Janice (given name)
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Janice is a feminine given name
, an extended version of Jane
. Jane is one of the feminine forms of John in English. The meaning of "Janice" is "God is gracious" (from the Hebrew).
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, an extended version of Jane
Jane (given name)
Jane is a feminine given name. It is the English form of the Old French name Jehanne, which was an old feminine form of the male name Johannes or Ioannes , a Latin form of the Greek name , which is derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן , a short form of the name יְהוֹחָנָן , meaning "Yahweh is...
. Jane is one of the feminine forms of John in English. The meaning of "Janice" is "God is gracious" (from the Hebrew).
List of people with the given name Janice
- Janice AcooseJanice AcooseJanice Acoose is a Canadian author, newspaper columnist, filmmaker, indigenous language advocate and professor of indigenous and English literature at First Nations University of Canada in Saskatchewan.-Early life and family:...
, Canadian writer, filmmaker and professor of indigenous literature in Saskatchewan - Janice BurgessJanice BurgessJanice Burgess is the former key person of Nick Jr.. She is the creator and executive producer of The Backyardigans, a CGI-animated series on Nick Jr. running from 2004 to 2008 about five high-spirited friends and their imaginative, musical journeys....
, executive producer at Nickelodeon - Janice ConnollyJanice Connolly-Barbara Nice:Connolly is best known for her character Barbara Nice - a caricature of a middle aged housewife and mother of five from Stockport in Greater Manchester. Her act is heavily reliant on interaction with the audience, for example acting as an agony aunt to the audience...
, British actress and comedienne - Janice CruzJanice CruzJanice Cruz Brooks is the songwriter, lead singer and guitar player for Brooklyn-based Indie Rock trio Dark Room and Indie Pop/Rock band Kill the Moonlight. She is a Berklee trained vocal coach...
, lead singer of the indie rock band Dark Room - Janice DickinsonJanice DickinsonJanice Doreen Dickinson is an American actress, author, fashion photographer, model and talent agent.Initially notable as a model, she has described herself as the first supermodel. One of the most successful models throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she expanded her profession to reality television...
, American former supermodel - Janice FeltyJanice FeltyJanice Felty is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She is known for her interpretations of contemporary composers like John Adams, Philip Glass, John Harbison, and Judith Weir....
, mezzo-soprano opera singer - Janice GallowayJanice GallowayJanice Galloway is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti-Biography:She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. Her sister Nora, sixteen years older, died in...
, Scottish writer of short stories and novels - Janice M. HolderJanice M. HolderJanice M. Holder is an American judge who is a Tennessee Supreme Court justice and was Chief Justice of Tennessee from 2008 to 2010. She is the first woman ever to hold the chief justice position.-Education:...
, American justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court - Janice HuffJanice HuffJanice Huff is chief meteorologist for WNBC in New York City.-Early years:As she has sometimes noted on her newscast, though born in New York City, at an early age she moved to her grandparents in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Eau Claire High School with honors, where she was a...
, American television meteorologist - Janice KawayeJanice KawayeJanice Kawaye is a Japanese-American actress, notable for providing the voice of Jenny "XJ-9" Wakeman on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Ami on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Sarah on Invader Zim, Gi on Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Kioko and Julia on All Grown Up! and Yuzu Kurosaki on Bleach...
, Japanese American actress - Janice KimJanice KimJanice Kim is a professional go player, author, and business owner. She was born in Illinois in 1969 , and grew up in New Mexico. As a teenager, she studied go in Korea under Jeong Soo-hyon . She represented the US in the first World Youth Go Championship in 1984, placing third; in 1986 she...
, professional go player and author - Janice LongJanice LongJanice Long is an English radio broadcaster currently working on BBC Radio 2. Her show is on Sunday to Thursday nights from midnight to 02:00. She is the older sister of TV and radio personality Keith Chegwin.-Early career:...
, English radio broadcaster - Janice LyndeJanice LyndeJanice Lynde in Houston, Texas and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is an American actress.Lynde began her professional career at ten years old, playing piano and singing solos with the Dallas Symphony. She attended college at Indiana University, studying music, and then the University of...
, American actress - Janice McCaffreyJanice McCaffreyJanice Leslie McCaffrey is a retired female racewalker from Canada. She set her personal best in the women's 10 km race walk event on May 11, 1995 in Eisenhüttenstadt.-Achievements:-References:**...
Canadian racewalker - Janice MeekJanice MeekJanice Meek FRGS is a Guinness World Record holding adventurer, ocean rower, international motivational speaker and polar adventurer...
, British rower - Janice PenningtonJanice PenningtonJanice Marie Pennington was one of the original "Barker's Beauties" models on The Price Is Right, serving as the show's longest-running model to date, from 1972 to 2000. She was also Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the May 1971 issue. She is the older sister of fellow model Ann...
, American former model on The Price Is Right - Janice RaceJanice Race-Biography:A native of The Bronx, Race was employed by DC Comics in the 1980s and had worked as a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before entering the comics industry. She served as an Associate Editor for Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway as well as an editor in her own right...
, American former comic book editor for DC ComicsDC ComicsDC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner... - Janice RebiboJanice RebiboJanice Silverman Rebibo is a Boston-born Israeli poet who began writing in Hebrew in the mid-1980s.Janice Silverman Rebibo’s poems have been admired for having, “a new strength and the kind of courage that comprises a strategic breakthrough, a stance of both audacity and humor that adds something...
, Israeli poet - Janice RobinsonJanice RobinsonJanice Robinson, born and raised in Garfield, New Jersey, gained worldwide success in the early-mid 1990s with the Eurodance/Hi-NRG/Italo House group Livin' Joy as the lead singer before going solo in 1999. After Robinson left, Livin' Joy scored more hits during the 1995-1996 period with another...
, African-American singer - Janice SteinJanice SteinJanice Gross Stein, O.Ont, CM, FRSC is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert.-Career:Stein holds degrees from McGill University , and Yale University...
, Canadian academic - Janice May UdryJanice May UdryJanice May Udry is an American author. She was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University in 1950. Her first book, A Tree is Nice, was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1957 for Marc Simont's illustrations...
, American author - Janice VidalJanice VidalJanice M. Vidal, often credited mononymously as "Janice", is an award-winning female Cantopop, Hong Kong English pop, Jazz and R&B singer based in Hong Kong. She is the twin sister of singer Jill Vidal....
, Hong Kong singer, commonly referred to as Janice - Janice E. VossJanice E. VossJanice Elaine Voss is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times.-Education:...
, American astronaut - Janice WeberJanice WeberJanice Weber is an American pianist and author.- Music :Born in New Jersey, Weber was a precocious musical talent, making her debut at age 12 with the orchestra at New York's Town Hall. She studied with a number of teachers and musicians, such as Cecile Genhart, Walter Hendel, Jose Echaniz, and...
, American pianist and author - Janice Woods WindleJanice Woods WindleJanice Woods Windle is a Texas author. Windle was born in Seguin, Texas and currently lives in El Paso, Texas.Windle's first two novels, True Women and Hill Country and her first-published work, the True Women Cookbook, all became best sellers and are based on extensive research into Windle's...
, American author
Fictional characters
- Janice (Chrono Cross), a character in "Chrono Cross"
- Janice, the only female member of the Electric Mayhem on The Muppet Show
- Janice, a girl who befriends Linus (Peanuts), and has leukaemia in the PeanutsPeanutsPeanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...
special, "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?Why, Charlie Brown, Why?Why, Charlie Brown, Why? is the 33rd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on March 16, 1990 and was also nominated for an Emmy.-Plot:...
" - Janice BattersbyJanice BattersbyJanice Bernadette Battersby is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. Portrayed by actress Vicky Entwistle, the character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 6 January 1997....
, Coronation Street character - Janice Litman Goralnik née Hosenstein, a character on the TV show Friends
- Janice RandJanice RandYeoman Janice Rand, played by Grace Lee Whitney, is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series. She subsequently appears in several Star Trek films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.-Depiction:...
, a character on Star Trek: The Original Series, played by actress Grace Lee Whitney - Janice SopranoJanice SopranoJanice Soprano Baccalieri, played by Aida Turturro, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She is Tony Soprano's elder sister. A young Janice has appeared in flashbacks, played by Madeline Blue and Juliet Fox.-Biography:...
, a character on the TV show The Sopranos