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Jan Tříska
Jan Tříska (1936-2017), Czech stage and film actor; National Theatre and Divadlo za branou star, emigrated after Charter 77 in 1977, played Igor Hnízdo in The Elementary School and King Lear, died after a Charles Bridge fall.
Jan Tschichold
Jan Tschichold, born Johannes Tzschichhold (1902–1974), was a German-born typographer whose 1928 book Die neue Typographie codified modernist design and whose typeface Sabon remains in wide use.
Jan Tzatzoe
Jan Tzatzoe, also known as Dyani Tshatshu, was a Xhosa chief and missionary of the London Missionary Society who testified before a House of Commons committee in 1836.
Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich, German road cyclist born 1973 in Rostock; 1997 Tour de France winner (first German), 1999 Vuelta champion, 2000 Olympic road race gold, world time trial champion 1999 and 2001; five-time Tour runner-up to Armstrong; career ended by Operación Puerto and a 2012 CAS ruling.
Jan Uytenbogaert
Jan Uytenbogaert, also known as Johannes Wtenbogaert (1557–1644), was a Dutch Reformed minister who drafted the 1610 Remonstrance, founded the Remonstrant Brotherhood in exile, and led the Remonstrants.
Jan van Bemmel
Jan van Bemmel, born 1938, is a Dutch medical informatics researcher who held the Netherlands' first university chair in the field, at the Free University Amsterdam.
Jan van Deemter
Jan Jozef van Deemter (1918–2004) was a Dutch physicist and Shell researcher known for the van Deemter equation, from his 1956 paper on band broadening in chromatography.
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (Johannes de Eyck), Netherlandish court painter to Philip the Good (1425–1441), master of layered oil technique, completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, painted the Arnolfini Portrait, signed nine works with motto 'Als ich kan'.
Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen (Jan Josephsz. van Goyen) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and marine views, a pioneer of naturalistic, tonal landscape painting in the 1600s.
Jan van Hest
Jan van Hest is a Dutch bio-organic chemist at Eindhoven University of Technology, known as the first to produce polymersomes and a pioneer of artificial cells.
Jan van Kuijk
Jan van Kuijk (born 1966) is a Dutch trader who co-founded Flow Traders, the Amsterdam market maker in exchange-traded products, serving as co-CEO from 2004 until January 2014.
Jan van Riebeeck
Jan van Riebeeck (Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck), Dutch VOC administrator, founder and first commander of the Cape settlement at Table Bay from 6 April 1652 to 1662; later Secretary to the Governor-General; died 1677 in Batavia.
Jan van Ruysbroeck
Jan van Ruysbroeck, also Jan van Ruusbroec, was a Middle Dutch mystical writer and Augustinian canon, first prior of Groenendaal near Brussels, who died in 1381.
Jan van Schilfgaarde
Jan van Schilfgaarde (1929–2008) was a Dutch-born American agricultural engineer and soil physicist whose transient drainage theory reshaped subsurface drainage design; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Jan Vandrey
Jan Vandrey (born 1991, Schwedt/Oder) is a German sprint canoeist of KC Potsdam who won Olympic gold in the men's C2 1,000 m at Rio 2016 with Sebastian Brendel, plus 2017 world C4 gold.
Ján Veizer
Ján Veizer, also published as Jan Veizer, is an isotope geochemist and paleontologist at the University of Ottawa who built the Phanerozoic seawater isotope record from fossil shells.
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, full name Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink, is a Dutch former forward born in 1978 who starred for PSV Eindhoven and Celtic and won 19 Netherlands caps.
Jan Verlet
Jan R. R. Verlet is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University known for spectroscopy of molecular anions and the hydrated electron at the water/air interface.
Jan Vertonghen
Jan Vertonghen (born 1987), Belgian defender; Ajax, Tottenham (315 games), Benfica, Anderlecht. Record 157 caps for Belgium, 2018 World Cup third place, 2019 Champions League final; retired 2025.
Jan Vervloet
Jan Vervloet is a Belgian dance producer and DJ, active since 1991 and based in Tienen, best known for Fiocco, Scoop, and D.H.T. and the 1993 rave hit "Bonzaï Channel One" as Thunderball.
Jan Veselý
Jan Veselý is a Czech basketball player, born 1990 in Ostrava, the 2011 NBA sixth pick who became a EuroLeague MVP with Fenerbahçe and later FC Barcelona.
Jan Vijg
Jan Vijg is a Dutch-born geneticist known for work on somatic mutation, genome instability, and aging, and chair of the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jan Virgili
Jan Virgili Tenas (born 2006, Vilassar de Mar) is a Spanish left winger from La Masia who played for Mallorca in La Liga and joined Club Brugge in August 2026 for a reported €12m clause, signing to 2031.
Jan W. ten Cate
Jan W. ten Cate (Jan Wouter ten Cate, 1939–2020) was a Dutch internist and hematologist at the University of Amsterdam whose work fixed how deep-vein thrombosis is diagnosed and treated.
Jan Werich
Jan Werich (1905–1980), Czech actor, playwright and writer; with Jiří Voskovec formed the V+W clown duo at Prague's Osvobozené divadlo, wrote satirical plays with Jaroslav Ježek's music, exiled in the USA 1939–1946, later led Divadlo ABC.
Jan Wienese
Jan Wienese (Henri Jan Wienese), born 1942, Dutch rower with De Amstel Amsterdam who won the 1968 Mexico City Olympic men's single sculls in 7:47.80, the Netherlands' first rowing gold since 1924, beating Jochen Meißner and Alberto Demiddi.
Jan Winberg
Jan Winberg was a Swedish professor of pediatrics at Karolinska Institutet, chair there from 1974 to 1989, known for influential research on urinary tract infections in children.
Jan Zaanen
Jan Zaanen (1957–2024) was a Dutch condensed matter theorist, professor at Leiden University, known for predicting stripe order in copper-oxide superconductors and for Planckian dissipation.
Jan Zachara
Ján Zachara (1928–2025), Slovak boxer for Czechoslovakia, featherweight (≤57 kg) gold medalist at Helsinki 1952, beating Sergio Caprari; quarter-finalist at Melbourne 1956; Olympic Order in Silver recipient.
Jan Zamoyski
Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605) was a Polish nobleman and statesman, Grand Chancellor of the Crown from 1578 and Grand Hetman from 1581, who founded the Renaissance city of Zamość.