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Jeanette Ottesen
Jeanette Ottesen (Ottesen Gray), born 1987 in Kongens Lyngby, is Denmark's most decorated swimmer: 53 championship medals, five Olympics, world titles in 100m freestyle (2011) and 50m butterfly (2013), Olympic relay bronze 2016, retired 2021.
Jeanette Voerman
Jeanette Voerman, twin of Therese Voerman, is a Malkavian vampire character in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004); the two are actually one vampire with split personalities who run the Asylum nightclub in Santa Monica, later expanded in V5 and L.A. By Night canon.
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959, Manchester) is an English novelist and author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Whitbread first-novel winner, also known for The Passion, Written on the Body, and Frankissstein.
Jeanie Buss
Jeanie Buss is controlling owner, president, and Governor of the Los Angeles Lakers, daughter of Jerry Buss, first female Governor to win an NBA title (2020), and central figure in the 2025-2026 Lakers ownership sales.
Jeanine Áñez
Jeanine Áñez Chávez, Bolivian lawyer, ex-TV journalist, and conservative senator from Beni; interim president November 2019 to November 2020 after Evo Morales resigned; convicted 2022, freed 2025.
Jeanine Driscoll
Jeanine Driscoll is an American politician and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 4th district, facing incumbent Democrat Laura Gillen.
Jeanine Mason
Jeanine Mason (born 1991, Miami) is an American actress and dancer, winner of So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 (2009), known for Dr. Sam Bello on Grey's Anatomy and as Liz Ortecho in Roswell, New Mexico.
Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish
Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish is an American anesthesiologist who served over a decade as Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2002.
Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro, born Jeanine Ann Ferris, former Westchester County judge and three-term district attorney, Fox News host of Justice with Judge Jeanine and The Five, and Trump-appointed interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. sworn in August 2, 2025.
Jeanine van Kradenburg
Jeanine van Kradenburg, South African compound archer born 1978, African record holder (701, 50m round, Antalya 2019), 2022 African champion, World Cup mixed team gold medallist, and 2025 World Games competitor.
Jeanloup Sieff
Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) was a French photographer of Polish descent known for black-and-white fashion photography, portraits, nudes, and dance pictures, including a famous 1971 nude portrait of Yves Saint Laurent.
Jeanmarie Houghton
Jeanmarie Houghton is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, best known for her 2004 Science paper reporting gastric cancer originating from bone marrow-derived cells.
Jeanna Giese
Jeanna Giese-Frassetto, Wisconsin teenager who in 2004 became the first person to survive clinical rabies without vaccination, treated with the experimental Milwaukee protocol (induced coma, ketamine, ribavirin, amantadine); protocol later judged ineffective.
Jeanne Altmann
Jeanne Altmann, born 1940, is an American behavioral ecologist and Princeton professor whose 1974 sampling methods became standard in animal behavior research, and who founded the Amboseli Baboon Project in Kenya in 1971.
Jeanne B. Lawrence
Jeanne B. Lawrence, also published as Jeanne Bentley Lawrence, is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School who showed that XIST RNA silences the inactive X chromosome.
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (1875–1997), Frenchwoman from Arles, holds the verified human longevity record at 122 years 164 days; validated by Robine and Allard, contested by a 2018 identity-switch theory, upheld in 2019 and 2023.
Jeanne Cherhal
Jeanne Cherhal is a French singer-songwriter, pianist, and bassist born in 1978 in Nantes, a fixture of the chanson scene since her 2004 breakthrough album Douze fois par an.
Jeanne Cooper
Jeanne Cooper (Wilma Jeanne Cooper, 1928-2013), American actress who played Katherine Chancellor on CBS's The Young and the Restless from 1973 to 2013; won the 2008 Daytime Emmy for Lead Actress and the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jeanne Crain
Jeanne Crain (1925–2003), American film actress and 20th Century-Fox star of State Fair, Margie, and Pinky, the 1949 role that brought her a Best Actress Oscar nomination and made her Variety's top box-office star.
Jeanne de Clisson
Jeanne de Clisson (née de Belleville, 1300–1359), the Lioness of Brittany, a French noblewoman who after her husband Olivier IV's 1343 execution raided French shipping for 13 years with the black-hulled, red-sailed Black Fleet.
Jeanne des Anges
Jeanne des Anges, born Jeanne de Belcier (1602–1665), was a French Ursuline nun, mother superior at Loudun and the principal demoniac of its 1632 mass possession.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is Chantal Akerman's 1975 Belgian-French film, 201 minutes, starring Delphine Seyrig as a widow who prostitutes herself at home; it topped the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
Jeanne du Barry (film)
Jeanne du Barry is a 2023 French historical drama directed by Maïwenn, who plays Louis XV's last official mistress opposite Johnny Depp as the king.
Jeanne Flanagan
Jeanne Ann Flanagan (born 1957, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American rower with the Boston Rowing Club who won gold in the women's eights at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics after being named to the boycotted 1980 team, with World Championship silver (1981) and bronze (1979).
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima
Jeanne Gapiya-Niyonzima (born 1963) is a Burundian HIV/AIDS and human rights activist who in 1994 became the first woman in Burundi to disclose publicly she was living with HIV.
Jeanne Guyon
Jeanne Guyon, also known as Madame Guyon, was a French Catholic mystic and writer who taught pure, disinterested love of God and was imprisoned for over seven years.
Jeanne Hébuterne
Jeanne Hébuterne was a French painter known for her self-portraits and portraits of friends. Her work, which included about 25 paintings, remained in private hands until 2000.
Jeanne Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin (1867–1946) was a French couturière who founded the house of Lanvin, described as the oldest couture house still operating, beginning with a hat shop in 1889.
Jeanne M. Rosario
Jeanne M. Rosario is an American aerospace engineer who led GE Aviation's Engineering Division as Vice President and General Manager and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Jeanne Marrazzo
Jeanne Marrazzo is an American infectious diseases physician-scientist who served as NIAID director from 2023 until her removal in 2025, and became CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2026.