Anna
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Anna, Anne, or Ann may refer to:
  • Anna (given name)
    Anna (given name)
    Anna is a Latin form of the Greek name Greek Ἄννα and the Hebrew name Hannah . Anna is in wide use in countries across the world as are its variants Anne, originally a French version of the name, though in use in English speaking countries for hundreds of years, and Ann, which was originally the...

    • Anne
      Anne
      Anne, alternatively spelled Ane or Ann is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah or Hanani, meaning 'He [= God] has favoured me', the name of the mother of the prophet Samuel. Anne is a common name in France.It is sometimes used as a male...

      , a derivation of Anna

People

  • Anna (Bible)
    Anna (Bible)
    Anna or Anna the Prophetess was a biblical figure mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an aged Jewish prophetess who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in in the episode of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple.While Luke gave some...

    , also known as Anna the Prophetess in the Gospel of Luke
  • Saint Anne
    Saint Anne
    Saint Hanna of David's house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus Christ according to Christian and Islamic tradition. English Anne is derived from Greek rendering of her Hebrew name Hannah...

    , known by tradition as the mother of the Virgin Mary
  • King Anna of East Anglia
    Anna of East Anglia
    Anna was King of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. Anna was a member of the Wuffingas family, the ruling dynasty of the East Angles. He was one of the three sons of Eni who ruled East Anglia, succeeding some time after Ecgric was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia...

     (died c. 654), ruler of the East Angles
  • Anna Porphyrogeneta
    Anna Porphyrogeneta
    Anna Porphyrogeneta was a Grand Princess consort of Kiev; she was married to Grand Prince Vladimir the Great....

     (963–1011), sister of Basil II, the Byzantine emperor
  • Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418)
  • Anna of Denmark (1532-1585), Electress of Saxony and Margravine of Meissen
  • Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje
    Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje
    Anna of Poland was countess consort of Celje, a medieval Slovenian feudal state, and an influential woman in politics of Poland.She was daughter of King Casimir III of Poland , who was succeeded, not by Anna nor any of Casimir's own descendants, but by Casimir's nephew, King Louis I of Hungary....

     (1366–1425), countess consort of Celje in Slovenia
  • Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg
    Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg
    Anne of Bohemia and Austria was a Duchess of Luxembourg in her own right, and as consort, Landgravine of Thuringia and of Saxony....

     (1432–1462)
  • Anne of Brittany
    Anne of Brittany
    Anne, Duchess of Brittany , also known as Anna of Brittany , was a Breton ruler, who was to become queen to two successive French kings. She was born in Nantes, Brittany, and was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Eleanor of...

     (1488-1514), Breton ruler
  • Anna Phersönernas moder (died 1568), Swedish alleged witch
  • Anna of Russia
    Anna of Russia
    Anna of Russia or Anna Ivanovna reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.-Accession to the throne:Anna was the daughter of Ivan V of Russia, as well as the niece of Peter the Great...

     (1693-1740), Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740
  • Anna Mary Robertson Moses, (1860-1961), United States painter known as "Grandma Moses
    Grandma Moses
    Anna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"...

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  • Anna, codename of Alfred Frenzel
    Alfred Frenzel
    Alfred Frenzel was a West German member of parliament, who was secretly conducting espionage for Czechoslovakia while serving on the Bundestag's Defense Committee. Given the code name Anna by the StB, he passed along classified information to the Communist government in Prague for five years,...

     (1899-1968), a Czechoslovakian spy
  • Anna, popular name of C. N. Annadurai
    C. N. Annadurai
    Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai , popularly called Anna , or Arignar Anna was a former Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu...

     (1909-1969), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
  • Anna, popular name of N. T. Rama Rao
    N. T. Rama Rao
    Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , also known as NTR and fondly referred to as Anna Garu, was an Indian film actor, director, producer, and a politician...

     (1923-1996), Chief Minister of AndhraPradesh, India
  • Anna (singer)
    Anna (singer)
    Anna is a singer of the group Bon-Bon Blanco. She has five brothers and is the youngest sibling in the family. She uses Anna in her solo efforts, but she uses her real name when part of the band. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, but she has American citizenship.- External links :* *...

     (born 1987), Japanese-American singer
  • Annah Graefe, late 20th- early 21st-century German folksinger
  • Queen Anne (disambiguation), list of queens bearing the name Anne
  • Princess Anne (disambiguation)
    Princess Anne (disambiguation)
    Princess Anne may refer to:*Anne, Princess Royal , daughter of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom*Princess Anne of Denmark , wife of Prince George Valdemar of Denmark...

     , list of princesses bearing the name Anne
  • Anna Hazare
    Anna Hazare
    Kisan Baburao Hazare , popularly known as Anna Hazare is an Indian social activist and a prominent leader in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi...

     (born 1937): Indian social activist

Places

  • Anna, Valencia
    Anna, Valencia
    Anna is a municipality in the comarca of Canal de Navarrés in the Valencian Community, Spain....

    , Spain
  • Anna, Illinois
    Anna, Illinois
    Anna is a city in Union County, Illinois, United States. Located in Southern Illinois, the population was 5,136 at the 2000 census. The city is known for being tied to its close neighbor Jonesboro, together known as Anna-Jonesboro. Anna is well renowned for the Anna State Mental Hospital or the...

    , United States
  • Anna, Ohio
    Anna, Ohio
    Anna is a village in Shelby County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,319 at the 2000 census.Anna is the location of a Honda Motor Co., Ltd plant that builds the GM L66 engine and Honda J engine....

    , United States
  • Ann, Burma
    Ann, Burma
    Ann is a town in the Rakhine State of western Burma. It is served by Ann Airport.-External links:*...

    , a town in Rakhine State, Myanmar
  • Anna, Estonia, a village in Paide Commune, Järva County, Estonia
  • Anna, Latvia, a village in the Alūksne District
    Aluksne District
    Alūksne district was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east, from the capital city Riga...

    , Latvia
  • Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Voronezh Oblast
    Administrative divisions of Voronezh Oblast
    *Cities and towns under the oblast's jurisdiction:**Voronezh ***city districts:****Kominternovsky *****with 1 selsovet under the city district's jurisdiction.****Leninsky...

    , Russia
  • Anna Paulowna
    Anna Paulowna
    Anna Paulowna is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The municipality derives its name from the Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna...

    , a municipality and town in the Netherlands
  • Anna Regina
    Anna Regina
    Anna Regina is the capital of the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana. It stands on the Atlantic coast, northwest of the mouth of the Essequibo River, 19 km north of Adventure. Anna Regina was established as a town in 1970. Its population was 12,448 in 2002....

    , the capital of the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana
  • Anna Salai
    Anna Salai
    Anna Salai , formerly known as Mount Road, an abbreviated form of St. Thomas Mount Road, is an arterial road in Chennai, India. It starts at the Cooum Creek, south of Fort St George and ends at the Kathipara Junction in Guindy...

    , an arterial road in Chennai, India
  • Anna Valley
    Anna Valley
    Anna Valley is a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom. The settlement is a suburb of Andover, and is located approximately south-west of the town centre....

    , a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom
  • Lake Anna
    Lake Anna
    Lake Anna is one of the largest freshwater inland lakes in Virginia, covering an area of 13,000 acres , and located 72 miles south of Washington, D.C. in Louisa and Spotsylvania counties...

    , a freshwater lake in central Virginia
  • Anna Cave
    Anna Cave
    The Anna Cave is a natural limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary, near the waterfall.The cave was discovered in 1833, when opening a shaft in the limestone in order to provide the iron furnace at Hámor with water. It soon became a tourist attraction, even Sándor Petőfi visited it in 1847...

    , a natural limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary
  • Anna River (disambiguation), any of several rivers in the United States
  • Anna University
    Anna University
    Anna University was a premier technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978, as a unitary university that integrated four technical institutions in the city of Chennai , including the College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology,...

    , an engineering university in India
  • Anna University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, an engineering university in India

Films, television, theatre and games

  • Anna (1951 film)
    Anna (1951 film)
    Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring by the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous...

    , Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
  • Anna (1964 film)
    Anna (1964 film)
    Anna is a 1964 Malayalam language film directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan, starring Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair in the lead role....

    , Indian Malayalam film directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan
  • Anna (1967 film)
    Anna (1967 film)
    Anna is a 1967 French musical-comedy film directed by Pierre Koralnik and starring Anna Karina.-Cast:* Anna Karina - Anna* Jean-Claude Brialy - Serge Anna is a 1967 French musical-comedy film directed by Pierre Koralnik and starring Anna Karina.-Cast:* Anna Karina - Anna* Jean-Claude Brialy - Serge...

    , French film starring Anna Karina
  • Anna (1987 film), American film about a Czech actress in New York City
  • Anna (1994 film), Indian Telugu film directed by Muthyala Subbaiah starring Rajasekhar, Roja and Gauthami
  • Anna and the King (TV series)
    Anna and the King (TV series)
    Anna and the King is a short-lived sitcom broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1972 fall lineup.-Overview:Anna and the King is a non-musical adaptation of the 1956 film of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, which was in turn based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by...

    , American TV series
  • Anna and the King of Siam (film), 1946 American film directed by John Cromwell
  • Anna and the Wolves, 1973 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura
  • Anna: 6 - 18, 1993 documentary by Nikita Mikhalkov
    Nikita Mikhalkov
    Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

  • Anna M. (2007), French film directed by Michel Spinosa
  • Anne (Little Britain), a character in the Little Britain radio and TV show
  • "Anne" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)
  • Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games
  • Anna Williams (Tekken), fictional character in the Tekken video game series
  • Anna, a character in the animated series Space Carrier Blue Noah
    Space Carrier Blue Noah
    is a science fiction anime TV series produced by Office Academy which ran in Japan from October 13, 1979 through March 30, 1980. It was later distributed overseas in English by West Cape Corporation under the name "Thundersub"...


Literature

  • Anna, the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna
    Mister God, This Is Anna
    Mister God, This Is Anna is a book by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym "Fynn" describing the adventures of Anna, a mischievous yet wise four-year-old who Fynn finds as a runaway. Nineteen-year-old Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, though Fynn becomes Anna's main caretaker and...

    by Fynn
  • Anna (magazine), a Finnish women's magazine
  • Anna and the King of Siam (book)
    Anna and the King of Siam (book)
    Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.In the early 1860s, Anna Leonowens, a widow with two young children, was invited to Siam by King Mongkut , who wanted her to teach his children and wives the English language and introduce them to British...

    , a semi-fictionalised biographical novel by Margaret Landon
  • Anna Christie
    Anna Christie
    Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work.-Plot summary:...

    , a play by Eugene O'Neill
  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...

    , a novel by Leo Tolstoy
  • Anna Lombard
    Anna Lombard
    Anna Lombard is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross. First published in 1901, it is based on the idea that it takes a New Man as well to form a perfect union of the sexes.-Plot summary:...

    a novel by Annie Sophie Cory
  • Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...

    , a series of novels by L. M. Montgomery
  • Anna, the sister of Dido, Queen of Carthage, in Roman mythology and later literature
  • Anna, an early name for Morgause
    Morgause
    Morgause , known in earlier works as Gwyar or Anna, is the sister or half-sister of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend. In her earliest appearance she is Arthur's full sister by Uther Pendragon and Igraine; Gwyar is her name and she is the mother of Gwalchmei...

     of Arthurian legend

Music

  • "Anna", a 2011 song by Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

     on her album Stage Whisper
    Stage Whisper
    Stage Whisper is an upcoming double album by Charlotte Gainsbourg, scheduled to be released on December 5th, 2011.-Track listing:Studio album# "Terrible Angels" # "Paradisco"# "All The Rain"# "White Telephone" # "Anna"...

  • "Anna", a 1975 song by Bad Company on their album Straight Shooter
    Straight Shooter (Bad Company album)
    Straight Shooter is the second studio album by British supergroup Bad Company. The album was released in April 1975, a month after the release of the single "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" and four months before the album's second single "Feel Like Makin' Love" .The album became a hit in America, making the...

  • "Anna", a 1970 song by Lucio Battisti
    Lucio Battisti
    Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter . He is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history....

  • "Anna", a song by Toto from their album The Seventh One
    The Seventh One
    The Seventh One is Toto's seventh studio album. It was released in 1988, and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. This is the second and last album to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. He was fired after the Seventh One world tour due to loss of voice attributed to drug abuse....

  • "Anna (Go to Him)
    Anna (Go to Him)
    "Anna " is a song written and originally performed by Arthur Alexander. His version was released as a single by Dot Records on September 17, 1962...

    ", a 1962 song by Arthur Alexander, later covered by The Beatles
  • "Anna's Song
    Anna's Song
    "Anna's Song" is a song recorded by singer Marvin Gaye as part of his 1978 album, Here, My Dear. Recorded during the midst of Marvin and estranged wife Anna going through an acrimonious divorce, the song autobiographically depicted several parts of Marvin and Anna's past including one lyric that...

    ", a 1978 song by Marvin Gaye
  • "Ana's Song (Open Fire)
    Ana's Song (Open Fire)
    "Ana's Song " is a song by Silverchair which was released as the second single from their third album, Neon Ballroom.The song is about lead singer Daniel Johns' struggle with anorexia nervosa. The song earned Silverchair a Comet Award in Germany...

    ", a 1998 song by Silverchair
  • "Boten Anna
    Boten Anna
    "Boten Anna" is a song by Swedish eurodance musician Basshunter, which appears on his third studio album, . Due to the song, Basshunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the single in 2006...

    " ("Anna, the bot"), a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter
  • "Anna e Marco", a 1977 song by Lucio Dalla
    Lucio Dalla
    Lucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...

  • Anna Records
    Anna Records
    Anna Records was a short-lived record label, known as a forerunner of Motown, founded by sisters Anna and Gwen Gordy and Roquel Billy Davis in 1959 and located in Detroit, Michigan. Gwen Gordy and Davis had written hit songs for Jackie Wilson and Etta James prior to founding the label...

    , early Motown label
  • "Anna Begins", a song by Counting Crows
    Counting Crows
    Counting Crows is an American rock band originating from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1991, the group gained popularity following the release of its debut album in 1993, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones"...

  • "Ana", a song by Pixies
  • ANNA (band)
    ANNA (band)
    ANNA is a nu metal/hardcore band from Lviv, Ukraine.Since its inception, ANNA has two times toured in Ukraine supporting both of its albums. Also the band has took a part in many Ukrainian festivals ANNA is a nu metal/hardcore band from Lviv, Ukraine.Since its inception, ANNA has two times toured...

    , an Ukrainian nu-metal band

Science

  • Anna (dog)
    Anna (dog)
    Anna the dog was the first survivor of pulmonary bypass surgery, considered an experimental procedure at the time.Operated on by Dr. Alfred Blalock and his assistant Vivien Thomas, Anna survived the first pulmonary bypass after having been operated on twice. The second operation was required to ...

    , first survivor of experimental pulmonary bypass surgery
  • Anna, a genus of the family of large sea snails Buccinidae
    Buccinidae
    Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...


Vehicles

  • Anna (1912 automobile)
    Anna (1912 automobile)
    The Anna was an orphaned motor, whose origin and manufacturer are unknown, other than that it was discovered in America. It had two seats and was fitted with what was called a "Democrat" body on an 8 foot 4 inch wheelbase. Its water-cooled 2-cylinder engine displaced 2.8 liters. It had a...

    , a defunct automobile of unknown origin
  • HMS Anne, the ship that carried James Oglethorpe
    James Oglethorpe
    James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia...

     and the first settlers of Georgia in 1732, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker, an Italian coastal tanker, later fitted with a diesel engine and thus becoming MV Anny

Other uses

, Japanese era from 968 to 970
  • Indian anna
    Indian anna
    An Anna was a currency unit formerly used in India, equal to 1/16 rupee. It was subdivided into 4 Paise or 12 Pies . The term belonged to the Muslim monetary system...

    , currency unit formerly used in India
  • Anna University
    Anna University
    Anna University was a premier technical university in Tamil Nadu, India. Anna University was formed on September 4, 1978, as a unitary university that integrated four technical institutions in the city of Chennai , including the College of Engineering, Guindy, Alagappa College of Technology,...

    , engineering school in India
  • Pommes Anna
    Pommes Anna
    Pommes Anna or Anna potatoes, is a classic French dish of sliced, layered potatoes cooked in a very large amount of melted butter.The recipe calls for firm-fleshed potatoes and butter only. Potatoes are peeled and sliced very thin. The slices, salted and peppered, are layered into a pan ,...

    , or Anna Potatoes, a classic French potato dish

See also

  • ANN (disambiguation)
  • Anya
    Anya
    -Origins and variant forms:*Anya is a Russian diminutive of Anna, derived from Hannah which means "gracious" or "bringing goodness" in the original Hebrew language....

  • Santa Ana (disambiguation)
  • Saint Anne (disambiguation)
    Saint Anne (disambiguation)
    Saint Anne is the mother of the Virgin Mary, according to Catholic tradition.Saint Anne may also refer to:-People:*Saint Anne Line , English Catholic martyr*Saint Anne Pak A-gi, of the Korean Martyrs-Canada:*Ste. Anne, Manitoba*St...

  • Annie (disambiguation)
    Annie (disambiguation)
    -People:* Annie , multiple individuals* Anna * Annie , of electropop* Annie , of pop-Comics and literature:* "Little Orphant Annie", 1885 poem by James Whitcomb Riley...

    , including many people with forename Ann, including many people with forename Anna, including many people with forename Anne, including many people with forename Annie
  • Hannah (given name)
    Hannah (given name)
    Hannah is a personal name, also spelt Hanna, Hana, or Chana, deriving from the Hebrew language חַנָּה , meaning "He has favoured me/favours me ", or "gracious". The name is biblical as it is the name of the mother of the prophet Samuel...

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