Anne

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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.^[1] Anne is a common name in France.

It is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands (for example Anne de Vries). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton)

Notable people named Anne

• Anne Bancroft, American actress (1931-2005)
• Anne Baxter, American actress (1923-1985)
• Anne Boleyn, Queen consort and second wife of King Henry VIII of England (c. 1501/1507 - 1536)
• Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672), America's first published poet
• Anne Brontë (1820-1849), British novelist and poet
• Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567), constable of France, soldier, statesman, and diplomat
• Anne de Noailles (d. 1678), first Duke of Noailles
• Anne de Vries (1904–1964), Dutch writer from Drenthe
• Lord Anne Douglas-Hamilton (1709-1748), Scottish nobleman
• Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg (1432-1462)
• Anne Francis (1930-2011), American actress
• Anne Frank (1929-1945), Jewish-German diarist
• Anne Hathaway
  • Anne Hathaway (actress) (born 1982), American actress
  • Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) (1556-1623), wife of William Shakespeare
• Anne Hutchinson, American religious dissenter (1591-1643)
• Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
• Anne Judkins (born 1964), New Zealand race walker
• Anne Keothavong (1866-1936), British tennis player
• Anne Kornblut, author of Notes from the Cracked Ceiling
• Anne Kremer (born 1975), Luxembourgish tennis player
• Anne Meara, American actress and comedian (1929- )
• Anne Murray, Canadian singer (1945- )
• Anne of Austria, Queen consort of France
• Anne of Brittany (1488-1514), Breton ruler, Queen consort of France
• Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII
• Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland; after 1707 Queen of Great Britain
• Anne Provoost, Flemish author
• Anne Rice, American author
• Anne Veski (born 1956), Estonian pop singer
• Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician
• Princess Anne, the name and title of several individuals
  • Anne, only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II
• Watanabe Anne 渡辺杏 (Anne/杏), Japanese model/actress
• Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary
• Jithendra Anne, Born and brought up in Andhra

Notable people with the middle name Anne

• Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" French, Australian children's author

Notable people named Ann

• Ann Alexander Smith
• Ann Bancroft
• Ann Bonny
• Ann Brashares
• Ann Donahue
• Ann Druyan
• Ann Dunham
• Ann-Margret
• Ann Petry
• Ann Radcliffe
• Ann Sothern
• Ann Wilson
• Julia Ann
• Keren Ann
• LeAnn Rimes

Name used in fiction

• Ann Darrow from the King Kong motion pictures (1933 and 2005)
• Anne Elliot from Jane Austen's Persuasion (novel)
• Anne Page from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Princess Ann (Anya) from Roman Holiday
• Raggedy Ann
• Anne Shirley from L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

See also

• Queen Anne
• Lady Anne
• Ann Arbor, Michigan

References

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