Jane (first name)
Jane is a female given name .
Origin and variants
Jane is an English short form of Johanna .
Related diminutives are Jan , Janie , Jany , Jenny .
The Maori variant of Jane is Heeni .
Name bearers
A.
- Jane Adams (born 1965), American actress
- Jane Addams (1860-1935), American feminist and journalist
- Jane Alexander (born 1939), American actress
- Jane Arbor (1903-1994), British writer
- Jane Asher (born 1946), British actress and author
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), British writer
- Jane Avril (1868-1943), French dancer
B.
- Jane Badler (born 1953), American actress
- Jane Barkman (* 1951), American swimmer
- Jane Baxter (1909-1996), British actress
- Jane Beß (1894 – after 1937), German screenwriter
- Jane Birkin (born 1946), British actress and singer
- Jane Ira Bloom (* 1955), American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer
- Jane Boleyn (around 1505–1542), English nobleman at the court of Henry VIII.
- Jane Bowles (1917–1973), American writer and playwright
- Jane Bryan (1918–2009), American actress
- Jane Bunnett (* 1955), Canadian jazz flutist and saxophonist
C.
- Jane Campbell (* 1959), British politician, disability rights activist
- Jane Campion (* 1954), New Zealand film director
- Jane Castleton (* 1965), American conceptual artist
- Jane Child (* 1967), Canadian singer
- Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735), American poet
- Jane Comerford (born 1959), Australian singer
- Jane Curtin (born 1947), American actress
D.
- Jane Darling (* 1980), Czech porn actress
- Jane Darwell (1879–1967), American actress
- Jane Digby (1807-1881), British mistress
- Jane Downs (1935-2015), British actress
E.
- Jane Francesca Elgee (1821-1896), Irish writer
- Jane Elliot (born 1947), American actress
F.
- Jane Fonda (born 1937), American actress
- Jane Fraser (1924-2019), British writer
- Jane Furch (1915–1992), German screenwriter
G
- Jane F. Gardner , British ancient historian
- Jane Getz (* 1948), American pianist
- Jane de Glehn (1873–1961), American portrait painter
- Jane Goodall (* 1934), British behavioral scientist
- Jane Grant (1892–1972), American journalist
- Jane Greer (1924-2001), American film actress
- Jane Gray (1537–1554), Queen of England
- Jane Griffin (1791–1875), British adventurer
H
- Jane Esther Hamilton (* 1956), American porn actress, actress, producer, director and screenwriter
- Jane Irwin Harrison (1804-1845), US First Lady
- Jane Harvey (1925–2013), American jazz singer
- Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (born 1934), English noblewoman
- Jane Hempel (* 1947), German actress
- Jane Holzer (born 1940), American actress
- Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British actress
J
- Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), American non-fiction author, city and architecture critic
- Jane Jensen (* 1963), American writer and game designer
K
- Jane Kaczmarek (born 1955), American actress
- Jane Krakowski (* 1968), American actress
- Jane Kramer (* 1938), American journalist and writer
L.
- Jane Lapotaire (born 1944), British actress
- Jane Latsis , American economist and author
- Jane Leade (1623–1704), English Christian mystic
- Jane Leeves (born 1961), British actress
- Jane Lindskold (* 1962), American science fiction and fantasy author
- Jane Luu (* 1963), Vietnamese-American astronomer
- Jane Lynch (born 1960), American actress
M.
- Jane March (born 1973), British actress
- Jane McCrea (around 1752–1777), British loyalist
- Jane McGregor (born 1983), Canadian actress
- Jane Monheit (* 1977), American singer and film actress
- Jane Morgan (born 1924), American singer
- Jane Morris (1839–1914), model and muse of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Jane Mouton (1930–1987), American economist
O
- Jane Olivor (born 1947), American singer
P
- Jane Pierce (1806–1863), American first lady
- Jane Powell (born 1929), American film actress
R.
- Jane Ray (* 1960), British illustrator
- Jane Roberts (1929–1984), American author and poet
- Jane A. Rogers (* 1960), American actress
- Jane Rosenthal (* 1956), American producer
- Jane Rule (1931-2007), Canadian author
- Jane Russell (1921-2011), American actress
S.
- Jane Saville (* 1974), Australian walker
- Jane Seitz (1942–1988), German film editor
- Jane Seymour (around 1509–1537), British lady-in-waiting, wife of Henry VIII.
- Jane Seymour (actress) (born 1951), American actress
- Jane Shore (1445-around 1527), English mistress of King Edward IV.
- Jane Sibbett (* 1962), American actress and model
- Jane Siberry (born 1955), Canadian singer
- Jane Smiley (* 1949), American author
- Jane Somers (1919-2013), British writer (Doris Lessing)
- Jane Stuart (1520–1563), governess of the Scottish Queen Maria I, and mistress of the French King Henry II.
- Jane Swift (* 1965), American politician
T
- Jane Tilden (1910–2002), Austrian actress
- Jane Toppan (1854–1938), American serial killer
- Jane Törnqvist (* 1975), Swedish football player
U
- Jane Urquhart (* 1949), Canadian writer
W.
- Jane Waller (* 1990), Australian archer
- Jane Welch (* 1964), British writer
- Jane Wilde , former name of Jane Francesca Elgee (1821-1896), Irish writer, mother of Oscar Wilde
- Jane Wilde , formerly used name of Jane Hawking (* 1944), British Romance philologist
- Jane Wyatt (1910-2006), American actress
- Jane Wyman (1917–2007), American actress
Variant of Jayne
- Jayne Brook (born 1960), American actress
- Jayne Casselman (1960-2016), American opera singer (soprano)
- Jayne Cortez (1934–2012), American writer and vocal improviser
- Jayne Heitmeyer (* 1960), Canadian actress
- Jayne Kennedy (* 1951), American actress and presenter
- Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), American film actress and sex symbol
- Jayne Meadows (1919-2015), American actress
- Jayne Torvill (born 1957), British figure skater
- Jayne-Ann Igel (* 1954 as Bernd Igel ), German writer
- Jayne Ann Krentz (* 1948), American bestselling author
Fictional people
- Jane Eyre , fictional character by the writer Charlotte Brontë
- a literary figure in Edgar Rice Burrough's story Tarzan
- Jane (cartoon character) , English cartoon character
- Jane Doe as a term for a fictional or unidentified female person
- Jane Ives / Hopper ( Eleven ), character in the Stranger Things series