Juan
Juan is a first name .
Origin and meaning
As a male name, Juan is the Spanish form of the male given name Johannes or Johann . The Hebrew name root means "God is gracious".
variants
- Juana , (feminine form)
- Juanito , Juancho, Juanelo, Juantxu, Juantxo ( diminutive )
Juan (娟, 隽) is also a common name for Chinese women and means something like "graceful, beautiful".
Name bearer
First name
See also: Juan Carlos
- Juan III de Silva , 5th Conde de Cifuentes (1510–?), 1549 ambassador from Charles V to Edward VI.
- Juan Antonio Bardem (1922–2002), Spanish film director and screenwriter
- Juan de Austria (1547–1578), commander of the Spanish fleet and governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
- Juan de Borbón y Battenberg (1913–1993), Infante of Spain, Count of Barcelona
- Juan de Cazalla (around 1480–1530 / 1535), Spanish theologian and clergyman, titular bishop of Verissa
- Juan de Flandes (1465–1519), Dutch Renaissance painter
- Juan de Homedes y Coscon (also: Jean; 1477–1553), 47th Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Juan de Prado , Spanish doctor and philosopher
- Juan de Segovia , Spanish theologian, representative of conciliarism at the Basel Council
- Juan Del Campo (* 1994), Spanish ski racer
- Juan Evaristo (1902–1978), Argentinian football player
- Juan Gil de Zámora (around 1240 – around 1320), Spanish Franciscan and scholar
- Juan Goytisolo (1931-2017), Spanish writer
- Gu Juan (* 1990), Singaporean badminton player
- Juan S. Guse (* 1989), German writer
- Juan Jesus (* 1991), Brazilian soccer player
- Juan Manuel de Villena de la Vega (–1543), Castilian nobleman and politician
- Juan Pablo Montoya (* 1975), Colombian racing driver and former Formula 1 driver
- Juan Pacheco (1419–1474), grandee of Castile
- Juan Ramón Curbelo (* 1979), Uruguayan football player
- Juan Rodrigo (born 1962), Filipino actor
- Juan Silveira dos Santos (* 1979), Brazilian soccer player
- Juan Williams Rebolledo (1825–1910), Chilean naval commander and vice admiral
- Juan Röhl (* 1973), Venezuelan chess player
- Juan Zanelli (1906–1944), Chilean racing car driver and resistance fighter in World War II († 1944)
family name
- Estefanía Juan (* 1981), Spanish weightlifter
- Fritz Max Hofmann-Juan (1873–1937), German painter
- Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773), Spanish mathematician and engineer
- Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529–1588), Spanish doctor and philosopher
- Marina de Juan Gallach (* 1993), Spanish squash player
Fictional characters
- Don Juan , literary archetype
- Don Juan , novella by ETA Hoffmann (1813)
- Don Juan (Strauss) , symphonic poem by Richard Strauss
- Don Juan DeMarco , American film from 1995
- Don Juan Matus , figure in the works of Carlos Castaneda
See also
- San Juan
- Juan-les-Pins (France)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johanan. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
- ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Juan. In: Behind the Name. Retrieved October 25, 2016 .