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Jan Amora Jan Amora (Amharic "Royal eagle") is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Gondar Zone, Jan Amora is bordered on the south by Belessa, on the southwest by Wegera, on the west by Debarq, on the north by Addi Arkay, and on the east by Beyeda.
Jan Anderson Jan Anderson (born 17 June 1974 in Porthcawl, Wales, UK) is a Welsh actress. She is most well known in the United Kingdom for portraying the character of Staff Nurse Chloe Hill in the BBC series Casualty and Holby City between 1998 and 2002.
Jan Andersson Jan Andersson (born 17 March 1947 in Helsingborg, Scania) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621-1693) was a notable Polish poet, member of the landed gentry, and official in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As official he held the posts of Starost of, among other locales, Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal.
Jan Arnoldus Schouten Jan Arnoldus Schouten (August 28, 1883 - January 20, 1971) was a Dutch mathematician. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.
Jan Arnow Jan Arnow (1947-) is most commonly known for her work as the founder and director of the Institute for Intercultural Understanding, the No More Violence Project, and the Stand and Be Counted group, but she is also the author eight published books, a teacher, activist, artist, and mother of three.
Jan August Jan August Born Jan Auggustoff, (born 24 September 1904, New York City Died 9 January 1976, New York City) was an American pianist and xylophonist. He had a hit with version of "Misirlou" in 1947, and had with several other songs that blended classical styles and latin beats.
Jan August Cichocki Jan August Cichocki (1750-1795) was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army, notable for his service in the Warsaw Uprising (1794). Thanks to a scholarship funded by Alois Bruhl, Cichocki studied artillery tactics in Dresden.
Jan Backus Jan Backus served as a Vermont State Senator representing Windham County from 1988-1994 and Chittenden County from 1996-2000. A community activist, Backus served as a member of the Vermont Southeast Supervisory Union board for many years before making a run for the Senate and winning a seat.
Jan Bach Jan Bach (born December 11, 1937 in Forrest, Illinois) is an American composer, former music professor, and musical performer. He taught at the University of Tampa (Florida) from 1965 to 1966 and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (music theory and composition) from 1966 to 2002.
Jan Banaś Jan Banaś (born Hans Dieter Banas in March 29, 1943 in the Schönberg district of Berlin) is a Polish footballer, who began his career as a youngster playing for AKS Mikołów (1956-59) before moving to play for Zryw Chorzów in 1959-62, and then for Polonia Bytom (1962-69) and Górnik Zabrze (1969-75). Between his first call-up for Poland in 1964 and his last in 1973, he earned 31 caps, scoring nine goals (or ten, if the ambiguous goal in the 1973 win over England is credited to him).
Jan Bazen Jan Bazen (born January 3, 1948) is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. There he finished in sixth place in the men's 500 metres, together with Norway's Arnulf Sunde.
Jan Bednarek Jan Bednarek (born August 10, 1955 in GĹ‚Ăłwczyce) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 1102 votes in 40 Koszalin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Jan Behrendt Jan Behrendt (born November 29, 1967 in Berlin) is a retired German luger. Together with Stefan KrauĂźe he won two Olympic gold medals (1992, 1998), one silver medal (1988) and one bronze (1994) in Men's Doubles.
Jan Berglin Jan Berglin (born 1960) is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion.
Jan Bestry Jan Bestry (born May 18, 1954 in Szczecin) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6941 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Jan Betker Jan Betker (born July 19, 1960 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler. Betker, who played the third position on the team of the late Sandra Schmirler, has taken over the position of skip created by Schmirler’s death.
Jan Boklöv Jan Boklöv (born April 14, 1966, in Koskullskulle near Gällivare, Sweden) is one of the most successful Swedish ski jumpers of all time, probably only rivaled by Sven Selånger. He won the World Cup in 1988/89, and dominated the Swedish championships in the late 1980's.
Jan Borren Jan Joachim Borren (born September 27, 1947 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national teams competing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was born in Holland, just like his younger brother Arthur, who won the golden medal with the NZ field hockey team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Jan Borysewicz Jan Borysewicz (born April 17, 1955, in Wrocław, Poland) is the co-founder and guitar player for Lady Pank, one of the most successful Polish rock bands. He's also "the brains" behind their music as he composes most of their music.
Jan Brøgger Jan Christian Brøgger (born January 13 1936 in Paris, France, died February 28 2006 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian professor of social anthropology and a clinical psychologist. He was one of the most well-known Norwegian academics of his generation.
Jan Breytenbach Jan Breytenbach is the founding commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando - the forerunner of the present Special Forces Brigade of the SANDF and the equivalent of the British SAS (Special Air Service) in South Africa. He also founded 32 Battalion, known colloquially as Buffalo Battalion.
Jan Brokoff Jan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, (1652 in Spišská Sobota, today in Slovakia, then in Royal Hungary - 1718 in Prague) was a baroque-era sculptor and carver of German origin born in Slovakia and later working and living in Bohemia. He was the father of the sculptors Michael Brokoff and Ferdinand Brokoff.
Jan Brown Janet (Jan) Corinne Brown (born June 22, 1947 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a former Canadian politician of Croatian descent. She was first elected as a Member of Parliament under the Reform Party of Canada ticket in the Alberta riding of Calgary Southeast in the 1993 federal election.
Jan Brown Lohr Jan Brown Lohr was a flight attendant for United Airlines and is presently an advocate for child safety on airlines. She was on the crew for the fated United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed outside Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989, while attempting an emergency landing.
Jan Bryant Bartell Jannis (Jan) Bryant Bartell, American author, was born in New York City in 1921 and died in New Rochelle, New York in 1973. Best known as the author of Spindrift: Spray From a Psychic Sea, she was also a poet, lecturer and off Broadway actress.
Jan Brzechwa Jan Brzechwa, real name Jan Lesman (August 15, 1898 – July 2, 1966) was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to children's literature. He was also a famous translator of Russian literature, translating mostly works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Sergey Yesienin and Vladimir Mayakovskiy.
Jan Bultman Jan Arend Bultman (born May 26, 1942 in Deventer) is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch Men's National Team that finished in eighth position at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Jan Byk Franciszek Starowieyski (pseudonym Jan Byk) (1930) is a Polish painter, graphic artists, and scenographer. His work is characterised by its richly ornamental brush-strokes, and his favourite motifs are the passing of time, death, and the horizons of civilisation.
Jan Bytnar Jan Bytnar codename: Rudy, Czarny, Janek, Krokodyl, Jan Rudy (b. May 6, 1921 in Kolbuszowa - March 30, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), Polish Scouting resistance activist and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War.
Jan Caloun Jan ÄŚaloun (born December 20, 1972 in ĂšstĂ nad Labem, Czech Republic) is a professional hockey player currently playing for HC Pardubice of the Czech Elite League. He is 178 cm (5'11") tall, 80 kg (176 lbs) in weight.
Jan Campert Jan Campert (August 15, 1902 — January 12, 1943 was a journalist], theater [[critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews.
Jan Carlo DeFan Jan Carlo DeFan (born December 26, 1977 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico), former CEO and co-founder of Silverlight Records, now chairs the board of directors for Abbywho, Inc., (an entertainment conglomerate consisting of 2 record labels, a publishing company, a management firm, a booking agency, an advertising firm and a music education consultancy consortium).
Jan Carson Jan Carson was a stripper in the employ of the Raymond Revue Bar in London in the 1960s. Her claim to fame was her appearance in The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour, wherein she appeared performing a striptease to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's song Death Cab for Cutie, performed live onstage by that band with the lead singer interacting with Carson.
Jan Cock Blomhoff Jan Cock Blomhoff (Amsterdam, August 5, 1779 - Amersfoort, August 15, 1853) was director ("opperhoofd") of Dejima, the Dutch trading colony in the harbour of Nagasaki, Japan, 1817 - 1824, succeeding Hendrik Doeff.
Jan Conn Jan Conn (born 1952) is a Canadian poet who lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto.
Jan Cox (philosopher) Jan Cox (b.June 2,1938 - November 5, 2005) is a controversial figure, was an Atlanta, Georgia based self proclaimed philosopher who had some unique ideas regarding reality, consciousness, society and where that one-shoe-in-the-road came from. He was considered by some to be a philosopher, musician, postmodern mystic, an author, an aspiring politician, and television personality, while others also considered him to be an “entertainer of ideas,” and teacher of point-blank reality.
Jan Crawford Greenburg Jan Crawford Greenburg, University of Chicago Law School alumna, is a legal correspondent for ABC News. She previously was legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune and provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Jan Crouch Jan Crouch (born Janice Wendell Bethany, 1937) is the co-founder, vice-president and director of programming of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, the world's largest Christian television network. She is the daughter of an Assemblies of God pastor.
Jan Cyrka Jan Cyrka is a British guitar player. After a stint in Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction (under the name Flash Bastard), he released his critically acclaimed debut, "Beyond The Common Ground," in 1992.
Jan Czeczot Jan Czeczot (Belarusian: Ян Чачот, Jan Čačot, 1796-1847) was a Belarusian and Polish romantic poet and ethnographer. Fascinated by folk lore and traditional folk songs of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he recollected hundreds of them in his works.
Jan Czochralski Jan Czochralski (pronounced cho-HRAL-skee) (October 23, 1885 - April 22, 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used to grow single crystals and is used in the production of semiconductor wafers.
Jan de Vries Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (born February 11, 1890 in Amsterdam — died July 23, 1964 in Utrecht) was a Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, ordinarius 1926 to 1945 at Leiden University.
Jan de Witte Jan de Witte (1709-1785) was a Polish military engineer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in LwĂłw (modern Lviv, Ukraine) and the Carmelite monastery in BerdyczĂłw (modern Berdychiv, Ukraine), he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski.
Jan De Vos Jan De Vos was mayor of Antwerp (Belgium) from March 15 1909 until July 21 1921. He stayed on as mayor after the capture of Antwerp by German forces during World War I, and remained in office after the end of German occupation and World War I.
Jan Delay Jan Delay (born Jan Phillip EiĂźfeldt in 1976 in Hamburg) is a German singer and songwriter who came to fame as a member of the bands La Boom and Beginner. Besides hip hop many of his songs can be considered as reggae or dub.
Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (December 1 1415 - May 19, 1480), also known as Joannes, Ioannes or Johannes Longinus or Dlugossius, was a Polish chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is best known for his Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae (The Annals of Jan Długosz), covering events in southeastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died.
Jan Domarski Jan Domarski (born October 28, 1946) was a Polish football player and bronze-medal winner in the 1974 World Cup tournament in Germany. He played in seventeen matches for the Polish national football team and was a double-champion with the club Stal Mielec.
Jan Drago Jan Drago is a member and former president of the Seattle City Council in the United States. She was first elected in 1993 and as of September 2004 is chair of the Government Affairs & Labor Committee, vice chair of the Housing, Human Services & Health Committee, and a member of the Utilities & Technology Committee.
Jan Duursema Jan Duursema (born 27th of October, 1954) is an artist who has produced illustrations for many Star Wars comics. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos.
Jan Dzierżon Jan Dzierżon (Polish) or Johann Dzierzon (German) (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906) was PolishBritanica Encyclopaedia, 15th edition; article "Dzierżoniów" page 312; online version (retrieved on 23 Jan 2007)Other English language sources identifying him as Polish include
Jan Eekhout Jan Eekhout (born Sluis, 10 January 1900; died Amsterdam, 6 March 1978) was a Dutch writer, particularly known as the author of the novel Pastoor Poncke ("Pastor Poncke"). The Dutch resistance fighter Poncke Princen gained his nickname by reading aloud from this book to fellow-prisoners in a Nazi prison during World War II.
Jan Eggum Jan Eggum (born on December 8, 1951 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter who has been active since 1975. He is often characterised as a "face for the melancholy", and the themes in his songs are often broken hearts, loneliness and sorrow.
Jan Eliasson Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat with connections to the Social Democratic party. He is the former President of the United Nations General Assembly and was Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 24, 2006 until October 6 2006.
Jan Eskymo Welzl Jan Eskymo Welzl (15 August 1868, Zábřeh - 19 September 1948 Dawson, Canada) was a Czech traveller, adventurer, hunter, gold-digger, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice in New Siberia and later story-teller and writer. He is known under the pseudonym Eskymo Welzl.
Jan Evert Veer Jan Evert Veer (born November 1, 1950 in The Hague) is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 in Munich. After the seventh place in West Germany, four years later the Dutch won the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Jan F. Esser Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser (1877–1946) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have coined the term "stent" in 1917 to describe his use of a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885) to create a form for facial reconstruction.
Jan Fennell Jan Fennell, "The dog listener", is an English dog lover and dog trainer who adapted the method developed by Monty Roberts for horses to understanding dogs, based on the insight that dogs behave naturally to their own understanding, not humans'. Her books and her personal work as a dog trainer has helped many dog owners and their dogs, specifically dogs mistaken as "problem dogs", some of which were about to be euthanasized due to what was really the inability of their owners to handle them in a suitable and "dog-understandable" way.
Jan Fethke Jean Forge (pen name of Jan Fethke) was born 26 February 1903 in Oppeln, at that time in Germany, and died 16 December 1980. He was a Pole and worked as a film director (at UFA, with Fritz Lang) and as a successful author.
Jan Filip Libicki Jan Filip Libicki (born January 17, 1971 in Poznań) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 17503 votes in 39 Poznań district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Jan Frans van Bloemen Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1740), Flemish painter, was born at Antwerp, and studied and lived in Rome. He was nicknamed Orizonte, on account of the distance he painted in his landscapes, which are reminiscent of Gaspard Poussin and much admired.
Jan Gangelhoff Jan Gangelhoff (1948/1949 - February 28, 2005) was an academic counselor at the University of Minnesota who was the primary whistleblower for the academic scandal of the men’s basketball team during the tenure of Coach Clem Haskins.
Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek (born March 4, 1947 in Mysen, Norway) a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war and a Norwegian farmer's daughter.
Jan Gebauer Jan Gebauer (October 8, 1838, Úbislavice – May 25, 1907, Prague) was a significant Czech expert on Czech studies and one of the most renowned Czech scientists of all times. His scientific work was influenced by the methods of positivism.
Jan Gerard Kemmerling Jan Gerard Kemmerling (February 4, 1776 - January 15, 1818), at the age of 23 he became secretary at the newly established France Canton Heerlen, when the French arrived in Heerlen, in the year 1795, he sympathized with their ideas of Enlightenment and revolution.
Jan Gunnar Solli Jan Gunnar Solli (born April 19, 1981 in Arendal) is a player of the Norwegian football club Rosenborg.He is a hard-working and committed midfield player who can play in the centre or on the right, and he is fast becoming a pivotal figure for club and country.
Jan H. Hofmeyr Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948) was an Afrikaner philanthropist, Minister of Finance and of Education under Jan Smuts (1939), and president of the South African Young Men's Christian Association births|Hofmeyr, Jan H.]
Jan Hanuš Jan Hanuš (May 2, 1915 - July 30, 2004) was an extremely prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political, expressing in turn anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments.
Jan Harlan Jan Harlan is the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's widow. He acted as Kubrick's Executive Producer for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Full Metal Jacket (1987), The Shining (1980) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
Jan Harold Brunvand Jan Harold Brunvand (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah in the United States who is best known for spreading the concept of the urban legend, or modern folklore. Before his work, folk tales were associated with ancient times or rural cultures; Brunvand's breakthrough was to take concepts developed in the academic study of traditional folktales and apply them to stories circulating in the modern world.
Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic (1450 – 1517) was a Bohemian diplomat to Luxembourg 1477 and Rome 1487 in the time of Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. The king sent him to negotiate a marriage with Mary of Burgundy.
Jan Heemskerk Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon (30 July, 1818 - 9 October, 1897) was a Dutch politician, who became the prime minister of the Netherlands in 1874 until 1877, and again in 1883, until 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk was also prime minister, in the period 1908-1913.
Jan Hein Donner Johannes Hendrikus "Jan Hein" Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship three times: 1954, 1957, and 1958.
Jan Heintze Jan Heintze (born August 17, 1963) is a retired Danish professional football (soccer) player, a left-sided defensive midfielder and defender who started and ended his career in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a part of the PSV team which won the 1988 European Cup. He played 86 matches for the Denmark national football team in the course of 15 years, playing four international tournaments with the team, which he captained in his last two years before he retired in 2003.
Jan Hejda Jan Hejda (born June 18, 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, now part of the Czech Republic) is a National Hockey League defenceman currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers. Hejda was originally selected in the 4th round, 106th overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres.
Jan Hendrik Schön Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs (recipient of Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics in 2001, Braunschweig Prize in 2001 and Outstanding Young Investigator
Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz () (1765-1825) was a prominent member of the Polish gentry and military officer, who after the partitions of Poland emigrated to France and aided the French Revolution, becoming an officer and cavalry commander in the French Army. From 1807 he served in the military of Duchy of Warsaw, a temporary Polish state created and allied with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jan Hermansson Jan Hermansson (born 1942) is one of the very first aikido pioneers in Sweden, the only one from that generation of practitioners who still do aikido, one of the most respected aikido practitioner in the country. His rank is 7th dan shihan in the aikido organisation Aikikai.
Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (born June 27, 1967 in Prague) is a Czech film director. He studied with his frequent scriptwriter Petr Jarchovský at secondary school and, from 1987 to 1991, at FAMU, an arts college in Prague for film and television, studying screenplay and dramaturgy.
Jan Hulsker Jan Hulsker (1907 - 2002) studied Dutch literature in Leyden and was promoted with a thesis on the author Aart van der Leeuw. Since 1953 he was appointed to the (Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk werk), in charge of the art department.
Jan Hunt Jan Hunt was a 20th Century British comedian, who appeared on BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart, Peter Glaze and Don Maclean in the 1970s. She would often be seen playing an old lady in dramatisations, involving her donning a grey wig and glasses and putting her hand on her hip to suggest a bad back.
Jan Hus Jan Hus () (, alternative spellings John Hus, Jan Huss, John Huss) (c. 1369 Husinec (Prachatice District), Bohemia – July 6, 1415 Konstanz, Germany) was a Czech religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague.
Jan Ingenhousz Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz (December 8, 1730 - September 7, 1799) was a Dutch-born British physiologist, botanist and physicist. He is best remembered for showing that light is essential to plant respiration,a vital step in the discovery of photosynthesis.
Jan Jagla Jan-Hendrik Jagla (born June 25, 1981 in Berlin, Germany) is a German pro basketball player. He spent three seasons (2001/02-2003/04) at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania before turning pro.
Jan Janský Jan Janský (April 3 1873, Prague – September 8 1921, Černošice near Prague) was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with the first classification of blood into the four types (A, B, AB, O) of the ABO blood group system.
Jan JĂłzef Lipski Jan JĂłzef Lipski (born 26 May 1926 Warsaw, died 10 September 1991 KrakĂłw) - Polish critic and literature historian, socialist politician, freemason (for a long time Master of the Copernicus Lodge). As a soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), he fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
Jan Jelinek Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm & The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as minimal techno, glitch or microhouse, and is characterized by deep basslines, extensive use of samples from earlier jazz and rock recordings, and clicks & cuts effects.
Jan Jesenius Jan Jesenius (also written as Jessenius or known as Ján Jesenský; 1566, Wrocław – 1621, Prague) was a medieval physician, politician and philosopher of Slovak origin. He is renowned rather for his tragic fate than his work in the field of anatomy and surgery.
Jan Joest Jan Joest, also known as Jan Joest van Kalkar or Jan Joest van Calcar, (born between 1450 and 1460 - d. 1519) was a Dutch painter from either Kalkar or Wesel (both now in Germany), known for his religious paintings.
Jan Johansson Jan Johansson (September 16, 1931 – November 9, 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist. He is little known outside Scandinavia, and his records are not widely available, yet his album Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish), has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden.
Jan Jones Jan Jones is a British former software engineer, now a writer of romantic fiction and short stories. In her previous career, she achieved some fame as the architect of the SuperBASIC programming language for the Sinclair QL personal computer while working at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s.
Jan Joseph Godfried baron van Voorst tot Voorst Jan Joseph Godfried, Baron van Voorst tot Voorst (December 29, 1880—November 11, 1963) was the second highest officer in command of the Dutch armed forces during World War II. He was a renowned strategist, who wrote numerous articles and books on modern warfare.
Jan Kesner Gallery The Jan Kesner Gallery is an influential fine art photography gallery in Los Angeles, California. The Gallery has the distinction of being the first woman-owned photography gallery in Los Angeles when it was established in 1987.
Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff The inexorably linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff trace a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in minute detail from the bird's-eye view that was a long-established pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates, London (1707, published in the winter of 1708 – 09).
Jan Kiszka Jan Kiszka (1552-1592), was a politician, magnate, patron and benefactor of Polish brethren in the 16th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Krajczy litewski from 1569, podczaszy litewski and Elder of Samogitia from 1579, castellan of Vilnius from 1588, voivoda of Brest 1589, dzierĹĽawca bystrzycki, ciwun ejragolski.
Jan Křtitel Tolar Jan Křtitel Tolar [Johannes Baptista Dolar] (fl Bohemia/Moravia, late 17th century) - composer and contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Andreas Hofer and Pavel Josef Vejvanovský.
Jan KoĹľeluh Jan KoĹľeluh (1904-1973) was a Czech tennis player of the 1920s, not to be confused with his older brother Karel KoĹľeluh (1895 - 1950), a player of the same era. Although Karel was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2006, Jan is almost totally forgotten today outside his native Czechoslovakia.
Jan Konůpek Jan Konůpek (October 10, 1883 in Mladá Boleslav - March 13 1950 in Prague) was an internationally renowned Czech painter, illustrator, and engraver. A list of his graphic works comprises 1448 works and more than 600 book illustrations.
Jan Kounen Jan Kounen(May 2, 1964) is a French film director and producer born in the Netherlands. He is perhaps most known for his interest in Shipipo-Conibo culture and shamanism, with which he became familiar during his trips in Mexico and Peru.
Jan Kozietulski Baron Jan Kozietulski (1781 - 1821) was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars. He is best remembered as a heroic commander of the Polish cavalry charge during the battle of Somosierra.
Jan Anderson Jan Anderson (born 17 June 1974 in Porthcawl, Wales, UK) is a Welsh actress. She is most well known in the United Kingdom for portraying the character of Staff Nurse Chloe Hill in the BBC series Casualty and Holby City between 1998 and 2002.
Jan Andersson Jan Andersson (born 17 March 1947 in Helsingborg, Scania) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621-1693) was a notable Polish poet, member of the landed gentry, and official in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As official he held the posts of Starost of, among other locales, Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal.
Jan Arnoldus Schouten Jan Arnoldus Schouten (August 28, 1883 - January 20, 1971) was a Dutch mathematician. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.
Jan Arnow Jan Arnow (1947-) is most commonly known for her work as the founder and director of the Institute for Intercultural Understanding, the No More Violence Project, and the Stand and Be Counted group, but she is also the author eight published books, a teacher, activist, artist, and mother of three.
Jan August Jan August Born Jan Auggustoff, (born 24 September 1904, New York City Died 9 January 1976, New York City) was an American pianist and xylophonist. He had a hit with version of "Misirlou" in 1947, and had with several other songs that blended classical styles and latin beats.
Jan August Cichocki Jan August Cichocki (1750-1795) was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army, notable for his service in the Warsaw Uprising (1794). Thanks to a scholarship funded by Alois Bruhl, Cichocki studied artillery tactics in Dresden.
Jan Backus Jan Backus served as a Vermont State Senator representing Windham County from 1988-1994 and Chittenden County from 1996-2000. A community activist, Backus served as a member of the Vermont Southeast Supervisory Union board for many years before making a run for the Senate and winning a seat.
Jan Bach Jan Bach (born December 11, 1937 in Forrest, Illinois) is an American composer, former music professor, and musical performer. He taught at the University of Tampa (Florida) from 1965 to 1966 and at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb (music theory and composition) from 1966 to 2002.
Jan Banaś Jan Banaś (born Hans Dieter Banas in March 29, 1943 in the Schönberg district of Berlin) is a Polish footballer, who began his career as a youngster playing for AKS Mikołów (1956-59) before moving to play for Zryw Chorzów in 1959-62, and then for Polonia Bytom (1962-69) and Górnik Zabrze (1969-75). Between his first call-up for Poland in 1964 and his last in 1973, he earned 31 caps, scoring nine goals (or ten, if the ambiguous goal in the 1973 win over England is credited to him).
Jan Bazen Jan Bazen (born January 3, 1948) is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. There he finished in sixth place in the men's 500 metres, together with Norway's Arnulf Sunde.
Jan Bednarek Jan Bednarek (born August 10, 1955 in GĹ‚Ăłwczyce) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 1102 votes in 40 Koszalin district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Jan Behrendt Jan Behrendt (born November 29, 1967 in Berlin) is a retired German luger. Together with Stefan KrauĂźe he won two Olympic gold medals (1992, 1998), one silver medal (1988) and one bronze (1994) in Men's Doubles.
Jan Berglin Jan Berglin (born 1960) is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion.
Jan Bestry Jan Bestry (born May 18, 1954 in Szczecin) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 6941 votes in 4 Bydgoszcz district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Jan Betker Jan Betker (born July 19, 1960 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler. Betker, who played the third position on the team of the late Sandra Schmirler, has taken over the position of skip created by Schmirler’s death.
Jan Boklöv Jan Boklöv (born April 14, 1966, in Koskullskulle near Gällivare, Sweden) is one of the most successful Swedish ski jumpers of all time, probably only rivaled by Sven Selånger. He won the World Cup in 1988/89, and dominated the Swedish championships in the late 1980's.
Jan Borren Jan Joachim Borren (born September 27, 1947 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national teams competing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was born in Holland, just like his younger brother Arthur, who won the golden medal with the NZ field hockey team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Jan Borysewicz Jan Borysewicz (born April 17, 1955, in Wrocław, Poland) is the co-founder and guitar player for Lady Pank, one of the most successful Polish rock bands. He's also "the brains" behind their music as he composes most of their music.
Jan Brøgger Jan Christian Brøgger (born January 13 1936 in Paris, France, died February 28 2006 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian professor of social anthropology and a clinical psychologist. He was one of the most well-known Norwegian academics of his generation.
Jan Breytenbach Jan Breytenbach is the founding commander of 1 Reconnaissance Commando - the forerunner of the present Special Forces Brigade of the SANDF and the equivalent of the British SAS (Special Air Service) in South Africa. He also founded 32 Battalion, known colloquially as Buffalo Battalion.
Jan Brokoff Jan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, (1652 in Spišská Sobota, today in Slovakia, then in Royal Hungary - 1718 in Prague) was a baroque-era sculptor and carver of German origin born in Slovakia and later working and living in Bohemia. He was the father of the sculptors Michael Brokoff and Ferdinand Brokoff.
Jan Brown Janet (Jan) Corinne Brown (born June 22, 1947 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a former Canadian politician of Croatian descent. She was first elected as a Member of Parliament under the Reform Party of Canada ticket in the Alberta riding of Calgary Southeast in the 1993 federal election.
Jan Brown Lohr Jan Brown Lohr was a flight attendant for United Airlines and is presently an advocate for child safety on airlines. She was on the crew for the fated United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed outside Sioux City, Iowa on July 19, 1989, while attempting an emergency landing.
Jan Bryant Bartell Jannis (Jan) Bryant Bartell, American author, was born in New York City in 1921 and died in New Rochelle, New York in 1973. Best known as the author of Spindrift: Spray From a Psychic Sea, she was also a poet, lecturer and off Broadway actress.
Jan Brzechwa Jan Brzechwa, real name Jan Lesman (August 15, 1898 – July 2, 1966) was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to children's literature. He was also a famous translator of Russian literature, translating mostly works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Sergey Yesienin and Vladimir Mayakovskiy.
Jan Bultman Jan Arend Bultman (born May 26, 1942 in Deventer) is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch Men's National Team that finished in eighth position at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Jan Byk Franciszek Starowieyski (pseudonym Jan Byk) (1930) is a Polish painter, graphic artists, and scenographer. His work is characterised by its richly ornamental brush-strokes, and his favourite motifs are the passing of time, death, and the horizons of civilisation.
Jan Bytnar Jan Bytnar codename: Rudy, Czarny, Janek, Krokodyl, Jan Rudy (b. May 6, 1921 in Kolbuszowa - March 30, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), Polish Scouting resistance activist and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War.
Jan Caloun Jan ÄŚaloun (born December 20, 1972 in ĂšstĂ nad Labem, Czech Republic) is a professional hockey player currently playing for HC Pardubice of the Czech Elite League. He is 178 cm (5'11") tall, 80 kg (176 lbs) in weight.
Jan Campert Jan Campert (August 15, 1902 — January 12, 1943 was a journalist], theater [[critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews.
Jan Carlo DeFan Jan Carlo DeFan (born December 26, 1977 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico), former CEO and co-founder of Silverlight Records, now chairs the board of directors for Abbywho, Inc., (an entertainment conglomerate consisting of 2 record labels, a publishing company, a management firm, a booking agency, an advertising firm and a music education consultancy consortium).
Jan Carson Jan Carson was a stripper in the employ of the Raymond Revue Bar in London in the 1960s. Her claim to fame was her appearance in The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour, wherein she appeared performing a striptease to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's song Death Cab for Cutie, performed live onstage by that band with the lead singer interacting with Carson.
Jan Cock Blomhoff Jan Cock Blomhoff (Amsterdam, August 5, 1779 - Amersfoort, August 15, 1853) was director ("opperhoofd") of Dejima, the Dutch trading colony in the harbour of Nagasaki, Japan, 1817 - 1824, succeeding Hendrik Doeff.
Jan Conn Jan Conn (born 1952) is a Canadian poet who lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and does research on mosquito genetics at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto.
Jan Cox (philosopher) Jan Cox (b.June 2,1938 - November 5, 2005) is a controversial figure, was an Atlanta, Georgia based self proclaimed philosopher who had some unique ideas regarding reality, consciousness, society and where that one-shoe-in-the-road came from. He was considered by some to be a philosopher, musician, postmodern mystic, an author, an aspiring politician, and television personality, while others also considered him to be an “entertainer of ideas,” and teacher of point-blank reality.
Jan Crawford Greenburg Jan Crawford Greenburg, University of Chicago Law School alumna, is a legal correspondent for ABC News. She previously was legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune and provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Jan Crouch Jan Crouch (born Janice Wendell Bethany, 1937) is the co-founder, vice-president and director of programming of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, the world's largest Christian television network. She is the daughter of an Assemblies of God pastor.
Jan Cyrka Jan Cyrka is a British guitar player. After a stint in Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction (under the name Flash Bastard), he released his critically acclaimed debut, "Beyond The Common Ground," in 1992.
Jan Czeczot Jan Czeczot (Belarusian: Ян Чачот, Jan Čačot, 1796-1847) was a Belarusian and Polish romantic poet and ethnographer. Fascinated by folk lore and traditional folk songs of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he recollected hundreds of them in his works.
Jan Czochralski Jan Czochralski (pronounced cho-HRAL-skee) (October 23, 1885 - April 22, 1953) was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used to grow single crystals and is used in the production of semiconductor wafers.
Jan de Vries Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (born February 11, 1890 in Amsterdam — died July 23, 1964 in Utrecht) was a Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, ordinarius 1926 to 1945 at Leiden University.
Jan de Witte Jan de Witte (1709-1785) was a Polish military engineer and architect of Dutch descent. The author of, among others, the Dominican church in LwĂłw (modern Lviv, Ukraine) and the Carmelite monastery in BerdyczĂłw (modern Berdychiv, Ukraine), he was also the military commandant of the fortress at Kamieniec Podolski.
Jan De Vos Jan De Vos was mayor of Antwerp (Belgium) from March 15 1909 until July 21 1921. He stayed on as mayor after the capture of Antwerp by German forces during World War I, and remained in office after the end of German occupation and World War I.
Jan Delay Jan Delay (born Jan Phillip EiĂźfeldt in 1976 in Hamburg) is a German singer and songwriter who came to fame as a member of the bands La Boom and Beginner. Besides hip hop many of his songs can be considered as reggae or dub.
Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (December 1 1415 - May 19, 1480), also known as Joannes, Ioannes or Johannes Longinus or Dlugossius, was a Polish chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Cardinal Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is best known for his Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae (The Annals of Jan Długosz), covering events in southeastern Europe, but also in Western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died.
Jan Domarski Jan Domarski (born October 28, 1946) was a Polish football player and bronze-medal winner in the 1974 World Cup tournament in Germany. He played in seventeen matches for the Polish national football team and was a double-champion with the club Stal Mielec.
Jan Drago Jan Drago is a member and former president of the Seattle City Council in the United States. She was first elected in 1993 and as of September 2004 is chair of the Government Affairs & Labor Committee, vice chair of the Housing, Human Services & Health Committee, and a member of the Utilities & Technology Committee.
Jan Duursema Jan Duursema (born 27th of October, 1954) is an artist who has produced illustrations for many Star Wars comics. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos.
Jan Dzierżon Jan Dzierżon (Polish) or Johann Dzierzon (German) (16 January 1811 – 26 October 1906) was PolishBritanica Encyclopaedia, 15th edition; article "Dzierżoniów" page 312; online version (retrieved on 23 Jan 2007)Other English language sources identifying him as Polish include
Jan Eekhout Jan Eekhout (born Sluis, 10 January 1900; died Amsterdam, 6 March 1978) was a Dutch writer, particularly known as the author of the novel Pastoor Poncke ("Pastor Poncke"). The Dutch resistance fighter Poncke Princen gained his nickname by reading aloud from this book to fellow-prisoners in a Nazi prison during World War II.
Jan Eggum Jan Eggum (born on December 8, 1951 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter who has been active since 1975. He is often characterised as a "face for the melancholy", and the themes in his songs are often broken hearts, loneliness and sorrow.
Jan Eliasson Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat with connections to the Social Democratic party. He is the former President of the United Nations General Assembly and was Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 24, 2006 until October 6 2006.
Jan Eskymo Welzl Jan Eskymo Welzl (15 August 1868, Zábřeh - 19 September 1948 Dawson, Canada) was a Czech traveller, adventurer, hunter, gold-digger, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice in New Siberia and later story-teller and writer. He is known under the pseudonym Eskymo Welzl.
Jan Evert Veer Jan Evert Veer (born November 1, 1950 in The Hague) is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 in Munich. After the seventh place in West Germany, four years later the Dutch won the bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Jan F. Esser Johannes "Jan" Fredericus Samuel Esser (1877–1946) was a Dutch plastic surgeon who pioneered innovative methods of reconstructive surgery on soldiers wounded in the First World War. He is thought to have coined the term "stent" in 1917 to describe his use of a dental impression compound invented in 1856 by the English dentist Charles Stent (1807–1885) to create a form for facial reconstruction.
Jan Fennell Jan Fennell, "The dog listener", is an English dog lover and dog trainer who adapted the method developed by Monty Roberts for horses to understanding dogs, based on the insight that dogs behave naturally to their own understanding, not humans'. Her books and her personal work as a dog trainer has helped many dog owners and their dogs, specifically dogs mistaken as "problem dogs", some of which were about to be euthanasized due to what was really the inability of their owners to handle them in a suitable and "dog-understandable" way.
Jan Fethke Jean Forge (pen name of Jan Fethke) was born 26 February 1903 in Oppeln, at that time in Germany, and died 16 December 1980. He was a Pole and worked as a film director (at UFA, with Fritz Lang) and as a successful author.
Jan Filip Libicki Jan Filip Libicki (born January 17, 1971 in Poznań) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 17503 votes in 39 Poznań district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Jan Frans van Bloemen Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662-1740), Flemish painter, was born at Antwerp, and studied and lived in Rome. He was nicknamed Orizonte, on account of the distance he painted in his landscapes, which are reminiscent of Gaspard Poussin and much admired.
Jan Gangelhoff Jan Gangelhoff (1948/1949 - February 28, 2005) was an academic counselor at the University of Minnesota who was the primary whistleblower for the academic scandal of the men’s basketball team during the tenure of Coach Clem Haskins.
Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek (born March 4, 1947 in Mysen, Norway) a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war and a Norwegian farmer's daughter.
Jan Gebauer Jan Gebauer (October 8, 1838, Úbislavice – May 25, 1907, Prague) was a significant Czech expert on Czech studies and one of the most renowned Czech scientists of all times. His scientific work was influenced by the methods of positivism.
Jan Gerard Kemmerling Jan Gerard Kemmerling (February 4, 1776 - January 15, 1818), at the age of 23 he became secretary at the newly established France Canton Heerlen, when the French arrived in Heerlen, in the year 1795, he sympathized with their ideas of Enlightenment and revolution.
Jan Gunnar Solli Jan Gunnar Solli (born April 19, 1981 in Arendal) is a player of the Norwegian football club Rosenborg.He is a hard-working and committed midfield player who can play in the centre or on the right, and he is fast becoming a pivotal figure for club and country.
Jan H. Hofmeyr Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948) was an Afrikaner philanthropist, Minister of Finance and of Education under Jan Smuts (1939), and president of the South African Young Men's Christian Association births|Hofmeyr, Jan H.]
Jan Hanuš Jan Hanuš (May 2, 1915 - July 30, 2004) was an extremely prolific Czech composer of the 20th century. Almost every category of composition is represented among his works, many of which are overtly political, expressing in turn anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist and anti-Communist sentiments.
Jan Harlan Jan Harlan is the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's widow. He acted as Kubrick's Executive Producer for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Full Metal Jacket (1987), The Shining (1980) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
Jan Harold Brunvand Jan Harold Brunvand (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah in the United States who is best known for spreading the concept of the urban legend, or modern folklore. Before his work, folk tales were associated with ancient times or rural cultures; Brunvand's breakthrough was to take concepts developed in the academic study of traditional folktales and apply them to stories circulating in the modern world.
Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic (1450 – 1517) was a Bohemian diplomat to Luxembourg 1477 and Rome 1487 in the time of Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. The king sent him to negotiate a marriage with Mary of Burgundy.
Jan Heemskerk Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon (30 July, 1818 - 9 October, 1897) was a Dutch politician, who became the prime minister of the Netherlands in 1874 until 1877, and again in 1883, until 1888. His son, Theo Heemskerk was also prime minister, in the period 1908-1913.
Jan Hein Donner Johannes Hendrikus "Jan Hein" Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. Donner was born in The Hague and won the Dutch Championship three times: 1954, 1957, and 1958.
Jan Heintze Jan Heintze (born August 17, 1963) is a retired Danish professional football (soccer) player, a left-sided defensive midfielder and defender who started and ended his career in the Netherlands with PSV Eindhoven, where he was a part of the PSV team which won the 1988 European Cup. He played 86 matches for the Denmark national football team in the course of 15 years, playing four international tournaments with the team, which he captained in his last two years before he retired in 2003.
Jan Hejda Jan Hejda (born June 18, 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, now part of the Czech Republic) is a National Hockey League defenceman currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers. Hejda was originally selected in the 4th round, 106th overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres.
Jan Hendrik Schön Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs (recipient of Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics in 2001, Braunschweig Prize in 2001 and Outstanding Young Investigator
Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz Jan Henryk Wołodkowicz () (1765-1825) was a prominent member of the Polish gentry and military officer, who after the partitions of Poland emigrated to France and aided the French Revolution, becoming an officer and cavalry commander in the French Army. From 1807 he served in the military of Duchy of Warsaw, a temporary Polish state created and allied with Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jan Hermansson Jan Hermansson (born 1942) is one of the very first aikido pioneers in Sweden, the only one from that generation of practitioners who still do aikido, one of the most respected aikido practitioner in the country. His rank is 7th dan shihan in the aikido organisation Aikikai.
Jan Hřebejk Jan Hřebejk (born June 27, 1967 in Prague) is a Czech film director. He studied with his frequent scriptwriter Petr Jarchovský at secondary school and, from 1987 to 1991, at FAMU, an arts college in Prague for film and television, studying screenplay and dramaturgy.
Jan Hulsker Jan Hulsker (1907 - 2002) studied Dutch literature in Leyden and was promoted with a thesis on the author Aart van der Leeuw. Since 1953 he was appointed to the (Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk werk), in charge of the art department.
Jan Hunt Jan Hunt was a 20th Century British comedian, who appeared on BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart, Peter Glaze and Don Maclean in the 1970s. She would often be seen playing an old lady in dramatisations, involving her donning a grey wig and glasses and putting her hand on her hip to suggest a bad back.
Jan Hus Jan Hus () (, alternative spellings John Hus, Jan Huss, John Huss) (c. 1369 Husinec (Prachatice District), Bohemia – July 6, 1415 Konstanz, Germany) was a Czech religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague.
Jan Ingenhousz Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz (December 8, 1730 - September 7, 1799) was a Dutch-born British physiologist, botanist and physicist. He is best remembered for showing that light is essential to plant respiration,a vital step in the discovery of photosynthesis.
Jan Jagla Jan-Hendrik Jagla (born June 25, 1981 in Berlin, Germany) is a German pro basketball player. He spent three seasons (2001/02-2003/04) at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania before turning pro.
Jan Janský Jan Janský (April 3 1873, Prague – September 8 1921, Černošice near Prague) was a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist. He is credited with the first classification of blood into the four types (A, B, AB, O) of the ABO blood group system.
Jan JĂłzef Lipski Jan JĂłzef Lipski (born 26 May 1926 Warsaw, died 10 September 1991 KrakĂłw) - Polish critic and literature historian, socialist politician, freemason (for a long time Master of the Copernicus Lodge). As a soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), he fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
Jan Jelinek Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm & The Exposures. His music is usually categorized as minimal techno, glitch or microhouse, and is characterized by deep basslines, extensive use of samples from earlier jazz and rock recordings, and clicks & cuts effects.
Jan Jesenius Jan Jesenius (also written as Jessenius or known as Ján Jesenský; 1566, Wrocław – 1621, Prague) was a medieval physician, politician and philosopher of Slovak origin. He is renowned rather for his tragic fate than his work in the field of anatomy and surgery.
Jan Joest Jan Joest, also known as Jan Joest van Kalkar or Jan Joest van Calcar, (born between 1450 and 1460 - d. 1519) was a Dutch painter from either Kalkar or Wesel (both now in Germany), known for his religious paintings.
Jan Johansson Jan Johansson (September 16, 1931 – November 9, 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist. He is little known outside Scandinavia, and his records are not widely available, yet his album Jazz på svenska (Jazz in Swedish), has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden.
Jan Jones Jan Jones is a British former software engineer, now a writer of romantic fiction and short stories. In her previous career, she achieved some fame as the architect of the SuperBASIC programming language for the Sinclair QL personal computer while working at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s.
Jan Joseph Godfried baron van Voorst tot Voorst Jan Joseph Godfried, Baron van Voorst tot Voorst (December 29, 1880—November 11, 1963) was the second highest officer in command of the Dutch armed forces during World War II. He was a renowned strategist, who wrote numerous articles and books on modern warfare.
Jan Kesner Gallery The Jan Kesner Gallery is an influential fine art photography gallery in Los Angeles, California. The Gallery has the distinction of being the first woman-owned photography gallery in Los Angeles when it was established in 1987.
Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff The inexorably linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff trace a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in minute detail from the bird's-eye view that was a long-established pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates, London (1707, published in the winter of 1708 – 09).
Jan Kiszka Jan Kiszka (1552-1592), was a politician, magnate, patron and benefactor of Polish brethren in the 16th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Krajczy litewski from 1569, podczaszy litewski and Elder of Samogitia from 1579, castellan of Vilnius from 1588, voivoda of Brest 1589, dzierĹĽawca bystrzycki, ciwun ejragolski.
Jan Křtitel Tolar Jan Křtitel Tolar [Johannes Baptista Dolar] (fl Bohemia/Moravia, late 17th century) - composer and contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Andreas Hofer and Pavel Josef Vejvanovský.
Jan KoĹľeluh Jan KoĹľeluh (1904-1973) was a Czech tennis player of the 1920s, not to be confused with his older brother Karel KoĹľeluh (1895 - 1950), a player of the same era. Although Karel was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2006, Jan is almost totally forgotten today outside his native Czechoslovakia.
Jan Konůpek Jan Konůpek (October 10, 1883 in Mladá Boleslav - March 13 1950 in Prague) was an internationally renowned Czech painter, illustrator, and engraver. A list of his graphic works comprises 1448 works and more than 600 book illustrations.
Jan Kounen Jan Kounen(May 2, 1964) is a French film director and producer born in the Netherlands. He is perhaps most known for his interest in Shipipo-Conibo culture and shamanism, with which he became familiar during his trips in Mexico and Peru.
Jan Kozietulski Baron Jan Kozietulski (1781 - 1821) was a Polish noble, military commander and an officer of the armed forces of the Duchy of Warsaw during the Napoleonic Wars. He is best remembered as a heroic commander of the Polish cavalry charge during the battle of Somosierra.
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