All articles starting with J

Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen: Norwegian Arctic volcanic island at 71°N, 377 km², dominated by Beerenberg (2,277 m), the world's northernmost active subaerial volcano and Norway's only active volcano; nature reserve since 2010.

Jan Mayen-class patrol vessel

The Jan Mayen class is a class of three ice-strengthened offshore patrol vessels built for the Norwegian Coast Guard, replacing the Nordkapp class from the early 1980s.

Oct 20, 2026

Jan Merrill

Jan Merrill (Janice Melbourne Merrill-Morin, born 1956), American distance runner from Waterford, Connecticut; 1976 Olympic 1500m finalist, 1975 and 1979 Pan Am gold medalist, and three-time 5000m world record setter (best 15:30.6).

Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki

Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki, known in China as 穆尼阁 (Mù Nígé), was a Polish Jesuit priest and astronomer who introduced European logarithms to China and died there in 1656.

Jan Milíč

Jan Milíč, also known as Milíč z Kroměříže, was a Czech priest and reform preacher in Prague under Emperor Charles IV who died in Avignon in 1374.

Jan Mølby

Jan Mølby (born 1963, Kolding), the Great Dane, Danish midfielder for Ajax and Liverpool FC 1984-1996: 292 games, 61 goals, three league titles, three FA Cups, 33 Denmark caps.

Sep 19, 2026

Jan Møller

Jan Møller is a Danish software engineer who co-founded Chainalysis, the New York-based blockchain-analysis company, in 2014 and was its chief technology officer until October 2019.

Jan Morris

Jan Morris (1926–2020), born James Humphry Morris, Welsh travel writer, historian, and journalist; author of Pax Britannica, Venice, and the transition memoir Conundrum; reported the 1953 Everest first ascent for The Times.

Sep 21, 2026

Jan Münch

Jan Münch is a German virologist, professor of molecular virology at Ulm University Medical Center, known for discovering in 2007 that semen amyloid fibrils enhance HIV infection.

Jan Mycielski

Jan Mycielski (1932–2025) was a Polish mathematician who worked in graph theory, set theory, and logic, known for the Mycielskian and the axiom of determinacy, and taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jan Myrheim

Jan Myrheim is a Norwegian theoretical physicist, professor at NTNU in Trondheim, who with Jon Magne Leinaas predicted in 1977 the fractional statistics behind anyons.

Sep 21, 2026

Jan Nedergaard

Jan Nedergaard (J. Nedergaard) is a professor emeritus at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, known for research on brown adipose tissue, nonshivering thermogenesis, and UCP1, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda (1834–1891) was a Czech poet, journalist, and critic who led the Májovci generation and is best known for his 1878 story collection Tales of the Little Quarter.

Jan Nisar Akhtar

Jan Nisar Akhtar (جاں نثار اختر), born Syed Jaan Nisar Husain Rizvi (1914–1976), was a Gwalior-born Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement and Hindi film lyricist who wrote about 151 songs, won the 1976 Sahitya Akademi Award for Khaak-e-Dil, and fathered Javed Akhtar.

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański

Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, born Zdzisław Antoni Jeziorański and known during the war as Jan Nowak, was a Polish soldier and journalist who led Radio Free Europe's Polish Section.

Jan Oblak

Jan Oblak, Slovenian goalkeeper born 1993 in Škofja Loka, Atlético de Madrid's number one since 2014; record six Zamora Trophies, fastest to 100 LaLiga clean sheets, Europa League and LaLiga winner.

Jan Østervold

Jan Østervold (Jan Olsen Østervold, 1876–1945), Norwegian sailor from Austevoll; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in 12-metre (1907 Rating) class aboard Atlanta with brothers Henrik, Kristian, and Ole, the first brother foursome to win Olympic gold.

Jan Ottosson

Jan Ottosson (born 1960, Högsäter), Swedish cross-country skier of Åsarna IK, nicknamed Dynamite Otto; double Olympic 4x10 km relay gold medalist (1984, 1988) and four-time Vasaloppet winner (1989, 1991, 1992, 1994).

Sep 20, 2026

Jan P. Vandenbroucke

Jan P. Vandenbroucke (J. P. Vandenbroucke) is a Belgian-born Dutch clinical epidemiologist, professor at Leiden from 1986 to 2015, coauthor of the STROBE reporting guidelines, and researcher of thrombosis risk from oral contraceptives.

Jan Palach

Jan Palach (1948-1969), Czech student of Charles University's Faculty of Arts, self-immolated on Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969, signing as Torch No. 1, to rouse the public after the Warsaw Pact invasion.

Jan Parandowski

Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) was a Polish essayist, novelist, and translator best known for Mitologia (1924), his prose Odyssey, and 45 years as president of the Polish PEN Club.

Sep 27, 2026

Jan Paternotte

Jan Paternotte is a Dutch politician of Democrats 66 (D66) who chairs the party's parliamentary group, the Defence committee, and the Committee on Intelligence and Security Services.

Jan Patočka

Jan Patočka (1907–1977), Czech phenomenologist, Charter 77 spokesman, died after police interrogation; author of Heretical Essays and Plato and Europe.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch CDA politician born 1956 in Kapelle, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 2002–2010 leading four cabinets, later Erasmus University professor and Minister of State since 2022.

Oct 20, 2026

Jan Peter Tewes

Jan Peter Tewes (born 1968, Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German field hockey player, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist and 1996 Atlanta Olympian, brother of Stefan Tewes, with 190 German caps.

Jan Peter Toennies

Jan Peter Toennies, born 1930 in Philadelphia, is a physical chemist who pioneered crossed molecular beams and helium nanodroplet isolation spectroscopy, directing a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen from 1969 to 1998.

Jan Philipp Rabente

Jan Philipp Rabente (born 1987, Essen) is a German field hockey player, Olympic gold medalist 2012 after scoring both goals in the 2-1 final vs the Netherlands, 163 caps, Euro champion 2013, now German indoor head coach.