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Anna Wojtaszek Pazera

Anna Wojtaszek-Pazera-Bocson (born 25 November 1936, Krzanowice) is a Polish-born Australian javelin thrower, three-time Olympian, who set a 57.40 m world record at the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games.

Anna Yemashova

Anna Yemashova (Анна Емашова), Russian 800m runner born 1983; ran on the Russian 4x800m indoor relay world record team (8:18.54, Volgograd, 2007); PB 2:02.27; later on ARAF ineligibility list.

Anna Żabska

Anna Żabska is a Polish lawyer and local-government official appointed Voivode of Lower Silesian Voivodeship in 2024, after leading cultural and tourism institutions in Wałbrzych.

Anna-Carina Woitschack

Anna-Carina Woitschack is a German Schlager singer and television personality who entered the scene on Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2011 and has released six studio albums.

Anna-Kaisa Ikonen

Anna-Kaisa Ikonen, born in 1977 in Tampere, is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician who has served as Minister of Local and Regional Government since 2023 and twice served as Mayor of Tampere.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923–2014), Polish philosopher and student of Roman Ingarden, founded the phenomenology of life and the human creative condition and led the World Phenomenology Institute and the Analecta Husserliana series.

Anna's Archive

Anna's Archive, launched 2022 by pseudonymous 'Anna', is an open-source shadow-library search engine indexing LibGen, Z-Library, Sci-Hub, Internet Archive and DuXiu records, distributing files via torrents; it faced 2026 US default judgments including $322 million for Spotify scraping.

Anna's hummingbird

Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna), a Pacific Coast hummingbird with a rose crown and gorget; expanded from Baja/southern California northward since the mid-1930s via feeders and eucalyptus, with populations increasing dramatically since 1970.

Annaatthe (அண்ணாத்த)

Annaatthe (அண்ணாத்த) is a 2021 Tamil action family drama directed by Siva, starring Rajinikanth as village head Kaalaiyan protecting his sister (Keerthy Suresh) in Kolkata; a Sun Pictures production released on Deepavali 2021, earning ₹106.77 crore net in India against a ₹180 crore budget and mostly negative reviews.

Annaba (city)

Annaba (عنابة), ancient Hippo Regius and colonial Bône, is a Mediterranean port city in northeastern Algeria at the Seybouse river mouth, Saint Augustine's episcopal see 391–430, known for its Roman ruins, basilica, port, and tram project.

Annaba (district)

Annaba District (دائرة عنابة) is a daïra of Annaba Province, Algeria, seat at the city of Annaba; it comprises the communes of Annaba and Séraïdi, with about 284,719 residents in 2025.

Annabel Chong

Annabel Chong, stage name of Singaporean Grace Quek (born 1972), a former adult film actress whose 1995 World's Biggest Gang Bang (251 acts, ~70 men, 10 hours) set a widely reported record and led to the 1999 Sundance documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story.

Annabel Croft

Annabel Croft (born 1966), British tennis player and TV presenter; won 1984 Wimbledon and Australian Open junior titles, career-high singles No. 24, retired at 21, later BBC/Sky/Eurosport broadcaster and 2023 Strictly semi-finalist.

Annabel Giles

Annabel Giles (1959–2023), British TV and radio presenter, model and novelist; face of Max Factor, co-presenter of ITV's Posh Frocks and New Trousers, author of Birthday Girls, later a psychotherapist; died of glioblastoma.

Annabel Kosten

Annabel Kosten (born 1977, Oostburg, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch freestyle sprint swimmer and University of Kentucky alumna who won bronze in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at Athens 2004 after swimming the heats, plus World and European short-course relay medals.

Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee is Edgar Allan Poe's last complete poem, a ballad of love surviving death, composed May 1849 and first printed in Griswold's obituary (New-York Daily Tribune, October 9, 1849).

Annabel O'Hagan

Annabel O'Hagan (born 1997) is an American actress and Harvard graduate, one of the first women in the Hasty Pudding cast, known for playing Steph Harper, overseer of Vault 32, in Prime Video's Fallout.

Annabel Scholey

Annabel Scholey (born 1984, West Yorkshire) is an English actress trained at Oxford School of Drama, known for Nina in The Split, The Salisbury Poisonings, the BAFTA-winning The Sixth Commandment, Being Human, and Walking on Sunshine.

Annabella Lwin

Annabella Lwin, also known as Myant Myant Aye, is an English singer, best known as the lead singer of the 1980s band Bow Wow Wow, whose hit was "I Want Candy".

Annabella Sciorra

Annabella Sciorra (Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra), American actress and producer; Emmy-nominated as Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos, known for True Love, Jungle Fever, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.

Annabella Selloni

Annabella Selloni, born in Italy in 1951, is an Italian-born theoretical chemist who was the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for first-principles studies of oxide surfaces.

Annabelle (doll)

Annabelle is a mass-produced Knickerbocker Raggedy Ann doll, not the porcelain film prop, that Ed and Lorraine Warren said was demonically possessed after a 1970 Connecticut nursing-student case. It sat in their Monroe, Connecticut Occult Museum, inspired the Conjuring films, and skeptics found no independent evidence of any haunting.

Annabelle (film)

Annabelle (2014) is a supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, a prequel to The Conjuring about the possessed doll, grossing $257 million worldwide on a $6.5 million budget despite weak reviews.

Annabelle Apsion

Annabelle Apsion (Jane Annabelle Apsion) is an English actress known for Monica Gallagher in UK Shameless, Joy Wilton in Soldier Soldier, and Violet Buckle in Call the Midwife; Swansea University graduate, honorary degree 2019.

Annabelle Comes Home

Annabelle Comes Home, also known as Annabelle 3, is a 2019 American supernatural horror film, the third in the Annabelle series and the seventh in the Conjuring Universe.

Annabelle Dinda

Annabelle Dinda, an American indie folk singer-songwriter from Wayne, Pennsylvania, is known for her poetic lyrics. She gained wider attention in 2026 with the album Some Things Never Leave.

Annabelle Neilson

Annabelle Neilson (1969-2018), British socialite, model, and muse of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano; ex-wife of Nat Rothschild; Ladies of London cast member and children's author.

Annabelle Sethupathi

Annabelle Sethupathi is a 2021 Tamil comedy horror film directed by Deepak Sundarrajan, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Taapsee Pannu in dual roles. Released on Disney+ Hotstar on 17 September 2021; Hindi version titled Annabelle Rathore; set in a haunted Jaipur palace.

Annabelle Wallis

Annabelle Wallis (born 1984, Oxford) is an English actress known for Jane Seymour in The Tudors, Grace Burgess in Peaky Blinders, and lead roles in Annabelle (2014) and The Mummy (2017), with upcoming films Mercy and Mutiny (2026).

Annabelle Yu Long (龙宇)

Annabelle Yu Long (龙宇) is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of BAI Capital, which she founded in 2008 as Bertelsmann Asia Investments, backing Stori and Bigo.