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Allison Janney Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has received various accolades, including an Academ ...
(born 1959), American actress *
Christopher Janney Christopher Janney (born 1950) is an American composer, artist, and architect known for his work on the interrelation of architecture and music. Sometimes he attempts to make architecture more like music as in his sound sculptures titled "Urban Mu ...
(born 1950), American interactive sound and light artist *
Craig Janney Craig Harlan Janney (born September 26, 1967) is an American former professional ice hockey center who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League from 1987–88 until 1998–99, when blood clots ended his career prematurely. Playing ca ...
(born 1967), American retired hockey player *
Edward Janney Edward Janney is an American musician, producer and artist who has played guitar for many Washington, D.C.-based hardcore punk bands such as Untouchables, The Faith, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Happy Go Licky, Skewbald/Grand Union and Brief ...
an American musician, producer and artist *
Ernest Lloyd Janney Ernest Lloyd Janney (1893-1941) was the Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps between 1914 and 1915. Janney pushed for the establishment of a Canadian flying corps during the First World War. Career 1914–15 Janney managed to convi ...
(1893–1941), Provisional Commander of the Canadian Aviation Corps from 1914 to 1915 *
Eli H. Janney Eli H. Janney (November 12, 1831 – June 16, 1912), aka Eli Hamilton Janney or simply Eli Janney, was the inventor of the modern knuckle coupler that replaced Railway coupling#Link and pin, link and pin couplers on North American railroads. ...
(1831–1912), American inventor *
Eli Janney (musician) Eli Janney is an American record producer and engineer born in Washington, D.C. Janney played bass and keyboards as well as sang backing vocals in indie rock/post-hardcore band Girls Against Boys. He currently plays keyboard in and is associate mu ...
, American record producer and musician * Frederick Wistar Morris Janney (1919–1979), Central Intelligence Agency officer * Jack R. Janney (1924–2006), American structural engineer and innovator in the understanding of structural collapses *
John Janney John Janney (November 8, 1798 – January 5, 1872) was an influential member of the Whig Party in Virginia prior to its demise, delegate to the Virginia General Assembly from Loudoun County and served as President of the Virginia Secession Con ...
(1798–1872), Virginia politician, president of the American Virginia Secession Convention *
Leon Janney Leon Janney (April 1, 1917 – October 28, 1980) was an American actor and radio personality from 1920 to 1980. Career Leon Elbert Janney was born in Ogden, Utah, to Nathan Haines Janney and Bernice Rebecca Kohn. The names of his parents are co ...
(1917–1980), American actor and radio personality *
Russell Janney Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was a theatrical producer and author. He is best known for his 1946 best-selling book and first novel, ''The Miracle of the Bells'', which was made into a film of the same name in 1948. He also p ...
(1884–1963), American theatrical producer and novelist *
William Janney William Janney (born Russell Dixon Janney, February 15, 1908 – December 22, 1992) was an American actor who appeared in 39 films between 1929 and 1937. He was the son of author and theatrical producer Russell Janney,(28 December 1940)William J ...
(1908–1992), American actor * Janney Marín Rivera (born 1985), better known as
Chiquis Rivera Janney Marín Rivera (born June 26, 1985), better known as Chiquis Rivera, is an American singer and television personality. She is the eldest daughter of singer Jenni Rivera. She began her singing career in early 2014, releasing her first sing ...
, American singer and television personality


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Janney, Indiana Janney is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Delaware County, Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital ...
, United States, an unincorporated community *
Janney Elementary School The Janney Elementary School is a public elementary school from Pre-K through 5th grade. A part of the District of Columbia Public Schools, it enrolls approximately 740 students. The building itself is noted as a historic school building, located ...
, Washington, DC, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places *
Janney (automobile) The Janney was a brass era automobile assembled in Flint, Michigan by the Janney Motor Company in 1906. History The eponymous Mr. Janney, who some historical accounts identify as E. Stanton Janney, a naval armaments engineer who had assisted in c ...
, an American automobile produced by the Janney Motor Company in 1906


See also

* Janney House, Hamilton, Virginia, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places *
Janney coupler Janney couplers are a semi-automatic form of railway coupling that allow rail cars and locomotives to be securely linked together without rail workers having to get between the vehicles. They are also known as American, AAR, APT, ARA, MCB, knuck ...
, a railroad device invented by Eli H. Janney *
Zoltán Jeney Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer. Jeney was born in Szolnok Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Pongrácz's composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing compositi ...
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