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Anita Barone
Anita Barone (Anita Louise Barone), American actress born 1964 in St. Louis, raised in Detroit; played Carol Willick in one Friends episode, Karen Foxworthy on The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Vicky Gold on The War at Home, and Georgia Jones on Shake It Up.
Anita Bärwirth
Anita Bärwirth (Bärwirth-Hardekopf), German artistic gymnast born 1918 in Kiel, won women's team all-around gold at Berlin 1936, placed ninth individually, later emigrated to Argentina.
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is Laurell K. Hamilton's urban fantasy series begun with Guilty Pleasures (1993), following necromancer and vampire executioner Anita Blake in an alternate St. Louis; 30 novels through Slay (2023), with a mid-series shift toward erotica.
Anita Bose Pfaff
Anita Bose Pfaff, born 1942 in Vienna, is an Austrian economist who taught at the University of Augsburg and is the only child of Subhas Chandra Bose.
Anita Bryant
Anita Bryant, American singer, Miss Oklahoma 1958, and Florida orange juice spokeswoman, led the 1977 Save Our Children campaign that repealed Dade County's gay-rights ordinance, triggering a national orange juice boycott; died 2024 at 84.
Anita Desai
Anita Desai (Anita Mazumdar, born 1937, Mussoorie) is an Indian novelist writing in English, author of Cry, the Peacock, Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting; three-time Booker shortlistee and mother of Kiran Desai.
Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson (born 1949, Stepney, London) is an English actress and singer, Angie Watts in EastEnders 1985-1988 and Mrs Flood in Doctor Who, married to Queen guitarist Brian May.
Anita Doth
Anita Doth (Anita Daniëlle Dels, born 1971, Amsterdam), Dutch singer, original vocalist of eurodance duo 2 Unlimited with Ray Slijngaard; hits include No Limit; later solo as Anita.
Anita Dunn
Anita Dunn, American Democratic political strategist, interim Obama White House communications director 2009, cofounder-partner of SKDK, Senior Advisor to President Biden 2021-2024, later advised the pro-Harris Future Forward super PAC.
Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg (Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, 1931–2015) was a Swedish actress and model, Miss Sweden and star of Fellini's La dolce vita (1960); her Trevi Fountain scene with Marcello Mastroianni made her a cinema icon.
Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi, born Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro in Laguna, Brazil, in 1821, fought alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi in Brazil, Uruguay, and Italy, dying near Ravenna in 1849.
Anita Harris
Anita Harris (Anita Madeleine Harris, born 1942) is an English singer and actress known for the 1967 hit Just Loving You and Carry On films Follow That Camel and Carry On Doctor; later a variety and pantomime performer.
Anita Hassanandani
Anita Hassanandani, born Natasha Hassanandani (also credited as Natassha), is an Indian actress known for Telugu film Nuvvu Nenu, Kkavyanjali, Shagun in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, Naagin 3, and Suman Indori.
Anita Hill
Anita Hill (born 1956) is an American lawyer and Brandeis University professor who testified in 1991 that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her; Thomas was confirmed 52-48, and her testimony transformed U.S. workplace sexual harassment law and awareness.
Anita Ho-Baillie
Anita Ho-Baillie is an Australian engineer and photovoltaics researcher who holds the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney, where her team set certified efficiency records for perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells.
Anita K. Hopper
Anita K. Hopper is an American yeast molecular geneticist at Ohio State known for her studies of tRNA processing and trafficking, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Anita K. Jones
Anita K. Jones is an American computer scientist and University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia, known for work on operating systems and computer security.
Anita Kucharska-Dziedzic
Anita Kucharska-Dziedzic (born 1972 in Wołczyn) is a Polish politician of the New Left who has served in the Sejm since 2023, as vice-chair of the Left club.
Anita Lane
Anita Lane, also Anita Louise Lane, was an Australian singer-songwriter and lyricist (1960-2021) who co-wrote Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds songs such as "From Her to Eternity" and recorded the solo albums Dirty Pearl and Sex O'Clock on Mute Records. Not the ANITA Antarctic neutrino experiment or Anita Blake fiction.
Anita Lonsbrough
Anita Lonsbrough (Anita Porter), born 1941 in York, British swimmer; 1960 Rome Olympic 200m breaststroke gold in world record 2:49.5; first female BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1962; first British female Olympic flagbearer 1964.
Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Anita Magsaysay-Ho (1914–2012) was a Filipino modernist painter and the only woman among the Thirteen Moderns, known for post-Cubist depictions of Filipino women working in farms, markets, and homes.
Anita Mahto (अनीता महतो)
Anita Mahto (अनीता महतो) refers to two women: Anita Kisku alias Babita Mahto, a CPI (Maoist) area committee member who surrendered in Giridih, Jharkhand in 2026, and Anita Devi Mahto, an RJD politician and wife of Ashok Mahto who won Bihar's Warsaliganj seat in 2025.
Anita Malfatti
Anita Malfatti was a Brazilian painter and pioneer of modern art in Brazil, whose 1917 solo exhibition in São Paulo sparked the controversy that fueled Brazilian modernism.
Anita Max Win Tour
Anita Max Win Tour, also styled Anita Max Wynn, was Drake's 2025 Australia and New Zealand arena tour, his first Oceania run since 2017: 12 sold-out shows grossing $30,330,035 before four remaining dates were cancelled.
Anita Morris
Anita Morris, also Anita Rose Morris, American actress, dancer, and singer (1943-1994) from Durham, North Carolina; Tony-nominated and Drama Desk-winning for Carla in Broadway's Nine, also known for Ruthless People and The Hotel New Hampshire.
Anita Mui (梅艳芳)
Anita Mui (梅艷芳, 1963–2003), Hong Kong Cantopop diva and actress, five-time Most Popular Female Singer, Best Actress for Rouge, died of cervical cancer after eight farewell Coliseum concerts.
Anita Nagar Singh Chouhan
Anita Nagar Singh Chouhan is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, born in 1984, who has represented the Ratlam constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Anita Nall
Anita Nall (Nadia Anita Louise Nall-Richesson), American swimmer born 1976, won gold, silver, and bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and set two 200 m breaststroke world records in one day at the 1992 US Trials.
Anita Orbán
Anita Orbán (Orbán Anita, born 1974) is a Hungarian economist, diplomat and former energy executive; foreign minister and deputy prime minister since 12 May 2026 under PM Péter Magyar, unrelated to Viktor Orbán; previously energy security ambassador 2010–2015 and executive at Cheniere, Tellurian and Vodafone.
Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg, German-Italian actress, model, and Rolling Stones muse; partner of Brian Jones then Keith Richards; starred in Performance (1970), Barbarella, and Candy; died 2017 aged 73.