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Annie Jones (bearded woman)
Annie Jones (1865–1902), the "Esau Lady" or bearded lady, was an American sideshow performer exhibited by P. T. Barnum from nine months of age, who campaigned against the word "freak" and died of tuberculosis in 1902.
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon was a deaf American astronomer at Harvard who devised the O, B, A, F, G, K, M stellar classification system still in use today.
Annie Knight
Annie Knight, Australian OnlyFans creator also called 'Australia's most sexually active woman', known for the 2025 challenge of 583 men in six hours, reported $2.8 million 2025 earnings, and the Stan series Turned On: Dirty Sexy Money.
Annie Lamont
Annie Lamont is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Oak HC/FT in 2014 after 28 years at Oak Investment Partners; her investments include Athenahealth, Devoted Health, and CareBridge.
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz (born 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American portrait photographer, Rolling Stone chief photographer from 1973 with 142 covers, Vanity Fair's dominant image-maker since 1983, famous for the 1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono portrait.
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, born Ann Lennox in 1954, is a Scottish singer and songwriter who found fame as lead singer of the 1980s duo Eurythmics before a solo career.
Annie Lorrain Smith
Annie Lorrain Smith (1854–1937), British mycologist and lichenologist at the British Museum (Natural History); author of the Monograph of the British Lichens and the 1921 textbook Lichens, the standard English lichenology work for 50 years.
Annie M. G. Schmidt
Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995) was a Dutch writer of children's books, poems, songs, and musicals who created Jip en Janneke and won the 1988 Hans Christian Andersen Prize.
Annie Mac
Annie Mac (Annie MacManus), Irish DJ, broadcaster, and novelist, Dublin-born 1978, presented BBC Radio 1 dance and new music shows for 17 years (2004-2021), founded Annie Mac Presents and Lost & Found, and now writes novels including Mother Mother.
Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir
Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir (Annie Thorisdottir), "Iceland Annie," Icelandic CrossFit athlete; first woman to win the CrossFit Games twice (2011, 2012); ten-time Games veteran, six podiums, owns CrossFit Reykjavik.
Annie Moon (문서윤)
Annie Moon (문서윤, Moon Seo-yoon), born 2002 in Seoul, is a Korean-American rapper in The Black Label's co-ed group ALLDAY PROJECT, debuted June 23, 2025 with "FAMOUS"; Shinsegae heiress, Columbia graduate, K-pop's first chaebol idol.
Annie Mumolo
Annie Mumolo, born 1973 in Irvine, California, is an American screenwriter, actress, and comedian best known as the co-writer of the 2011 comedy film Bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig.
Annie Murphy
Annie Murphy (Anne Frances Murphy, born 1986, Ottawa) is a Canadian actress famous as Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek (2015–2020), winning the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy and later starring in Kevin Can Fk Himself, Black Mirror's Joan Is Awful, and Nine Perfect Strangers season 2.
Annie Nightingale
Annie Nightingale (Anne Avril Nightingale, 1940-2024), British broadcaster, first female DJ on BBC Radio 1 (joined 1970), its longest-serving presenter, Old Grey Whistle Test host, breakbeat 'Queen of Breaks', MBE and CBE.
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Moses, 1860–1926), American sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West from 1885, famed for mirror shots and card shooting, Sitting Bull's "Little Sure Shot," subject of Annie Get Your Gun.
Annie Parisse
Annie Parisse (Anne Marie Cancelmi, born 1975, Anchorage) is an American actress known for ADA Alexandra Borgia on Law & Order, Debra Parker on The Following, Julia Snyder on As the World Turns, and Broadway roles in Prelude to a Kiss and Clybourne Park.
Annie Perreault
Annie Perreault is a Canadian short track speed skater who won Olympic gold in the 3,000 m relay at Albertville 1992 and the 500 m at Nagano 1998.
Annie Philippe
Annie Philippe is a French yé-yé singer, born in Paris in 1946, whose recording career ran from 1965 to about 1971 and whose hit "Ticket de quai" sold over a million copies.
Annie Pootoogook
Annie Pootoogook (ᐊᓇ ᐳᑐᒍ; 1969–2016) was an Inuk artist from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, whose colored-pencil drawings of daily Arctic life won the 2006 Sobey Art Award.
Annie Potts
Annie Potts (Anne Hampton Potts), American actress born 1952 in Nashville: Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters, Mary Jo Shively in Designing Women, Bo Peep in Toy Story, Meemaw in Young Sheldon, now Aunt Sarah in Best Medicine.
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx (Edna Annie Proulx, born 1935, Norwich, Connecticut) is an American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Shipping News, which won the 1993 National Book Award and 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and of "Brokeback Mountain", adapted into an Oscar-winning 2005 film. Also wrote Postcards, Close Range, Barkskins, and Fen, Bog & Swamp.
Annie Rauwerda
Annie Rauwerda (born 1999) is an American writer, comedian, and Wikipedia editor from Grand Rapids, Michigan, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, the Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok accounts sharing odd Wikipedia entries; 2022 Wikimedian of the Year in the media category.
Annie Ross
Annie Ross (Annabelle Macauley Allan Short, 1930–2020), British-American jazz singer and actress of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross; vocalese pioneer, 1952 recording "Twisted", NEA Jazz Master 2010.
Annie Shapero
Annie Shapero is an Australian actress known as Alysanne 'Black Aly' Blackwood in House of the Dragon season 3, Anna Moore in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Jenny in Red Skies; also in Saccharine and Vought Rising.
Annie Speirs
Annie Speirs (Annie Coupe Speirs-Coombe, 1889–1926), Liverpool swimmer; won gold in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay at Stockholm 1912 in world record time 5:52.8 and was fifth in the 100 m freestyle.
Annie Sprinkle
Annie Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg, 1954) is an American performance artist, sexologist, and former sex worker (1973–1995, 200+ adult films) known for Post Porn Modernist, the Public Cervix Announcement, and founding the Ecosex Movement with Beth Stephens.
Annie Timmermans
Annie Timmermans, also known as Ans Timmermans (Anna Petronella Timmermans-Ineke, 1919-1958), Dutch freestyle swimmer; 1934 world record and European gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, 12th in the 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; died in a car accident in Parkdale, Melbourne.
Annie van der Vegt
Annie van der Vegt (Anna Maria van der Vegt) was a Dutch gymnast who won gold in the women's team event at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.
Annie Wersching
Annie Wersching (Anne Marie Wersching, 1977-2023) was an American actress from St. Louis: Renee Walker on 24, Borg Queen on Star Trek: Picard, and the voice of Tess in The Last of Us; she died of cancer in Los Angeles at 45.
Annie Wilkes
Annie Wilkes, also Anne Marie Wilkes, is the psychotic former nurse and self-described number one fan who imprisons author Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's 1987 novel Misery; Kathy Bates won a Best Actress Oscar playing her in the 1990 film.