Jan Yoors (12 April 1922 – 27 November 1977) was a Belgian-American artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and tapestry creator.

[1] Growing up in Antwerp to liberal, pacifist parents, his father Eugeen Yoors, a famed stained-glass artist, Yoors studied painting before deciding to live with a Rom kumpania[clarification needed] he encountered on the outskirts of Antwerp at the age of twelve, and about which he would later write two memoirs, The Gypsies[2] (1967) and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II[3] (1971), the latter about living with the Rom during World War II.

He traveled extensively on a trip to revisit his Rom family in Europe, and, in 1966–67 photographed post-war religious buildings for Edward Sovik as part of the First International Congress on Religion, Architecture, and the Visual Arts in New York.

In 1949 the "Eighth Annual Exhibition of Catholic Art" at the Royal Institute of British Architects includes Yoors's work.

In 1950, Yoors travels to New York for what was meant to be a six-week stay as a journalist and sets up a studio with a 15-foot vertical loom.

Yoors returned to Belgium a final time for a retrospective in Ghent at Saint Peter's Abbey.