Jean-Michel Macron

Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl fʁedeʁik makʁɔ̃]; born 30 June 1950^[1]) is a French doctor and professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Jean-Michel Macron
Born	Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (1950-06-30) 30 June 1950 (age 75) Saint-Denis, Réunion
Known for	Professor of neurology at the University of Picardy
Spouses	Françoise Noguès (divorced) Hélène Joly
Children	4, including Emmanuel
Relatives	Brigitte Macron (daughter-in-law)

Early life

Jean-Michel Macron was born in 1950.^[2] His father was André Macron (1920–2010),^[2][3] a railway executive,^[4] and his mother was Jacqueline Macron (1922–1998), née Robertson, of half English origin.^[4][5] He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.^[6]

Career

Macron is a professor of neurology at the University of Picardy,^[7] specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy.^[8][9]

Macron has published in academic journals such as Neuroscience Letters, Brain Research, NeuroReport and Neurosurgery on sneezing in cats.^[10] Macron has 26 publications as author or co-author in the PubMed database.^[11]

Personal life

Jean-Michel Macron was first married to Françoise Noguès, a physician based in Amiens.^[12] She is the daughter of Jean Noguès and his wife Germaine Noguès (née Arribet, died 2013),^[13] both teachers.^[7] The first child of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron died as an infant.^[2] They then had three children: Emmanuel (born 1977; the current President of France),^[14] Laurent (born 1979),^[15] and Estelle (born 1982).^{[2][13][16][17]}

After the divorce of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron,^[2] Jean-Michel Macron married Hélène Joly, a psychiatrist at the Centre Hospitalier Philippe Pinel in Dury, Somme.^[18]