Anna

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Anna, Anne, or Ann may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Culture and society 3.1 Films, television, theatre and games 3.2 Literature 3.3 Music 4 Science 5 Vehicles 6 Other uses 7 See also

• Anna (name), a female given name
  • Anne, a derivation of Anna

Anna means "gracious".

[edit] People

• Anna (Bible), also known as Anna the Prophetess in the Gospel of Luke
• Anna (singer) (1987), Japanese-American singer
• Anna Phersönernas moder, Swedish alleged witch
• Anna of East Anglia (c. 636-654), King of East Anglia
• Anna Porphyrogeneta (963–1011), sister of Basil II, the Byzantine emperor
• Annah Graefe, late 20th- early 21st-century German folksinger
• Saint Anne, known by tradition as the mother of the Virgin Mary
• Queen Anne (disambiguation), list of queens bearing the name Anne
• Princess Anne (disambiguation), list of princesses bearing the
• Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425), countess consort of Celje in Slovenia
• Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (d. 1418)
• Anne, Duchess of Luxembourg (1432–1462)
• Anne of Brittany (1488-1514), Breton ruler
• Anna, popular name of N. T. Rama Rao Chief Minister of AndhraPradesh, India
• Anna, popular name of C. N. Annadurai (1909-1969), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
• Anna, the codename of Alfred Frenzel (1899-1968), a Czechoslovakian spy
• Anne Hathaway, Actress

[edit] Places

• Anna, Valencia, Spain
• Anna, Illinois, United States
• Anna, Ohio, United States
• Ann, Burma, a town in Rakhine State, Myanmar
• Anna, Estonia, a village in Paide Commune, Järva County, Estonia
• Anna, Latvia, a village in the Alūksne District, Latvia
• Anna, Voronezh Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Voronezh Oblast, Russia
• Anna Paulowna, a municipality and town in the Netherlands
• Anna Regina, the capital of the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana
• Anna Salai, an arterial road in Chennai, India
• Anna Valley, a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom
• Lake Anna, a freshwater lake in central Virginia
• Anna Cave, a natural limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary
• Anna River, any of several rivers in the United States
• Anna University, an engineering university in India

[edit] Culture and society

[edit] Films, television, theatre and games

• Anna (film) (1987) American film about a Czech actress in New York City
• Anna (1951 film), Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
• Anna and the King (TV series), American TV series
• Anna and the King of Siam (film) (1946), American film directed by John Cromwell
• Anna and the Wolves (1973), Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura
• Anna: 6 - 18 (1993), documentary by Nikita Mikhalkov
• Anna's Dream (2002), American television film directed by Colin Bickley
• Anna's Storm (2007), Canadian film directed by Kristoffer Tabori
• Anna M. (2007), French film directed by Michel Spinosa
• Anne (Little Britain) fictional character in the Little Britain radio and TV show
• Anne (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode), from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games

[edit] Literature

• Anna, the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn
• Anna (magazine), a Finnish women's magazine
• Anna and the King of Siam (book), a semi-fictionalised biographical novel by Margaret Landon
• Anna Christie, a play by Eugene O'Neill
• Anna Karenina, a novel by Leo Tolstoy
• Anna Lombard a novel by Annie Sophie Cory
• Anne of Green Gables, a series of novels by L. M. Montgomery
• Anna, the sister of Dido (Queen of Carthage) in Roman mythology and later literature
• Anna, an early name for Morgause of Arthurian legend

[edit] Music

• "Anna", a 1975 song by Bad Company on Straight Shooter (album)
• "Anna", a 1970 song by Lucio Battisti
• "Anna", a song by Toto from The Seventh One
• "Anna (Go to Him)", a 1962 song by Arthur Alexander, later covered by The Beatles
• "Anna's Song", a 1978 song by Marvin Gaye
• "Ana's Song (Open Fire)", a 1998 song by Silverchair
• "Boten Anna" (Anna, the bot), a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter
• "Anna e Marco", a 1977 song by Lucio Dalla
• Anna Records, early Motown label
• "Anna Begins", song by Counting Crows

[edit] Science

• Anna (dog), first survivor of experimental pulmonary bypass surgery
• Anna (mollusc), a genus of the family Buccinidae

[edit] Vehicles

• Anna (1912 automobile), a defunct automobile of unknown origin
• HMS Anne, the ship that carried James Oglethorpe and the first settlers of Georgia
• MV Anna, a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
• SS Anny, an Italian coastal tanker, later fitted with a diesel engine and thus becoming MV Anny

[edit] Other uses

• Anna (era) (安和, An'na^?), Japanese era from 968 to 970
• Indian anna, currency unit formerly used in India
• Anna University, engineering school in India
• Pommes Anna, or Anna Potatoes, a classic French potato dish

[edit] See also

• ANN (disambiguation)
• Anya
• Santa Ana (disambiguation)
• Saint Anne (disambiguation)
• Annie (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Ann", including many people with forename Ann
• All pages beginning with "Anna", including many people with forename Anna
• All pages beginning with "Anne", including many people with forename Anne
• All pages beginning with "Annie", including many people with forename Annie
• All pages with titles containing "Anna"
• All pages with titles containing "Ann"
• All pages with titles containing "Anne"
• All pages with titles containing "Annie"

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