Anne

Female given name

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Anne

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Gender| Female
Language(s)| English, French
Origin
Meaning| Favored, grace
Other names
See also| Anna, Ana, Annie, Nancy, Ninon (French)

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'.[1] 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'.[2] 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

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### Anne

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* 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 (disappeared after 28 November 1720), female 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 La Flamme, New Zealand immunologist
* 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

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* 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 Davison (sailor) (1913–1992), author and sailor
* Ann Davison (politician), American attorney and politician
* 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 Fredericks, American politician
* 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 McMullan (1923–2006), Director of the Electrical Association for Women
* 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 Pratt (born c. 1830), Jamaican author about Kingston Lunatic Asylum
* 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 Welch (1917–2002), gliding, hang gliding, paragliding and microlight flying pilot
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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1. ^ "Anne". A Dictionary of First Names. Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, and Flavia Hodges. Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Reference Online. University of Hull. 1 April 2010 Oxfordreference.com
2. ^ See entry on "Anne" in the Behind the Name database and the "Anne" and "Ane" entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018).

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