Janus (disambiguation)
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Janus is the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings.
Janus may also refer to:
General
- Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
- 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 German two-seater glider
- HMS Janus, a name used by British naval ships
- Janus, a British diesel shunting locomotive
- Janus, catalogue database of Cambridge University Library
People
- Janus of Cyprus (1375–1432), king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
- Janus I, 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 (born 1976), Danish entrepreneur
- Samantha Womack (born 1972), English actress, formerly Samantha Janus
- Tim Janus (born 1976), American competitive eater
Computing
- Janus (programming language), more than one programming language
- Janus, 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
- Janus attack, alternative name of a Man-in-the-middle attack
- Janus Recognition Toolkit (JRTk), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit
- Janus, a system library for the hardware Emulation Boards A2088-XT and A2286-AT From Commodore International on the Amiga 2000[1]
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), German darkwave musical project established 1995
- Janus (American band), 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
- Janus (album), the first full-length album released by Boyfriend
Television
- Janus (TV series), an Australian drama television series
Literature and comics
- Janus: A Summing Up, a 1978 book by Arthur Koestler
- Janus (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics character
- Janus, DC Comics character known as Two-Face
- Janus, character in the novel Angels and Demons, see List of Angels & Demons characters
- The Janus branch of the Cahill family in The 39 Clues
Magazines
- Janus (science fiction magazine), a feminist science fiction magazine
- Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
- Janus, British spanking fetish magazine, in print since 1972
Games and gaming
- Janus chess, a chess variant
- Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger
Places
- Janus Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
- Mont Janus, France
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 half 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