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Jane Smith

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ6152786 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jane Smith may refer to:

Sports

Jane Smith (field hockey) (born 1969), British Olympic field hockey player

Jane Smith (footballer), former association football player for New Zealand

Jane Smith (diver) (born 1975), British Olympic diver

Others

Jane Lawrence (1915–2005), married name Jane Lawrence Smith, American actress and opera singer

Hilda Worthington Smith (Jane Smith, 1888–1984), social worker and labor education specialist

Jane Farwell Smith (1906–1997), American clubwoman

Jane Idleman Smith, scholar of Islam

Jane Stewart Smith, Scottish painter and draughtswoman

Jane H. Smith (born 1948), Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Jane Norman Smith (1874–1953), American suffragist and reformer

Jane Stuart Smith (1925–2016), American soprano, hymnologist, and author

See also

Sarah Jane Smith, fictional character from the Dr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jane Smith” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jane, Smith and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1975, 1915, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jane, Smith and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6152786. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1975, 1915 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jane Smith” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.