Jessica
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Given name

  • Jessica (given name)
    Jessica (given name)
    Jessica is a female given name.The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock...

    , popular first name for girls in many English-speaking countries (includes a list of people with this name)

  • Iscah
    Iscah
    Iscah is Hebrew for Jessica. Iscah was daughter of Haran, and sister or half-sister of Lot and Milcah.The name Iscah is mentioned only once throughout the entire Hebrew Bible, found in Genesis 11:29....

    , in the Bible (Genesis 11:27, 29), daughter of Haran
  • Jessica (entertainer), a member of a K-pop girl group, Girls' Generation

Songs

  • "Jessica" (instrumental), a song by The Allman Brothers Band
  • "Jessica" (Dir En Grey song), single by Dir En Grey
  • "Jessica" (Elliot Minor song)
    Jessica (Elliot Minor song)
    "Jessica" is the second single from York-based rock band Elliot Minor. It was released on August 6, 2007. The band wrote this song out of their affection for Jessica Alba...

    , song by English band Elliot Minor
  • "Jessica", song by Adam Green (musician)
    Adam Green (musician)
    Adam Green is an American singer-songwriter.Green's off-kilter style has achieved a moderate college radio following in the United States, and enjoys increasing popularity in a number of European countries, particularly Germany.-Career:Green attended Emerson College for one semester in 1998 before...

  • "Jessica", a song by Herbie Hancock originally on the album Fat Albert Rotunda
    Fat Albert Rotunda
    Fat Albert Rotunda is the eighth album by jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, released in 1969. It also was the first album that Hancock had on the Warner Bros. Records label, since leaving Blue Note Records.-About the Album:...

  • "Jessica", a song by The Beau Brummels on the album Bradley's Barn
    Bradley's Barn
    -Personnel:* David Briggs – keyboards* Kenny Buttrey – drums* Ron Elliott – guitar, vocals* Norbert Putnam – bass* Jerry Reed – guitar* Sal Valentino – vocals-External links:* [ Bradley's Barn] at Allmusic...

  • "Jessica", a song by Seals and Crofts on the album Diamond Girl
    Diamond Girl (album)
    Diamond Girl is the pop/folk duo Seals and Crofts' fifth studio album, and was one of the best sellers of 1973. The title track reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer...

  • "Jessica", a song by Avi Buffalo
    Avi Buffalo
    Avi Buffalo is an indie-pop band based in Long Beach, California founded by singer/songwriter and guitarist, Avi Zahner-Isenberg. Their self-titled debut album was released on the 27th of April, 2010, and was given positive reviews by The Onion A.V. Club, NME, Filter, Drowned in Sound and numerous...

     on their self-titled debut album

Other uses

  • Jessica (genus), Anyphaenid sac spider
    Anyphaenid sac spider
    The anyphaenid sac spiders are distinguished from the sac spiders and other spiders by having the abdominal spiracle placed one third to one half of the way anterior to the spinnerets toward the epigastric furrow on the underside of the abdomen. In most spiders the spiracle is just anterior to...

     genus
  • Jessica (novel)
    Jessica (novel)
    Jessica is a historical novel based in real facts by Bryce Courtenay. It has been published in 1998 and like other works from this author covers several years in the life of the main character: Jessica Burgman. It was adapted into a mini-series starring Leeanna Walsman and Sam Neill which aired on...

    , by Bryce Courtenay
  • Jessica (painting)
    Jessica (painting)
    Jessica is an 1890 painting by Dennis Miller Bunker in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is considered one of Bunker's finest figure paintings, and has been described by art historian Theodore Stebbins as "among the most evocative" works of its time....

    , 1890 painting by Dennis Miller Bunker
  • Jessica (film)
    Jessica (film)
    Jessica is a 1962 film directed by Jean Negulesco. It stars Maurice Chevalier and Angie Dickinson.-Cast:*Maurice Chevalier as Father Antonio*Angie Dickinson as Jessica*Noël-Noël as Old Crupi*Gabriele Ferzetti as Edmondo Raumo...

    , 1962 film starring Angie Dickinson
    Angie Dickinson
    Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...

     and Maurice Chevalier
  • Jessica (TV miniseries), based on the novel
  • Jessica (tanker)
    Jessica (tanker)
    The Jessica was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill in the Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands 972 km west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. The ship was registered in Ecuador and owned by Acotramar...

    , oil tanker that spilled 568 tons of oil off the coast of the Galapagos Islands
  • JESSICA (Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas), an initiative of the European Investment Bank
    European Investment Bank
    The European Investment Bank is the European Union's long-term lending institution established in 1958 under the Treaty of Rome. A policy-driven bank, the EIB supports the EU’s priority objectives, especially European integration and the development of economically weak regions...


See also

  • Jessica's Law
    Jessica's Law
    Jessica's Law is the informal name given to a 2005 Florida law, as well as laws in several other states, designed to punish sex offenders and reduce their ability to re-offend...

    , Florida law to punish child predators
  • Jessicka
    Jessicka
    Jessicka Addams is an American singer and artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka, she was the front woman of Florida based band Jack Off Jill and current front for the Los Angeles based band Scarling.-Early life:Jessicka grew up in the town of Sunrise, Florida...

    , a musician
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