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Annette Cleveland
Annette Cleveland is an American Democratic politician first elected in 2012 to the Washington State Senate, representing Vancouver's 49th district and chairing the Senate Health & Long-Term Care Committee.
Annette Crosbie
Annette Crosbie (born 12 February 1934, Gorebridge, Scotland) is a Scottish actress, Margaret Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave, two-time BAFTA TV Best Actress winner (1971, 1976), OBE 1998, greyhound welfare campaigner.
Annette Dolphin
Annette Catherine Dolphin (1951–2026) was a British ion channel biologist and pharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at University College London, known for her work on calcium channels and gabapentinoid pain drugs.
Annette Duetz
Annette Duetz, Dutch 49erFX sailor born 1993 in Zeddam; Olympic gold Paris 2024 with Odile van Aanholt, bronze Tokyo 2020 with Annemiek Bekkering, four world titles; retired from Olympic sailing October 2025.
Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello (Annette Joanne Funicello, 1942-2013), American actress and singer, the most popular original Mouseketeer on Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, later star of the AIP beach party films with Frankie Avalon and an MS research advocate.
Annette Gozon-Valdes
Annette Gozon-Valdes (Anna Teresa M. Gozon-Valdes), Filipino lawyer and GMA Network Senior Vice President since 2022, director since 2000, daughter of Felipe Gozon; President and CEO of GMA Pictures, behind Mulawin, Encantadia, and Hello, Love, Again.
Annette Haven
Annette Haven (born Annette Robinson, 1954, Las Vegas) is a retired American adult film actress of the 1970s Golden Age, AFAA Best Actress for A Coming of Angels, XRCO and AVN Hall of Fame inductee, and Body Double technical advisor.
Annette Hesselbarth
Annette (Annett) Hesselbarth, born 1966, East German 400m sprinter of SV Halle/Saale; 1990 European 4x400m relay champion, 1991 world indoor champion and indoor record holder (3:27.22), 400m best 51.14.
Annette Island
Annette Island (Tàakw.àani) is an island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, south of Ketchikan. Home to Metlakatla and the Annette Islands Reserve, the only federal Indian reservation in Alaska, reserved for the Tsimshian by Congress in 1891.
Annette Klug
Annette Klug (Annette Klug-Wulf, later Annette Wolf), German foil fencer born 1969 in Singen; won team foil gold for West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, fencing only in pool rounds; Silver Bay Leaf recipient, later a youth coach.
Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb, born Anna Mathilde Kolb (1870–1967), was a German-French novelist, essayist, and translator whose pacifist Briefe einer Deutsch-Französin (1916) brought bans, exile, and persecution by the Third Reich.
Annette McGavigan
Annette McGavigan, a 14-year-old Derry schoolgirl, was shot dead in the Bogside on 6 September 1971 during rioting, becoming the 100th Troubles victim; no one was ever convicted, and in 2024 prosecutors ruled out charging Soldier B while a fresh inquest was granted.
Annette O'Toole
Annette O'Toole (born 1952, Houston, Texas) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, known as Lana Lang in Superman III, Martha Kent in Smallville, Beverly Marsh in It, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in The Kennedys of Massachusetts, and Mayor Hope McCrea on Netflix's Virgin River; with husband Michael McKean she co-wrote the Oscar-nominated song A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow.
Annette Peters
Annette Peters is a German environmental epidemiologist who directs the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich and is known for linking air pollution to heart attacks.
Annette Quijano
Annette Quijano is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 20th district in the General Assembly since 2008, serving as Speaker Pro Tempore.
Annette Rogers
Annette Rogers (Annette Joan Rogers-Kelly, 1913-2006), American sprinter and high jumper; two-time Olympic gold medalist in the women's 4x100 m relay at Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936, the only 1932 relay member to repeat.
Annette Salmeen
Annette Elizabeth Salmeen, born 1974, American swimmer and biochemist; 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, 1996 NCAA 200 butterfly champion at UCLA, 1997 Rhodes Scholar with a Oxford biochemistry doctorate, later USADA board member.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) was a German poet, prose writer, and composer from Westphalia, best known for the novella Die Judenbuche (1842) and her landscape lyric.
Annexation
Annexation: the forcible incorporation by a state of another state's territory, also called de jure or de facto annexation. Prohibited and void under the UN Charter, it triggers non-recognition duties; cession by consent remains lawful.
Annexation of American Samoa
The annexation of American Samoa was the process by which the eastern Samoan islands, chiefly Tutuila and Manu'a, became US territory through cessions signed between 1900 and 1904.
Annexation of Anga by Bimbisara
The Annexation of Anga by Bimbisara (अंग का अधिग्रहण) was the conquest of the kingdom of Anga by Bimbisara of Magadha, who killed King Brahmadatta and seized the capital Champa.
Annexation of Awadh
The Annexation of Awadh (اودھ کا الحاق) was the East India Company's 1856 takeover of the Kingdom of Awadh, on grounds of misgovernment, deposing King Wajid Ali Shah.
Annexation of Basutoland
The Annexation of Basutoland was the 12 March 1868 proclamation by which Moshoeshoe's Sotho kingdom, then being overrun by the Orange Free State, was declared British territory and its people British subjects.
Annexation of Bidar by Bijapur
The annexation of Bidar by Bijapur was the 1619 conquest of the Barid Shahi sultanate at Bidar by Bijapur, ending the dynasty of the last sultan, Amir Barid III.
Annexation of Carchemish
The annexation of Carchemish, also called the Assyrian conquest of Carchemish, was Sargon II's 717 BC conquest of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish on the Euphrates.
Annexation of Commagene by Vespasian
The annexation of Commagene by Vespasian was Rome's AD 72 invasion of the client kingdom of Commagene, deposing King Antiochus IV and joining his realm to Syria.
Annexation of Crimea
The Annexation of Crimea (Kırım'ın İlhakı) was the incorporation of the Crimean Khanate, Taman, and Kuban into the Russian Empire, declared by Catherine II in 1783, ending the khanate.
Annexation of Devagiri
The annexation of Devagiri (देवगिरि का अन्त) was the absorption of the Yadava kingdom of Devagiri into the Delhi Sultanate, completed in 1318 under Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah Khilji.
Annexation of Easter Island
The annexation of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was its incorporation into Chile in 1888, when Captain Policarpo Toro and King Atamu Tekena signed a bilingual deed.
Annexation of Eastern Georgia
The annexation of Eastern Georgia (Присоединение Восточной Грузии) incorporated the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti into the Russian Empire in 1801, ending Bagrationi rule and making Georgia an ordinary imperial province.