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Anna on the Neck
Anna on the Neck (Анна на шее) is an 1895 short story by Anton Chekhov, about a young woman who marries a wealthy official to save her impoverished family.
Anna Ouyang Moench
Anna Ouyang Moench is an American playwright and screenwriter, author of Man of God and Birds of North America, writer on Severance, EP of Beef season 2, and showrunner of Mr. & Mrs. Smith season 2.
Anna Pankratova
Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (Анна Панкратова; 1897–1957) was a Soviet historian of the working-class movement, born in Odessa, who won the Stalin Prize in 1946 and edited Voprosy istorii from 1953.
Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin (born 1982, Winnipeg) is a Canadian-New Zealand actress who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at 11 for The Piano, starred as Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood, and played Rogue in X-Men.
Anna Paulina Luna
Anna Paulina Luna, born Anna Paulina Mayerhofer (1989), is a Republican US House member for Florida's 13th District since 2023, an Air Force veteran, former Turning Point USA Hispanic-engagement director, Freedom Caucus member, and chair of the federal-declassification task force.
Anna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова)
Anna Pavlova (Анна Павловна Павлова, 1881–1931), Russian prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre, star of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons, famed for The Dying Swan, who toured the world with her own company and died in The Hague.
Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Степановна Политковская)
Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Степановна Политковская, 1958–2006), Russian investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta who reported Chechen war abuses, was murdered in Moscow on 7 October 2006; five men convicted, no mastermind identified.
Anna Popplewell
Anna Popplewell (Anna Katherine Popplewell, born 1988) is a British actress known for Susan Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia films and Lola in Reign; Oxford English Literature graduate, Camie Award winner.
Anna Pyle
Anna Marie Pyle is an American structural biologist, Sterling Professor at Yale University and an HHMI Investigator, known for her structural studies of group II introns and RIG-I.
Anna Quayle
Anna Quayle (Anne Veronica Maria Quayle, 1932-2019) was an English actress known for Millie in A Hard Day's Night, Frau Hoffner in Casino Royale, and Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; no relation to Anthony Quayle.
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen (born 1953) is an American journalist and novelist, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her New York Times column "Public & Private," later a bestselling author of novels including One True Thing and Black and Blue.
Anna Rajan
Anna Rajan (Anna Reshma Rajan, born 1991, Aluva, Kochi) is a Malayalam film actress, a former Rajagiri Hospital nurse, and the debut lead Lichi of Angamaly Diaries (2017), a Filmfare South 2018 supporting-actress nominee, later in Ayyappanum Koshiyum and the Tamil Jailer 2 (2026).
Anna Richardson
Anna Clare Richardson (born 1970) is an English TV presenter, journalist, and producer known for Channel 4's Naked Attraction, Supersize vs Superskinny, and The Sex Education Show; distinct from the solicitor, author Ann Richardson, and actress Anne Richardson.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted (1906-1975), also Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, was FDR's only daughter, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor, White House assistant and hostess, Yalta attendee, and Arizona Times publisher.
Anna Rudolf
Anna Rudolf (born 1987, Miskolc, Hungary) is a Hungarian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, three-time Hungarian women's champion, 2008 Olympiad player, and prominent chess commentator and streamer known for the false lipstick cheating accusation.
Anna S. Lok
Anna Suk-Fong Lok is a hepatologist at the University of Michigan who led the first interferon-free cure of hepatitis C and authored the first WHO hepatitis B guideline.
Anna Samson
Anna Samson (born 1989, England) is an Australian actress, lead as DI Mackenzie Clarke in Return to Paradise, the Death in Paradise spin-off; VCA graduate, known for What If It Works? and Home and Away; distinct from Danish actress Anna Sampson.
Anna Santamans
Anna Santamans, born 1993 in Arles, is a French sprint freestyle swimmer, 2010 Youth Olympic 50 m freestyle champion, two-time Olympian, and French 50 m freestyle record holder (24.54, Budapest 2017).
Anna Sawai (アンナ・サワイ)
Anna Sawai (アンナ・サワイ), born 1992 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a Japanese actor and former Faky singer who won the 2024 Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for playing Toda Mariko in FX's Shōgun.
Anna Sedoykina
Anna Sedoykina (Анна Сергеевна Седойкина, born 1984, Volgograd) is a Russian handball goalkeeper, Olympic champion Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 silver medalist, world champion 2009, later CSKA goalkeeper coach.
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling/Radványi, 1900–1983), German-Jewish communist writer born in Mainz; exile in France and Mexico; author of Das siebte Kreuz (1942) and Transit (1944); Büchner Prize 1947; led the GDR Writers' Union 1952–1978.
Anna Sen
Anna Sen (Анна Сергеевна Сень, born 1990, Krasnodar) is a Russian handball back for Rostov-Don; Olympic gold 2016 and silver 2020, MVP of Rio 2016 and EHF EURO 2018.
Anna Shaffer
Anna Shaffer (born 1992, London) is an English actor known as Romilda Vane in three Harry Potter films, Ruby Button in Hollyoaks, and Triss Merigold in seasons 1-4 of Netflix's The Witcher; she also auditioned for Yennefer and made her stage debut in Daisy Pulls It Off (2018).
Anna Shcherbakova (Анна Станиславовна Щербакова)
Anna Shcherbakova (Анна Щербакова), born 2004 in Moscow, is a Russian figure skater, 2022 Beijing Olympic champion, 2021 World and 2022 European champion, known for landing quadruple Lutz and flip jumps.
Anna Shorina
Anna Vladimirovna Shorina (Анна Владимировна Шорина), Russian artistic swimmer born 1982 in Moscow; won Olympic team gold at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 plus six world and five European titles.
Anna Shpynyova
Anna Shpynyova (Анна Александровна Шпынёва, FIS: Shpyneva), Russian ski jumper born 2002 in Saint Petersburg; gold medalist in girls' normal hill at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics and 2019 junior world champion.
Anna Silk
Anna Silk (born 1974, Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian actress best known as Bo Dennis, the succubus lead of Lost Girl (2010–2015); also Cassidy in Being Erica, Roarke in Blood & Treasure.
Anna Simcic
Anna Simcic (Anna Katrina Simcic-Forrest), New Zealand backstroke swimmer born 1971 in Wels, Austria; 1990 Commonwealth Games 200m backstroke gold, world short course record 2:07.11 (1992), double Olympian, later HPSNZ athlete life advisor.
Anna Smrek
Anna Smrek (born 2003), Canadian volleyball opposite, 6'9"/205 cm, 2021 NCAA champion and tournament MVP with Wisconsin Badgers; pro in Milan and Istanbul, Team Canada VNL; daughter of NBA champion Mike Smrek.
Anna Snegina
Anna Snegina (Анна Снегина) is an autobiographical lyrical-epic poem by Sergei Yesenin, completed in January 1925, combining a love story with village life during the revolution.