Jade (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 People 2 Fictional characters 3 Culture 4 Science 5 Geography 6 Other meanings

Jade may refer to:

• Jade, a green-colored gemstone of nephrite or jadeite
• Jade plant (Crassula ovata), a type of plant
• Jade (color), a saturated, slightly bluish green
• Jade engine, the game engine used in, among others, Beyond Good & Evil, the Prince of Persia trilogy, and Peter Jackson's King Kong.
• Sweetbox, a band fronted by Jade Villalon, or her solo project, titled "Jade Valerie".
• Jade, a given name

Jade may also refer to:

[edit] People

As a first name:

Jade Given Name
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Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Jade

• Jade C. Bell, Canadian actor
• Jade Dernbach, South African cricket player
• Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
• Jade Esteban Estrada, American actor
• Jade Gatt, actor
• Jade Goody, a former Big Brother housemate
• Jade Hsu, American pornographic actress
• Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger
• Jade Johnson, English athlete
• Jade Jones, British singer
• Jade Kindar-Martin, American circus performer
• Jade Kwan, Chinese singer
• Jade Marcela, American actress
• Jade MacRae, Australian singer
• Jade North, Australian football (soccer) player
• Jade Puget, musician
• Jade Raymond, TV personality, video game producer
• Jade Rawlings, Australian rules footballer
• Jade Sharif, actress
• Jade Villalon, singer of Sweetbox
• Jade Snow Wong, American ceramicist

As a middle name:

• Hailie Jade Scott

As a surname:

• Claude Jade, French actress
• Layla Jade, actress
• Samantha Jade, Australian singer
• Ms. Jade, American rapper

[edit] Fictional characters

• Jade (Mortal Kombat), a Mortal Kombat character
• Jade (comics), Jennie-Lynn Hayden-Scott, the superpowered daughter of Green Lantern Alan Scott from DC Comics
• Jade (chaos comics), a female vampire from Chaos Comics
• Mara Jade, a Star Wars character
• Jade Chan, Jackie Chan's fictional niece in Jackie Chan Adventures
• Jade, a Japanese main character of the Bratz fashion doll line
• Jade, the heroine of the video game Beyond Good & Evil
• Jade, a character from the computer game Fahrenheit (video game) / Indigo Prophecy
• Jade, a quarrior and commander from planet Rock in the Shadow Raiders animated TV series
• Jade Dragon, a fighter in the Xbox game Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
• Jade Curtiss, a playable character from the video game Tales of the Abyss
• Jade, a fictional assassin from Spawn (TV series)
• Jade Fontaine, a character in the PvP webcomic.
• Jade (Kinnikuman), a character in the manga and anime series Ultimate Muscle.
• Jade of the French children's novel "The Prophecy of the Stones".
• Jade, a character from Breath of Fire
• Jade Vernon, a character from the book series The Traces

[edit] Culture

• Jade (UK band), an English folk rock band from 1970
• Jade (US band), an American R&B music group from the 1990s
• Jade Emperor, an important Taoist god
• Jade (film), a 1995 William Friedkin film
• Jade (album), an album by Sweetbox
• Jade Stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand

[edit] Science

• JADE (particle detector), an experiment at the PETRA accelerator
• JADE (Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment), an instrument that will by flying on the Juno spacecraft

[edit] Geography

In Germany:

• Jadebusen, a large inlet on the north coast of Germany east and northeast of Wilhelmshaven
• Jade River, a small river that drains into the Jadebusen
• Jade, Germany, a municipality located at the Jadebusen
• Jade, a small town located at the river Jade and in the Jade municipality

In New Zealand:

• the Jade River, in the Auckland district in the North Island.

In East Asia:

• Jade Mountain or Yushan, a mountain on Taiwan
• White Jade River or Yurungkash, a river in western China

[edit] Other meanings

• JADE programming language
• European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (JADE)
• JADE, the American codename for a Japanese cipher machine
• JADE, an Ancient Domains of Mystery roguelike computer game
• JaDE, Java Agent DEvelopment framework
• TVB Jade, a TV channel station in Hong Kong
• An independent component analysis algorithm using the Joint Approximate Diagonalization of Eigenmatrices.
• Jade, it is the front-end processor for SGML and XML