Johan (given name)

Johan (given name)

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Johan


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region = Germanic
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related names = John
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Johan is a masculine given name of German language origin, meaning "God is gracious". [cite web |url=http://www.babynames.com/Names/Alpha/index.php?let=J&g=M&o=135 |title=Boy names starting with J
publisher=babynames.com |accessdate=2007-12-14] It is a variation of the English language given name, John. Johan is uncommon as a surname. People with the name Johan include:

* Carl Johan Trygg, (1887 – 1954), Swedish master woodcarver
* Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (born 1916), youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
* Johan Cruijff, Dutch football (soccer) player and manager
* Ole-Johan Dahl (1931 – 2002), Norwegian computer scientist
* Johan Derksen (born 1949), Dutch sports journalist and former football player
* Johan Galtung (born 1930). Norwegian sociologist
* Johan Håstad, Swedish mathematician
* Johan Hjort (1869 - 1948), Norwegian fisheries biologist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer
* Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
* Johan Lammerts, Dutch cyclist
* Johan Liebert, the antagonist in Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime series Monster
* Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), Finland-Swedish poet, and is held to be the national poet of Finland
* Johan Norberg (born 1973), Swedish writer
* Johan of Plön (d. 1359), lord of Denmark east of the Great Belt
* Johan Oscar Smith (1871 - 1943 Horten). Norwegian Christian leader who founded the non-denominational fellowship known by some as "Smith's Friends"
* Johan Santana, New York Mets pitcher
* Johan Staël von Holstein (born 1963), Swedish entrepreneur
* Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
* Johan Wallberg (born 1977), Swedish freestyle swimmer

References

ee also

* John (name)


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