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Jan Ketelaar
Jan Arnold Albert Ketelaar (1908–2001) was a Dutch physical chemist at Amsterdam, known for the bond-type triangle, the textbook De chemische binding, and molten-salt fuel cells.
Jan Kjærstad
Jan Kjærstad (born 1953) is a Norwegian novelist and essayist, a central figure in recent Norwegian literature best known for the Jonas Wergeland trilogy, which earned the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2001.
Jan Klein
Jan Klein (1936–2023) was a Czech-American immunologist and founder of modern immunogenetics who directed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen from 1977 to 2004.
Jan Klemens Branicki
Jan Klemens Branicki (1689–1771) was a Polish magnate who served as Grand Hetman of the Crown and built the Baroque palace in Białystok, called the Polish Versailles.
Jan Koch‐Weser
Jan Koch-Weser is a physician and clinical pharmacologist who led the Clinical Pharmacology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and later headed clinical research at Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel.
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584) was a Polish Renaissance poet and royal secretary to King Sigismund II Augustus, regarded as the greatest poet of Poland's independent kingdom.
Ján Kollár
Ján Kollár (1793–1852) was a Slovak poet, Lutheran pastor, and Slavic scholar whose sonnet cycle Slávy dcera became a foundation of modern Slovak poetry and voiced Slavic reciprocity.
Jan Koller
Jan Koller, Czech footballer (born 1973), 2.02 m target-man striker; Czech Republic's record scorer with 55 goals in 91 caps; titles with Sparta Prague, Anderlecht, and Borussia Dortmund; retired 2011.
Jan Korbel
Jan O. Korbel is a geneticist and group leader at EMBL Heidelberg, where he has led research on genomic structural variation and cancer since 2008 and co-discovered chromothripsis.
Jan Koum (Ян Борисович Кум)
Jan Koum (Ян Борисович Кум) is a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who co-founded WhatsApp with Brian Acton in 2009 and led it through its 2014 sale to Facebook.
Jan Kowalczyk
Jan Kowalczyk (1941-2020), Polish show jumping rider; won individual gold and team silver at the 1980 Moscow Olympics on Artemor, the only Polish Olympic equestrian champion, with 17 national titles.
Jan Krekels
Jan Krekels (Jan Jozef Alfons Franciscus Krekels), Dutch road cyclist born 1947 in Sittard; 1968 Olympic team time trial gold medalist, later professional 1969-1978 with a 1971 Tour de France stage win. Not the Belgian Jan Kriekels who died in 2020.
Jan Krukowiecki
Jan Stefan Krukowiecki (1772–1850) was a Polish count and general of infantry who led the National Government in 1831 and concluded the controversial capitulation of Warsaw.
Jan Kubiš
Jan Kubiš was a Czechoslovak army non-commissioned officer in the paratroop group Anthropoid whose 1942 attack fatally wounded Reinhard Heydrich in Prague; he died a month later defending a church hideout.
Jan L. Breslow
Jan L. Breslow is an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University whose laboratory cloned apolipoprotein genes and created the first mutant mouse model of atherosclerosis.
Jan Łaski
Jan Łaski, known as Johannes a Lasco, was a Polish priest and Reformed church organizer who built Protestant church structures in East Friesland, England, and Poland from 1542.
Jan Leeming
Jan Leeming (born Janet Atkins, 1942) is an English presenter and former BBC TV newsreader (1980–1987), first female Sydney TV newsreader in 1963, host of the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, later a reality-TV and charity figure.
Jan Leike
Jan Leike is a German machine learning and AI alignment researcher who leads Anthropic's Alignment Science team, having previously co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever.
Jan Levinson
Jan Levinson (Janet Levinson, née Levinson-Gould) is a fictional Dunder Mifflin Vice President of Northeast Sales in the U.S. series The Office, played by Melora Hardin, whose relationship with Michael Scott and later firing define her arc.
Jan Lewan
Jan Lewan (Jan Lewandowski, born 1941, Bydgoszcz) is a Polish-American polka bandleader, Grammy nominee, and convicted fraudster who sold $5 million in unregistered promissory notes, served prison time, and inspired the 2017 Jack Black film The Polka King.
Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker who worked closely with Rembrandt in Leiden and later painted for courts in London and Antwerp.
Jan Lohmann
Jan U. Lohmann is a German plant developmental biologist who studies how plant stem cells are maintained, and heads the Department of Stem Cell Biology at Heidelberg University.
Jan Lokpal Bill (जन लोकपाल विधेयक)
Jan Lokpal Bill (जन लोकपाल विधेयक), 2010-2011 civil society draft anti-corruption law by Anna Hazare's team (Hegde, Bhushan, Kejriwal); differed from government Lokpal Bill on PM, judges, CBI; never enacted, superseded by Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013.
Jan Löwe
Jan Löwe is a German structural biologist, Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 2018, known for determining the structures of bacterial cytoskeletal proteins such as FtsZ.
Jan Luyken
Jan Luyken, also spelled Luiken, was a Dutch poet, etcher, and illustrator of the Dutch Golden Age, known for Het Menselyk Bedryf trade pictures and the 1685 Martyrs' Mirror etchings.
Jan M. Rost
Jan M. Rost (Jan-Michael Rost, born 1961) is a German theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
Jan M. van Deursen
Jan M. van Deursen is a Dutch-born cell biologist known for mouse models of cancer and aging and for clearing senescent cells to extend mouse lifespan.
Jan Marco Montag
Jan Marco Montag, born in 1983 in Cologne, is a retired German field hockey defender who won the 2006 World Cup, 2008 Olympic gold, and 2011 European championship.
Jan Marsalek
Jan Marsalek is an Austrian former payments executive who was chief operating officer of Wirecard from 2010 to 2020 and is wanted by Munich prosecutors on fraud charges.
Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko, born Jan Alojzy Matejko, was a Polish painter, 1838 to 1893, who founded Poland's national school of historical painting in Kraków with over 300 canvases.