Jens (given name)

Jens is a male given name and a Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese and Frisian derivative of Johannes. It was the top given name for boys in Denmark in 2008.^[1]

People with the name include:

• Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game developer.
• Jens Blauenfeldt, television actor, screenwriter, and director for Danmarks Radio
• Jens Eriksen, Danish Olympic badminton player
• Jens Fink-Jensen, Danish author, composer and photographer
• Jens Gad, musician and composer
• Jens Geier, German politician
• Jens Peter Hansen, Danish Olympic footballer
• Jens Jensen (landscape architect), Danish-American landscape architect
• Jens Jensen (politician), Australian politician and Minister for the Navy
• Jens Jensen (trade unionist), Danish trade unionist and politician
• Jens Kristian Jensen, Danish gymnast
• Jens Jeremies, German footballer
• Jens Johansson, keyboardist and pianist
• Jens Kidman, Swedish vocalist of the band Meshuggah
• Jens Lapidus, Swedish author
• Jens Larsen, Danish volleyball player and coach
• Jens Peter Larsen, Danish musicologist and conductor
• Jens Lehmann, German footballer
• Jens Lekman, Swedish pop musician
• Jens Lieblein, Norwegian egyptologist
• Jens Lindhard, Danish physicist
• Jens Lindhardt, Danish rower
• Jens Otto Krag, former Prime Minister of Denmark
• Jens Meilvang (born 1981), Danish politician
• Jens Johnnie "Little Evil" Pulver, first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) lightweight champion
• Jens Salumäe, Estonian Olympic ski jumper
• Jens Christian Skou, Danish Nobel Prize winner (Chemistry 1997)
• Jens Spahn, German politician
• Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO and former Prime Minister of Norway
• Jens Stryger Larsen, Danish footballer
• Jens Toornstra, Dutch footballer currently playing for Feyenoord
• Jens Voigt, German professional road bicycle racer
• Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper