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Ann Cusack

Ann Cusack (born 1961) is an American actress and singer, eldest sibling of John and Joan Cusack. Known for A League of Their Own (1992), Better Call Saul's Rebecca Bois, The Boys, and Sully (2016).

Ann D. Montgomery

Ann D. Montgomery (born 1949) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Minnesota, appointed by President Clinton in 1996.

Ann Debay

Ann Debay (Ann Chiaramonti Debay) is an American materials research engineer at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Ann Dowd

Ann Dowd (born 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American actress, Emmy winner as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale, known for Compliance, The Leftovers, Hereditary, Mass, and The Testaments.

Ann Droid

Ann Droid is a 2026 BBC One sitcom created by and starring Diane Morgan as Linda, a second-hand eldercare robot for widow Sue (Sue Johnston), co-written with Sarah Kendall, six episodes, renewed for series 2.

Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan (born 1949) is an American writer, producer, and director, co-writer of the 1980 series Cosmos with her husband Carl Sagan and creative director of NASA's Voyager Golden Record.

Ann Dunham

Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), American economic anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama; PhD from University of Hawaii, 1,043-page dissertation on Javanese blacksmithing, Ford Foundation and Bank Rakyat Indonesia microfinance consultant.

Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak (Anna McKim, 1911-1979), American pre-Code film actress famous as Cesca in Scarface (1932) and Three on a Match; known for her Warner Bros. contract rebellion, WWII London ambulance service, and Hawaii retirement.

Ann E. McDermott

Ann E. McDermott is a chemist at Columbia University, where she holds the Breslow Professorship, known for solid-state NMR of proteins and dynamic nuclear polarization, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Ann Eliza Young

Ann Eliza Young, born Ann Eliza Webb (1844-1917), was a plural wife of Brigham Young who divorced him, sued for alimony, lectured against polygamy, and wrote Wife No. 19.

Ann Fairlie

Ann Fairlie, South African backstroke swimmer from Johannesburg, set three world records in 1966 (110y and 100m backstroke) and was the youngest swimmer awarded Springbok colours, age 13, in 1963; barred from the Olympics by apartheid.

Ann Flora Froude Flashman

Ann Flora Froude Flashman, Lady Rylah (1911-1969), Australian veterinarian; first woman to enrol in Sydney University Veterinary Science, first paid vet at Lort Smith Animal Hospital, wife of Sir Arthur Rylah.

Ann Grant

Ann Grant (Ann-Mary Gwynne Grant, born 1955, Harare) is a Zimbabwean field hockey player who captained the Golden Girls to the first Olympic women's hockey gold at Moscow 1980, Zimbabwe's first Olympic gold. Not the New Zealand suffragist or First Fleet convict of the same name.

Ann H. Partridge

Ann H. Partridge is an American medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a Harvard professor known for research on breast cancer in young women.

Ann Hermundstad

Ann Hermundstad is a neuroscientist who leads a lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, and heads Theory@HHMI, combining theory with experiments in flies and mice.

Ann Hochschild

Ann Hochschild is an American microbiologist who chairs the Department of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School, known for bacterial transcription regulation and for showing that prions can form in bacteria.

Ann Jäderlund

Ann Jäderlund, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish poet, playwright, and translator whose difficult second collection, Som en gång varit äng (1988), triggered the Jäderlund debate.

Ann Jansson

Ann Jansson: name of two Swedish athletes. A race walker (born 1958) who set the 10,000m track walk world record 47:58.2 in 1981 and took 1986 European 10km walk silver, and a footballer who scored Sweden women's first international goal (1974) and won Euro 1984.

Ann Jillian

Ann Jillian (Ann Jura Nauseda, born 1950) is an American actress and singer, child star of Babes in Toyland and Gypsy, Broadway's Sugar Babies, It's a Living, Mae West, and Golden Globe winner for The Ann Jillian Story.

Ann Johnson

Ann Johnson is an American Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston's 134th district, elected in 2020 and a former human trafficking prosecutor.

Ann Jones (tennis)

Ann Jones (Adrianne Shirley Haydon-Jones, born 1938), English left-handed tennis champion; 1969 Wimbledon and two-time French singles winner, 8 majors from 21 finals, BBC Sports Personality 1969, Hall of Fame 1985, CBE 2014.

Ann Kaplan Mulholland

Ann Kaplan Mulholland is a Canadian entrepreneur and reality-television personality who founded iFinance Canada in 1996, sold it in 2022, and now runs Lympne Castle in Kent.

Ann Karindi Mwangi

Ann Karindi Mwangi (born 1988) is a Kenyan distance runner in the 1500 m, 3000 m, 5000 m, and cross country; 2009 World Cross team champion, distinct from the 1973-born World U20 champion Ann Mwangi.

Ann L. Aiken

Ann L. Aiken, born 1951 in Salem, Oregon, is a United States district judge in Oregon since 1998, chief judge from 2009 to 2016, and in senior status since 2023.

Ann L. Lee

Ann L. Lee is an American chemical engineer and biotechnology executive, Chief Technical Officer of Prime Medicine and a 2007 member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Ann Lee (musician)

Ann Lee is the stage name of Annerley Emma Gordon, a British-born eurodance singer and songwriter based in Italy, best known for the 1999 hit "2 Times".

Ann Liang

Ann Liang, Chinese-Australian author born in Beijing and based in Melbourne, writes bestselling YA and adult fiction including If You Could See the Sun, This Time It's Real, A Song to Drown Rivers, and I Am Not Jessica Chen.

Ann M. Arvin

Ann M. Arvin is an American physician-scientist and virologist at Stanford University whose research established how varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chickenpox and shingles, travels through the body and reactivates.

Ann M. Donnelly

Ann Marie Donnelly, born in 1959, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2015.

Ann M. Donoghue

Ann M. Donoghue, also published as Annie Donoghue, is a USDA Agricultural Research Service poultry physiologist known for avian semen preservation and bacteriophage therapy against Salmonella in poultry.