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Aññāta-Kondañña
Aññāta-Kondañña (अञ्ञातकोण्डञ्ञ), also Aññāsi-Koṇḍañña, was the first disciple to grasp the Buddha's teaching at the first sermon at Isipatana, the first bhikkhu ordained, and one of five first arahants.
Annatto
Annatto (E 160b, achiote, urucum) is a yellow-to-red natural food colorant from Bixa orellana seed coats, whose oil-soluble pigment bixin and water-soluble norbixin color cheese, butter, and snacks worldwide.
Annatto tocotrienols (annatto seed extract)
Annatto tocotrienols, from Bixa orellana seeds (DeltaGold), are a tocopherol-free vitamin E fraction of about 90% delta- and 10% gamma-tocotrienol, GRAS-recognized in GRN 471 for up to 100 mg tocotrienols per serving.
Annayum Rasoolum (അന്നയും റസൂലും)
Annayum Rasoolum (അന്നയും റസൂലും) is a 2013 Malayalam romantic drama, Rajeev Ravi's directorial debut, starring Fahadh Faasil and Andrea Jeremiah as star-crossed lovers in Kochi, a Romeo and Juliet adaptation.
Anne
Anne is a feminine given name, French form of Anna from Hebrew Hannah meaning "grace, favor", brought to England in the 13th century. It honors Saint Anne, apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary, whose cult peaked in late medieval Europe; bearers include Anne Boleyn and Queen Anne.
Anne Abel Smith
Anne Abel Smith, also known as Anne Liddell-Grainger, is a British missionary and royal relative whose life includes a 1957 Windsor wedding and Christian service in Britain and Africa.
Anne Aly
Anne Aly is an Australian Labor politician who serves as Minister for International Development, Small Business, and Multicultural Affairs, and represents Cowan in Western Australia.
Anne Applebaum
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum, born 1964, is an American journalist and historian of communist Europe whose Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize; she writes for The Atlantic.
Anne Archer
Anne Archer, born in 1947 in Los Angeles, is an American actress known for her Oscar-nominated role in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Patriot Games (1992).
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Anne Arundel County, Maryland: county on the western Chesapeake Bay shore, founded 1650 and named for Lady Anne Arundell; county seat Annapolis, Maryland's state capital since 1694/5; population about 603,000 (2025 estimate).
Anne Askew
Anne Askew (c.1521–1546), also Anne Kyme, English Protestant martyr tortured on the rack and burned at Smithfield under Henry VIII; author of the two Examinations, first published by John Bale in 1546–47.
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, 1931-2005), American actress; Oscar winner for The Miracle Worker, two Tonys, two Emmys; famed as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate; Mel Brooks's wife for 40 years.
Anne Basting
Anne Basting is an American gerontologist, theater artist, and educator, founder of TimeSlips, an improvisational storytelling method for people with dementia, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (1923–1985), American actress and granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright; Oscar winner for The Razor's Edge, Oscar-nominated for All About Eve, later star of TV's Hotel.
Anne Beiler
Anne Beiler is an American businesswoman who founded Auntie Anne's, the soft pretzel franchise begun at a Downingtown, Pennsylvania farmers' market in 1988 and sold in 2005.
Anne Bertolotti
Anne Bertolotti is a cell biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 2006, studying how cells survive stress.
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (c. 1500-1536), Henry VIII's second queen, crowned June 1533, mother of Elizabeth I; executed 19 May 1536 on Tower Green after a treason trial; her fall underpins the English break with Rome.
Anne Bonny
Anne Bonny (Anne Bonney), Irish-born Caribbean pirate c.1700 to after 1720, sailed with Calico Jack Rackham, was tried and convicted with Mary Read in Jamaica in November 1720, pleaded the belly, and vanished from record.
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), born Anne Dudley, Puritan poet of Massachusetts Bay; first American book of poetry, The Tenth Muse (London, 1650), published without her knowledge; known for Contemplations and love poems.
Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman was an American Pictorialist photographer best known for her early 1900s Sierra Nevada photographs of female nudes, and the only West Coast Fellow of Stieglitz's Photo-Secession.
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), youngest Brontë sister, English novelist and poet writing as Acton Bell; author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), suppressed by Charlotte after her death.
Anne Brunet
Anne Brunet, born 1971 in Grenoble, France, is a French molecular biologist who studies aging at Stanford, known for FOXO longevity research and the killifish aging model.
Anne Burrell
Anne Burrell (born 1969, died June 17, 2025) was an American chef and Food Network star who hosted Worst Cooks in America and Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, trained at the Culinary Institute of America and in Italy, and wrote Cook Like a Rock Star.
Anne Buydens
Anne Buydens (Hannelore Marx, 1919-2021), also Anne Douglas, German-born Belgian-American producer, publicist, and philanthropist; Kirk Douglas's wife from 1954 to 2020, co-founder of Research for Women's Cancer.
Anne C. Conway
Anne C. Conway is an American jurist, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Anne Caroline Chausson
Anne-Caroline Chausson, French cyclist born 1977 in Dijon; nine women's downhill MTB world titles 1996-2005, five World Cup overalls, and first Olympic BMX champion, Beijing 2008 gold in 35.976s.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist, born in Toronto in 1950, who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for genre-blending works like Autobiography of Red.
Anne Case
Anne Case is an American economist and Princeton professor emerita who, with Angus Deaton, documented rising midlife mortality in 2015, work that coined the term "deaths of despair."
Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich (Anna Katharina Emmerick) was a German Augustinian nun and mystic, beatified in 2004, whose recorded visions inspired the search for Mary's house at Ephesus.
Anne Charlotte Leffler
Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849–1892) was a Swedish author and playwright, a leading writer of the modern breakthrough in Scandinavia, known for socially critical dramas like Sanna kvinnor; she also became Duchess of Cajanello.