List of Famous people named Jade
Jade Jones
Jade Jones-Hall, known previously as Jade Jones, is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike-to-wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Jade Kwan
Kwan Wai-Man, better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin, is a Cantopop singer and philanthropist based in Hong Kong. Originally from Vancouver, she entered the music industry after winning the 1999 New Talent Singing Awards Canada Finals and the Best Potential Newcomer Award at the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals of the same year. She debuted under BMA Records in July 2002 with the album Jade-1, winning multiple best new artist awards and has since released more than 13 albums and extended plays. Kwan is known for her philanthropic work and has been awarded the 2012 Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection and the Hong Kong Volunteer Award in 2011. She is the founder and chairperson of charitable organization Shining Life Limited 妍亮生命慈善基金.
Jade Leung
Jade Leung, born 23 November 1969 in Hong Kong as Leung Yuk-yin is a Hong Kong actress known for starring in kung fu and action films.
Jade Laroche
Jade Laroche is a French model, DJ and former pornographic actress.
Jade Etherington
Jade Etherington is a British former alpine skier who, with her sighted guide Caroline Powell, won silver in the women's downhill skiing, combined and slalom, and bronze medals in the Super-G at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi. Their three silvers and a bronze at the Winter Paralympics made them the most successful female British Winter Paralympians of all time, and the first Britons to win four medals at one Paralympics. Because of her success at the 2014 Paralympics, Etherington was the British flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony.
Jade Fraser
Jade Fraser, is a Mexican actress, who first gained recognition for her role in the popular telenovela, Por Siempre mi Amor in 2013. Fraser has also participated in several television series and telenovelas in Mexico.
Jade Anouka
Jade Anouka is an English actress. She is known for her various stage roles and for her appearances in His Dark Materials on BBC One and the ITV dramas Trauma and Cleaning Up.
Jade Alleyne
Jade Alleyne is a British actress, known for her roles as Clem Burton in the CBBC sitcom 4 O'Clock Club, and Kaylee in the Disney Channel musical drama The Lodge.
Jade Wiel
Jade Wiel is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope. She won the 2019 French National Road Race Championships ahead of Victorie Guilman and Aude Biannic.
Jade Y. Chen
Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. She is best known for her book, China, which won the Taiwan Golden Text Award (金典獎) for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize. Her 2004 bestselling novel Mazu's Bodyguards was adapted into a musical, presented at the National Theater in Taipei in December 2009. In Taiwan Today, it was described as a "bold attempt to explore Taiwan’s complex ethnic, cultural and political history".