Jette (name)

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Jette or Jetté is a French surname and Scandinavian feminine given name. It may refer to:

As a surname[edit]

  • Alphonse Jetté (1887–1944), Canadian hockey player with the Montreal Canadiens
  • Cameron Jette (born 1987), male Canadian cyclo-cross cyclist
  • Julius Jetté, Canadian Jesuit missionary priest and ethnographer of the Koyukon (Ten'a) people of interior Alaska
  • Louis-Amable Jetté (1836–1920), Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, professor and eighth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
  • Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté or Cadron Jetté (1794–1864), Canadian Catholic nun and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Misericorde, declared "Venerable" by Pope Francis in 2013
  • Michel Jetté (fl. 1979–present), Canadian/Québécois director, screenwriter, producer and editor

As a given name[edit]

See also[edit]

  • Jette, municipality in Belgium
  • Jette railway station, a railway station in the municipality of Jette
  • Jette, Montana, a census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States
  • Mount Jetté, a mountain in Alaska and British Columbia, on the Canada–United States border