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Anne Murray
Anne Murray (Morna Anne Murray, born 1945, Springhill, Nova Scotia) is Canada's original country-pop crossover singer; "Snowbird" made her the first Canadian woman with a US gold record, and she won four Grammys and billions of streams.
Anne Neville
Anne Neville (1456–1485), queen consort of England as wife of Richard III, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker; earlier wife of Edward of Westminster; crowned 6 July 1483; died 16 March 1485.
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra, born 1954 in Gibraltar, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London known for establishing the immunosuppressive functions of interleukin-10 and tuberculosis research.
Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria (Anne d'Autriche, 1601-1666), Spanish-born queen consort of Louis XIII of France and regent for Louis XIV 1643-1651, governed with Mazarin through the Fronde.
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Avonlea is L.M. Montgomery's 1909 novel, the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, following Anne Shirley from 16 to 18 as a teacher, also the title of the 1987 CBC and Disney Channel sequel film based on three Anne novels.
Anne of Brittany
Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne) was Duchess of Brittany and twice queen of France, through marriage to Charles VIII and then Louis XII, until her death in 1514.
Anne of Cleves
Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), fourth wife of Henry VIII, married him in January 1540; the marriage was annulled that July. She became the "king's sister", outlived the other wives, and is known from Holbein's 1539 Louvre portrait.
Anne of Denmark
Anne (Anna) of Denmark, 1574–1619, queen consort of James VI and I; married 1589, sponsored the Queen's Masques of 1604–1611 and acted as political agent and cultural patron.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel published by L.C. Page, Boston, about orphan Anne Shirley at the Cuthbert farm on Prince Edward Island; an instant bestseller in about 20 languages, tied to the Cavendish, PEI Green Gables site.
Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)
Anne of Green Gables (1985) is Kevin Sullivan's four-hour Canadian CBC miniseries starring Megan Follows as Anne Shirley, with Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth; highest-rated CBC drama, first Canadian Peabody winner.
Anne of the Island
Anne of the Island (1915) is L.M. Montgomery's third Anne of Green Gables novel, following Anne Shirley through Redmond College in Kingsport, rejected proposals, and her engagement to Gilbert Blythe.
Anne of the Thousand Days
Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 Hal B. Wallis historical drama directed by Charles Jarrott, adapted from Maxwell Anderson's 1948 Broadway play, starring Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn; it received ten Oscar nominations and won Best Costume Design.
Anne Osborn Krueger
Anne Osborn Krueger is an American economist whose 1974 paper introduced rent-seeking into trade policy; she was the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director from 2001 to 2006.
Anne Osbourn
Anne Osbourn is a plant biologist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich known for discovering that plant natural product genes are clustered in genomes.
Anne Ottenbrite
Anne Ottenbrite-Muylaert (born 1966) is a Canadian swimmer who at Los Angeles 1984 became the first Canadian woman to win Olympic swimming gold, taking 200m breaststroke gold, 100m silver, and relay bronze.
Anne Parillaud
Anne Parillaud (born 1960, Paris) is a French actress best known as the assassin in Luc Besson's Nikita (1990), winning the 1991 César for Best Actress; later films include Innocent Blood and The Man in the Iron Mask, plus the 2021 novel Les Abusés.
Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse
Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Messel; 1902–1992), London-born social figure, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and wife of the 6th Earl of Rosse of Birr Castle.
Anne Perring
Anne Elizabeth Perring is an American atmospheric chemist who measures aerosols like black carbon and wildfire smoke from research aircraft, and received a 2014 PECASE award.
Anne Perry
Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme, 1938-2023) was a British crime novelist of the Victorian Pitt and Monk detective series, convicted of the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder in New Zealand and unmasked in 1994.
Anne Puel
Anne Puel is a French immunologist and Inserm research director at the Imagine Institute in Paris, known for finding genetic causes of severe fungal infections.
Anne R. Somers
Anne R. Somers, also known as Anne Ramsey Somers, was an American health policy analyst and long-term care scholar who helped shape the 1965 Medicare legislation.
Anne R. Traum
Anne R. Traum, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Anne Ramsey
Anne Ramsey (born Anne Mobley, 1929-1988), American character actress known as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies and Oscar-nominated Momma in Throw Momma from the Train; distinct from actress Anne Ramsay.
Anne Reid
Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actress known for Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street, Jean in Dinnerladies, Celia in Last Tango in Halifax, and her BAFTA-nominated lead in The Mother (2003).
Anne Renée
Anne Renée, stage name of Manon Kirouac (born 1950, Laval, Quebec), Canadian French-pop singer famed in 1970s Quebec for "Un amour d'adolescent"; first wife of impresario René Angélil (married 1973), distinct from singer Anna Renae.
Anne Revere
Anne Revere (1903–1990), American character actress, descendant of Paul Revere; Oscar for National Velvet (1944), three nominations, Tony for Toys in the Attic, blacklisted 1951 after refusing to answer HUAC.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (1941–2021), born Howard Allen O'Brien, American Gothic novelist, author of Interview with the Vampire (1976) and the 13-book Vampire Chronicles, the Mayfair Witches trilogy, and erotica as Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
Anne Ridley
Anne J. Ridley is a British cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Bristol, known for her pioneering work on Rho GTPases in cell migration.
Anne Robinson
Anne Robinson, born Anne Josephine Robinson in 1944, is a British television presenter known for hosting the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012.
Anne S. Robinson
Anne S. Robinson, also known as Anne Skaja Robinson, is an American chemical engineer whose research spans membrane-protein folding and antibody production in mammalian cell cultures.