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Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold, born 1939 in Oslo, is a Norwegian modernist poet and translator who debuted in 1965 and became a central figure of the Profil generation.
Jan Esper
Jan Esper is a professor of climate geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a dendroclimatologist known for tree-ring temperature reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Jan Evangelista Purkyně (Purkinje), Czech physiologist (1787–1869), professor at Breslau and Prague; discoverer of Purkinje fibers, Purkinje cells, and the Purkinje phenomenon, founder of early physiology institutes and Czech science journal Živa.
Jan F. Heymans
Jan F. Heymans, also known as Jan Frans or Jean François Heymans, was a Belgian pharmacologist who held Belgium's first chair of experimental pharmacology at Ghent University.
Jan Feijén
Jan Feijén, also published as J. Feijen, is a Dutch polymer chemist who was professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials at the University of Twente from 1979.
Jan Fethke
Jan Fethke (Jean Forge, 1903-1980), German-Polish screenwriter, film director and Esperanto novelist; wrote Abismoj and Mr. Tot aĉetas mil okulojn and co-wrote Fritz Lang's Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse.
Jan Francis
Jan Francis (Janet Stephanie Francis, born 1947, Westminster, London) is an English actress, former Royal Ballet dancer, best known as Penny Warrender in Just Good Friends (1983–1986) and Lisa Colbert in Secret Army, also Mina in Dracula (1979).
Jan Frans Willems
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) was a Flemish philologist, poet, and literary historian known as the father of the Flemish movement, who edited medieval Dutch texts like Reinaert de Vos.
Jan Fridegård
Jan Fridegård (1897–1968) was a Swedish novelist and poet of proletarian literature, known for the autobiographical Lars Hård series and a Viking Age trilogy told from a slave's view.
Jan Frodeno
Jan Frodeno (born 1981, Cologne) is a German former professional triathlete who won Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 and was three-time IRONMAN World Champion, retiring in 2023.
Jan Funke
Jan Funke is a computer scientist who develops machine-learning methods for reconstructing nervous systems, and co-authored the 2024 Nature paper presenting the first wiring diagram of a whole adult brain.
Jan G. Waldenström
Jan Gösta Waldenström (1906–1996) was a Swedish physician and medical researcher, professor of internal medicine at Lund University, who first described Waldenström macroglobulinemia and classified gammopathies as monoclonal or polyclonal.
Jan G.M. Klijn
Jan G.M. Klijn, also known as Jan Klijn, is a Dutch breast cancer researcher at the Rotterdam Cancer Institute, known for the MRISC screening study.
Jan Garavaglia
Jan C. Garavaglia, 'Dr. G', American forensic pathologist and Chief Medical Examiner of Florida's District Nine (Orange-Osceola) from 2003; starred in Discovery's Dr. G: Medical Examiner; formerly Bexar County, Texas.
Jan Genzer
Jan Genzer is a polymer physicist known for mechanically assembled monolayers and surface-grafted molecular density gradients, and a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University.
Jan Gies
Jan Gies (1905-1993), Dutch social worker and resistance member, husband of Miep Gies; co-founded Gies & Co. to shield Otto Frank's Pectacon and supplied the Secret Annex hiders with ration coupons, books, and news.
Jan Gopal
Jan Gopal (जन गोपाल, c. 1563–1640) was a Hindi nirguṇ bhakti poet and merchant disciple of Dādū Dayāl, author of the Dādū Janma Līlā, the earliest account of Dādū's life.
Jan Gotlib Bloch
Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902) was a Polish banker and railway financier known as the "King of Railways" who wrote a study predicting modern war's economic exhaustion.
Jan Grabiec
Jan Grabiec (born 1972) is a Polish politician of the Civic Platform who has headed the Prime Minister's Chancellery since 2023, after serving as a Legionowo local-government official.
Jan Grimm
Jan Grimm is a German-trained physician-scientist in radiology and nuclear medicine who leads a molecular imaging laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Jan Guillou
Jan Guillou, born 1944, is a Swedish journalist and novelist known for the Carl Hamilton spy novels and exposing the secret intelligence agency IB in 1973.
Jan H. van Esch
Jan H. van Esch (Johannes Henricus van Esch) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor at TU Delft, known for chemically fueled transient assembly of active materials.
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers is a Dutch molecular geneticist who studies DNA repair, aging, and cancer, and cloned the first human DNA repair gene, ERCC1, in 1984.
Jan H.M. Schellens
Jan H.M. Schellens, born Johannes Henricus Matthias Schellens in 1956, is a Dutch medical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Utrecht University known for DPYD genotype-guided dosing of fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy.
Jan Habermann
Jan Habermann is a Czech venture capital investor and founding partner of Credo Ventures, a Prague firm he co-founded in 2009 that backs pre-seed startups from Central and Eastern Europe.
Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (born 1948, Prague) is a Czech-American keyboardist and composer, founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck collaborator on Wired, and Grammy-winning composer of the Miami Vice Theme and Crockett's Theme.
Jan Hammer (investor)
Jan Hammer is a Czech-born partner at Index Ventures who joined in 2010, invests in data, financial services, and SaaS, and topped the 2018 Forbes Midas List Europe.
Jan Handzlik
Jan Handzlik (Jan Lawrence Handzlik, born 1945) is a Los Angeles white-collar criminal defense and FCPA trial lawyer, former federal prosecutor, Lindsey Manufacturing FCPA reversal counsel, and former child actor in Auntie Mame.
Jan Hendrik de Boer
Jan Hendrik de Boer (1899–1971) was a Dutch physical chemist at Philips who co-invented the iodide process for pure ductile metals and advanced adsorption science.
Jan Hendrik Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900–1992) was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation, measured the galactic disk's mass density, and proposed the Oort cloud.