Jaan (given name)

Jaan is an Estonian masculine, a cognate of the English-language given name John.

People named Jaan include:

• Jaan Anvelt (1884–1937), Estonian communist revolutionary
• Jaan Arder (born 1952), Estonian singer
• Jaan Ehlvest (born 1962), Estonian chess player
• Jaan Eilart (1933–2006), Estonian biologist
• Jaan Einasto (born 1929), Estonian astrophysicist
• Jaan Hargel (1912–1966), Estonian conductor, music teacher, oboe player and flautist
• Jaan Isotamm (1939–2014), Estonian poet
• Jaan Jüris (born 1977), Estonian ski jumper
• Jaan Kalviste (1898–1936), Estonian chemist, educator, and translator
• Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic
• Jaan Kärner (1891–1958), Estonian poet and writer
• Jaan Kiivit Sr. (1906–1971), Estonian Archbishop
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr. (1940–2005), Estonian Archbishop
• Jaan Kikkas (1892–1944), Estonian weightlifter
• Jaan Kirsipuu (born 1969), Estonian road bicycle racer
• Jaan Klõšeiko (1939–2016), Estonian printmaker and photographer
• Jaan Kross (1920–2007), Estonian contemporary writer
• Jaan Kruus (1884–1942), Estonian military General
• Jaan Kruusvall (1940–2012), Estonian writer and playwright
• Jaan Kundla (born 1937), Estonian politician
• Jaan Laaman (born 1948), American member of the United Freedom Front
• Jaan Lattik, (1878–1967), Estonian politician and writer
• Jaan J. Leppik (born 1969), Estonian clergyman and politician
• Jaan Maide (1896–1945), Estonian Army officer and commander
• Jaan Manitski (born 1942), Estonian politician
• Jaan Mark (born 1951), Estonian politician
• Jaan Patterson (born 1975), German American writer and composer, founder of the netlabel Surrism-Phonoethics
• Jaan Pehk (born 1975), Estonian writer, singer and guitarist
• Jaan Port (1891–1951), Estonian botanist
• Jaan Poska (1866–1920), Estonian barrister and politician
• Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist
• Jaan Puidet (born 1992), Estonian basketball player
• Jaan Rääts (1932–2020), Estonian film score composer
• Jaan Rekkor (born 1958), Estonian actor
• Jaan Sarv (1877–1954), Estonian mathematician and pedagogue
• Jaan Soots (1880–1942), Estonian military commander
• Jaan Tallinn (born 1972), Estonian programmer
• Jaan Talts (born 1944), Estonian weightlifter
• Jaan Tätte (born 1964), Estonian playwright, poet, actor, and singer
• Jaan Teemant (1872–?), Estonian lawyer and politician
• Jaan Tiidemann (born 1971), Estonian architect
• Jaan Tõnisson (1868–?), Estonian statesman
• Jaan Toomik (born 1961), Estonian video artist and a painter
• Jaan Usin (1887–1941), Estonian Navy commander
• Jaan Valsiner (born 1951), 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