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Gender Unisex Meaning Favored, Grace		Language(s) English, French See also Anna, Ann, Ana

Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, the name of the mother of the prophet Samuel. Anne is a common name in France.

It is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands (for example Anne de Vries). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton).

People commonly known only by the first name Anne

Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary

Queen Anne of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and Great Britain (1707–14), born 1665, died 1714

Princess Anne, the name and title of several individuals

Anne, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

Anne Watanabe 渡辺杏 (Anne/杏), Japanese model/actress

Other

Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actress

Anne Baxter (1923–1985), American actress

Anne Boleyn (c. 1501/1507 – 1536), Queen consort and second wife of King Henry VIII of England

Anne Bonny (1702–1782?), pirate

Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), America's first published poet

Anne Briscoe, American biochemist

Anne Brontë (1820–1849), British novelist and poet

Anne Burrell, TV chef

Anne Cox Chambers, entrepreneur

Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle (1836–1918), botanist

Anne de Montmorency (1493–1567), constable of France, soldier, statesman, and diplomat

Anne de Noailles (d. 1678), first Duke of Noailles

Anne de Vries (1904–1964), Dutch writer from Drenthe

Lord Anne Douglas-Hamilton (1709–1748), Scottish nobleman

Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg (1432–1462)

Anne Flournoy, screenwriter and producer

Anne Francis (1930–2011), American actress

Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist and Holocaust victim

Anne Geddes, photographer and businesswoman

Anne Golon (born 1921), French author

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway (born 1982), American actress

Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) (1556–1623), wife of William Shakespeare

Anne Heche, American actress

Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643), American religious dissenter

Anne Hyde (1637–1671), Duchess of York

Anne Jeffreys, actress

Anne Judkins (born 1964), New Zealand race walker

Anne Keothavong (born 1983), British tennis player

Anne Kornblut, author of Notes from the Cracked Ceiling

Anne Kremer (born 1975), Luxembourgish tennis player

Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011), Irish science fiction and fantasy writer

Anne McClain, NASA astronaut

Anne Meara, American actress and comedian

Anne Murray, Canadian singer

Anne Neville (1456–1485), Queen consort of England, wife of King Richard III

Anne of Austria (1601–1666), Queen consort of France

Anne of Brittany (1488–1514), Breton ruler, Queen consort of France

Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), fourth wife of King Henry VIII

Anne Provoost, Flemish author

Anne Rice, American author

Anne Royall (1769–1854), journalist

Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet

Anne Seymour Damer (1749–1828), sculptor

Anne Sullivan (1866–1936), teacher and companion of Helen Keller

Anne Sweeney, businesswoman

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and statesman

Anne Veski (born 1956), Estonian pop singer

Anne Villiers, Countess of Morton (1610–1654)

Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician

Notable people named Ann

Ann Alexander Smith

Ann Bancroft

Ann Brashares

Ann Donahue

Ann Druyan

Ann Dunham

Ann Hasseltine Judson

Ann Lewis Hamilton

Ann-Margret

Ann M. Martin

Ann Miller

Ann Mitchell

Ann Petry

Ann Putnam, Jr.

Ann Radcliffe

Ann Richards

Ann Romney

Ann Rule

Ann Sothern

Ann Wilson

Ann Winsborn

Julia Ann

Keren Ann

LeAnn Rimes

Fictional characters

Ann Darrow, King Kong (1933) and King Kong (2005)

Anne Elliot, Jane Austen's Persuasion

Anne Glass, Falling Skies

Anne Lewis, a character in the Robocop franchise

Anne Page, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor

Anne Shirley, Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Raggedy Ann

Ships

Anne (1623 New World voyage)

Anne (1799 ship)

References

Anne Wikipedia

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