Jane

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Jane may refer to any of the following:

• Jane (band), a German progressive rock band from the 1970s
• Jane, a 1900 book by Marie Corelli
• Jane (comic strip), a comic strip by Norman Pett
• Jane (magazine), a magazine replacement for Sassy
• Jane (organization), an organization providing illegal abortions in the Chicago area in the 1960s and early 1970s
• Jane (dinosaur), Jane the juvenile dino at the Burpee Museum of Natural History
• Jane Doe, a name used for a female anonymous person, see John Doe
• "Jane," a song by Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
• "The Diary of Jane," a song by alternative rock band Breaking Benjamin
• "Jane", a song by the Jefferson Starship, from their 1979 album Freedom at Point Zero
• "Jane", a song by the Barenaked Ladies, from their 1994 album Maybe You Should Drive

People with Jane as a given name include the following, both fictional and real:

• Jane Porter (Tarzan), the sweetheart of Tarzan
• Jane, (Peter Pan II: Return to Neverland), the daughter of Wendy Darling.
• Calamity Jane (1852-1903), U.S. frontierswoman
• Jane Austen (1775-1817), a famed 18th Century British novelist
• Jane Eyre (disambiguation), a famous novel by Charlotte Brontë, or one of the film adaptations based on it; also the titular character
• Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554), queen/pretender of England
• Jane (Ender's Game), a character from the Ender's Game series
• Jane (Tekken), a minor female character in the game Tekken
• Jane Frank (1918-1986), American artist
• Jane March, English actress
• Jane Kaczmarek, American actress

[edit] See also

• Joanna - origin of the name Jane
• List of people by name: Jan-Jaz for people with the family name Jane