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Jan Zeevaart
Jan Zeevaart, full name Jan Adriaan Dingenis Zeevaart, was a Dutch-American plant biologist at Michigan State University known for florigen grafting experiments and abscisic acid biosynthesis.
Jan Železný
Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower born 1966, three-time Olympic champion (1992, 1996, 2000), three-time world champion, and men's javelin world record holder at 98.48 m since 1996.
Jan Ziółkowski
Jan Ziółkowski (born 2005, Warsaw) is a Polish centre-back, 194 cm, from Legia Warszawa to AS Roma in August 2025 for about €6.6 million; Poland debutant, Revelation of the Year 2025, loaned to Monza in 2026.
Jan Žižka
Jan Žižka (c. 1360–1424) was a Czech Hussite commander who led the radical wing of the Hussite revolution, defeated several papal crusades, and never lost a battle in the field.
Jan-Carlo Simić (Јан-Карло Симић)
Jan-Carlo Simić (Јан-Карло Симић), Serbian centre-back born 2005 in Nürtingen, Germany; ex-Stuttgart, AC Milan (scored on 2023 Serie A debut), Anderlecht, now Al-Ittihad; 6 Serbia caps.
Jan-Lennard Struff
German tennis player Jan-Lennard Struff (Struffi), born 1990 in Warstein: late-blooming serve-and-forehand player, career-high No. 21 (June 2023), 2023 Madrid lucky-loser Masters final, first ATP title at 2024 Munich, oldest Open Era first-time Slam quarter-finalist at 2026 Wimbledon.
Jan-Michael Gambill
Jan-Michael Gambill, American tennis player born 1977 in Spokane, WA; career-high ATP No. 14 (2001), three singles titles including 1999 Scottsdale, 2000 Wimbledon quarterfinalist, later Tennis Channel analyst.
Jan-Michael Vincent
Jan-Michael Vincent was an American film and television actor who rose to leading roles in 1970s films and starred as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the 1980s series Airwolf.
Jan-Ove Waldner
Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis legend born 1965, the "Mozart of table tennis"; 1992 Olympic singles gold, 1989 and 1997 world champion, 1990 World Cup winner, and the only non-Chinese Career Grand Slam men's singles player.
Jan-Willem de Gier
Jan-Willem de Gier, born 1967 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch biochemist and professor at Stockholm University who co-founded the biotechnology company Xbrane Biopharma, developing engineered E. coli strains for protein production.
Jan-Ακε Gustafsson
Jan-Åke Gustafsson (1943–2026) was a Swedish molecular biologist who discovered estrogen receptor beta and led nuclear receptor research at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Houston.
Jan‐E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall (Jan-Erling Bäckvall), born 1947, is a Swedish organic chemist and professor at Stockholm University known for chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution, palladium-catalyzed allene carbocyclizations, and biomimetic oxidation.
Jan‐Erik Johansson
Jan-Erik Johansson is a Swedish professor of urology and oncology at Örebro University and Örebro University Hospital, principal investigator of the SPCG-4 trial comparing prostate surgery with watchful waiting.
Jan‐Inge Henter
Jan-Inge Henter (born 1953) is a Swedish pediatric hematologist-oncologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for defining hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and leading the international HLH-94 and HLH-2004 treatment studies.
Jan‐Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters is a German cell biologist, born in 1962, who studies the cohesin complex and leads the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Jan‐Willem Veening
Jan-Willem Veening is a Dutch microbiologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne since 2016, known for single-cell studies of pneumococcal cell division and the CcrZ cell-cycle regulator.
Jana Ali
Jana Ali, Egyptian recurve archer born 2005; 2023 African champion (individual and team) who qualified and competed at Paris 2024, losing to Nam Su-Hyeon; career best 613.
Jana Chasma
Jana Chasma is a 650 km chasma (trough system) on Venus at 12.2S, 117.9E in the Ovda Regio quadrangle, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for a Romanian form of the Roman moon goddess.
Jana Gana Mana (জন গণ মন)
Jana Gana Mana (জন গণ মন) is India's national anthem, composed by Rabindranath Tagore in Sanskritized Bengali in 1911 and adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 24 January 1950, distinct from the National Song Vande Mataram.
Jana Gana Mana (ജനഗണമന) (2022 film)
Jana Gana Mana (ജന ഗണ മന) is a 2022 Malayalam political thriller directed by Dijo Jose Antony, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Suraj Venjaramoodu, about a professor's murder, fake encounters, and courtroom justice; released April 28, 2022, streamed on Netflix.
Jana Kovačková
Jana Kovačková (Kovackova), Czech tennis player born 2010, sister of Alena; 17 junior titles in 2024, four junior Grand Slam girls' doubles titles, and 2026 Roland Garros junior singles semifinalist.
Jana Kramer
Jana Rae Kramer (born 1983, Rochester Hills, Michigan) is an American actress and country-pop singer known for playing Alex Dupré on One Tree Hill, Top 20 debut album Jana Kramer (2012), Top Ten album Thirty One, the Whine Down podcast, and Lifetime movies.
Jana Natya Manch (जन नाट्य मंच)
Jana Natya Manch (जन नाट्य मंच), usually shortened to Janam, is an Indian political street theater collective founded in 1973 that performs short plays for working-class audiences.
Jana Nayagan
Jana Nayagan (ஜன நாயகன், People's Leader) is a 2026 Tamil political action thriller, Vijay's 69th and final film, directed by H. Vinoth with music by Anirudh Ravichander. Delayed from Pongal 2026 by a CBFC and Madras High Court battle, it released 23 July 2026 after Vijay became Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.
Jana Nayagan (soundtrack)
Jana Nayagan (Thalapathy Kacheri) is the 2026 Tamil soundtrack album by Anirudh Ravichander for Vijay's final film, his fifth with the star, released 22 July 2026 on T-Series with 9 distributed tracks including Thalapathy Kacheri and Chella Magale.
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná (1968–2017) was a Czech tennis player who won the 1998 Wimbledon singles title and 17 Grand Slam titles, 16 in doubles, reaching world No. 2 in singles.
Jana Partners
Jana Partners is a New York-based activist investment firm founded by Barry Rosenstein in 2001, known for campaigns at Whole Foods, Qualcomm, Safeway, and Lamb Weston.
Jana Pittman
Jana Pittman (Rawlinson), born 1982, Australian 400m hurdler, two-time world champion (2003, 2007) and four-time Commonwealth gold medalist; first Australian woman to compete at both Summer and Winter Olympics, finishing 14th in two-woman bobsleigh at Sochi 2014.
Jana Roithová
Jana Roithová, born 1974, is a Czech chemist who has been Professor of Spectroscopy and Catalysis at Radboud University since 2018 and leads a group at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.
Jana Sorgers
Jana Sorgers (Jana Sorgers-Rau), German rower born 1967 in Neubrandenburg; two Olympic golds in the women's quadruple sculls (Seoul 1988 for GDR, Atlanta 1996 for GER) and seven world titles.