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Anna Karlin

Anna Karlin is a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Washington known for online algorithms, the power of two choices paradigm, and a 2021 metric TSP improvement.

Anna Kashfi

Anna Kashfi, born Joan O'Callaghan (1934-2015), Welsh-raised actress presented as Indian, film debut The Mountain (1956), Marlon Brando's first wife 1957-1959, mother of Christian Brando, memoir Brando for Breakfast.

Anna Kelles

Anna Kelles is an American politician and public health scientist serving in the New York State Assembly since 2021, known for passing New York's cryptocurrency mining moratorium.

Anna Kelly (spokesperson)

Anna Kelly is the White House deputy press secretary under President Donald Trump, appointed January 24, 2025 after serving as National Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee and communications director in Wisconsin Republican politics; a former beauty pageant winner with a master's degree in political management, she has been reported as an early favorite to succeed Katie Zacharia as press secretary.

Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick (born 1985, Portland, Maine) is an American actress, singer, and author: Tony-nominated at 12 for High Society, Oscar-nominated for Up in the Air, star of Pitch Perfect and the triple-platinum single Cups, and director of Woman of the Hour.

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян)

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян), born 1985 in Moscow, is a New York-based American cultural critic and co-host, with Dasha Nekrasova, of the Red Scare podcast.

Anna Kiesenhofer

Anna Kiesenhofer, Austrian mathematician and cyclist, born 1991, won a solo amateur gold in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic women's road race, Austria's first cycling medal since 1896.

Anna Köhler (physicist)

Anna Köhler is a German physicist who studies electronic processes in organic semiconductors, holds a chair at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2020 became the first woman to receive the Max Born Medal and Prize.

Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (Ἄννα Κομνηνή; 1083 to c. 1153) was a Byzantine princess and historian, eldest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, known for the Alexiad, a history of her father's reign.

Anna Konkle

Anna Konkle (born 1987, Vermont) is an American actress, writer, and co-creator and star of Hulu's Pen15 with Maya Erskine; two-time Emmy nominee and author of the 2026 memoir The Sane One about her father.

Anna Kooiman

Anna Brooks Kooiman (born 1984) is an American news anchor, formerly Fox & Friends Weekend co-host (2011-2016), then Network Ten panelist in Sydney, now NewsNation weekend anchor since 2024.

Anna Kournikova (Анна Сергеевна Курникова)

Anna Kournikova (Анна Сергеевна Курникова), born 1981 in Moscow, Russian tennis player 1995-2003; doubles world No. 1, two Australian Open doubles titles with Hingis, no singles titles, No. 8 singles peak.

Anna L. Gloyn

Anna L. Gloyn, also known as Anna Gloyn, is a British diabetes geneticist and Stanford professor known for identifying KCNJ11 mutations as a cause of neonatal diabetes.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin (1743–1825), was an English poet, essayist, and educator whose Poems (1773) made her famous; her 1812 poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ended her career.

Anna Lasorella

Anna Lasorella is an Italian-trained physician-scientist in cancer genetics and brain tumor research, director of the Precision Medicine Initiative at the University of Miami since 2022.

Anna Lee

Anna Lee, also known as Joan Winnifrith, was an English actress who appeared in eight John Ford films and played Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital from 1978 to 2003.

Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist and addiction-medicine researcher who is Medical Director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, studies opioid prescribing, and wrote the 2021 bestseller Dopamine Nation.

Anna Leonowens

Anna Leonowens was an Indian-born British educator and writer whose memoirs of teaching at the Siamese court of King Mongkut from 1862 to 1867 inspired the musical The King and I.

Anna Leopoldovna

Anna Leopoldovna (Анна Леопольдовна), born 1718, was regent of the Russian Empire for her infant son Ivan VI from 1740 to 1741, overthrown in a coup by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great.

Anna Lore

Anna Lore, born 1993 in Dubuque, Iowa, is an American actress known as Stephanie Brown in Gotham Knights, Julia in Final Destination: Bloodlines, Hope in Black Phone 2, and her Frankenstein, MD debut.

Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann (born 1983) is a German Green politician and political scientist: Bundestag member 2002–2009 and from 2021, Minister of State for European Affairs and Climate 2021–2025, and former V-Dem Institute researcher on autocratization and democracy aid.

Anna Lundberg

Anna Lundberg (born 1994, Sweden) is an actress; plays a version of herself as Michael Sheen's partner in BBC's Staged, guest role Marion in The Sandman, and Last Train to Christmas. Not the coach, professor, or SVT presenter Anne Lundberg.

Anna Lunoe

Anna Lunoe is an Australian DJ, vocalist, and producer from Sydney who builds genre-fluid dance tracks around her own vocals and hosts Apple Music's HYPERHOUSE.

Anna M. Manasco

Anna Marie Manasco, born 1980 in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2020.

Anna M. Stagner

Anna M. Stagner, also published as Anna Stagner, is an American ophthalmologist and ophthalmic pathologist who directs ophthalmic pathology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Anna Madeley

Anna Madeley, English stage, film, and television actress born 1976 in London; trained at Central School of Speech and Drama; known for Mrs. Hall in All Creatures Great and Small, The Crown, and In Bruges.

Anna Mae Diehl

Anna Mae Diehl is an American hepatologist known for research on liver injury and fatty liver disease, who directs the Duke Liver Center at Duke University.

Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani (1908–1973) was an Italian actress, born and died in Rome, whose portrayals of working-class Roman women made her the face of Italian neorealism.

Anna Maiques

Anna Maiques Dern (born 1967, Barcelona/Terrassa) is a Spanish field hockey player who won gold with Spain at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the only Olympic gold by a Spanish women's team; clubs Júnior FC and CD Terrassa.

Anna Mani

Anna Modayil Mani, known as Anna Mani, was an Indian physicist and meteorologist who led India's weather instrument production and pioneered research on solar radiation, ozone, and wind energy.