Janez (given name)
Janez is a Slovene form of the given name John.
- Janez Burger (born 1965), film director
- Janez Drnovšek (1950 - 2008), 2nd president of the Republic of Slovenia
- Janez Drozg (1933 - 2005), film director
- Janez Janša (born 1958), 5th prime minister of independent Slovenia
- Janez K. Lapajne (born 1937), geophysicist and seismologist
- Janez Lapajne (born 1967), film director
- Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641 - 1693), scholar and polymath, member of the Royal Society
- Janez Janež (1913 - 1990), slovene medical doctor and surgeon, who worked for most of his life in Taiwan