List of Famous people named Janus

Janus of Cyprus was a King of Cyprus and titular King of Armenian Cilicia and Jerusalem from 1398 to 1432.

Janus Dousa, Lord of Noordwyck, was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library.

Janus Andreas Bartholin la Cour was a Danish painter who is remembered for his landscapes painted in the classical style of the Eckersberg school.

Janus Hellemons was a Dutch racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1938 Tour de France.

Janus Lascaris, also called John Rhyndacenus, was a noted Greek scholar in the Renaissance.

Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion, in May 2011.

Janus Metz Pedersen is a Danish film director and documentary filmmaker.

Giovan Paolo Parisio (1470–1522), who used the classicised pseudonym Aulo Giano Parrasio or Aulus Janus Parrhasius, was a humanist scholar and grammarian from Cosenza, in Calabria in southern Italy. He was thus sometimes known as "Cosentius". He was a member of the Accademia Pontaniana of Naples, and founded the Accademia Cosentina, an accademia or learned society in Cosenza, in 1511–12.