Arts •
Jhane Barnes (born 1954), fashion designer ("h" added as adult) •
Jane Burden (1839–1914), pre-Raphaelite model and muse •
Jane Antonia Cornish (born 1975), British Contemporary classical music composer •
Jane Petrie, Scottish costume designer •
Jane Dyer (born 1949), children's book illustrator •
Jane Frank (1918–1986), American artist •
Jane Gilmor (born 1947), American intermedia artist and educator •
Jane Grier (1856–1902), Irish-German textile artist •
Jane Kelly (born 1956), artist and journalist •
Jane Sauer (born 1937), American fiber artist, sculptor •
Jane Venis, New Zealand multimedia artist, musician and writer
Crime •
Jane Andrews (born 1967), murderer of Tom Cressman •
Jane Britton (1945–1969), female murder victim •
Jane Cakebread (1830–1898), infamous drunkard; the Inebriates Act 1898 was directly due to her case •
Jane Toppan (1854–1938), American serial killer, nicknamed "Jolly Jane"
Entertainment •
Jane Alexander (born 1939), American actress and author •
Jane Asher (born 1946), English actress and author •
Jane Avril (1868–1943), French dancer •
Jane Badler (born 1953), American–Australian actress and singer •
Jane Barbe (1928–2003), American voice artist and singer •
Jane Bathori (1877–1970), French opera singer •
Jane Baxter (1909–1996), German–born English actress •
Jane Birkin (1946–2023), English–French actress and singer •
Jane Bryan (1918–2009), American actress •
Jane Campion (born 1954), New Zealand filmmaker •
Jane Curtin (born 1947), American actress and comedian •
Jane Darwell (1879–1967), American actress •
Jane De Leon (born 1998), Filipina actress •
Jane de Wet (born 1996), South African actress •
Jane Espenson (born 1964), American producer and screenwriter •
Jane Fonda (born 1937), American actress and fitness instructor, daughter of
Henry Fonda •
Jane Froman (1907–1980), American actress and singer •
Jane Goldman (born 1970), English author, producer, and screenwriter, wife of
Jonathan Ross •
Jane Greer (1924–2001), American actress •
Jane Horrocks (born 1964), English actress •
Jane Huang (born 1983), Taiwanese singer •
Jane Kaczmarek (born 1955), American actress •
Jane Kean (1923–2013), American actress and singer •
Jane Krakowski (born 1968), American actress •
Jane Lapotaire (born 1944), English actress •
Jane Lawrence (1915–2005), American actress and opera singer •
Jane Leeves (born 1961), English actress •
Jane Levy (born 1989), American actress •
Jane Lowry (1937–2019), American actress •
Jane Lynch (born 1960), American actress, comedian, and singer •
Jane March (born 1973), English actress •
Jane McDonald (born 1963), English singer and television presenter •
Jane McGregor (born 1983), Canadian actress •
Jane Monheit (born 1977), American singer •
Jane Morgan (1924–2025), American actress and singer •
Jane Novak (1896–1990), American actress •
Jane Oineza (born 1996), Filipina actress, model and singer •
Jane Paknia (born 2000), American musician •
Jane Peyton (1870–1946), American actress •
Jane Pickens (1907–1992), American singer •
Jane Powell (1929–2021), American actress, dancer, and singer •
Jane Randolph (1914–2009), American actress •
Jane Remover (born 2003), American musician •
Jane Rosenthal (born 1956), American film producer •
Jane Russell (1921–2011), American actress •
Jane Seymour (born 1951), English actress •
Jane Sibbett (born 1962), American actress •
Jane Siberry (born 1955), Canadian singer and songwriter •
Jane Sourza (1902–1969), French actress •
Jane Tilden (1910–2002), Austrian actress •
Jane Turner (born 1960), Australian actress, comedian, and screenwriter •
Jane Wagner (born 1935), American director, producer, and writer •
Jane Weaver (born 1972), English musician, singer, and songwriter •
Jane Wiedlin (born 1958), American musician and singer, member of
The Go-Go's •
Jane Winton (1905–1959), American actress, dancer, painter, writer, and operatic soprano •
Jane Withers (1926–2021), American actress and radio show host •
Jane Wolfe (1875–1958), American actress •
Jane Wyatt (1910–2006), American actress •
Jane Wyman (1917–2007), American actress, ex-wife of the
40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan •
Jane Zhang (born 1984), Chinese singer and songwriter
History •
Calamity Jane (1852–1903), U.S. frontierswoman •
Jane Addams (1860–1935), American Nobel Peace Prize-winning social worker and co-founder of Hull House •
Jane Kelley Adams (1852–1924), American educator •
Jane Grace Alexander (1848–1932), American banker •
Jane Digby (1807–1881), English adventurer •
Jane Franklin (née Griffin; 1791–1875), English explorer •
Jane Gemmill (1855-?), Scottish temperance activist •
Jane Louisa Hardy (1828–1915), American temperance activist and philanthropist •
Jane Horney (1918–1945), Swedish spy during WWII •
Jane Roe, alias of Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), plaintiff in the landmark 1973
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States •
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842), early Native American writer
Literature •
Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist, known for
Emma and
Pride and Prejudice •
Jane Baird (1875 –1960), Scottish educator and Esperantist •
Jane Bowles (1917–1973), American writer and playwright •
Jane T. H. Cross (1817–1870), American author •
Jane Louise Curry (born 1932), American writer •
Jane Gardam (1928–2025), English writer •
Jane Lewers Gray (1796-1871), Northern Ireland-born American poet and hymnwriter •
Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian author •
Jane Hamilton (born 1957), American author •
Jane Hampton Cook, American author and historian •
Jane Harvey (writer) (1771–1848) British poet and novelist •
Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), American-Canadian journalist, author, and urban theorist •
Jane Lindskold (born 1962), American author •
Jane Roberts (1929–1984), American author, poet, psychic, and spirit medium •
Jane Rose (1880–1927), Yiddish dramatist and theater activist •
Jane Smiley (born 1949), American novelist •
Jane Agnes Stewart (1860-1944), American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals •
Jane Suiter, Irish journalist and academic •
Jane Taylor (1783–1824), English poet and novelist •
Jane Urquhart (born 1949), Canadian novelist and poet •
Jane Wilde (1821–1896), Irish poet under the pen name Speranza •
Jane Wilde Hawking (born 1944), ex-wife of Stephen Hawking •
Jane T. Worthington (1821-1847), American essayist, poet •
Jane Yolen (born 1939), American author
News media •
Jane Elliott (born 1933), American civil rights activist, known for "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise. •
Jane Grant (1892–1972) American journalist •
Jane Hill (born 1969), British newsreader •
Jane Kramer (born 1938), American journalist •
Jane Pauley (born 1950), American television journalist •
Jane Pratt (born 1962), American magazine editor and publisher
Politics •
Jane Ellison, British politician •
Jane Harman (born 1945), member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district •
Jane Irwin Harrison (1804–1845), first lady of the United States •
Jane Hill (1936–2015), Australian politician •
Jane Kagiri, Kenyan politician •
Jenny (Jane) Kenney (1884–1961) also known as Jennie, British suffragette and Montessori teacher •
Jane Njoki Mugambi (born 1967) in Gituamba Village, Central Province, Kenya •
Jane Muskie (1927–2004), First Lady of Maine •
Jane Perceval (1769–1844), spouse of the Prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1808 to 1812 •
Jane Pierce (1806–1863), first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857 •
Jane Pringle, American politician • Florence
Jane Short (aka Rachel Peace) (1881 –
died after 1932), British feminist and suffragette •
Jane Swift (born 1965), American politician, acting governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003 •
Jane Lomax-Smith (born 1950), Australian politician •
Jane Valbot (1884–1961), French pacifist and suffragist
Religion •
Jane Elizabeth Faulding (1843–1904), British Protestant Christian missionary •
Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641), French saint
Royalty and nobility •
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (1505–1542) •
Lady Jane Fellowes (born 1957) •
Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), Queen of England, also known as "Jane of England" •
Jane Ingleby (died 1651), English aristocrat, recusant, and female soldier •
Jane Lane, Lady Fisher (1626–1689), played a heroic role in the escape of Charles II in 1651 •
Jane Loeau (1828–1873), Hawaiian noble lady •
Jane Seymour (1508–1537), Queen and wife of King Henry VIII of England •
Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (1826–1900) •
Baroness Jane von Westenholz (born 1954), Queen's Companion to
Queen Camilla •
Jane Wharton, 7th Baroness Wharton (1706–1761)
Science •
Jane Ammons (born 1953), American industrial engineer •
Jane Colden (1724–1766), American botanist •
Jane Frankland (born 1968), English cybersecurity expert •
Jane Forer Gentleman (1940–2023), American and Canadian statistician •
Jane Goodall (1934–2025), English primatologist, known for studying chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute •
Jane Lord Hersom (1840–1928), American physician, suffragist •
Jane Hutton, British statistician •
Jane Loevinger (1918–2008), American developmental psychologist •
Jane Luu (born 1963), Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer •
Jane Madders (c. 1909–1990), British physiotherapist, educator and author •
Jane McGrath (1966–2008), co-founder of the McGrath Foundation •
Jane H. Rider (1889–1981), American engineer and bacteriologist •
Jane M. Simoni, American clinical psychologist
Sport •
Jane Albright (born 1955), American basketball player and coach •
Jane Barkman (born 1951), American swimmer •
Jane Bartkowicz (born 1949), American tennis player •
Jane Burley (born 1971), Scottish field hockey midfielder •
Jane Cederqvist (1945–2023), Swedish swimmer •
Jane Daley (ice hockey) (born 2009), American ice hockey player •
Jane Frederick (born 1952), American heptathlete •
Jane Karla Gögel (born 1975), Brazilian para archer and para table tennis player •
Jane Haist (1949–2022), Canadian discus thrower and shot putter •
Jane Joseph, Trinidadian cricketer •
Jane Katz (born 1943), American swimmer •
Jane Patterson, Canadian judoka •
Jane Salumäe (born 1968), Estonian long-distance runner •
Jayne Torvill (born 1957), British ice-dancer and 1984 Olympic gold medalist with partner Christopher Dean •
Jane Weiller (1912–1989), American golfer
Other •
Jane M. Bowers (1936–2022), American flautist, musicologist and feminist •
Jane Bruce, Canadian teacher and principal •
Jane Norton Grew, American socialite •
Jane Sinclair Reid (1883–1968), Australian educator of blind students •
Jane Rooney, New Zealand architect •
Jane Farwell Smith (1906–1997), American clubwoman
Fictional characters In law Jane Doe or Jane Roe is used in American law as a
placeholder name for anonymous or unknown female participants in legal proceedings Jane Doe is used in United States police investigations when the identity of a female victim is unknown or incorrect, and by hospitals to refer to a female corpse or patient whose identity is unknown.
Characters in animation • Jane Doe, on the animated series
Camp Lazlo • Jane Jetson, from the animated series
The Jetsons •
Jane Lane, on the television show
Daria • Jane Dickey, on the short-lived series
Welcome to Eltingville Comic book characters •
Jane Foster, a Marvel Comics character •
Painkiller Jane, a comic book character that spawned a made-for-TV movie and a TV series
Characters in literature •
Jane, an AI character first introduced in Orson Scott Card's
Speaker for the Dead • Jane of the Volturi Coven, a character in the
Twilight series of novels by Stephenie Meyer • Jane Crocker, a character in the webcomic
Homestuck by Andrew Hussie •
Dick and Jane, characters by Zerna Sharp •
Jane, an entity resembling modern conceptions of AI, from the ''Ender's Game'' series • Jane, in
Jane and the Dragon franchise • Jane, any of three characters in
The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, 2007 comic & sequels, by Cecil Castellucci • Jane, Wendy Darling's daughter from J.M. Barrie's
Peter Pan mythos; Jane was also the central character in the Disney
Peter Pan movie sequel,
Return to Neverland • Jane Banks, one of
the Banks' children in the
Mary Poppins books, film, and stage musical • Jane Bennet, in
Pride and Prejudice, the eldest sister of the Bennet family •
Jane Eyre, the titular character of a famous novel by Charlotte Brontë and several film adaptations • Jane Gallagher, a character in
The Catcher in the Rye, one of the few girls whom Holden both respects and finds attractive •
Baby Jane Hudson, the titular character in the novel and film
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? •
Miss Marple (first name Jane), an amateur detective created by Agatha Christie •
Jane Porter, the sweetheart of Tarzan •
Jayne Deverill, a Yorkshire witch in the
Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz •
Jane Studdock, protagonist in
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis • Jane O., Dr. Byrd's patient in
The Strange Case of Jane O. Characters in TV, film, and theater •
Jane, on
7th Heaven •
Jane Beale (previously Collins), from the BBC soap opera
EastEnders • Jane Christie, from the TV series
Coupling •
Jayne Cobb, a male character on the sci-fi series
Firefly •
G.I. Jane, a 1997 war movie, with Demi Moore in the leading role • Jane Hopper, also known as Eleven, a main character in the Netflix series
Stranger Things • Jane Ink, a character in the 1971 American comedy-drama movie
B.S. I Love You •
Jane Mancini, on
Melrose Place and the 2009 remake • Jane Margolis, in the television series
Breaking Bad •
Jane Read, character in the
Arthur book and television series • Jane Rizzoli, in the television series
Rizzoli & Isles • Jane Sloan, from the TV series
The Bold Type •
Jane Vaughn, in
Degrassi: The Next Generation •
Jane Gloriana Villanueva, main character of television series
Jane the Virgin Characters in video games • Jane,
a minor female character in the
Tekken video game series • Jane Shepard, a playable female version of
Commander Shepard in the role-playing third-person shooter
Mass Effect series; "Jane Shepard" is the default name for any new female Shepard character that is built in-game, although any name can be entered • Jane Doe, a male character most commonly known as "The Soldier" in the popular class-based shooter game
Team Fortress 2 In technology • Jane, an available voice on devices from
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