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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born 1937, New York City) is an American actress and activist, daughter of Henry Fonda, two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for Klute and Coming Home, infamous as 'Hanoi Jane' from a 1972 North Vietnam photo, and creator of the 1982 Jane Fonda's Workout videos.
Jane Foster
Jane Foster is a Marvel Comics character, first appearing in Journey into Mystery #84 (1962), Thor's love interest, who became the female Thor (Mighty Thor) in Jason Aaron's 2014 run, later Valkyrie, and is played by Natalie Portman in Thor: Love and Thunder.
Jane Foster (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Jane Foster (MCU), played by Natalie Portman, is Thor's astrophysicist ex-girlfriend who becomes the Mighty Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), wields a reformed Mjolnir while fighting stage 4 cancer, dies, and appears in Valhalla.
Jane Fraser (businesswoman)
Jane Fraser is a British-born banking executive who has been chief executive officer of Citigroup since 2021, the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank.
Jane G. Schaller
Jane G. Schaller is an American pediatric rheumatologist at Tufts University, known for classifying childhood arthritis and serving as the first American president of the International Pediatric Association.
Jane Garvey (broadcaster)
Jane Garvey (born 1964) is an English radio presenter, first voice on BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994, Woman's Hour presenter 2007-2020, now co-hosting Times Radio's afternoon show and the Off Air podcast with Fi Glover.
Jane Gitschier
Jane Gitschier is an American human geneticist who spent her career at UCSF, was an HHMI investigator from 1985 to 2006, and studied hemophilia and Menkes disease.
Jane Goldman
Jane Goldman (born 1970) is a British screenwriter and author, screenwriting debut Stardust (2007) with Matthew Vaughn; wrote Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black, Kingsman films, and Rebecca; not the American CHOW founder of the same name.
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall (1934-2025), British ethologist, began the first long-term wild chimpanzee study at Gombe, Tanzania, in 1960, discovering chimp toolmaking, hunting, and personalities; founded the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots.
Jane Got a Gun
Jane Got a Gun is a 2016 American Western directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, and Ewan McGregor, set in 1871 New Mexico Territory; notorious for its director and cast upheavals and a $1.5 million gross on a $25 million budget.
Jane Greer
Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer, 1924–2001), American actress, queen of film noir and star as Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past (1947); discovered and stymied by Howard Hughes.
Jane Harris (Neighbours)
Jane Harris is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Annie Jones on and off from 1986 to 2025 and nicknamed "Plain Jane Superbrain".
Jane Hawking
Jane Hawking, born Jane Wilde, English author and academic, first wife of physicist Stephen Hawking; married 1965, divorced 1995; wrote Music to Move the Stars (1999) and Travelling to Infinity (2007), basis of The Theory of Everything.
Jane Hedengren
Jane Hedengren (born 2006), American distance runner from Provo, Utah; set nine U.S. high school records in 2025 (mile 4:23.50, 2-mile 9:17.75, 5K 14:57.93), then broke the NCAA indoor 5000m record at BYU.
Jane Helwig
Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.
Jane Henson
Jane Henson (née Nebel, 1934–2013) was an American puppeteer and artist, Jim Henson's first performing partner and co-founder of Muppets, Inc., later founder of The Jim Henson Legacy.
Jane Hill
Jane Hill, in full Jane Amanda Hill, is a British journalist and newsreader, born 1969, who presents BBC One's News at Six and Ten and was the BBC News channel's longest-serving presenter.
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks (born 1964) is an English actress from Rawtenstall, Lancashire, known for Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous and Little Voice, with Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Oscar nominations.
Jane I. Guyer
Jane I. Guyer (1943–2024) was a British-born American economic anthropologist of West and Equatorial Africa, a Johns Hopkins professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Jane J. Boyle
Jane J. Boyle, born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in the Northern District of Texas since 2004.
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), born Jane Butzner, American-Canadian writer and activist; author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961); led fights against Robert Moses projects in New York and the Spadina Expressway in Toronto.
Jane K. Setlow
Jane K. Setlow was a geneticist who, with her husband Richard at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, showed in 1962 that UV-induced thymine dimers cause DNA damage.
Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek (born 1955, Milwaukee) is an American actress, Lois on Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), seven consecutive Emmy nominations, two TCA Awards, and Lois again in the 2026 Hulu revival Life's Still Unfair.
Jane Kleeb
Jane Fleming Kleeb, Nebraska grassroots organizer, founder of Bold Nebraska/Bold Alliance, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party since 2016, DNC vice chair, and leader of the Keystone XL pipeline opposition.
Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (born Jane Krajkowski, 1968) is an American actress and singer: Tony winner for Nine (2003), Olivier winner for Guys and Dolls, Elaine on Ally McBeal, Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock, Jacqueline on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!.
Jane L. Kelly
Jane L. Kelly, also known as Jane Louise Kelly, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2013.
Jane Langdale
Jane A. Langdale is Professor of Plant Development at the University of Oxford, known for research on leaf evolution and for coordinating the C4 Rice Project.
Jane Lapotaire
Jane Lapotaire (1944–2026) was a British classical actress, CBE, famous as Édith Piaf in Pam Gems's Piaf, winning the Olivier and Tony Awards; RSC and National Theatre lead, BAFTA-nominated Marie Curie, The Crown's Princess Alice.
Jane Lead
Jane Lead, also spelled Leade, was an English mystic and universalist who led the Philadelphian Society in London, publishing visions and theology from 1681 until her death in 1704.
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves (born 1961) is an English actress known as Daphne Moon on Frasier (1993-2004), Joy Scroggs on Hot in Cleveland (2010-2015), and Dr. Kitt Voss on The Resident; Emmy-nominated, author of the 2026 memoir Daphne & Me.