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Jan Brinckerinck
Jan Brinckerinck (Johannes Brinckerinck; 1359–1419) was a Dutch Catholic priest of the Devotio Moderna who served as rector of Meester-Geertshuis in Deventer and founded the Diepenveen nunnery.
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet Brueghel," was a Flemish painter of landscapes, flowers, and allegories, active in Antwerp, court painter to Archduke Albert, and a close collaborator of Rubens.
Jan Brzak Felix
Jan Brzák-Felix (1912–1988), Czechoslovak sprint canoeist nicknamed Felix, won Olympic C2 1000 m gold at Berlin 1936 with Syrovátka and London 1948 with Kudrna, plus Helsinki 1952 silver and three flatwater world titles.
Jan Bureš
Jan Bureš (1926–2012) was a Czech neuroscientist at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, known for turning cortical spreading depression into a tool for reversible brain lesions.
Jan Busch
Jan Busch, also known as Johannes Busch, was a Dutch canon regular of Windesheim, born at Zwolle around 1400, who reformed monasteries across Germany and wrote the Chronicon Windeshemense.
Jan C. Semenza
Jan C. Semenza is an environmental epidemiologist who led the CDC response to the 1995 Chicago heat wave and studied climate change and infectious disease at ECDC.
Jan Caloun
Jan Čaloun, Czech ice hockey right wing born 1972 in Ústí nad Labem; Olympic gold medalist at Nagano 1998 and 1999 world champion. Played 24 NHL games (San Jose, Columbus), scoring on his first four NHL shots, then starred for HIFK Helsinki.
Jan Carette
Jan E. Carette is a virologist and geneticist who is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, known for using haploid and CRISPR screens to find host genes viruses need.
Jan Carew
Jan Carew, born Jan Rynveld Carew (1920–2012), was a Guyanese novelist, playwright, poet, broadcaster, and scholar, a leading figure in pan-African and Caribbean studies best known for the 1958 novel Black Midas.
Jan Christian Vestre
Jan Christian Vestre is a Norwegian Labour Party politician who serves as Minister of Health and Care Services and deputy leader of the Labour Party.
Jan Christoph Minx
Jan Christoph Minx, also published as Jan C. Minx, is a German climate scientist who heads the Evidence for Climate Solutions group at the Potsdam Institute since 2025.
Jan Chryzostom Pasek
Jan Chryzostom Pasek (c. 1636 – 1701) was a Polish soldier and memoirist whose vivid Memoirs depict seventeenth-century warfare and noble life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Jan Claassen
Jan Claassen is a German-trained neurologist and neurocritical care specialist who is Chief of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology at Columbia University, known for detecting hidden consciousness.
Jan Cools
Jan Cools is a Belgian leukemia genetics researcher and full professor at KU Leuven, known for identifying FIP1L1-PDGFRA as imatinib's target in hypereosinophilic syndrome and for the NUP214-ABL1 oncogene in T-ALL.
Jan Cremer
Jan Cremer (1940–2024) was a Dutch writer and visual artist whose debut novel Ik Jan Cremer (1964) broke 1960s sexual taboos and sold about 400,000 copies in the Netherlands.
Jan Crouch
Jan Crouch (Janice Wendell Bethany Crouch, 1938–2016), American televangelist who co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network with husband Paul Crouch in 1973, hosted Praise the Lord, directed TBN programming, led the Holy Land Experience, and drew prosperity-gospel and abuse-response controversies.
Jan Czochralski
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953) was a Polish chemist and metallurgist who invented the crystal-pulling method in 1916, now used to grow roughly 95% of silicon for semiconductors.
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach (1935–2020) was a Dutch-born American mechanician at Northwestern University, regarded as the founder of quantitative nondestructive evaluation and author of the 1973 textbook Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids.
Jan D. Blankensteijn
Jan D. Blankensteijn, born 1959 in Aruba, is a Dutch vascular surgeon and full professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for leading the DREAM trial of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
Jan Dara (2001 film)
Jan Dara (จัน ดารา) is Nonzee Nimibutr's 2001 Thai erotic period drama adapted from Utsana Phleungtham's 1966 novel, starring Christy Chung; it faced censorship cuts in Thailand and Hong Kong and was remade in 2012–2013.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born Johannes van Antwerpen (1606–1684), was a Dutch still-life painter famed for sumptuous flower and banquet pieces painted in Leiden and Antwerp.
Jan de Bont
Jan de Bont (born 1943, Eindhoven) is a Dutch cinematographer, director, and producer who shot Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, and Basic Instinct, then directed Speed (1994) and Twister (1996); his last film as director was Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).
Jan de Maeseneer
Jan de Maeseneer is a Belgian general practitioner and emeritus professor of family medicine at Ghent University, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Jan Długosz
Jan Długosz (1415–1480) was a Polish canon of Kraków cathedral, diplomat, and historian, author of the Annals of the Kingdom of Poland, the first monumental history of Poland.
Jan Driessen
Jan Driessen (born 1996) is a Dutch 3x3 basketball player, 202 cm tall, who won Olympic gold in men's 3x3 at Paris 2024 with Van der Horst, Slagter, and De Jong, after playing 5x5 for ZZ Leiden.
Jan E. Mooij
Jan E. Mooij, known as Hans Mooij, is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology, a pioneer of superconducting flux qubits.
Jan E. Schnitzer
Jan E. Schnitzer is an American physician-scientist in vascular biology who founded and directs PRISM in La Jolla, California, and showed caveolae pump molecules from blood into tissue.
Jan Egil Storholt
Jan Egil Storholt is a Norwegian former speed skater who won 1,500 m gold at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and set two world records in 1977.
Jan Ellenberg
Jan Ellenberg, born 1967 in Hamburg, is a German cell biologist known for quantitative live-cell imaging of mitosis, and Director of SciLifeLab in Sweden since 2024.
Jan Ellison
Jan Ellison (Jan Ellison Baszucki), American novelist, author of the debut novel A Small Indiscretion (Random House, 2014), a USA TODAY bestseller and O. Henry Prize-winning short story writer.