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{{Short description|American singer-songwriter (born 1951)}}
{{About|the singer|the fictional character|Janis Ian (Mean Girls){{!}}Janis Ian (''Mean Girls'')}}
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{{Infobox musical artist<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name              = Janis Ian
| image             = Janis Ian 2.jpg
| caption           = Ian performing in concert in [[Dublin, Ireland]], 1981
| birth_name        = Janis Eddy Fink
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1951|4|7}}
| birth_place       = [[Farmingdale, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}}
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Folk music|Folk]]|[[soft rock]]}}
| occupation        = Singer-songwriter
| years_active      = 1965–present
| spouse            = {{marriage|Tino Sargo|1978|1983|end=divorced}}<br/>{{marriage|Patricia Snyder|2003}}
| label             = {{hlist|Rude Girl|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Verve Records|Verve]]|[[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]]}}
| website           = {{URL|janisian.com}}
}}
'''Janis Ian''' (born '''Janis Eddy Fink'''; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "[[Society's Child|Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)]]"<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Song that Made Janis Ian the Most Notorious Folk Singer in America {{!}} WNYC {{!}} New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News|url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/janis-ian-folk-singer/|access-date=2021-12-05|website=WNYC|language=en|archive-date=December 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205102423/https://www.wnyc.org/story/janis-ian-folk-singer/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the 1975 Top Ten single "[[At Seventeen]]", from her seventh studio album ''[[Between the Lines (Janis Ian album)|Between the Lines]]'', which in September 1975 reached No. 1 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart.

Born in [[Farmingdale, New Jersey]], Ian entered the American [[folk music]] scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two [[Grammy Awards]], the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for [[Best Spoken Word Album]], for her autobiography, ''Society's Child'', with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories.

Ian is a columnist and [[science fiction author]].<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=http://www.janisian.com/press/JanisIan2006Bio.pdf|title=Janis Ian: A Life in Song|work=Janis Ian Website|year=2006|access-date=2007-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070507222117/http://janisian.com/press/JanisIan2006Bio.pdf|archive-date=May 7, 2007}}</ref>