Janus (disambiguation)

Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings.

Janus may also refer to:

General

• Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
• Society of Janus, a San Francisco-based BDSM education and support group
• Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
• Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
• Janus word, a.k.a. auto-antonym, a word with two opposite meanings
• Schempp-Hirth Janus, a German two-seater glider
• HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
• Janus, a British diesel shunting locomotive
• Janus, catalogue database of Cambridge University Library
• Janus Publishing Company, a British book publishing company

People

• Janus Prospero from the Resident Evil film series.
• Janus of Cyprus (1375–1432), king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
• Janus I, Duke of Masovia
• Janus Junius Toland, a sobriquet of pantheist philosopher John Toland
• Janus Ulitius, the Latinized name of 17th-century philologist Jan van Vliet
• Janus Friis (born 1976), Danish entrepreneur
• Jaroslav Janus (born 1989), Slovak ice hockey goaltender
• Martin Janus (c. 1620 – c. 1682), German church musician, minister, hymnwriter
• Samantha Womack (born 1972), English actress, formerly Samantha Janus
• Tim Janus (born 1976), American competitive eater
• J'anus, the claimed stage name of Janis McGavin, a performer on Balls of Steel Australia

Computing

• Janus (concurrent constraint programming language)
• Janus (time-reversible computing programming language)
• Janus, a codename used for Microsoft Windows 3.1x and Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions)
• Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform
• JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Janus attack, alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack
• Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit
• Janus, a system library for the hardware Emulation Boards A2088-XT and A2286-AT from Commodore International on the Amiga 2000

Performing arts

Music

• Janus Records, a record label
• Janvs, a black metal band from Liguria, Italy
• Janus (musical project), German darkwave musical project established 1995
• Janus (American band), hard rock band, established in the mid 1990s in Chicago, Illinois
• Janus (album), the first full-length album released by Boyfriend
• "Janus", a song from the album Out and About with the Gone Jackals by hard rock group The Gone Jackals
• "Janus", a song from the album Inner Journeys: Myth + Legends by Cusco

Film

• Janus Films, an American film distribution company
• Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
• The Janus Project, a taboo cloning project in the movie Judge Dredd (film)

Theatre

• Janus (play), a 1955 Broadway romantic comedy

Television

• Janus (TV series), an Australian drama television series

Literature and comics

• Janus: A Summing Up, a 1978 book by Arthur Koestler
• Janus (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics character
• Janus, DC Comics character known as Two-Face
• Janus, character in the novel Angels and Demons, see List of Angels & Demons characters
• The Janus branch of the Cahill family in The 39 Clues

Magazines

• Janus (science fiction magazine), a feminist science fiction magazine
• Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
• Janus, British spanking fetish magazine, in print since 1972

Games and gaming

• Janus chess, a chess variant
• Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger

Places

• Janus Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
• Mont Janus, France

Science

• Janus-faced molecule, used to describe a molecule whose effects on organisms can vary between beneficial and toxic
• Janus particles, amphiphilic particles having one half hydrophilic and the other half hydrophobic
• Janus Experiments, a series of experiments on radio-sensitivity in mice and dogs
• Janus kinase, an intracellular signaling molecule; component of the JAK-STAT signal system