List of Famous people named Jan

Jan T. Vilček is a biomedical scientist, educator, inventor and philanthropist. He is a professor in the department of microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine, and chairman and CEO of The Vilcek Foundation. Vilček, a native of Bratislava, Slovakia, received his M.D. degree from Comenius University Medical School, Bratislava in 1957; and his Ph.D. in Virology from the Institute of Virology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1962. In 1964, Vilček, with his wife Marica, defected from Communist Czechoslovakia during a three-day visit to Vienna. In 1965, the Vilčeks immigrated to the United States, and have since lived in New York City. Vilček devoted his scientific career to studies of soluble mediators that regulate the immune system (cytokines), including interferon and tumor necrosis factor (TNF).

Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.

Jan Antonín Baťa was a Czech shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště, half-brother of Tomáš Baťa.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Such was his fame that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all that they needed to put as the address was "Purkyně, Europe".

Jan Pieter Brueghel or Jan Peeter Brueghel was a Flemish painter specialised in flower still lifes and garland paintings. A scion of the famous Brueghel family of painters, he trained in Antwerp with his father and later worked in Liège, Paris and Italy.

Jan Kodeš is a Czech former tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles events in the early 1970s.

Jan Suchý was an ice hockey player from Německý Brod, Czechoslovakia. He was sometimes referred to as the "European Bobby Orr".

Jan Kropidło, was an ecclesiastic leader in Poland during the late Middle Ages.