Diane (given name)

Notable people named Diane

Alternative spellings include Dianne, Dian, Diahann, Dyan and Dyane. See also Di and Diana

• Diane Abbott, a British politician
• Diane Cummins, a Canadian middle distance runner
• Diane de France, a 16th-century daughter of France's Henry II
• Diane Franklin, an American actress
• Dyan Cannon, an American actress
• Diahann Carroll, an American actress and singer
• Diane Gerace, a Canadian high jumper
• Diane Guthrie-Gresham, a Jamaican long jumper and heptathlete
• Diane Keaton, an American actress
• Diane Ladd, an American actress
• Diane Lane, an American actress
• Diane Modahl, an English athlete
• Diane Murphy, an American actress
• Diane Neal, an American actress
• Diane Nelson (comics), an American business executive
• Diane de Poitiers, a 16th-century French noblewoman
• Diane Ratnik, Canadian volleyball player
• Diane Sawyer, American TV presenter
• Diane Tell
• Diane Warren, an American songwriter

Other

• Dian Fossey, an American zoologist
• Moshe Dayan, Israeli politician and military leader

Fictional characters named Diane

• Diane Court, a fictional character in the 1989 Cameron Crowe film Say Anything..., played by Ione Skye
• Diane Chambers, a fictional character in the TV series Cheers
• Diane Darcy, a fictional race car driver in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
• Diane, an unseen character from the 2008 video game No More Heroes
• Diane, an unseen character in the television show Twin Peaks, to whom Dale Cooper addresses messages on a pocket tape recorder
• Diane Jenkins Newman, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless