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Jeneba Tarmoh
Jeneba Tarmoh, American sprinter born 1989 in San Jose; 2012 Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist, 2008 World Junior 100m champion, 2013 world relay silver medalist, tied Allyson Felix at 2012 US Trials.
Jenefer Husman
Jenefer Husman is an American educational psychologist who studies how students imagine their futures and how those visions shape motivation, effort, and learning, receiving a PECASE award at Arizona State University.
Jenette Goldstein
Jenette Goldstein, American actress born 1960, played Private Vasquez in Aliens, Diamondback in Near Dark, Janelle Voight in Terminator 2, and the Irish mother in Titanic, winning a 1987 Saturn Award, and later founded the boutique Jenette Bras.
Jenever
Jenever (genever), the juniper-flavoured grain spirit of Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders, ancestor of gin. Made with malt wine, 35-42% ABV, EU-protected since 2008; oude and jonge are recipe types, not ages.
Jenevieve
Jenevieve, born Jenevieve Johnson in 1998, is a Miami-born, Los Angeles-based American R&B singer of Cuban and Bahamian descent, known for "Baby Powder" (over 175 million streams, sampling Anri), the 2021 debut album Division, and the 2025 album CRYSALIS on Joyface/Interscope.
Jenga
Jenga: dexterity game by Leslie Scott, 54 hardwood blocks in an 18-story tower; players pull and restack blocks until the tower falls. Swahili for 'build'; launched 1983, Hasbro rights 1986, 100m+ sets sold.
Jenifer
Jenifer, also known as Jenifer Bartoli, is a French pop singer born in Nice in 1982 who won the first season of Star Academy in 2002 and has since released nine studio albums.
Jenifer Haselgrove
Jenifer Haselgrove, born Jenifer Wheildon Brown in 1930, is a British physicist whose Haselgrove equations became a standard tool for computing how radio waves travel through the ionosphere.
Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Jeanette Lewis, born 1957 in Kinloch, Missouri, is an American actress, singer, and memoirist known as "the Black Mother of Hollywood," for Ruby Johnson on black-ish, Flo in Cars, Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog, and her 2017 bipolar-disorder memoir.
Jenifer Rajkumar
Jenifer Rajkumar is an American politician and lawyer serving in the New York State Assembly since 2021, the first South Asian-American woman elected to state office in New York.
Jenin (جنين)
Jenin (جنين), a city in the northern West Bank and seat of its governorate, anciently Ein-Ganim; site of a 1948 UNRWA refugee camp, the 2002 battle, and the 2025 Iron Wall operation that displaced tens of thousands.
Jenji Kohan
Jenji Kohan (born 1969), American television showrunner and creator of Weeds and Orange Is the New Black; Emmy-winning writer-producer, Columbia graduate, daughter of Buz Kohan, and Netflix original-programming pioneer.
Jenkem
Jenkem, also called butthash, is an alleged inhalant made by fermenting feces and urine and huffing the gas; reported among Zambian street children, but the 2007 US school-drug panic was a Totse.com forum hoax.
Jenkins (software)
Jenkins is an open source automation server, written in Java, that automates building, testing, and deploying software; it began as Hudson in 2004 and was renamed in 2011.
Jenkins model (contact mechanics)
The Jenkins model, also called the Jenkins element, is a contact mechanics idealization of a frictional interface as a spring in series with a Coulomb friction slider.
Jenn Brown
Jenn Brown (Jennifer Lynne Brown, born 1981) is an American two-time Emmy-winning sports broadcaster, first female Inside the NFL correspondent, ESPN college football sideline reporter, American Ninja Warrior host, and Audible podcast producer.
Jenn Colella
Jenn Colella (born 1974) is an American Broadway actress and singer, Tony-nominated as Captain Beverley Bass in Come From Away, Drama Desk and Grammy winner, Suffs's Carrie Chapman Catt, and adjunct professor at Columbia and Pace.
Jenn Dodds
Jenn Dodds (Jennifer Carmichael Dodds), Scottish curler born 1991 in Edinburgh; Olympic women's curling gold at Beijing 2022 with Team Muirhead and fourth in mixed doubles with Bruce Mouat at both 2022 and 2026 Games.
Jenn Lyon
Jenn Lyon (Jennifer Lyon), American actress born 1980 in High Point, North Carolina; UNCSA graduate known for Claws, Dead Boy Detectives, Justified, and as lead Courteney Potter on NBC's Stumble, distinct from the Survivor contestant of the same name.
Jenn Sterger
Jenn Sterger, the "FSU Cowgirl" of the 2005 FSU-Miami broadcast, is an American comedian, podcaster, and former Jets sideline reporter involved in the 2010 Brett Favre sexting scandal, later featured in the 2025 Netflix documentary Untold: The Fall of Favre.
Jenn Stuczynski Suhr
Jenn Stuczynski Suhr (Jennifer Stuczynski-Suhr, born 1982) is a retired American pole vaulter: 2012 Olympic champion, 2008 Olympic silver medalist, world indoor record holder at 5.03 m, and 17-time U.S. champion.
Jenn Tran
Jenn Tran (born 1997, Hillsdale, New Jersey) is an American reality TV personality and physician assistant, first Asian American lead of The Bachelorette season 21, later a Dancing with the Stars season 33 contestant; not to be confused with a same-named Melbourne animator.
Jenn Wakefield
Jenn Wakefield (Jennifer Dorothy June Wakefield), born 1989, is a Canadian ice hockey forward, Olympic gold (Sochi 2014) and silver (PyeongChang 2018) medalist, Hockey East 120-goal scorer, and now a coach with Penn State and Canada's development team.
Jenn Wasner
Jenn Wasner (born 1986, Baltimore), also known as Waz, is an indie musician, half of Wye Oak with Andy Stack and leader of Flock of Dimes; her albums include Civilian, Head of Roses, and The Life You Save (2025), and she tours with Bon Iver.
Jenna Boyd
Jenna Boyd, born 1993, in Bedford, Texas, is an American actress known for The Missing, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Paige Hardaway on Atypical.
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager, born Jenna Welch Bush in 1981, is an American television host, author, and publisher, and a daughter of President George W. Bush.
Jenna Coleman
Jenna Coleman (Jenna-Louise Coleman), English actress from Blackpool known for Clara Oswald in Doctor Who and Queen Victoria in ITV's Victoria; also The Serpent, The Sandman, The Jetty, and Emmerdale's Jasmine Thomas.
Jenna Dewan
Jenna Dewan is an American actress and dancer who broke out as Nora Clark in the 2006 film Step Up and plays Lt. Bailey Nune on The Rookie.
Jenna Elfman
Jenna Elfman (Jennifer Mary Butala, born 1971) is an American actress, Golden Globe winner for Dharma & Greg (1997-2002), later June Dorie on Fear the Walking Dead and Eve Drake on Shifting Gears.
Jenna Ellis
Jenna Ellis (Jenna Lynn Ellis, born 1984) is an American lawyer and former Trump 2020 campaign legal adviser, censured in Colorado in 2023, convicted in the Georgia election case, and suspended from practice for three years.