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Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United), Nitish Kumar's center-left party founded 30 October 2003 from a merger with the Samata Party, dominates Bihar politics, switches between BJP-led NDA and RJD-led alliances, uses the Arrow symbol, and won 85 seats in the 2025 Bihar Assembly election.
Janata Dal (जनता दल)
Janata Dal (जनता दल), an Indian political party founded October 11, 1988 by V. P. Singh from Janata Party and Lok Dal factions, led the National Front government of 1989-90, implemented Mandal Commission reservations in 1990, and fragmented into JD(U), JD(S), RJD, BJD, and other successor parties.
Janata Party (जनता पार्टी)
Janata Party (जनता पार्टी), Indian party formed 1977 from Congress (O), Bharatiya Lok Dal, Jana Sangh, and Socialist merger; won 298 Lok Sabha seats, first non-Congress government under Morarji Desai, collapsed 1979, merged into Janata Dal 1988.
Janatha Garage
Janatha Garage (జనతా గ్యారేజ్), 2016 Telugu vigilante action drama by Koratala Siva, starring Jr NTR and Mohanlal; Mythri Movie Makers, music Devi Sri Prasad, released 1 September 2016, over ₹41 crore opening day.
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ)
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, People's Liberation Front) is Sri Lanka's Marxist, once-insurrectionary party behind the 1971 and 1987–89 uprisings, now governing through its National People's Power coalition under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Janbu's method
Janbu's method is a limit-equilibrium procedure of slices for computing the factor of safety of soil or rock slopes, developed by Norwegian engineer Nils Janbu in the 1950s.
Janda Pai Kapiraju
Janda Pai Kapiraju (జెండా పై కాపిరాజు), also spelled Jenda Pai Kapiraju, is a 2015 Telugu political action drama by Samuthirakani, starring Nani in his first dual role with Amala Paul; shot bilingually as Nimirndhu Nil.
Jane
Jane (2017) is Brett Morgen's National Geographic documentary on Jane Goodall, built from 140 hours of 16 mm footage by Hugo van Lawick rediscovered in 2014, scored by Philip Glass; distinct from the 2017 Korean drama Jane, The Janes, and Jane by Charlotte.
Jane (2023 TV series)
Jane (2023 TV series), Apple TV+ children's show created by J.J. Johnson with the Jane Goodall Institute; live-action/CGI series about 9-year-old Jane Garcia saving endangered animals, three seasons 2023-2025.
Jane A. Restani
Jane A. Restani (born 1948) is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States Court of International Trade appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Jane Adams (actress, born 1965)
Jane Adams, born 1965, is an American actress who won a Tony Award for An Inspector Calls and starred in Happiness and HBO's Hung and Hacks.
Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pacifist who co-founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander (born Jane Quigley, 1939) is an American actress, author, and conservationist, Tony winner for The Great White Hope, four-time Oscar nominee, and the first artist to chair the National Endowment for the Arts (1993-97).
Jane Ansah
Jane Mayemu Ansah (née Mjojo), born 1955, is a Malawian lawyer, retired Supreme Court Justice of Appeal, first female Attorney General (2006–2011), former Malawi Electoral Commission chair during the nullified 2019 election, and current First Vice President on the DPP ticket with Peter Mutharika.
Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 1946, London) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, sister of Peter Asher and former girlfriend of Paul McCartney; known for Mandy, Alfie, Deep End, Festen, and her Party Cakes business.
Jane Attenborough
Jane Mary Attenborough (1955-2004), English arts administrator, elder daughter of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim; founding director of Dance UK, creator of the Healthier Dancer Programme, Paul Hamlyn Foundation arts manager; died in the 2004 Khao Lak tsunami.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist of gentry life, author of six novels published 1811–1818 including Pride and Prejudice and Emma; pioneer of free indirect discourse, first published anonymously as "by a Lady".
Jane Austen in popular culture
Jane Austen in popular culture covers her novels' afterlife in film, TV, fan fiction, tourism, and fandom: the 1995–96 six-adaptation boom, Janeites, JASNA, Bridgerton's Regency revival, and the 2026 adaptation wave.
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) is a 2024 French bilingual romantic comedy, Laura Piani's feature debut, starring Camille Rutherford as a Paris bookseller at a Jane Austen writers' residency; TIFF 2024 premiere, Metascore 73, 2026 César nomination.
Jane Avril
Jane Avril, born Jeanne Louise Beaudon (1868-1943), French Belle Époque can-can dancer and Moulin Rouge star, nicknamed La Melinite, immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec.
Jane B. Stranch
Jane Branstetter Stranch (born 1953) is an American jurist serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
Jane Badler
Jane Badler (born 1953) is an American and Australian actress and singer, best known as the villainous alien leader Diana in NBC's 1983 miniseries V and its sequels.
Jane Barkman
Jane Barkman (Jane Louise Barkman Brown), American swimmer born 1951 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and 200 m freestyle bronze in 1968.
Jane Beale
Jane Beale (Lesley Jane Beale, née Clarke) is a fictional character in the BBC soap EastEnders, played by Laurie Brett in 1,112 episodes from 2004–2012, 2014–2017 and 2024; Ian Beale's ex-wife, Bobby's adoptive mother, and the cover-up figure in the Who Killed Lucy Beale storyline.
Jane Bell
Jane Bell (Florence Isabel Bell, 1910-1998), Canadian sprinter nicknamed Calamity Jane, won gold in the women's 4x100m relay at Amsterdam 1928 with a world-record 48.4, as one of the Matchless Six.
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin (1946–2023), British-born singer and actress based in France, famous for duets with Serge Gainsbourg including "Je t'aime… moi non plus," films such as Blow-Up and La Belle Noiseuse, and as namesake of the Hermès Birkin bag.
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (Jane Parker), Tudor lady-in-waiting to five of Henry VIII's queens, wife of George Boleyn; executed with Katherine Howard in 1542; the story that she betrayed Anne Boleyn is a later myth.
Jane Boulton
Jane Boulton is the British former easyJet check-in supervisor who starred in ITV's fly-on-the-wall series Airline at London Luton Airport, later becoming a TikTok viral figure and touring live shows under An Audience with Jane Boulton.
Jane Bullen
Jane Bullen, later Jane Holderness-Roddam (born 1948), British event rider; 1968 Olympic team eventing gold medalist on Our Nobby, first woman from any country to win eventing gold, and two-time Badminton winner.
Jane Byrne
Jane Byrne, born Margaret Jane Burke (1933-2014), was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1979 to 1983, the city's first female mayor.