Jans (surname)

Jans is a Dutch patronymic surname equivalent to Johnson. Like, Janse, this form of the surname is a less common than the abundant Jansen, Janssen and Janssens. People with the name Jans include:

• Alaric Jans (born 1949), American film and theater composer
• Anneke Jans (1509–1539), Dutch anabaptist executed for heresy
• Carlijn Jans (born 1987), Dutch volleyball player
• Chris Jans (born 1969), American basketball coach
• Edouard de Jans (1855–1919), Belgian portrait and genre painter
• Edward Jans (born 1946), Canadian sports shooter
• Jan Jans (born 1954), Dutch theologian
• Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (born 1984), Polish tennis player
• Laurent Jans (born 1992), Luxembourgian footballer
• Lies Jans (born 1974), Belgian politician
• Lucretia Jans (1602 – after 1641), Dutch survivor of the Batavia shipwreck
• Melanie Jans (born 1973), Canadian squash player
• Mie Jans (born 1994), Danish footballer
• Paul Jans (born 1981), Dutch footballer
• Petrus Josephus Jans (1909–1994), Dutch Old Catholic bishop
• Ron Jans (born 1958), Dutch football player and manager
• Roy Jans (born 1990), Belgian road cyclist
• Tom Jans (1948–1984), American folk musician
• Wendy Jans (born 1983), Belgian snooker and pool player

Given name

Jans can also be a male or female given name:

• Jans Aasman (born 1958), Dutch psychologist and Cognitive Science expert
• Jans der Enikel (fl. 1271–1302), Viennese poet and historian
• Jans Koerts (born 1969), Dutch male road bicycle racer
• Jans Koster (born 1938), Dutch female freestyle swimmer
• Jans Martense Schenck (1631–1687), Dutch settler in New Netherlands
• Jans Rautenbach (1936–2016), South African screenwriter, film producer and director

Other

• Neeltje Jans, local name for the goddess Nehalennia, after whom an artificial island in Zeeland has been named

See also

• Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c.1460 – <1495), Dutch Renaissance painter