Famous People with Name Joan

Joan Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Allen: Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (née Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976, where she graduated. Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985).

Joan Rivers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Rivers: is an American comedian, actress, talk show host, businesswoman and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, raspy voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. A typical Rivers joke about her appearance was "I used to stand by the side of the road with a sign: 'Last girl before freeway.'"

Joan Hackett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Hackett: 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.

Joan Didion            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Didion: 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]

Joan Micklin Silver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan Micklin Silver: is an American director.Her early low budget film Hester Street received Best Actress Oscar nomination for actress Carol Kane. She is also known for the film Crossing Delancey which was released in 1988 and stars Amy Irving. Also conceived A... My Name Is Alice with Julianne Boyd.

Saint Joan Of Arc            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Saint Joan Of Arc: is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation

Léo Joannon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Léo Joannon: was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence,[1] Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman.[2] Joannon first attracted international attention in early 1939 during the production of S.O.S. Mediterranean, when his attempts to include shots of a German naval ship docked in the port of Tangier created a diplomatic incident between the pre-World War II French and German governments. The film later won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français.[3]

Johnny S. Joannou            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Johnny S. Joannou: is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1976–1983, the Senate of Virginia 1984–1991, and has been in the House again since 1998. He currently represents the 79th district, made up of parts of t

Joseph Joanovici            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph Joanovici: was a Jewish-French iron supplier, who supplied both Nazi Germany and the French Resistance. He may also have been an agent of the Soviet Comintern. His activities made him a millionaire, but he was found guilty of collaboration and died in prison after an escape attempt and extradition request by Israel.