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Jane C. Davies

Jane C. Davies is a British physician-scientist and professor at Imperial College London who led the clinical trials bringing CFTR modulator drugs to people with cystic fibrosis.

Jane C. Ginsburg

Jane C. Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor at Columbia Law School and daughter of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a copyright scholar known for work on authorship, comparative copyright, and AI-generated works.

Jane C. Weeks

Jane C. Weeks, also known as Jane Weeks, was an American oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who pioneered cancer outcomes research before her death in 2013.

Jane Campbell

Jane Campbell, born 1995, is an American goalkeeper who has played her whole career for the Houston Dash, winning 2023 NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year.

Jane Campion

Jane Campion (born 1954, Wellington) is a New Zealand director and screenwriter, first woman to win the Cannes Palme d'Or (The Piano, 1993) and Oscar-winning director of The Power of the Dog (2021).

Jane Cederqvist

Jane Cederqvist (1945–2023), Swedish distance freestyle swimmer for SK Neptun; won 400 m freestyle silver at Rome 1960 aged 15, set 800 m and 1,500 m world records, first woman and youngest ever Svenska Dagbladet Bragdguldet recipient.

Jane Chapman

Jane L. Chapman is a British media historian, Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, Wolfson College Cambridge research associate, and former TV producer; author of Comparative Media History (2005) and Journalism Today (2011).

Jane Child

Jane Child (born Jane Richmond Hyslop, 1967, Toronto) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer known for the 1990 hit "Don't Wanna Fall in Love."

Jane Clifton

Jane Clifton (born 1949, Gibraltar) is an Australian actress, singer, writer, and civil celebrant known for Margo Gaffney in Prisoner, the band Stiletto, top 10 singles Girl on the Wall and Taxi Mary, and three crime novels; not the NZ political journalist of the same name.

Jane Cornwell

Jane Cornwell was an Australian-born, London-based journalist and critic covering jazz, global music, arts and travel; Evening Standard jazz critic from 2014, Songlines contributing editor, author of the 2015 memoir The Whirl.

Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin (born 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress and comedian, an original Saturday Night Live cast member (1975–1980), first female Weekend Update anchor, two-time Emmy winner for Kate & Allie, and star of 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Jane Danson

Jane Danson (Jane Elizabeth Dawson, born 1978, Bury) is an English actress who has played Leanne Battersby on Coronation Street since 1997, won the 2011 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance, and married actor Robert Beck in 2005.

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell (1879–1967), born Patti Woodard, was an American character actress who won the Academy Award for playing Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Jane Dodd

Jane Dodd is a neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on how the embryonic spinal cord is patterned and how growing axons find their paths.

Jane Doe (Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada song)

JANE DOE, duet by Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada, first collaboration of the two, ending theme of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc; written by Yonezu, released September 22, 2025, Sony Music Labels, RIAJ gold.

Jane E. Freedman

Jane E. Freedman is an American physician-scientist whose research centers on platelets, thrombosis, and immunity in cardiovascular disease; she chairs Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Medicine.

Jane E. Harding

Jane E. Harding is a New Zealand neonatologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute and President of Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2024.

Jane E. Koehler

Jane E. Koehler, born 1953, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF known for isolating the bacteria that cause bacillary angiomatosis, an AIDS-associated disease.

Jane E. Magnus-Stinson

Jane E. Magnus-Stinson, also known as Jane Elizabeth Magnus-Stinson, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Indiana, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.

Jane E. Norman

Jane E. Norman is a British maternal and fetal health researcher who has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham since January 2025, after leading preterm birth research at Edinburgh.

Jane E. Parker

Jane E. Parker is a British plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity and leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

Jane E. Salmon

Jane E. Salmon is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York whose research established how complement-driven inflammation causes pregnancy complications in lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome.

Jane Elith

Jane Elith is an Australian quantitative ecologist at the University of Melbourne whose species distribution models shaped how ecologists predict where species occur; she won the 2015 Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.

Jane Ellen Buikstra

Jane Ellen Buikstra is an American anthropologist at Arizona State University credited with founding bioarchaeology, the study of human remains from archaeological contexts; she coined the term in 1976.

Jane Elliot

Jane Elliot (born 1947) is an American actress, not the diversity educator Jane Elliott, best known as Tracy Quartermaine on General Hospital since 1978, with a 1981 Daytime Emmy and roles on Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives, and Knots Landing.

Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott (born 1933), American teacher from Riceville, Iowa, creator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination exercise first run with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, later a diversity trainer.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre: 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë, published as Currer Bell; first-person Bildungsroman of an orphan governess and Mr. Rochester, famous for its reception mystery, Gothic elements, and adaptations.

Jane Eyre (2011 film)

Jane Eyre is a 2011 romantic drama directed by Cary Fukunaga, adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel, starring Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Rochester.

Jane Fallon

Jane Fallon, full name Jane Elizabeth Mary Fallon, is an English novelist and TV producer whose comic novels about friendship and revenge include Getting Rid of Matthew (2007).

Jane Fellowes, Lady Fellowes

Jane Fellowes, Lady Fellowes (née Spencer, born 1957), sister of Diana, Princess of Wales; married Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, Queen's Private Secretary 1990–1999; gave the only reading at Harry and Meghan's 2018 wedding.