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Fanny (name)

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Fanny is a given name. It is also a pet form of Frances, and a form of Myfanwy.

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Given name

  • Fanny Adams (1859–1867), English murder victim
  • Fanny Ardant (born 1949), French actress
  • Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch track and field athlete, Olympic and world champion and world record holder
  • Fanny Brice (1891–1951), stage name for the American comedian, actress and singer
  • Fanny Brownbill (1890–1948), Australian pioneering politician
  • Fanny Cano (1944–1983), Mexican actress and producer
  • Fanny Chmelar (born 1985), German alpine skier
  • Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837–1913), African-American educator and missionary
  • Fanny Cory (1877–1972), artist and illustrator best known for her comic strip Little Miss Muffet
  • Fanny Cottençon (born 1957), French actress
  • Fanny Davenport (1850–1898), Anglo-American stage actress
  • Fanny Davies (1861–1934), British pianist
  • Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), Austrian ballerina
  • Fanny Farmer, American candy manufacturer and retailer
  • Fanny Fischer (born 1986), German sprint canoer
  • Fanny Furner (1864–1938), Australian activist for the rights of women and children
  • Fanny Holland (1847–1931), English singer and comic actress
  • Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
  • Fanny Kaplan (1890–1918), would-be assassin of Vladimir Lenin
  • Fanny Kekelaokalani (1806–1880), a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and mother of a Queen consort
  • Fanny Law (born 1953), Hong Kong former civil servant
  • Fanny Létourneau (born 1979), Canadian synchronized swimmer
  • Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), German author and feminist
  • Fanny Lu (born 1973), Colombian singer-songwriter and actress
  • Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847), composer, pianist and sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn
  • Fanny Murray (1729–1778), English courtesan
  • Fanny Rinne (born 1980), German field hockey player
  • Fanny Sidney (born 1987), French actress
  • Fanny Smith (born 1992), Swiss freestyle skier
  • Fanny Stål (1821–1889), Swedish pianist
  • Fanny Vágó (born 1991), Hungarian footballer
  • Fanny Westerdahl (1817–1873), Swedish dramatic stage actress

    • Pet form of Frances

  • Fanny Allen (1784–1819), first woman from New England to become a Catholic nun
  • Fanny Brawne (1800–1865), engaged to poet John Keats
  • Fanny Brough (1852–1914), British stage actress
  • Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright
  • Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist and composer
  • Fanny Durack (1889–1956), Australian swimmer
  • Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801–1854), English stage actress and theatre manager
  • Fanny Imlay (1794–1816), illegitimate daughter of the British writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), English actress, writer and anti-slavery figure
  • Frances Nelson (1761–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
  • Fanny Stevenson (1840–1914), wife of writer Robert Louis Stevenson

    • Other

  • Baroness Franziska Fanny von Arnstein (1758–1818), a leader of society in Vienna, born Vögele Itzig
  • Fanny de Beauharnais (1737–1813), French lady of letters and salon-holder born Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard
  • Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballet dancer and choreographer born Francesca Cerrito
  • Fanny Cornforth (1835-c. 1906), model and mistress of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, real name thought to be Sarah Cox
  • Fanny Cradock (1909–1994), English restaurant critic born Phyllis Nan Sortain
  • Fanny Fern (1811–1872), pen name of Sara Willis, American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories
  • Fanny Heldy (1888–1973), Belgian operatic soprano born Marguerite Virginie Emma Clémentine Deceuninck
  • Princess Fanny von Starhemberg (1875–1943), Austrian politician born Franziska Gräfin von Larisch-Mönnich
  • Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), German writer born Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike Tarnow
  • Frederick Fanny Walden (1888–1949), English footballer and cricketer

    • Fictional characters

  • Fanny Chenal, played by Marion Cotillard in the 2006 film A Good Year
  • Fanny Hill, the protagonist of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, an erotic novel by John Cleland
  • Fanny Price, heroine of Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park
  • Fanny (Guilty Gear), a video game character
  • Fanny (Sesame Street)
  • Lord Fanny, from the DC Comics series The Invisibles
  • Madame Fanny La Fan, in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Aunt Fanny, a comic character played by Fran Allison on the radio show Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
  • Aunt Fanny, in Robots, a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film
  • Aunt Fanny, in Enid Blyton's The Famous Five
  • Fanny Ekdahl, in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander
  • Fanny Birden, in Keyes Daniel's novel Flowers for Algernon

    • References

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