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/dʒiːn/, or sometimes in Scotland /dʒeɪn/ Jeanne, Jane, Joan, Jeannette, Janet, Jean (male given name) |
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:
Jean Acker (1893–1978), American silent film actress
Jean Alexander (1926–2016), English television actress
Jean Anderson (1907–2001), English actress
Jean Arthur (1900–1991), American actress
Jean M. Auel (born 1936), American writer
Jean Bartik (1924–2011), American computer programmer
Jean Batten (1909–1982), New Zealand aviator
Jean Boht (born 1932), English actress
Jean Byron (1925–2006), American actress
Jean Carn (born 1947), American jazz and pop singer
Jean Carroll (1911–2010), American actress and comedian
Jean Carroll (born 1980), Irish cricketer
Jean Clemens (1880–1909), youngest daughter of writer Mark Twain
Jean Colin (1905–1989), English actress
Jean Conan Doyle (1912–1997), British Air Commandant
Jean Coulthard (1908–2000), Canadian composer
Jean Darling (1922–2015), American child actress
Jean Donovan (1953–1980), American lay missionary who was murdered in El Salvador
Jean Erdman (born 1916), American dancer and choreographer
Jean Fuller (born 1950), American politician
Jean Garcia (born 1969), Filipino actress
Jean Craighead George (1919–2012), American author
Jean D'Costa (born 1937), Jamaican children's novelist
Jean Grae (born 1976), American hip hop artist
Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell (1546–1629), Scottish noblewoman
Jean Hagen (1923–1977), American actress
Jean Harlow (1911–1937), American actress
Jean Hepburn (died 1599), Scottish noblewoman
Jean Houston (born 1937), American author
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), an English poet and novelist
Nikki Jean (born Nicholle Jean Leary) (born 1983), American singer-songwriter
Jean Kerr (1922–2003), American author and playwright
Jean Kent (1921−2013), British actress
Jean Knight (born 1943), American soul/R&B/funk singer
Jean Madeira (1918–1972), American mezzo-soprano
Jean Marsh (born 1934), English actress and screenwriter
Jean Muir (1928–1995), English fashion designer
Jean Parker (1915–2005), American actress
Jean Passanante (born 1953), American television screenwriter
Jean Peters (1926–2000), American actress
Jean Prahm (born 1978), American bobsledder
Jean Rabe (born 1957), American fantasy and sci-fi author and editor
Jean Redpath (1937–2014), Scottish folk singer
Jean Rhys (1890–1979), Dominican novelist
Jean Ritchie (1922–2015), American folk singer and songwriter
Jean Rogers (1916–1991), American actress
Jean Sagal (born 1961), American television actress and director
Jean Saunders (1932–2011), British writer of romance novels
Jean Schmidt (born 1951), American politician
Jean Seberg (1938–1979), American actress
Jean Shafiroff (1933–2016), American philanthropist and socialite
Jean Shepard (1933–2016), American honky tonk singer-songwriter
Jean Shrimpton (born 1942), English model and actress
Jean Simmons (1929–2010), English actress
Jean Smart (born 1951), American actress
Jean Kennedy Smith (born 1928), American diplomat
Jean Stafford (1915–1979), American short story writer and novelist
Jean Stapleton (1923–2013), American actress
Jean Stewart (born 1930), New Zealand swimmer
Jean Terrell (born 1944), American R&B and jazz singer
Jean Valentine (born 1934), American poet
Jean Vander Pyl (1919–1999), American actress
Jean Webster, pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876–1916), an American writer
Jean Westwood (figure skater), British ice dancer
Jean Westwood (politician) (1923–1997), a political figure born in Utah
Jean Willes (1923–1989), American film actress
Jean R. Yawkey (1909–1992), the wife of Tom Yawkey and owner of the Boston Red Sox
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.
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