Janis may refer to:

Film and music

* ''Janis'' (film), a 1974 film about Janis Joplin ** ''Janis'' (1975 album), a compilation and the soundtrack album for the film ** ''Janis'' (1993 album), a Joplin career overview collection * "Janis", a track recorded by Focus on their 1971 album ''

Focus II ''Focus II'' (better known by its international title, ''Moving Waves'') is the second studio album by Dutch progressive rock band Focus, released in October 1971 on Imperial Records. Following the departure of original bassist Martin Dresden and ...

Fictional characters

* Janis Gold, in the TV series ''24'' *Janis Day, in the comic strip ''

Arlo and Janis ''Arlo and Janis'' is an American gag-a-day comic strip written and drawn by Jimmy Johnson. It is a leisurely paced domestic situation comedy. It was first published in newspapers on July 29, 1985. Cast The focus of the strip is tightly on ...

'' *Janis Hawk, in the TV series ''

FlashForward A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards a ...

'' *Janis Ian, in the film ''

Mean Girls ''Mean Girls'' is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, and Fey. The film follows Cady Heron (Lohan), a naïve t ...

'' *Janis (ジャニス, "Janisu"), in '' Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel''

People

* Janis (given name) *

Jānis Jānis is a Latvian masculine given name, the equivalent of the English John. The first written use of the name Jānis dates back to 1290. It may refer to: * Jānis Ādamsons (born 1956), Latvian politician * Jānis Akuraters (1876–1937), Lat ...

, a Latvian masculine given name * Byron Janis (born 1928), American concert pianist (no relation to Conrad Janis) *

Conrad Janis Conrad Janis (February 11, 1928 – March 1, 2022) was an American jazz trombonist and actor who starred in film and television during the Golden Age Era in the 1950s and 1960s, and continued acting right up until 2012. He played the role of Mi ...

(1928–2022), American actor and jazz musician (no relation to Byron Janis) *

Dorothy Janis Dorothy Janis (born Dorothy Penelope Jones, February 19, 1912 – March 10, 2010) was an American actress. Early life Born as Dorothy Penelope Jones in Dallas, Texas, her short film career began when she was visiting a cousin, who was working ...

(1912 –2010), American silent film actress *

Elsie Janis Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as " the sw ...

(1889–1956), American musical theatre and vaudeville performer *

Irving Janis Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was an American research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink", which described the ...

, a social psychologist who pioneered the groupthink theory *

Jaroslav Janiš Jaroslav "Jarek" Janiš (born 8 July 1983) is a Czech auto racing driver. In 2006 he is racing in the FIA GT Championship. He has taken three pole positions Brno, Dijon and the Hungaroring turning two of them into victories, teamed with Sascha ...

, Czech auto racing driver *

Josef Antonín Janiš Josef Antonín Janiš (Germanized as Joseph Janisch; 6 February 1749 – 15 November 1821) was a Czech Catholic priest and beekeeper. He wrote several books on bee-keeping in the Czech language and in 1789 he was among the first to suggest parthen ...

(1749–1821), Czech priest and apiculturist *

Linzie Janis Linzie Janis (born June 23, 1979) is a former American television journalist. She was a correspondent at ABC News based in New York. She reported for all ABC News programs and platforms, including "Good Morning America", " World News Tonight wi ...

, an American television journalist *

Sidney Janis Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who opened an art gallery in New York in 1948. His gallery quickly gained prominence, for he not only exhibited work by the Abstract Expres ...

, (1896–1989), American art dealer, collector, and writer *

Vivi Janiss Vivi Janis (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as ''The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues'' (1955), ''Man on the Prowl (film), Man on the Prowl'' (1957), and ''First, You Cry'' ...

(1911–1988), American actress

Other uses

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Janus (disambiguation) Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings. Janus may also refer to: Computing * Janus (concurrent constraint programming language) * Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform * Janu ...

Jani (disambiguation) Jani may refer to: * Jani (given name) * Jani (surname) * Jani, Iran, a village * Jāņi Jāņi () is an annual Latvians, Latvian festival celebrating the summer solstice. Although, astronomically the solstice falls on the 21st or 22nd of Jun ...

* Janice (disambiguation) *'' United States v. Janis'', a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case {{disambiguation, surname