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Jennifer Wargo

Jennifer A. Wargo is an American surgeon and cancer immunotherapy researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that the gut microbiome influences immunotherapy response.

Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Warnes (Jennifer Jean Warnes), born 1947 in Seattle, is an American singer known for three Oscar-winning movie songs and Famous Blue Raincoat (1986), her album of Leonard Cohen interpretations, plus duets with Joe Cocker and Bill Medley.

Jennifer Wayne

Jennifer Wayne, granddaughter of John Wayne, is a country singer-songwriter, founding member of Runaway June, co-writer of "Buy My Own Drinks" and Keith Urban's "Wild Hearts", and a former Amazing Race contestant.

Jennifer Welter

Jennifer Welter, also known as Jen Welter, is an American football coach and former player who in 2015 became the first woman to hold a coaching position in the NFL.

Jennifer West

Jennifer L. West is an American biomaterials researcher, dean of the University of Virginia School of Engineering since 2021, known for hydrogels and gold nanoshell cancer therapy.

Jennifer Westfeldt

Jennifer Westfeldt (born 1971) is an American actress, screenwriter, and director, known for Kissing Jessica Stein, Ira & Abby, and Friends with Kids, plus a Tony-nominated Broadway turn in Wonderful Town.

Jennifer Wexton

Jennifer Wexton (born 1968), Democratic U.S. Representative for Virginia's 10th District 2019–2025, former prosecutor and Virginia state senator who unseated Barbara Comstock in 2018, chaired Appropriations work, and retired after a progressive supranuclear palsy diagnosis.

Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox is an American chemical engineer known for research on carbon capture and direct air capture, and a US Department of Energy official from 2021 to 2024.

Jennifer Winget

Jennifer Winget (जेनिफर विंगेट), also Jennifer Singh Grover, Indian television actress born 1985 in Mumbai, known for Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Dill Mill Gayye, Saraswatichandra, Beyhadh's Maya, Bepannah, and OTT series Code M.

Jennifer Worth

Jennifer Worth (1935-2011), born Jennifer Louise Lee, was a British nurse-midwife, musician, and writer whose Call the Midwife trilogy of memoirs of 1950s East End midwifery became UK bestsellers and inspired the BBC series.

Jennifer Zallen

Jennifer A. Zallen is a developmental biologist and HHMI Investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering known for work on planar cell polarity and convergent extension in fruit flies.

Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body is a 2009 horror comedy directed by Karyn Kusama, written by Diablo Cody, starring Megan Fox as a possessed cheerleader and Amanda Seyfried; a box-office flop that became a feminist cult classic, with a sequel in development.

Jenniffer González-Colón

Jenniffer González-Colón is an American Republican politician who became Governor of Puerto Rico in 2025 after serving from 2017 to 2025 as the first woman Resident Commissioner in Congress.

Jennis Oprasert

Jennis Oprasert (เจนนิษฐ์ โอ่ประเสริฐ), also known as Jennis BNK48, is a Thai singer and actress who rose as a first-generation member of the idol group BNK48 from 2017.

Jennison Heaton

Jennison Heaton (1904-1971), American bobsledder and skeleton racer; won the first Olympic skeleton gold at St. Moritz 1928 (181.8 s) ahead of brother Jack, plus five-man bobsleigh silver as USA I pilot.

Jenny (Doctor Who)

Jenny is a Doctor Who character introduced in the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter", created from the Tenth Doctor's DNA on Messaline and played by Georgia Tennant; she returned in Big Finish audio series (2018, 2021) and comics, but not on television.

Jenny Agutter

Jenny Agutter (born 1952, Taunton, Somerset) is an English actress, a child star in East of Sudan and The Railway Children, later Walkabout, Logan's Run, Equus (BAFTA), An American Werewolf in London, and Sister Julienne in Call the Midwife since 2012.

Jenny Armstrong

Jenny Armstrong (Jennifer Margaret Armstrong), born 1970 in Dunedin, is a New Zealand-born sailor who won 470 class gold for Australia with Belinda Stowell at Sydney 2000, the first Australian women's Olympic sailing medal, after finishing fourth for NZL at Barcelona 1992; now a Yachting NZ coach.

Jenny Beavan

Jenny Beavan, British costume designer (no native-script name), three-time Oscar winner for A Room with a View, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Cruella; longtime Merchant Ivory and John Bright collaborator.

Jenny Berggren

Jenny Berggren (Jenny Cecilia Berggren, born 1972, Gothenburg), Swedish singer, co-lead vocalist of Ace of Base, 1994 knife-attack survivor, solo artist since 2010 with My Story and To Win The World.

Jenny Boyd

Jenny Boyd (Helen Mary Boyd, born 1947, Guildford, Surrey) is an English former 1960s model, sister of Pattie Boyd, muse for Donovan's "Jennifer Juniper", twice wife of Mick Fleetwood, and later a psychologist and author of Musicians in Tune and the memoir Jennifer Juniper.

Jenny Campbell

Jenny Campbell, born Jennifer Bernice Campbell in 1961, is a British businesswoman who spent 30 years at NatWest and RBS before buying and selling the ATM operator YourCash.

Jenny Cavnar

Jenny Cavnar, American baseball broadcaster; Athletics lead play-by-play announcer since 2024 and first female primary play-by-play voice in MLB history; formerly Colorado Rockies broadcaster, first woman to call an MLB telecast in 25 years (2018).

Jenny Chang

Jenny Chang (陳怡蓁) is a Taiwanese business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 with her husband Steve Chang and sister Eva Chen.

Jenny Costa Honeycutt

Jenny Costa Honeycutt is an American Republican politician, attorney, and small business owner, the party's 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 1st district.

Jenny Craig, Inc.

Jenny Craig, Inc. was an American weight loss company founded in 1983 by Jenny and Sid Craig, sold to Nestlé in 2006, bankrupt in 2023, and relaunched online by Nutrisystem owner Wellful.

Jenny Durkan

Jenny Durkan, former U.S. Attorney for Western Washington (first openly gay U.S. attorney), was Seattle's mayor 2017–2021, its first lesbian mayor, defeating Cary Moon; she declined a 2021 second term amid the missing-texts scandal.

Jenny E. Hinshaw

Jenny E. Hinshaw is an American cell and structural biologist at NIH who studies dynamin superfamily proteins by electron microscopy and leads NIDDK's Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair (Jenny Clare Hargreaves, born 1960) is an English stand-up comedian, novelist, and actress; first woman to win the Edinburgh Perrier Award (1995), known for Grumpy Old Women, Loose Women, and Taskmaster series 15.

Jenny from the Block

Jenny from the Block: 2002 Jennifer Lopez single featuring Jadakiss and Styles P, lead single from This Is Me... Then; peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK chart; paparazzi-themed video co-starred Ben Affleck.