title: Janie (given name)
text: # Janie (given name)
  
  Janie is a feminine given name, often a diminutive form of Jane, and a nickname. It may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Janie Porter Barrett (1865–1948), American social reformer, educator and welfare worker
  * Janie Bradford (born 1939), American songwriter
  * Katherine Jane Bryant (born 1974), American television costume designer known professionally as Janie Bryant
  * Janie Dee (born 1962), English actress and singer
  * Janie Finlay, Australian politician
  * Janie Fricke (born 1947), American country music singer
  * Janie Lou Gibbs (1932–2010), American serial killer
  * Janie Jones, stage name of English singer Marion Mitchell (born 1941)
  * Janie Marèse (1908–1931), French film actress born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot
  * Jane Janie Sell (born 1941), American actress
  * Janie Taylor, American ballet dancer, former New York City Ballet principal dancer
  * Janie Shores (1932–2017), American retired judge, first woman judge on the Supreme Court of Alabama
  * Janie Tienphosuwan (born 1981), Thai actress and model
  * Janie Tsao (born Wu Chien in 1953), Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer, co-founder of Linksys
  * Elizabeth Jane Janie Wagstaff (born 1974), American former swimmer
  * Janie Ward-Engelking (fl. 2012–present), American politician
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Janie Johnson, the protagonist of the Janie Johnson series of young adult novels
  * Janie Mae Crawford, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God
  