Janus (given name)

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Janus is a masculine given name of Latin origin. Janus is the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages and endings. The name has also been used as a Latinisation of Jan or Johannes. The name has been used in Denmark. In January 2015, 1,305 Danes had the name Janus, according to Statistics Denmark.^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

• Janus, King of Cyprus (1375 –1432) king of cyprus and titular King of Armenian Cilicia and Jerusalem
• Janus Adams (born 1947), American journalist, historian and radio presenter
• Janus Braspennincx (1903–1977), Dutch cyclist
• Janus Cornarius (c. 1500–1558), Saxon humanist and classical philologist
• Janus la Cour (1837–1909), Danish painter
• Janus Henricus Donker Curtius (1813–1879), Dutch businessman and diplomat
• Janus Djurhuus (1881–1948), Faroese poet
• Janus Dousa (1545–1604), Dutch statesman, jurist, historian, poet, philologist and librarian
• Janus Drachmann (born 1988), Danish footballer
• Janus Friis (born 1976), Danish entrepreneur
• Janus August Garde (1823–1893), Danish politician and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies
• Janus Genelli (1761–1813), German painter
• Janus van der Gijp (1921–1988), Dutch footballer
• Janus Guðlaugsson (born 1955), Icelandic footballer and coach
• Janus Hellemons (1912–1999), Dutch cyclist
• Janus Kamban (1913–2009), Faroese sculptor
• Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup-Rosenvinge (1792–1850), Danish jurist and legal historian
• Janus Lascaris (c. 1445–1535), Greek scholar in the Renaissance
• Janus Lernutius (1545–1619), Latin poet from the Habsburg Netherlands
• Janus van Merrienboer (1894–1947), Dutch archer
• Janus Ooms (1866–1924), Dutch rower
• Janus Pannonius (1434–1472), Croat-Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs
• Janus Metz Pedersen (born 1974), Danish film director
• Janus del Prado (born 1984), Filipino actor
• Janus Robberts (born 1979), South African athlete
• Janus Daði Smárason (born 1995), Icelandic handball player
• Janus Theeuwes (1886–1975), Dutch archer
• Janus van der Zande (1924–2016), Dutch marathon runner

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