Janez (given name)

Janez is a Slovene form of the given name John.


 * 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