Jeanne (first name)
Jeanne is a female given name.
Origin, meaning and distribution
Jeanne is the French variant of the name Johanna and means "God is gracious". Name day is May 30th.
The name Jeanne comes from France and the French-speaking area, but has spread from there to the English and German-speaking areas.
For a list of the name variants in other languages see Johanna . Closely related and ( diminutive ) variants derived from Jeanne are Jeannie , Jeannette , Jeanette or Jeanine .
Name bearers
In the Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Jeanne de Belleville (also: Jeanne de Clisson, 1300-1359), French pirate
- Jeanne de Ferrette (1300–1351), Duchess of Austria
- Jeanne de Bourbon (1338-1378) , Queen of France
- Joan of Arc (around 1412–1431), French national heroine
- Jeanne des Armoises († after 1457), French impostor
- Jeanne de Laval (1433–1498) , French nobleman
- Jeanne Hachette (around 1455), heroine of Beauvais in France
- Jeanne de Valois (1464–1505), Queen of France
- Jeanne de Hochberg (around 1485–1543), ruling Countess of Neuchâtel
- Jeanne van der Gheynst (around 1500–1541), lover of Emperor Charles V.
- Jeanne d'Albret (1528–1572), Queen of Navarre
- Jeanne du Monceau de Tignonville (1555–1596), French nobleman
- Jeanne de Chantal (1572–1641), saint of the Catholic Church
- Jeanne Mance (1606–1673), French nurse
- Jeanne Vergouwen (1630–1714), Flemish painter
- Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1648–1717), French quietist
- Jeanne Delanoue (1666–1736), founder of the French order and saint of the Catholic Church
- Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes (1670–1736), French noblewoman
- Jeanne Dumée (around 1680–1706), French astronomer and author
- Jeanne-Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf (1698–1727), French noblewoman
- Jeanne d'Urfé (1705–1775), French occultist
- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780), French novelist and author
- Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721–1764), better known as Madame de Pompadour
- Jeanne-Catherine Quinault (1725–1812), French nobleman
- Jeanne Baret (1740–1807), French naturalist
- Jeanne de Saint-Rémy (also: Jeanne de La Motte-Valois, 1756–1791), French nobleman
- Jeanne Campan (also: Jeanne LH Genet, 1752–1822), court lady Marie Antoinettes
- Jeanne von Brühl (1756–1816), German landscape architect
- Jeanne Labrosse (1775–1847), French aviation pioneer
- Jeanne Jugan (1792–1879), French nun and saint of the Catholic Church
In recent and recent history
- Jeanne d'Alcy (1865–1956), French actress
- Jeanne Arth (* 1935), American tennis player
- Jeanne Atkins (* around 1950), American politician (Democrat)
- Jeanne Aubert (1906–1988), French singer and actress
- Jeanne d'Autremont (1899–1979), French chess player
- Jeanne Balibar (* 1968), French actress and singer
- Jeanne Bal (1928–1996), American actress
- Jeanne Bates (1918–2007), American actress
- Jeanne Baxtresser (* 1947), American flautist
- Jeanne Behrend (1911–1988), American pianist
- Jeanne de Berg (* 1930), actually Catherine Robbe-Grillet, French writer
- Jeanne Bessert (around 1817–1856), Swiss murder victim
- Jeanne Birdsall (* 1951), American children's author
- Jeanne-Irène Biya (1935–1992), Cameroonian first wife
- Jeanne Black (1937-2014), American country singer
- Jeanne Blum (1899–1982), French educator
- Jeanne Borchard (19th century), French philatelist
- Jeanne Bourgouis ( Mistinguett , 1875–1956), French actress and singer
- Jeanne Bucher (1872–1946), French art dealer and gallery owner
- Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), French age record holder
- Jeanne Carmen (1930–2007), American model and actress
- Jeanne Carroll (1931–2011), American blues and jazz singer
- Jeanne Germaine Castang (1878–1897), French nun and blessed of the Catholic Church
- Jeanne Cherhal (* 1978), French singer-songwriter
- Jeanne Collonge (* 1987), French triathlete
- Jeanne Cooper (1928–2013), American actress
- Jeanne Coyne (1923–1973), American dancer and actress
- Jeanne Cuisinier (1890–1964), French ethnologist
- Jeanne Crain (1925–2003), American actress
- Jeanne-Marie Darré (1905–1999), French pianist
- Jeanne Demarsy (1865–1937), French actress
- Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968), French musician and composer
- Jeanne Renée Deneuve (* 1911), French actress and voice actress
- Jeanne Dusseau (1893–1979), Canadian opera singer (soprano)
- Jeanne Eagels (1890–1929), American actress
- Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer (1894–1957), Swiss women's rights activist
- Jeanne Essoh (* 1990), Ivorian national soccer player
- Jeanne Evans (1924–2012), American actress
- Jeanne Faust (* 1968), German artist
- Jeanne Flanagan (* 1957), American rower
- Jeanne de la Fonte (1898–1933), French actress
- Jeanne Fredac (* 1970), French artist
- Jeanne Gang (* 1964), American architect
- Jeanne Marie von Gayette-Georgens (1817–1895), Prussian writer and educator
- Jeanne D'arc Girubuntu (* 1995), Rwandan cyclist
- Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon-Javacheff (1935–2009), French-American artist
- Jeanne Gnago (* 1984), Ivorian national soccer player and long-time team captain
- Jeanne Golay (* 1962), American racing cyclist
- Jeanne Nicole Griffin (* 1978), American actress
- Jeanne Haag (* 1983), French soccer player
- Jeanne Hatto (1879-1958), French opera singer (soprano)
- Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920), French painter and model
- Jeanne Hersch (1910–2000), Swiss philosopher
- Jeanne M. Holm (1921-2010), Major General in the US Air Force
- Jeanne Immink (1853–1929), Dutch alpinist
- Jeanne Marie Labourbe (1877-1919), French communist
- Jeanne Lamon (* 1949), American-Canadian violinist and conductor
- Jeanne Landry (1922–2011), Canadian musician
- Jeanne Lanvin (1867–1946), French fashion designer
- Jeanne Lapoirie (* 1963), French camerawoman
- Jeanne Lee (1939-2000), American singer
- Jeanne Leleu (1898–1979), French composer and pianist
- Jeanne Little (* 1938), Australian entertainer and television presenter
- Jeanne Mammen (1890–1976), German painter
- Jeanne Mandello (1907–2001), German-Jewish photographer
- Jeanne Marken (1895–1976), French actress
- Jeanne Marni (1854–1910), French writer
- Jeanne Martin Cissé (1926–2017), Guinean politician
- Jeanne Mas (* 1958), French pop singer
- Jeanne Matthey (1886-?) French tennis player
- Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017), French actress and singer
- Jeanne Murray (1923–2013), American actress
- Jeanne Mori (20th century), actress
- Jeanne Niquille (1894–1970), Swiss archivist and writer
- Jeanne L. Noble (1926–2002), American Roman Catholic theologian
- Jeanne Oidtmann-van Beek (* 1946), German translator
- Jeanne Marie Omelenchuk-Robinson (1931–2008), American speed skater
- Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936), French fashion designer
- Jeanne Arland Peterson (1921–2013), American jazz pianist
- Jeanne Peiffer (* 1948), Luxembourg mathematician
- Jeanne Pérez (1894–1975), French actress
- Jeanne Piland (* 1945), American singer (mezzo-soprano)
- Jeanne Pulver (* 1951), Swiss actress
- Jeanne Roland (* 1942), British actress and model
- Jeanne Roques (1889–1957), French actress, director and writer
- Jeanne Rubner (* 1961), German journalist and author
- Jeanne de Salzmann (1889–1990), French-Swiss dancer and esotericist
- Jeanne Samary (1857–1890), French actress
- Jeanne Sauvé (1922–1993), Canadian politician and journalist
- Jeanne Berta Semmig (1867–1958), German writer
- Jeanne Shaheen (* 1947), American politician (Democrat)
- Jeanne C. Stein (20th century), American writer
- Jeanne Stern (1908–1998), German-French translator and screenwriter
- Jeanne Streicher (1875–1963), French romance scholar
- Jeanne Tremsal (* 1977), German-French actress
- Jeanne Trimborn (1862-1919), Belgian women's rights activist
- Jeanne Tripplehorn (* 1963), American actress
- Jeanne de Rothschild (1874–1929), French entrepreneur
- Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), French artist
- Jeanne de Vietinghoff (1875–1926), Belgian-Swiss writer
- Jeanne Weber (1875–1910), French serial killer