All articles starting with J

Jan Potocki

Jan Potocki (1761–1815) was a Polish count, writer, traveler, and scholar who wrote in French and is best known for the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

Jan Ravnik (born 1995, Bohinj, Slovenia) is a Slovenian dancer and choreographer, an Eras Tour backup dancer for Taylor Swift, and a Dancing with the Stars pro in Seasons 34 (with Jen Affleck, ninth place) and 35 (with Tatyana Ali).

Jan Roháč of Dubá

Jan Roháč of Dubá (Jan Roháč z Dubé) was a Bohemian nobleman and Hussite commander, hanged in Prague in 1437 after leading the last resistance to King Sigismund.

Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek (born 1935 in Prague) is a Czech art photographer known for staged, erotically charged photographs of nude figures, printed in black and white and hand-colored from 1977.

Sep 27, 2026

Jan Schakowsky

Jan Schakowsky is an American Democratic politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 9th congressional district since 1999, after eight years in the Illinois General Assembly.

Jan Schroers

Jan Schroers is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer who is the Robert Higgin Professor at Yale University, known for developing thermoplastic forming of bulk metallic glasses.

Oct 21, 2026

Jan Schur

Jan Schur (born 1962, Leipzig), son of Täve Schur, East German road cyclist; Olympic gold 1988 and world title 1989 in the 100 km team time trial, professional 1990–1994, later admitted Stasi informer "IM Reinhold".

Jan Seibert

Jan Seibert is a Swedish-trained hydrologist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for the HBV-light runoff model and bias correction of climate model output.

Jan Seidel

Jan Seidel is a physicist and materials scientist, professor at UNSW Sydney since 2012, known for his 2009 discovery that ferroelectric domain walls conduct electricity.

Jan Skotheim

Jan M. Skotheim is a systems biologist and Professor of Biology at Stanford University known for identifying the inhibitor dilution mechanism by which cell growth controls division.

Oct 10, 2026

Jan Śleszyński

Jan Śleszyński (1854–1931) was a Polish mathematician and logician who proved the Śleszyński–Pringsheim theorem and gave the first rigorous proof of a restricted central limit theorem.

Jan Smeitink

Jan Smeitink, born 1956 in Arnhem, is a Dutch pediatrician and professor of mitochondrial medicine who headed Radboud's metabolic diseases department from 1996 to 2020 and founded Khondrion.

Jan Smit (Dutch geologist)

Jan Smit (born 1948, The Hague) is a Dutch geologist and stratigrapher, professor emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for his work on the Chicxulub impact and dinosaur extinction.

Jan Smuts

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950), South African statesman, soldier, and philosopher; twice prime minister (1919–24, 1939–48), founder-figure of the League of Nations, Commonwealth, and United Nations, and author of the holism philosophy.

Jan Šnajder

Jan Šnajder is a Croatian computer scientist and natural language processing researcher, a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

Jan Śniadecki

Jan Śniadecki (1756–1830) was a Polish mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who served as rector of the University of Vilnius and helped lead the Polish Enlightenment.

Jan Stanisław Jankowski

Jan Stanisław Jankowski (1882–1953) was a Polish politician who served as Government Delegate for Poland and Deputy Prime Minister of the Polish Underground State during World War II.

Jan Steen

Jan Havicksz Steen (1626–1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Leiden best known for humorous genre scenes of chaotic households; "a Jan Steen household" remains a Dutch saying for a disorderly home.

Jan Sterling

Jan Sterling (Jane Sterling Adriance, 1921–2004), American actress of film noir and 1950s drama; Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning supporting actress for The High and the Mighty, memorable in Ace in the Hole.

Jan Struś

Jan Struś (Józef Struś, Latinized Josephus Struthius, 1510–1568) was a Polish Renaissance physician and burgomaster of Poznań whose book Sphygmicae artis transformed the study of the pulse.

Jan Suraaj Party (जन सुराज पार्टी)

Jan Suraaj Party (जन सुराज पार्टी), a Bihar political party launched by Prashant Kishor on 2 October 2024 after a two-year padayatra; development-focused, school bag symbol, contested all 243 seats in 2025, later won the Bankipur bypoll.

Jan Syrový

Born 1888, Jan Syrový was a highly influential Czechoslovak general, serving as the first in his post as Chief of the General Staff and PM during the Munich crisis.

Oct 21, 2026

Jan Szczepanski

Jan Szczepanski (Jan Antoni Szczepański, 1939-2017), Polish amateur boxer for Legia Warszawa; 1972 Munich Olympic lightweight gold medalist and 1971 Madrid European champion; six-time Polish champion.

Jan Tack

Jan Tack is a Belgian physician-scientist in gastroenterology, professor at KU Leuven and President of the Rome Foundation, known for research on functional dyspepsia and disorders of gut-brain interaction.

Jan Tarnowski

Jan Tarnowski, full name Jan Amor Tarnowski, was a Polish magnate and soldier who served as Grand Hetman of the Crown and won the Battle of Obertyn in 1531.

Jan Tauc

Jan Tauc (1922–2010) was a Czech-born American semiconductor physicist who worked in Prague and was a professor at Brown University from 1970 to 1992, known for the Tauc plot.

Oct 10, 2026

Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek

Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek (1911–2007) was a Dutch physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University, the O in DLVO theory, the standard account of why colloidal suspensions stay dispersed or coagulate.

Jan Tinbergen

Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) was a Dutch economist who shared the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969 and built the world's first econometric macroeconomic model.