Anne
Gender | Female |
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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'. 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)
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Queen consorts, 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
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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 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 Virginia Culbertson (1857-1918), American writer
- 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 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 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 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 (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 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), former Swedish foreign minister
- 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 McCrory (born 1956), First Lady of North Carolina
- Ann Miller (1923–2004), American dancer, singer and actress
- 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 ca. 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), botanist
- Anne Claude de Caylus (1692–1765), French antiquarian and proto-archaeologist
- Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728), French musician, composer, founder, Concert Spirituel Tuileries 172–1791
- 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
- 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)