Jaan (given name)
Jaan is the spelling of the name John in Estonian language.
People named Jaan include:
- Jaan Anvelt, Estonian communist revolutionary
- Jaan Arder, Estonian singer
- Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
- Jaan Eilart, Estonian biologist
- Jaan Einasto, Estonian astrophysicist
- Jaan Hargel, Estonian conductor, music teacher, oboe player and flautist
- 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 Kross, Estonian contemporary writer
- Jaan Kruus, Estonian military General.
- Jaan Kundla, Estonian politician
- Jaan Laaman, American member of the United Freedom Front
- Jaan Lattik,, Estonian politician and writer
- Jaan J. Leppik, Estonian clergyman and politician
- Jaan Maide, Estonian Army officer and commander
- Jaan Manitski, Estonian politician
- Jaan Mark, Estonian politician
- Jaan Patterson, German American writer and composer, founder of the netlabel Surrism-Phonoethics
- Jaan Pehk, Estonian writer, singer and guitarist
- 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 Rekkor, Estonian actor
- 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 Usin, Estonian Navy commander
- Jaan Valsiner, Estonian-American psychologist
Fictional characters
- Jaan Tatikas, protagonist in the Eduard Bornhöhe's novel Tallinna narrid ja narrikesed, who has become a well-known stereotype in Estonian culture
