Jacques Lebaudy was a Frenchman from an extremely wealthy family of sugar refiners, known for his eccentricity and his attempt to establish a new nation, the Empire of the Sahara. The circumstances of his death in 1919 in Westbury, Long Island resulted in a sensational grand jury proceeding.
- Occupation
- businessperson, adventurer, entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- May 13, 1868
- Died
- January 11, 1919
