Janet (given name)

Janet

Pronunciation	/ˈdʒænɪt/ JAN-it
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Scots
Meaning	"God is merciful"
Other names
Related names	Jeanette, Jane, Juanita, Jeanne, Janeth, Janat

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 Company
• Janet, a character in The Good Place
• Janet van Dyne, a character in Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Janet, the heroine of Tam Lin
• Janet Perlstein, Arnold’s know it all and conceited cousin in The Magic School Bus