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Jana Thieme
Jana Thieme, married name Ullrich, is a retired German rower who won gold in the women's double sculls with Kathrin Boron at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and six world titles.
Jana Zaumseil
Jana Zaumseil (born 1977) is a German applied physical chemist, Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2014, known for organic electronics, carbon nanotube optoelectronics, and light-emitting transistors.
Jana: Marked for Life
Jana: Marked for Life (Jana – Märkta för livet) is a 2024 Swedish six-part Nordic noir thriller on Viaplay and Prime Video, adapted from Emelie Schepp's Jana Berzelius novels, starring Madeleine Martin as a prosecutor and former child soldier.
Janaan (جانان)
Janaan (جانان) is a 2016 Pakistani Urdu romantic comedy directed by Azfar Jafri, written by Osman Khalid Butt, starring Armeena Rana Khan, Bilal Ashraf, and Ali Rehman Khan, about a Pakhtun girl returning from Canada to Swat.
Janaawar – The Beast Within
Janaawar – The Beast Within is a 2025 Hindi ZEE5 Original crime thriller web series directed by Shachindra Vats, starring Bhuvan Arora as SI Hemant Kumar investigating a headless corpse in Chhand, Chhattisgarh; seven episodes premiered 26 September 2025.
Janabai
Janabai (जनाबाई), c. 1258 to 1350, was a Marathi saint-poet of the Varkari tradition devoted to Vitthal of Pandharpur, who spent her life as a maidservant in the household of the poet-saint Namdev.
Janae Shamp
Janae Shamp is an American politician and Republican member of the Arizona Senate from the 29th district, serving since 2023. She is a nurse.
Janaen Karbala Waterpark
Janaen Karbala (جنائن) is a resort and waterpark complex in Karbala, Iraq, on Hurr Street, with a water park, 120 commercial units, and parking for 1,200 cars; designed by Mohamad Raouf & Associates (2021).
Janagaraj
Janagaraj, also known as Janakaraj, is an Indian actor born in 1955 in Chennai. He appeared in over 100 Tamil films in comedy and supporting roles.
Janagliflozin
Janagliflozin (脯氨酸加格列净片, brand Huiyoujing) is a Chinese Class 1 SGLT2 inhibitor tablet by Huisheng Biopharm (Sihuan Pharmaceutical), approved 16 January 2024 for type 2 diabetes; second domestic SGLT2 inhibitor, once-daily 25 or 50 mg, HbA1c reduction up to 1.4%, listed in China's 2025 medical insurance catalog.
Janaka (जनक)
Janaka (जनक), king of Videha with capital Mithilā, is the philosopher-king of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad and Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, associate of Yājñavalkya, foster-father of Sītā in the Rāmāyaṇa, and model of renouncing sovereignty in the Mahābhārata.
Janaka Aithe Ganaka (జనక ఐతే గనక)
Janaka Aithe Ganaka (జనక ఐతే గనక) is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama, Sandeep Reddy Bandla's directorial debut, starring Suhas as a middle-class man who sues a condom company after an unplanned pregnancy; released October 12, 2024 by Dil Raju Productions.
Janaki Ammal
Janaki Ammal (Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal, 1897–1984), Indian botanist and cytogeneticist; first Indian woman PhD in botany (Michigan, 1931); bred sweeter sugarcane at Coimbatore, co-authored the 1945 Chromosome Atlas, led the Botanical Survey of India, and helped save Kerala's Silent Valley.
Janakpur
Janakpur (Janakpurdham), capital of Madhesh Province, Nepal, in the Terai about 225 km from Kathmandu; birthplace of Sita in Hindu tradition, home of the 1910 Janaki Mandir, sacred ponds, Mithila art, and a rail link to Jainagar, India.
Janam Sakhi Bhai Bala
Janam Sakhi Bhai Bala (ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲੇ ਵਾਲੀ ਜਨਮ ਸਾਖੀ), also called the Bhai Bale Wali Janam Sakhi, is a Punjabi account of Guru Nanak's life narrated by his companion Bhai Bala.
Janam TV (ജനം ടിവി)
Janam TV (ജനം ടിവി) is a 24×7 Malayalam-language news channel based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, launched in June 2015 and described in press coverage as right-leaning.
Janamejaya (जनमेजय)
Janamejaya (जनमेजय), Kuru king, son of Parikshit and great-grandson of Arjuna; his snake sacrifice frames the Mahabharata's recitation, and a Janamejaya Parikshita appears in the Aitareya and Shatapatha Brahmanas as a Vedic sacrificial king.
Janamsakhis
The Janamsakhis (ਜਨਮਸਾਖੀ), literally "life stories," are traditional Punjabi hagiographic narratives of the life and teachings of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, compiled from the late sixteenth century onward in several recensions.
Janani
Janani (Bengali: জননী, "Mother") is a 1935 psychological Bengali novel by Manik Bandopadhyay, his first published novel, following the young housewife Shyama's journey to motherhood.
Janani K. Jha
Janani K. Jha (fka J. Maya), born Janani Krishnan-Jha, is an Indian-American singer-songwriter from the Bay Area known for mythology-infused nerd-pop, the albums The Rest of the Laurels and Epilogue, and roles in EPIC: The Musical and Survivor 45.
Janani Luwum
Janani Jakaliya Luwum (1922–1977) was an Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Boga-Zaire, murdered in February 1977 on the orders of President Idi Amin after publicly protesting the regime's abuses.
Janapada
Janapada (Sanskrit/Pali, "foothold of a people"): ancient Indian territorial states of the later Vedic period, c. 1000-600 BCE, named after settled tribes like Kuru and Panchala; some grew into the sixteen mahajanapadas by the sixth century BCE.
Janardan K. Reddy
Janardan K. Reddy, also known as J. K. Reddy, is a pathologist at Northwestern University who identified peroxisome proliferators as chemical carcinogens and hypothesized the PPAR receptors.
Janardan Mishra
Janardan Mishra is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2014, now in his third term.
Janardan Singh Sigriwal
Janardan Singh Sigriwal is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Maharajganj, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha since 2014, after serving as a Bihar minister.
Janardhanan (ജനാർദ്ദനൻ പിള്ള) (actor)
Janardhanan (ജനാർദ്ദനൻ പിള്ള), also known as Janardhanan Pillai, is a Malayalam film actor born 1946 in Vaikom, Kerala; a former Air Force trainee who became the industry's regular villain, then a comedian after Oru CBI Diary Kurippu (1988), with 478 listed films from 1969 to 2026.
Janasana
Janasana (जनसन), also Janasāna, is a monk of the Pali commentarial tradition, said to have been an Ājīvika ascetic who predicted Ashoka's glory and then converted to Buddhism.
Janasena Party
Janasena Party (JSP, "People's Army"), founded by Pawan Kalyan on 14 March 2014, is a regional party in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana; NDA partner, won all 21 assembly and 2 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, Deputy CM since June 2024.
Janat Park
Janat Park (Jannah/Jannat Park) names several Middle Eastern leisure venues: chiefly Janat Dilmun, Bahrain's largest waterpark (opened 2007, 77,000 sq m, 20+ slides), plus Jannah Park in Basra, Janat Park in Arak, Iran, and Jannat Garden in Shiraz.
Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular), JD(S), Karnataka regional party founded 1999 from the Janata Dal split under H. D. Deve Gowda; symbol a farmer woman with paddy sheaf; allied with BJP-led NDA since 2023.