Jaan (given name)
Jaan is an Estonian masculine name, a cognate of the English-language given name John.
People named Jaan include:
- Jaan Anvelt, Estonian communist revolutionary
- Jaan Arder, Estonian singer
- Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
- Jaan Eigo, Estonian politician
- Jaan Eilart, Estonian biologist
- Jaan Einasto, Estonian astrophysicist
- Jaan Hargel, Estonian conductor, music teacher, oboe player and flautist
- Jaan Eslon, Estonian-Swedish chess player
- Jaan Hünerson, Estonian agronomist and politician
- Jaan Isotamm, Estonian poet
- Jaan Jaago, Estonian wrestler
- Jaan Jung, Estonian educator, archeologist and historian
- Jaan Jüris, Estonian ski jumper
- Jaan Kalviste, Estonian chemist, educator, and translator
- Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic
- Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and writer
- Jaan Kiivit Sr., Estonian Archbishop
- Jaan Kiivit, Jr., Estonian Archbishop
- Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter
- Jaan Kirsipuu, Estonian road bicycle racer
- Jaan Klõšeiko, Estonian printmaker and photographer
- Jaan Kolberg, Estonian film director and producer
- Jaan Kokk, Estonian politician
- Jaan Kriisa, Estonian lawyer and politician
- Jaan Kross, Estonian contemporary writer
- Jaan Kruus, Estonian military General
- Jaan Kruusvall, Estonian writer and playwright
- Jaan Kundla, Estonian politician
- Jaan Kurn, Estonian teacher, poet and translator
- Jaan Laaman, Estonian-born American member of the United Freedom Front
- Jaan Lattik,, Estonian politician and writer
- Jaan Leetsar, Estonian politician
- Jaan Lepp, Estonian track and field athlete and soldier
- Jaan J. Leppik, Estonian clergyman and politician
- Jaan Lippmaa, Estonian engineer and politician
- Jaan Lõo, Estonian Supreme Court judge, poet and politician
- Jaan Luik, Estonian sculptor
- Jaan Lüllemets, Estonian politician
- Jaan Maide, Estonian Army officer and commander
- Jaan Manitski, Estonian politician
- Jaan Mark, Estonian politician
- Jaan Masing, Estonian politician
- Jaan Miger, Estonian politician
- Jaan Murro, Estonian editor, journalist and politician
- Jaan Patterson, German American writer and composer, founder of the netlabel Surrism-Phonoethics
- Jaan Pehk, Estonian writer, singer and guitarist
- Jaan Piiskar, Estonian educator and politician
- Jaan Põdra, Estonian politician
- Jaan Port, Estonian botanist
- Jaan Poska, Estonian barrister and politician
- Jaan Puhvel, Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist
- Jaan Puidet, Estonian basketball player
- Jaan Rääts, Estonian film score composer
- Jaan Rannap, Estonian children's writer
- Jaan Raudsepp, Estonian politician
- Jaan Rekkor, Estonian actor
- Jaan Roose, Estonian slackliner and stuntman
- Jaan Ross, Estonian musicologist and psychologist
- Jaan Ruus, Estonian film critic, journalist and film editor
- Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and pedagogue
- Jaan Soots, Estonian military commander
- Jaan Tallinn, Estonian programmer
- Jaan Talts, Estonian weightlifter
- Jaan Tätte, Estonian playwright, poet, actor, and singer
- Jaan Teemant, Estonian lawyer and politician
- Jaan Tiidemann, Estonian architect
- Jaan Tõnisson, Estonian statesman
- Jaan Toomik, Estonian video artist and a painter
- Jaan Tooming, Estonian actor, stage and film director and writer
- Jaan Treumann, Estonian Lutheran clergyman, educator and politician
- Jaan Truusmann, Estonian teacher, farmer, and public figure
- Jaan Usin, Estonian Navy commander
- Jaan Vahtra, Estonian modernist artist, printmaker, writer and educator
- Jaan Vain, Estonian lawyer and politician
- Jaan Valsiner, Estonian-American psychologist
- Jaan Tatikas, protagonist in the Eduard Bornhöhe's novel Tallinna narrid ja narrikesed, who has become a well-known stereotype in Estonian culture