Janet (first name)
Janet is a female given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Janet is the Anglo-American variant of Johanna . Johanna is originally composed of the Hebrew terms yahweh "name of God" and chanan "favor, be gracious".
variants
- Janette
- Janett
- Jeanette
name day
- Janet: July 28th
Well-known namesake
- Janet Ågren (born 1949), Swedish actress
- Janet Alegría (* 1987), Mexican Taekwondoin
- Janet Amponsah (* 1993), Ghanaian sprinter
- Janet Asimov (1926–2019), American science fiction writer and psychoanalyst
- Janet Austin (born 1956 or 1957), Canadian social manager
- Janet Badjan-Young (* 1937), Gambian playwright
- Janet Baker (born 1933), British mezzo-soprano
- Janet Balaskas (* 1946), British midwife, author and founder of the Active Birth Movement
- Janet Beccaloni (* 1966), British arachnologist and curator
- Janet Beecher (1884–1955), American actress
- Janet Biehl (* 1953), American anarcho-feminist
- Janet Blair (1921–2007), American actress
- Janet Brooks Gerloff (1947–2008), American-German painter
- Janet Brown (1923-2011), British actress
- Janet Carroll (1940–2012), American actress, musical artist and singer
- Janet Cole (1922–2002), American actress
- Janet Evanovich (* 1943), American writer
- Janet Evans (* 1971), American swimmer
- Janet Fielding (born 1957), Australian actress
- Janet Flanner (1892–1978), American writer, journalist and feminist eccentric
- Janet Frame (1924-2004), New Zealand writer
- Janet Gaynor (1906-1984), American actress
- Janet Hubert (born 1956), American actress
- Janet Jackson (born 1966), American singer
- Janet Jagan (1920–2009), Guyanese politician
- Janet Kath (* 1964), Austrian manager
- Janet Lynn Kavandi (* 1959), American astronaut
- Janet Kear (1933-2004), British ornithologist
- Janet Kennedy (c.1483-1543), mistress of King James IV of Scotland
- Janet Kidder (about 1972), Canadian actress
- Janet Klein (* 1977), German biathlete
- Janet Knee (* 1944), Australian long jumper
- Janet Leigh (1927-2004), American film actress
- Janet Margolin (1943–1993), American film actress
- Janet McTeer (born 1961), British actress
- Janet Moreau (born 1927), American athlete
- Janet Munro (1934–1972), British actress
- Janet Napolitano (* 1957), American politician
- Janet Parker (1938–1978), British medical photographer
- Janet Reno (1938-2016), United States Attorney General (1993-2001)
- Janet Simpson (1944-2010), British athlete
- Janet Suzman (born 1939), South African actress
- Janet Tashjian (* 1956), American writer for children and young people
- Janet Todd (* 1942), British non-fiction author
- Janet Vaughan (1899–1993), British doctor and physiologist
- Janet Wright (badminton) (* around 1920), American badminton player
- Janet Wright (actress) (1945-2016), Canadian actress
- Janet Wright (tennis player) (born 1953), American tennis player
- Janet Yellen (* 1946), American economist
- Janet Young, Baroness Young (1926–2002), British politician (Conservative Party)