Top Celebrity Names Starting With Janet

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   Janet Jackson

   Age 46 Female
   

   Singer-songwriter and Actress

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   Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years.… read more

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   Janet Napolitano

   Age 54 Female
   

   Governor, Lawyer, Politician

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   Janet Napolitano is the third and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She is the fourth person (including an acting Secretary) to hold the position, which was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the 21st Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009. She was Arizona's third female governor, and the first woman to win re-election.… read more

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   Janet Leigh

   1927 - 2004 Female
   

   Actress

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   Janet Leigh was an American actress. She was the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis. Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in 1947. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Little Women (1949), Holiday Affair (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), and Living It Up (1954).… read more

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   Janet McTeer

   Age 50 Female
   

   Actress

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   Janet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.

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   Janet Reno

   Age 73 Female
   

   Former Attorney General of the United States

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   Janet Wood Reno is a former Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the first female Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.… read more

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   Janet C. Long

   Age 67 Female
   

   Politician, Assistant, Educator

   
   

   Janet C. Long is a Democratic politician and educator who serves as a member of the Florida House of Representatives for House District 51. She was a member of the Seminole, Florida City Council from 2002 to 2006. She was first elected to the Florida Legislature in 2006, and was re-elected in 2008.… read more

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   Janet Burroway

   Age 75 Female
   

   Writer, Poet

   
   

   Janet Gay Burroway is an American author. Burroway was born in Tucson, Arizona, and educated at the University of Arizona, Barnard College in New York, Cambridge University in England, and the Yale School of Drama. Burroway’s published oeuvre includes eight novels, short stories, poems, translations, plays, two children’s books, and two how-to books about the craft of writing.… read more

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   Janet Gaynor

   1906 - 1984 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for successive film roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS.… read more

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   Janet Jagan

   1920 - 2009 Female
   

   Politician, Socialist, President

   
   

   Janet Jagan was an American-born socialist politician who was President of Guyana from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999. She previously served as Prime Minister of Guyana from March 17, 1997, to December 19, 1997. She was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence (O.E.).… read more

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    Janet Baker

    Age 78 Female
    

    Opera and Concert Singer

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    Dame Janet Abbott Baker, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten.… read more

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    Janet Langhart

    Age 70 Female
    

    Politician

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    Janet Langhart Cohen is an American model, television journalist and author. She serves as President and CEO of Langhart Communications and is the spouse of former Defense Secretary William Cohen. In June 2009, her one-act play Anne and Emmett was premiering at the United States Holocaust Museum when the museum was attacked by a white supremacist.… read more

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    Janet Yellen

    Age 65 Female
    

    Federal Reserve Bank President

    
    

    Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.… read more

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    Janet Frame

    1924 - 2004 Female
    

    Author

    
    

    Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. Frame's celebrity is informed by her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career.… read more

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    Janet Ross

    1842 - 1927 Female
    

    Historian, Biographer, Writer

    
    

    Janet Ann Ross was an English historian, biographer, and Tuscan cookbook author.

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    Janet Nguyen

    Age 36 Female
    

    Orange County Supervisor

    
    

    Janet Q. Nguyen is the County Supervisor from the First District of Orange County, California. She won her seat following a historic special election where two Vietnamese-American candidates received half of the total votes cast in a field of 10, separated from each other by only 7 votes. She was sworn in on March 27, 2007, after a lengthy court battle. She won a full, four-year term in 2008 in another historic election when all three major candidates were Vietnamese Americans.… read more

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    Janet Anderson

    Age 62 Female
    

    Member of Parliament, Politician

    
    

    Janet Anderson is an English Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rossendale and Darwen from 1992 until 2010.

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    Janet Panic

    Age 41 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Musician

    
    

    Janet Panic is a Métis singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has released a number of albums of original music as a member of the band Phew, 10 Ft. Henry (1996-1997) and under her own name. Panic is best known for the 10 Ft. Henry songs, "I Can't Get Enough", "Shove It" and "Fish" which received considerable Canadian college radio airplay and the song "Blink" from 2001's The Girl Who Passed for Normal, which has also received regular Canadian airplay.… read more

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    Janet Howell

    Age 68 Female
    

    Virginia Democrat Politician

    
    

    Janet Denison Howell is an American politician. A Democrat, she was elected to the Senate of Virginia in 1991. She still represented the 32nd district in Fairfax County as of June 2011.

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    Janet Waldo

    Age 88 Female
    

    Actress, Voice, Comedian

    
    

    Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. She is best known in animation for voicing Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats. She was equally famed for radio's Meet Corliss Archer, a title role with which she was so identified that she was drawn into the comic book adaptation.… read more

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    Janet Suzman

    Age 73 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Dame Janet Suzman, DBE is a South African-born-British actress and director.

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    Janet Ecker

    Age 58 Female
    

    Politician

    
    

    Janet Ecker is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.… read more

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    Janet G. Mullins Grissom

    Age 63 Female
    

    Politician, Lobbyist, Secretary Politician

    
    

    Janet Gardner Mullins Grissom is a United States lobbyist who formerly worked in the United States Department of State and in the White House under George H. W. Bush.