# Jayne

Jayne is a name.

## Surname

* Billy Jayne, American television and film actor
* Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), American ethnologist
* Erika Jayne, American dance/club music performer
* Francis Jayne (1845–1921), British bishop and academic
* Horace Jayne (1859–1913), American biologist, zoologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author
* Ira W. Jayne (1882–1961), American judge
* Jennifer Jayne (1931–2006), English film and television actress
* Joey Jayne (born 1957) American politician, Democratic Party member of the Montana House of Representatives
* Joseph Lee Jayne (1863–1928), rear admiral in the United States Navy, veteran of the Spanish–American War and World War I
* Keith Jayne (born 1960), British television actor
* Mark Jayne, American wrestler
* Mitchell F. Jayne (1928–2010), American emcee and upright bass player in The Dillards bluegrass band
* Randy Jayne (born 1944), American managing partner at Heidrick & Struggles
* Robert Jayne (born 1973), American actor
* Roland Everett Jayne (1886–1937), English Methodist clergyman and biographer
* Sam Jayne, American vocalist/guitarist of indie band Love as Laughter, formerly of Lync.
* Silas Carter Jayne (1907–1987), implicated in the 1955 murder of three young boys in Chicago, United States
* William Jayne (1826–1916), American politician and physician. Abraham Lincoln’s personal physician, first governor of the Dakota Territory, delegate to the House of Representatives, three terms as mayor of Springfield, Illinois, from 1876

## Given name

* Jayne Appel (born 1988), basketball player
* Jayne V. Armstrong (fl. 1996), British botanist
* Jayne Atkinson (born 1959), English film, theatre and television actress
* Jayne Baxter, Scottish Labour Party politician
* Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
* Jayne Brook (born 1960), American actress
* Jayne Casey (born 1956), English artistic director
* Jayne Cobb, a character from the television series Firefly
* Jayne Cortez (1934–2012), African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist
* Jayne County (born 1947), American performer, musician and actress
* Katrina Jayne Dimaranan (born 1993), Filipino-American beauty pageant titleholder
* Sarah Jayne Dunn (born 1981), English actress
* Jayne Eastwood (born 1946), Canadian actress
* Jayne Furlong, New Zealand girl abducted in 1993 and murdered
* Jayne Gackenbach, writer and dream researcher
* Jayne Godfrey, Australian emeritus professor of business and economics
* Mary Jayne Gold (1909–1997), American heiress, helped European Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany in 1940-1941
* Jayne Grayson, a character from the television series Holby City
* Mary Jayne Harrelson (born 1978), female middle distance runner from the United States
* Jayne Hayden (born 1968), former operative for the Central Intelligence Agency
* Jayne Heitmeyer (born 1960), Canadian actress
* Jayne Hepsibah, milliner
* David Jayne Hill (1850–1932), American academic, diplomat and author
* Jayne Houdyshell (born 1953), Tony Award–nominated American theater actress
* Jayne Hughes, the Deputy High Bailiff and Judicial Officer of the Isle of Man
* Jayne Irving (born 1956), British TV presenter
* Jayne Jagot, Australian judge
* Jayne Fenton Keane, contemporary Australian poet
* Jayne Kennedy (born 1951), American actress, beauty pageant titleholder and sportscaster
* Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle (born 1948), American writer of romance novels
* Jayne Lawless (born 1974), English installation artist from Liverpool
* Jayne Loader (born 1951), American director and writer
* Jayne Ludlow (born 1979), Welsh football coach and former player
* Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967), American actress in film, theatre, and television
* Jayne Marie Mansfield (born 1950), the first child of Jayne Mansfield
* Jayne McHugh (born 1960), former volleyball player
* Jayne Meadows (1919–2015), American stage, film and television actress, author and lecturer
* Jayne Middlemiss (born 1971), English television and radio presenter
* E. Jayne Mockler, Democratic member of the Wyoming Senate
* Jayne Modean (born 1958), American model and actress
* Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill (1973–2006), Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force who died in Iraq
* Jayne Parsons (born 1962), New Zealand paralympic cyclist
* Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952), American novelist and short story writer
* Jayne Pierson, Welsh fashion designer
* Jayne Pupek (1962–2010), American poet and fiction writer
* Jayne Walton Rosen (1917–2010), American entertainer, singer and actress
* Jayne Sharp (born 1977), English broadcaster
* Pamela Jayne Soles (born 1950), American actress commonly known as P. J. Soles
* Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 1957), British ice dancer
* Jayne Trcka, amateur female bodybuilder and actress
* Jayne Tunnicliffe (born 1967), English actress
* Jayne West, American operatic soprano
* Emma-Jayne Wilson (born 1981), Sovereign and Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing
* Jayne Wisener (born 1987), actress and singer from Northern Ireland
* Jayne Wrightsman (1919–2019), American philanthropist, fine arts collector widow of Charles B. Wrightsman