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Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is an American cell biologist turned molecular animator who leads the Animation Lab at the University of Utah, creating visualizations of HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and other molecular processes.
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson (Janet Damita Jo Jackson), born 1966, is an American singer and actress, youngest of the Jackson family, known for Control (1986) and Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989).
Janet Jackson Japan 2026
Janet Jackson Japan 2026 (ジャネット・ジャクソン来日公演), also billed as Janet Jackson Japan Tour 2026, was her eighth Japan tour: four arena shows in Kobe, Yokohama, and Nagoya in June 2026 with guests Katori Shingo, BE:FIRST, and HANA, whose WOWOW broadcast was later canceled.
Janet Jackson: Las Vegas
Janet Jackson: Las Vegas is a concert residency by the American singer Janet Jackson at Resorts World Las Vegas, her second, with 22 shows from December 2024 to September 2025.
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, also called Rhythm Nation 1814, is Janet Jackson's 1989 A&M concept album with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; seven top-five Hot 100 singles, over seven million U.S. copies, 2021 National Recording Registry.
Janet Jones
Janet Jones (Janet Marie Jones), American actress born 1961 in Bridgeton, Missouri; films include The Beastmaster, A Chorus Line, Police Academy 5; married Wayne Gretzky in 1988 in Canada's 'Royal Wedding'; five children.
Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso is a South African bioinformatician who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, co-authoring the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.
Janet King (TV series)
Janet King: Australian ABC legal thriller (2014-2017), spin-off of Crownies, starring Marta Dusseldorp as the senior Crown prosecutor; 24 episodes across three seasons, produced by Screentime, AACTA-winning lead actress.
Janet L. Smith
Janet L. Smith is an American structural biologist at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute who uses X-ray crystallography to determine structures of viral proteins and biosynthetic enzymes.
Janet Lee Bouvier
Janet Lee Bouvier (Janet Norton Lee, 1907–1989), later Auchincloss and Morris, American socialite and horsewoman, mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill; three marriages, three National Horse Show hunter championships.
Janet Lee Stevens
Janet Lee Stevens (born 1950, died April 18, 1983) was an American freelance journalist and Amnesty International activist in Beirut, inspiration for le Carré's The Little Drummer Girl, killed in the US Embassy bombing there.
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison, 1927–2004), American actress and Tony Curtis's second wife, best known as Marion Crane, murdered in the shower of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), earning an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe.
Janet M. Currie
Janet M. Currie is a health and labor economist who pioneered the economics of child health, taught at Princeton from 2011 to 2025, and led the American Economic Association in 2024.
Janet M. Thornton
Janet M. Thornton is a British structural bioinformaticist who developed PROCHECK and the CATH protein classification and led EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute from 2001 to 2015.
Janet Margolin
Janet Natalie Margolin (1943–1993), American stage, film, and TV actress; debut as Lisa in David and Lisa (1962), Woody Allen's love interest in Take the Money and Run and Annie Hall, Last Embrace (1979).
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (born 1961, Newcastle, England) is an English stage and screen actress; Tony, Olivier, and Drama Desk winner for A Doll's House, twice Oscar-nominated (Tumbleweeds, Albert Nobbs), and cast as Minerva McGonagall in HBO's Harry Potter series.
Janet Mills
Janet Trafton Mills, Democratic 75th governor of Maine since January 2, 2019 and the state's first woman governor; previously 55th Maine attorney general, first woman DA in New England; termed out in 2026.
Janet Mock
Janet Mock (born 1983) is an American writer, director, producer, and trans rights activist from Honolulu, author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty and a history-making Pose and Netflix television figure.
Janet Montgomery
Janet Ruth Montgomery, English actress born 1985 in Bournemouth, known as Mary Sibley on Salem, Dr. Lauren Bloom on New Amsterdam, and Jennie on Entourage.
Janet Moreau
Janet Moreau (Janet Theresa Moreau-Stone, 1927-2021), American sprinter from Pawtucket, Rhode Island; won 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold in the 4x100 m relay and the 1951 Pan American Games relay, later a Barrington teacher and chaplain.
Janet Munro
Janet Munro (Janet Neilson Horsburgh, 1934-1972), British actress of Disney family films Darby O'Gill, Third Man on the Mountain, and Swiss Family Robinson; Golden Globe winner, BAFTA nominee for Life for Ruth.
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, American lawyer and politician; US Secretary of Homeland Security 2009–2013, 21st Governor of Arizona 2003–2009, 20th UC president 2013–2020; created DACA, first woman in several posts.
Janet Ossebaard
Janet Ossebaard (1966–2023) was a Dutch documentary maker who became known as a crop circle researcher, then created The Fall of the Cabal, a QAnon video series.
Janet Pierrehumbert
Janet Pierrehumbert is an experimental and computational linguist, Professor of Language Modelling at Oxford since 2015, known for her influential 1980 model of English intonation and the ToBI prosody standard.
Janet R. Daling
Janet R. Daling (1934–2022) was an American cancer epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, known for landmark studies linking HPV to anal cancer and IUD use to infertility.
Janet Reno
Janet Reno (Janet Wood Reno, 1938-2016), American prosecutor and 78th U.S. Attorney General (1993-2001), the first woman in the post; former Dade County state attorney, oversaw Waco raid and Whitewater independent counsel appointments.
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant is a Canadian developmental biologist at SickKids in Toronto who discovered the trophoblast stem cell, defined early embryo cell fate, and led the Gairdner Foundation for ten years.
Janet Simpson
Janet Simpson (1944-2010) was a British sprinter and 400 m runner, Tokyo 1964 Olympic 4x100 m relay bronze medallist, daughter of 1932 medallist Violet Webb, and 1969 European 4x400 m relay world-record champion; distinct from American runner Jenny Simpson.
Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter, born Janet Bull in 1946, is an English journalist, broadcaster, and BAFTA-winning TV executive, editor of the Independent on Sunday 1999-2001 and Loose Women panellist since 2011.
Janet T. Neff
Janet T. Neff, born 1945, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge in Michigan from 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.