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Jeanne Mas
Jeanne Mas is a French pop singer born in Alicante, Spain in 1958, one of the leading stars of 1980s French variété with hits like "En rouge et noir".
Jeanne Miranda
Jeanne Miranda is an American clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher, Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, who studies depression care for low-income and minority populations.
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), French stage and film actress, singer, and director; muse of the New Wave in Jules et Jim, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud; Cannes Best Actress 1960, César 1992, first woman in the Académie des beaux-arts.
Jeanne Ní Áinle
Jeanne Ní Áinle (Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle) is an Irish actor and voiceover artist from Dublin, fluent in Irish. A 2025 Screen International Rising Star and 2023 Dublin Fringe Festival best performer for The Crows Way, her credits include Mother Mary, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Clean Sweep, and Bad Sisters.
Jeanne Paquin
Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936), born Jeanne Marie Charlotte Beckers, was a French couture designer who founded and led the House of Paquin in Paris from 1891, becoming the first woman to gain international celebrity in fashion.
Jeanne Richard
Jeanne Richard (born 2002, Thonon-les-Bains) is a French biathlete, 2020 Youth Olympic gold and silver medalist, 2025 Ruhpolding mass start World Cup podium finisher, and Milan-Cortina 2026 selection who did not compete.
Jeanne Robertson
Jeanne Swanner Robertson (1943-2021), American humorist and professional speaker, Miss North Carolina 1963 and Miss America Miss Congeniality; known for clean family stories about husband Jerry 'Left Brain' and viral YouTube clips.
Jeanne S. Mandelblatt
Jeanne S. Mandelblatt is an American geriatrician and professor of oncology at Georgetown University, founder of its Institute for Cancer and Aging Research and leader of CISNET breast cancer modeling.
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen (born 1947), Democratic U.S. senator from New Hampshire since 2009 and its governor 1997-2003; first woman elected both governor and senator; Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations; retiring in 2026.
Jeanne Sinkford
Jeanne Sinkford was an American dentist and educator who in 1975 became the first woman dean of a U.S. dental school, leading Howard University until 1991.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jeanne Tripplehorn (born 1963, Tulsa) is an American actress, Juilliard-trained, known for Dr. Beth Garner in Basic Instinct (1992), Abby McDeere in The Firm, Barb Henrickson in HBO's Big Love, Alex Blake in Criminal Minds, and a 2009 Emmy nomination for Grey Gardens.
Jeanneau
Jeanneau is a French boatbuilder founded by Henri Jeanneau in 1957 at Les Herbiers, producing sailing yachts and motorboats, today as a brand of Groupe Beneteau.
Jeannette Altwegg
Jeannette Altwegg (1930–2021), British figure skater, won 1952 Olympic gold and 1948 Olympic bronze in ladies' singles, plus 1951 World and two European titles, then retired to humanitarian work.
Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Armstrong, born 1948, is a Syilx (Okanagan) writer and educator from British Columbia whose 1985 novel Slash was the first published by a First Nations woman in Canada.
Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973), Republican congresswoman from Montana, first woman elected to the U.S. Congress (1916), and the only member to vote against U.S. entry into both world wars.
Jeannette Vargas
Jeannette Anne Vargas (born 1973, Flushing, NY) is a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, confirmed in 2024; formerly an SDNY assistant U.S. attorney and Sotomayor clerk.
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls (born 1960, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author and journalist, former E! and New York magazine gossip columnist, best known for the bestselling memoir The Glass Castle (2005) and the novels Half Broke Horses, The Silver Star, and Hang the Moon.
Jeannie Berlin
Jeannie Berlin, born Jeannie Brette May, is an American actress and screenwriter, daughter of Elaine May, best known for The Heartbreak Kid (1972), which earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Jeannie C. Riley
Jeannie C. Riley (Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson, born 1945, Anson, Texas) is an American country and gospel singer, distinct from Jeannie Seely, whose 1968 Plantation Records hit "Harper Valley P.T.A." by Tom T. Hall made her the first female artist to top both country and pop charts simultaneously, winning a Grammy and CMA Single of the Year.
Jeannie Chan
Jeannie Chan (陳瀅, born 1989) is a Hong Kong actress and model with TVB and Shaw Brothers, known for Cold War (2012), Raising the Bar, Your Highness, and the 2025 hit Prism Breakers.
Jeannie Gaffigan
Jeannie Louise Gaffigan (nee Noth), American comedy writer, director, producer, and actress; co-writer of Jim Gaffigan's Grammy-nominated specials, EP of The Jim Gaffigan Show, and author of the memoir When Life Gives You Pears.
Jeannie Mai
Jeannie Mai Jenkins, born 1979 in San Jose, is a Vietnamese-Chinese American TV host and stylist, known for How Do I Look?, co-hosting The Real (Daytime Emmy 2018), her 2021-2024 marriage to rapper Jeezy, and daughter Monaco.
Jeannie Seely
Jeannie Seely (Marilyn Jeanne Seely, 1940-2025), American country singer known as "Miss Country Soul," Grammy winner for "Don't Touch Me," Opry member since 1967 with a record 5,397 performances and first woman to regularly host Opry segments.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Jeannie Suk Gersen is an American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor known for scholarship on domestic violence, privacy, and the Title IX campus sexual assault debate.
Jeannie T. Lee
Jeannie T. Lee is an American molecular geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on X chromosome inactivation and the RNAs Xist and Tsix.
Jeannine (Lomepal album)
Jeannine is the second studio album by French rapper and singer Lomepal, released in December 2018. Named after his grandmother, it topped the French charts and earned diamond certification.
Jeannine Riley
Jeannine Riley (Jeannine Brooke Riley, born 1940) is an American actress, the original Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction (1963-65), later in Hee Haw, Dusty's Trail, The Big Mouth, and Electra Glide in Blue.
Jeans
Jeans: riveted denim trousers patented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, evolved from Genoese "jean" fabric and Nîmes denim workwear into a global casual garment, now scrutinized for water and chemical use.
Jeans (film)
Jeans (ஜீன்ஸ்) is a 1998 Tamil romantic comedy directed by S. Shankar, starring Prashanth and Aishwarya Rai, with A.R. Rahman music; at Rs 19–20 crore it was then the costliest Indian film and India's 1999 Oscar entry.
Jeans (lunar crater)
Jeans is an 81.13-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 55.58°S, 91.51°E, named in 1964 for British mathematical physicist Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946).