Fanny (name)

For the various slang uses of the word 'fanny', see Wiktionary.

Fanny is a given name—a pet form of Frances, which in turn is the female form of Francis— and a place name.

People commonly known solely by the given name Fanny include:

• Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington.
• Fanny is the first name of a girl often used in segments on the children's television show Sesame Street
• Fanny Brice
• Fanny Cradock
• Fanny Crosby
• Fanny Hill, (fictional) character in an erotic novel by John Cleland.
• Fanny, Being The True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones. is the title of a novel by Erica Jong. (1980)
• Fanny is an alias of breakcore artist Frasier Runciman.

Plays and films known as 'Fanny' include:

• Fanny is a play by S.N. Behrman, Joshua Logan and Harold Rome based from the plays Fanny, Marius and César by Marcel Pagnol.
• Fanny is a 1922 Mexican silent film written by Eduardo Urriola and directed by Manuel Sánchez Valtierra
• Fanny is a 1932 French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Marc Allégret
• Fanny is a 1933 Italian film written by Alessandro De Stefani & Raffaello Matarazzo and directed by Mario Almirante
• Fanny is a 1961 film by Julius J. Epstein based on the play Fanny (1961)
• Fany (aka "Fanny") is a 1995 Czech film written by Jiří Hubac and directed by Karel Kachyňa
• Fanny is a 2000 made-for-TV French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Nicolas Ribowski

Places known as Fanny include:

• Fanny, West Virginia, USA