Janus (disambiguation)

Janus may refer to:

Contents 1 General 2 People 3 Computing 4 Film and music 5 Television 6 Literature and comics 7 Magazines 8 Games and gaming 9 Geography 10 Science

General

• Janus (mythology), the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings
• Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
• Janus (simulation), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory
• Society of Janus, a San Francisco based BDSM education and support group
• Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
• Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
• Janus word, a.k.a. auto-antonym, a word with two opposite meanings
• Schempp-Hirth Janus, a two-seater glider
• HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
• JANUS clinical trial data repository

People

• Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
• Janusz I, Archbishop of Gniezno
• Janus I, Duke of Masovia
• Janus II, Duke of Masovia
• Janus Junius Toland, a sobriquet of pantheist philosopher John Toland
• Janus Ulitius, the Latinized name of 17th century philologist Jan van Vliet
• Janus Friis, the Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application
• Samantha Womack (born 1972), English actress, formerly Samantha Janus
• Tim Janus, American competitive eater

Computing

• Janus (programming language) -- more than one programming language
• "Janus" was a codename used for Microsoft Windows 3.1x and Windows 2000 (DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions)
• Janus (DRM), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform
• JANUS clinical trial data repository, a standard supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a data warehouse for human clinical trial information
• Janus attack, alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack

Film and music

• Janus Films, an American film distribution company
• Janus Records, a record label
• Janvs, a black metal band from Liguria, Italy
• Janus (musical project), a German darkwave musical project established 1995
• Janus (US band), an American hard rock band, established mid 90s in Chicago, Illinois
• Janus, a British band based in Germany, that released an album called Gravedigger on Harvest Records in 1972
• Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
• The Janus Project, a taboo cloning project in the movie Judge Dredd (film)
• "Janus", a song from the album Out and About with the Gone Jackals by hard rock group The Gone Jackals
• "Janus", a song from the album Inner Journeys: Myth + Legends by Cusco

Television

• Janus (TV series), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police/judicial process
• Janus (Warehouse 13), an ancient magical coin artifact of the roman god Janus that can erase a past life memory of a person to start a new life. It was in a episode of the tv show Warehouse 13' '

Literature and comics

• Janus: A Summing Up, a book by Arthur Koestler
• Janus (comics), a superhero in the DC Comics universe
• Janus (Marvel Comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe and an enemy of Marvel Comics' Dracula
• The Janus Directive, a DC Comics crossover
• Janus (Angels and Demons), the antagonist in the novel Angels and Demons
• Janus (short story), a short story by Ann Beattie
• The Janus branch of the Cahill family in The 39 Clues

Magazines

• Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
• Janus (science fiction magazine), a feminist science fiction magazine
• Janus (magazine), British spanking-fetish periodical, in print since 1972.

Games and gaming

• Janus chess, a chess variant
• Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger
• In In Nomine (role-playing game), Janus is the Archangel of the Wind

Geography

• Janus Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
• Janus Lake (Ontario), Canada
• Janus Lake (Washington), Snohomish County, Washington
• Mont Janus, France
• Mount Janus (Antarctica)
• Mount Janus (Newfoundland), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Mount Janus (Svalbard), Norway
• Janus Peak, British Columbia, Canada

Science

• Janus-faced molecule, used to describe a molecule whose effects on organisms can vary between beneficial and toxic
• Janus particles, amphiphilic particles having one have hydrophilic and the other half hydrophobic
• Janus Experiments, a series of experiments on radio-sensitivity in mice and dogs
• Janus kinase, an intracellular signaling molecule; component of the JAK-STAT signal system.
• Janus species, a genetic mutation which results in a single organism possessing two heads.

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