Jan Grarup (born 1968) is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography.

[3] His book, Shadowland (2006), presents his work during the 12 years he spent in Kashmir, Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Rwanda, Kosovo, Slovakia, Ramallah, Hebron, Iraq, Iran, and Darfur.

"[5] After leaving his post at Politiken in the autumn of 2009, he joined the small Danish photographic firm Das Büro in January 2010 where he concentrated on the national market.

[8] In September 2023 Grarup was fired by his newspaper Politken after he admitted lying about his experiences covering the war in Ukraine.

The journalists Mille Ørsted and Niels Frederik Rickers[11] revealed with compelling facts that an essay "Turist i mit eget mareridt"[12] ("Tourist in my own nightmare") in Politiken, which Jan Grarup wrote on 7 April 2019 the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, is fraught with contradictions and contradictory claims about central details.

In late September 2023 Politiken decided to launch an investigation into Jan Grarup's work for the newspaper after numerous of news stories with serious alligations.