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Scandinavian A Scandinavian is a resident of Scandinavia or something associated with the region, including: Culture * Scandinavianism, political and cultural movement * Scandinavian design, a design movement of the 1950s * Scandinavian folklore * Scandinavi ...

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surname, meaning "son of

Jan Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

", derived from

Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

. There are alternate

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and

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used b ...

spellings.

Surname

Notable people with this surname include: *

Anton Janson Anton Janson (January 17, 1620 in Wanden/Wauden? in Friesland – November 18, 1687 in Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 ...

(1620–1687), Dutch printer and typographer after whom the font "Janson" is named *

Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Comte de Forbin-Janson Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson, C.P.M. (3 November 1785 – 12 July 1844), was a French aristocrat and prelate who was a founder of the Fathers of Mercy, established in an effort to re-evangelize the French people. He p ...

(1785–1844), French Bishop of Nancy and Toul, and founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood *

Chris Janson Christopher Pierre Janson (born April 2, 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Janson has recorded three full-length albums, ''Buy Me a Boat'', ''Everybody'', and ''Real Friends'', through Warner Bros. Records Nashville, along ...

(born 1986), American country music singer and songwriter *

Ciara Janson Ciara Janson Zelmerlöw (née Janson; born 27 April 1987) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Nicole Owen on ''Hollyoaks''. Career The gurgle over at 18 months started Ciara's career as a voice over artist and inspired ...

(born 1987), English actress *

David Janson David Janson (born David Jackson, 30 March 1950) is an English actor and theatre director whose stage debut was in ''Oliver!'' in 1962. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and appeared as the young ...

(born 1950), English actor and father of Ciara Janson * Ernest A. Janson (1878–1930), highly decorated United States Marine of World War I *

H. W. Janson Horst Woldemar Janson (October 4, 1913 – September 30, 1982), was a Russian Empire-born German-American professor of art history best known for his ''History of Art'', which was first published in 1962 and has since sold more than four million ...

(1913–1982), American art historian *

Horst Janson (actor) Horst Janson (born 4 October 1935) is a German actor. Career Horst Janson's career started with the film ''The Buddenbrooks'' in 1959. He also featured in Helmut Käutner’s '' A Glass of Water'' (''Das Glas Wasser'', 1960). He also appeared i ...

, German film and television actor * Jonathan Janson (born 1950), American painter and art historian *

Klaus Janson Klaus Janson (born January 23, 1952) is a German-born American comics artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a pe ...

(born 1952), American comic book artist *

Lucas Janson Lucas Ezequiel Janson (born 16 August 1994) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Boca Juniors. Career Tigre Toronto FC loan On 8 August 2018 Janson joined Toronto FC on loan for the remainder of the 2018 Major L ...

(born 1994), Argentine footballer *

Marie Janson Marie Janson (23 July 1873 – 8 March 1960) was a Belgian politician and the first woman to serve in the Belgian senate. She was a daughter of Paul Janson and Anna-Augustine Amoré. Born in Brussels, her father Paul Janson was leading memb ...

(1873–1960), Belgian politician and first woman to serve in the Belgian Senate; sister of Paul-Émile Janson *

Oscar Janson Oscar Janson (born 22 July 1975) is a Swedish pole vaulter. He finished ninth at the 2002 European Athletics Championships, and competed at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the ...

(born 1975), Swedish athlete *

Paul Janson Paul Janson (11 April 1840 – 19 April 1913) was a Walloon Belgian liberal politician.Jean Francis ''Mes belges années'' 1974 "Paul Janson ne demeura que quatre ans dans la cité liégeoise car sa famille vint s'établir à Ixelles, rue ...

(1840–1913), Belgian liberal politician; father of Paul-Émile Janson and Marie Janson *

Paul-Émile Janson Paul-Émile (Paul Emil) Janson (30 May 1872 – 3 March 1944) was a francophone Belgian liberal politician and the prime minister from 1937 to 1938. During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German conce ...

(1872–1944), Belgian liberal politician, brother of Marie Janson *

Svante Janson Carl Svante Janson (born 21 May 1955) is a Swedish mathematician. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1994, Janson has been the chaired professor of mathematics at Uppsala University since 1987. In mathematical analysis, Jan ...

, Swedish mathematician

Fictional

* Paul Janson, the protagonist of ''

The Janson Directive ''The Janson Directive'' is a novel by Robert Ludlum. The posthumous novel was published in 2002, a year after Ludlum's death. Plot Paul Janson is an ex-Navy SEAL and former member of a U.S. government covert agency called Consular Operations. ...

'', a novel by Robert Ludlum * Wes Janson, an X-Wing pilot in ''

Rogue Squadron Rogue Squadron is a fictional starfighter squadron in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. Many surviving members of Red Squadron, the Rebel attack force that Luke Skywalker joins during the Battle of Yavin in ''Star Wars'' (1977). The squadron ap ...

'' in the ''Star Wars'' movies and expanded universe novels

Given name

While Janson is uncommon as a given name, notable people with this first name include: *

Janson Junk Janson Randall Junk (born January 15, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021. Amateur career Junk grew up in Federal ...

(born 1996), American baseball player * Janson van Keulen (1593–1661), variant name of Cornelius Johnson, English portrait painter

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