Famous People with Name Janet

Janet Cooke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Janet Cooke: is a former American journalist who became infamous when she won a Pulitzer Prize for a fabricated story that she wrote for The Washington Post.

Janet Gaynor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Janet Gaynor: was an American actress who, in 1928, became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her three most prominent films: Sunrise (1927), Seventh Heaven (1927), and Street Angel (1928). Gaynor is best known today as the lead in the original

Janet Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Janet Jackson: s an American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, California, she is the youngest member of the Jackson family of musicians. Initially performing on stage with her family at the age of seven,

Janet Leigh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Janet Leigh: was an American actress. Her most famous role was in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho, for which she received a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award. Leigh was born in Merced, California, the only child of Helen Lita (née Westergard) and F

Janet Maslin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Janet Maslin: is an American journalist. She is best known as a book and film critic for The New York Times. Maslin graduated from the University of Rochester in 1970, with a B.A. degree and a major in mathematics [1]. She was once married to Jon Landau.

Paul Janet            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Paul Janet: was a French philosopher and writer. he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges (1845-1848) and Strasbourg (1848-1857), and of logic at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris (1857-1864). In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and elected a member of the academy of moral and political sciences.