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Jane is a feminine given name:

People with this name

Entertainment

History

  • Calamity Jane (1852–1903), U.S. frontierswoman
  • Jane Addams (1860–1935), 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

Literature

  • Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist, known for Emma and Pride and Prejudice

News media

  • Jane Pauley (born 1950), American television journalist

Royalty and nobility

  • Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), Queen of England, also known as "Jane of England"
  • Jane Seymour (1508–1537), Queen and wife of King Henry VIII of England

Science

  • Jane Goodall (born 1934), English primatologist, known for studying chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

Fictional Janes

In law

Jane Doe or Jane Roe is used in American law as a "placeholder name" for anonymous or unknown female participants in legal proceedings.

Jane Doe is used in United States police investigations when the identity of a female victim is unknown or incorrect, and by hospitals to refer to a female patient whose identity is unknown.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Jane para niños

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