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Ana Claudia Arias

Ana Claudia Arias (Ana C. Arias) is a Brazilian physicist and electrical engineer, Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor and Chair of EECS at UC Berkeley, known for printed flexible electronics.

Ana Conesa

Ana Conesa is a Spanish bioinformatics and computational biology researcher, a CSIC research professor at I2SysBio in Valencia since 2021, known for widely used software including Blast2GO and for pioneering computational methods for long-read transcriptome sequencing.

Ana Cristina Cesar

Ana Cristina Cesar, who signed her work Ana C., was a Brazilian poet and leading figure of the 1970s mimeograph generation, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952.

Ana Cumano

Ana Cumano, born 1956, is a Portuguese immunologist and Directrice de Recherche at INSERM who studies how blood cells form during embryonic development.

Ana Cumpănaș

Ana Cumpănaș (Anna Sage), the "Woman in Red," was a Romanian-born brothel madam who informed on John Dillinger for a $5,000 reward and promised help against deportation; the FBI killed Dillinger at the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, and she was deported to Romania, dying there in 1947.

Ana de Armas

Ana de Armas (Ana Celia de Armas Caso, born 1988, Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba) is a Cuban-Spanish actress known for El Internado, Blade Runner 2049, Knives Out, No Time to Die, and her Oscar-nominated Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.

Ana de la Reguera

Ana de la Reguera (Anabell Gardoqui de la Reguera, born 1977, Veracruz) is a Mexican actress, producer, and director. Known for Nacho Libre, Army of the Dead, Narcos, Goliath, and the semi-autobiographical Prime Video series Ana; she debuted as a feature director with Un hombre por semana (2026).

Ana Domingos

Ana I. Domingos is a Portuguese neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford since 2018, known for discovering sympathetic neurons in fat tissue that burn body fat.

Ana Foxxx

Ana Foxxx (born 1988, Rialto, California; birth name Savana Maisah Johnson) is an American adult film performer, Playboy Plus producer, and APAC president, a 2022 Urban X Performer of the Year and Fleshlight Girl with hundreds of scene credits since 2011.

Ana Gabriel

Ana Gabriel (María Guadalupe Araujo Yong, born 1955, Guamúchil, Sinaloa), Mexican singer called the Diva de América; 40 million records, Hot Latin Songs number ones, Hollywood Walk of Fame 2021, Claro de Luna tours.

Ana Garcés

Ana Garcés (Valladolid, 2000) is a Spanish actress, not the El Chiringuito journalist of the same name. She played Jana Expósito in RTVE's La Promesa for about 550 episodes and stars in Netflix's Oasis (2026).

Ana Gasteyer

Ana Gasteyer (born 1967) is an American actress, comedian, and singer, an SNL cast member 1996–2002 (Culps, Delicious Dish, Martha Stewart) and a Broadway veteran of Wicked, Once Upon a Mattress, and Tony-nominated Schmigadoon!.

Ana Hernandez

Ana Hernandez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 143, which covers part of Houston, since a December 2005 special election.

Ana I. de Alba

Ana Isabel de Alba is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2023, appointed by President Biden.

Ana Ipătescu

Ana Ipătescu, born Ana Ghiulerasă (1805–1875), was a Romanian heroine of the 1848 Revolution in Wallachia who rallied the crowd of Bucharest to free the arrested provisional government.

Ana Ivanovic (Ана Швајнштајгер)

Ana Ivanovic (Ана Ивановић), later Ana Schweinsteiger, is a retired Serbian tennis player who won the 2008 French Open and held world No. 1 in 2008.

Ana Ivis Fernandez

Ana Ivis Fernandez (Ana Ivis Fernandez Valle, also Ana Ibis), Cuban volleyball player born 1973 in Sancti Spiritus; Olympic gold 1996 and 2000, bronze 2004, world champion 1994 and 1998, later coach in Murcia, Spain.

Ana Jaklenec

Ana Jaklenec is a bioengineer and Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Koch Institute, known for single-injection self-boosting vaccines, microneedle vaccine printers, and heat-stable micronutrient carriers.

Ana Kasparian

Ana Kasparian (born 1986) is an American political commentator, co-host and producer of The Young Turks, CSUN journalism lecturer, and founder of the Unaligned Substack newsletter.

Ana Layevska (Анна Сергеевна Лаевская)

Ana Layevska (Анна Сергеевна Лаевская, born 1982, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian-Mexican actress and singer known for telenovelas Primer amor... a mil por hora, La madrastra, and Las dos caras de Ana, the film Cantinflas, and streaming series Guerra de vecinos and Dra. Lucía.

Ana Lily Amirpour (آنا لیلی امیرپور)

Ana Lily Amirpour is an Iranian-American film director and screenwriter. She gained attention for her 2014 debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a black-and-white vampire film.

Ana Lucía Domínguez

Ana Lucía Domínguez Tobón (born 1983, Bogotá) is a Colombian actress and model known for Libia Reyes in Pasión de gavilanes, La Tuti in Señora Acero, and Camila in Netflix's Pálpito; married to Jorge Cárdenas, mother of Luciana.

Ana Lucía Pineda

Ana Lucía Pineda Aruachán (born 1987, Montería) is a Colombian business administrator, founder of Amoree Gelateria, and first lady of Colombia since 7 August 2026 as wife of President Abelardo de la Espriella; she leads the Colombia, Un Solo Corazón earthquake donation campaign.

Ana Lydia Vega

Ana Lydia Vega, who also writes as Talía Cuervo, is a Puerto Rican writer born in 1946, known for irony, humor, and stories on Caribbean identity and language.

Ana M. González-Angulo

Ana M. González-Angulo is a breast medical oncologist known for a 2009 study linking metformin to chemotherapy response, and for her 2014 poisoning conviction at MD Anderson.

Ana Maria Branza Popescu

Ana Maria Branza Popescu (Brânză-Popescu), born 1984 in Bucharest, is a retired Romanian left-handed épée fencer: five Olympics, individual silvers at Beijing 2008 and Tokyo 2020, team gold at Rio 2016, two world team titles, seven European titles, retired December 2021.

Ana María Cuervo

Ana María Cuervo (Ana Maria Cuervo) is a Spanish-born American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who studies autophagy and its decline in aging and disease.

Ana Maria Machado

Ana Maria Machado, born 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian writer of children's books, novels, and essays who won the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Ana María Matute

Ana María Matute (1925–2014) was a Spanish novelist and children's author of the postwar era, elected to the Real Academia Española in 1996 and awarded the Premio Cervantes in 2010.

Ana Maria Rodriguez

Ana Maria Rodriguez is an American Republican politician representing Florida's 40th Senate district since 2020, after serving in the Florida House and Doral City Council.