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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 (moon), a moon of Saturn

★ Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter

★ Janus (simulation), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory

★ Society of Janus, a San Francisco based BDSM education and support group

★ Janus Capital Group, an investment company based in Denver, Colorado

★ Zündapp Janus, a bubble car model by Zündapp

★ a Janus word, or auto-antonym: a word with two opposite meanings

★ Janus (TV series), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police/judicial process

★ Schempp-Hirth Janus, a two-seater glider
'People':

★ Janus of Cyprus, king of Cyprus from 1398 to 1432

★ Janusz I, Archbishop of Gniezno

★ 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

★ Janus Friis, the Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA and Skype, the peer-to-peer telephony application

★ Janus (Paul Kelly), an English professional wrestler
In 'computing':

★ Janus (programming language)

★ Windows 3.1 (codenamed Janus)

★ ''Janus'' was the pre-release codename for Windows 2000 64-bit editions for Alpha and Itanium

★ Janus (DRM), a Digital Rights Management platform of Microsoft
In 'music' and 'film':

★ Janus Films, an American film distribution company

★ Janus Records, a record label

★ Janus (band), an orchestral darkwave group

★ Janus, the criminal organization in the James Bond movie ''GoldenEye''

★ The Janus Project, a taboo cloning project in the movie ''Judge Dredd''
In 'literature' and 'comics':

★ , a book by Arthur Koestler

★ Janus (comics), a 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 (Stargate), an Ancient scientist in the TV series ''Stargate Atlantis'' and ''Stargate SG-1''

★ Janus (Angels and Demons), the antagonist in the novel ''Angels and Demons''

★ ''Janus'', a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961
In 'games':

★ Janus Zeal, a character in the game ''Chrono Trigger''

★ Janus chess, a chess variant
In 'geography':

★ 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 Peak, in British Columbia, Canada
In 'Scientific Literature':

★ Janus-faced molecule, A molecule that has an effect either positive or negative depending on the situation.