Jean Ping, the son of a Chinese trader and a black Gabonese mother, became the Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Foreign minister of Gabon and is currently the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union in 2009.

On 1 February 2008, Jean Ping of Gabon was elected to succeed him ; Ping officially succeeded Konaré as Chairperson of the Commission on 28 April 2008.

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* Jean Ping ( born 1942 ), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union

* Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is Chairman of the Commission, replacing Jean Ping in July 2012.

Deputy commander of Swedish forces, General Jean Louis Bousquet, signed surrender document on 24 August.

She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, serving most recently as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

The party's President is Alex Bodry, a deputy and the Mayor of Dudelange, but the leading member in the government is Jean Asselborn, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Tory leader Jean Charest suggested that if their party won power, MacKenzie would become Deputy Prime Minister.

On October 12, 1999, Hays was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

He supported Deputy Prime Minister John Manley to succeed the retiring Jean Chrétien.

Among the other Canadian notables to have received the Award of Merit of B ' nai Brith Canada are Lindsay Gordon, Blake Goldring, Frank Stronach, Tony Comper, Al Waxman, Wallace McCain, Lloyd Axworthy, Mayor Jean Drapeau, George Cohon, Leo Kolber, former Liberal Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, hockey legend Jean Béliveau, Paul Tellier, former Ontario Premier Bill Davis, Ambassador Allan Gotlieb, Monty Hall, Surjit Babra and Walter Arbib, Izzy Asper, Guy Charbonneau, former Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon, former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Herb Gray, former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, Edward Samuel " Ted " Rogers, former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, and Calin Rovinescu.

** Jean Asselborn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration

Re-elected in the renamed riding of Saint-Laurent — Cartierville during the 1993 election that brought the Liberals to power under Jean Chrétien, she served as Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole from January 1994 to February 1996, with one of her roles being assistant deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.

Premier Gary Doer and Deputy Premier Jean Friesen attended the ceremony and were joined by students from Winnipeg schools.

In episodic TV: Erica Taylor in The Sweeney, Griselda Clement in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, Pamela Drake in Boon, Sylvie Maxton in Inspector Morse, Lady Frances Carfax in the The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Aline Bauche in Maigret, Emily Coxon in Bramwell, Louise McAllister in Wing and a Prayer, Diana Grey in A Touch of Frost, Sandra MacKillop in Midsomer Murders, Emily Gascoigne in Foyle's War ( in the episode entitled A Lesson in Murder ), Maureen Hunt in Waking the Dead, Deputy PM in Spooks, Jean Swainbank in Dalziel and Pascoe, Valli Helm in Lewis, Ocean Waters in The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Vault of Secrets.

Following their research and deliberations, the first Victoria Cross decoration was struck in 2007, as confirmed by Deputy Herald Chancellor Emmanuelle Sajous, and the medal was officially released to the public on 16 May 2008 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean at Rideau Hall.

She served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development in the government of prime minister Jean Chrétien from January 13 until December 11, 2003, and as Deputy Government Whip under Chrétien's successor Paul Martin from February 2, 2004, until she left office.

* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Although not participating at all in the opening days of the invasion, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien announced on October 7 that Canada would contribute forces to the international force being formed to conduct a campaign against terrorism.

Many major Scottish post-war novelists, such as Muriel Spark, with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ) spent much or most of their lives outside Scotland, but often dealt with Scottish themes.

* 1934 – Jean Chrétien, Canadian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada

* Officier de la Légion d ' Honneur, given by Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin in June 2004.

In 1997, Prime Minister Alain Juppé initiated the Mattéoli Commission, headed by Jean Mattéoli, to investigate the matter and according to the government, the Louvre is in charge of 678 pieces of still unclaimed artworks by their rightful owners.

Jean Asselborn ( LSAP ) was appointed as the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.

St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.

* 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

Members of Pearson's cabinet, including Trudeau on the far left, with future Prime Ministers John Turner and Jean Chrétien

Its turf-cutting ceremony was carried out on 18 February 2002 by the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, and it was officially opened on 29 April 2005.

Bennett was ranked # 12 by a survey of Canadian historians out of the then 20 Prime Ministers of Canada through Jean Chrétien.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and U. S. authorities ordered the United States Air Force to surround the plane and force it to land in Whitehorse, Canada and to shoot down the plane if the pilots did not cooperate.

" Canadian television covers a memorial service on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, which Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, and U. S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci presided over, and more than 100, 000 people attended.

* November 27 – Jean Chrétien is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party of Canada increases its majority in the House of Commons of Canada.

* Paul Martin replaces Jean Chrétien as Prime Minister of Canada in 2003 by becoming the new leader of the Liberal Party.

** Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party, to be succeeded by Jean Charest.

** Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician and former Prime Minister

** Jean Van Houtte, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister ( b. 1907 )

* January 11 – Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada

The 1997 – 2000 term was marked by the Bloc's fight against the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien ( himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding ) and Stéphane Dion, a Quebec minister in Chrétien's cabinet, to codify the Supreme Court of Canada's 1998 decision that Quebec could not secede unilaterally.