Janet (given name)

Janet is a feminine given name meaning "Little Joan". It is a variation of the French proper noun Jeannette, Spanish proper noun Juanita, Russian Жанет (Zhanet), Circassian Джэнэт (Janet), and Hungarian Zsanett. It is also the diminutive of Jeanne or Jane.

List of people with the given name Janet
 Janet Adamson (1882–1962), Scottish politician
 Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
 Janet Carr, Australian physiotherapist
 Janet Cooke (born 1954), disgraced American journalist, forced to return a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story
 Janet Ellis (born 1955), British television presenter
 Janet Evans, American Olympic Champion swimmer
 Janet Fockart (d. 1596), Scottish merchant and moneylender
 Janet Franklin, American geographer and landscape ecologist
 Janet Gaynor, American actress
 Janet Holm (1923–2018), New Zealand environmental activist and historian
 Janette Husárová, Slovak tennis player
 Janet Jackson, American pop and R&B singer/songwriter/icon
 Janet Jagan, Prime Minister of Guyana 1997, President of Guyana 1997–1999
 Janet Lee Bouvier, US socialite, mother of the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
 Janet Leigh, American actress
 Janet Lennon, American singer
 Janet Lupo (1959–2017), Playboy model
 Janet Lynn, American figure skater
 Janet Maratita, politician from the Northern Mariana Islands
 Janet Margolin (1943–1993), American actress
 Janet Maslin, American journalist
 Janet McTeer (born 1961), British actress
 Janet Napolitano, American politician
 Janet Meakin Poor, American landscape designer
 Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States
 Janet Rono (born 1988), Kenyan marathon runner
 Janet Smith (Rhodesia) (1915–1994), wife of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith
 Janet L. Smith (born 1951), American scientist
 Janet Street-Porter, British media personality
 Janet Waldo, American actress and voice-over artist
 Janet Watt, New Zealand female badminton player 
 Janet Wittes, American statistician
 Janet C. Wolfenbarger, lieutenant general and highest-ranking woman in the United States Air Force
 Janet Wright, Canadian actress and theater director
 Janet Yellen, American economist and Federal Reserve Chair

Fictional characters with the given name Janet
 Janet Cunningham, a character in The Final Destination
 Janet Chant, a character in Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series
 Janet van Dyne, aka the Wasp, a superhero in the Marvel Universe
 Janet Fraiser, a character in Stargate SG-1
 Janet Weiss, a character in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 Janet Wood, a character in Three's CompanyJanet, a character in The Good PlaceJanet van Dyne, a character in Ant-Man and the WaspJanet, the heroine of Tam Lin''

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