Joan (given name)

Joan
Joan of Arc was largely responsible for the popularity of the name Joan for girls in the English-speaking world in recent years.
Gender	female, sometimes male
Origin
Meaning	The Lord is merciful
Other names
Related names	Joanna

Joan is mainly a female name in the English language, but can be a male name in Catalan, Occitan, and Dutch. It is related to the names John, Jane, Jean, Jeanne, Johan, Joanna, Juan, João, Ivana, Jovan, Jovana, Ioan, Ioana, Jan, Jann, Yanne, Jouan, Ioan, Siobhán, and Siún.

The English female name is an English form of the Old French name Johanne, a female variant of the male name Johannes. The name ultimately derives from the Biblical Hebrew name יוחנן Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh is merciful". Some commonly known uses include:

Women

• Joan of Arc
• Joan of Arcadia, drama series on CBS
• Joan, Princess of Wales, in the 13th century, the wife and consort of Llywelyn the Great, the Prince of Wales; and the daughter of King John of England. Also the subject of the play Siwan (play) by Saunders Lewis
• Joan Allen, American film actress
• Joan Armatrading, British singer
• Joan Baez, folk singer-songwriter; Joan (album) was an album she released in 1967
• Joan Benoit, American marathoner
• Joan Caulfield, American film actress
• Joan Collins, English television and film actress and author
• Joan Crawford, American actress
• Joan Cusack, American film actress
• Joan Didion, American writer
• Joan Fontaine (1917−2013), British American actress
• Joan B. Hague, New York assemblywoman 1979–1982
• Joan Hansen, American long-distance runner
• Joan Hickson (1906-1998), British actress
• Joan Jara (née Turner), British-Chilean dancer and widow of Víctor Jara.
• Joan Jett, musician
• Joan of Kent, wife of Edward the Black Prince and mother of Richard II of England
• Joan Kennedy, American politician
• Joan Marie Laurer, American pornographic actress, bodybuilder, model, and former professional wrestler 'Chyna'
• Joan Leemhuis-Stout, Dutch politician
• Joan Lindsay, an Australian author, best known for her story Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)
• Joan of Lorraine, play by Maxwell Anderson
• Joan I of Naples
• Joan II of Naples
• Joan Orenstein, Canadian actress
• Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Swynford wife of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem
• Joan Rivers, American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity
• Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer
• Joan Watson, lead character in Elementary: Played by Lucy Liu alongside Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes
• Joan Wyndham, British writer and memoirist
• Joanie Bartels, American children's music singer
• Joanie Cunningham, character on Happy Days
• Joan Shakespeare, sister of William Shakespeare
• Sow Joan, an Animal Crossing series character
• Pope Joan, 9th century legend

Men

• Joan Capdevila (born 1978), Catalan footballer
• Joan Cornellà (born 1981), Catalan cartoonist and illustrator
• Joan Daemen (born 1965), Belgian cryptographer and inventor of Rijndael
• Joan Gamper (1877–1930), Swiss-born Catalan footballer and businessman most famous as the founder of FC Barcelona
• Joan Gaspart (born 1944), Catalan businessman and president of FC Barcelona (2000–2003)
• Joan Laporta (born 1962), Catalan lawyer and president of FC Barcelona (2003–2010)
• Joan Llaneras (born 1969), Spanish track cyclist
• Joan Martorell (1833–1906), Catalan architect
• Joan Miró (1893–1983), Catalan artist
• Joan Ribó (born 1947), Spanish politician
• Joan Sebastian (1951-2015), Mexican vocalist
• Joan Manuel Serrat (born 1943), Catalan and Spanish song-writer
• Joan Vila (born 1966), Spanish serial killer
• Joan Verdú (born 1983), Catalan footballer
• Joan Voûte (1879–1963), Dutch astronomer

See also

• All Wikipedia pages starting with "Joan..."