Janssen (surname)
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Janssen is a
7th most common name in the Netherlands and the most common (over 131,000 people), when combined with the spelling variant Jansen
.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 45.3% of all known bearers of the surname Janssen were residents of the Netherlands (frequency 1:281), 26.9% of Germany (1:2,249), 11.5% of the United States (1:23,667), 9.4% of Belgium (1:926), 1.4% of Australia (1:12,720) and 1.2% of Canada (1:23,187).
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:281) in the following provinces:
- 1. Limburg (1:68)
- 2. Gelderland (1:141)
- 3. North Brabant (1:208)
In Belgium, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:926) only in one region: Flemish Region (1:696).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:2,249) in the following states:[1]
- 1. Lower Saxony (1:405)
- 2. Bremen (1:927)
- 3, North Rhine-Westphalia (1:1,736)
- 4. Hamburg (1:2,074)
People
- Abraham Janssen (c. 1699–1765), British baronet politician, son of Theodore Janssen
- Abraham Janssen (chessplayer)(1720–1795), British chess player
- Albert-Édouard Janssen (1883–1966), Belgian monetary theorist and Minister of State
- Anton Janssen (born 1963), Dutch footballer
- Arnold Janssen (1837–1909), German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest, missionary and saint
- Ben Janssen, Dutch heavy metal guitarist
- Benno Janssen (1874–1964), American architect
- Benny Janssen (born c. 1960), Dutch sidecarcross rider
- Brian Janssen (born 1962), Australian boxer
- Bryan Janssen (born 1995), Dutch football goalkeeper
- Cam Janssen (born 1984), American ice hockey player
- Camille Janssen (1837–1926), Belgian Governor-General of the (Congo 1886–1892)
- Casey Janssen (born 1981), American baseball player for the Washington Nationals
- Charles-Emmanuel Janssen (1907–1986), Belgian businessman and politician, son of Emmanuel Janssen
- Charlie Janssen (born 1971), American politician
- Constant Janssen (1895–1970), Belgian physician and founder of the predecessor of Janssen Pharmaceutica
- David Janssen (1931–1980), American actor
- Dennis Janssen (born 1992), Dutch footballer
- Diego Janssen (born 1981), Uruguayan guitarist and composer
- Dirk Janssen (1881–1986), Dutch gymnast
- Dominique Janssen (born 1995), Dutch football defender
- Edward H. Janssen (1815–1877), German-born American politician; Treasurer of Wisconsin (1852–1856)
- Eilene Janssen (born 1938), American film and television actress
- Emmanuel Janssen (1879–1955), Belgian businessman who founded the Union Chimique Belge chemical company
- Ewert Janssen (died c. 1692), Danish architect
- Famke Janssen (born 1964), Dutch actress, director, screenwriter and fashion model
- Frances Janssen (1926–2008), American baseball pitcher
- Georges Janssen (1892–1941), Belgian lawyer, civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium 1938–41
- Gerard Janssen (born 1946), Dutch-born jeweller, watchmaker and politician in British Columbia
- Gheerart Janssen(fl. 1612–1623), sculptor working in Jacobean England, son of Gheerart Janssen the elder
- Gheerart Janssen the elder(died 1611), Dutch sculptor who operated a monument workshop in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
- Guus Janssen (born 1951), Dutch pianist and composer of contemporary music
- Henk Janssen (1890–1969), Dutch tug of war competitor
- Henry J. Janssen (1876–19??), American (Wisconsin) politician
- Herbert Janssen (1892–1965), German operatic baritone
- Horst Janssen (1929–1995), German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator
- Huub Janssen (1937–2008), Dutch jazz drummer
- Inge Janssen (born 1989), Dutch rower
- Ivo Janssen (born 1963), Dutch classical pianist
- Jan Janssen (born 1940), Dutch road bicycle racer, Tour de France winner 1968
- Jan Janssen (gymnast)(1885–1953), Dutch Olympic gymnast
- Jan Janssen (ice hockey) (born 1952), American-Dutch ice hockey player
- Jann-Peter Janssen (1945–2022), German politician
- Jarno Janssen (born 2000), Dutch footballer
- Jean-Paul Janssen (1940–1986), French cameraman and documentary film maker
- Jeannette Janssen, Dutch-Canadian mathematician
- Johannes Janssen (1829–1891), German historian and priest
- John Janssen (1835–1913), German-born American Roman Catholic bishop in Illinois
- Jules Janssen(1824–1907), French astronomer (see Pierre Jansen)
- Julia Janssen (1900–1982), German stage and film actress
- Karl Janssen (1855–1927), German Baroque revival sculptor
- Kaylene Janssen (born 1968), Australian football midfielder
- Maarten Janssen (born 1962), Dutch economist
- Madison Janssen (born 1994), Australian cyclist
- Marco Janssen (born 1969), Dutch econometrist
- Mark Janssen (born 1992), Dutch football striker
- Martine Janssen (born 1977), Dutch breaststroke swimmer
- Miguel Janssen (born 1970), Dutch-Aruban sprinter
- Olaf Janßen (born 1966), German football midfielder and manager
- Patrick Janssen (born 1987), Canadian curler
- Janssen Pharmaceutica
- Paula Janssen (born 1996), Brazilian drummer for Quimere
- Peter Janssen (1844–1908), German historical painter
- Pierre Janssen (also Jules Janssen; 1824–1907), French astronomer, Named after him:
- Janssen (lunar crater) and Janssen (Martian crater)
- Janssen Medal (French Academy of Sciences), an astrophysics award
- Janssen Peak, Antarctic mountain
- Janssen revolver, camera that originated chronophotography
- Ray Janssen (born 1937), American (Nebraska) politician
- René Janssen (born 1959), Dutch nanotechnologist
- Richard Janssen (born 1961), Dutch blues rock musician, leader of the band Fatal Flowers
- Rik Janssen (born 1957), Dutch Socialist Party politician
- Roel Janssen (born 1990), Dutch football defender
- Roger Janssen (born 1977), Belgian darts player
- Ronald Janssen (born 1971), Belgian serial killer
- Ruud Janssen (born 1959), Dutch Fluxus and mail artist
- Ruud Jansen (chess player) (born 1971), Dutch chess player
- Simon Janssen (born 2000), Dutch footballer
- Sjoerd Janssen(born 1984), Dutch electronic dance musician, half of Showtek
- Sjef Janssen (born 1950), Dutch equestrian and dressage coach
- Sjefke Janssen (1919–2014), Dutch road bicycle racer
- Stephen Janssen, 4th Baronet (died 1777), English Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London
- Stephen Vost Janssen (1879–1945), Australian violin and viola player
- Ted Janssen (1936–2017), Dutch physicist
- Theo Janssen (born 1981), Dutch football midfielder
- Theodore Janssen (c. 1658–1748), French-born English baronet and financier
- Tim Janssen (born 1986), Dutch football striker
- Tiny Janssen (born 1960s), Dutch sidecar cross rider
- Travis Janssen, American college baseball coach
- Vincent Janssen (born 1994), Dutch football striker
- Walter Janssen (1887–1976), German film actor
- Werner Janssen (1899–1990), American conductor, composer and film score composer
- Werner Janssen (philosopher) (born 1944), Dutch/German philosopher, Germanist, author and poet
- Willem Janssen (footballer, born 1880) (1880–1976), Dutch footballer
- Willem Janssen (footballer, born 1986), Dutch footballer
- Willy Janssen (born 1960), Dutch footballer
- Wouter Janssen(born 1982), Dutch electronic dance musician, half of Showtek
- Zacharias Janssen (1585–before 1632), Dutch spectacle-maker, co-inventor of the telescope and the compound microscope
See also
- Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin (1915–2011), Belgian lawyer and first female magistrate in Belgium