Ján is a Slovak form of the name
John.
Famous people named Ján
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Ján Bahýľ
Ján Bahýľ (25 May 1856 – 13 March 1916) was a Slovak inventor and engineer. He specialised in military science, military construction, and engineering. Flying machines were a particular interest of his. In 1895, he was granted a patent ...
, inventor
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Ján Čapkovič
Ján Čapkovič (born 11 January 1948 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a former Slovak football player.
Club career
He played most of his professional career for Slovan Bratislava, representing the club from 1967–1977. He helped Slovan Bra ...
, football player
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Ján Čarnogurský, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Ján Cikker
Ján Cikker (29 July 1911 – 21 December 1989) was a Slovaks, Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak European classical music, classical music. He was awarded the title ''National Artist'' in Slovakia, the Herder Prize (1966) and th ...
, composer
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Ján Ďurica
Ján Ďurica (born 10 December 1981) is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He worked as assistant manager of FC Petržalka.
Club career
Ďurica moved to FC Saturn Moscow Oblast after a highly successful U ...
, football player
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Ján Figeľ
Ján Figeľ (born 20 January 1960 in Čaklov) is a Slovak politician.
Figeľ served as European Commissioner from 2004 to 2009, then as Slovak minister of Transports from 2010 to 2012.
From 2016 to 2019 he was European Commission special envo ...
, European Commissioner
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Ján Golian
Ján Golian (26 January 1906, Dombóvár, Hungary – 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany) was a Slovak Brigade General who became famous as one of the main organizers and the commander of the resistance '' 1st Czechoslovak Army i ...
, soldier, military leader of Slovak National Uprising
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Ján Hollý
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Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Jókő) was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized lite ...
, poet and translator
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Ján Kadár
Ján Kadár (1 April 1918 – 1 June 1979) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian-born Slovak film writer and director of History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish heritage.
As a filmmaker, he worked in Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Canada. ...
, film director
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Ján Kocian, football player
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Ján Kollár, writer
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Ján Kožiak
Ján Kožiak (born 13 August 1978) is a Slovak footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian ...
, football player
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Ján Lašák
Ján Lašák (born April 10, 1979) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey goaltender.
Lašák was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2nd round (65th overall) of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft and spent the ...
, ice-hockey goalkeeper
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Ján Lunter
Ján Lunter (born 15 July 1951) is a Slovak entrepreneur, owner of a family food company and, following the November 2017 elections, governor of the Banská Bystrica Region.
Biography
Lunter studied Cybernetics at the School of Electrical Engine ...
, Slovak politician
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Ján Mucha
Ján Mucha (born 5 December 1982) is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Everton
In January 2010, Mucha signed a pre-contract deal with English Premier League club Everton to join them on 1 July.
O ...
, Slovak footballer
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Ján Packa
Ján Packa (born May 22, 1952 in Vlčany) is a former Czechoslovak/ Slovak handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In 1976 he was part of the Czechoslovak team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played all f ...
, handball player
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Ján Slota
Ján Slota (born 14 September 1953) is the co-founder and former president of the Slovak National Party,[Ján Šťastný (hockey player)
Yan Pavol Stastny (born September 30, 1982) is a Canadian-born American former professional ice hockey centre. He comes from the Slovak Stastny ice hockey family, and is the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Šťastný (one of the first star ...]
(born 1982), Slovak hockey player
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Ján Svorada
Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.
Svorada was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, Svorada raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Cze ...
, cyclist
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Ján Zvara
Ján Zvara (born 12 February 1963 in Banská Bystrica) is a retired Slovak high jumper who represented Czechoslovakia. His greatest achievement was the bronze medal at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 1st IAAF World Indoor Champions ...
, high jumper
Other
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Liptovský Ján
Liptovský Ján (; hu, Szentiván) is a spa village and municipality in Liptovský Mikuláš District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1263 in historical records. Its traditional name was ' ...
, village and municipality in Slovakia
See also
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Jan (disambiguation)
References
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Given names
Slovak masculine given names