Janie is a feminine given name, often a diminutive form of the Jane,Janie
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People

* Janie Porter Barrett (1865–1948), American social reformer, educator and welfare worker *

Janie Bradford Janie Bradford (born June 2, 1939 in Charleston, Missouri, United States) is an American songwriter, most known for her tenure with Motown. With Berry Gordy, she co-wrote "Money (That's What I Want)", originally recorded by Barrett Strong, and ...

(born 1939), American songwriter * Katherine Jane Bryant (born 1974), American television costume designer known professionally as Janie Bryant *

Janie Dee Janie Dee (born 20 June 1962) is an English actress and singer. She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress, Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play, and in New York the Obie and Theatre World Award ...

(born 1962), English actress and singer * Janie Finlay, Australian politician *

Janie Fricke Jane Marie Fricke ( ; born December 19, 1947), known professionally as Janie Fricke, is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and clothing designer. She has placed seventeen Single (music), singles in the top ten of the ...

(born 1947), American country music singer * Janie Lou Gibbs (1932–2010), American serial killer * Janie Jones, stage name of English singer Marion Mitchell (born 1941) *

Janie Marèse Janie Marèse (born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot, 23 May 1908 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir - 14 August 1931 in Sainte-Maxime, Var) was a French actress who appeared in four shorts and three feature-length films, most notably Jean Renoir's second ...

(1908–1931), French film actress born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot * Jane

Janie Sell Jane Ann "Janie" Sell (born October 1, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress. Career Sell won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for ''Over Here!'', which also starred the then-surviving Andrews Sisters Maxene and ...

(born 1941), American actress * Janie Taylor, American ballet dancer, former New York City Ballet principal dancer *

Janie Shores Janie Ledlow Shores (April 30, 1932 – August 9, 2017) was a judge on the Supreme Court of Alabama who was the first woman to ever serve on that court. Shores also was considered by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as a possible nominee to the Un ...

(born 1932), American retired judge, first woman judge on the Supreme Court of Alabama *

Janie Tienphosuwan Janie Tienphosuwan ( th, เจนี่ เทียนโพธิ์สุวรรณ์; born 11 September 1981) is an American-born Thai actress and model. She graduated a bachelor in Communication Arts from Bangkok University. After her par ...

(born 1981), Thai actress and model *

Janie Tsao Janie Tsao (born 1953), née Wu Chien (), is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer. She and her husband Victor co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in ...

(born Wu Chien in 1953), Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer, co-founder of Linksys * Elizabeth Jane Janie Wagstaff (born 1974), American former swimmer *

Janie Ward-Engelking Janie Ward-Engelking (born in Caldwell, Idaho) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Idaho Senate, representing District 18 since December 2013.Berg, Sven"Ward-Engelking to replace Branden Durst in Idaho Senate"''Idaho ...

(fl. 2012–present), American politician

Fictional characters

* Janie Johnson, the protagonist of the Janie Johnson series of young adult novels * Janie Mae Crawford, the protagonist of

Their Eyes Were Watching God ''Their Eyes Were Watching God'' is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a v ...

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