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Jane may refer to:

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General

Music

Albums

Bands

Songs

Print media

Literature

Comics

Magazines

Business

  • Jane (cosmetics), a cosmetics company owned by the Estée Lauder Companies. The cosmetics are available at drugstores.
  • Jane Collective, an organization providing illegal abortions in the Chicago area in the 1960s and early 1970s
  • Jane's Information Group, often called Jane's after its founder, Fred T. Jane, which publishes books and trade magazines that are considered the de facto public source of information on warfare and transportation systems

Species

  • Jane (dinosaur), Jane the juvenile dino at the Burpee Museum of Natural History

Fictional characters named Jane

Animation

Comic books

Literature

  • Dick and Jane, characters by Zerna Sharp
  • Jane (Ender's Game), an entity resembling modern conceptions of AI, from the Ender's Game series
  • Jane, Wendy Darling's daughter from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan mythos. Jane was also the central character in the Disney Peter Pan movie sequel, Return to Neverland
  • Jane Banks, one of the Banks' children, a child of Mr. & Mrs. Banks in the Mary Poppins books, film, and stage musical
  • Jane Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, the eldest sister of the Bennet family
  • Jane Eyre (character), the titular character of a famous novel by Charlotte Brontë and several film adaptations based on it
  • Miss Marple, an elderly spinster and amateur detective created by mystery writer Agatha Christie and whose first name is Jane
  • Jane Porter (Tarzan), the sweetheart of Tarzan
  • Jane, a member of the Volturi guard in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga.

TV, film, & theater

Video games

Real people with Jane as a given name

Arts

Entertainment

History

  • Calamity Jane (1852-1903), U.S. frontierswoman
  • Jane Addams, American Nobel Peace Prize-winning social worker and co-founder of Hull House
  • Jane Roe, alias of Norma Leah McCorvey, plaintiff in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States.

Literature

News media

Politics

  • Jane Harman, member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district

Religion

Royalty and nobility

Science

Sport

  • Jane Burley, Scottish field hockey midfielder
  • Jane Frederick, American heptathlete
  • Jane Haist, Canadian discus thrower and shot putter
  • Jane Patterson, Canadian judoka
  • Jane Xie, American triathlete, focus on swimming, 2000 bronze medal U.S. Olympics

Real people with Jane as a surname

Vehicles

  • Jane (ship), a ship that disappeared near Australia in 1816.

Places

See also


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