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Annicka
Annicka, full name Annicka Ekvall, is a Swedish-American DJ and producer of minimal melodic house who played EDC Las Vegas and Movement Detroit in 2025.
Annie (1982 film)
Annie is a 1982 American musical film directed by John Huston, adapted from the 1977 Broadway musical about a Depression-era orphan, starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, and Carol Burnett.
Annie (1999 film)
Annie (1999) is a Disney made-for-TV musical film directed by Rob Marshall, aired on ABC November 7, 1999, starring Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, and Alicia Morton; closer to the Broadway show than the 1982 film, it drew 27 million viewers and won a Peabody.
Annie (2014 film)
Annie is a 2014 American musical comedy film directed by Will Gluck, starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx, a contemporary New York update of the Broadway musical.
Annie (musical)
Annie is a 1977 Broadway musical by Strouse, Charnin, and Meehan based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie; it ran 2,377 performances, won seven Tonys including Best Musical, and returns in 2027.
Annie Allen
Annie Allen is a 1949 poetry collection by Gwendolyn Brooks following a young Black woman through Chicago life; it won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Annie Andrews (physician)
Annie Andrews is a Charleston, South Carolina pediatrician and the 2026 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, a former MUSC pediatric hospitalist who lost to Nancy Mace in 2022 and now faces Darline Graham.
Annie Awards
The Annie Awards are annual accolades recognizing excellence in animation, presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Hollywood branch of ASIFA, every year since 1973 and created by voice actress June Foray.
Annie Besant
Annie Besant (1847–1933), British socialist, secularist, and theosophist, moved to India in 1893, founded the Central Hindu College and Home Rule League, and became the first woman president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.
Annie Borckink
Annie Borckink (Anna Johanna Geertruida Maria Borckink), Dutch long-track speed skater born 1951 in Eibergen; surprise 1980 Lake Placid Olympic gold in the women's 1,500 m in 2:10.95, ahead of Ria Visser; 1976 and 1980 Olympian, Dutch athlete of the year 1980.
Annie Brown
Annie Brown (1843–1926), youngest daughter of abolitionist John Brown, served as lookout and cover-household member at the Kennedy Farm staging area before the 1859 Harpers Ferry raid; later Annie Brown Adams.
Annie Chang
Annie Chang (born 1989, Taichung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American actress and producer known for Detective Sophie Song in Peacemaker, Angie You in Super Pumped, Molly Chen in Shades of Blue, and Audrey Chan in Interior Chinatown.
Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman (Eliza Ann Smith, c. 1840/1841-1888), second canonical Jack the Ripper victim, killed 8 September 1888 at 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields; uterus removed; Wynne Baxter inquest ended inconclusively; not a documented sex worker.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (Meta Ann Doak, 1945–2026), American author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction; also wrote Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, and The Maytrees; National Humanities Medal 2015.
Annie Dookhan
Annie Dookhan, former Hinton State Laboratory Institute chemist in Boston (2003–2012), fabricated drug test results, jeopardizing over 20,000 cases; her 2013 guilty plea led to the largest mass dismissal of wrongful convictions in U.S. history.
Annie Duke
Annie Duke, American former professional poker player (2004 WSOP bracelet, 2004 Tournament of Champions, 2010 NBC Heads-Up winner) turned decision-science author of Thinking in Bets and Quit, co-founder of the Alliance for Decision Education.
Annie Edson Taylor
Annie Edson Taylor (1838-1921), American schoolteacher, first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Horseshoe Falls, October 24, 1901, her 63rd birthday; died poor in 1921.
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux, born 1940 in Lillebonne and raised in Yvetot, Normandy, is the French writer of La Place, Passion simple and Les Années who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for her flat, clinical autobiographical writing on memory, class and women's lives.
Annie Genevard
Annie Genevard is a French politician who has served as Minister of Agriculture since 2024, after serving as deputy for Doubs and mayor of Morteau.
Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950) is MGM's Technicolor musical, directed by George Sidney, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, adapted from Irving Berlin's 1946 Broadway hit after Judy Garland was fired from the lead.
Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
Annie Get Your Gun: 1946 Irving Berlin Broadway musical (book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields) about sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler; 1,147-performance original run, 1950 MGM film, revised 1999 Peters revival.
Annie Glenn
Annie Glenn (Anna Margaret Castor Glenn, 1920-2020), wife of astronaut-senator John Glenn for 73 years and American advocate for people with communication disorders, overcame a severe 85% stutter via Hollins therapy in 1973 and became an Ohio State adjunct speech pathology professor.
Annie Golden
Annie Golden, born 1951 in Brooklyn, is an American actress and singer who fronted punk band The Shirts at CBGB, debuted on Broadway and film in Hair, originated Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, and played Norma on Orange Is the New Black.
Annie Gonzalez
Annie Gonzalez (Annie González), American Chicana actress, singer, dancer, and producer from East Los Angeles; known for Gentefied (Lidia Solis), Flamin' Hot (Judy Montañez), the Jenni Rivera biopic, and Drive-Away Dolls.
Annie Hall
Annie Hall (1977), also briefly titled Anhedonia, is Woody Allen's romantic comedy starring Diane Keaton as his ex-girlfriend character; it won four Oscars including Best Picture and ranks #35 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies.
Annie Hubler
Annie Hübler (Anna Hedwig Hübler-Horn, 1885–1976), German pairs figure skater with Heinrich Burger; first Olympic pairs champion, London 1908; world champion 1908 and 1910; later actress and Munich department-store manager.
Annie Ilonzeh
Annie Ilonzeh (Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh), American actress born 1983 in Grapevine, Texas; known for Emily Foster on Chicago Fire, Kate Prince on Charlie's Angels (2011), Maya Ward on General Hospital, and Devin Gamble on S.W.A.T.
Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen (born 1967) is an American investigative journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Area 51, and Operation Paperclip; Pulitzer finalist for The Pentagon's Brain, Baillie Gifford shortlist, Princeton graduate, lives in Los Angeles.
Annie January
Annie January, aka Starlight, is a fictional superhero from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys and its Prime Video adaptation played by Erin Moriarty; a member of The Seven and Young Americans with light- and electricity-based powers.
Annie John
Annie John is a 1985 coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, following a girl in colonial Antigua whose bond with her mother turns to rebellion before she leaves for England.