Anne

Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie.

Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'. It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton).

Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: All pages with titles beginning with Anne.

As a feminine name

Anne

• Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary
• Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and Great Britain (1707–14)
• Queens consort, in alphabetical order:
  • Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462)
  • Anne Neville (1456–1485), wife of King Richard III of England
  • Anne of Brittany (1477–1514), Breton ruler, wife of both Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France
  • Anne Boleyn (c. 1501/1507–1536), second wife of King Henry VIII of England
  • Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), fourth wife of King Henry VIII
  • Anne of Denmark (1574–1619), wife of King James VI and I of Scotland, England, and Ireland,
  • Anne of Austria (1601–1666), wife of Louis XIII of France, Regent of France
  • Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575–1612), wife of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway
  • Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669–1728), wife of King Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
  • Anne of Romania (1923–2016), wife of King Michael I of Romania
  • Anne-Marie of Greece (born 1948), Queen of Greece, wife of King Constantine II
• Princess Anne (disambiguation), including:
  • Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532–1585), Danish princess from the House of Oldenburg
  • Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709–1759), daughter of King George II, wife of William IV, Prince of Orange
  • Anne of Orléans (1906–1986), Princess of France
  • Anne of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 1938), wife of Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
  • Anne, Princess Royal (born 1950), daughter of Queen Elizabeth II
• Anne Aallonen (born 1967), Finnish-born Hong Kong professional tennis player
• Anne Abayasekara (1925–2015), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist
• Anne Applebaum (born 1964), American journalist
• Anne Archer (born 1947), American actress
• Anne Askew (1521–1546), English writer, poet, and Protestant martyr
• Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), American actress
• Anne Bailey Colombo (born 1997), American soccer player
• Anne Baxter (1923–1985), American actress
• Anne Lilia Berge Strand (born 1977), Norwegian singer-songwriter, known as "Annie"
• Anne Berthelot (born 1957), French professor of Medieval literature studies
• Anne-Grethe Leine Bientie (born 1954), Norwegian writer and psalmist
• Anne Bonny (1702–1782?), Irish pirate
• Anne Bosworth (1868–1907), American mathematician
• Anne Bourg (born 1987), Luxembourgish footballer
• Anne Bourguignon (1950–2019), French actress, filmmaker and political activist known as Anémone
• Anne Bourlioux, Canadian mathematician and indoor rower
• Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), America's first published poet
• Anne Brontë (1820–1849), British novelist and poet
• Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (1792–1860), British peer, wife of Lord Byron
• Anne Byrn (born 1956), American cookbook author
• Anne Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist, and translator
• Anne Chislett (born 1942), Canadian playwright
• Anne Cox Chambers (1919–2020), American media proprietor and billionaire
• Anne V. Coates (1925–2018), British film editor
• Anne Consigny (born 1963), French actress
• Anne Conway (disambiguation), several people
• Anne Haney Cross (born 1956), American neurologist and neuroimmunologist
• Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918), American writer
• Anne Curtis (born 1985), Filipina actress and host
• Anne Dacier (1654–1720), French scholar and translator of the classics
• Anne Seymour Damer (1749–1828), English sculptor
• Anne Daw, Australian environmental activist
• Anne DeGrace, Canadian fiction writer and illustrator
• Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (born 1960), Belgian choreographer
• Anne Desclos (1907–1998), French journalist and novelist
• Anne Diamond (born 1954), British journalist and broadcaster
• Anne Distel (born 1947), French curator and art critic
• Anne Donovan (born 1961), American basketball player and coach
• Anne Dudek (born 1975), American actress
• Anne Dudley (born 1956), English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician
• Anne Émond (born 1982), Canadian film director and screenwriter
• Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), German nun, mystic and stigmatic
• Anne Fletcher (born 1966), American choreographer and film director
• Anne Stella Fomumbod, Cameroonian women's rights activist
• Anne Fontaine (born 1959), French film director, screenwriter, and actress
• Anne Francine (1917–1999), American actress and cabaret singer
• Anne Francis (1930–2011), American actress
• Anne Frank (1929–1945), German-Dutch diarist and Holocaust victim
• Anne Geddes (born 1956), Australian photographer and businesswoman
• Anne Golon (1921–2017), French author
• Anne P. Graham, American politician
• Anne Grant (1755–1838), Scottish poet, author
• Anne Griffin (writer) (fl 2013 –), Irish short story writer and novelist
• Anne Haney (1934–2001), American actress
• Anne Hathaway (1556–1623), wife of William Shakespeare
• Anne Hathaway (born 1982), American actress
• Anne Hébert (1916–2000), Canadian author and poet
• Anne Heche (1969–2022), American actress
• Anne Hegerty (born 1958), English quizzer and television personality
• Anne Heggtveit (born 1939), Canadian alpine skier
• Anne Henning (born 1955), American speed skater
• Anne Hidalgo (born 1959), French politician, Mayor of Paris
• Anne Grete Holmsgaard (born 1948), Danish energy expert and politician
• Anne Holt (born 1958), Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice
• Anne Hugon (born 1965), French historian and Africanist
• Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643), American religious dissenter
• Anne Hyde (1637–1671), Duchess of York
• Anne Jackson (1925–2016), American actress
• Anne Jeffreys (1923–2017), American actress and singer
• Anne Judkins (born 1964), New Zealand race walker
• Anne Keothavong (born 1983), British tennis player
• Anne Kirkbride (1954–2015), English soap actress
• Anne Kremer (born 1975), Luxembourgish tennis player
• Anne Osborn Krueger (born 1934), American economist, deputy director of the IMF
• Anne L'Huillier (born 1958), French-Swedish physicist
• Anne Louhelainen (born 1965), Finnish politician
• Anne Margiste (born 1942), Estonian actress
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American author and aviator
• Anne Birgitte Lundholt (born 1952), Danish politician and businessperson
• Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011), American-born Irish science fiction and fantasy writer
• Anne Hazen McFarland (1868–1930), American physician, editor
• Anne Meara (1929–2005), American actress and comedian
• Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627–1693), French memoirist
• Anne Shannon Monroe (1873–1942), American writer
• Anne Murray (born 1945), Canadian singer
• Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 1963), German violinist
• Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker (1766–1817), French writer and philosopher, known as Madame de Staël
• Anne Sofie von Otter (born 1955), Swedish mezzo-soprano
• Anne Parillaud (born 1960), French actress
• Anne Peichert (born 1996), French singer, songwriter and actress, known as Louane Emera
• Anne Perry (1938–2023), English author
• Anne C. Perry, American politician
• Anne Peyroche, French biologist and geneticist
• Anne Provoost (born 1964), Flemish author
• Anne Quemere (born 1966), French sailor
• Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), American actress
• Anne Reid (born 1935), English actress
• Anne Revere (1903–1990), American actress
• Anne Rice (1941–2021), American author
• Anne Royall (1769–1854), American journalist
• Anne Schedeen (born 1949), American television actress
• Anne Schilling, American mathematician
• Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet
• Anne Shirley (1918–1993), American actress
• Anne Simpson, Canadian poet
• Anne Smith (disambiguation), several people
• Anne Steele (1717–1778), English hymnwriter, essayist
• Anne Sullivan (1866–1936), American teacher and companion of Helen Keller
• Anne Sweeney (born 1957), American businesswoman, co-chair of Disney Media
• Lady Anne Tree (1927–2010), British philanthropist and prison visitor
• Anne Thorius (born 1977), Danish basketballer
• Anne Tyler (born 1941), American writer and literary critic
• Anne Veski (born 1956), Estonian pop singer
• Anne Watanabe 渡辺杏 (Anne/杏) (born 1986), Japanese model and actress, known as "Anne"
• Anne Winters (actress) (born 1994), American actress
• Anne Wizorek (born 1981), German journalist, author and feminist
• Anne Wood (singer) (1907–1998), British mezzo-soprano and opera administrator
• Anne Wood (born 1937), English children's television producer
• Anne Wolden-Ræthinge (1929–2016), Danish biographer, journalist and writer
• Anne Woolliams (1926–1999), English artistic director, ballet choreographer, dancer and teacher

Ann

• Ann (singer) (born 1991), Taiwanese singer-songwriter
• Ann Bancroft (born 1955), American author, teacher, adventurer and public speaker
• Ann Beddingfield (1742–1763), English murderer
• Ann Bollin (born 1960), American politician
• Ann Brashares (born 1967), American YA author
• Ann Cashion, American chef
• Ann R. Chaintreuil (born 1947), American architect
• Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman (1813–1891), American author, translator
• Ann Curry (born 1956), American journalist
• Ann Donahue, television writer
• Ann Druyan (born 1949), American writer and producer
• Ann Dunham (1942–1995), American anthropologist
• Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), English memoirist and cookery author
• Ann Flagg (1924–1970), African-American playwright, stage actress and drama teacher
• Ann Flora Froude Flashman (1911–1961), Australian veterinarian
• Ann Getty (1941–2020), American philanthropist
• Ann Gillen, American artist
• Ann James (born 1952), Australian artist
• Ann James (artist) (1925–2011), English-born Canadian artist and educator
• Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789–1826), American foreign missionary
• Ann E. Kelley (1954–2007), American neuroscientist
• Ann Kenrick (born 1958), British charity worker
• Ann Lambert (born 1957), Canadian author and playwright
• Ann Lamont, American venture capitalist
• Ann Landers (1918–2002), pen name of American advice columnist Ruth Crowley and later, Esther Pauline Lederer
• Ann Lee (1736–1784), English church leader
• Ann Lewis Hamilton, American television producer and writer
• Ann Linde (born 1961), Swedish politician, government minister from 2016 to 2022
• Ann-Margret (born 1941), Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer
• Ann Marks (1941–2016), British physicist and science communicator
• Ann M. Martin (born 1955), American children's author, known best for the Baby-sitters Club series
• Ann Matlack, American politician
• Ann McCrory (born 1956), First Lady of North Carolina
• Ann Miller (1923–2004), American dancer, singer and actress
• Ann Watt Milne (1856 - no earlier than 1928), Scottish social reformer, temperance leader
• Ann Mitchell (born 1939), British stage and television actress
• Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist
• Ann Petry (1908–1997), American author and journalist
• Ann Putnam Jr. (1679–1716), witness at the Salem Witch Trials
• Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English author and pioneer of the Gothic subgenre
• Ann Reinking (1949–2020), American actor, dancer, and choreographer
• Ann Richards (1933–2006), American politician
• Ann Romney (born 1949), wife of American businessman and politician, Mitt Romney
• Ann E. Rondeau, American Navy admiral
• Ann Rule (1931–2015), American author
• Ann Sarnoff (born c. 1962), American businesswoman
• Ann London Scott (1929–1975), American feminist
• Ann Smith (activist) (fl. 1682–1686), English political activist
• Ann Eliza Smith (1819–1905), American author
• Ann Sothern (1909–2001), American actress
• Ann Sullivan (animator) (1929–2020), American animator
• Ann Syrdal (1945–2020), American psychologist and researcher
• Ann Tahincioğlu (born 1956), Turkey's first female car racing driver
• Ann Ter-Pogossian (1932–2022), American artist
• Ann Thongprasom (born 1976), Thai film and television actress, host and producer
• Ann Widdecombe (born 1947), British politician, author and television personality
• Ann Wilson (born 1950), American musician
• Ann Winsborn (born 1981), Swedish singer-songwriter

As a masculine name

• Anna of East Anglia (died 653/54), king of East Anglia
• Anne Bignan (1795–1861), French poet and translator
• Anne van der Bijl (1928–2022), Dutch Christian missionary
• Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle (1836–1918), Swiss botanist
• Anne Claude de Caylus (1692–1765), French antiquarian and proto-archaeologist
• Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728), French musician, composer, founder, Concert Spirituel Tuileries
• Anne Hamilton (1709–1748), Scottish nobleman
• Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell (1783–1864), French admiral
• Anne du Bourg (1521–1559), French magistrate
• Anne d'Escars de Givry (1546–1612), French Benedictine cardinal
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767–1824), French Romantic painter
• Anne de Joyeuse (c.1560–1587), French admiral during the French Wars of Religion
• Anne Louis Henri de La Fare (1752–1829), French Roman Catholic cardinal and counter-revolutionary
• Anne de Montmorency (1493–1567), constable of France, soldier, statesman, and diplomat
• Anne Mulder (born 1969), Dutch politician
• Anne de Noailles (d. 1678), first Duke of Noailles
• Anne Poulett (1711–1785), British Member of Parliament
• Anne Jean Marie René Savary (1774–1833), French general and diplomat
• Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642–1701), French naval commander, Marshal of France
• Anne Sjerp Troelstra (1939–2019), Dutch mathematician and logician
• Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781), French economist and statesman
• Anne Vermeer (1916–2018), Dutch politician
• Anne Vondeling (1916–1979), Dutch politician
• Anne de Vries (1904–1964), Dutch writer from Drenthe

Fictional characters

• Ann, in the Story of Seasons video game franchise
• Ann, a hunter in the video game Identity V
• Anne Boonchuy, from the American animated TV series Amphibia
• Anne Brookes, on the American TV sitcom The Ropers
• Ann Darrow, in the films King Kong (1933) and King Kong (2005)
• Anne Elliot, in Jane Austen's Persuasion
• Anne Garland, in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major
• Anne Glass, in the American TV series Falling Skies
• Anne Kirrin, the youngest of the four cousins in Enid Blyton's The Famous Five novels
• Anne Lester, a survivor in the video game Identity V
• Anne Lewis, in the Robocop franchise
• Anne Maria, from the Canadian animated TV series Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
• Anne Page, from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Ann Perkins, from the American television series Parks and Recreation
• Ann Possible, character in the animated series Kim Possible
• Anne Shirley, in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
• Ann Takamaki, one of the main characters from video game Persona 5
• Raggedy Ann, rag doll in Johnny Gruelle's books, 1918 onwards
• Rebecca Anne "Annie" January, one of the main characters in The Boys franchise

See also

• Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Anne's theorem, result from Euclidean geometry, due to Pierre-Leon Anne (1806–1850)
• Lady Anne (disambiguation)
• Princess Anne (disambiguation)
• Queen Anne (disambiguation)
• St Ann (disambiguation)
• Saint Anne (disambiguation)

References