Janus is a masculine

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Janus In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus ( ; ) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces. The month of January is named for Janus (''Ianu ...

is the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages and endings. The name has also been used as a Latinisation of Jan or

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 ...

. The name has been used in

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. In January 2015, 1,305 Danes had the name Janus, according to

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People

Notable people with the name include: * Janus, King of Cyprus (1375 –1432) king of cyprus and titular King of Armenian Cilicia and Jerusalem * Janus Adams (born 1947), American journalist, historian and radio presenter * Janus Braspennincx (1903–1977), Dutch cyclist * Janus Cornarius (c. 1500–1558), Saxon humanist and classical philologist * Janus la Cour (1837–1909), Danish painter * Janus Henricus Donker Curtius (1813–1879), Dutch businessman and diplomat *

Janus Djurhuus Jens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus, called Janus Djurhuus, (26 February 1881, Tórshavn – 1 September 1948, Tórshavn) was the first modern Faroe Islands, Faroese poet. He and his younger brother Hans Andreas Djurhuus, also a poet, are called the ...

(1881–1948), Faroese poet *

Janus Dousa Janus Dousa (Latinized from Jan van der Does), Lord of Noordwyck (6 December 1545 – 8 October 1604), was a Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet and philologist, and the first Librarian of Leiden University Library. Biography He was born i ...

(1545–1604), Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet, philologist and librarian * Janus Drachmann (born 1988), Danish footballer *

Janus Friis Janus Friis (; born 26 June 1976) 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 Sk ...

(born 1976), Danish entrepreneur * Janus August Garde (1823–1893), Danish politician and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies * Janus Genelli (1761–1813), German painter * Janus van der Gijp (1921–1988), Dutch footballer * Janus Guðlaugsson (born 1955), Icelandic footballer and coach * Janus Hellemons (1912–1999), Dutch cyclist * Janus Kamban (1913–2009), Faroese sculptor *

Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup-Rosenvinge Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup-Rosenvinge (10 May 1792 – 4 August 1850) was a Danish jurist and a leading historian of Danish law. He taught at the University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, publi ...

(1792–1850), Danish jurist and legal historian *

Janus Lascaris Janus Lascaris (, ''Ianos Láskaris''; c. 1445, Constantinople – 7 December 1535, Rome), also called John Rhyndacenus (from Rhyndacus, a country town in Asia Minor), was a noted Greek scholar in the Renaissance. Biography After the Fall of Con ...

(c. 1445–1535), Greek scholar in the Renaissance * Janus Lernutius (1545–1619), Latin poet from the Habsburg Netherlands * Janus van Merrienboer (1894–1947), Dutch archer *

Janus Ooms J.J.K (Janus) Ooms (15 Augustus 1866, in Amsterdam – 6 November 1924, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch rower who was the first non-Briton to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta (in 1892). Ooms rowed for Neptune Rowing Club, Amste ...

(1866–1924), Dutch rower *

Janus Pannonius Janus Pannonius ( or , , ; 29 August 1434 – 27 March 1472) was an influential intellectual in the Kingdom of Hungary, a Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hun ...

(1434–1472), Croat-Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs *

Janus Metz Pedersen Janus Metz Pedersen (born 27 September 1974) is a Danish people, Danish film director and documentary filmmaker. Work Metz worked as a documentary researcher and moved to South Africa. There he worked on the television drama ''Soul City'' before ...

(born 1974), Danish film director * Janus del Prado (born 1984), Filipino actor * Janus Robberts (born 1979), South African athlete * Janus Daði Smárason (born 1995), Icelandic handball player * Janus Theeuwes (1886–1975), Dutch archer * Janus van der Zande (1924–2016), Dutch marathon runner

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