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Jens Baggesen
Jens Baggesen (Jens Immanuel Baggesen, 1764–1826) was a Danish poet and prose writer of European outlook who wrote partly in German, best remembered for the travel work Labyrinten.
Jens Bergensten
Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten, Swedish game designer, joined Mojang December 2010, took over Minecraft from Notch in December 2011, Mojang Chief Creative Officer since 2018, co-founder of Oxeye Game Studio.
Jens Biegert
Jens Biegert is a German physicist working in attoscience and ultrafast optics at ICFO in Barcelona, where he has been a tenured professor and ICREA Research Professor since 2007.
Jens Bukh
Jens Bukh (born 1960) is a Danish virologist who first published that hepatitis C virus has six major genotypes and directs the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program.
Jens C. Brüning
Jens C. Brüning, also known as Jens Brüning, is a German physician-scientist born in Cologne in 1966 who studies how the brain controls energy and glucose metabolism, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research.
Jens C. Skou
Jens C. Skou, also known as Jens Christian Skou, was a Danish physiologist who discovered the sodium–potassium pump and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jens Carlowitz
Jens Carlowitz (born 1964, Chemnitz) is a retired East German and German 400 m sprinter; 1988 Olympian, 1990 European bronze medallist, 1988 European indoor champion, and 1991 World indoor 4x400 m relay champion.
Jens Clausen
Jens Christian Clausen (1891–1969) was a Danish-American botanist who pioneered ecological genetics. He led the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford and conducted transplant-garden experiments.
Jens Eisert
Jens Eisert, born 1970, is a German and Swedish theoretical physicist who works on quantum information and many-body theory, and has been a full professor at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2011.
Jens Fiedler
Jens Fiedler (born 1970, Dohna, Saxony) is a German track cyclist, Olympic sprint champion 1992 and 1996 and team sprint champion 2004, with five world titles and two Sydney 2000 bronzes.
Jens Fønsskov Olsen
Jens Fønsskov Olsen (born 1975, Nykøbing Falster) is a Danish football manager, head coach of FC Nordsjælland since June 2024; formerly Nykøbing FC manager and Denmark U18/U19 coach.
Jens Grede
Jens Grede is a Swedish-born fashion entrepreneur who co-founded Frame in 2012 and is CEO of SKIMS, the shapewear company he co-founded with Kim Kardashian in 2019.
Jens Gundlach
Jens Gundlach, also known as Jens H. Gundlach, is an experimental physicist at the University of Washington who leads the Eöt-Wash gravity group and shared the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.
Jens Hainmueller
Jens Hainmueller is a political scientist and economist who is the Kimberly Glenn Professor at Stanford, co-directs its Immigration Policy Lab, and is known for the synthetic control method.
Jens Hjertø-Dahl
Jens Hjertø-Dahl, born 2005 in Tromsø, is a Norwegian central midfielder who broke out at Tromsø IL in 2026 (7 goals in 14 Eliteserien games) before Hull City signed him in August 2026 for a reported €9.3m club record fee.
Jens Johansson
Jens Johansson, Swedish keyboardist born 1963 in Stockholm, son of Jan Johansson; played with Yngwie Malmsteen, Dio, and Stratovarius since 1995; neoclassical metal keyboard pioneer.
Jens Jorgen Pindborg
Jens Jørgen Pindborg (1921–1995) was a Danish oral pathologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for establishing oral lichen planus and oral submucous fibrosis as premalignant conditions.
Jens Juul Holst
Jens Juul Holst is a Danish medical physiologist at the University of Copenhagen whose research on the gut hormone GLP-1 led to diabetes and obesity drugs.
Jens Lehmann
Jens Gerhard Lehmann (born 1969), German goalkeeper; Schalke, Dortmund, Arsenal, Stuttgart; 61 Germany caps; UEFA Cup 1997, Bundesliga 2002, unbeaten Premier League 2004; 2006 World Cup penalty-shootout cheat-sheet hero.
Jens Ludwig
Jens Ludwig is an American economist at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of its Crime Lab, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.
Jens Lundgren
Jens D. Lundgren, born 1960, is a Danish infectious-disease physician-scientist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, who directs CHIP and leads the EuroSIDA HIV cohort.
Jens Lykke‐Andersen
Jens Lykke-Andersen is a Danish-trained molecular biologist, Ph.D. from Copenhagen in 1997, and Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego known for work on nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
Jens Muller
Jens Müller (Jens Muller), German luger born 1965 in Torgau; 1988 Olympic singles gold for East Germany, 1998 bronze, 2000 world champion, later Germany's skeleton national coach 2002-2018.
Jens Munk Island
Jens Munk Island names two Arctic islands honoring explorer Jens Munk: Kapuiviit (ᑲᐳᐃᕖᑦ), a 920 km² uninhabited island in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada, and Jens Munks Ø, a 471 km² island in Sermersooq, Greenland.
Jens Munk Ø
Jens Munk Ø (Jens Munk Island, Jens Munks Ø) is an uninhabited 493 km² island in the Søren Norby Islands, Sermersooq, eastern Greenland, named for explorer Jens Munk; distinct from the Nunavut island of the same name.
Jens Nielsen
Jens Nielsen, born 1962 in Horsens, Denmark, is a Danish-Swedish systems biologist, professor at Chalmers University, CEO of the BioInnovation Institute, and founder of several biotech companies.
Jens Nørskov
Jens Nørskov, also known as Jens K. Nørskov, is a Danish theoretical physicist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for computational catalyst design.
Jens Olsen's World Clock
Jens Olsen's World Clock (Danish: Jens Olsens Verdensur) is a large astronomical clock in Copenhagen City Hall, designed by clockmaker Jens Olsen and started by King Frederik IX in 1955.
Jens Overgaard
Jens Overgaard is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of experimental clinical oncology at Aarhus University Hospital, known for the DAHANCA fractionation trials in head-and-neck cancer.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, a central figure of Denmark's Modern Breakthrough who translated Darwin's major works into Danish.