Jane

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Jane may refer to:

Contents 1 General 2 Music 2.1 Albums 2.2 Bands 2.3 Songs 3 Print media 3.1 Literature 3.2 Comics 3.3 Magazines 4 Business 5 Species 6 Fictional characters named Jane 6.1 Animation 6.2 Comic books 6.3 Literature 6.4 TV, film, & theater 6.5 Video games 7 Real people with Jane as a given name 7.1 Arts 7.2 Entertainment 7.3 History 7.4 Literature 7.5 News media 7.6 Religion 7.7 Royalty 7.8 Science 7.9 Sport 8 Real people with Jane as a surname 9 Vehicles 10 Places 11 See also

[edit] General

• Jane (given name)
• Jane Doe, female counterpart to John Doe
• Jane Q. Public, female counterpart to John Q. Public

[edit] Music

[edit] Albums

• Songs About Jane, album by Maroon 5
• Jane Doe (album) by Converge

[edit] Bands

• Jane (band), a German progressive rock band from the 1970s
• Jane (Panda Bear band), an American duo consisting of Scott Mou and Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear of the Animal Collective)
• Jane's Addiction, an American alternative rock band
• Saving Jane is a band from Columbus Rock, alternative rock

[edit] Songs

• "Baby Jane" (song), by Rod Stewart.
• "Queen Jane Approximately", a song by Bob Dylan from his 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited
• "Jane", a song by Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
• "Jane" (Barenaked Ladies song), a song from their 1994 album Maybe You Should Drive
• "Jane", a song by Brooks Williams
• "Jane", a song by Catie Curtis
• "Jane", a song by Elf Power
• "Jane", a song by EPMD, from their 1988 album Strictly Business
• "Jane Jane", a song by Golden Earring from their 1986 album The Hole
• "Jane", a song by the Jefferson Starship, from their 1979 album Freedom at Point Zero
• "Jane", a song by the Loved Ones, from their 2006 album Keep Your Heart
• "Jane", a song by Sam Rosenthal
• "Jane", a song by Vance Gilbert
• "Jane (Stop This Crazy Thing!)" a song by MC Shan
• "Happy Birthday Jane", a song by The Enemy
• "Lady Jane", a song by The Rolling Stones
• "Lazy Line Painter Jane", a song by Belle and Sebastian
• "Mary Jane", a song by Shwayze
• "Me Jane", a song by PJ Harvey
• "My Blue Eyed Jane", a song by Lulu Belle White and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers at Hollywood Recording Studios in 1930
• "Sweet Jane", a song originally performed by The Velvet Underground and covered by The Cowboy Junkies
• "Jane, Jane, Jane", a song by The Kingston Trio
• "The Diary of Jane", a song by the band Breaking Benjamin
• "Jane Says", a song by Jane's Addiction based on lead singer Perry Farrell's ex-housemate, Jane Bainter
• "Soldier Jane", a song by Beck on his album The Information
• "Zoe Jane", a song by Staind
• "Hazey Jane" a song by Nick Drake
• "Jane Fonda" a song by Mickey Avalon
• "Lady Jane", a song by Queensrÿche on their album Promised Land
• "Lovely Jane", a song by DAG on their album Righteous
• "Jane B", a song by Serge Gainsbourg sung by Jane Birkin in 1969 album Je t'aime...moi non plus
• "Understanding Jane" a song by The Icicle Works

[edit] Print media

[edit] Literature

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a book by Ernest Gaines
• Jane, a 1900 book by Marie Corelli
• Jane and the Dragon, series of children's books by Martin Baynton
• Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Brontë
• Jane of Lantern Hill, a book by L.M. Montgomery
• See Jane Run, a 1992 novel by Joy Fielding

[edit] Comics

• Jane (comic strip), a comic strip by Norman Pett
• Jane Arden, a comic strip and its title character
• Jane's World, a comic strip that debuted in March 1998 about Jane Wyatt, a young lesbian woman
• Painkiller Jane
• The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, a 2007 comic created by Cecil Castellucci and published by DC Comics' Minx imprint, that stars four characters named Jane (Main Jane, Brain Jane, Theater Jane, and Sporty Jane).

[edit] Magazines

• Jane (magazine), a magazine replacement for Sassy Magazine

[edit] 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

[edit] Species

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

[edit] Fictional characters named Jane

[edit] Animation

• Jane Doe (Camp Lazlo), a character on the animated series Camp Lazlo
• Jane Jetson, from the animated series The Jetsons
• Jane Lane (Daria), a character on the television show Daria

[edit] Comic books

• Jane Foster (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
• Painkiller Jane, a comic book character that has spawned a made-for-TV movie and a TV series

[edit] 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.

[edit] TV, film, & theater

• Jane (7th Heaven), a character on 7th Heaven
• Jane Christie, a character from Coupling (TV series)
• Jane Beale (previously Collins), a character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Jayne Cobb, a character on the sci-fi series Firefly
• Becoming Jane, a 2007 film based on the life of Jane Austen
• G.I. Jane, a 1997 war-movie, with Demi Moore in the leading role

[edit] Video games

• Jane, a minor female character in the Tekken video game series

[edit] Real people with Jane as a given name

[edit] Arts

• Jane Burden, pre-Raphaelite model and muse, known for her beauty
• Jane Frank (1918-1986), American artist
• Jane Kelly, artist and journalist

[edit] Entertainment

• Jane Adams (actress), American actress
• Jane "Poni" Adams, American actress
• Jane Asher, English actress and author
• Jane Badler, actress
• Jane Birkin, actress and singer
• Jane Bryan, American actress
• Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
• Jane Fonda, American actress, former fitness instructor, and daughter of actor Henry Fonda
• Jane Goldman, British writer and television presenter; wife of Jonathan Ross
• Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
• Jane Krakowski, American actress
• Jane Lapotaire, English actress
• Jane Lynch, American actress
• Jayne Mansfield, American actress and 1950s-1960s sex symbol
• Jane March, English actress
• Jane McDonald, English singer and television star
• Jane Monheit, American singer
• Jane Novak, American actress
• Jane Powell, American actress and singer
• Jane Russell, American actress and sex symbol
• Jane Seymour (actress), English actress
• Jane Siberry, Canadian singer/songwriter, has changed her name to Issa
• Jane Wiedlin, American singer and rhythm guitarist, sometime member of the Go-Go's
• Jane Wyman, American actress and ex-wife of President Ronald Reagan
• Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress and model

[edit] 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.

[edit] Literature

• Jane Austen (1775-1817), a famed 18th century British novelist, famous for Emma and Pride and Prejudice.
• Jane Louise Curry, American writer
• Jane Lindskold, American author
• Jane Taylor, English poet and novelist
• Jane Yolen, American author

[edit] News media

• Jane Pauley, American television journalist

[edit] Religion

• Jane Elizabeth Faulding, British Protestant Christian missionary
• Jane Frances de Chantal, French saint

[edit] Royalty

• Jane Loeau (1828-1873), Hawaiian noble lady
• Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554), Queen of England, also known as Jane of England
• Jane Seymour, Queen and wife of King Henry VIII of England
• Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill
• Jane Wharton, 7th Baroness Wharton
• Jane Lane, Lady Fisher (1626-1689), played a heroic role in the Escape of Charles II in 1651

[edit] Science

• Jane Colden, American botanist
• Jane Goodall, English primatologist, known for studying chimpanzees and founder of The Jane Goodall Institute
• Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation

[edit] Sport

• Jane Burley, Scottish field hockey midfielder
• Jane Frederick, American heptathlete
• Jane Haist, Canadian discus thrower and shot putter
• Jane Patterson, Canadian judoka
• Jane Salumäe, Estonian marathon runner

[edit] Real people with Jane as a surname

• Fred T. Jane, the founding editor of reference books on warships (All the World's Fighting Ships) and aircraft
• Thomas Jane, actor
• Joseph Jane, Royalist MP

[edit] Vehicles

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

[edit] Places

• Jane Street, a major street in Toronto. Hence:
  • Jane and Finch, a neighbourhood.
  • Jane (TTC), a subway station.

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with Jane
• Baby Jane
• Joanna - origin of the name Jane
• Janes
• Mary Jane
• Sarah Jane

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