Jeanette
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Jeanette is a female name, a diminutive form of the name Jeanne. Other variations are Janette and Janet. The name is derived from the Hebrew "God is gracious".
Notable people
- Jeanette (singer) (born 1951), Spanish singer
- Jeannette ArmstrongJeannette ArmstrongJeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley...
(born 1948), Canadian author - Jeanetta ArnetteJeanetta ArnetteJeannetta Arnette is an American actress known for her television role as Miss Meara on the situation comedy Head of the Class. She has also appeared in numerous films and guest-starring roles on television...
(born 1954), American actress - Janette BeckmanJanette BeckmanJanette Beckman is an English documentary photographer born in London and living and working in New York.-Biography:Beckman started her career photographing the punk scene in England and New York in the 70s and 80s and has continued without pause...
, English photographer - Jeanette BiedermannJeanette BiedermannJeanette Biedermann , also known by her stage name Jeanette, is a German recording artist, actress and television personality. Born and raised in Berlin, Biedermann began performing as a member of a troupe of acrobats in a children's circus at the age of six...
(born 1981), German singer-songwriter and actress - Jeanette GranbergJeanette GranbergJeanette Granberg, as married Stjernström, as a pseudonym Georges Malméen, , was a Swedish writer, a playwright, a feminist and a translator, who wrote plays for mainly the theatre Mindre teatern in Stockholm in the mid-19th century. She was praised as a great dramatic by her contemporaries...
(1825–1857), Swedish playwright - Jeanette MacDonaldJeanette MacDonaldJeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
(1903–1965), American actress and singer - Jennette McCurdyJennette McCurdyJennette Michelle Faye McCurdy is an American film and television actress and country pop singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Sam Puckett on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly...
(born 1992), American actress - Janette OkeJanette OkeJanette Oke is a Canadian author and pioneer of inspirational fiction. Her books are often set in a pioneer time period and centered around female protagonists...
(born 1935), Canadian author - Jeannette RankinJeannette RankinJeannette Pickering Rankin was the first woman in the US Congress. A Republican, she was elected statewide in Montana in 1916 and again in 1940. A lifelong pacifist, she voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I in 1917 and World War II in 1941, the only member of Congress...
(1880–1973), American social worker, first woman elected to the United States Congress - Jeannette WallsJeannette WallsJeannette Walls is a writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.-Early life and education:Walls was born...
(born 1960), American writer - Jeanette WässeliusJeanette WässeliusMarie Jeanette Wässelius, commonly known as Wässelia or Mamsell Wässelia, , was a Swedish opera singer, court singer and actress, the leading prima donna of the Swedish Opera during the Napoleonic age in the first decades of the 19th century and sister of the international opera star Justina Casagli...
(1784–1853), Swedish opera singer - Jeanette WintersonJeanette WintersonJeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...
(born 1959), British novelist
Fictional characters
- Jeanette Miller, a member of the Chipettes, a fictional singing group of chipmunks
- Jeannette (comics)Jeannette (comics)Jeannette is a fictional character in the . She first appeared in Secret Six #3 , and was created by Gail Simone and Nicola Scott.-Publication history:...
, a fictional banshee in the DC Comics Universe