Joanne

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Joanne (alternate spellings Joann, JoAnn, Johann, Johanne, Jo-Ann) is a common given name for females, being a variant of Joanna, the feminine form of John; derived from the Latin name Johanna with the meaning in Hebrew of "God is gracious". In Northern Ireland of 1975, "Joanne" was the most frequently used name for female newborns, though by the early years of the 21st Century, the name had declined in popularity so that it could not be counted among the twenty most frequently used.^[1]

Sometimes in modern English Joanne is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names Jo and Anne, and therefore given a spelling like JoAnne, Jo-Anne, or Jo Anne. However, the original name Joanna in ancient Greek and Latin is a single unit, not a compound. The names Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanne just the same: they are derived from Hebrew חַנָּה Ḥannāh 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning 'to be gracious'.

Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα Iōanna. Variants in English include Joan, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jane, Jeannette, Janice, and Jeanne.

People with the given name Joanne

• Joanne Accom, pop singer from Melbourne, Australia
• Joanne Banning, Australian field hockey player
• Joanne Brackeen, American jazz pianist
• Joanne Campbell, British actress
• Joanne Colan, video blogger
• Joanne Deakins, British backstroke swimmer
• Joanne Durant, Barbadian track and field sprinter
• Joanne Ellis, English field hockey player
• Joanne Fluke, American mystery novelist
• Joanne Herring, American political activist
• Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress
• J. K. Rowling, British author, whose given name is Joanne Rowling
• Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
• Joanne Shenandoah, singer and acoustic guitarist
• Joanne Whalley, British actress
• Joanne Woodward, American actress, Academy Award winner in 1957, for The Three Faces of Eve; Wife of Paul Newman, American Actor
• Jo Anne Worley, American actress
• Joanna of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany
• Joanna, Duchess of Brabant
• Joanna I of Naples
• Joanna II of Naples
• Joanna of Navarre, consort of King Henry IV of England
• Saint Joana, Crown Princess of Portugal
• Joanna of Castile, queen regnant of Castile, known as Joanna the Mad
• Jeanne, Countess of Flanders
• Joanna (Brazilian singer), Brazilian romantic singer/songwritter; not be confused with Joanna Pacitti
• Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and playwright
• Joanna Cameron, an American actress who played Isis on The Secrets of Isis
• Joanna Cassidy, American actress
• Joanna Garcia, American actress
• Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress
• Joanna Gosling, British journalist
• Joanna Kerns, an American actress who played Maggie Seaver on Growing Pains.
• Joanna Krupa, a Polish model and actress
• Joanna Lumley, English actress and former model
• Joanna MacGregor, classical jazz and contemporary pianist
• Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer, and songwriter
• Joanna Pacitti, a singer, known simply as Joanna
• Joanna Pacula, a Polish actress
• Joanna Russ, an American science fiction author known for her writing on radical feminist themes, author of The Female Man
• Joanna Scanlan, English actress and television writer
• Joanna Smolarek, a Polish track and field sprinter
• Joanna Stone, an Australian javelin thrower
• Joanna Levesque, an American singer; credited as Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque in her acting career
• Joanna "Jojo" Hernandez, starred in the first season of The Oxygen Network's hit reality show The Bad Girls Club.

Women named Joanna

• Saint Joanna, one of the women associated with the ministry of Jesus Christ. She brought myrrh to Christ's sepulchre and discovered the empty tomb (Luke 24:10).

Joanna in popular culture

• Joanna is the title of a 1925 American silent movie and a 1968 British musical movie.
• Joanna is the name of a goanna, a reptile, in The Rescuers Down Under.
• Joanna is the name of the main character in Erich Maria Remarque's novel Arch of Triumph.

Songs containing references to 'Joanna'

• "Joanna" by Cris Williamson
• "Joanna" by Kool & the Gang
• "Joanna" by Scott Walker, later recorded by Peter Grant
• "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" by The Scissor Sisters
• "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis
• "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddie Grant, about the city of Johannesburg, capital of the Republic of South Africa.
• "Little Joanna" by Mcfly
• "When Joanna Loved Me" by Tony Bennett
• "Johanna" from the musical Sweeney Todd
• "Get Busy" by Sean Paul
• "Visions of Johanna" by Bob Dylan
• "God Told Me To" by Paul Kelly
• "God Bless Joanna" by Neil Sedaka
• "Jo-Anna Says" by Per Gessle
• "Johanna (Parts 1 & 2)", "Johanna (Act II)" by Stephen Sondheim in the musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• "Johanna Shut Up!" - Crazy Loop
• "A-Punk" by Vampire Weekend
• "Joanna" by Watashi Wa

In literature

• The Cloning of Joanna May, a science fiction novel by Fay Weldon.

Other uses

• Joanna (butterfly), a genus of butterflies in the grass skipper family.
• Joanna (typeface), a serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.
• "The Joanna" or "the old Joanna" are nicknames given to the piano.

Companies

• Jo-Ann Stores, a specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics in the United States
• Joanne's Bed and Back, a retailer of specialty furniture in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States

References

External links

• "Joanna" at Edgar's Name Pages - with history, naming frequency statistics, related names, and famous namebearers
• Icons of St. Joanna the Myrrh-Bearer here and here

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