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Anne Chew

Anne Chew is a geneticist and biotechnology executive who co-founded Tmunity Therapeutics, a Philadelphia cell-therapy company spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.

Anne Chow

Anne Chow is a retired American business executive who served as CEO of AT&T Business from 2019 to 2022, the first woman of color CEO in AT&T's history.

Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Cox Chambers, born Anne Beau Cox, was an American media heiress who owned Cox Enterprises and served as United States ambassador to Belgium from 1977 to 1981.

Anne Curtis

Anne Curtis (Anne Ojales Curtis-Smith, born 1985, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian-Filipina actress and It's Showtime host, discovered at 12 in Manila, star of Magic Kingdom, Baler, BuyBust, and UNICEF advocate.

Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American linguist at the University of Michigan who served as dean of its College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 2019 to 2024.

Anne Cutler

Anne Cutler (1945–2022) was an Australian psycholinguist who showed that the native language shapes how listeners recognize spoken words and segment speech, directing the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Anne De Salvo

Anne De Salvo (Anne DeSalvo), born 1949, Philadelphia, is an American actress, director, and writer known for Arthur (1981), My Favorite Year (1982), Stardust Memories, and writing-directing The Amati Girls (2000); Obie Award winner for Gemini.

Anne de Zogheb

Anne de Zogheb, also known as Anne Anka, was an Egyptian-American fashion model and art collector. She married Paul Anka in 1963 and modeled for Elliott Hundley in 2014.

Anne Dejean

Anne Dejean-Assémat is a French molecular biologist who spent her career at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, known for identifying RARβ and the PML-RARα fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Anne Dejean-Assémat

Anne Dejean-Assémat is a French molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur whose work on the PML-RARα fusion protein led to a curative therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Anne Devlin

Anne Devlin (1984) is Pat Murphy's Irish historical drama about Robert Emmet's housekeeper, based on her prison journals; first all-Irish feature, 121 minutes, starring Bríd Brennan, restored in 2020.

Anne Diamond

Anne Diamond (Anne Margaret Diamond) is an English broadcaster born 1954, TV-am breakfast TV pioneer with Nick Owen, Back to Sleep cot death campaigner credited with saving about 20,000 lives, OBE 2023, now on GB News.

Anne Dias-Griffin

Anne Dias-Griffin, born Anne Dias in Strasbourg, France, is a French-American hedge fund manager who founded Aragon Global Management in 2001 and runs it as CEO.

Anne Dinning

Anne Dinning is a computer scientist and managing director who chairs the executive committee of the D. E. Shaw group, which she joined in 1990.

Anne Donovan

Anne Donovan (1961-2018), American 6-foot-8 basketball center; Olympic gold 1984 and 1988, Old Dominion star, first female coach to win a WNBA title (Seattle Storm 2004), 2008 Olympic gold head coach.

Anne Dorthe Tanderup

Anne Dorthe Tanderup (born 1972, Aarhus) is a Danish former handball back, 88 caps, Olympic gold 1996, World gold 1997, two European titles; later diet counselor, author of Min vej til et sundt liv and På udebane, wife of Bjarne Riis.

Anne Dudek

Anne Dudek (Anne Louise Dudek, born 1975) is an American actress known for Dr. Amber Volakis on House, Francine Hanson on Mad Men, Lura Grant on Big Love, Danielle on Covert Affairs, Kate on Corporate, and White Chicks.

Anne Dunham

Anne Dunham (born 1948, Tynemouth) is a British para-equestrian dressage rider, MBE and OBE, who competed at five Paralympics from Atlanta 1996 to Rio 2016, winning team gold at four consecutive Games.

Anne Dwane

Anne Dwane is an American venture capitalist, cofounder and partner at the early-stage firm Village Global, known for a network-driven seed investing model and previously CEO of Zinch.

Anne E. Carpenter

Anne E. Carpenter is an American cell biologist and computer scientist who created CellProfiler and the Cell Painting assay, and is a professor at Purdue University.

Anne E. Lopez

Anne E. Lopez is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Attorney General of Hawaii, previously chief operating officer and general counsel of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Anne E. Tattersfield

Anne E. Tattersfield, born in 1940, is a British respiratory physician and asthma researcher who was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham from 1984 to 2005.

Anne E. Thompson

Anne Elise Thompson, born 1934, is an American jurist and senior US district judge for the District of New Jersey, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Anne Eichmann

Anne Eichmann is a French-American vascular biologist, Ensign Professor at Yale since 2010, known for work on vascular patterning, blood-brain barrier control, and lacteal zippering against obesity.

Anne Enright

Anne Enright is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering and was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

Anne Ephrussi

Anne Ephrussi, born 1955 in Paris, is a French developmental and molecular biologist known for her work on mRNA localization and translational control in Drosophila.

Anne Fazioli-Khiari

Anne Fazioli-Khiari is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of G2 Venture Partners, overseeing operations, fundraising, and compliance after a finance career at JPMorgan and BrightSource Energy.

Anne Ferguson (judge)

Anne Ferguson, Australian judge, twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2017-2025), first solicitor and second woman in the role; wrote the Pell appeal majority, led pandemic court digitization and the sexual harassment review.

Anne Ferguson-Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith (Anne C. Ferguson-Smith) is a developmental geneticist and epigeneticist, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge and BBSRC Executive Chair from 2024, known for genomic imprinting.

Anne Francis

Anne Francis (1930-2011), American actress, Altaira in Forbidden Planet (1956) and title detective of Honey West (1965-66); Golden Globe winner, Emmy nominee.