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Jane Levy
Jane Colburn Levy (born 1989, Los Angeles) is an American actress known for Suburgatory, Evil Dead, Don't Breathe, Castle Rock, and the Golden Globe-nominated Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco, born 1947 in Denver, is an American marine ecologist at Oregon State University, the first woman to lead NOAA (2009–2013) and a White House climate official from 2021 to 2025.
Jane Luu
Jane Luu, born 1963 in South Vietnam, is an astronomer who with David Jewitt discovered 1992 QB1 in 1992, the first Kuiper Belt object, earning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw Prizes.
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch, born Jane Marie Lynch, is an American actress, comedian, and game show host best known as Sue Sylvester on Glee, a role that won her a 2010 Emmy.
Jane M. Beckering
Jane Marie Beckering, born in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Jane M. T. Milazzo
Jane M. T. Milazzo, born Jane Margaret Triche Milazzo, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2011.
Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer, American investigative journalist, New Yorker chief Washington correspondent since 1995; author of The Dark Side and Dark Money; Polk, Peabody, and Emmy winner.
Jane McDonald
Jane McDonald, born 1963 in Wakefield, is an English singer and TV presenter who rose to fame on BBC's The Cruise (1998), scored a number one platinum debut album, won a BAFTA for Cruising with Jane McDonald, and released the Nashville-recorded album Living the Dream in 2026.
Jane McKee Smith
Jane McKee Smith is an American coastal engineer who co-developed the STWAVE wave model and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Jane Mellor
Jane Mellor is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford who studies chromatin remodeling and gene regulation, known for 1985 Nature papers establishing yeast Ty as retrovirus-like.
Jane Moore
Jane Moore (born 1962, Oxford) is an English journalist, Sun columnist since 1996, original Loose Women panellist (1999), novelist of Fourplay and The Ex Files, and 2024 I'm a Celebrity contestant; distinct from the Alabama educator Jane B. Moore.
Jane Morris
Jane Morris, born Jane Burden (1839–1914), was an English embroiderer and artist's model who inspired Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings and ran the embroidery side of Morris & Co.
Jane Pauley
Jane Pauley (born 1950) is an American broadcast journalist, anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 2016, former NBC Today co-host 1976-1989, and co-founding anchor of Dateline NBC.
Jane Porter (Tarzan)
Jane Porter, also known as Lady Jane Greystoke, is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Tarzan's American or English wife.
Jane Powell
Jane Powell (Suzanne Lorraine Burce, 1929-2021), American MGM musical film star and coloratura soprano, known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Royal Wedding (1951); five marriages, later stage and TV career, died in Wilton, Connecticut.
Jane R. Roth
Jane R. Roth, also known as Jane Richards Roth, is an American jurist and senior judge on the Third Circuit, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Jane Russell
Jane Russell (Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 1921-2011), American actress and singer famed for Howard Hughes' The Outlaw censorship controversy and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe; also WAIF founder and Playtex spokeswoman.
Jane S. Norbeck
Jane S. Norbeck is an American nursing scientist known for research on social support and health outcomes, and dean of the UCSF School of Nursing from 1989 to 2000.
Jane Sandanski
Jane Sandanski (Јане Сандански) was a Macedonian revolutionary leader who headed IMRO's left, federalist wing, best known for organizing the 1901 kidnapping of American missionary Ellen Stone.
Jane Sanders
Jane O'Meara Sanders is an American educator, wife of Senator Bernie Sanders (married 1988), former Burlington College president (2004-2011), unpaid congressional adviser, and founder of the Sanders Institute.
Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun (born 1987, Queens, New York) is an American non-binary trans filmmaker of the Screen Trilogy: We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and Cannes Queer Palm winner Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026).
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (1508/9-1537), third wife and queen of Henry VIII, married him in May 1536 after Anne Boleyn's execution, bore the future Edward VI in October 1537, and died twelve days later, probably of puerperal fever.
Jane Seymour (actress)
Jane Seymour (Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, born 1951) is a British-American actress, Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die and Golden Globe-winning star of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, now leading Harry Wild.
Jane Shelby Richardson
Jane Shelby Richardson is an American protein structural biologist at Duke University, born in 1941, known for inventing ribbon diagrams, naming protein folds, and the MolProbity service.
Jane Shore
Jane Shore, born Elizabeth, was an English woman best known as the mistress of King Edward IV, made to do public penance under Richard III in 1483.
Jane Sibbett
Jane Sibbett (Jane Moore Sibbett, born 1962) is an American actress known as Carol Willick on Friends (1994–2001) and Heddy on Herman's Head; later an energy healer, Jane's Dancing Hands.
Jane Skinner
Jane Skinner (Jane Skinner Goodell), born 1967, American former Fox News anchor who co-hosted Happening Now with Jon Scott until 2010; wife of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and producer of A Lifetime of Sundays and Earnin' It.
Jane Street Capital
Jane Street Capital is a private, employee-owned quantitative trading firm founded in 2000 that trades equities, bonds, options, and currencies as a global market maker.
Jane the Virgin
Jane the Virgin: CW comedy-drama (2014-2019, 100 episodes) adapted from the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen; Gina Rodriguez stars as Jane Villanueva, accidentally inseminated, in a noted Latinx representation landmark.
Jane Timken
Jane Timken is an American Republican politician, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party from 2017 to 2021 and a member of the Ohio Senate representing the 29th District.