Jean (female given name)
| Jean | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /dʒiːn/, or sometimes in Scotland /dʒeɪn/ |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Old French |
| Meaning | "The Lord is Gracious" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jeanne, Jane, Joan, Jeannette, Janet, Jean (male given name) |
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Jean /ˈdʒiːn/ is a common female given name in English-speaking countries. It is the Scottish form of Jane (and is sometimes pronounced that way). It is sometimes spelt Jeaine. It is the equivalent of Johanna, Joanna, Joanne, Jeanne, Jana, and Joan.
Famous people with the given name Jean:
Notable people
- Jean Alexander, an English television actress
- Jean Anderson (1907–2001), an English actress
- Jean Arthur (1900–1991), an American actress and a major film star
- Jean M. Auel, an American writer
- Jean Bartik, one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
- Jean Batten (1909–1982), a New Zealand aviator
- Jean Boht, an English actress
- Jean Byron (1925–2006), an American film, television, and stage actress
- Jean Carne, an American jazz and pop singer
- Jean Clemens (1880–1909), the youngest daughter of writer Mark Twain
- Jean Colin (1905–1989), an English actress
- Jean Conan Doyle (1912–1997), British Air Commandant
- Jean Coulthard (1908–2000), a Canadian composer and music educator
- Jean Darling, a former American child actress
- Jean Donovan (1953–1980), an American lay missionary who was murdered in El Salvador
- Jean Erdman, a dancer, choreographer and theater director
- Jean Fuller (born 1950), an American politician
- Jean García, a Filipino television and film actress
- Jean Craighead George, an American author
- Jean D'Costa (b. 1937), Jamaican linguist and children's novelist
- Jean Grae, a hip hop artist from New York
- Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell (1546–1629), a Scottish noblewoman
- Jean Hagen (1923–1977), an American film actress
- Jean Harlow (1911–1937), an American film actress
- Jean Hepburn, (died 1599), a Scottish noblewoman
- Jean Houston, an American author
- Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), an English poet and novelist
- Nikki Jean (born Nicholle Jean Leary), American singer-songwriter and occasional actress
- Jean Kerr (1922–2003), an American author and playwright
- Jean Kent, a British film actress
- Jean Knight, an American soul/R&B/funk singer
- Nicholle Jean Leary, American singer-songwriter & actress a.k.a. Nikki Jean
- Jean Madeira (1918–1972), an American mezzo-soprano,
- Jean Marsh, an English actress and screenwriter
- Jean Muir (1928–1995), an English fashion designer
- Jean Parker (1915–2005), an American movie actress
- Jean Passanante, an American television screenwriter
- Jean Peters (1926–2000), an American actress
- Jean Prahm, an American bobsledder
- Jean Rabe, an American fantasy and sci-fi author and editor
- Jean Redpath, a singer of folk songs and Scottish music
- Jean Rhys (1890–1979), a Dominican novelist
- Jean Ritchie, an American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player
- Jean Rogers (1916–1991), an American actress
- Jean Sagal, an American television actress and director
- Jean Saunders, a British writer of romance novels
- Jean Schmidt, an American politician
- Jean Seberg (1938–1979), an American actress
- Jean Shafiroff, American philanthropist and socialite
- Jean Shepard, an American honky tonk singer-songwriter
- Jean Shrimpton, an English model and actress
- Jean Simmons (1929–2010), an English-born actress
- Jean Smart, an American film, television, and stage actress
- Jean Kennedy Smith, an American diplomat
- Jean Stafford (1915–1979), an American short story writer and novelist
- Jean Stapleton, an American character actress of stage, television and film
- Jean Stewart, a former swimmer from New Zealand
- Jean Terrell, an American R&B and jazz singer
- Jean Valentine, an American poet
- Jean Vander Pyl (1919–1999), an American actress on radio, television and movies
- Jean Webster, pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876–1916), an American writer
- Jean Westwood (figure skater), a British ice dancer
- Jean Westwood (politician) (1923–1997), a political figure born in Utah
- Jean Willes (1923–1989), an American film actress
- Jean R. Yawkey (1909–1992), the wife of Tom Yawkey and owner of the Boston Red Sox
Fictional characters
- Jean, in the British sitcom Dinnerladies
- Jean Brodie, in the novella and film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Jean DeWolff, in the comic Spider-Man
- Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, narrator of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jean Grey, in Marvel comics. An omega-level mutant with extremely powerful empathic, telepathic and telekinetic abilities. She is host of the almighty Phoenix Force entity.
- Jean Randolph, an alternate personality of Victoria Lord on the American soap opera One Life to Live
- Jean Warboys, in the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave
- Jean Hawkins, the deceased wife of Robert Hawkins and late mother of Sharon and Virgil in Static Shock.
- Jean Nesbitt, the sister of Barbara Liversidge (Gwen Taylor) in the TV sitcom Barbara, portrayed by Sherrie Hewson.
See also
- Gene Tierney (1920–1991), an American film and stage actress