Janice Y. K. Lee, is a Hong Kong-born American author, known for her best-selling debut novel The Piano Teacher.

Janina Degutytė was a Lithuanian poet, best remembered for her children's poems, lyrical poetry, in the genres of romance and modernism which were published in Lithuanian and Russian, and subsequently translated into Hungarian and Polish.

Janina Ipohorska was a Polish painter and writer. She wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Kamyczek, Alojzy Kaczanowski and Bracia Rojek.

Janina Maria Orlov, is a Finnish-Swedish translator of literature. She took her PhD in the Russian language in 2005 at Åbo Akademi with a text about Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Orlov translates books from Russian and Finnish to Swedish and specializes in children's books and youth literature, but also regular literature.

Janine Boissard is a French writer, best known for her book series L’Esprit de famille (1979–1984), which was adapted into an eponymous French film in 1979 and an eponymous television series in 1982.

Janine Burke is an Australian author, art historian, biographer, novelist and photographer. She also curates exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. She is Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. She was born in Melbourne in 1952.

Jānis Akuraters was a Latvian poet, writer, playwright and politician. He founded the Latvian National Theatre in 1919 and was director of Radio of Riga between 1930 and 1934.

Jānis Jansons-Brauns was a Latvian revolutionary, literary critic and journalist.

Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš was a Latvian writer and painter and one of the most popular authors of the first Republic of Latvia between the two world wars.

Jānis Joņevs is a Latvian writer, copywriter and translator from french. After studying at the local Gymnasium in Jelgava, he went to Riga for his higher education and earned a Master's degree from the Latvian Academy of Culture. Joņevs is best known for his debut novel Doom 94 which was a bestseller upon its release in 2013. The book later won the European Union Prize for Literature. It was translated into many languages and made into a feature film.