

American choreographer and director (1918–1998)

Jérôme Romain

b. 1971

Jerome Taylor

b. 1984

Jamaican cricketer (born 1984)

Jerónima de la Asunción

b. 1555

Spanish nun and Servant of God

Jerónimo Osório

18th-century Portuguese prelate and historian (1506–1580)

Jerónimo Zurita y Castro

Spanish historian

Jerri Nielsen

American ER physician (1952–2009)

Jerrika Hinton

b. 1981

American actress