Janus
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Janus may refer to:
- Janus (mythology), the two-faced god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings in Roman mythology
- Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432
- Janus I, Duke of Masovia
- Janus II, Duke of Masovia
- Janus Junius Toland, a sobriquet of pantheist philosopher John Toland
- Janus Ulitius, the latinized name of 17th century philologist Jan van Vliet
- Schempp-Hirth Janus, a two-seater glider
- Janus, the criminal organization headed up by Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond movie GoldenEye
- Janus Films, an American film distribution company
- Janus Records, a record label
- Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado
- Janus chess, a chess variant
- Janus (comics), a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe
- The Janus Directive, a DC Comics crossover
- Janus, another comic book superhero, from the Marvel Comics universe and an enemy of Dracula
- Janus (DRM), a Digital Rights Management platform of Microsoft
- Janus Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica
- Janus Lake (Ontario), in Ontario, Canada
- Janus Lake (Washington), in Snohomish County, Washington
- Mont Janus, in France
- Mount Janus (Antarctica), in Antarctica
- Mount Janus (Newfoundland), in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Mount Janus (Svalbard), in Svalbard, Norway.
- Janus (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter
- Janus Peak, in British Columbia, Canada
- Janus (simulation), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory
- the Society of Janus, a San Francisco based BDSM education and support group
- Janus Zeal, a character in the game Chrono Trigger
- Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp
- a Janus word, or auto-antonym: a word with two opposite meanings
- Janus (band), a musical group rooted in Louisville Kentucky created in the summer of 2005 [Janus]
- Janus computer programming language
- Janus (TV), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police/judicial process
- Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961.
- Janus, a German orchestral darkwave group
- Janus, a Microsoft codename for a beta version of Windows 3x
- Janus (Angels and Demons), Janus the antagonist in the 2000 novel Angels and Demons.
- Janus (Paul Kelly), an English professional wrestler.
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