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Janice Marchman

Janice Marchman is an American Democratic politician elected to the Colorado Senate from the 15th district in 2022, after serving on the Thompson School Board.

Janice Pennington

Janice Pennington is an American model and actress, born in 1942 in Seattle, best known as one of the original models on CBS's The Price Is Right.

Janice Rand is a Star Trek character, Yeoman to Captain Kirk in eight first-season episodes of The Original Series, played by Grace Lee Whitney; later a transporter operator and, ultimately, communications officer of the USS Excelsior.

Janice Rankin

Janice Rankin (Janice Watt), born 1972 in Inverness, is a Scottish curler who won Olympic gold as lead for Great Britain at Salt Lake City 2002, plus world junior title 1992 and silvers at 1994 Worlds and 1998 Europeans.

Janice Rich

Janice Rich is an American Republican politician representing Colorado Senate District 7, where she serves as Senate Minority Whip after serving as Mesa County Treasurer.

Janice Rogers Brown

Janice Rogers Brown (born 1949), California Supreme Court justice 1996-2005 and D.C. Circuit judge confirmed 56-43 in 2005 after a Democratic filibuster; never nominated to the Supreme Court despite short-list reports.

Janice Rule

Janice Rule (Mary Janice Rule, 1931–2003) was an American stage, film, and TV actress and dancer, star of the original Broadway Picnic and Robert Altman's 3 Women, who later became a psychoanalyst in New York.

Janice Soprano

Janice Soprano, also called Parvati, is Tony Soprano's manipulative older sister on HBO's The Sopranos, played by Aida Turturro from season 2; she kills Richie Aprile and marries Bobby Baccalieri.

Janice STFU

Janice STFU is a 2026 Drake song from Iceman, interpolating Lykke Li's I Follow Rivers and titled after a Sopranos line; it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100, his 14th chart-topper, and drew a plagiarism lawsuit.

Janice Tjen

Janice Tjen, Indonesian tennis player from Jakarta, former Oregon and Pepperdine college standout. First WTA title at Chennai 2025, 2025 US Open upset of Kudermetova, career-high WTA singles No. 35.

Janice Weiner

Janice Weiner (born 1957) is an American Democratic politician representing Iowa City in the Iowa Senate since 2022, where she has served as Senate Democratic Leader since 2024.

Janice Wu (吴倩)

Janice Wu (吴倩, born 1992) is a Chinese actress from Hubei known for My Sunshine (2015), Le Coup de Foudre, Faithful, and Like a Rolling Stone (2024).

Sep 21, 2026

Janice Y. Chou

Janice Y. Chou, also known as Janice Yang Chou, is an American biochemist at NIH who established the genetic basis of glycogen storage disease type I.

Janick Gers

Janick Gers (born 1957, Hartlepool) is an English guitarist and Iron Maiden member since 1990; previously of White Spirit, Gillan, Gogmagog, Fish, and Bruce Dickinson's solo band; known for spontaneous solos and a signature Fender Stratocaster.

Janiculum

Janiculum (Gianicolo), hill on Rome's right bank above Trastevere, second-tallest in the city but not one of the Seven Hills; site of the 1849 Roman Republic defense, Risorgimento monuments, and the daily noon cannon begun by Pius IX in 1847.

Janiculum Dorsa

Janiculum Dorsa is a major north–south ridge on Saturn's moon Dione, about 500–900 km long and up to 1.5–2 km high, whose crustal flexure indicates high past heat flow and a possible subsurface ocean.

Janicza Bravo

Janicza Bravo (Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford), American filmmaker born 1981, director of Sundance-winning short Gregory Go Boom, features Lemon and Zola, and episodes of Atlanta, The Bear, and Poker Face.

Janie Lopez

Janie Lopez is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 37 in south Texas since her 2022 election.

Sep 19, 2026

Janie Murrell

Janie Murrell is an American businesswoman who co-founded the Five Guys burger chain with her husband Jerry Murrell, opening the first restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, in 1986.

Janie Wagstaff

Janie Wagstaff (Elizabeth Jane Wagstaff), American backstroke swimmer born 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri; 1992 Barcelona Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay, 1991 world champion in the same relay, later a Colorado State veterinary student.

Janie's Got a Gun

"Janie's Got a Gun" is a 1989 Aerosmith song from Pump, written by Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton, about a girl who kills her sexually abusive father; a No. 4 Billboard hit, Grammy winner, and David Fincher video that inspired Janie's Fund.

Oct 22, 2026

Janina Degutytė

Janina Degutytė (1928–1990) was a Lithuanian lyric poet, translator, and children's author who published nine poetry collections from 1959 to 1984 and won the 1968 LSSR State Prize.

Oct 10, 2026

Janina Ferbinteanu

Janina Ferbinteanu is a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, known for showing that hippocampal neurons encode past, current, and future locations during memory-guided navigation.

Janina Gavankar

Janina Gavankar (Janina Zione Gavankar) is an American actress and musician from Joliet, Illinois, known for Papi in The L Word, Luna in True Blood, and Iden Versio in Star Wars Battlefront II.

Janine Allis

Janine Allis (born 1965) is an Australian entrepreneur who co-founded Boost Juice in 2000 and Retail Zoo in 2007, directs Kogan.com, joined Sea Shepherd Australia's board, and appeared on Shark Tank, Australian Survivor, and Food Stars.

Janine Austin Clayton

Janine Austin Clayton is an American ophthalmologist who has led the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health since 2012 and created its sex-as-a-biological-variable policy.

Janine Beckie

Janine Beckie is a Canadian soccer forward who won Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and bronze at Rio 2016 with the Canadian women's national team.

Janine Belton

Janine Belton (Janine Claire Belton, later Usher), born 1979 in Bradford, is a British swimmer who won gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 2001 Fukuoka World Championships and set a short-course world record of 7:47.14, after finishing 10th at Atlanta 1996 and 6th at Sydney 2000.

Janine Butcher

Janine Butcher, also Janine Evans, Malloy, Moon, or Carter, is a fictional character and leading villain in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played since 1999 by Charlie Brooks.