List of Famous people named Jan

Jan Kříženecký was Czech cinema pioneer, film director, cinematographer and photographer.

Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist Wilhelm G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.

Ján Sokol is a Slovak archbishop and former Archbishop of Trnava.

Jan Ghyselinck is a Belgian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2016 for the HTC–Highroad, Cofidis, Wanty–Groupe Gobert and Verandas Willems teams.

Jan Kavan is a former Czech politician and diplomat.

Jan Mertens the Younger was a South Netherlandish painter, at the end of the period of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born and died in Antwerp. His father was the sculptor Jan Mertens the Elder, whose family is thought to have originated in Tournai. Mertens the Younger was apprenticed to the painter Jan Gossaert in 1505, and he became a master of the Antwerp painters' guild in 1509. He was the father-in-law of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, who married Mertens’s daughter Anna before 1526, and whose work has been used as the basis for the identification of Mertens with the Master of 1518, an Antwerp painter named after the date inscribed on the painted wings of a carved wooden altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin in St. Mary's Church, Lübeck.

Jan Hendrik Bruinier is a German mathematician, whose work focuses on number theory.