All articles starting with J

Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe (Janelle Monáe Robinson), American singer, rapper, and actress born 1985 in Kansas City, Kansas; creator of the Cindi Mayweather Metropolis concept albums and an Afrofuturism figure; four studio albums, ten Grammy nominations, and film roles in Moonlight, Hidden Figures, and Glass Onion.

Janelle S. Ayres

Janelle S. Ayres is an American molecular and systems physiologist at the Salk Institute who established disease tolerance, surviving infections by limiting damage rather than killing pathogens.

Janelle Salaün

Janelle Salaün, French forward (born 2001, Paris) for the WNBA's Golden State Valkyries and France's national team; undrafted, 2026 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year, 2024 Olympic silver medalist, sister of NBA player Tidjane Salaün.

Janelle Sarauw

Janelle K. Sarauw is an American politician and the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House from the Virgin Islands, after serving three terms as a territorial senator from 2017 to 2023.

Oct 10, 2026

Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane is an American laser scientist in Colorado known for the AI humor blog AI Weirdness and the 2019 book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You.

Janelle Stelson

Janelle Stelson, Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District in 2026, former WGAL-TV news anchor and Republican-turned-Democrat who lost to Scott Perry by about one point in 2024.

Oct 22, 2026

Janequeo

Janequeo is a Mapuche woman remembered in Chilean tradition as a warrior who led forces against Spanish settlements around Villarrica in the Arauco War from about 1587.

Oct 21, 2026

Janesville-Beloit, WI Metro Area

Janesville-Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 27500), a single-county Wisconsin metro covering Rock County, part of the Madison-Janesville-Beloit combined area; about 166,000 residents, manufacturing-heavy economy, incomes below national medians.

Janesville, Wisconsin

Janesville, Wisconsin: Rock County seat on the Rock River, founded 1835, incorporated 1853, known as Wisconsin's Park Place; former GM assembly town, 2020 population 65,615.

Janet (airline)

Janet, also called Janet Airlines, is the unofficial name for a fleet of unmarked aircraft flying US military and contractor personnel to Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range.

Janet (album)

janet. is Janet Jackson's fifth studio album, released May 18, 1993 on Virgin Records under a $40 million contract, produced with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Known for "That's the Way Love Goes," it debuted at number one and spent 106 weeks on the Billboard 200.

Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd

Janet Jennings Auchincloss Rutherfurd (1945–1985), half-sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill; lived in Hong Kong, taught French, founded an overseas League of Women Voters chapter, died of cancer at 39.

Janet B. Arterton

Janet Bond Arterton, born 1944 in Philadelphia, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in Connecticut from 1995 until retiring from the bench in 2023.

Janet C. Hall

Janet C. Hall is an American jurist and senior United States district judge of the District of Connecticut, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.

Janet C. King

Janet C. King is an American nutrition scientist at UC Davis and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, known for stable-isotope methods for studying zinc metabolism and for chairing the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines committee.

Janet Cooke

Janet Cooke, American former Washington Post reporter whose fabricated 1980 front-page story "Jimmy's World" about an 8-year-old heroin addict won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the first ever returned.

Janet Cowell

Janet Cowell is an American politician serving as mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, previously a Raleigh city councilor, state senator, and North Carolina State Treasurer, seeking reelection in 2026.

Sep 20, 2026

Janet D. Rowley

Janet D. Rowley (1925–2013) was an American hematologist at the University of Chicago who founded cancer cytogenetics, showing in 1973 that the Philadelphia chromosome is a translocation.

Janet Devlin

Janet Devlin (born 1994, Gortin, County Tyrone) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter who finished fifth on The X Factor 2011. Albums: Running With Scissors (2014), Confessional (2020), country-leaning Emotional Rodeo (2024).

Janet E. Stout

Janet E. Stout is an American infectious disease microbiologist known for establishing hospital potable water systems, not cooling towers, as the reservoir for Legionnaires' disease.

Janet Ellis

Janet Ellis, MBE (born 1955) is an English presenter, actor, and writer known for Blue Peter (1983–1987) and Jigsaw, author of The Butcher's Hook, and President of Humanists UK since 2026.

Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich (born 1943) is an American novelist, creator of the Stephanie Plum bounty-hunter series beginning with One for the Money (1994), after a romance career as Steffie Hall; Hot Six was her first #1 New York Times bestseller.

Oct 21, 2026

Janet Evans

Janet Evans (born 1971), American distance swimmer; four Olympic golds and one silver (1988-1996), seven world records in the 400, 800, and 1,500 m freestyle that stood about two decades; LA28 Chief Athlete Officer.

Janet Frame

Janet Frame (Janet Paterson Frame) was a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet whose three-volume autobiography became Jane Campion's 1990 film An Angel at My Table.

Janet Franklin

Janet Franklin, born 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany, is an American biogeographer and landscape ecologist at San Diego State University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for species distribution modeling.

Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor, professional name of Laura Augusta Gainor, was an American actress who won the first Best Actress Oscar in 1929 and starred in A Star Is Born.

Janet Heasman

Janet Heasman is a British-born developmental biologist who defined how maternal gene products pattern the early Xenopus embryo and pioneered morpholino antisense gene knockdown in vertebrates.

Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway is a British entomologist and geneticist known for her research on insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, and Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2001.

Janet Hubert

Janet Hubert, also Janet Hubert-Whitten, is an American Juilliard-trained actress and dancer, the original Vivian Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-93), a Broadway Cats original cast member, later reconciled with Will Smith in 2020.