Top Celebrity Names Starting With Jan

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   Jan Maxwell

   Age 55 Female
   

   Actress

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   Jan Maxwell is an American stage and television actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee.

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   Jan Peter Balkenende

   Age 56 Male
   

   Dutch Politician

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   Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from July 22, 2002 until October 14, 2010. He previously served as a Member of the House of Representatives from May 19, 1998 until July 22, 2002.… read more

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   Jan Brewer

   Age 67 Female
   

   Politician, Governor

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   Janice Kay "Jan" Brewer is the 22nd and current Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and a member of the Republican Party. She is the fourth woman, and third consecutive woman, to hold the office. Brewer previously served as Secretary of State of Arizona, from January 2003 until then-Governor Janet Napolitano resigned after being selected as Secretary of Homeland Security in January 2009.… read more

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   Jan Leighton

   1921 - 2009 Male
   

   Actor, Model, Voice Actor

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   Jan Leighton was an American actor and model who appeared in more than 3,000 roles. He specialized in portraying historic characters, but also worked as a voice actor and hand model. He was credited by the Guinness Book of World Records with having played more roles than any other actor.… read more

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   Jan Guillou

   Age 68 Male
   

   Politician, Spy, Owner

   
   

   Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a Swedish author and journalist. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with Liza Marklund and his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp.… read more

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   Jan Smuts

   1870 - 1950 Male
   

   Politician, Statesman, Philosopher

   
   

   Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal in the Second World War. He led commandos in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal.… read more

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   Jan Ullrich

   Age 38 Male
   

   Professional Road Bicycle Racer

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   Jan Ullrich is a German former professional road bicycle racer. In 1997, he was the first German to win the Tour de France. He went on to take five second places and a fourth in 2004 as well as 3rd in 2005. He is considered one of the best time-trialists in the history of the sport. In 2006, Ullrich was barred from the Tour amid speculation of having doped. He retired in late February 2007.… read more

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   Jan Howard

   Age 82 Female
   

   Singer, Headliner, Songwriter

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   Lula Grace Johnson, known professionally as Jan Howard, is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star. She attained moderate success as a country female vocalist during the 1960s and early 1970s. Her ex-husband was singer-songwriter Harlan Howard. Howard's biggest hit and signature song is the 1966 country hit, "Evil on Your Mind," which peacked at No. 5 on the Billboard country charts.… read more

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   Jan Hammer

   Age 64 Male
   

   Composer, Pianist, Keyboardist

   
   

   Jan Hammer is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice. He continued to work as both a musical performer and producer, expanding to producing film later in his career.… read more

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    Jan Pronk

    Age 72 Male
    

    Dutch Politician

    
    

    Johannes "Jan" Pieter Pronk is a Dutch politician and diplomat. Currently, he is a Professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. Between 1973 and 2002, he has served three terms as Minister for Development Cooperation and one term as Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the States-General for the Labour Party (PvdA).… read more

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    Jan Carlo DeFan

    Age 34 Male
    

    Freelancer, Date, Musician

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    Jan Carlo DeFan Kristal, Is the lead guitar in ELAN (one of Latin America’s most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent Latino bands, ELAN has sold 1.7 million albums worldwide and has recorded 6 albums up to date.… read more

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    Jan Schakowsky

    Age 68 Female
    

    Politician, Congressman, Coordinator

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    Janice D. "Jan" Schakowsky is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1999. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes many of Chicago's northern suburbs, including Niles, Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, Park Ridge, Des Plaines and Rosemont. It also includes a large portion of Chicago's North Side bordering Lake Michigan.… read more

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    Jan Werner Danielsen

    1976 - 2006 Male
    

    Singer, Voice, Musician

    
    

    Jan Werner Danielsen, artist name Jan Werner, was a Norwegian pop, classical, and rock singer, famous for his powerful voice which stretched over four and a half octaves. His breakthrough came after winning two important talent contests, most notably on national television in the show Talentiaden in 1994. He was one of the most popular and highest-selling recording artists in Norway at his death at the age of 30.… read more

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    Jan Hus

    1369 - 1415 Male
    

    Czech Religious Thinker, Philosopher, Reformer

    
    

    Jan Hus, often referred to in English as John Hus or John Huss, was a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliffe, the theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, Hus is considered the first Church reformer. He is famed for having been burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, including those on ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other theological topics.… read more

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    Jan Nieto

    Age 30 Male
    

    Singer, Idol, Musician

    
    

    Jan Kurt Anthony Pasion Nieto, popularly known as Jan Nieto, is a Filipino male singer who rose to prominence as one of the runners-up of Philippine Idol in 2006. With the height of 5' 10½" (179 cm) and weighing 165 pounds (74 kg), he was dubbed as the "Hunky Idol" during the competition. He is currently a talent of GMA Network.… read more

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    Jan Egeland

    Age 54 Male
    

    Politician, Deputy, Lookout

    
    

    Jan Egeland is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch and the Director of Human Rights Watch Europe. Egeland took up the position as director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs on 1 September 2007. Egeland also holds a post as Professor II at the University of Stavanger. Egeland was the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006.… read more

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    Jan Klein

    Age 76 Male
    

    Immunologist, Scientist

    
    

    Jan Klein is a Czech-American immunologist, best known for his work on the major histocompatibility complex. He was born in 1936 in Stemplovec, Opava, Czech Republic. He graduated from the Charles University at Prague, in 1955, and received his M.S. (Magna Cum Laude) in Botany from the same school in 1958. He was a teacher at the Neruda High School in Prague from 1958 to 1961. He received his Ph.D.… read more

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    Jan Axel Blomberg

    Age 42 Male
    

    Songwriter, Drummer, Musician

    
    

    Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg is a heavy metal drummer. He is best known as the drummer of Mayhem, which he joined in 1988, a move which started his career. In 1987 Blomberg formed the avant-garde black metal band Arcturus with Steinar Sverd Johnsen, which broke up in April 2007 and reunited in 2011. He named himself for the Swiss extreme metal band Hellhammer. Praised as a talented musician, Blomberg is a three-time winner of the Spellemannprisen award.… read more

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    Ján Slota

    Age 58 Male
    

    Politician, Founder, Mayor

    
    

    Ján Slota is the co-founder and President of the Slovak National Party, an extremist nationalist party. Slota as the leader of SNS entered into a coalition with Robert Fico's Smer in 2006. He was the mayor of the city of Žilina from 1990 to 2006.… read more

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    Jan Reimer

    Age 60 Female
    

    Mayor, Politician, Owner

    
    

    Janice Rhea Reimer is a Canadian politician and the first female mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 1995. Highlights of her time in office included the inception of a new waste management system (which included curbside pickup of recyclables) and repeated efforts by Peter Pocklington, owner of the Edmonton Oilers, to secure concessions from the city in exchange for his agreement not to move the team.… read more

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    Jan Garbarek

    Age 65 Male
    

    Tenor, Soprano, Saxophonist

    
    

    Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Effectively stateless until the age of seven (there was no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway at that time) Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. His daughter Anja Garbarek is also a musician.… read more

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    Jan Robbe

    Age 31 Male
    

    Electronic Musician

    
    

    Jan Robbe, otherwise known by his music project aliases Atomhead, Erratic, and UndaCova, is an electronic music artist. He founded the experimental netlabel Entity in 2003 with friend Nico de Gols. Jan Robbe is known for expressing various musical styles under different pseudonyms.… read more

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    Jan Marian Kaczmarek

    1920 - 2011 Male
    

    Academic and Polish Politician

    
    

    Jan Marian Kaczmarek was a Polish engineer and University Professor.

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    Jan Ladislav Dussek

    1760 - 1812 Male
    

    Pianist and Composer

    
    

    Jan Ladislav Dussek was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century. In some of his piano writing, Dussek anticipated features of musical Romanticism. Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. He performed at courts and concert venues from London to Saint Petersburg and Milan, and was celebrated for his technical prowess.… read more

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    Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr

    1894 - 1948 Male
    

    Pre-apartheid South African Minister

    
    

    See also his uncle, Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (20 March 1894 – 3 December 1948) was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding Apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa.… read more