List of Famous people named Jan

Name Jan is among the most common names in Germany, Canada, Australia. Shortened forms: Jean. Similar names: Jean, Jane, Jana, Janne, Jani, Jann, Jaan, Janna, Janni, Janny, Jannie, Jaana, Jian, Jahn, Janio, Janaya, Jaani, Janie, Jany, Janae, Janey. Here are some famous Jans:

Jan van Goyen

Jan Josephsz. Van Goyen
First Name Jan
Last Name Goyen
Born on January 13, 1596
Died on April 27, 1656 (aged 60)

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.

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Jan Urban Jarník

First Name Jan
Last Name Jarník
Born on May 25, 1848
Died on January 12, 1923 (aged 74)
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Jan Chapman

First Name Jan
Last Name Chapman
Born on March 28, 1950 (age 76)

Jan Chapman is an Australian film producer. Films produced by Chapman include The Last Days of Chez Nous, The Piano, Love Serenade, Holy Smoke!, and Lantana.

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Jan Decorte

First Name Jan
Last Name Decorte
Born on May 9, 1950 (age 76)
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Ján Zachara

First Name Ján
Last Name Zachara
Born on August 27, 1928 (age 97)

Ján Zachara is a former Czechoslovak boxer who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zachara also competed in 1956, losing in a quarterfinal to Pentti Hämäläinen of Finland on points. He was born in Kubrá, a borough of Trenčín, present-day Slovakia.

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Jan Jansz. de Heem

First Name Jan
Last Name Heem
Born on July 2, 1650
Died on May 1, 1695 (aged 44)

Jan Janszoon de Heem was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter and the son of Jan Davidszoon de Heem (1606–1684) and the half-brother of Cornelis de Heem (1631–1995). This family of still-life specialists, of which father Jan Davidszoon de Heem is the most significant, had a strong impact on the genre throughout the north and south Netherlands.

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Jan Bos

First Name Jan
Last Name Bos
Born on March 29, 1975 (age 51)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

Jan Bos is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.

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Jan Troell

First Name Jan
Last Name Troell
Born on July 23, 1931 (age 94)

Jan Gustaf Troell is a Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.

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Jan Johannes Rutgers

First Name Jan
Last Name Rutgers
Born on August 28, 1589
Died on October 26, 1625 (aged 36)
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Jan Santini Aichel

First Name Jan
Last Name Aichel
Died on December 7, 1723
Born in Czech Republic

Jan Blažej Santini Aichel was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Gothic style - the special combination of the Baroque and Gothic styles.

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