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Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling (Jane Sterling Adriance, 1921–2004), American actress of film noir and 1950s drama; Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning supporting actress for The High and the Mighty, memorable in Ace in the Hole.
Jan Struś
Jan Struś (Józef Struś, Latinized Josephus Struthius, 1510–1568) was a Polish Renaissance physician and burgomaster of Poznań whose book Sphygmicae artis transformed the study of the pulse.
Jan Suraaj Party (जन सुराज पार्टी)
Jan Suraaj Party (जन सुराज पार्टी), a Bihar political party launched by Prashant Kishor on 2 October 2024 after a two-year padayatra; development-focused, school bag symbol, contested all 243 seats in 2025, later won the Bankipur bypoll.
Jan Syrový
Born 1888, Jan Syrový was a highly influential Czechoslovak general, serving as the first in his post as Chief of the General Staff and PM during the Munich crisis.
Jan Szczepanski
Jan Szczepanski (Jan Antoni Szczepański, 1939-2017), Polish amateur boxer for Legia Warszawa; 1972 Munich Olympic lightweight gold medalist and 1971 Madrid European champion; six-time Polish champion.
Jan Tack
Jan Tack is a Belgian physician-scientist in gastroenterology, professor at KU Leuven and President of the Rome Foundation, known for research on functional dyspepsia and disorders of gut-brain interaction.
Jan Tarnowski
Jan Tarnowski, full name Jan Amor Tarnowski, was a Polish magnate and soldier who served as Grand Hetman of the Crown and won the Battle of Obertyn in 1531.
Jan Tauc
Jan Tauc (1922–2010) was a Czech-born American semiconductor physicist who worked in Prague and was a professor at Brown University from 1970 to 1992, known for the Tauc plot.
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek (1911–2007) was a Dutch physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University, the O in DLVO theory, the standard account of why colloidal suspensions stay dispersed or coagulate.
Jan Tinbergen
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) was a Dutch economist who shared the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969 and built the world's first econometric macroeconomic model.
Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop (Johannes Theodorus Toorop, 1858–1928) was a Dutch-Indonesian painter and graphic artist, born in Java, whose Symbolist and Art Nouveau work shaped Dutch art around 1900.
Jan Tops
Jan Tops (born 1961, Valkenswaard) is a Dutch show jumper, Olympic team gold medalist at Barcelona 1992 on Top Gun, and founder-president of the Longines Global Champions Tour (2006) and Stal Tops.
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.