Janssens
title: "Janssens" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dutch-patronymic-surnames", "surnames-derived-from-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/netherlands" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssens" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Janssens is a Dutch surname equivalent to Johnson. It is the second most common surname in Belgium, http://www.naamkunde.net/?page_id=166 while in the Netherlands, the forms Jansen and Janssen are more common. Notable people with this surname include:
- Abraham Janssens (c. 1573 – 1632), Flemish painter
- A. Cecile J.W. Janssens (1968–2022), Dutch epidemiologist
- Aster Janssens (born 2001), Belgian footballer
- Bernard Janssens (1895–?), Belgian racing cyclist
- Cas Janssens (1944–2024), Dutch footballer
- Charles Janssens (1906–1986), Belgian film actor
- Chris Janssens (born 1969), Belgian footballer
- Christophe Janssens (born 1998), 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.
- Franciscus Janssens, General Abbot.
- Frans Janssens (1945–2024), Belgian footballer
- Frans Alfons Janssens, (1865–1924), Belgian biologist who first described chromosomal crossover
- Hieronymus Janssens, Flemish painter from the Baroque
- Jan Janssens (August 1590-after 1650), Flemish Baroque painter
- Jan Willem Janssens (1762–1838), Dutch soldier and statesman
- Jean Janssens (born 1944), Belgian footballer
- Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889–1964), twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Jill Janssens (born 2003), Belgian footballer
- Johann Hermann Janssens (1783–1853), Belgian theologian
- Kevin Janssens (disambiguation), several people
- Ko Janssens (1889–1970), Dutch boxer
- Marcel Janssens (1931–1992), Belgian road bicycle racer
- Mark Janssens (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey forward
- Mathias Janssens (born 1998), Belgian footballer
- Patrick Janssens (born 1956), Belgian politician
- Victor Honoré Janssens (1658–1736), Flemish painter
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