Anne
| Anne | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Language(s) | English, French |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | Favored, Grace |
| Other names | |
| See also | Anna, Ann, Ana |
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 'favor' or 'grace.' [1]
It is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands (for example, author Anne de Vries). 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 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)
- Queen consorts, a.o.:
- 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), Danish princess, wife of King Constantine II
- Princess Anne, a.o.:
- 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 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 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 Bonny (1702–1782?), Irish pirate
- Anne Bourguignon (born 1950), French actress, filmmaker and political activist known as Anémone
- 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 Carson (born 1950), Canadian poet, essayist, and translator
- Anne Cox Chambers (born 1919), American media proprietor and billionaire
- Anne V. Coates (born 1925), British film editor
- Anne Consigny (born 1963), French actres
- Anne Conway (1631–1679), English philosopher
- Anne Dacier (1654–1720), French scholar and translator of the classics
- Anne Seymour Damer (1749–1828), English sculptor
- Anne Daw, South Australian campaigner for the protection of water resources and arable land from invasive mining activities.
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (born 1960), Belgian choreographer
- Anne Desclos (1907–1998), French journalist and novelist
- 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 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 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 (born 1921), French author
- Anne Grant (1755–1838), Scottish poet, author
- 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 (born 1969), 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 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 (born 1923), 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 Margiste (born 1942), Estonian actress
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American author and aviator
- Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011), American-born Irish science fiction and fantasy writer
- Anne Hazen McFarland (1868–?), American physician, editor
- Anne Meara (1929–2005), American actress and comedian
- Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (1627–1693), French memoirist
- 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 Provoost (born 1964), Flemish author
- Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), American actress
- Anne Revere (1903–1990), American actress
- Anne Rice (born 1941), American author
- Anne Royall (1769–1854), American journalist
- Anne Schedeen (born 1949), American television actress
- Anne Sexton (1928–1974), American poet
- Anne Shirley (1918–1993), American actress
- Anne Smith (born 1959), American tennis player
- 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 Wood (singer) (1907-1998), British mezzo-soprano and opera administrator
Ann
- Ann Bancroft
- Ann Brashares
- Ann Donahue
- Ann Druyan
- Ann Dunham
- Ann Hasseltine Judson
- Ann, Lady Fanshawe
- Ann Landers
- Ann Lee
- Ann Lewis Hamilton
- Ann-Margret
- Ann M. Martin
- Ann Miller
- Ann Mitchell
- Ann Petry
- Ann Putnam, Jr.
- Ann Radcliffe
- Ann Richards
- Ann Romney
- Ann Rule
- Ann Eliza Smith
- Ann Sothern
- Ann Wilson
- Ann Winsborn
- Julia Ann
- Keren Ann
- LeAnn Rimes
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 (born 1928), 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 1725 - 91
- Anne Douglas-Hamilton (1709–1748), Scottish nobleman
- 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 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 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 Darrow, King Kong (1933) and King Kong (2005)
- Anne Elliot, Jane Austen's Persuasion
- Anne Glass, Falling Skies
- Anne Lewis, a character in the Robocop franchise
- Anne Page, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Ann Perkins, a character from the television show Parks and Recreation
- Anne Shirley, Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
- Raggedy Ann
Ships
See also
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Anne's theorem, result from Euclidean geometry, due to Pierre-Leon Anne (1806–1850)
- Lady Anne
- Queen Anne
References
- ↑ "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
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