Janssens
Janssens is a Dutch surname equivalent to Johnson. It is the second most common surname in Belgium, while in the Netherlands the forms Jansen and Janssen are more common. People with this surname include:
- Abraham Janssens (c. 1573 – 1632), Flemish painter
- Cas Janssens (born 1944), Dutch footballer
- Charles Janssens (1906–1986), Belgian film actor
- Chris Janssens (born 1969), Belgian footballer
- Émile Janssens (1902–1989), Belgian general and commander of the Force Publique
- Corneille Janssens (1585–1638), Flemish bishop and founder of Jansenism
- Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (1593–1661), Dutch portrait painter
- Francis Janssens (1843–1897), Dutch-born Archbishop of New Orleans
- Frans Janssens (born 1945), Belgian footballer
- Frans Alfons Janssens, (1865–1924), Belgian biologist who first described chromosomal crossover
- Hieronymus Janssens, Flemish painter from the Baroque
- Jan Willem Janssens (1762–1838), Dutch soldier and statesman
- Jean Janssens (fl. 1920), Belgian racing cyclist
- Jean Janssens (born 1944), Belgian footballer
- Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889–1964), twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Johann Hermann Janssens (1783–1853), Belgian theologian
- Kevin Janssens (born 1986), Belgian footballer
- Ko Janssens (1889–1970), Dutch boxer
- Marcel Janssens (1931–1992), Belgian road bicycle racer
- Mark Janssens (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey forward
- Patrick Janssens (born 1956), Belgian politician
- Victor Honoré Janssens (1658–1736), Flemish painter
See also
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