Andre Jean Talleyrand

Dr. Andre Jean Talleyrand (known as Jean by his family and many friends) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on September 24, 1939, to Dr. Lys Talleyrand and Amelia Pierre-Noel Talleyrand. He passed away in his sleep on the morning of Friday March 13th, 2026. He was 86 years old.

Andre Jean was the third born of six siblings. He spent his early years surrounded by his siblings, extended family members and friends in Port-au-Prince. As a youth, he was very active in soccer and track & field. He also achieved high honors in the Haitian Boy Scouts organization, and he was at the top of his class in his academic studies. Adults considered him an “old soul,” often requesting him to serve as the ‘protector’ of his peers in social settings.

After completing his secondary studies, he was selected to attend medical school in Haiti. At the age of 20, he met his future wife, Raymonde Noel, while she was studying at the School of Pharmacy in Port-au-Prince. They were married five years later on December 11,1965. They continued living in Port-au-Prince and had two children--a daughter Christine (1966) and a son Jean-Lys (1967), before moving to Puerto Rico to escape political persecution in their native Haiti.

In 1969, while completing his medical internship in Puerto Rico, Andre Jean was invited to complete his residency at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York. He left Puerto Rico with his wife and two children and moved to Queens, New York where he was welcomed by many family members who had already immigrated to the U.S. He had two more children (daughters) born in the U.S.—Regine, born soon after their arrival in 1969 and Isabelle, born in 1972.

At the age of 35, Andre Jean moved his family from Queens to South Orange, New Jersey, a suburb conveniently close to New York City and just outside of Newark, New Jersey. Andre Jean spent over 30 years working as a pathologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, serving as Director of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Beth Israel later in his career.

Motivated to provide a top-notch college education for each of his four children, Andre Jean took on additional duties as an adjunct professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark (formally known as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - UMDNJ) and as a medical examiner (the “Quincy”) of Essex County.

Andre Jean retired in 2006, at the age of 67, and moved with his wife to West Palm Beach, Florida. There he spent his retirement years as an avid fan of all sports. He frequently encouraged his grandchildren in their endeavors. He supported Haitian underserved communities by travelling back to Haiti and hosting medical clinics with mission groups, including immediately after the Haiti earthquake of 2010.

Andre Jean played an active role in the Association des Medecins Haitiens a L’Etranger [Association of Haitian Physicians Living Abroad], also known as A.M.H.E. He soon became A.M.H.E. President. Andre Jean also participated for decades in CASEGHA, a powerful, international scouting organization that took him and his wife to many countries throughout the world. After retirement, ballroom dancing lessons with his wife in West Palm Beach rounded out his life as a retiree.

Andre Jean was an educator, an avid learner, a respected leader, a consummate professional, a speaker of multiple languages, a social justice pioneer in his community and profession, and a paternal mentor. He had a great sense of humor, and loved to talk, dance and laugh. He was a man committed to his Haitian community and culture (both home and abroad), a man of Catholic faith, a man of humility, practicality, and loyalty and most importantly, a man who truly loved, protected and provided for his family.

Andre Jean Talleyrand, M.D. is survived by his wife, Raymonde Noel Talleyrand, his four children, Christine Talleyrand Sims, Jean-Lys Talleyrand, MD, Regine Talleyrand Abrams, PhD and Isabelle Talleyrand, three siblings, Josette (Talleyrand) Toulme, Arnold Talleyrand, and Monique (Talleyrand) Jabouin, six grandchildren, Gena Sims, Olivia Sims, Indigo Funk, Alex Talleyrand, Nicolette Abrams, and Colin Abrams, and many cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews.