* Janet Anderson

 born 1949

..... the FIRST woman ever to represent Rossendale and Darwen in the House of Commons in 1992 and the FIRST woman Government Whip to write to the Queen every night about the day in Parliament (1997)

* Janet Baker

..... FIRST President of the City of London Sinfonia

* Janet Entwistle

..... in February 1999 she was the FIRST woman to be elected to the committee of the Lancashire Cricket Club in its 135-year history when she replaced one of four retiring committee members. The club, formed in 1864, only allowed women to become full members in 1989, giving them a vote and enabling them to stand for committee. With Sue Grainger, Janet fought for women's right and once eligible, put themselves on the ballot list

* Janet Fife

..... FIRST full-time woman chaplain in Salford when she began work at Salford University. In 1994 she was one of the FIRST 32 women to become Anglican priests in the Church of England

* Janet Freeman

..... FIRST female employee with the Central Electricity Generating Board to take charge of a nuclear reactor in 1988 when she was promoted to shift reactor operator, qualified to "drive" the reactors at Hinkley Point Station, Somerset. She graduated in physics and worked alongside other women in the physics department at Hinkley Point Station in Somerset but was now going into the control room to work on a three-shift system controlling either the 'A' station's Magnox reactor or the Advanced Gas-cooled reactor at the 'B' station

* Janet Gaynor

 neé Laura Gainor

 born October 6th 1906

..... FIRST actress to win Oscars in the FIRST Best Actress race when she received awards for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise - 1927/28. She was born in Philadelphia and was hailed as the natural successor to Mary Pickford. Her partner was Charles Farrell and together they starred in 12 films between 1927 and 1934. In the early 1930s she was the top Fox female star and in 1937 was the highest paid actress in Hollywood

* Janet Guthrie

 born 1938

..... American who was the FIRST woman to race in a NASCAR Winston Cup event (1976) FIRST woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 (1977) and in 1978  she became the FIRST woman to complete the race

* Janet Johnston

..... FIRST person to win a Right to Die case in 1996 in Scotland

* Janet Lacey

 born 1903 died 1988

..... FIRST woman to preach in St. Paul's Cathedral and Liverpool Cathedral and also St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem. She was also the FIRST director of Christian Aid which she helped to develop from a little-known department of the British Council of Churches during her sixteen years in charge

* Janet Leach

 born 1918

..... FIRST foreign woman to study pottery in Japan

* Janet Morgan

 born 1945

..... FIRST female officer at the Oxford Union and FIRST female lecturer in an all-male Oxford college, she was editor of the Crossman Diaries, member of Jim Callaghan's Think Tank, biographer of Agatha Christie and Edwina Mountbatten, special adviser to the Director General of the BBC and adviser to the board of the Grenada group of companies

* Janet Reno

 born 21st July 1938

..... FIRST woman Attorney General in America when appointed by President Clinton 

* Janet Salt

..... FIRST blind women's world water ski champion

* Janet Scripps

..... FIRST female at the Manor Park, East London branch of the Co-Operative Funeral Services to conduct funerals when promoted to funeral director

* Janet Street-Porter

 born 1944

..... FIRST commissioning editor for youth programmes for the BBC in 1988

* Janet Till

..... FIRST woman chairman in the history of the Liversage Trust, the oldest charity existing in Derby

* Janet Todd

 ..... FIRST woman Conservative leader with Oxford City Council

* Janet Vaughan

..... Englishwoman who set up one of the FIRST blood transfusion depots in 1939

* Janet Watson

 born 1923 died 1985

..... FIRST woman President of the Geological Society of London from 1982-84

* Janet Whiteway

..... FIRST woman to be made a Master of Surgery at Oxford University in 1988. She was a former student at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. At the time of her appointment she was a surgeon and registrar at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London

* Janet Young

..... Baroness who was the FIRST woman Conservative to be a Whip in the House of Lords in 1972, FIRST woman Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, FIRST woman Lord Privy Seal, FIRST woman deputy Foreign Secretary and FIRST woman leader of the Upper House (Parliament). When Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 Baroness Young was made Vice-Chairman of the Party and after the Conservative victory in 1979 she entered the Cabinet as Minister of State in the Department of Education and Science. She was the FIRST woman leader of the House of Lords from 1981-1983. She was also the FIRST woman director at Marks and Spencer and in 1987 was the FIRST woman director at the NatWest Bank