Jana (given name)

• Persian My dearest, My soul.
• a Catalan and Occitan old name
• In Cantabria it is the feminine form of Jano, a Celtic god based on the Roman Janus.
• the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana. Jana is also the feminine form of the Roman god Janus.
• In Arabic Jana, short-form for Jannah is both the Islamic and Christian concept of paradise. It can be also used as a noun which means to Earn or Reap and is used as a female name, but is pronounced as Janaa جنى.
• In Albanian, short for Jehona which means echo, other short names include Jona, Ana, Hona
• In Brazilian Portuguese, short for Janaina, a name with Amerindian and African origins, meaning "queen of the seas" or "mother of the fishes"

  People

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• Jana Andrsová, Czech ballerina and actress
• Jana Asher, American statistician and human rights activist
• Jana Assi, Lebanese footballer
• Jana Bach, German pornographic actress, model, and television host
• Jana Begum, Mughal Indian noblewoman and scholar
• Jana Beller, Soviet-born German model
• Jana Bellin, chess player
• Jana Bennett
• Jana Bobošíková, Czech politician
• Jana Boková, Czech film director
• Jana Brejchová, Czech film actress
• Jana Budajová, Slovakian ice hockey goaltender
• Jana Burčeska, Macedonian singer
• Jana Carpenter, American actress, singer and guitarist
• Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
• Jana Černá
• Jana Dítětová, Czechoslovak film actress
• Jana Doleželová, Czech actress, model, pharmacist and beauty pageant titleholder
• Jana Dörries, German swimmer
• Jana Duggar , reality TV star
• Jana Dukátová, Slovak slalom canoeist
• Jana Duļevska, Latvian actress and TV presenter
• Jana Elhassan, Lebanese novelist and short story writer
• Jana Farmanová, Slovak contemporary figurative painter
• Jana Fesslová, Paralympian athlete from Czech Republic
• Jana Fett, Croatian tennis player
• Jana Galíková-Hlaváčová, orienteering competitor who competed for Czechoslovakia
• Jana Gantnerová, Slovak Alpine skier
• Jana Gereková, Slovak biathlete
• Jana Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
• Jana Horáková, Czech professional BMX cyclist
• Jana Hubinská, Slovak film and stage actress
• Jana Hunter, musician
• Jana Marie Hupp, American actress
• Jana Hybášková, Czech and European politician and diplomat
• Jana Ina Brazilian TV show host and model
• Jana Jacková, Czech chess player
• Jana Jonášová, Czech opera singer
• Jana Jurečková, Czech statistician
• Jana Juřenčáková, Czech politician and economist
• Jana Juricová, Slovak tennis player
• Jana Kapustová, Slovakian ice hockey player
• Jana Khayat, British businesswoman
• Jana Khokhlova, Russian former competitive ice dancer
• Jana Kirschner, Slovak singer and songwriter
• Jana Knedlíková, Czech handballer
• Jana Kolarič, Slovene author and translator
• Jana Komrsková, artistic gymnast from the Czech Republic
• Jana Korbasová, Slovak swimmer
• Jana Košecká, Slovak-American computer scientist
• Jana Králová, Czech football player
• Jana Kramer, American actress and country music singer
• Jana Krausová,, Czech actress
• Jana Krishnamurthi, Indian political leader
• Jana Kubičková-Posnerová, Slovak gymnast
• Jana Kubovčáková, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
• Jana Labáthová, Slovak synchronized swimmer
• Jana Lacinová, Czech football player
• Jana Linke-Sippl, bodybuilder from Austria
• Jana Malik, Pakistani actress
• Jana Moravcová, Czech poet, writer, and translator
• Jana Mrázková, Czech figure skater
• Jana Müller, German volleyball player
• Jana Nejedly, Canadian tennis player but she was born in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic
• Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
• Jana Obrovská, Czech composer
• Jana Pallaske, German actress
• Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
• Jana Plodková, Czech actress
• Jana Pospíšilová, professional tennis player from the Czech Republic
• Jana Rabasová, Czech gymnast
• Jana Revedin, architect
• Jana Riess, American writer and editor
• Jana S. Rošker, Slovenian sinologist
• Jana Roxas, actress in the Philippines
• Jana Rybářová , Czech synchronized swimmer
• Jana Šaldová, Czech cross country skier
• Jana Šikulová, Czech artistic gymnast
• Jana Šimánková, Czech volleyball player
• Jana Sinyor, Canadian television writer and producer
• Jana Šramková, Czech rhythmic gymnast
• Jana Sterbak, Canadian artist
• Jana Švandová, Czech actress
• Jana Sýkorová, Czech operatic contralto
• Jana Taylor, American actress
• Jana Tichá, Czech astronomer
• Jana Tucholke, German discus thrower
• Jana Vaľová, politician of the Slovak Republic
• Jana Velďáková, Slovak long jumper
• Jana Veselá, Czech professional basketball player
• Jana Vojteková, Slovak football midfielder
• Jana Zvěřinová, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist
• Jana Darawshi, singer

  Fictional entities

• Jana, a fictitious character in the television series Containment
• Jana Hawkes Fisher, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Jana von Lahnstein, fictional character in the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
• Jana of the Jungle