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Janine Flock
Janine Flock (born 1989, Hall in Tirol) is an Austrian skeleton racer, 2026 Olympic champion at Cortina d'Ampezzo, three-time overall World Cup winner (2014/15, 2020/21, 2024/25), and four-time European champion.
Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist at the University of Virginia whose research on needlestick injuries reoriented health care worker safety toward safer device design.
Janine Lindemulder
Janine Lindemulder (born 1968, La Mirada, California), also known as Janine Marie James or simply Janine, is a retired American adult film actress and Penthouse model, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame member, and the nurse on Blink-182's Enema of the State cover.
Janine Melnitz
Janine Melnitz is the fictional Ghostbusters receptionist played by Annie Potts, from the 1984 film onward, voiced in the animated series by Laura Summer, Kath Soucie, and Pat Musick, and suited up as a Ghostbuster in Frozen Empire.
Janine Pietsch
Janine Pietsch (born 1982, Berlin) is a German backstroke swimmer of SC Delphin Ingolstadt; world record 50 m backstroke 28.19 (2005), double 2006 short-course world champion, 2006 European champion, 2004 Olympian.
Janine T. Erler
Janine Terra Erler is a professor at the University of Copenhagen's Biotech Research and Innovation Centre known for identifying lysyl oxidase as a driver of cancer metastasis.
Janine Turner
Janine Turner (Janine Loraine Gauntt), American actress born 1962 in Lincoln, Nebraska; starred as Maggie O'Connell on Northern Exposure (1990-95), earning three Golden Globe and one Emmy nomination; also founder of Constituting America.
Jânio Quadros
Jânio Quadros was a Brazilian politician who rose from São Paulo mayor to president, won the 1960 election, and resigned in 1961 after seven months.
Jānis Balodis
Jānis Balodis (1881–1965) was a Latvian general who commanded the army during the War of Independence, then served as Minister of War and deputy prime minister under Kārlis Ulmanis.
Jānis Čakste
Jānis Čakste (1859 to 1927) was a Latvian lawyer and politician who served as the first President of Latvia from 1922 until his death in office.
Jānis Dāliņš
Jānis Dāliņš (Jānis Daliņš), Latvian race walker (1904–1978), 1932 Los Angeles Olympic 50 km walk silver medalist, first Olympic medal for Latvia, 1934 European champion, seven world records.
Jānis Dombrava
Jānis Dombrava is a Latvian National Alliance politician who has served as Minister for the Interior since 2026, after sitting in the Saeima from 2010.
Janis G. Jack
Janis G. Jack, born Janis Graham Jack in 1946, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Corpus Christi, Texas, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Janis Holt
Janis Holt is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 18, serving since January 2025 after a decade on the Silsbee school board.
Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter of "Society's Child" and "At Seventeen," a two-time Grammy winner who came out in 1993 with Breaking Silence.
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš (1877–1962) was a Latvian writer, poet, painter, and illustrator, a founder of Latvian children's book illustration, known for the Aija trilogy and Baltā grāmata.
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin (Janis Lyn Joplin, 1943–1970), American blues-rock singer from Port Arthur, Texas, fronted Big Brother and the Holding Company, went solo with the Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie, and died of an accidental heroin and alcohol overdose at 27 after recording Pearl.
Janis Kipurs
Janis Kipurs (Jānis Ķipurs), born 1958 in Kurmene, is a Latvian bobsleigh pilot and coach; Olympic two-man gold and four-man bronze at Calgary 1988 for the USSR, 1989 world bronze, Albertville 1992 Latvian flagbearer, later coach of Swiss, US, French, and Canadian teams.
Janis L. Abkowitz
Janis L. Abkowitz is an American hematologist at the University of Washington known for research on marrow-failure syndromes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Janis L. Sammartino
Janis L. Sammartino, born Janis Lynn Sammartino, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Southern District of California since 2007.
Janis Lusis
Janis Lusis (Jānis Lūsis, 1939–2020), Latvian javelin thrower for the Soviet Union; 1968 Olympic champion, 1972 silver, 1964 bronze, four European titles, world records 91.98 m (1968) and 93.80 m (1972).
Janis Paige
Janis Paige (Donna Mae Tjaden, 1922-2024), American film, Broadway, and TV actress and singer; originated Babe Williams in The Pajama Game and co-starred with Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings (1957).
Jānis Poruks
Jānis Poruks (1871–1911) was a Latvian writer and poet, a founder of romantic Latvian literature whose novella Pērļu zvejnieks (The Pearl Fisher) belongs to the Latvian Culture Canon.
Jānis Sudrabkalns
Jānis Sudrabkalns was the pen name of the Latvian poet Arvīds Sudrabkalns (1894–1975), a leading interwar and Soviet-era poet, People's Poet of the Latvian SSR in 1947.
Jānis Timma
Jānis Timma (Janis Timma), Latvian basketball forward (1992-2024), Krāslava-born, 2013 NBA draft 60th pick (Memphis, rights to Orlando), EuroLeague clubs Baskonia, Olympiacos, Khimki, UNICS; 68 Latvia caps; died in Moscow December 2024.
Janissaries
The Janissaries (Yenicheri, "new soldiers") were the Ottoman Empire's paid permanent infantry corps, formed in the 14th century from war captives and later devshirme recruits, and abolished by Mahmud II in 1826.
Janissary
The Janissaries (Turkish yeni çeri, "new troops") formed the Ottoman Empire's standing army, recruited through the devshirme levy, until Sultan Mahmud II abolished them in 1826.
Janissary Corps
The Janissary Corps (Yenicheri Ocaghi) was the Ottoman Empire's standing infantry corps, recruited through the devshirme levy of Christian boys and abolished by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826.
JanitorAI
JanitorAI is an AI character-companion platform where users chat with community-created characters, founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski, with 1 million users in its first 17 days after launch.
Janja Garnbret
Janja Garnbret (born 1999) is a Slovenian sport climber, two-time Olympic gold medallist (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), 10-time world champion, and winner of 51 World Cup events; first woman to climb Bibliographie 9b+.