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Anna Jay

Anna Jay (Anna Marie Jernigan, born 1998, Brunswick, Georgia) is an AEW professional wrestler, Dark Order '99', TayJay tag team with Tay Melo, Queenslayer finisher, no AEW titles.

Anna Kalinskaya (Анна Николаевна Калинская)

Anna Kalinskaya (Анна Николаевна Калинская), Russian tennis player, born Moscow; career-high WTA No. 11 (Oct 2024); Australian Open 2024 and Roland Garros 2026 quarterfinalist; 2024 Dubai WTA 1000 finalist; 2016 Australian Open junior doubles champion; no singles titles.

Anna Karasz

Anna Karasz (Kárász Anna, born 1991) is a Hungarian canoe sprint kayaker, Tokyo 2020 Olympic K4 500 m champion, four-time world and five-time European champion, retired in December 2022.

Anna Karen

Anna Karen (Ann Harrison McCall, 1936–2022), British actress born in Durban, played Olive Rudge in On the Buses (1969–73) and Aunt Sal in EastEnders (1996–2017); died in an Ilford house fire.

Anna Karenina (2012 film)

Anna Karenina (2012) is Joe Wright's British film adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, scripted by Tom Stoppard, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, staged mostly inside a decaying Russian theatre at Shepperton Studios, and winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.

Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина)

Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a realist novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1877, following Anna's tragic love for Count Vronsky alongside landowner Konstantin Levin's search for meaning.

Anna Karenina principle

The Anna Karenina principle, named for the opening of Tolstoy's novel, holds that success requires satisfying every necessary condition, so all successes resemble each other while each failure fails in its own way.

Anna Karin Kammerling

Anna-Karin Kammerling, Swedish swimmer born 1980, 50 m butterfly specialist who set that world record seven times, won Olympic relay bronze at Sydney 2000, and competed at three Olympics before retiring in 2008.

Anna Karina

Anna Karina (Hanne Karin Bayer, 1940-2019), Danish-born French actress and New Wave icon; starred in seven Jean-Luc Godard films including Vivre sa vie and Pierrot le fou; won the 1961 Berlin Silver Bear; also a Gainsbourg-era singer and director of Vivre ensemble.

Anna Karlin

Anna Karlin is a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Washington known for online algorithms, the power of two choices paradigm, and a 2021 metric TSP improvement.

Anna Kashfi

Anna Kashfi, born Joan O'Callaghan (1934-2015), Welsh-raised actress presented as Indian, film debut The Mountain (1956), Marlon Brando's first wife 1957-1959, mother of Christian Brando, memoir Brando for Breakfast.

Anna Kelles

Anna Kelles is an American politician and public health scientist serving in the New York State Assembly since 2021, known for passing New York's cryptocurrency mining moratorium.

Anna Kelly (spokesperson)

Anna Kelly is the White House deputy press secretary under President Donald Trump, appointed January 24, 2025 after serving as National Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee and communications director in Wisconsin Republican politics; a former beauty pageant winner with a master's degree in political management, she has been reported as an early favorite to succeed Katie Zacharia as press secretary.

Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick (born 1985, Portland, Maine) is an American actress, singer, and author: Tony-nominated at 12 for High Society, Oscar-nominated for Up in the Air, star of Pitch Perfect and the triple-platinum single Cups, and director of Woman of the Hour.

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян)

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян), born 1985 in Moscow, is a New York-based American cultural critic and co-host, with Dasha Nekrasova, of the Red Scare podcast.

Anna Kiesenhofer

Anna Kiesenhofer, Austrian mathematician and cyclist, born 1991, won a solo amateur gold in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic women's road race, Austria's first cycling medal since 1896.

Anna Köhler (physicist)

Anna Köhler is a German physicist who studies electronic processes in organic semiconductors, holds a chair at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2020 became the first woman to receive the Max Born Medal and Prize.

Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (Ἄννα Κομνηνή; 1083 to c. 1153) was a Byzantine princess and historian, eldest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, known for the Alexiad, a history of her father's reign.

Anna Konkle

Anna Konkle (born 1987, Vermont) is an American actress, writer, and co-creator and star of Hulu's Pen15 with Maya Erskine; two-time Emmy nominee and author of the 2026 memoir The Sane One about her father.

Anna Kooiman

Anna Brooks Kooiman (born 1984) is an American news anchor, formerly Fox & Friends Weekend co-host (2011-2016), then Network Ten panelist in Sydney, now NewsNation weekend anchor since 2024.

Anna Kournikova (Анна Сергеевна Курникова)

Anna Kournikova (Анна Сергеевна Курникова), born 1981 in Moscow, Russian tennis player 1995-2003; doubles world No. 1, two Australian Open doubles titles with Hingis, no singles titles, No. 8 singles peak.

Anna L. Gloyn

Anna L. Gloyn, also known as Anna Gloyn, is a British diabetes geneticist and Stanford professor known for identifying KCNJ11 mutations as a cause of neonatal diabetes.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin (1743–1825), was an English poet, essayist, and educator whose Poems (1773) made her famous; her 1812 poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven ended her career.

Anna Lasorella

Anna Lasorella is an Italian-trained physician-scientist in cancer genetics and brain tumor research, director of the Precision Medicine Initiative at the University of Miami since 2022.

Anna Lee

Anna Lee, also known as Joan Winnifrith, was an English actress who appeared in eight John Ford films and played Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital from 1978 to 2003.

Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist and addiction-medicine researcher who is Medical Director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, studies opioid prescribing, and wrote the 2021 bestseller Dopamine Nation.

Anna Leonowens

Anna Leonowens was an Indian-born British educator and writer whose memoirs of teaching at the Siamese court of King Mongkut from 1862 to 1867 inspired the musical The King and I.

Anna Leopoldovna

Anna Leopoldovna (Анна Леопольдовна), born 1718, was regent of the Russian Empire for her infant son Ivan VI from 1740 to 1741, overthrown in a coup by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great.

Anna Lore

Anna Lore, born 1993 in Dubuque, Iowa, is an American actress known as Stephanie Brown in Gotham Knights, Julia in Final Destination: Bloodlines, Hope in Black Phone 2, and her Frankenstein, MD debut.

Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann (born 1983) is a German Green politician and political scientist: Bundestag member 2002–2009 and from 2021, Minister of State for European Affairs and Climate 2021–2025, and former V-Dem Institute researcher on autocratization and democracy aid.