Jade (disambiguation)
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Jade may refer to:
- Jade, a green-colored gemstone of nephrite or jadeite
- Jade plant (Crassula ovata), a type of plant
- Jade (color), a saturated, slightly bluish green
- Jade engine, the game engine used in, among others, Beyond Good & Evil, the Prince of Persia trilogy, and Peter Jackson's King Kong.
- Sweetbox, a band fronted by Jade Villalon, or her solo project, titled "Jade Valerie".
- Jade, a given name
Jade may also refer to:
[edit] People
As a first name:
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- Jade C. Bell, Canadian actor
- Jade Dernbach, South African cricket player
- Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
- Jade Esteban Estrada, American actor
- Jade Gatt, actor
- Jade Goody, a former Big Brother housemate
- Jade Hsu, American pornographic actress
- Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
- Jade Johnson, English athlete
- Jade Jones, British singer
- Jade Kindar-Martin, American circus performer
- Jade Kwan, Chinese singer
- Jade Marcela, American actress
- Jade MacRae, Australian singer
- Jade North, Australian football (soccer) player
- Jade Puget, musician
- Jade Raymond, TV personality, video game producer
- Jade Rawlings, Australian rules footballer
- Jade Sharif, actress
- Jade Villalon, singer of Sweetbox
- Jade Snow Wong, American ceramicist
As a middle name:
As a surname:
- Claude Jade, French actress
- Layla Jade, actress
- Samantha Jade, Australian singer
- Ms. Jade, American rapper
[edit] Fictional characters
- Jade (Mortal Kombat), a Mortal Kombat character
- Jade (comics), Jennie-Lynn Hayden-Scott, the superpowered daughter of Green Lantern Alan Scott from DC Comics
- Jade (chaos comics), a female vampire from Chaos Comics
- Mara Jade, a Star Wars character
- Jade Chan, Jackie Chan's fictional niece in Jackie Chan Adventures
- Jade, a Japanese main character of the Bratz fashion doll line
- Jade, the heroine of the video game Beyond Good & Evil
- Jade, a character from the computer game Fahrenheit (video game) / Indigo Prophecy
- Jade, a quarrior and commander from planet Rock in the Shadow Raiders animated TV series
- Jade Dragon, a fighter in the Xbox game Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
- Jade Curtiss, a playable character from the video game Tales of the Abyss
- Jade, a fictional assassin from Spawn (TV series)
- Jade Fontaine, a character in the PvP webcomic.
- Jade (Kinnikuman), a character in the manga and anime series Ultimate Muscle.
- Jade of the French children's novel "The Prophecy of the Stones".
- Jade, a character from Breath of Fire
- Jade Vernon, a character from the book series The Traces
[edit] Culture
- Jade (UK band), an English folk rock band from 1970
- Jade (US band), an American R&B music group from the 1990s
- Jade Emperor, an important Taoist god
- Jade (film), a 1995 William Friedkin film
- Jade (album), an album by Sweetbox
- Jade Stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand
[edit] Science
- JADE (particle detector), an experiment at the PETRA accelerator
- JADE (Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment), an instrument that will by flying on the Juno spacecraft
[edit] Geography
In Germany:
- Jadebusen, a large inlet on the north coast of Germany east and northeast of Wilhelmshaven
- Jade River, a small river that drains into the Jadebusen
- Jade, Germany, a municipality located at the Jadebusen
- Jade, a small town located at the river Jade and in the Jade municipality
In New Zealand:
- the Jade River, in the Auckland district in the North Island.
In East Asia:
- Jade Mountain or Yushan, a mountain on Taiwan
- White Jade River or Yurungkash, a river in western China
[edit] Other meanings
- JADE programming language
- European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (JADE)
- JADE, the American codename for a Japanese cipher machine
- JADE, an Ancient Domains of Mystery roguelike computer game
- JaDE, Java Agent DEvelopment framework
- TVB Jade, a TV channel station in Hong Kong
- An independent component analysis algorithm using the Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Eigenmatrices.
- Jade, it is the front-end processor for SGML and XML