Fanny (name)

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Related names Frances, Fannie

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

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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Given name

Pet form of Frances

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Fictional characters

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