American Famous Girl Names with Letter J

Is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including grou

Is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucl

Is a retired Canadian senator.A Liberal, she served until her mandatory retirement in 1995. She was

Is a retired Canadian senator.A Liberal, she served until her mandatory retirement in 1995. She was chair of the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs for eight years. She was chair of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Selected as Chair of Human Rights for Interparliamentary Union being 1st Canadian to be so honoured. Served as a Team Member of The Dalhousie Health Law Institute End of Life Project.

Is an American actress. Blackman made her screen acting debut as a guest performer on a 1957 televis

Is an American actress. Blackman made her screen acting debut as a guest performer on a 1957 television series and then in a motion picture in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films: 1961's Blue Hawaii and the following year in Kid Ga

Was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Hays C

Was an Oscar-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Hays Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions.

Was an American actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she

Was an American actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually lead to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures.

Is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. [1] Many of h

Is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. [1] Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues.

Was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Crawford is named as the tenth Greatest Female Star o

Was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Crawford is named as the tenth Greatest Female Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Starting as a dancer on Broadway,[3] Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu

Is an American journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Revi

Is an American journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection The White Album, critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in English today.'"[1]

Was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.Diener met her futur

Was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.Diener met her future husband, theatre director Albert Marre, when she won the role of Lalume, the seductive wife of the Wazir, in Kismet, winning a Theatre World Award for he

Was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir

Was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir, Roadblock (1951).Dixon's career, while under contract at RKO Pictures, was in the hands of Howard Hughes. He attempted but failed to make her into the st

An American biologist.Roughgarden received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts i

An American biologist.Roughgarden received a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of Rochester in 1968 and a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1971. She is the author of 5 books and over 120 articles.Roughgarden has taught at Stanford University since 1972. She founded and directed the Earth Systems Program at Stanford and has received awards for service to undergraduate education. Roughgarden's current research links ecology with economic theory.In addition to a seminal ecology textbook written with Paul R. Ehrlich, Roughgarden published a 2004 challenge to certain tenets of sexual selection titled Evolution's Rainbow (2004): this is not an attack on the central idea of natural selection; it is a proposed correction to Darwin's explanation of the mechanism of selection. Roughgarden rejects Darwin's sexual selection theory based on instances in which animals do not follow traditional sex roles where the male attempts to impress the female,

Is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission

Is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist.Higginbotham started her career at the Kennedy Space Center in 1987, and worked mainly as a payload specialist in the Spac

Was an Emmy-nominated American actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 7

Was an Emmy-nominated American actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies through the advent of the talkies. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in

Was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.Hackett debuted with the

Was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.Hackett debuted with the role of Gail Prentiss in the TV series Young Doctor Malone in 1959. She had a leading role in The Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House" (1962). She had one of the starring roles in the 1966 Sidney Lumet film The Group along with Candice Bergen, Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Pettet, and others.

Is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.

Is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading ed

She began her career in New York City as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments. In her early works, such as Wind (1968), Jonas filmed performers stiffly passing through the field of view against a wind that lent the choreography a psychological mystique. Songdelay (1973), filmed with both telephoto and wide angle lenses (which produce opposing extremes in depth of field) drew on Jonas' travels in Japan, where she saw groups of Noh performers clapping wood blocks and making angular movements.

Is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of

Is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright. She has worked with her husband Morton Subotnick since 1979, as well with many other contemporary composers such as John Cage, Morton Fel

Is an rower from United States of America.She competed for United States of America in the 1976 Summ

Is an rower from United States of America.She competed for United States of America in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the single sculls event where she finished in second place. She qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics which were b

Is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series Wickedly Perfect, and w

Is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS reality series Wickedly Perfect, and was a popular co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 through 1997. As the longest running morning news host, Lunden became one of the most visible

Is a nurse, teacher and former political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. She represented New Maryla

Is a nurse, teacher and former political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. She represented New Maryland in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Liberal member from 1995 to 1999.She was president of the Nurses Association of New Brunswick and an instructor at the University of New Brunswick. Kingston served in the province's Executive Council as Minister of the Environment and Minister of Labour. She was defeated in the 1999 general election.

Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Her musical and song-writing approach is heavily influenced by

Jett has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Her musical and song-writing approach is heavily influenced by the hard-edged, hard beat-driven rhythms common to many rock bands of her native Philadelphia, often featuring lyrics surrounding themes of lost love, cri

Was an American film actress. Marsh was the daughter of Charles Rosser, the favorite cinematographer

Was an American film actress. Marsh was the daughter of Charles Rosser, the favorite cinematographer of silent film actress Mary Pickford. Joan was born in Porterville, California and was only nine months old when she appeared in the Universal Pictures fi

Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Nancy, is a

Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Her father, Dick Cusack (1925-2003), as well as her siblings Ann, Bill, John and Susie, have also been

She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, nation

She is a Canadian curler who played second on the team of Sandra Schmirler at the provincial, national and international level. As part of the Schmirler rink, McCusker won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Her sisters Cathy Trowel and Nancy Inglis

Was an American backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 she finished fi

Was an American backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 she finished fifth in the 100 metre backstroke event.