Jane

People with this name

Arts

Jhane Barnes (born 1954), fashion designer ("h" added as adult)

Jane Burden (1839–1914), pre-Raphaelite model and muse

Jane Antonia Cornish (born 1975), British Contemporary classical music composer

Jane Petrie, Scottish costume designer

Jane Dyer (born 1949), children's book illustrator

Jane Frank (1918–1986), American artist

Jane Gilmor (born 1947), American intermedia artist and educator

Jane Grier (1856–1902), Irish-German textile artist

Jane Kelly (born 1956), artist and journalist

Jane Kent (born 1952), American artist and professor of printmaking

Jane Sauer (born 1937), American fiber artist, sculptor

Jane Tuckerman (born 1947), American photographer

Jane Venis, New Zealand multimedia artist, musician and writer

Crime

Jane Andrews (born 1967), murderer of Tom Cressman

Jane Britton (1945–1969), female murder victim

Jane Cakebread (1830–1898), infamous drunkard; the Inebriates Act 1898 was directly due to her case

Jane Toppan (1854–1938), American serial killer, nicknamed "Jolly Jane"

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 Kelley Adams (1852–1924), American educator

Jane Grace Alexander (1848–1932), American banker

Jane Digby (1807–1881), English adventurer

Jane Franklin (née Griffin; 1791–1875), English explorer

Jane Gemmill (1855-?), Scottish temperance activist

Jane Louisa Hardy (1828–1915), American temperance activist and philanthropist

Jane Horney (1918–1945), Swedish spy during WWII

Jane Roe, alias of Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), plaintiff in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), early Native American writer

Literature

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

Jane Baird (1875 –1960), Scottish educator and Esperantist

Jane Bowles (1917–1973), American writer and playwright

Jane T. H. Cross (1817–1870), American author

Jane Louise Curry (born 1932), American writer

Jane Gardam (1928–2025), English writer

Jane Lewers Gray (1796–1871), Northern Ireland-born American poet and hymnwriter

Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), Canadian author

Jane Hamilton (born 1957), American author

Jane Hampton Cook, American author and historian

Jane Harvey (writer) (1771–1848) British poet and novelist

Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), American-Canadian journalist, author, and urban theorist

Jane Lindskold (born 1962), American author

Jane Roberts (1929–1984), American author, poet, psychic, and spirit medium

Jane Rose (1880–1927), Yiddish dramatist and theater activist

Jane Smiley (born 1949), American novelist

Jane Agnes Stewart (1860–1944), American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals

News media

Jane Elliott (born 1933), American civil rights activist, known for "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" exercise.

Jane Grant (1892–1972) American journalist

Jane Hill (born 1969), British newsreader

Jane Kramer (born 1938), American journalist

Jane Pauley (born 1950), American television journalist

Jane Pratt (born 1962), American magazine editor and publisher

Politics

Jane Ellison, British politician

Jane Harman (born 1945), member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district

Jane Irwin Harrison (1804–1845), first lady of the United States

Jane Hill (1936–2015), Australian politician

Jane Hunt (American politician)

Jane Hunt (British politician)

Jane Kagiri, Kenyan politician

Jenny (Jane) Kenney (1884–1961) also known as Jennie, British suffragette and Montessori teacher

Jane Njoki Mugambi (born 1967) in Gituamba Village, Central Province, Kenya

Jane Muskie (1927–2004), First Lady of Maine

Jane Perceval (1769–1844), spouse of the Prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1808 to 1812

Jane Pierce (1806–1863), first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857

Jane Pringle, American politician

Florence Jane Short (aka Rachel Peace) (1881 – died after 1932), British feminist and suffragette

Jane Swift (born 1965), American politician, acting governor of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003

Jane Lomax-Smith (born 1950), Australian politician

Religion

Jane Elizabeth Faulding (1843–1904), British Protestant Christian missionary

Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641), French saint

Royalty and nobility

Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (1505–1542)

Lady Jane Fellowes (born 1957)

Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), Queen of England, also known as "Jane of England"

Jane Ingleby (died 1651), English aristocrat, recusant, and female soldier

Jane Lane, Lady Fisher (1626–1689), played a heroic role in the escape of Charles II in 1651

Jane Loeau (1828–1873), Hawaiian noble lady

Jane Seymour (1508–1537), Queen and wife of King Henry VIII of England

Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (1826–1900)

Baroness Jane von Westenholz (born 1954), Queen's Companion to Queen Camilla

Jane Wharton, 7th Baroness Wharton (1706–1761)

Science

Jane Ammons (born 1953), American industrial engineer

Jane Colden (1724–1766), American botanist

Jane Frankland (born 1968), English cybersecurity expert

Jane Forer Gentleman (1940–2023), American and Canadian statistician

Jane Goodall (1934–2025), English primatologist, known for studying chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

Jane Lord Hersom (1840–1928), American physician, suffragist

Jane Hutton, British statistician

Jane Loevinger (1918–2008), American developmental psychologist

Jane Luu (born 1963), Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer

Jane Madders (c. 1909–1990), British physiotherapist, educator and author

Jane McGrath (1966–2008), co-founder of the McGrath Foundation

Jane Mogina, Papua New Guinea biodiversity specialist

Jane H. Rider (1889–1981), American engineer and bacteriologist

Jane M. Simoni, American clinical psychologist

Sport

Jane Albright (born 1955), American basketball player and coach

Jane Barkman (born 1951), American swimmer

Jane Bartkowicz (born 1949), American tennis player

Jane Burley (born 1971), Scottish field hockey midfielder

Jane Cederqvist (1945–2023), Swedish swimmer

Jane Daley (ice hockey) (born 2009), American ice hockey player

Jane Frederick (born 1952), American heptathlete

Jane Karla Gögel (born 1975), Brazilian para archer and para table tennis player

Jane Haist (1949–2022), Canadian discus thrower and shot putter

Jane Joseph, Trinidadian cricketer

Jane Katz (born 1943), American swimmer

Jane Kuehl (born 2003), American ice hockey player

Jane Patterson, Canadian judoka

Jane Salumäe (born 1968), Estonian long-distance runner

Jayne Torvill (born 1957), British ice-dancer and 1984 Olympic gold medalist with partner Christopher Dean

Jane Weiller (1912–1989), American golfer

Other

Jane M. Bowers (1936–2022), American flautist, musicologist and feminist

Jane Bruce, Canadian teacher and principal

Jane Norton Grew, American socialite

Jane Sinclair Reid (1883–1968), Australian educator of blind students

Jane Rooney, New Zealand architect

Jane Farwell Smith (1906–1997), American clubwoman

Fictional characters

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 corpse or patient whose identity is unknown.

Jane Foster, a Marvel Comics character

Painkiller Jane, a comic book character that spawned a made-for-TV movie and a TV series

Jane, an AI character first introduced in Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead

Dick and Jane, characters by Zerna Sharp

Jane, an entity resembling modern conceptions of AI, from the Ender's Game series

Jane Eyre, the titular character of a famous novel by Charlotte Brontë and several film adaptations

Baby Jane Hudson, the titular character in the novel and film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Miss Marple (first name Jane), an amateur detective created by Agatha Christie

Jane Porter, the sweetheart of Tarzan

Jayne Deverill, a Yorkshire witch in the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz

Jane Studdock, protagonist in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

Jane, on 7th Heaven