Janez (given name)

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Janez is a Slovene form of the given name John.^[1]

• Janez Burger (born 1965), film director
• Janez Drnovšek (1950–2008), second president of Slovenia
• Janez Drozg (1933–2005), film director
• Janez Istenič, footballer
• Janez Janež (1913–1990), expatriate surgeon
• Janez Janša (born 1958), fifth prime minister of Slovenia
• Janez Lapajne (born 1967), film director
• Janez Lenarčič (born 1967), diplomat
• Janez Semrajč (born 1989), tennis player
• Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693) Slovene name of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, scholar and polymath