All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Anna Anderson
Anna Anderson, also known as Franziska Schanzkowska, was the most famous woman to claim to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; a 1994 DNA test proved she was not.
Anna Andreyeva
Anna Andreyeva (Анна Семёновна Андреева, 1915–1997), Soviet shot putter; 1950 European champion in Brussels (14.32 m) and first woman over 15 m, world record 15.02 m at Ploiești, 9 November 1950.
Anna Anka
Anna Anka (Danuta Anna Kołodziejska, b. 1971, Poland) is a Swedish-American model, actress, and reality TV personality, famous for Svenska Hollywoodfruar (2009) and her marriage to singer Paul Anka (2008–2010), now a wellness coach in Los Angeles.
Anna B. Eckstein
Anna B. Eckstein (Anna Bernhardine Eckstein, 1868–1947) was a German-born pacifist and Boston educator whose World Petition gathered six million signatures by 1914, earning a 1913 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Anna Bågenholm
Anna Bågenholm (born 1970) is a Swedish radiologist in Tromsø who survived 1999's skiing accident under ice with the lowest recorded survived body temperature, 13.7 °C.
Anna Bansode
Anna Bansode is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, elected unanimously in March 2025.
Anna Baryshnikov
Anna Katerina Baryshnikov, American actress born 1992 in New York, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart; known for Manchester by the Sea, Dickinson's Lavinia, and her first lead role in Idiotka.
Anna Bebington Watkins
Anna Bebington Watkins (Anna Watkins, née Bebington), British rower born 1983 in Leek, Staffordshire: Olympic bronze Beijing 2008 and gold London 2012 in the women's double scull, world champion 2010 and 2011 with Katherine Grainger, MBE, later BEAA CEO.
Anna Belknap
Anna Belknap (born 1972) is an American actress from Damariscotta, Maine, known for Detective Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY (2005–2013, 172 episodes) and Eva Rossi on Medical Investigation; Middlebury BA, ACT MFA.
Anna Berreiter
Anna Berreiter (born 1999, Berchtesgaden) is a German artificial-track luger, Olympic silver medalist in women's singles at Beijing 2022 and double world champion (singles and team relay) at Oberhof 2023; sixth at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Anna Bijns
Anna Bijns was a South Netherlandish poet and schoolteacher of Antwerp, born 1493 and died 1575, best known for her refreinen attacking Martin Luther in Dutch.
Anna Bill‐Axelson
Anna Bill-Axelson is a Swedish urologist, professor of surgical sciences at Uppsala University, who leads the SPCG-4 randomized trial showing that radical prostatectomy extends life in early prostate cancer.
Anna Biller
Anna Biller is an American filmmaker and novelist known for The Love Witch (2016), writing, directing, and designing her films from a feminist point of view.
Anna Biryukova
Anna Biryukova (Анна Германовна Бирюкова), Russian triple jumper born 1967 in Yekaterinburg; 1993 world champion and first woman to exceed 15 m with a 15.09 m world record; 1996 Olympian.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo, partners in life and work, known for Half Nelson (2006), Sugar, Mississippi Grind, the billion-dollar Captain Marvel (2019), and Freaky Tales (2024).
Anna Bogaly Titovets
Anna Bogaly Titovets (Анна Богалий-Титовец, also spelled Anna Bogaliy-Titovets) is a retired Russian biathlete who won two consecutive Olympic relay golds, in 2006 and 2010.
Anna Breuer
Anna Breuer (Anna Breuer-Mosler, 1911–?), Polish sprinter and long jumper from Roździeń/Katowice; 1928 Olympic 100 m non-starter, six-time Polish champion, nine Polish records, career ended 1933.
Anna Brewster
Anna Brewster (born 1986, Birmingham) is an English actress known as Madame de Montespan in Versailles, Bazine Netal in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Anita in Anita and Me; former model, first film lead in The Last Days of American Crime (2020).
Anna Brigadere
Anna Brigadere (1861–1933) was a Latvian writer, playwright, and poet, one of the best-known authors of Latvian literature, best remembered for the fairy-tale play Sprīdītis.
Anna C. Balazs
Anna C. Balazs is an American chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is Distinguished Professor, who uses computational models to design polymer nanocomposites and bio-inspired materials.
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre, known as Kia Nobre, is a Brazilian-born cognitive neuroscientist who studies attention and working memory, and became Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology at Yale in 2023.
Anna Caballero
Anna M. Caballero is an American Democratic politician in the California State Senate since 2016, previously Mayor of Salinas and a member of the State Assembly.
Anna Camp
Anna Camp (Anna Ragsdale Camp), born 1982 in Aiken, South Carolina, is an American actress known for Aubrey Posen in Pitch Perfect, Sarah Newlin in True Blood, Broadway work, and twins in You.
Anna Carin Olofsson Zidek
Anna Carin Olofsson Zidek (née Olofsson, "ACO"), born 1973 in Sveg, Sweden, is a former Swedish biathlete and ex-cross-country skier who won 2006 Olympic mass start gold and sprint silver, six World Championship medals, and 12 World Cup races before retiring in 2011.
Anna Carina
Anna Carina is a Peruvian singer-songwriter and actress born in Lima in 1981 who has released five studio albums since 2002 and, since 2024, records cumbia fusions with Peruvian groups.
Anna Cathcart
Anna Cathcart is a Canadian actress from Vancouver known as Kitty Song Covey in To All the Boys I've Loved Before and its Netflix spin-off XO, Kitty, and as Dizzy Tremaine in Disney's Descendants films.
Anna Cavazzini
Anna Cavazzini is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs its internal market committee.
Anna Chalfoun
Anna D. Chalfoun is an American wildlife ecologist at the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Unit and University of Wyoming, studying habitat selection and wildlife responses to environmental change.
Anna Chancellor
Anna Theodora Chancellor, British actor born 1965 in Richmond, best known as Duckface in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Caroline Bingley in BBC's Pride and Prejudice; also Lix Storm in The Hour and stage roles at the National Theatre.
Anna Chapman
Anna Chapman, born Anna Kuschenko, Russian SVR illegal arrested in Manhattan 2010 in Operation Ghost Stories, swapped at Vienna for four prisoners including Skripal, later Russian TV personality.