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Jan P. Vandenbroucke
Jan P. Vandenbroucke (J. P. Vandenbroucke) is a Belgian-born Dutch clinical epidemiologist, professor at Leiden from 1986 to 2015, coauthor of the STROBE reporting guidelines, and researcher of thrombosis risk from oral contraceptives.
Jan Palach
Jan Palach (1948-1969), Czech student of Charles University's Faculty of Arts, self-immolated on Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969, signing as Torch No. 1, to rouse the public after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) was a Polish essayist, novelist, and translator best known for Mitologia (1924), his prose Odyssey, and 45 years as president of the Polish PEN Club.
Jan Paternotte
Jan Paternotte is a Dutch politician of Democrats 66 (D66) who chairs the party's parliamentary group, the Defence committee, and the Committee on Intelligence and Security Services.
Jan Patočka
Jan Patočka (1907–1977), Czech phenomenologist, Charter 77 spokesman, died after police interrogation; author of Heretical Essays and Plato and Europe.
Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch CDA politician born 1956 in Kapelle, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 2002–2010 leading four cabinets, later Erasmus University professor and Minister of State since 2022.
Jan Peter Tewes
Jan Peter Tewes (born 1968, Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German field hockey player, 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist and 1996 Atlanta Olympian, brother of Stefan Tewes, with 190 German caps.
Jan Peter Toennies
Jan Peter Toennies, born 1930 in Philadelphia, is a physical chemist who pioneered crossed molecular beams and helium nanodroplet isolation spectroscopy, directing a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen from 1969 to 1998.
Jan Philipp Rabente
Jan Philipp Rabente (born 1987, Essen) is a German field hockey player, Olympic gold medalist 2012 after scoring both goals in the 2-1 final vs the Netherlands, 163 caps, Euro champion 2013, now German indoor head coach.
Jan Pieterse
Jan Pieterse (Johannes Aloysius Maria Pieterse), Dutch road cyclist (1942-2026); won Olympic gold in the 100 km team time trial at Tokyo 1964 with Dolman, Karstens, and Zoet; 1963 Tour of Austria winner.
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587–1629) was a Dutch merchant and the fourth Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, who founded Batavia in 1619 and established Dutch rule in Indonesia.
Jan Posthuma
Jan Posthuma (Jan Marcus Posthuma, born 1963, Dokkum) is a Dutch volleyball player, 352 caps 1982-1996, three Olympics: fifth 1988, silver 1992, gold 1996; also 1989 European bronze and 1994 World silver.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.