What is "janis"

Jānis is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:

• Jānis Ādamsons (born 1956), Latvian politician
• Jānis Akuraters (1876–1937), Latvian poet, writer, playwright and politician
• Jānis Andersons (born 1986), Latvian ice hockey defenceman
• Jānis Balodis (1881-1965), Latvian army general and politician
• Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis (1834–1891), Latvian architect
• Jānis Bebris (1917–1969), Latvian footballer
• Jānis Bērziņš (1889–1938), Latvian and Soviet communist military official and politician
• Jānis Bērziņš (born 1993), Latvian basketball player
• Jānis Birks (born 1956), Latvian politician
• Jānis Blūms (born 1982), Latvian professional basketball player
• Jānis Bojārs (born 1956), Latvian shot putter
• Jānis Buivids (1864–1937), Latvian military general
• Jānis Bulis (born 1950), Latvian Roman Catholic bishop
• Jānis Čakste (1859– 1927), Latvian politician and lawyer, former President of Latvia
• Jānis Cimze (1814—1881), Latvian pedagogue, collector and harmoniser of folk songs and organist
• Jānis Daliņš (1904–1978), Latvian race walker and Olympic medalist
• Jānis Dimza (1906–c.1942), decathlete and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Doniņš (born 1946), Latvian javelin thrower
• Jānis Dreimanis (born 1949), Latvian football manager football defender
• Jānis Dūklavs (born 1952), Latvian politician
• Jānis Dukšinskis (born 1963), Latvian politician
• Jānis Eglītis (born 1961), Latvian politician
• Jānis Endzelīns (1873–1961), Latvian linguist
• Jānis Francis (1877–1956), Latvian army general
• Jānis Gilis (1943–2000), Latvian football manager
• Jānis Ikaunieks (1912-1969), Latvian astronomer
• Jānis Ikaunieks (born 1995), Latvian footballer
• Jānis Ivanovs (1906–1983), Latvian classical music composer
• Jānis Judiņš (1884-1918), Latvian Riflemen commander and Red hero of the Russian Civil War
• Jānis Jurkāns (born 1946), Latvian politician
• Jānis Jansons (born 1982), Latvian floorball player
• Jānis Kalmīte (1907-1996), Latvian expressionist painter
• Jānis Kalniņš (1904-2000), Latvian and Canadian composer
• Jānis Karlivāns (born 1982), Latvian decathlete and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Kaufmanis (born 1989), Latvian basketball player
• Jānis Ķipurs (born 1958), Latvian bobsledder and Olympic medalist
• Jānis Klovāns (1935-2010), Latvian chess Grandmaster
• Jānis Krūmiņš (1930-1994), Latvian basketball player
• Jānis Lagzdiņš (born 1952), Latvian politician
• Jānis Leitis (born 1989), Latvian long jumper
• Jānis Lidmanis (1910–1986), Latvian footballer and basketballer
• Jānis Liepiņš (1894-1964), Latvian painter
• Jānis Lipke (1900-1987), Latvian rescuer of Jews during WWII
• Jānis Līvens (1884-????), was a Latvian cyclist and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Lūsis (born 1939), Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist
• Jānis Medenis (1903–1961), Latvian poet and writer
• Jānis Mediņš (1890—1966), Latvian composer
• Jānis Miglavs (born 1948), Latvian-born American photographer and writer
• Jānis Miņins (born 1980), Latvian bobsledder
• Jānis Paipals (born 1983), Latvian cross-country skier and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Paukštello (born 1951), Latvian stage and film actor
• Jānis Pauļuks (1865–1937), Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
• Jānis Pīnups (1925— 2007), Latvian partisan
• Jānis Pliekšāns (aka Rainis) (1865-1929), Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician
• Jānis Podžus (born 1994,), Latvian tennis player
• Jānis Polis (1938–2011), Latvian pharmacologist
• Jānis Pujats (born 1930), Latvian Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Riga
• Jānis Reinis (born 1960), Latvian stage and film actor
• Jānis Rinkus (born 1977), Latvian footballer
• Janis Rozentāls (1866– 1916), Latvian painter
• Jānis Rozītis (1913-1942), Latvian football forward
• Jānis Rudzītis (1903-????), Latvian wrestler and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Rudzutaks (1887–1938), Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Janis Skroderis (born 1983), Latvian professional tennis player
• Jānis Šmēdiņš (born 1987), Latvian beach volleyball player and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Šmits (born 1968), Latvian politician
• Jānis Sprukts (born 1982), Latvian professional ice hockey forward
• Jānis Straume (born 1962), Latvian politician
• Jānis Straupe (born 1989), Latvian ice hockey player
• Jānis Streičs (born 1936), Latvian film director
• Jānis Strēlnieks (born 1989), Latvian basketball player
• Jānis Tilbergs (1880–1972), Latvian painter and a sculptor
• Jānis Timma (born 1992), Latvian basketball player
• Jānis Tutins (born 1966), Latvian politician
• Jānis Urbanovičs (born 1959), Latvian politician
• Jānis Vanags (born 1958), archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
• Jānis Vilsons (born 1944), Latvian handball player and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Vinters (born 1971), Latvian rally racing motorcycle rider
• Jānis Vītols (1911–1993), Latvian cyclist and Olympic competitor
• Jānis Vucāns (born 1956), Latvian politician and mathematician

Janis is a collection of performances by Janis Joplin, issued in 1975 as a compilation album containing film soundtrack and live recordings. Disc one is subtitled "From the soundtrack of the motion picture Janis (with substituted performances of 'Piece of my Heart' and 'Cry Baby')". In addition to concert recordings from Toronto and Frankfurt, there are several short TV-interviews. Disc two contains recordings from Austin, Texas (1963 and 1964), plus four recordings from San Francisco (1965). The album booklet contains a photo documentary, with 22 pictures from Janis Joplin's life and career.

Janis is a compilation album by Janis Joplin, released in 1993. The album features a broad overview of her career from her very first recording in December 1962, to the last songs she did during the sessions for Pearl just a few days before her death in October 1970.

Janis is a 1974 Canadian documentary film about the rock singer Janis Joplin. The film was directed by Howard Alk with a lot of assistance from Albert Grossman, Joplin's manager. It was available on videocassette in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, but DVD versions have been released only in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In late 2011, it was added to Hulu's movie collection for online viewing. Part of the film soundtrack is included on the 1975 album Janis.

The film consists entirely of archival footage of Joplin. It includes rehearsals, her June 25, 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, footage from her Woodstock performance in 1969 (dancing with her band's saxophone player during an instrumental break), and another television segment videotaped in black & white in April 1967 before she became famous.

A lot of screen time is devoted to Joplin's 1969 European tour, including an interview with Joplin during her stay in Stockholm and the ecstatic reaction of a clean-cut female fan in Frankfurt when she sees Joplin through the window of her tour bus before the concert starts. (The American fan, who reveals on camera that she is the wife of a U.S. Army officer stationed in Germany, is later seen with several German youths dancing on stage with Joplin.)

Laura Joplin, the star's younger sister who contributed to the hit off-Broadway play Love, Janis (which was based on Laura's book of the same name), is seen and heard talking to Janis in interview footage from her ten-year school reunion at Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas, class of 1960.