Fanny (name)

Fanny is a given name. A diminutive of the French name Frances meaning “free one”, and of the name “Estefany”, the Spanish version of Stephanie meaning “crown”. The meaning of the name Fanny is different in several countries, languages and cultures, meaning “free” or “one who is free” in some countries, and “crowned” or “crowned in victory” in others. Sometimes the name Fanny (פאני/פני) derived from Yiddish, as an anglicized Feigel, Feigele, or Feiga, Fejga.

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Other names
Related namesFrances, Fannie, Stephanie

People

Given name

Pet form of Frances
  • Fanny Allen (1784–1819), first woman from New England to become a Catholic nun
  • Fanny Brawne (1800–1865), engaged to poet John Keats
  • Fanny Brough (1852–1914), British stage actress
  • Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright
  • Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist and composer
  • Fanny Durack (1889–1956), Australian swimmer
  • Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801–1854), English stage actress and theatre manager
  • Fanny Imlay (1794–1816), illegitimate daughter of the British writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), English actress, writer and anti-slavery figure
  • Frances Nelson (1761–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
  • Fanny Stevenson (1840–1914), wife of writer Robert Louis Stevenson

Others
  • Fanny Altendorfer, Austrian luger who competed in the late 1920s
  • Fanny Anitùa (1887–1969), renowned Mexican contralto opera singer
  • Baroness Franziska Fanny von Arnstein (1758–1818), leader of society in Vienna, born Vögele Itzig
  • Fanny Balbuk (1840–1906), prominent Noongar Whadjuk woman who lived in Perth, Western Australia
  • Fanny Amelia Bayfield (died 1891), English-born Canadian artist and educator
  • Fanny de Beauharnais (1737–1813), French lady of letters and salon-holder born Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard
  • Fanny Bendixen (1820–1899), hotelier and saloon–keeper during the gold–rush period in British Columbia
  • Fanny Blood (1758–1785), English illustrator and educator and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Fanny Bornedal (born 2000), Danish actress. Fanny is the daughter of Ole Bornedal
  • Fanny Bouvet (born 1994), French diver
  • Fanny Brennan (1921–2001), French-American surrealist painter
  • Fanny Britt (born 1977), Canadian playwright and translator living in Quebec
  • Fanny Buitrago (born 1943), Colombian fiction writer and playwright
  • Fanny Cadeo (born 1970), Italian showgirl, model, television personality and singer
  • Fanny Cagnard (born 1981), French former competitive figure skater
  • Fanny Calder (1838–1923), promoter of education in domestic subjects in Liverpool
  • Fanny Carby (1925–2002), British actress
  • Fanny Carlsen, German screenwriter of the silent era
  • Fanny Carrió (fl. 1879–1949), Uruguayan liberal feminist
  • Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballet dancer and choreographer born Francesca Cerrito
  • Fanny Chamberlain (1825–1905), wife of Joshua Chamberlain
  • Fanny Churberg (1845–1892), Finnish landscape painter
  • Fanny Clamagirand (born 1984), French classical violinist
  • Fanny Colonna (1934–2014), French-Algerian sociologist and anthropologist
  • Fanny Corbaux (1812–1883), British painter and biblical commentator
  • Fanny Cornforth (1835–1909), model and mistress of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, real name thought to be Sarah Cox
  • Fanny Corri-Paltoni, celebrated English operatic soprano active in Europe between 1818 and 1835
  • Fanny Cradock (1909–1994), English restaurant critic born Phyllis Nan Sortain
  • Fanny Currey (1848–1917), Irish horticulturalist and watercolour painter
  • Fanny Deakin (1883–1968), politician from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England
  • Fanny Deberghes (born 1994), French swimmer
  • Fanny Duarte, Dominican Republic female badminton player
  • Fanny Duberly (1829–1903), English soldier's wife who wrote a journal of her experiences
  • Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American petroleum geologist
  • Fanny Fern (1811–1872), pen name of Sara Willis, American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories
  • Fanny Garrido (1846–1917), Spanish writer
  • Fanny Chambers Gooch (1842–1913), American author
  • Fanny Heldy (1888–1973), Belgian operatic soprano born Marguerite Virginie Emma Clémentine Deceuninck
  • Fanny Bury Palliser (1805–1878), English writer on art, and lace
  • Fanny Addison Pitt (1847–1937), English actress
  • Fanny Rubio (born 1949), Spanish academic
  • Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834–1905), Aboriginal Tasmanian
  • Princess Fanny von Starhemberg (1875–1943), Austrian politician born Franziska Gräfin von Larisch-Mönnich
  • Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), German writer born Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike Tarnow
  • Frederick Fanny Walden (1888–1949), English footballer and cricketer

Fictional characters
  • Fanny Hill, the protagonist of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, an erotic novel by John Cleland
  • Fanny Price, heroine of Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park
  • Fanny (Guilty Gear), a video game character
  • Fanny (Sesame Street)
  • Lord Fanny, from the DC Comics series The Invisibles
  • Madame Fanny La Fan, in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Aunt Fanny, a comic character played by Fran Allison on the radio show Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
  • Aunt Fanny, in Enid Blyton's The Famous Five novel series
  • Fanny Ekdahl, in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander
  • Fanny, the main character in Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny and the 1932 film adaptation Fanny

Animals
  • Fanny (elephant) (born 1940s), female Asian elephant who spent the majority of her life in a small zoo in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
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