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Anna (안나)

Anna (안나) is a 2022 Coupang Play Korean psychological thriller series by director Lee Joo-young, starring Bae Suzy, based on Chung Han-ah's novel Intimate Stranger; released in 6- and 8-episode versions amid an editing dispute and lawsuits.

Anna Abeytia

Anna Abeytia is an American politician and Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 24, elected in 2024 after serving as President of the Cartwright School District Governing Board.

Anna Akana

Anna Akana (Anna Kay Napualani Akana, born 1989) is an American actress, comedian, YouTuber, musician, and author known for Big City Greens, Jupiter's Legacy, her album Casualty, and mental health advocacy.

Anna Akhmanova

Anna Akhmanova is a Dutch cell biologist and professor at Utrecht University known for her work on the microtubule cytoskeleton, honored with the 2018 Spinoza Prize.

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), born Anna Gorenko (1889–1966), Russian Acmeist poet of Evening, Rosary, Requiem, and Poem without a Hero; suppressed in 1925 and 1946, honored with the 1964 Etna Taormina prize and a 1965 Oxford doctorate.

Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787), sister of Frederick the Great, princess-abbess of Quedlinburg from 1755, composer of Der Tod Jesu, and creator of the Amalien-Bibliothek music collection.

Anna Ambraziene

Anna Ambraziene (Ana Ambrazienė), Lithuanian Soviet 400m hurdler (1955-2025); world record 54.02 (Moscow, 1983) and 1983 World Championships silver; 55 Lithuanian records.

Anna and the Apocalypse

Anna and the Apocalypse is a 2017 British Christmas zombie musical comedy horror film directed by John McPhail, based on Ryan McHenry's BAFTA-winning short Zombie Musical, starring Ella Hunt, released 2018 by Orion Pictures.

Anna and the King

Anna and the King is a 1999 American biographical drama directed by Andy Tennant, starring Jodie Foster as Anna Leonowens and Chow Yun-Fat as King Mongkut of Siam.

Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson, also known as Franziska Schanzkowska, was the most famous woman to claim to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; a 1994 DNA test proved she was not.

Anna Andreyeva

Anna Andreyeva (Анна Семёновна Андреева, 1915–1997), Soviet shot putter; 1950 European champion in Brussels (14.32 m) and first woman over 15 m, world record 15.02 m at Ploiești, 9 November 1950.

Anna Anka

Anna Anka (Danuta Anna Kołodziejska, b. 1971, Poland) is a Swedish-American model, actress, and reality TV personality, famous for Svenska Hollywoodfruar (2009) and her marriage to singer Paul Anka (2008–2010), now a wellness coach in Los Angeles.

Anna B. Eckstein

Anna B. Eckstein (Anna Bernhardine Eckstein, 1868–1947) was a German-born pacifist and Boston educator whose World Petition gathered six million signatures by 1914, earning a 1913 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Anna Bågenholm

Anna Bågenholm (born 1970) is a Swedish radiologist in Tromsø who survived 1999's skiing accident under ice with the lowest recorded survived body temperature, 13.7 °C.

Anna Bansode

Anna Bansode is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, elected unanimously in March 2025.

Anna Baryshnikov

Anna Katerina Baryshnikov, American actress born 1992 in New York, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart; known for Manchester by the Sea, Dickinson's Lavinia, and her first lead role in Idiotka.

Anna Bebington Watkins

Anna Bebington Watkins (Anna Watkins, née Bebington), British rower born 1983 in Leek, Staffordshire: Olympic bronze Beijing 2008 and gold London 2012 in the women's double scull, world champion 2010 and 2011 with Katherine Grainger, MBE, later BEAA CEO.

Anna Belknap

Anna Belknap (born 1972) is an American actress from Damariscotta, Maine, known for Detective Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY (2005–2013, 172 episodes) and Eva Rossi on Medical Investigation; Middlebury BA, ACT MFA.

Anna Berreiter

Anna Berreiter (born 1999, Berchtesgaden) is a German artificial-track luger, Olympic silver medalist in women's singles at Beijing 2022 and double world champion (singles and team relay) at Oberhof 2023; sixth at Milan-Cortina 2026.

Anna Bijns

Anna Bijns was a South Netherlandish poet and schoolteacher of Antwerp, born 1493 and died 1575, best known for her refreinen attacking Martin Luther in Dutch.

Anna Bill‐Axelson

Anna Bill-Axelson is a Swedish urologist, professor of surgical sciences at Uppsala University, who leads the SPCG-4 randomized trial showing that radical prostatectomy extends life in early prostate cancer.

Anna Biller

Anna Biller is an American filmmaker and novelist known for The Love Witch (2016), writing, directing, and designing her films from a feminist point of view.

Anna Biryukova

Anna Biryukova (Анна Германовна Бирюкова), Russian triple jumper born 1967 in Yekaterinburg; 1993 world champion and first woman to exceed 15 m with a 15.09 m world record; 1996 Olympian.

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo, partners in life and work, known for Half Nelson (2006), Sugar, Mississippi Grind, the billion-dollar Captain Marvel (2019), and Freaky Tales (2024).

Anna Bogaly Titovets

Anna Bogaly Titovets (Анна Богалий-Титовец, also spelled Anna Bogaliy-Titovets) is a retired Russian biathlete who won two consecutive Olympic relay golds, in 2006 and 2010.

Anna Breuer

Anna Breuer (Anna Breuer-Mosler, 1911–?), Polish sprinter and long jumper from Roździeń/Katowice; 1928 Olympic 100 m non-starter, six-time Polish champion, nine Polish records, career ended 1933.

Anna Brewster

Anna Brewster (born 1986, Birmingham) is an English actress known as Madame de Montespan in Versailles, Bazine Netal in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Anita in Anita and Me; former model, first film lead in The Last Days of American Crime (2020).

Anna Brigadere

Anna Brigadere (1861–1933) was a Latvian writer, playwright, and poet, one of the best-known authors of Latvian literature, best remembered for the fairy-tale play Sprīdītis.

Anna C. Balazs

Anna C. Balazs is an American chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is Distinguished Professor, who uses computational models to design polymer nanocomposites and bio-inspired materials.

Anna C. Nobre

Anna C. Nobre, known as Kia Nobre, is a Brazilian-born cognitive neuroscientist who studies attention and working memory, and became Wu Tsai Professor of Psychology at Yale in 2023.