June (personal name)

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June is a given name used in English-speaking countries, originally dervied from the name of the month. The name is almost always female, but on very rare occasions it has been used for men, as a pet form of "Junior".

Well-known persons named June include:

• Cato June, a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League
• June Allyson, (1917–2006) an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s
• June Gibbons, (born 1963) one of two identical twins whose story is a curious case involving psychology and language
• June Anderson, an American coloratura soprano
• June Atkinson, the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction
• June Blair, (born 1933) is an American model and actress best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1957
• June Bland, a British actress best known for her guest appearances in two Doctor Who serials
• June Brigman, an American comic book artist and illustrator
• June Bronhill, (1929–2005) was an internationally acclaimed soprano opera singer.
• June Brown, a British actress and director best known as Dot Branning in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• June Caprice, (1895-1936) an American silent film actress
• June Carter Cash, (1929–2003) an American singer, songwriter, actress, member of the Carter Family, and the second wife of legendary singer Johnny Cash
• June Chadwick, an English actress best known for her role in the scien television series V: The Series
• June Christy, (1925-1990) an American Jazz Singer popular in the 1950s
• June Clark, a Professor of Community Nursing, at the University of Wales, Swansea
• June Cochran, (1942-2004) an American model and beauty queen
• June Duprez, (1918–1984) a British film actress
• June Ferguson, (1928-2004), an Australian athlete who won the silver medal in the relay 4x100 meter at the 1948 Olympic Games in London
• June Fletcher, a writer for the The Wall Street Journal
• June Foray, an American voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s
• June Haimoff, an English environmentalist who settled in Dalyan in southwestern Turkey after her retirement
• June Harding, a child and teen actress who appeared in several 1960s TV shows
• June Haver, an American film actress (1926 – 2005)
• June Havoc, (born 1916) is an actress, dancer, writer, and theater director
• June Hutton, (1920–1973) an American popular singer.
• June Jones, an American football player and coach, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and currently with the University of Hawaii at Mānoa
• June Jordan, (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher
• June Lang, (1915-2005) a film actress
• June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, (1928–2006) a British paediatrician and, in retirement, a cross bench member of the House of Lords
• June Lockhart, (born 1925) an American actress best known as the mothers on Lassie and Lost in Space
• June MacCloy, (1909-2005) an American actress in the 1930s and 1940s
• June Marlowe, (1903-1984) an American actress best known as Miss Crabtree in six Our Gang short subjects
• June Maston, (born 1928) is a retired Australian sprinter
• June Mathis, (1892-1927) a screenwriter and Hollywood executive in the 1920s
• June McCarroll, (1867—1954) a nurse (later a physician) who is credited with the idea of painting lines on highways to separate lanes
• June Miller, (1902–1979) the second wife of Henry Miller
• June Millington, in 1969 founded Fanny, the first all girl rock band signed to a major record label
• June Page, a British actress best known as Sally in the 1970s drama Survivors
• June Palmer, aka June Power, (1940–2004) a Harrison Marks model in the 1960s
• June Peppas, a professional baseball player for the AAGPBL from 1948 to 1954
• June Pointer, (1953—2006) an American vocalist best known for her work with The Pointer Sisters
• June Robinson, the first woman in Europe to give birth with a Pace Maker to a perfectly healthy baby
• June Rowlands, the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office
• June Salter, (1932–2001) an Australian actress
• June Sarpong, a British television presenter
• June Tabor, (born 1947) an English folk singer.
• June Taylor, (1918-2004) an American choreographer
• June Tripp, sometimes known just as June, was a British actress
• June Tyson, (1936-1992)a jazz singer who performed with Sun Ra regularly
• June Vincent, (born 1920) a leading lady in low-budget movies of the 1940s
• June Walker, (1900-1966) an American stage and film actress best known for her roles in The Farmer Takes a Wife and Twelfth Night
• June Westbury, a politician in Manitoba, Canada
• June Whitfield, an English actress