Jean-Baptiste Pitois
Jean- Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean- Baptiste or Paul Christian( 1811- 1877), was a French author, known for" The History and Practice of Magic", first published in France in 1870.
Jean-Baptiste Barsalou
Jean- Baptiste Barsalou( 9 September 1706 18 March 1776) was from a business family in Montreal, his father having been a master tanner with his own business in that location.
Due to the premature death of his father, Jean- Baptiste's family was divided up and he fell under the custody of an elder brother who ran the tannery and other business interests of the family.
Jean began his working life in the fur trade as a voyageur for his uncle, Jean- Baptiste Neveu.
By the early 1730s he had taken over the family tannery and entered into various business arrangements to further this enterprise.
By 1747 he had expanded into buying and selling land on the St. Lawrence.
The Seven Years' War and the subsequent English rule was devastating to many businesses of the time and Jean- Baptiste's holdings were no exception.
Instead of passing a large estate to his sons, his holdings were almost all gone.
His sons became voyageurs and the Barsalou tannery ceased to exist.
Jean-Baptiste André Guillot
Jean-Baptiste André Guillot (9 December 1827 – 6 September 1893) was a nurseryman and rose hybridizer in Lyon, France, son of nurseryman and rose hybridizer Jean-Baptiste Guillot (10 December 1803 – 18 April 1882).
Jean-Baptiste the son is known as Guillot Fils, and Jean-Baptiste the elder as Guillot Père.
Guillot Fils is best known as the creator of the rose 'La France', considered to be the first hybrid tea rose, introduced in 1867.
Samuel Rosenberg (artist)
Samuel Rosenberg( 1896–1972) was an American artist and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
He showed his work at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum in New York, the National Academy of Art in Washington, the Corcoran Gallery, and in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
He was a beloved art teacher, and some of his students were Mel Bochner, Philip Pearlstein and Andy Warhol.
Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye
Jean- Baptiste Gaultier de la Vérendrye( September 3, 1713 – June 6, 1736) was the eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and Marie- Anne Dandonneau Du Sablé.
He was born on Île Dupas near Sorel, New France Jean Baptiste, with three brothers, Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, François de La Vérendrye, and Louis- Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, served in the expedition his father led west in 1731.
When they arrived at Fort Kaministiquia some of the" engagés"( indentured employees), exhausted by the long journey by canoe from Montreal and discouraged by the difficult portages facing them, refused to go on.
His father's second in command, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste led a smaller advance party west to Rainy Lake and established a fort they named Fort St. Pierre( after the parish church where Jean Baptiste was baptised).
The following year Jean Baptiste was instrumental in founding Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and in 1734 he established Fort Maurepas on the Red River.
On June 6, 1736, Sioux Indians ambushed a party led by Jean Baptiste soon after they left Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods.
They were headed for Fort Kaministiquia to fetch provisions.
Jean Baptiste, Father Jean- Pierre Aulneau and 19 other men were massacred.
Their bodies were later transported to Fort Saint- Charles and buried in the chapel.
Jean- Baptiste de La Vérendrye ’s share in the construction of Fort Maurepas makes him one of the founders of the present province of Manitoba.
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville
Jean- Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville( 3 March 1782, Abbeville – 22 January 1870, Paris) was a French a man of letters and poet.
He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1830.
Charles-Henri Sanson
Charles- Henri Sanson, full title" Chevalier Charles- Henri Sanson de Longval"( 15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, and High Executioner of the First French Republic.
He administered capital punishment in the city of Paris for over forty years, and by his own hand executed nearly 3,000 people, including the King himself.
Mel Gould
Mel Gould( born 19 July 1930 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian former yacht racer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Jean-Baptiste Chaussard
Jean- Baptiste Chaussard( 4 September 1729, Tonnerre- 26 June 1818, Paris) was a French architect to the king, associated with Pierre Contant d' Ivry and Jean- Michel Chevotet.
He was also related to Chevotet, nephew to the royal painter Jean Valade and father of the revolutionary Pierre- Jean- Baptiste Chaussard.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November 1651 – 3 November 1690) was a French politician.
He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.

Question: Were Mel Gould and Jean-Baptiste Sanson De Pongerville of the same nationality?
Answer: no