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Given name

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Jessica (given name) Jessica (originally Iessica, also Jesica, Jesika, Jessicah, Jessika, or Jessikah) is a female given name of Hebrew origin. The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of the Shakespearean character Jessi ...
, includes a list of people and fictional characters with this name *
Jessica Folcker Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker (born 9 July 1975), known professionally as Jessica, is a Swedish singer. Her debut album ''Jessica'' in 1998 used her mononym, whereas follow up album ''Dino'' credited Jessica Folcker. Her following albums ...
, a Swedish singer known by the mononym Jessica *
Jessica Jung Jessica Jung (born April 18, 1989) is a South Korean and American singer-songwriter, actress, author, and businesswoman. She is best known for her work as a former member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. As an actress, Jung por ...
, a Korean-American singer known by the mononym Jessica, former member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation * Jessica (''The Merchant of Venice''), a character in Shakespeare's play * Jessica (''Rick and Morty''), a character in the Adult Swim media franchise


Animals

* ''Jessica'' (spider), a genus of spiders * '' Catocala jessica'', a moth of the Noctuidae superfamily, described from Arizona through Colorado to Illinois and California * ''
Perrona jessica ''Perrona jessica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae. Description The length of the shell attains 28 mm, its diameter 9 mm. (Original description) The shell is acuminately fusiform, shi ...
'', a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae


Arts, entertainment, and media


Music

* ''Jessika'' (opera), 1905 opera by Josef Bohuslav Foerster


Albums

* ''Jessica'' (Gerald Wilson album), 1983 * ''Jessica'' ( sv), 1998 debut album by Swedish singer
Jessica Folcker Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker (born 9 July 1975), known professionally as Jessica, is a Swedish singer. Her debut album ''Jessica'' in 1998 used her mononym, whereas follow up album ''Dino'' credited Jessica Folcker. Her following albums ...


Songs

* "Jessica" (instrumental), a 1973 song by the Allman Brothers Band * "Jessica" (Elliot Minor song), a 2007 song by English band Elliot Minor * "Jessica", a 2001 single by Dir En Grey from the album '' Kisō'' * "Jessica", a song by Adam Green * "Jessica", a song by
Down with Webster Down with Webster is a Canadian rap rock band from The Beaches area of Toronto who signed with Universal Motown in April 2009. The band first achieved commercial success with the release of the 2009 EP, '' Time to Win, Vol. I'' which consisted ...
* "Jessica", a song by Herbie Hancock originally on the album ''
Fat Albert Rotunda ''Fat Albert Rotunda'' is the eighth album by jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, released in 1969. It was Hancock's first release for Warner Bros. Records after his departure from Blue Note Records. The music was originally done for the TV spec ...
'' * "Jessica", a song by Major Lazer featuring Ezra Koenig on the Major Lazer album ''
Free the Universe ''Free the Universe'' is the second full-length studio album released by Major Lazer. The album was released on April 16, 2013, and features appearances by Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman, Santigold, Peaches, ...
'' * "Jessica", a song by The Beau Brummels on the album ''
Bradley's Barn Bradley's Barn was a music recording studio founded in the mid-1960s by Owen Bradley. The studio was built in a converted barn on farmland in the Nashville suburb of Mount Juliet, and was the site of numerous notable recordings by artists includ ...
'' * "Jessica", a song by Seals and Crofts on the album '' Diamond Girl'' * "Jessica", a song by Israeli band
Ethnix Ethnix (, stylized as Xאתני, ) are an Israeli band mixing new wave music with Mizrahi music, oriental melodies. The band formed in 1989 as a collaboration between vocalist Ze'ev Nechama and keyboardist Tamir Kaliski, joined by drummer Gal Hadan ...
and Yevgeni Shapovalov * "Jessica", a song by
Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo (born Avigdor Benyamin Zahner-Isenberg) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. Career Avi Buffalo's self-titled debut album was released on April 27, 2010, and was given positive reviews by '' The A.V. Club'', ''NME'', '' ...
on their self-titled debut album * "Jessica", a song by
Regina Spektor Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (, ; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian Americans, Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist. After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's Indie music scene, in ...


Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Jessica'' (film), a 1962 film with Maurice Chevalier and Angie Dickinson * ''Jessica'' (miniseries), based on the 1998 novel * ''Jessica'' (novel), by Bryce Courtenay 1998 * ''Jessica'', a 2004 Australian film directed by
Peter Andrikidis Peter Andrikidis is an Australian film and television director, and producer. Early life and education Andrikidis went to the Sydney high school Drummoyne Boys High School in the mid-1970s, where he made a small film called "Nemesis". He gra ...
and starring
Natasha Wanganeen Natasha Wanganeen (born 20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress. She is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film '' Rabbit-Proof Fence'' and numerous television roles. She made her debut as co-writer and co-producer in a 2 ...
* ''Jessica'' (painting), an 1890 painting by Dennis Miller Bunker


Other uses

* Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas, an initiative of the
European Investment Bank The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's investment bank and is owned by the 27 member states. It is the largest multilateral financial institution in the world. The EIB finances and invests both through equity and debt sol ...
* , an oil tanker that spilled 568 tons of oil off the coast of the Galapagos Islands


See also

* Baby Jessica case, a well-publicized custody battle in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the early 1990s *
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 protect potential victims and reduce a sexual offender's ability to re-offend which includes a mandatory minimum sentence of 2 ...
, a Florida law to punish child predators *
Iscah Iscah ( ''Yīskā''; ) is the daughter of Haran and the niece of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. The passage in which Iscah is mentioned is extremely brief. As a result rabbinical scholars have developed theories to explain it, typically adoptin ...
, daughter of Haran in the Bible (Genesis 11:27, 29), speculated to be the source of the name 'Jessica' *
Jessicka Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera on October 23, 1975) is an American visual artist and musician. Best known by her stage name Jessicka, she was the frontwoman for the alternative rock band Jack Off Jill, and later for the Noise pop, noise-p ...
(born 1975), American musician {{disambiguation