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Jannik Sinner
Jannik Sinner, Italian tennis player, first Italian ATP world No. 1 (June 2024). Four Grand Slams (AO 2024/2025, US Open 2024, Wimbledon 2025), ATP Finals 2024 and 2025, Davis Cup 2023/2024, clostebol case resolved with a three-month 2025 suspension.
Jannik Vestergaard
Jannik Vestergaard, Danish centre-back (born 1992, Hvidovre), 199 cm, formerly of Hoffenheim, Werder Bremen, Gladbach, Southampton and Leicester; 59 Denmark caps; retired 2026.
Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis (1936, Piraeus – 2017, Rome) was a Greek-born artist based in Italy and a leading exponent of Arte Povera, best known for exhibiting twelve live horses in Rome in 1969.
Jano Monserrate
Jano Monserrate (Alejandro Monserrate Pueyo, born 2006, Zaragoza) is a Spanish left-footed attacking midfielder who debuted for Atlético Madrid in 2026 and transferred to Ajax in July 2026, playing for Jong Ajax on a contract to 2030.
Janoris Jenkins
Janoris "Jackrabbit" Jenkins (born 1988) is a former NFL cornerback (2012-2022) with the Rams, Giants, Saints, Titans, and 49ers; 2016 All-Pro, rookie-record 3 pick-sixes.
János Arany
János Arany (1817–1882) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and scholar whose verse epic Toldi (1847) won national fame, and whose ballads and Shakespeare translations are classics.
János Batsányi
János Batsányi, also spelled Bacsányi (1763–1845), was a Hungarian Enlightenment poet and editor who founded the Magyar Museum, the first literary journal in Hungarian, and was imprisoned for his revolutionary verse.
János Bóka
János Bóka (Bóka János) is a Hungarian Fidesz politician who has led the party's parliamentary group since July 2026, after serving as EU affairs minister under Viktor Orbán.
János Bolyai
János Bolyai (1802–1860) was a Hungarian mathematician and army officer who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry, published in 1832 as a 24-page appendix to a textbook by his father, Farkas Bolyai.
János Bottyán
János Bottyán (Bottyán János), known as Blind Bottyán, was a Hungarian soldier who fought the Ottomans for the Habsburgs, then led Rákóczi's kuruc army from 1704.
János Damjanich
János Damjanich (Damjanich János, Serbian: Jovan Damjanić) was a Serb-born general of the 1848–49 Hungarian war of independence, hanged at Arad in 1849 as one of the thirteen martyrs.
Janos Farkas
János Farkas (1942–1989), Hungarian striker for Vasas SC and Hungary; 1964 Olympic football gold, 1966 World Cup goal against Brazil, four league titles, 1966 top scorer. Not the 1984-born footballer or sociologist of the same name.
Janos Garay
János Garay (Garai), Hungarian sabre fencer (1889–1945), won Olympic gold in team sabre at Amsterdam 1928 plus 1924 silver and bronze, was 1925 European sabre champion, and died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
János Hajdu
János Hajdu, born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born physicist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University known for "diffraction before destruction" X-ray laser imaging and the first imaging of an intact virus with an X-ray laser.
János Kádár
János Kádár (1912–1989), Hungarian communist leader, ruled Hungary 1956–1988 as HSWP first secretary after crushing the 1956 revolution, executed Imre Nagy, and introduced goulash communism and the 1968 New Economic Mechanism.
János Kollár
János Kollár, born 1956 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Hungarian-American algebraic geometer and Donner Professor at Princeton University, known for the minimal model program, rationally connected varieties, and moduli theory.
János Komlós (mathematician)
János Komlós, born 1942 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-American mathematician and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for the KMT strong approximation, the AKS sorting network, and the Komlós conjecture in discrepancy theory.
Janos Konrad
János Konrád (Konrád II), Hungarian water polo player (1941-2014), Olympic gold 1964 Tokyo and bronzes 1960, 1968; 123 caps; later coached Hungary's women's and men's national teams and OSC's 1978 European Champions Cup side.
János Kornai
János Kornai (1928–2021) was a Hungarian economist who created the concepts of the shortage economy and the soft budget constraint, and taught at Harvard from 1986 to 2002.
Janos Martinek
Janos Martinek (Martinek János), born 1965, Hungarian modern pentathlete; double Olympic champion at Seoul 1988 (individual and team), bronze at Atlanta 1996, later Hungary's national head coach.
János Pálffy
János Pálffy (Pálffy János) is the name of two Hungarian political figures from the Erdődi line of the Pálffy family: a field marshal (1664–1751) and a reform politician (1804–1857).
Janos Parti
János Parti (Parti János), Hungarian sprint canoeist (1932–1999), Olympic C1 1000 m champion at Rome 1960 after silvers in 1952 and 1956; 1954 world champion; later national captain of Hungary's kayak-canoe team.
János Pilinszky
János Pilinszky (Pilinszky János, 1921–1981) was a Hungarian poet and essayist, a Kossuth Prize winner whose poetry centers on Second World War trauma and God's silence.
Janos Somogyi
Janos Somogyi (János Somogyi, 1922–1998), Hungarian race walker with MTK Budapest; 1956 Olympic 50 km walk DNF; personal best 4:28:25 (1955). Distinct from the boxer János Somogyi (born 1966).
János Szanyi
János Szanyi, also published as Janos Szanyi, is a Hungarian-named American chemist and staff scientist in the Catalysis Science group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for single-atom catalysis.
János Szentágothai
János Szentágothai, born János Schimert (1912–1994), was a Hungarian neuroanatomist who co-created the classic 1967 cerebellar model and proposed the modular architectonics of the cerebral cortex.
Janos Uranyi
Janos Uranyi (Urányi János, 1924–1964), Hungarian sprint kayaker; with Laszlo Fabian won K-2 10,000 m gold at Melbourne 1956, Hungary's first kayaking Olympic gold and the event's last Olympic edition.
Janos Varga
János Varga (1939–2022), Hungarian wrestler nicknamed Ramszesz; 1968 Olympic Greco-Roman bantamweight champion, two-time world champion (1963, 1970), two-time European champion; distinct from the runner and water polo players of the same name.
János Vitéz
János Vitéz (Vitéz János, c. 1408–1472) was a Hungarian humanist prelate and diplomat, archbishop of Esztergom, who tutored Matthias Corvinus and founded the Academia Istropolitana.
János Xántus
János Xántus, also known as John Xantus, was a Hungarian naturalist and ethnographer who collected specimens in North America and founded the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.