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Fannie Mae

Fannie Mae, formally the Federal National Mortgage Association, is a government-sponsored enterprise that buys residential mortgages and guarantees mortgage-backed securities, providing liquidity to the U.S. housing market since 1938.

Fannie Masemola

Sehlahle Fannie Masemola is a South African police general who has served as National Commissioner of the South African Police Service since 1 April 2022, after three decades of operational policing.

Oct 20, 2026

Fanniidae

Fanniidae, the lesser house fly family, is a small worldwide family of calyptrate flies with over 360 species in five genera including Fannia; flattened larvae breed in decaying matter, dung, and carrion, giving the family forensic importance.

Fanny (band)

Fanny (band): American all-female rock band, 1969-1975, formed by June and Jean Millington; first all-female rock band to release albums on a major label (Reprise), with hits "Charity Ball" and "Butter Boy."

Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) is Ingmar Bergman's 1982 semi-autobiographical drama about the Ekdahl family in 1907 Uppsala, made in a 188-minute theatrical cut and a five-hour TV version, winner of four Oscars including best foreign language film.

Fanny Ardant

Fanny Ardant, French actress born 1949 in Saumur, discovered in Les Dames de la côte, launched by Truffaut's La Femme d'à côté; two-time César winner (Pédale douce, La Belle Époque) and director.

Fanny Blankers-Koen

Fanny Blankers-Koen (Francina Elsje Koen, 1918-2004), Dutch sprinter and hurdler nicknamed the Flying Housewife, won four golds at the 1948 London Olympics and was named IAAF Female Athlete of the Century in 1999.

Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice (Fania Borach, 1891–1951), American Jewish comedian, singer, and Ziegfeld Follies headliner; star of "My Man" and radio's Baby Snooks; subject of Funny Girl, later played by Barbra Streisand.

Oct 22, 2026

Fanny Buitrago

Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian novelist, playwright, and storyteller born in Barranquilla in 1946, known for El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963) and Caribbean coast settings.

Fanny Cradock

Fanny Cradock (Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, 1909-1994), English television cook, writer and restaurant critic; Britain's first celebrity TV chef, BBC Kitchen Magic 1955, Bon Viveur column, ended by the 1976 Gwen Troake broadcast.

Fanny Crenshaw

Fanny Graves Crenshaw (1890-1984), American educator and athletic director at Westhampton College, University of Richmond; set 1912 women's long jump world record 4.65 m, coached basketball 166-58-6, co-founded USFHA.

Fanny Crosby

Fanny Crosby, also known as Frances Jane Crosby or Fanny van Alstyne, was a blind American hymn writer who published more than 8,000 hymns, including "Blessed Assurance" and "To God Be the Glory."

Fanny Durack

Fanny Durack (Sarah Frances Durack, 1889–1956), Australian swimmer who won the 100m freestyle at Stockholm 1912, the first Olympic women's swimming event, becoming Australia's first female Olympic gold medallist and holder of twelve world records.

Fanny Fischer

Fanny Fischer (Fanny Rauhe), German sprint kayaker born 1986 in Potsdam, KC Potsdam; 2008 Beijing Olympic K4 500 m gold, three world and four European titles, niece of Birgit Fischer, retired 2011.

Fanny Hill

Fanny Hill, full title Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, is John Cleland's 1748–1749 erotic novel, generally regarded as the first original English prose pornography.

Sep 19, 2026

Fanny J

Fanny J, real name Fanny Jacques André Coquin, is a French zouk singer from Cayenne, French Guiana, who broke through in 2007 with "Ancrée à ton port".

Fanny Kaplan (Фанни Ефимовна Каплан)

Fanny Kaplan (Фанни Ефимовна Каплан), born Feiga Roytblat, Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary who shot and wounded Lenin in Moscow on 30 August 1918 and was executed without trial; her guilt is disputed.

Fanny Knight

Fanny Knight (Frances Catherine Austen Knight, Lady Knatchbull, 1793–1882) was Jane Austen's favourite niece, whose diaries and letters are a key biographical source and who likely annotated the family Baronetage used for Persuasion.

Sep 19, 2026

Fanny Lu

Fanny Lu is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and television presenter from Cali, known for the hits 'No Te Pido Flores' and 'Tú No Eres Para Mí'.

Fanny Lumsden

Fanny Lumsden is an Australian country singer-songwriter and farmer near Tooma, NSW, winner of 2 ARIA Best Country Album awards (Fallow, Hey Dawn) and creator of the Country Halls Tour; her fifth album Traditions is due October 2026.

Fanny Mendelssohn

Fanny Mendelssohn, also Fanny Hensel (1805-1847), German Romantic composer and pianist, Felix Mendelssohn's older sister; over 450 works, Sonntagsmusiken salon director, six opus numbers published late in life.

Fanny pack

Fanny pack (bum bag, belt bag): a small zippered pouch worn on a waist strap, with 5,000-year origins in Ötzi's belt pouch, a 1980s athleisure peak, a 1990s stigma, and a 2010s revival as cross-body sling and luxury belt bag.

Fanny Rinne

Fanny Rinne (Fanny Rinne-Cihlar), born 1980 in Mannheim, German field hockey player; Olympic gold 2004, four Games 2000-2012, 341 caps, 131 goals, EuroHockey Hall of Fame 2025.

Fanny Smith

Fanny Smith, born 1992, Swiss ski cross racer; three Olympic medals (silver 2026, bronze 2018 and 2022), three world titles, four Crystal Globes, 37 World Cup wins.

Fanny-18B Oil and Gas Field

Fanny-18B is an operating onshore oil and gas field in Ecuador's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 1972, producing since 1975, and wholly owned by Andes Petroleum.

Fano

Fano (Fanum Fortunae) is an Adriatic town in Marche, Italy, 12 km south of Pesaro; Roman colony Colonia Julia Fanestris with the Arch of Augustus (AD 9), the 2026-confirmed basilica of Vitruvius, beaches, and Italy's oldest Carnival.

Fano algorithm

The Fano algorithm is a sequential decoding algorithm for convolutional codes, devised by Robert M. Fano of MIT and published in 1963, searching a code tree while keeping only one current path and a running threshold.

Fano factor

The Fano factor is a dimensionless measure of fluctuations in a counted quantity, the ratio of variance to mean, named after Ugo Fano's 1947 work on ionization statistics.

Fano plane

The Fano plane, or Fano configuration, is the smallest finite projective plane: 7 points and 7 lines, with 3 points on each line, constructed by Gino Fano in 1892.